What happens when the greatest expectations you’re carrying aren’t coming from anyone else — but from yourself?

In this final episode of the 3-part series, we explore the difference between excellence and perfectionism — and why so many leaders confuse the two. While excellence is rooted in purpose and service, perfectionism is driven by fear, shame, and the need to control outcomes.

If you find yourself overthinking, overworking, or avoiding rest because it feels unsafe to slow down… this conversation is for you.

You’ll learn:

- How perfectionism masquerades as responsibility

- The invisible cost of leading from pressure instead of peace

- The patterns of over-functioning that slowly wear you down

- And how to begin leading yourself with more presence, permission, and compassion

You don’t have to carry it all to lead well.

You don’t have to be perfect to be trusted.

And you don’t have to stay stuck in pressure to make an impact.

Tune in and take a deep breath — your leadership gets to be more human.

🎧 Visit authenticallyyou.org to access your free Morning Meditation or book a Growth Plan Consult to take the next step in your journey.

Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: authenticallyyou.org
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Get a Free Morning Meditation - start your day off right
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!

Let’s be honest: Feedback can feel like a punch to the gut — not because it’s wrong, but because we’ve been taught to equate feedback with failure, and failure with identity.

💥 In this episode, Amanda shares a deeply personal moment that revealed a hidden leadership pattern — and how feedback, when filtered through truth, can lead to deep transformation.

Here’s what we explore:

• Why feedback feels threatening — and how to reframe it

• The real reason leaders avoid feedback (and what it costs us)

• How projection shows up and distorts truth

• The 3 internal stories we tell ourselves to avoid vulnerability

• What it looks like to receive feedback as information, not identity

• How to use discernment + self-awareness as a feedback filter

✨ The truth?

Feedback and vulnerability don’t have to be enemies anymore.

They can be growth.

They can be sacred ground.

They can be the start of your next breakthrough.

💬 Let me know — which part landed for you?

📨 DM me if you’re ready to stop fearing feedback and start using it as fuel.

If your ready book a free call and begin to live in freedom at authenticallyyou.org

Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: authenticallyyou.org
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Get a Free Morning Meditation - start your day off right
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!

“The Hardest Person You’ll Ever Lead Is You” (Part 1: Self-Awareness)

Welcome to the start of a powerful new 3-part series on The Leadership Wound — because before you lead anyone else, you must learn to lead yourself. In this episode, Amanda Rohrer unpacks the foundational role of self-awareness in authentic leadership. From understanding your internal compass to noticing blind spots and navigating projection from others, this episode helps you reflect on what it’s really like to be on the other side of your leadership.

You’ll explore:

• Why self-leadership is the most invisible — and most important — form of leadership
• How lack of self-awareness shows up in relationships and team culture
• What feedback to trust, and why not all feedback is a mirror
• How to discern when you're in the wrong seat — and what it takes to realign
• Four practical ways to cultivate daily self-awareness

This episode offers honest reflection, practical tools, and spiritual grounding to help you lead with integrity — from the inside out. It’s also packed with journal prompts and a beautiful reminder: You don’t have to lead like anyone else. You just need to lead like you.

🧭 Want to go deeper? Access free resources and schedule your free Growth Plan Consult at authenticallyyou.org.

Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: authenticallyyou.org
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Get a Free Morning Meditation - start your day off right
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!

You don’t need a title to be a leader.

And you don’t need to be flawless to influence.

In this empowering episode of The Leadership Wound, we explore what it really means to lead — not from position or perfection, but from presence, influence, and authenticity.

Amanda unpacks the everyday nature of leadership, reminding us that we all lead simply by how we show up. Through deeply personal stories and spiritual insight, she challenges the performance-based model of leadership and offers a fresh vision rooted in love, dignity, and shared humanity.

Together, we’ll explore:

✨ Why every human carries influence — and what it means to steward that well

✨ The importance of normalizing leadership wounds (because we all have them)

✨ What it looks like to lead for others, not over them

✨ How leadership happens at the table — not from a platform

✨ The power of future-focused, soul-aligned decision-making

Whether you’re managing a team, raising a family, or navigating hard conversations with courage — this episode will remind you that your presence is leadership.

🌱 Ready to lead from your True Self?

Book your free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult → authenticallyyou.org

☀️ Begin your day grounded with God’s voice — download my Free Morning Meditation → authenticallyyou.org/growth-plan-consult-1

Leadership isn’t about control.

It’s about presence.

And it’s time to lead like you.

Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: authenticallyyou.org
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Get a Free Morning Meditation - start your day off right
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!

You’ve named the wound.

You’ve accepted the pain.

Now comes the hardest — and most transformative — part: tending.

In this final episode of The Leadership Wound Healing Path™ series, we step into the slow, sacred work that turns awareness into wholeness. Tending isn’t about fixing or rushing. It’s about returning — again and again — to care, presence, and healing that reaches your body, your leadership, and your soul.

In this episode, Amanda shares personal reflections from her family garden, explains why so many leaders resist this stage, and offers a path forward that is both grounded and embodied.

Together, we’ll explore:

✨ Why tending is so often skipped — and why it's essential for lasting transformation

✨ How hustle disconnects us from healing and why presence is the pace of wholeness

✨ What embodiment actually means — and how to recognize when you're not living from it

✨ Four practical ways to tend the wound daily:

 • Pause and feel

 • Guard the gate

 • Set gentle boundaries

 • Seek safe reflection

If you’ve been stuck in burnout, chronic disappointment, or performing for approval…

This episode is your invitation to begin tending your leadership wound with care, compassion, and courage.

