WOMAN BEHIND THE VISION Podcast

<p>Welcome to the <b>Woman Behind the Vision Audio Course Series</b> – a curated journey for high-impact women ready to step into their full power, walk boldly in their purpose, and lead with unapologetic authority. Created by Dr. Stephanie Kirkland, these short, powerful audio sessions are designed to guide you through the depths of identity-centered leadership, personal mastery, and purpose-driven impact.</p><p><br /></p><p>In just 10-15 minutes per session, you’ll gain the clarity, confidence, and insight needed to own your uniqueness, align with your purpose, and transform the way you lead. Whether you’re building a business, advancing in your career, or seeking deeper alignment in your life, these lessons will help you break through barriers, silence self-doubt, and lead with boldness.</p><p><br /></p><p>Join us as we unlock the secrets to becoming the woman behind the vision – because the world needs your brilliance, and your leadership is the legacy you’re building.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Because the journey to impact starts with owning who you are.</b></p>

LEADING THROUGH CONFLICT WITH WISDOM SEASON 2, EPISODE 24

EPISODE 24: LEADING THROUGH CONFLICT WITH WISDOM Focus: Reframing conflict as information and sacred space for growth rather than failure or threat to relationships. Addresses how many women have learned conflict avoidance as survival strategy and how to navigate tension from identity-centered groundedness rather than reactivity. Explores the elements of wise conflict leadership: presence over reactivity, curiosity over certainty, truth-telling with care, systems awareness, and sacred timing....

11-30
14:04

CULTIVATING CULTURE THAT REFLECTS YOUR VALUES SEASON 2, EPISODE 23

EPISODE 23: CULTIVATING CULTURE THAT REFLECTS YOUR VALUES Focus: Understanding your role as a culture creator and how to intentionally cultivate environments that reflect your core values rather than inherited norms. Addresses the challenge of creating values-based culture through daily micro-practices rather than just formal policies. Explores values archaeology, consistent messaging through story, decision filtering, and the tension between honoring your identity and working within existing...

11-23
14:09

IDENTITY OVERFLOW: WHEN FULLNESS NATURALLY MULTIPLIES SEASON 2, EPISODE 22

EPISODE 22: Identity Overflow: When Fullness Naturally Multiplies Focus: Understanding empowerment as natural overflow from fulfilled identity rather than management technique for task distribution. Distinguishing between delegation from identity scarcity (depleting, controlling, validation-seeking) and empowerment from identity overflow (energizing, multiplicative, abundance-based). Explores how gift recognition, abundance mentality, natural teaching, trust capacity, and impact multiplicati...

11-18
12:18

EMBODIED AUTHORITY THAT FLOWS FROM IDENTITY SEASON 2, EPISODE 21

EPISODE 21: Embodied Authority: Power That Flows from Identity Focus: Distinguishing between borrowed power (dependent on external validation, titles, and performance) and embodied authority (flowing from identity alignment and internal coherence). Understanding authority as something to embody rather than acquire through position or achievement. Navigating environments designed around masculine power expressions while maintaining genuine integrity. Moving from exhausting performance of stren...

11-18
13:11

HOW IDENTITY SAFETY CREATES SAFETY FOR OTHERS SEASON 2 EPISODE 20

EPISODE 20: How Identity Safety Creates Safety for Others Focus: Understanding psychological safety as a direct reflection of your own identity security rather than a leadership technique. Recognizing that you cannot create safety for others from your own identity insecurity. Moving from performing invulnerability to genuine comfort with imperfection, uncertainty, and humanity while maintaining authority. Explores how your internal relationship with yourself creates the energetic field others...

10-27
13:36

WHEN IDENTITY SECURITY DISSOLVES THE NEED TO COMPETE SEASON 2, EPISODE 19

EPISODE 19: When Identity Security Dissolves the Need to Compete Focus: Understanding competition with other women as a symptom of incomplete identity work rather than a behavior to manage. Using competitive feelings as teachers pointing toward unclaimed aspects of your own identity and authority. Moving from scarcity-based comparison to abundance-based collaboration through deepening identity security. Discovering that when you know your irreplaceable value, other women's success becomes in...

10-20
14:35

BUILDING TRUST WHEN YOU'RE DIFFERENT FROM THE ROOM SEASON 2, EPISODE 18

EPISODE 18 - Building Trust When Different: Navigating professional environments where your identity or perspective differs from the majority while maintaining connection to your core. Addresses the double bind between adapting and staying centered, provides strategic trust-building approaches, and reframes difference as competitive advantage. Focuses on managing emotional impacts while leveraging unique perspectives for innovation and representation. JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 18 DAY 1 Princip...

10-07
14:28

THE POWER OF PRESENCE IN PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS SEASON 2 EPISODE 17

EPISODE 17 - The Power of Presence: Cultivating centered presence as a leadership capacity that creates influence through engaged availability from your core rather than commanding attention through performance. Leaders with centered presence create other leaders by modeling grounded engagement that empowers others to access their own self-sourced expression. Includes daily practices for developing presence and navigating situations where presence feels challenging. JOURNAL PROMPTS - EPISODE ...

10-07
15:31

WHEN IDENTITY CLARITY CREATES NATURAL BOUNDARIES SEASON 2, EPISODE 16

EPISODE 16: When Identity Clarity Creates Natural Boundaries: Understanding boundaries as natural expressions of identity clarity rather than defensive communication techniques. Moving from effortful boundary-setting to boundaries that flow inevitably from knowing who you are, what you value, and what you're called to create. Addresses the root cause of boundary struggles as identity clarity issues rather than skills deficits. Explores how defending against others' demands differs from expres...

