Leading From The Edge Podcast

About Leading From The Edge Podcast

Leading from the Edge is your go-to podcast for ambitious leaders, managers, and executives ready to break through barriers and lead with confidence. Hosted by Leadership Coach Liz Murray, each episode delivers actionable leadership tips, real-world insights, and proven strategies to help you inspire your team, drive results, and navigate change in your role as leader. Whether you’re seeking to boost your confidence and influence, master communication, or build a high-performing culture, tune in to unlock your leadership potential and stay ahead of the curve.

Publisher

Liz Murray

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jul 2025

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Why you keep repeating the same leadership habit"

   Edge of Possibilities | Liz Murray | Leading the Team Reading time, 4 minutes Why you keep repeating the same leadership habit "I know I'm doing it, it's just what I always do." I hear that from experienced leaders all the time, smart people who've read all the books and can name their habit perfectly, and yet it still runs. In this episode I share two stories, my own early career spiral and my client Kara's, about why knowing a habit isn't the same as changing it, plus two questions I ask my clients and one thing to try before your next big call. Key takeaways: Knowing your habit and seeing what drives it are two very different things. Only seeing what drives it changes it. Building the plan first and then asking for feedback can leave you second guessing yourself. Gathering ideas first, then building the plan, changes that. Holding back real, specific feedback because you don't want someone to feel bad keeps the problem running, and the whole team pays for it. Two questions to ask yourself: what has this habit been costing you, and what difference would it make to replace it now? Before your next call, pause and ask: if I were leading from clarity and certainty, completely aligned with my vision, what would I do? Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Xi59Zb0QnCw Listen to this episode: https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/podcasts/leading-from-the-edge-podcast/episodes/2149262870 (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/podcasts/leading-from-the-edge-podcast/episodes/2149262870) Read the blog: https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/you-already-know-what-you-do (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/you-already-know-what-you-do) Timestamps: 0:00 – The habit you know but can't shift 0:47 – My early career spiral 1:36 – Kara and the feedback she avoided 2:48 – The 2 questions I ask my clients 3:03 – One thing to try before your next call 🎓 Ready to go deeper? Be Exceptional is Liz's signature leadership course for leaders who are ready to stop over-functioning and start leading with clarity and authority. 👉 Join here (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/joinus-2c00a25f-6b1e-43de-9f69-9caa21b5ecbc) Connect with Liz: 🔗 Start Here (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here), everything in one place ▶️ Take 5 With Me on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@lizmurray_Leadership), weekly leadership videos 🎧 Leading From The Edge on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0kFgsuhDVNLnanQRc), the audio version 💼 LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities/), weekly newsletter and insights 📩 liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au EPISODE LENGTH: 3 minutes 41 seconds Full transcript "I know I'm doing it. It's just what I always do." I hear that from experienced leaders all the time. Really smart people, and people who have read all the books. They can name their habit perfectly, and yet they're still running it. So if you already know what to do, why hasn't knowing it changed anything? That is exactly what we're here unpacking today. Because knowing your habit and seeing what drives it are two very different things. In the next five minutes, I'm going to share with you two stories, two questions that I ask my clients that you might find helpful, and I'm going to share one thing to try before you make the next big call that you have to make. Early in my career, I remember making a decision, and I was very excited about it. I set this huge plan in place and I presented it to my leadership team. I couldn't wait for their feedback. Then one of them pushed back with a completely different perspective. I was shattered, and that's when my spiral started. I was questioning myself, thinking, is their idea better than mine? Will they follow through if it's my idea? And then I really started to think, am I even cut out for this? The real issue was actually that I'd planned first, and then I started second guessing as soon as that feedback from them came in. So, over time, making the same mistake, I learnt it's important to gather your ideas first and then build the plan. It took me a long time to get there. I have a client, her name's Kara, and she had a team member who just kept making the same mistake over and over. And Kara was giving feedback, giving subtle hints, making suggestions, but she never really got to the heart of it. And the story that she was saying to herself was that they aren't ready to hear it yet. They've got too much on. It wouldn't be fair at this stage, with everything that's going on in their life. The cost, though, is that it kept happening and happening, and the rest of her team started complaining about her team member. The thing that was really driving it, though, underneath, was that she had a really bad boss who had given her feedback in a really hurtful way, and she didn't want her team member feeling that way too. In fact, she never wanted any of her team to feel the way that she felt with the way that her old team leader addressed issues. Once Kara saw that, real and specific feedback became the thing that would actually help the situation. So Kara knew the habit. What changed it was seeing what was underneath it. When a leader tells me, "I know I'm doing it, it's just that it's what I always do," I ask them two things. The first one is, what has it been costing you? And the second, what difference would it make to replace it now? Before you make your next call, pause and ask yourself, "If I were leading from clarity and certainty, completely aligned with my vision, what would I do in this situation?" Knowing your habit is where it starts. Seeing what drives it is what changes it. If you want to find out which pattern is driving yours, take the Leadership Mirror. It looks at four areas of how you lead under pressure, and it shows you where your authority is quietly slipping. It's free, and the link is below. Tell me in the comments: what's the habit you know you do, and you still do it anyway?

2. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Rescuing instead of empowering

   Edge of Possibilities | Liz Murray | Drivers and Defaults Reading time, 2 minutes Rescuing instead of empowering I used to think being available for every problem was the job. Turns out I wasn't lightening anyone's load, I was just carrying it for them instead of teaching them to carry it themselves. This episode is about the shift that changed that, and why it gives you your own energy back too. Key takeaways: Being available for every problem often means you're carrying it, not lightening it, for your team Rescuing costs you too, your own work loses momentum while you're holding theirs Handing a problem back isn't handing someone nothing, it's asking one deeper question instead of giving the answer Trusting your team to think for themselves gives them the win and gives you your focus back This is one of 5 patterns in this month's arc, from rescuing through to carrying what was never yours Watch the video: https://youtu.be/3lRUHBtBRF0 (https://youtu.be/3lRUHBtBRF0) Read the blog: https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/rescuing-isnt-leading (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/rescuing-isnt-leading) P.S. If this pattern's showing up for you, this month's free guide, Why momentum breaks down under pressure, covers 5 more like it and exactly where to catch each one: https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/pl/2148850780 (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/pl/2148850780) 🎓 Ready to go deeper? Be Exceptional is Liz's signature leadership course for leaders who are ready to stop over-functioning and start leading with clarity and authority. 👉 Join here (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/joinus-2c00a25f-6b1e-43de-9f69-9caa21b5ecbc) Connect with Liz: 🔗 Start Here (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here), everything in one place ▶️ Take 5 With Me on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@lizmurray_Leadership), weekly leadership videos 🎧 Leading From The Edge on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0kFgsuhDVNLnanQRc), the audio version 💼 LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities/), weekly newsletter and insights 📩 liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au (mailto:liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au) Transcript I used to pride myself on being there for my team — being responsive whenever they needed me. If I could ease their load, I would. They were exceptional at what they did, and I wanted to support them in every single way that I could. I genuinely wished there were more hours in the day so I could help them even more. And I thought I was being helpful. What I didn’t realise was that I wasn’t lightening their load. I was just taking on their problem and wishing for more time to carry it for them. It was never about having enough time or not having enough time. The real issue was that I was rescuing them. I wasn’t empowering them to trust their own thinking. And here’s the part that really gets me: my actual job was teaching people how to solve problems using their own critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Real teaching and learning. And there I was, telling instead of asking. Solving instead of stepping back. Doing the exact opposite of the thing I was meant to be building in them. And it doesn’t stop at their problem. Every time we rescue, we carry more of someone else’s burden as our own. We end up sitting under more pressure, not less, because our own projects have lost momentum while we were busy holding theirs. From that place, you’re running on depleted energy. And that’s the energy you bring to everyone and everything, without even realising it. So here’s what changed it for me: Handing a problem back isn’t handing someone a solution. It’s a deeper question. That’s it. That’s the whole shift. And it’s not a loss for them either. It’s a win-win, because it gives them the opportunity to work out what actually fits for them, and it gives you the opportunity to hold your focus and energy for the work only you can do. The old story in my head was that I needed to keep helping them so I could make it easier for them. The new one is this: When I trust them enough to think for themselves, they get the satisfaction of solving it — and I get to keep the momentum going on my own work. That’s what being in adult mode actually looks like here. Not doing more for people. Believing they’re capable of more, and getting out of the way long enough to let them prove it to themselves. And that’s the whole arc this month in one line: rescuing, demanding respect, missing your own default, letting the standard slip, and then carrying what was never yours. All five of these come back to the same choice: Are you leading from clarity, or running on a default? If you want to see exactly where your own authority holds — and where it quietly drifts — that’s what the Leadership Mirror shows you in 10 minutes. The link is below. Where are you still rescuing instead of empowering? Tell me in the comments. I really would love to know.

