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Lead with Heart, Live with Purpose
Lead with Heart, Live with Purpose is a leadership podcast for women who are ready to lead with more clarity, more confidence and more of themselves.
Hosted by Desley Williams, leadership and life coach, this is a women leadership podcast for the high-achieving woman who is brilliant at what she does, but has quietly started to wonder where she went in the middle of doing it all.
Each episode of this leadership development podcast explores what it really means to lead well, not just effectively, but sustainably. From centred leadership and self-development to boundaries, belonging and purpose, Desley brings warmth, honesty and deep coaching experience to every conversation.
This is podcast coaching for women who want to stop leading from pressure and start leading from purpose. Who want to feel like themselves again — in their work, their teams, and their lives.
Lead with heart. Live with purpose.
New episodes every 2nd Monday.
Lead with Heart, Live with Purpose
Where Did I Go? Leadership Pressure & Coming Back to Yourself
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When was the last time you had a day that felt simple? Not easy, just uncomplicated, where you finished it feeling like yourself?
In this episode of Lead with Heart Live with Purpose the leadership podcast for women in demanding roles, Desley Williams explores what happens when the pressure of leadership quietly pulls you away from yourself. Not all at once. Just gradually, until one day you look up and wonder: where did I go?
This episode talks openingly about
The mental load of always being 'on' and what it quietly costs
Why capable women say yes when they mean no
Losing touch with your values under leadership pressure
What it means to have no time that is truly yours
Whether you're a senior leader, a team manager or a woman navigating a high-demand role in work or the home, this women's leadership podcast episode is for you.
Next episode: Ep 4 — The Return: Small Acts of Coming Back to Yourself.
Find out about 1:1 coaching with Desley on Instagram @desleywilliamscoaching
Ready to go deeper? If this episode has named something real for you, I would love to support you. I offer 1:1 coaching and individual leadership programmes.
DM me WHOLE on Instagram @desleywilliamscoaching to find out more about The Whole Leader programme or you can
Download the free guide Coming Home to Your Values send me a message and I can send you the PDF or come to my next workshop June 2026 in the Christchurch NZ area.
You can find me at https://www.instagram.com/desleywilliamscoaching/