The first call | Lead Your Power
Something’s off. Let’s find out what it really is before we talk.
Maybe it’s the message, the good clients who say they’ll think about it, a team pulling two ways, a partner drifting, or a plan that lives only in your head. Whatever you’d call it, the thing you can name is usually sitting on top of something deeper. Half an hour of honest homework first, and our 15 minutes go to the real thing.
The thing you feel is rarely the hole
Most first calls open with the same question: what’s not working in your business? You answer it honestly. The message is muddy. Good people keep stalling at the finish. The team’s pulling two ways. And the whole call goes to the symptom.
I look at it from the leader’s chair. To me, everything comes down to communication, and every communication problem leads back to someone who leads. A messaging problem is often a leadership problem in a different coat. When your team can’t say what you stand for, it usually hasn’t been said plainly enough yet. When the right clients stall, something upstream often hasn’t been decided. When a room goes quiet, there’s usually a conversation waiting that nobody’s had.
That’s good news. Every one of those is yours to fix.
Fifteen minutes is short on purpose. It respects your time and ours, and it only works when we spend it on the real thing. So I ask you to do a little homework first. You’ll find the holes before we ever speak, and we’ll both be able to see, honestly, whether working together makes sense.
I know how this feels from the inside. I came up with Lead Your Power because I was a leader struggling with the exact same things.
Your homework: a short leadership audit
Seven areas. Grab a pen and paper, or the notes on your phone, and give each one a few honest minutes. Write your answers down. Thinking them isn’t the same; the truth tends to show up on the page. Plan on about half an hour. Nobody sees what you write unless you choose to bring it.
The message
- Could your team say what you stand for in one sentence, without glancing at you first?
- Write the sentence you’d want them to say. Then write the one you think they’d actually say. How far apart are they?
The conversion
- Think of the last three good-fit people who said “let me think about it” and never came back.
- Where did the conversation turn? What did they need to hear that they didn’t?
The room
- What’s the conversation you keep putting off? Who’s it with, and how long has it been waiting?
- Where are two people on your team pulling in different directions? What is each of them protecting?
The plan
- What’s written down with a name and a date beside it? What lives only in your head?
- If you stepped away for 30 days, what would stall first?
Your partners
- Where do you and your partner, co-founder or board want different things, even slightly?
- Have you said it out loud to each other yet? If it’s already an open fight, read the note further down before you book.
You
- What is all this costing you away from work? Your evenings, your sleep, the people at home.
- You fill everyone else’s cup. Who fills yours? When did you last feel steady?
The one thing
- If you could fix only one thing in the next 90 days, what would it be, and why that one?
- Picture it still sitting there a year from now. What has it cost by then?
Now read back what you wrote. One area is louder than the rest. Circle it. That’s the one you bring.
Your homework is on this page. Bring it to the call.
What happens in the 15 minutes
You’ll talk with me or someone on my team. Either way, you bring your homework, and the same three things happen.
- What your answers show. You bring the area you circled and what you wrote about it. We listen for what’s sitting underneath.
- The gap. We look at where you are, where you want to be, and what’s really standing between the two.
- Your next move. You leave with a clear next step, whether or not we ever work together. If we’re not the right fit for it, we’ll tell you.
Who this call is for
It’s for you if you lead something: a company, a practice, a team or an organization. Something’s felt off for a while. You have every means to tend to it, and you’re ready to stop carrying it by yourself. You’ve done the homework, or you’re about to.
It isn’t the right call if things with a partner, co-founder or board have already turned into an open fight. I’d rather tell you that here, kindly, than on the phone. It also isn’t for curiosity alone. Fifteen minutes works best when something real is on the table.
Coaching isn’t therapy, and it isn’t legal, tax or financial advice. If you need one of those, the right professional will serve you better, and you deserve that.
Pick your time
Four honest checks first. Then choose a time on the calendar below.
The call is free. Once you pick a time, the details are sent to you.
A few honest questions
What does it cost?
The call is free.
What if I’m not ready?
Then wait. Do the homework when you have a quiet half hour, and book when it feels right. Until then, start here with a few short reads. I’ll be here.
Is this a sales call?
It’s a working call. We spend it on your loudest area. If working together makes sense and you’d like to hear how, we’ll tell you. If it doesn’t, we’ll say that too, and you’ll still leave with your next step.
Lead your power.
Let someone fill your cup for a change
You’ve given so much, for so long, to so many people. You’re allowed to receive a little of it back.
The first step is small. Do a little homework on where you are, then pick fifteen minutes on the calendar.
Not ready to talk yet? That’s fine. Start here, with short reads sorted by what’s on your mind.
Lead your power.
Nothing here promises an outcome.