Why Authentic Leaders Win with Lyndsay Dowd

You know, I was literally this morning having a conversation with someone around this, the internal storytelling that happens.

And in order to do work that requires you to be really visible, do you struggle with that at all? Or is it really easy for you to be a visible person?

I think at the beginning, I think I was struggling to find my voice.

I thought I needed to be very polished.

I thought it had to be very buttoned up for credibility.

And I've learned that that's not what people want.

What people want is... authentic and raw.

And I'll give you a little illustration of this.

So I had these on my podcast, the episodes drop on Wednesdays.

And on Mondays, I had these very branded, very pretty coming this week is Jackie Johnson.

And it was a picture of you and three awesome things about you.

And there was music and it was very branded and nobody interacted with it.

And I'm like, Well, that's not great.

And a friend of mine said to me, Linz, do you know why I listen to your show? And I say, no, why? And he said, I love when you talk about who your guests are.

I love your voice and how excited you are.

And when you tell me, you know, oh, it's a CIA black ops guy.

He's lived on five continents.

He could kill me with a toothpick.

He was the head of the Osama bin Laden task force.

Like you want to you want to listen to that because there's some like good meat on that bone.

And so what I started doing was now every Monday, no matter where I am in the world.

I do a video about what's coming this week and sometimes there's hair in my lip gloss and sometimes, you know, I'm muddling my words and, you know, sometimes I have wet hair.

I've made it that I just need to get the video out.

So I still do it with all the excitement that I have about the guest, but it's just very natural.

And you know what happened?

You know, I was literally this morning having a conversation with someone around this, the internal storytelling that happens.

And in order to do work that requires you to be really visible, do you struggle with that at all? Or is it really easy for you to be a visible person?

I think at the beginning, I think I was struggling to find my voice.

I thought I needed to be very polished.

I thought it had to be very buttoned up for credibility.

And I've learned that that's not what people want.

What people want is... authentic and raw.

And I'll give you a little illustration of this.

So I had these on my podcast, the episodes drop on Wednesdays.

And on Mondays, I had these very branded, very pretty coming this week is Jackie Johnson.

And it was a picture of you and three awesome things about you.

And there was music and it was very branded and nobody interacted with it.

And I'm like, Well, that's not great.

And a friend of mine said to me, Linz, do you know why I listen to your show? And I say, no, why? And he said, I love when you talk about who your guests are.

I love your voice and how excited you are.

And when you tell me, you know, oh, it's a CIA black ops guy.

He's lived on five continents.

He could kill me with a toothpick.

He was the head of the Osama bin Laden task force.

Like you want to you want to listen to that because there's some like good meat on that bone.

And so what I started doing was now every Monday, no matter where I am in the world.

I do a video about what's coming this week and sometimes there's hair in my lip gloss and sometimes, you know, I'm muddling my words and, you know, sometimes I have wet hair.

I've made it that I just need to get the video out.

So I still do it with all the excitement that I have about the guest, but it's just very natural.

And you know what happened?