Leap Lady Leader Podcast

Grit, Grace, and the Midlife Leader: Navigating Perimenopause

This episode explores how perimenopause affects women's leadership—impacting cognition, emotions, and stamina—and why acknowledging it matters for individuals and organizations.Maureen shares practical stewardship strategies, introduces the LEAP framework (Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere), and offers a faith-anchored challenge to take one intentional step this week to honor your body and strengthen your leadership.

Peel Back the Layers: Unlock Hidden Potential

Mo challenges leaders to stop shrinking people with quick labels and instead peel back layers to see strengths, struggles, and untapped potential.She offers practical steps—pause assumptions, ask better questions, hold space for growth—and explains how confirmation bias locks in labels while a layers approach builds trust and development.Anchored by 1 Samuel 16:7, Mo encourages leaders to adopt a legacy mindset, use the Legacy Leadership Checklist, and choose practices that multiply potential rather than limit it.

LEAP into Trust: A Leader’s Guide to Integrity and Influence

This episode explains why trust is the foundation of lasting leadership and why character-driven leadership is non-negotiable. Maureen (Mo) outlines how trust is fragile, the costs when it’s missing, and concrete daily practices — transparency, consistency, accountability, and relational investment — to cultivate it.She connects these ideas to the LEAP model (Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere), offers a simple framework for repairing broken trust, and challenges women leaders to choose character over convenience to strengthen teams, innovation, and long-term influence.

Will This Help or Hurt? The 3-Second Leadership Reset

Mo explains how everyday impulses—one more task, one more word—often cause more regret than big decisions and offers a simple self-check: pause and ask, "Will this help or hurt right now?"Drawing on organizational psychology and Proverbs 21:23, she shows how restraint builds trust, reduces stress, and strengthens leadership, and ends with practical takeaways and a weekly challenge to practice pausing.

Refined Not Defined: Leading Through Crisis with Courage

This episode explores how leaders can turn crisis into a refining moment rather than a defining failure by focusing on three stages: prevention before the crisis, presence during the crisis, and recovery after the crisis.Maureen shares practical steps—self-leadership habits, scenario planning, clear communication cadence, and debrief rituals—plus the value of coaching or outside advisors. You’ll get concrete actions to build early-warning systems, stay composed under pressure, and rebuild trust afterward, plus a weekly challenge to address one avoided detail before it becomes a crisis.

Morning Momentum:Maximize Your Best Hours

Maureen (Mo) breaks down why mornings are a leader's most powerful hours and how to protect them: block mornings for high-value work, build accountability, and align daily routines with purpose.She offers a simple challenge—reserve mornings until 1 p.m. for mission-critical tasks for seven days—and practical steps for coaching, discipline, and stewardship to multiply your impact.

Legacy of Leadership: Lessons from Charlie Kirk’s Courage

In this episode Maureen (Mo) reflects on the life and leadership of Charlie Kirk, exploring courage, conviction, and the legacy leaders leave behind.She discusses the importance of healthy disagreement, psychological safety, faith-driven leadership, and daily integrity as the true measures of lasting influence.Listeners are challenged to step into courageous conversations, anchor leadership in truth, and build a legacy through faithful, consistent action.

Build Margin Before It Builds Mayhem

In this episode, Maureen (“Mo”) explains why intentionally building margin into your schedule is essential for sustainable leadership. She explains how overpacked calendars erode trust, increase stress, and reduce decision-making quality, and she offers practical micro-margins—short pauses between meetings, reflection time, and energy buffers—to restore clarity and presence.Mo anchors the message with scripture, a weekly challenge to add 10–15 minute breaks to your top commitments, and resources to help you start creating margin so you can lead with clarity, courage, and confidence.

Pivot to Lead: Why Agility Will Define Leadership in the Next Decade

Host Maureen “Mo” (industrial and organizational psychology practitioner and business leader) explains why rigid long-term plans no longer work and why leaders must embrace agility, adaptability, and frequent pivots. She outlines practical shifts—90-day sprints, 30-day tests, real-time AI insights—and shows how a growth mindset and a culture of safety turn pivots into progress.
The episode includes real-world examples (retail expansion, nonprofit fundraising, workforce planning, and solo entrepreneurs), psychological research on adaptive capacity, and a leadership challenge: pick one strategy area and run a 30-day experiment to strengthen adaptability. Recommended resource: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek.

Be a Little Dangerous: Lead Boldly, Move Always

This episode challenges leaders to stop hiding in comfort and move into excellence by taking bold, faith-led action rather than waiting for perfect conditions.It calls out overthinking as fear, anchors the message in Proverbs 28:1, and encourages one strategic, courageous step this week—plus practical resources and a clear invitation to get accountability and coaching.Expect a concise push to replace hesitation with obedient momentum so your leadership can grow, stretch, and make meaningful impact.