Rooted Leadership with Meredith Tieszen is a podcast for women who want to lead with authenticity, faith, and courage.
Through meaningful conversations with influential women, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and everyday difference-makers, Meredith uncovers the lessons, challenges, and breakthroughs that shape exceptional leadership. You'll discover practical wisdom for growing personally and professionally while staying rooted in what matters most.
If you've ever thought, "I'm just a..." this podcast will remind you that you're called to more.
It's time to stop minimizing your impact and start living a life that's deeply rooted, purpose-driven, and influential.
Live Life Rooted.
Stop Being the Bottleneck: The 4-Question Framework Great Leaders Use
Send us Fan Mail Are people lining up at your door with "quick questions"? Meredith Tieszen shares how she became the bottleneck in her own company, and the simple framework that turned her team into decision-makers. Her four lines for every problem that reaches your desk: State the problem in one sentence a stranger would understand.Bring 3–4 solutions, not one.Name the team's top pick, and why.Say what it costs if we do nothing. She also covers where the framework comes from: the Army's "C...
27 Oct 2026
When You Say “I’m Just,” You’re Disagreeing With God
Send us Fan Mail I opened this one with a verse you’ve probably heard so many times your brain checks out before I finish reading it. Psalm 139. Fearfully and wonderfully made. The coffee-mug verse. I heard it my entire life and took it as a compliment. Then a few years ago something started bothering me: if we really believe it, why do so many of us introduce ourselves with the word just? I’m just helping. I’m just a mom. I’m just trying to get through today. I know because I did it. For yea...
13 Oct 2026
Why I Quit a Great Job in 3 Months
Send us Fan Mail Only 27% of employees strongly agree they believe in their company's values — and I think I know why. A value on a wall isn't a decision. It's a decoration. In this episode I tell you about the company I left after three months, why it wasn't bravery, and the one thing I'd decided years before that room existed. Then I walk you through what a non-negotiable actually is (a decision you made before the room, not in it), the ten-second test for whether you have any, and three st...
6 Oct 2026
Why 3 Out of 4 Women Are Planning to Be Broke
Send us Fan Mail Only one in four women has a written retirement plan. I think I know why: we won't talk about money. Not with our girlfriends, not with our mentors, and sometimes not even at our own kitchen table. In this episode I tell you about the dinner where the whole table went quiet the moment money came up, the conversation Chad and I had before we got married that we still have every quarter, and a confession from the executive's chair: I have negotiated women down off what I was wi...
29 Sept 2026
Courage Isn't the Absence of Fear. It's Fear in the Passenger Seat.
Send us Fan Mail For a long season, Meredith sat in parking lots — not because she was early, but because she was working up the courage to open the car door. Then she'd walk in, lead the meeting, make the decision, and walk out realizing almost none of what she'd feared had happened. Every time. This is about the parking lot you're sitting in right now — the hallway, the driveway, the email you've drafted four times — and the one question that finally got her out of the car: not what's wai...
22 Sept 2026
The Bargain Women Make to Stay Safe (and Small)
Send us Fan Mail A room, four words, and the two words that slipped out afterward — "I'm just." This is the follow-up: what those two words are actually hiding, and a one-sentence fix that changes nothing about your life except how you describe it. Meredith shares on the bargain beneath "I'm just" — smaller in exchange for safe — the woman with thirty years of experience who charged clients "whatever you think I'm worth," and why this was never a confidence problem. It's a permission proble...
15 Sept 2026
I Wrote My Book in Two Days. It Took 25 Years.
Send us Fan Mail On a Wednesday morning on the treadmill, Meredith Tieszen knew she was supposed to write a book. She wrote it by Thursday night, sent it to publishers Friday, and had a publisher by Monday. It sounds like a shortcut. It was twenty-five years of training she hadn't recognized as training. In this episode: what actually came out in those thirty-six hours — a company built to 250,000 customers, a $1.67B territory, five years at 22 days a month on the road; why she couldn't say a...
11 Sept 2026
Gate C4: Twenty-Five Years Later
Send us Fan Mail Twenty-five years ago, Meredith was a flight attendant living beneath the landing path at DFW Airport when the skies suddenly went silent. This is the story of her friend Jeff, who was working aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001. It's also the story of an unexpected phone call, one of the first flights to return to the air, and a lesson learned at Gate C4 that has stayed with her ever since. In this special episode, Meredith reflects on service, courage, ...
