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by Liz Murray

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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.

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July 30, 2026

The leadership skill most people ignore

You got promoted on competence. That's not always what keeps you leading well. This episode names the one skill that quietly costs leaders their authority, and walks through two real leaders who hit the exact same wall, only one of whom actually shifted it. Key takeaways: - Competence gets you promoted, it rarely explains what happens after - Emotional intelligence is measurable and learnable, not a personality trait, per Daniel Goleman's five components: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skill - Two leaders faced the same team problem, only the one who changed his own behaviour got a lasting result - The shift comes down to three moves: pause, ask, then set expectations - Noticing where your attention goes first is the entire first step 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. Watch the video: <a href="https://youtu.be/XV2BtHzwavI">https://youtu.be/XV2BtHzwavI </a> Read the blog: <a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/the-leadership-skill-most-people-ignore">https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/the-leadership-skill-most-people-ignore</a>   🎓 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: <a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/joinus-2c00a25f-6b1e-43de-9f69-9caa21b5ecbc">https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/joinus-2c00a25f-6b1e-43de-9f69-9caa21b5ecbc</a>   Connect with Liz: 🔗 Start Here, everything in one place: <a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here">https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here </a> ▶️ Take 5 With Me on YouTube, weekly leadership videos: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@lizmurray_Leadership">https://www.youtube.com/@lizmurray_Leadership </a> 🎧 Leading From The Edge on Spotify, the audio version: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0kFgsuhDVNLnanQRc">https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0kFgsuhDVNLnanQRc </a> 💼 LinkedIn, weekly newsletter and insights: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities/ </a> 📩 <a href="mailto:liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au">liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au</a> PUBLISH DATE: Monday, 3 August 2026 at 6:00am AEST EPISODE LENGTH: 4 minutes 57 seconds THUMBNAIL: The leadership skill most people ignore cover, not yet supplied Transcript You got here on competence. So why does it still feel like something's not landing with your team? I coach leaders on exactly this pattern, so let's get straight into it. Most leaders never separate being good at the work from being good at leading people. By the end of this, you'll know exactly if the gap is yours, and what it actually looks like to close it: the problem, the cost, the insight, and the one shift you can take away today. Here's the problem. Competence gets you promoted. It rarely explains what happens after. Once you're responsible for other people, the job stops being about how well you do the work. It becomes about how well you read and respond to what's happening around you, in the room, under pressure, mid-conflict. Most leaders never notice that shift has happened. So when things stall, they blame the team, the hiring, the communication. Sometimes it's one of those. Often it's a specific gap that no one's even checking for. So what is that gap? Emotional intelligence. And before you switch off, it's not the soft skill you've been thinking it is. Psychologist Daniel Goleman first applied this to business back in 1998, in a Harvard Business Review piece, after studying leadership inside nearly 200 companies. He broke it into five parts: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill. It's measurable, it's learnable, and it's not a personality trait. Here's the cost when we're missing it. It doesn't show up on a scorecard. It shows up in whether your team brings you problems early, or hides them until they're too big to hide. Let me show you what that actually looks like in two real leaders. Two leaders came to me around the same time with what looked like the same issue: team members bringing personal stuff to work, distracted, underperforming, dragging the whole team down. Dean's response was to bring me in for one-to-one coaching with the team members themselves, so they could work through it and leave it at the door. Sensible on the surface, he treated it as if it was their issue to fix. Greg's response was different. He asked me to coach him instead. He understood that how his team was showing up was connected to how he was showing up for them, and that was his to shift, not theirs alone. Through the coaching, Greg changed two specific things. He started asking deeper questions before responding to a problem, instead of reacting to the surface of it. And he got clearer on setting expectations and ground rules after he understood what was actually going on, not before. He didn't have to force the shift in his team. Once they felt understood, and felt like he actually cared, their performance started improving on its own. Dean's team members felt supported in their individual sessions, but the culture around them never moved, because the one thing that needed to change, how Dean led, never did. Same starting problem. One leader changed his own behaviour. One outsourced the fix. Only one of them saw lasting results. So here's what actually made the difference, and it's not personality change. It's three things you can start doing this week: pause before you respond to a problem, instead of reacting to it. Ask genuine clarifying questions before you make a decision on what's going on. Then set expectations after you understand the real issue, not before. None of that requires becoming a different person. It requires noticing the gap between reacting and responding, and doing it on purpose. Two things worth being honest with yourself about, not to feel bad about, just to notice. When a team member's performance dips, where does your attention go first: what's wrong with them, or what's mine to adjust? And where in your leadership right now are you paying to fix someone else's behaviour, when the faster lever might be your own? If either of these landed, don't sit with it, go find out. The Leadership Mirror takes three minutes and shows you exactly where this might be costing you. The link's below.