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   What leading from adult actually looks like

   Over the last three weeks we've named three traps, rescuing, correcting and reacting, and they all come from the same root, a default taking over instead of you actually choosing how to lead. This week I'm answering the obvious question: if those are the traps, what's actually on the other side of them? What does leading from adult actually look like, in the exact same moments those traps show up? Key takeaways: Rescuing, correcting and reacting all share the same root, a default running the moment instead of you actually choosing how to lead Leading from adult isn't a personality, confidence or having it all figured out, it's a handful of small, repeatable choices made in the exact same moments the traps show up The flip in practice: ask what they've already tried instead of solving it for them, check the outcome against the standard you said out loud instead of rewriting their method, pause and ask one question instead of getting defensive It works precisely because it's quiet, none of it is dramatic, that's exactly why it stops the pattern before it starts The goal was never perfection, it's noticing faster and choosing again, a shorter gap between the default and the choice each time Watch the video: https://youtu.be/0G91r1cOez0 (https://youtu.be/0G91r1cOez0) Read the blog: https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/adult-to-adult-leadership-what-it-looks-like (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/adult-to-adult-leadership-what-it-looks-like) Timestamps: 0:00 – Three traps, one root: a default taking over 0:20 – The obvious question: what's on the other side? 0:35 – It's not a personality, it's a handful of repeatable choices 0:50 – Rescuing, flipped: asking instead of solving 1:10 – Correcting, flipped: checking the outcome, not rewriting the method 1:30 – Reacting, flipped: pause, one question, leave it open 1:50 – Why it works precisely because it isn't dramatic 2:05 – You'll still slip, so will I, the goal is just to notice faster 2:25 – Which trap is yours? The Leadership Mirror shows you 2:45 – The closing question 🎓 Ready to go deeper? Be Exceptional is Liz's signature leadership course for leaders who are ready to stop over-functioning and start leading with clarity and authority. 👉 Join here (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/joinus-2c00a25f-6b1e-43de-9f69-9caa21b5ecbc) Connect with Liz: 🔗 Start Here (https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here), everything in one place ▶️ Take 5 With Me on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@lizmurray_Leadership), weekly leadership videos 🎧 Leading From The Edge on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0kFgsuhDVNLnanQRc), the audio version 💼 LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities/), weekly newsletter and insights 📩 liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au (mailto:liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au) (mailto:liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au) Full transcript Over the last three weeks, we've covered three traps. Rescuing, solving your team's problems for them because it feels good to have all the answers. Correcting, redoing their work for them because it feels good to be right. And reacting, needing to be right the moment you're challenged, because being questioned feels like being attacked. These are three different traps, but they all come from the same root. All three have a default taking over, instead of you actually choosing how to lead in that moment. So today I want to answer the obvious question. If those are the traps, what's actually on the other side of them? What does it look like when a leader is operating from adult, not from one of those defaults? It's quieter than you think. It's not a personality. It's not confidence or charisma, or having it all figured out. It's a handful of small, repeatable choices, made in the exact same moments the traps show up. Someone brings you a problem. Instead of solving it for them, you ask what they've already tried, and what they think the right move is. You're still fully present, you're just not doing their thinking for them anymore. Someone's work isn't done your way. Instead of rewriting it, you check the outcome against the standard that you actually said out loud. If the outcome's right, you let the method be theirs. Someone challenges you in front of the room. Instead of getting defensive, you pause. You ask one question. And you let the conversation stay open a moment longer than what feels comfortable. None of that's dramatic, that's exactly why it works. Leading from adult doesn't announce itself, it just quietly stops the pattern before it even starts. And here's what I want you to hear really clearly. You will still slip, I still do. The goal was never to rescue, it was never to correct, and it was never to react again. The goal is just to notice faster, to catch ourselves a little earlier each time, and then choose again. That's the whole practice. It's not about perfection, it's just a shorter gap between the default and the choice. Now, if you've watched all three of these, and you're wondering which one you slip into most under pressure, that's exactly what the Leadership Mirror is. It's designed to show you. It's free, it takes five minutes, where your own authority holds and where it quietly drifts away. The link's below if you'd like to take it. So, of the three we've been covering this month, rescuing, correcting, and reacting, which one's yours? I genuinely would love to know. Tell me in the comments.

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