The Empowered Leader Podcast
The Empowered Leader is a video podcast for women who have been marginalized, going beneath surface-level leadership advice to name the real tensions of leading inside systems not designed for them: visibility without backlash, authority without permission, and elevating your voice without self-erasure. Each episode interrogates power, bias, and leadership norms while offering a grounded perspective that clarifies what’s personal, what’s systemic, and where your voice and your choices still hold power. substack.iprofessionalcoaching.com
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[Update] Divine Intervention
<p>Let me ask you something.</p><p>How much of your leadership is built on the belief that you have to do it all yourself?</p><p>Now ask yourself what would happen if you stopped trying to be God.</p><p>That is the conversation we are having today.</p><p>Divine intervention is one of the most misunderstood concepts in leadership. People think it means waiting for miracles, sitting back while things unfold, trusting the universe to handle what you should be managing.</p><p>But real divine intervention in leadership is not passivity.</p><p>Divine...
Are We There Yet? Reflections from Different Places Along the Creative Path
<p>Thank you Patrick LaRose, Laura Elliott, Kristen, and many others for tuning into my live video with Haide Wall Giesbrecht! Join me for my next live video in the app.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit substack.iprofessionalcoaching.com/subscribe
Whole Management & Automation
<p>Dheeraj Sharma - Bio</p><p>Cloud Strategy & AI Automation Leader | Founder of GenAI Unplugged</p><p>Dheeraj Sharma is an engineering leader with over 19 years of experience in cloud systems design, FinOps, and generative AI automation. By day, he leads cloud strategy, FinOps, and engineering at Nagarro, where he created Cloud Pulse, an automated cloud governance and FinOps platform now integrated with Agentic AI capabilities.</p><p>Driven by a passion for making technology accessible, Dheeraj founded GenAI Unplugged, where he teaches solopreneurs, non-technical founders, and creators how to build practical, revenue-generating AI automation systems without increasing their...
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[Update] Observe, Not Absorb
<p>You were built to read the terrain, not to become it.</p><p>Somewhere along the way, you were taught that being aware means feeling everything. That if you notice the tension in the room, you are responsible for it. That the price of paying attention is carrying what you see. So you became the woman who reads every room and then takes the room home with her.</p><p>That is not awareness. That is injury with good instincts.</p><p>Observation is intelligence. Absorption is damage. You can collect the data without becoming the terrain.</p><p>...
Using your Voice to Change the World
<p>Using Your Voice to Change the World</p><p>Your voice is not decoration. It is a transmission, and someone downrange is waiting on your signal.</p><p>You rehearsed the sentence four times before the meeting. You knew the number was wrong, you knew why, and you knew how to fix it. Then the discussion moved fast; someone senior talked over the pause you were waiting for, and the moment closed. In the parking lot, the sentence was still sitting in your chest like a stone.</p><p>Or maybe it was the email. You wrote it plain...
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[Update] Putting Yourself First
<p>This gets misunderstood quickly.</p><p>Because the moment you say, “put yourself first,”</p><p>People hear selfish.</p><p>It’s not.</p><p>Putting yourself first is not about ignoring others.</p><p>It’s about no longer ignoring yourself.</p><p>And that distinction matters.</p><p>What It Means</p><p>Putting yourself first means:</p><p>* You consider your needs before committing</p><p>* You make decisions from alignment, not pressure</p><p>* You stop defaulting to everyone else’s priorities</p><p>It’s not about choosing you instead of others.</p><p>It’s about...
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[Update] Sex, Intimacy, Passion, Desire, and Love
<p>Understanding the differences, and Why It Matters for Leaders</p><p>People often talk about sex, intimacy, passion, desire, and love as if they mean the same thing.</p><p>They do not.</p><p>These are connected experiences, but they represent different layers of human connection. When we confuse them, we start expecting one to give us what only another can provide.</p><p>That confusion is one reason many relationships feel exciting at the beginning but struggle to last.</p><p>For marginalized leaders, understanding the difference matters even more.</p><p>Leadership in systems that were...
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[Update] Gratitude
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Leadership Fuel (Edited Full Video)
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Leadership Fuel (Clip)
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