09-22
13:01

DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS: SPEAKING TRUTH WITH GRACE Season 2, Episode 15

EPISODE 15: Difficult Conversations: Speaking Truth with Grace Frameworks for navigating challenging conversations with integrity. Preparing emotionally and strategically for truth-telling. Balancing directness with compassion. Managing your own triggers while staying centered in difficult dialogues. JOURNAL PROMPTS - EPISODE 15 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Difficult conversations are not obstacles to healthy relationships—they're requirements for them. Every avoided difficult conversation...

09-15
15:45

THE ART OF VULNERABILITY IN LEADERSHIP/ STRENGTH IN TRANSPARENCY SEASON 2 EPISODE 14

EPISODE 14: The Art of Vulnerable in Leadership: Strength inTransparency Redefining vulnerability as strength rather than weakness in leadership contexts. When and how to share authentically without over-sharing or compromising authority. Building trust through appropriate transparency while maintaining professional boundaries. JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 14 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Vulnerability in leadership is the courage to show up authentically—letting others see the real person ...

09-07
14:49

THE POWER OF DAILY RHYTHMS OF RENEWAL SEASON 1 EPISODE 13

EPISODE 13: Daily Rhythms of Renewal Creating sustainable daily practices that support continued transformation. Rhythms that honor both ambitious drive and need for restoration. Designing personal rituals that reinforce authentic identity. Preparing for the next season of growth and integration. JOURNAL PROMPTS - EPISODE 13 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Sustainable impact requires sustainable rhythms. For identity-centered leaders, renewal is a strategic practice that maintains your conne...

08-31
14:44

TRUSTING YOUR BECOMING EVEN WHEN IT'S UNCLEAR SEASON 1 EPISODE 12.

EPISODE 12: Trusting Your Becoming Even When It's Unclear Leading through seasons of uncertainty and transition. Maintaining faith in your evolution when the path isn't clear. Distinguishing between unclear direction and wrong direction. Tools for moving forward with incomplete information. JOURNAL PROMPTS - EPISODE 12 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Clarity is not always a prerequisite for correct action. Some of the most significant leadership moments happen precisely when the w...

08-24
12:57

IDENTITY AND SOMATIC HEALING: WHY YOUR BODY SEASON 1 EPISODE 11

EPISODE 11: Identity and Somatic Healing: Why Your Body Remembers Recognizing that identity transformation includes the body's wisdom and memory. Understanding trauma's impact on leadership capacity. Somatic practices for releasing stored patterns that no longer serve. Embodying new identity through physical presence and energy JOURNAL PROMPTS - EPISODE 11 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Your leadership capacity is directly connected to your body's ability to hold and express your authentic i...

08-17
12:15

THE PRACTICE OF BECOMING: WHY TRANSFORMATION IS NOT INSTANT Season 1 Episode 10

Episode 10: The Practice of Becoming: Why Transformation Is Not Instant, which marks the beginning of the Embodied Transformation phase (the final phase of Season 1). Week 10 serves as a bridge between the deep identity work of the first 9 weeks and the integration practices that will complete Season 1. It helps participants develop "transformational resilience." This is the capacity to stay committed to their becoming even when progress feels slow or challenged. JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 10 DAY...

08-04
15:32

YOUR STORY MATTERS: EMBRACING THE WEIGHT OF YOUR JOURNEY – SEASON 1, EPISODE 9

Episode 9: Your Story Matters: Embracing the Weight of Your Journey focuses on integrating personal experience as professional strategy, showing how the full scope of one's journey. This includes challenges and how they become the foundation for unique leadership capacity. JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 9 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Your story—including the challenging parts—is not separate from your leadership capacity but is the foundation of your unique ability to serve and contribute. ...

07-28
17:02

OVERCOMING SELF-SABOTAGE: HEALING THE INNER NARRATIVE Season 1 Episode 8

Overcoming Self-Sabotage: Healing the Inner Narrative addresses the unconscious patterns that can undermine growth, helping participants understand that self-sabotage often develops as protection and can be healed with compassion and conscious redirection. JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 8 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Self-sabotage often develops as a protective mechanism that once served a purpose, recognizing this allows you to heal it with compassion rather than harsh self-judgment. Reflection...

07-20
14:05

THE INVISIBLE IDENTITY SHIFT: FROM PROVING TO PRESENCE Season 1, Episode 7

Week 7: The Invisible Identity Shift: From Proving to Presence tackles one of the most significant shifts for high-achieving leaders moving from performance-based leadership to presence-based leadership. JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 7 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Performance-based leadership asks "What do I need to do to prove my worth?" while presence-based leadership asks "What do I need to be to serve this moment authentically?" Reflection Questions: What stands out to me about this reflectio...

07-20
15:16

NAVIGATING IDENTITY GRIEF WHEN GROWTH FEELS LONELY Season 1 Episode 6

Week 6: Navigating Identity Grief When Growth Feels Lonely Address the natural grief that emerges when you outgrow comfortable but limiting versions of yourself. This session normalizes the emotional complexity of transformation and provides a framework for honoring what you're leaving behind while embracing who you're becoming. JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 6 DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Growth, even beautiful and necessary growth, involves loss—and loss, even when it leads to something better, ...

06-23
14:08

SELF-TRUST: REBUILDING CONFIDENCE IN YOUR INNER WISDOM Season 1 Episode 5

Self-Trust: Rebuilding Confidence in Your Inner Wisdom You will reclaim trust in your intuition and inner guidance as valid leadership tools. By the end of this week, you'll distinguish between authentic wisdom and internalized doubt, consistently making decisions that honor your innate knowing even when it contradicts conventional approaches. WEEK 5 JOURNAL PROMPTS: SELF-TRUST: REBUILDING CONFIDENCE IN YOUR INNER WISDOM DAY 1 Principle for Reflection: Self-trust is different from self-confid...

06-16
17:06

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