July 26, 2026

Most burnout doesn't look like burnout

Most burnout doesn't look like burnout from the outside. And if you're the kind of leader I work with, it probably doesn't feel like it either. You're still turning up, still getting things done, but somewhere underneath you're running very fast and no one can see it. In this episode I'm busting the workload myth, naming the two patterns I see draining leaders at every level, and giving you a clear, honest place to start. Key takeaways: - The exhaustion stays because the workload isn't the real problem. If it were, solving the workload would fix it. - There's the work, and then there's the performance on top of the work. Performing calm, performing confidence, performing capability. Your nervous system knows the difference even when no one else does. - The two patterns underneath the performance: unclear standards (the pressure always flows back to you) and carrying what belongs to others (you carry more, they grow less capable). - Neither pattern is a character flaw. They're patterns, and patterns can be identified, named, and changed. - You can't fix what you haven't seen clearly. The Leadership Mirror gives you that honest picture in five minutes, free. Watch the video: <a href="https://youtu.be/KLEJnKgLt_I">https://youtu.be/KLEJnKgLt_I</a>  Read the blog: <a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/why-you-feel-exhausted-when-you-look-fine">https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/why-you-feel-exhausted-when-you-look-fine </a> 🎓 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: <a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/joinus-2c00a25f-6b1e-43de-9f69-9caa21b5ecbc">https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/joinus-2c00a25f-6b1e-43de-9f69-9caa21b5ecbc </a> Connect with Liz: 🔗 Start Here: <a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here">https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here </a> ▶️ Take 5 With Me on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@lizmurray_Leadership">https://www.youtube.com/@lizmurray_Leadership </a> 🎧 Leading From The Edge on Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0kFgsuhDVNLnanQRc">https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0kFgsuhDVNLnanQRc</a> 💼 LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities/ </a> 📩 <a href="mailto:liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au">liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au</a>   Thought process  Thought process   Here's the clean version ready to paste: Full episode transcript Most burnout doesn't look like burnout from the outside. And if you're the kind of leader that I work with, it probably doesn't feel like burnout either. You're still turning up. You're still getting things done. But somewhere underneath all of that, you are running very fast and no one can see it. If that sounds familiar, then this video is for you. I'm Liz Murray, executive leadership coach and founder of Edge of Possibilities. Welcome to Take 5 With Me. Last year, 80% of Australian workers reported they're experiencing burnout. What that number doesn't tell you is how many of those people look completely fine from the outside. How many were managing up, managing sideways, holding everything together, and still turning up to every meeting looking like they had it all handled. Most burnout doesn't look like burnout. And most of the advice out there completely misses why. So today I want to bust the common assumption I hear, name exactly what's going on, and give you a place to start. By the end of the video you'll know the real reason you're exhausted, and I promise you it's not what you think. The most common thing I hear from leaders is this: if I could just get on top of everything, I would feel better. So they work harder, they delegate more, they optimise their calendar, they read the book about time management. And the exhaustion stays. That's a signal. Because if the workload were the real problem, then solving the workload would fix it. But it doesn't. So something else is going on. There's the work, and then there's the performance on top of the work. Performing calm instead of feeling it. Performing confidence instead of drawing on it. Performing capability instead of leading from it. I use the swan image a lot with my clients. Serene above the water, but feet going absolutely flat out underneath. The swan still gets where it's going. The performance works. Nobody sees the effort. But your nervous system knows the difference, even when no one else sees it. That performance layer, the consistent management of how you appear, is what's draining you. Not the decisions, not the meetings. The performance on top of them. Underneath the performance there are almost always two specific patterns. The first is unclear standards. When expectations aren't held firmly, people fill the gap with their own interpretation, usually shaped by what they can get away with, not what's actually required. The pressure from that gap always flows back to the leader. The second is carrying what belongs to others. Every time you absorb a team member's discomfort, pick up their dropped ball, or rescue them before the natural consequence lands, you reinforce a dynamic that quietly drains everyone. You carry more, they grow less capable, and the gap widens. I worked with a leader, I'll call him Merrick, who came to me because he genuinely didn't know what else to do. He was stretched really thin. His instinct, because he's a genuinely caring person, was to absorb more and take the pressure off. Except it wasn't working. The more he carried, the more they struggled. He wasn't sleeping. He was becoming reactive in moments he used to find manageable. When we sat with it properly, what became clear was that he had created a culture where his team didn't know what was truly expected of them, not through harshness, but through the opposite. He got clear on expectations. He started holding them consistently. He moved from rescuing to building his team's own capability. He's sleeping now and he's present. The whole team is performing. His workload didn't shrink dramatically. What shifted was the weight he was carrying that was never his to carry. Neither of these patterns is a character flaw. They're patterns, and patterns can be identified, named, and changed. Which one shows up most in your leadership right now? You can't fix a pattern you haven't seen clearly. Only 28% of Australian organisations invest in developing their leaders, which means most people carrying real responsibility are figuring this out on their own. You don't have to. The Leadership Mirror is a free five-minute self-assessment. It measures how you make decisions under pressure, how you hold up when things get hard, whether the standards you set are the ones you actually enforce, and whether you're carrying what's yours or absorbing what belongs to others. Your result places you in one of four bands and gives you specific, direct feedback. Not a personality type. A clear picture. The link is in the description. If what I've described today is landing, the next step is The Leadership Mirror. It's free, it takes five minutes, and it will tell you something genuinely useful. I'll see you next week.

