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EPISODE · May 21, 2026 · 51 MIN

The Love Switch: What Every High-Achieving Leader Gets Wrong About Love | Owen Burns

from Leadership Circle podcast · host Jeannette Meier

Most leaders are leading with everything except the one thing that actually moves people.Not a strategy. Not systems. Not even vision.Love.Not soft love. Not passive love. The kind of love that sees people clearly, holds them fully accountable, and creates the conditions for them to become more than they thought possible. That's what Owen Burns calls The Love Switch — and in this conversation, we explore exactly what it means to flip it.Owen Burns is a leadership coach and founder of Burns Bright Consulting. He's spent years helping high-achieving leaders discover that the shift from fear-based to love-based leadership isn't a vulnerability — it's their greatest strategic advantage.What this 51-minute conversation will shift for you:→ What "The Love Switch" actually is — and how most leaders never even find the switch→ Why leading from fear is the default for high achievers, and the hidden cost it's extracting→ How love-based leadership creates performance outcomes that fear-based leadership never can→ The internal work required to flip the switch — and why it has nothing to do with being "nice"→ What it looks like, in practice, to lead a team with love and still hold the lineThe highest-performing leaders don't choose between results and heart. They've learned to lead from both.🔗 Connect with Owen Burns:LinkedIn ➡️ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenburns1/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenburns1/)Website ➡️ https://burnsbrightconsulting.com🎯 Download the True Leadership Framework → https://jeannettemeier.com🌎 Experience Presence & Co-Creation → https://subscribepage.io/podcast-guest📌 Start Here Playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUF20jilXyW79sVGUKHb-dlPqvIktynVJBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/leadership-circle-podcast--6270563/support.

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