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Change Is Hard

You don’t need productivity hacks. You need a new way of thinking.Change is Hard explores what it really takes to evolve in your leadership, your career, and yourself.

Podcast · By Audrey Blair · English · Official site

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Sep 9, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    [EP 61] What Strength of Yours Has Become Expensive? (opens the original)

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    The strengths that helped you become successful can eventually start costing you. Responsibility can become over-responsibility. Helpfulness can become over-functioning. High standards can become control. Availability can become constant interruption. Calm can become emotional suppression. Independence can become isolation. In this episode of Change Is Hard , Audrey explores what happens when your greatest strengths stop being flexible tools and start becoming rigid patterns. You’ll learn how to

  2. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    [EP 60] Still True: Not Everything You're Trying to Solve Is A Problem.mp4 (opens the original)

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    We tend to treat every challenge like a problem that needs to be solved. But some situations have one clear answer. Some have several reasonable solutions. Some force you to choose between competing consequences. And others create tensions that will never disappear no matter how smart, experienced, or decisive you are. That distinction matters. In this episode from the Change Is Hard archives, I break down five different types of issues you may be facing: Puzzles Problems Dilemmas Paradoxes Myst

  3. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    [EP 59] How to Know When You’ve Outgrown the Way You Lead (opens the original)

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    At some point in your leadership career, the very behaviors that helped make you successful can start to become limitations. Being dependable. Knowing the answers. Taking ownership. Being the person everyone comes to. Jumping in when something needs to get done. Those habits work—until your role, your team, or the level at which you’re leading changes. In this episode of Change Is Hard , Audrey explores how to recognize when you’ve outgrown the way you’ve been leading and why growth at higher le

  4. Episode · Aug 18, 2026

    [EP 58] Confidence Looks Back. Self-Trust Looks Forward (opens the original)

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    What do you do when you’re facing something you’ve never done before? Confidence can only take you so far because confidence is built on evidence — past experience, past wins, and proof that you’ve handled something similar before. But eventually, you reach the edge of that evidence. That’s where self-trust takes over. In this episode, I talk about the difference between confidence and self-trust, why mistakes can quickly become evidence against ourselves, and how to use what you already know ab

  5. Episode · Aug 12, 2026

    [EP 57] How to Ask Powerful Questions: Stop Solving and Start Asking Better Questions.mp4 (opens the original)

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    Great leaders don’t need to have all the answers. In fact, one of the most powerful leadership skills is knowing how to ask better questions. In this episode, Audrey explores why leaders are often too quick to solve, advise, or take ownership of someone else’s problem—and how powerful questions can build confidence, ownership, and better thinking instead. You’ll learn: Why the first problem someone brings you often isn’t the real problem What gets in the way of genuine curiosity Five characteris

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