IT´S IN YOU! Career & Leadership Coaching for Women
IT´S IN YOU! The Podcast for Women Ready to Own Their Career and Lead on Their Terms
Are you done waiting for permission?
Tired of the pressure to prove, perform, and fit a mold that never felt quite right?
Welcome to IT´S IN YOU! – the career and leadership podcast for women ready to step into their full potential, create success with clarity, and lead with courage and authenticity.
Hosted by Katharina Engelhardt – career and leadership coach, keynote speaker, and senior director at Adidas – this podcast is your honest, empowering, and strategic companion for navigating your next step, moving up, or reimagining your career entirely.
🎧 What to expect:
- Monthly episodes – one solo deep dive, one interview with a woman who’s walked the talk.
- Real stories, practical tools, and zero business fluff.
- Topics that matter: visibility, ambition, career clarity, self-leadership, motherhood, work-life integration, and shaping your own definition of success.
Because what are you looking for out there? 💡 It’s already in you.
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IT´S IN YOU! Career & Leadership Coaching for Women
Why High-Achieving Women Downplay Their Strengths
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Many high-achieving women underestimate their own strengths.
Not because they lack talent. But because their strongest capabilities feel so natural that they assume everyone can do the same.
In coaching sessions, I hear this almost every week:
"Well… that's just part of my job."
But when we unpack these situations, we often discover something very different:
strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, conflict navigation, and real leadership under pressure.
The challenge is that what feels ordinary to you is often exceptional to others.
And if you don't see it yourself, you won’t talk about it.
Not in networking conversations.
Not in performance reviews.
And not in job interviews.
In this episode, Katharina shares why this happens from a psychological perspective, how it affects career visibility, and how you can start recognizing and communicating your strengths more clearly.
In This Episode We Talk About
- Why many women underestimate their strongest abilities
- The “strength blindness effect” in leadership
- What research from Harvard Business Review reveals about self-perception at work
- Why leadership strengths often feel “too normal” to talk about
- The career risk of normalizing your biggest contributions
- Simple reflection questions to uncover your hidden strengths
- How clarity about strengths changes the way you show up and lead
Key Takeaway
Your biggest strengths often feel the most ordinary to you.
That doesn’t make them less valuable.
It simply means they have become part of who you are.
The moment you learn to see them clearly, you can start using them intentionally.
Reflection Question
What do you do easily that seems difficult for others?
Your answer might reveal your most important leadership strength.
Want to explore your strengths more deeply?
My coaching now starts with a Strength Sprint — a focused process to uncover your real strengths and translate them into leadership clarity.
You can schedule a conversation 👉 here.
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Contact: katharina@katharinaengelhardt.com