# Lead Your Power

> We make leaders.


## Posts

- [You Don't Get Over Childhood Trauma. You Learn to Walk With It.](https://leadyourpower.com/blog/childhood-trauma-walk-with-it/): You don't get over childhood trauma. You learn to walk with it. How the old survival plan shows up in how you lead, and five steps to start this week.
- [Stories: A Message Is Not Decoration](https://leadyourpower.com/blog/stories-a-message-is-not-decoration/): Public affairs training taught me a message is an instrument, not decoration. What that means for how leaders talk to their teams.
- [Stories: We Make Marines](https://leadyourpower.com/blog/stories-we-make-marines/): What the Marine Corps taught me about leadership: a person can't be copied, a process can. That's how you make leaders.
- [Stories: The First Door](https://leadyourpower.com/blog/stories-the-first-door/): In 1993 I knocked on a stranger's door with nothing but nerve. The lesson that stuck: find the hardest part of their day.
- [Decision Fatigue Is a Leadership Problem, Not a Willpower Problem](https://leadyourpower.com/blog/decision-fatigue/): Decision fatigue in leaders is a structure problem, not willpower. Why, then who, then what: how to get fewer decisions on your desk.
- [Lonely at the Top Is a Communication Problem](https://leadyourpower.com/blog/lonely-at-the-top/): Lonely at the top? It's rarely about who's around. It's the filter on every conversation. Signs it's on, and how leaders break it early.
- [Why Success Feels Empty, and What It's Telling You as a Leader](https://leadyourpower.com/blog/why-success-feels-empty/): Feel successful but empty? It's not ingratitude. It's a signal about how you've been building. Three causes and four steps to take this week.

## Pages

- [The First Call](https://leadyourpower.com/the-first-call/): 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.
- [A conversation](https://leadyourpower.com/a-conversation/): A lot of good leaders carry the biggest calls alone. I did. If that sounds familiar, let's talk. No pitch, and a straight answer either way.
- [Thank you](https://leadyourpower.com/thank-you/): Thank you for writing. I know that's a bigger step than it looks.
- [Blog](https://leadyourpower.com/blog/): Short reads on the things leaders rarely say out loud. Start with the one that sounds like your week.
- [Contact](https://leadyourpower.com/contact/): A few honest lines about where you are. I read them. If it feels right to us both, we talk. That's the whole first step, and you're free to stop after it.
- [Start Here](https://leadyourpower.com/start-here/): You'd like to understand what's on your mind before you share it with anyone. I'd want the same.
- [Programs](https://leadyourpower.com/programs/): Think back over this week for a moment. The decision only you could make. The message you drafted twice and didn't send.
- [About](https://leadyourpower.com/about/): You've worked hard for a good life, and you've built one. You can call on good advice for almost anything.
- [Home](https://leadyourpower.com/): You've carried a lot, and you've carried it well. Lately something's felt off.
- [Privacy Policy](https://leadyourpower.com/privacy-policy/): This page explains, in plain English, what happens to the information you share on this site. Lead Your Power is Fred Smith's leadership coaching work.


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