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Welcome to Leadership Within, the podcast that dives deep into the human side of leadership. Hosted by Tomasz “TK” Kropiewnicki and Vanessa May, this series is a reflective space for leaders to explore authenticity, courage, and vulnerability in their journey.We offer honest…
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Toxic politeness (opens the original)
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Ever sat in a meeting where everyone says the right things and nobody says what they really think? We have. This week we talk about toxic politeness. The habit of being nice for so long that the real stuff never gets said. 🤐 We share two stories. One team that stayed pleasant and got nowhere. One business that ran for five years while nobody had the hard conversation, until it fell apart. We also get into: * Why it feels safer to stay quiet, and what that silence costs * Blunt or direct? Same th
The Boundary Between Empathy and Silence (opens the original)
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Your leader is having a bad day. Do you support them, or do you speak up? In this episode, we start from a real story. One of us prepared a piece of work, presented it, and watched it get binned mid-session. The feedback stung. The leader wasn’t at their best. And the instinct was to set the hurt aside and keep things productive. But was that a choice, or just a pattern playing out? We dig into the difference between letting go and suppressing, why “ruinous empathy” quietly trains bad behaviour
Bored, Frustrated, Silent (opens the original)
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Anger. Boredom. Frustration. We all feel them at work. Most of us just push them down. In this episode we get honest about what happens when we do that. Vanessa shares a moment from a training course that woke her up. Being bored, it turns out, was really about anger she couldn’t express. TK opens up about lashing out under pressure, and what a week of guilt taught him about the standards we hold ourselves to. We talk about why anger feels off limits at work, how suppressing it and exploding wit
When Your Employee Holds the Power (opens the original)
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What happens when the person reporting to you holds all the cards? This week we dig into the inverted power dynamic. The one where your team member is so skilled, so valuable, that your own success depends on them. And they know it. We talk about why that makes some leaders deeply uncomfortable. Is it really about control? Can you ever control another person anyway? And we wrestle with a tricky question: should a leader ever admit that insecurity out loud, to the very person causing it? No neat
Is Change Really Accelerating? (opens the original)
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Is change really speeding up? Or is that just a story we keep telling ourselves? In this episode we dig into the narrative around accelerating change. The headlines, the AI hype, the economic bubble, the constant pressure to keep going. We ask whether the pace of change is actually new, or whether our worry about it is the real problem. We talk about cortisol addiction and why humans seem wired to find things to worry about. We explore what leaders can do when people want reassurance but there a
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