You were told you asked too many questions. That you felt too much. What if everything they tried to change about you was actually your superpower?
In this conversation, Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes shares the limiting belief she stopped believing when she realized there was nothing wrong with her, and self discovery moment that her deepest "problem" as her most powerful gift.
Not because life handed her a personal growth epiphany. But because she finally found the language and the framework to make sense of what had been happening inside her all along.
Here's what most people miss: it wasn't that you were too much. It's that the system you were in didn't have the capacity to meet you. That's a deficiency of the environment. Not of you.
Your superpower was always there. It was just waiting for someone to name it.
Without that language, our superpowers distort. We move from "feeling deeply" to being "brutally honest." From "seeing clearly" to "saying it wrong." We lose relationships. We get labeled. Not because we are broken, but because no one taught us how to carry what we were given.
Nervous system regulation becomes the bridge between your raw gift and how it actually lands in the world.
This is a clip from our full conversation where we go deeper into how our childhood survival strategies show up as leadership blind spots, what it costs us when our superpower stays distorted, and what becomes possible when we finally find the framework to reclaim our original design.
The full conversation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud41XOScx6Q&list=PLbWfh34FP_dUcAaCrI31z00_fLdphi6b7
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In this episode, Kerry-Lyn answers the following questions:
- Why is leadership so lonely?
- What is the cost of loneliness?
- What is one thing a Leader can do about loneliness?
- How do I develop more relationships?
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Kerry-Lyn’s Company: https://www.berelational.co.uk/
- Kerry-Lyn’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kerry-lyn-stanton-downes
- Kerry-Lyn’s Substack: https://berelationalnow.substack.com/
Music in this episode by Ian Kastner.
"What Do You Know To Be True?" is an invitation to be inspired to become more of your possible self by discovering your superpower, unlocking your potential, and creating your impact in the world.
This podcast is for leaders, coaches, org development practitioners, and anyone who works with people who want to be inspired to discover their superpower, unlock their possibilities, and make meaningful impact in the world.
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