HeyJaredBraver Leadership
For leaders who've just made the step up to managing other managers, and who end most days bruised, drained, and wondering if they're cut out for this. The BRAVER™ framework helps you lead in a way that feels as good as it looks.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Nobody Is Coming to Pick You (opens the original)
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Braver podcast (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Braver Leader podcastBraver Leadership Podcast (Ian & Alex)New to the region and feeling the clock of his first hundred days, Rob did everything that looked like leadership: harder targets, tighter reporting, more visibility into the detail. What he never noticed was where his attention had actually gone, upward, to the room he wanted to be trusted by, while the team in front of him quietly absorbed the cost. Ian and Alex unpack why this trap catches good, well-intentioned leaders
Playing to the balcony (opens the original)
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What it’s actually like working for a people pleaser (opens the original)
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Anna said yes to one deadline extension and no to another, two days apart, and genuinely believed both were the right call. Her team saw something else: a leader whose answers couldn’t be predicted. Ian and Alex trace where Anna’s instinct for constant flexibility actually came from, what it costs a team to quietly learn to read a leader’s mood instead of trust their word, and the one question from a direct report that finally cut through: what would you actually say no to, even to someone you l
Liked by everyone. Trusted by no-one (opens the original)
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