Her Boss Brain

Episode 14: The Audacity to Lead: Turning Tension into Clarity with Dethra Giles

Pallavi Jain

In this episode of Her BOSS Brain, host Pallavi Jain, TEDx Speaker, former HR Leader at Harvard, and Resilient Leadership Expert, is joined by Dethra Giles, award-winning leadership strategist and author, to decode how to lead through tension with grace and audacity.

Known as The Audacity Broker, Dethra shares her powerful DARE model—a neuroscience-backed framework for transforming conflict into clarity. Together, she and Pallavi explore how to stay centered when emotions rise, communicate with precision, and turn breakdowns into breakthroughs.

Through real-life examples and brain-based tools, this conversation will reshape how you see conflict—not as a threat, but as an opportunity to deepen trust, self-awareness, and connection. You’ll learn how to lead conversations that heal, not hurt, and how to build the kind of confidence that doesn’t crumble under pressure.

If this episode inspires you to lead from within, explore Pallavi’s Lead from Within workshops: www.pallavi-jain.com

All the high-achieving women out here, apply to her 8-week women’s cohort — The REwired Woman Journey, designed to help you move from stress to success using neuroscience and inner leadership tools, Apply here: https://luma.com/bmyh9vzb

If you would like to contact Dethra and bring her amazing work into your organization or her action packed, high energy keynotes to your events, reach out to her at: https://www.dethragiles.org  

Visit her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dethragiles/

And don’t forget to check out her book “That’s not what I said” to learn more about her DARE Model and get your copy here: https://www.dethragiles.org/book-me