Lighthearted Leadership with Lizette

About Lighthearted Leadership with Lizette

The podcast for senior leaders learning to stay steady and make sharper decisions when the stakes spike. Every other Tuesday, Dr. Lizette Warner sits down with leaders, thinkers, and practitioners to talk about what it actually takes to lead well when the pressure spikes and the pace of the environment is faster than the human system was built for. Each episode follows a three-act structure: the pattern we're all in, the turning point that changes it, and one practice you can take with you into your next high-stakes moment. Capacity isn't a destination. It's a journey.

Publisher

Dr. Lizette Warner

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 May 2021

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

62 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   58 · Debunked: Fake It Till You Make It

   Someone has told you to fake it till you make it. It's on the graduation posters, it's in the commencement speeches, and it's been handed to women more relentlessly than to anyone else. Here's the problem: your nervous system isn't fooled. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why confidence is a state and not a thought, and what that means for every affirmation you've ever said to a mirror What actually happened to the power posing research after the TED Talk, including the co-author who publicly walked it back in 2016 Why "be more assertive" is the wrong variable to fix, and what it costs the woman who follows the advice into an unsafe room The one word inside "fake it till you make it" that breaks the whole thing, and the word that replaces it How to prime your nervous system with a confidence you've already lived, before you walk into the room Why the self-help industry keeps selling mindset work instead of regulation work, and what that choice has to do with weekend workshops Your capacity move for the week: one small moment, one specific body memory, no power pose Connect with Lizette Take the free Capacity Code Assessment: capacity.lizettewarner.com (https://capacity.lizettewarner.com) Website: lizettewarner.com (lizettewarner.com) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lizettewarner (linkedin.com/in/lizettewarner) Instagram: @lizette__warner Substack: substack.com/@drlizettewarner (substack.com/@drlizettewarner) Patreon: patreon.com/CapacityConversations (patreon.com/CapacityConversations)

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   57: The Voice-Values Gap: Kristine Sickels on the 360 That Changed How She Led

   What does it cost to bring only part of yourself to work? Kristine Sickels spent 20 years climbing the corporate ladder, rising to SVP of marketing for a $2 billion portfolio of brands you know: Crock-Pot, Mr. Coffee, Oster. Then a 360 review stopped her cold. The feedback praised her results and named a harder truth, that the way she was leading did not match who she was at home, as a friend, as a daughter. In this conversation she calls that the voice-values gap, the distance between what you believe inside and what you say out loud. We talk about the three values she chose to lead from, candor, optimism, and curiosity, why she keeps them on a card where she can see them, and the moment she realized women across her company were watching how she led. Kristine left corporate as one of the highest-ranked women in an organization of 20,000 to give the next season of her career to championing women's voices, through her company MicDrop and her book, The Clearest Voice in the Room. This one is about using your voice in the small daily moments, not just the big ones. In This Episode, You'll Learn: The 360 feedback that revealed Kristine was only bringing part of herself to work, and what it broke open for her The voice-values gap: the distance between what you believe and what you actually say out loud Why Kristine leads from three values, candor, optimism, and curiosity, and how she keeps them in front of her every single day The moment she realized women across her company were watching how she led, and what it moved her to do Why she walked away from one of the highest-ranked women's roles in a 20,000-person company The silencers that keep capable women quiet, and where energy fits in her VOICE framework One small practice to use your voice in everyday moments instead of waiting for the big meeting Connect with Kristine: Website: drkristinespeaks.com (https://drkristinespeaks.com/) Book, The Clearest Voice in the Room (https://drkristinespeaks.com/book/): on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Goodreads. Signed copies plus her voice-values-gap resources and playlist at drkristinespeaks.com/book Substack: https://kristinesickels.substack.com/ (https://kristinesickels.substack.com/) Connect with Lizette: Preorder waitlist for⁠ ⁠Lizette's Next Book⁠⁠ (https://www.site.lizettewarner.com/widget/form/5sAkQLrQuzEalmfBFBvP) ⁠⁠Book Lizette to Speak⁠⁠ (https://www.site.lizettewarner.com/widget/form/tqUtpLo45tHDTqhi6alT) Get email updates here:⁠ ⁠https://lizettewarner.com/work-with-me#loop⁠⁠ (https://lizettewarner.com/work-with-me#loop) Join me on⁠ ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠ (https://drlizettewarner.substack.com/subscribe?params=%5Bobject%20Object%5D) Become a⁠ ⁠member⁠⁠ (https://www.patreon.com/CapacityConversations):⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/CapacityConversations⁠⁠ (https://www.patreon.com/CapacityConversations):

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   56: Debunked: Does Honesty Really Build Trust?

   Description Honesty builds trust. It is the most repeated, least examined claim in modern leadership, and it is backwards. Welcome to Debunked, the segment where I take a piece of the productivity gospel, run it through the capacity science, and tell you what actually holds up. This week I follow up on my conversation with Edie Kay Stulken about honesty and leadership, and I go after the belief underneath it. I walk through four things we believe about honesty, from the ones you already suspect are off to the one almost nobody questions: honesty is always the best policy, brutal honesty is just my personality, radical candor means say the hard thing, and the big one, honesty builds trust. The neuroscience tells a different story. Your nervous system runs a safety scan before you consciously register a single word, and honesty delivered into a system that reads threat does not build anything. It breaks something. The sequence we have been taught is backwards. Trust is what makes honesty possible, not the other way around. In This Episode, You'll Learn: Why honesty is a tool, not a default, and why the people we trust most are the most attuned, not the most honest What the research on prosocial deception says about the small, generous softenings that make hard truths land Why "I'm just being honest" is usually a nervous system pattern, not a personality trait How radical candor got flattened into permission to skip the care that makes candor survivable What the neuroscience of the safety scan reveals about why the same honest words build trust in one moment and destroy it in another Why the real sequence is backwards: trust builds honesty, not honesty builds trust Your capacity move: the one question to ask before you deliver the hard truth Connect with Lizette: Take the Capacity Code assessment (free, about two minutes): https://capacity.lizettewarner.com (https://capacity.lizettewarner.com) Get on the preorder waitlist for The Capacity Advantage: https://www.site.lizettewarner.com/widget/form/5sAkQLrQuzEalmfBFBvP (https://www.site.lizettewarner.com/widget/form/5sAkQLrQuzEalmfBFBvP) Book Lizette to Speak: https://www.site.lizettewarner.com/widget/form/tqUtpLo45tHDTqhi6alT (https://www.site.lizettewarner.com/widget/form/tqUtpLo45tHDTqhi6alT) Get email updates: https://lizettewarner.com/work-with-me#loop (https://lizettewarner.com/work-with-me#loop) Join me on Substack: https://drlizettewarner.substack.com (https://drlizettewarner.substack.com) Become a member: https://www.patreon.com/CapacityConversations (https://www.patreon.com/CapacityConversations)

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• Makeda Boehm
• Meg Rentschler
• Edie Kay Stulken
• Kim Hollingdale
• Christine Sickles

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