July 19, 2026

Who Are You Being?

All month we've been circling one idea, authority isn't about how you look, it's about who you're being. In this final episode of the series, Liz ties it all together, the one distinction underneath everything talked about this month, the performing, the drifting, the exhaustion. If you recognised yourself in the loud one, the gone one, or the gripping one, this is exactly where it leads. Key takeaways: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Leading from managing how you're seen is leading from the wrong place, and it's the root of the performing, drifting, and exhaustion talked about all month</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">When you're preoccupied with being seen a certain way, you can't be calm, because you've always got something to protect</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Letting go of the image means there's nothing left to defend, which is where real calm and steadiness actually come from</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Most of us are drifting from who we really are without noticing, because the performing feels automatic, it just feels like us</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">The strongest leaders aren't the ones performing the role, they're the ones brave enough to lead as themselves</li> </ul> 🎯 Ready to see where your own authority is really coming from? Take The Leadership Mirror, a short quiz that shows you where your presence holds and where it's quietly drifting. Free, a couple of minutes, the most honest look in the mirror you'll get as a leader. 👉<a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here"> Take The Leadership Mirror</a> Watch the video:<a href="https://youtu.be/RJ8S0q2m4qM">Who are you being? </a> Read the blog: <a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/blog/who-are-you-being">The real source of leadership authority</a> 🎓 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. 👉<a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/joinus-2c00a25f-6b1e-43de-9f69-9caa21b5ecbc"> Join here</a> Connect with Liz: 🔗<a href="https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/start-here"> Start Here</a>, everything in one place ▶️<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@lizmurray_Leadership"> Take 5 With Me on YouTube</a>, weekly leadership videos 🎧<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0kFgsuhDVNLnanQRc"> Leading From The Edge on Spotify</a>, the audio version 💼<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities/"> LinkedIn</a>, weekly newsletter and insights 📩 liz@edgeofpossibilities.com.au PUBLISH DATE: Monday 20 July 2026 at 6:00am AEST EPISODE LENGTH: 2 minutes 45 seconds THUMBNAIL: Stop Performing, Start Leading, the real shift

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