Strong Leaders Serve with Teri Schmidt
For compassionate leaders who've quietly outgrown what used to work.
You're not in leadership for the title. You're in it to use your strengths to make a way for others to use theirs.
You've stopped waiting for a certainty that was never going to arrive. Now you're ready to lead with clarity and confidence, right in the middle of the uncertainty.
This show is for you if you're looking to:
✅ Find your footing again, instead of just pushing through the overwhelm
✅ Turn the people who follow you into leaders in their own right
✅ Lead in a way that sustains you, not one that wears you down
Hosted by Teri Schmidt, Executive Leadership Coach & CEO of Strong Leaders Serve.
Each episode supports leaders navigating the shift into roles where success isn't just about their own performance anymore. It's about leading through complexity, ambiguity, and stakes their old playbook never had to handle.
We name what's actually happening underneath the overwhelm, and find a way back to steady leadership, without pretending there's a five-step fix.
Strong Leaders Serve with Teri Schmidt
Latest Episodes
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200. Best of Strong Leaders Serve
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199. Going beneath Authenticity, Autonomy & Accountability with Andrea Wanerstrand
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198. Rethinking Imposter Syndrome
Feeling like an imposter doesn’t mean you’re broken or unqualified.It often means your world has grown faster than your sense of self. In this episode we go beneath the buzzword of imposter syndrome.We look at it in a different wa...
197. Two Simple Practices to Build Real Psychological Safety with Jade Garratt
What does psychological safety really mean beneath the buzzword? In this episode, Jade Garratt, co-founder of Psych Safety and colleague of past guest Tom Geraghty, shares practical ways leaders can move past misconceptions and create ...