Lead to Soar is the podcast where ambitious women get strategic, evidence-based guidance to reach their full potential and reshape the systems that hold them back. Each episode delivers practical leadership insights grounded in Business, Emotional and Social Intelligence so women can lead with impact and advance their careers on their own terms. <br/><br/><a href="https://leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com</a>
Lead to Soar
Claim This Podcastby Michelle Redfern & Mel Butcher
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Lead to Soar is the podcast where ambitious women get strategic, evidence-based guidance to reach their full potential and reshape the systems that hold them back. Each episode delivers practical leadership insights grounded in Business, Emotional and Social Intelligence so women can lead with impact and advance their careers on their own terms. <br/><br/><a href="https://leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com</a>
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August 2, 2026
The Leadership Double Bind: Why Executive Women Still Can’t Win
<p>Executive women are still judged against a narrow idea of what credible leadership looks and sounds like. Warmth can be mistaken for a lack of commercial acumen, authority can be interpreted as aggression, and likeability can become part of an assessment that should be about capability and results.</p><p>In this episode of Lead to Soar, Michelle Redfern and Mel Butcher explore what happens when women refuse to assimilate into workplace cultures built around hard-coded gender stereotypes. They discuss why warm, energetic and relational women are so often underestimated, how BQ, EQ and SQ shape leadership credibility, and how women can read the room and make their value unmistakable while staying connected to who they are.</p><p><strong>Truth Bomb:</strong><strong> </strong>organisations keep mistaking warmth for a lack of business acumen, then lose commercially capable women to competitors with better judgment.</p><p>Michelle and Mel also share practical language women can use when feedback starts sounding more like a style preference than a serious assessment of leadership.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lead to Soar Podcast at <a href="https://leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>
July 26, 2026
Clean Up on Aisle Seven: How Executive Women Get Assigned Other Peoples Work
<p>The conversation about non-promotable tasks does not end when women reach the executive table. It just gets more expensive.</p><p>In Episode 229, Mel and Michelle take the office housework conversation somewhere it rarely goes: into the C-suite and executive tier, where the stakes are higher, the patterns are harder to see, and the costs show up in titles, salary bands, and what you actually spend your days doing.</p><p>Michelle shares her own experience of being the only woman on an executive team of eight, holding a lesser title than all seven of her male peers, and becoming the unofficial coaching hub for the entire organisation because her male colleagues sent her their problems and kept the interesting (aka promotable) work for themselves.</p><p>The episode covers two layers of this problem: women being structurally channelled into enabling roles with no P&L responsibility, and the informal offloading of people management and emotional labour onto the woman who said yes once and never quite stopped. It also delivers a practical BQ gap analysis to help you name what is happening and have a fact-based conversation with someone who can do something about it.</p><p>And there is a direct word for decision-makers. If you are tolerating senior leaders who abdicate their people responsibilities onto the nearest woman, this one is also for you.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lead to Soar Podcast at <a href="https://leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>
July 19, 2026
Women of Consequence: What Women Leaders Who Are Respected Do Differently
<p>There's a question Michelle puts to every group of women she works with on leadership reputation: what would your boss say about you?</p><p>The answers are almost always the same. Helpful. Dependable. Reliable. Great team player.</p><p>And then silence where strategic, consequential, and trusted with outcomes should be.</p><p>This episode is about that silence and what breaks it. Mel and Michelle dig into three things women leaders need to get right to change how they're seen at work: knowing your no, delegation as a financial and strategic skill rather than a management preference, and understanding your positional purpose what do they actually pay you to do around here?</p><p>The gap between being liked and being a woman of consequence is not a confidence problem. It's a clarity problem. </p><p>This episode addresses it directly.</p><p>Self-assessment link below.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.research.net/r/WhatsYourRep">https://www.research.net/r/WhatsYourRep</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lead to Soar Podcast at <a href="https://leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">leadtosoarpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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