8 Sept 2026
The Four C's of Leadership
Send us Fan Mail Leadership isn't built in big moments. It's built in the choices we make every day. In this episode, Meredith shares the Four C's that help leaders earn trust, build strong teams, and lead with purpose. Whether you're leading a company, a classroom, a family, or simply yourself, these four qualities create the foundation for lasting influence. Because great leadership starts at the root. Support the show
1 Sept 2026
The Crisis That Almost Cost Me Everything
Send us Fan Mail For about two days in 2008, Meredith was convinced she was about to lose every client she had. A technology failure had begun charging customers multiple times for a single order. Some were charged as many as twelve times. What happened next became one of the most important leadership lessons of her career. In this episode of Rooted Leadership, Meredith shares the five principles that guided her through a business crisis, what true accountability looks like, and how trust is ...
25 Aug 2026
How to Spot the Difference Between an Opportunity and a Trap
Send us Fan Mail They gave Meredith the worst-performing region in the company. Thirteen states. The worst numbers. Multiple leaders had already failed. Three years later, it became the number one region in the company. In this episode of Rooted Leadership, Meredith shares what she learned from inheriting a struggling business, why difficult assignments can become career-defining opportunities, and the four questions every leader should ask before saying yes to a turnaround role. You'll learn...
18 Aug 2026
The First Person I Ever Fired
Send us Fan Mail The first person Meredith ever fired was a woman in her forties. Meredith was fourteen years old. And she did the whole thing crying. In this deeply personal episode of Rooted Leadership, Meredith shares the story of Mrs. Smith, the lessons she got wrong, the one thing she somehow got right, and the leadership principles that took the next twenty years to fully understand. If you have a difficult conversation sitting on your calendar, this episode is for you. You'll learn: Wh...
11 Aug 2026
9 Interview Questions Every Woman Leader Should Ask
Send us Fan Mail What questions should you ask in an interview? Most people prepare answers. Very few prepare the right questions. In this episode of Rooted Leadership, Meredith shares nine questions every leader should know before walking into an interview, whether you're the candidate or the one doing the hiring. Along the way, she tells the story of a distributor who refused to take orders from her when she was fourteen years old and the leadership lesson that has stayed with her ever sinc...
6 Aug 2026
The Day I Couldn't Be Strong
Send us Fan Mail For years, I thought strength meant carrying more. More responsibility. More pressure. More expectations. More weight. I became the person everyone depended on. The one who figured it out. The one who could handle it. The one who didn't need help. Or at least that's what I told myself. In this episode, I'm sharing two stories from my marriage that completely changed how I think about leadership, relationships, and what it really means to be strong. One starts with a bed that ...
6 Aug 2026
Why Success Doesn't Heal Self-Doubt
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you finally achieve the thing you thought would make you feel enough? In this powerful episode, Meredith shares the surprising reality that success, promotions, titles, and accomplishments can't solve identity struggles. Through deeply personal stories about achievement, self-worth, leadership, faith, and learning to stop defining herself by accomplishments, Meredith explores why so many high-achieving women continue chasing the next milestone only to find t...
4 Aug 2026
The Hidden Leadership Habit That Is Making You Smaller
Send us Fan Mail The two words that quietly undermine more women than almost anything else aren't dramatic. They're ordinary. "I'm just." In this episode, Meredith explores how seemingly innocent language can diminish your influence, weaken your leadership presence, and reinforce limiting beliefs about who you are. Sharing personal stories from her own career journey, Meredith reveals the difference between humility and shrinking and explains why so many women unintentionally minimize their v...
4 Aug 2026
How to Stop Feeling Like an Impostor and Start Leading With Confidence
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever walked into a room and immediately wondered if you belonged there? In this deeply personal opening episode, Meredith shares the story of navigating leadership without a college degree, battling self-doubt in high-pressure environments, and learning that leadership starts long before someone gives you a title. Through stories of parking lots, boardrooms, fear, insecurity, and faith, Meredith explores what it means to take responsibility before you feel ready and ...
4 Aug 2026
Rooted Leadership with Meredith Tieszen - Trailer
Send us Fan Mail Rooted Leadership with Meredith Tieszen is a podcast for women who want to lead with confidence, faith, courage, and authenticity in every area of life. Through personal stories, leadership lessons, hard-earned wisdom, and honest conversations about life, business, relationships, purpose, resilience, and faith, Meredith helps women stop shrinking, stop settling, and step fully into who God created them to be. Whether you're leading a business, a team, a ministry, a family, or...
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