Turning Points, Recovery, and Building Anyway with Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine

What if the most powerful thing you could do as a leader wasn't hiding your worst chapter, but saying it out loud, on the record, without flinching?

This week we sit down with Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine, executive coach, writer, PhD in conflict analysis and resolution, and the woman behind the networking group Ladies Who Lunch. Before the coaching, she was on the inside at Disney and iHeartRadio, and she took very different lessons from each.

Liz walks us through a life that reads like five lives stacked on top of each other: blindsided by a non-compete at 23 and rehired within 48 hours; the boss who sent her home to heal; the pandemic morning her son fell off the boat they were living on, and the next-day decision to quit a job she loved and build a business that tripled her income in a month.

She's refreshingly honest about relapse, recovery, and why owning your hardest moments is the fearless part.

In this episode you'll hear about why how you treat people matters more than what you sell, the Disney lesson on selling the transformation not the product, why shame makes us victims and what saying the hard thing out loud actually does for you, why the critical voice in your head so often sounds like your mother, how so many women become accidental entrepreneurs and how to make it work, and a bonus tip for taming impossible curly hair.

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