🌿 Ready to take your next step?

Book a free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult and let’s begin tending to your leadership wounds together → authenticallyyou.org

🕊️ Or start your mornings grounded in God’s truth with Get your free Morning Meditation

Because healing doesn’t come through hustling harder.

It comes through tending — And it leads you back to your true, whole, Authentic self.

Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: authenticallyyou.org
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Get a Free Morning Meditation - start your day off right
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!

🎧 Episode 7 — The Healing Work of Leadership: Part 3 Accepting the Wound

So many leaders carry hidden wounds.

Wounds they’ve denied, rushed past, or justified away — because facing them felt too heavy, too vulnerable, or too painful.

Maybe that’s you.

Maybe you’ve told yourself, "I should be over this by now."

Or maybe you’ve been stuck replaying what should have been — while life and leadership quietly lose their joy and clarity.

Here’s the hard truth: Acceptance is often the hardest and most misunderstood step in healing.

But without it, wounds can’t fully heal. They continue to shape how we live, lead, and love — often from the shadows.

In this honest and tender episode, we explore:

✨ Why running from or rushing through your pain is costing you more than you realize

✨ How acceptance shifts us from victimhood to wisdom

✨ The difference between wounds and scars — and why scars don’t mean you lost, they mean you healed

✨ What Jesus' scars teach us about rewriting the story of our pain

✨ How acceptance frees you to stop pretending, start releasing, and begin leading from wholeness

If you’re tired of being defined by your leadership wounds...

If you’re ready to stop performing and start leading with strength, clarity, and purpose…

This episode is your invitation to begin.

🌿 Ready to take your next step?

Book a free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult and let’s begin tending to your leadership wounds together → authenticallyyou.org

Or start your mornings centered in truth and grounded in God’s love with my Free Morning Meditation → authenticallyyou.org/growth-plan-consult-1

Because the wound is not the end of your story.

You were made to lead — whole, free, and Authentically You.

Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: authenticallyyou.org
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!

🎙️ Episode 6: The Healing Work of Leadership – Part 2: Naming the Wound

Leadership can leave wounds that remain unnamed—yet they influence every decision, relationship, and moment of self-doubt. In this second installment of The Leadership Wound Healing Path™, Amanda Rohrer guides you through the transformative process of naming your leadership wounds.

Drawing from her personal journey and years of coaching experience, Amanda illustrates how unacknowledged pain often masquerades as burnout, imposter syndrome, or simply "the cost of leadership." She emphasizes that naming these wounds is not about assigning blame but about reclaiming your voice and initiating healing.

In this episode, you'll:

Explore the subtle manifestations of unhealthy leadership, including control disguised as spiritual authority, avoidance, and emotional coercion.

Learn about the seven categories of hidden leadership wounds: relational, emotional, cultural, spiritual, physical, legacy, and identity.

Engage with reflection prompts designed to help you identify and articulate your own leadership wounds.

Understand the spiritual significance of naming your pain, drawing parallels from biblical narratives.

Whether you're beginning to question the dynamics around you or seeking deeper self-awareness in your leadership role, this episode offers a compassionate space to start naming and healing your wounds.

✨ Reflection prompts and a free coaching invitation await at the end of the episode.

🎧 Subscribe now and join a growing community of leaders embracing authenticity and healing.

✨ Visit authenticallyyou.org | #TheLeadershipWound

👉 Ready to stop leading from old wounds?

Book your free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult at authenticallyyou.org/growth-plan-consult-1

📥 And while you’re there, download your free "How to Lead Authentically Today" guide or "Morning Meditation" at authenticallyyou.org

Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: authenticallyyou.org
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!

Leadership can leave wounds no one sees — but you carry them every day. In this kickoff to the new four-part series The Healing Work of Leadership, Amanda Rohrer invites you into the often-avoided first step of true leadership healing: Feeling the Wound.

Drawing from 25 years of leadership and coaching, Amanda shares her personal mission to help leaders stop performing through their pain and start healing from the inside out.

You’ll hear raw stories of rejection and shame, explore how leadership wounds live in your body, and discover why acknowledging your pain isn’t weakness — it’s wisdom.

This episode offers a spiritual and practical framework to:

• Recognize the invisible leadership wounds you’re carrying
• Understand how suppressing pain isolates you from healing
• Learn why your feelings are messengers, not your identity
• Practice a body-centered reflection to locate and honor your stored pain
• Thank your body for protecting you — and begin reassuring it that it's safe now
• Reframe pain as a sacred invitation, not a personal failure

Whether you're weary of armoring up or just starting to feel the cracks, this conversation will help you slow down, breathe, and begin the courageous journey toward healing leadership.

✨ Reflection prompts and a free coaching invitation await at the end of the episode.

🎧 Subscribe now and join the growing community of leaders choosing truth, embodiment, and freedom.

✨ authenticallyyou.org | #TheLeadershipWound

👉 Ready to stop leading from old wounds?

Book your free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult at authenticallyyou.org/growth-plan-consult-1

📥 And while you’re there, grab your free "How to Lead Authentically Today" guide or "Morning Meditation" @authenticallyyou.org

Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: authenticallyyou.org
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!