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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
The Return: Small Acts of Coming Back to Yourself
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In our last episode, we named something honest the quiet drift that happens when the demands of leadership consistently outpace the space we have to recover from them.
We sat with the question: where did I go?
This episode is the answer.
Not a framework. Not a productivity system. Just a real, grounded conversation about what coming back to yourself actually looks like when the pressure is still there, the diary is still full, and life isn't about to pause while you find your footing.
In this episode we explore:
- Why coming back to yourself is a direction, not a destination
- The three small acts that mark the beginning of the return
- Why noticing without judgment is more powerful than any strategy
- The honest reason it feels hard and why that makes complete sense
- What the practice of returning looks like in a real leadership week
This episode is for the woman who knows she has drifted and is ready to start turning back.
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/