S2 Ep1: Your Family’s Conflict Style Is Running Your Meetings

Leadership gets clearer when you stop avoiding the hard parts and start asking where your habits came from. In this episode, we dig into conflict roots. Those early lessons taught you whether to speak up, shut down, smooth things over, or push harder. Those patterns do not disappear with age or job titles. They show up in feedback, decision-making, and how much trust your team feels under pressure.I share how growing up with mixed family models taught me to avoid conflict, and how that avoidance eventually cost me clarity and credibility as a leader. From there, we slow things down and get practical. How do you act when you are sure you are right? When you worry you might be wrong? When you feel silenced? What did conflict look like when you were young, and how is that history shaping how you lead today?This episode offers short stories, sharp reflection questions, and simple practices you can use right away. We talk about naming tension earlier, setting clearer norms, and following conflict through repair instead of retreat. The focus of this season is leadership that starts with self and shows up through consistent, thoughtful practice.If this resonated, follow the show, rate it, and share it with someone who is ready to change their relationship with conflict. I also do keynotes, workshops, and facilitation. My goal is to help one million people build a better relationship with conflict, and it starts with you.