Self-Leadership

There is an ask sitting in your head right now that belongs in a room. You know exactly what it is. The only question is how much longer you’re going to let the rehearsal replace the conversation. In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast, Nicole Bianchi gets to the heart of why senior leaders sit on their most important asks for months — sometimes years — and why the problem is almost never about finding the right words. It’s about confronting the internal voice that has been quietly convincing you that you haven’t earned it yet, that a no would mean something about you, or that a yes would mean you actually have to become the person you’ve been rehearsing to be.

In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast, Nicole Bianchi draws a line that most leaders have never been taught to see: the difference between being nice and being kind. Nice is a performance. Kind is a stance. And the two feel similar enough from the inside that most leaders spend years — sometimes entire careers — confusing one for the other.

In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast, Nicole Bianchi sits down with Christina Pilarski — CEO and co-founder of CIPR Communications — for a conversation about the control that quietly becomes the ceiling in every high-achieving leader’s career.

Most leaders spend their careers building something. Few stop to ask what they’re actually leaving behind. In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast, Nicole Bianchi sits down with Denice Biocca — former CHRO of GE Vernova .

She spent 24 years building one of the country’s most respected rehabilitation organizations, earned the CEO title, then walked away from it — only to discover that the hardest leadership work of her career had nothing to do with running a company. It was learning to lead herself.

She built a career caring for others — and somewhere along the way forgot to care for herself. For Amy Birkel, COO of Heritage Communities, rescuing her team wasn’t just a habit. It was an identity. Learning the difference between rescuing.

What if the bottleneck isn’t your people, your process, or your plan? You’ve built a great team. You’ve got the strategy. And somehow, things still aren’t moving the way they should. In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast, Nicole Bianchi.

You’re leading. You’re delivering. And somewhere underneath all of it, you know something is off — not with your team, not with your strategy, but with how you’re operating as a leader. In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast.

The hardest person you will ever lead isn’t the underperformer, the difficult peer, or the boss who keeps moving the goalposts. It’s you. And most leaders never see it coming. In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast.

What happens when you stop settling for what’s offered and start asking for what you’re truly worth? In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast Nicole Bianchi sits down with Maggie Seng Sadowsky—food scientist, CPG innovator, and founder of 8 Track Foods.

In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast, Nicole Bianchi makes a confession most leadership experts won’t: she still feels fear. And she’s here to tell you that’s not a problem — it’s the point.

In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast, keynote speaker and leadership expert Nicole Bianchi gives her take on a powerful but often overlooked leadership challenge: internal resistance.