Leadership Mindset: How to Harness the Power of Your Mind at Every Level

Leadership Mindset: How to Harness the Power of Your Mind at Every Level

We often think of leadership as a title – something reserved for executives, managers, or people in boardrooms making big decisions. But leadership is less about position and more about presence. And at the heart of powerful leadership lies one of the most underutilized tools we all have: the mind.

Whether you’re leading a team, a project, or your own career path, the way you manage your internal world, your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and reactions, directly impacts how you lead in the external world.

Conscious vs. Subconscious Leadership

Cognitive neuroscientists estimate that up to 95% of our brain activity is subconscious. That means most of our decisions, behaviors, and reactions are shaped by unseen mental programs, formed by past experiences, self-perception, and learned beliefs.

Think of your conscious mind as the CEO – setting goals, making strategies, and charting direction. But the subconscious mind? That’s the operations team working quietly behind the scenes, influencing whether you procrastinate or act, whether you speak up or stay quiet, whether you trust yourself or second-guess every move.

The leaders who create lasting impact at every level are those who bring alignment between the two.

Mental Habits That Empower Leadership

Whether you’re entry-level or C-suite, cultivating leadership starts with mental habits that support confidence, clarity, and composure. Here are a few ways to harness the power of your mind:

  1. Practice self-awareness.
    Notice your automatic thoughts and reactions. Are they driven by fear, doubt, or self-protection or by curiosity, purpose, and confidence?
  2. Reframe setbacks.
    Great leaders don’t avoid failure; they learn from it. Your mind can be trained to see challenges as growth opportunities instead of threats.
  3. Visualize success.
    Your brain responds to imagined outcomes much like real ones. Take a few moments daily to mentally rehearse how you want to lead, speak, or perform.
  4. Regulate your nervous system.
    When your nervous system is in overdrive, your ability to lead with clarity, empathy, and presence diminishes. Stress narrows your perspective and triggers reactive behavior. But when you’re calm and regulated, your mind becomes clear, your decisions become intentional, and your leadership becomes magnetic. A grounded leader creates grounded teams.

To support this, consider a nervous system toolbox – a quick-access set of tools you can turn to when stress hits or overwhelm creeps in.

It might include:

  • A few deep, conscious breaths
  • A brisk walk or simple movement
  • Stepping outside for fresh air
  • A grounding mantra or affirmation
  • Pausing for a minute of silence or visualization

These simple pattern interrupts help reset your system in the moment and remind your body that safety, clarity, and calm are always available.
The stronger your regulation, the stronger your leadership.

Why Inner Work = Outer Impact

You can have the best strategies in the world, but if your mindset is clouded by imposter syndrome, perfectionism, or fear of being seen, your leadership will be limited. Real leadership development isn’t just about skills – it’s about mental and emotional mastery.

Investing in your mind through practices like mindfulness, coaching, or even subconscious reprogramming techniques like hypnosis creates a foundation for authentic, resilient leadership.

The Takeaway

You don’t need a title to be a leader.
You need awareness, intention, and the courage to lead yourself first.

When you harness the power of your mind, you gain more than confidence, you gain clarity, influence, and the ability to lead in a way that inspires others to do the same.

Because at every level of your career, leadership starts within.

All this and more in Julie’s second book: The Heart-Centered Leader

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5 Simple Ways to Stop Worry and Regain Inner Calm

5 Simple Ways to Stop Worry and Regain Inner Calm

In today’s fast-paced world, learning how to stop worrying and start living with intention is essential for your mental wellness. Whether it’s financial stress, relationship anxiety, or pressure at work, chronic worry can disrupt your peace and diminish your energy. If you’ve been searching for ways to reduce stress, simple techniques to calm your mind, or natural remedies for anxiety, you’re in the right place. In this post, we’ll explore five practical and easy methods to shift the worry and cultivate a greater sense of ease and clarity.

1. Name the Fear and Frame It

Worry thrives in ambiguity. One of the fastest ways to reduce stress is to identify exactly what you’re afraid of. Ask yourself: “What am I worried might happen?” Then follow up with, “What else could be true?” Naming your fear takes away its power and invites your rational mind back online.

2. Practice the 3-3-3 Grounding Technique

For those looking for natural ways to ease anxiety, this simple grounding method works in the moment:

  • Look at 3 things you can see.

  • Touch 3 things you can feel.

  • Name 3 sounds you can hear.

This sensory reset brings you out of the mental spiral and back to the present.

3. Use Tapping (EFT) to Rewire Thought Patterns

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), or tapping, is a powerful mind-body technique for stress relief. By gently tapping on acupressure points while acknowledging your worry, you create space for release and calm. Try tapping daily for 5 minutes as a tool for emotional resilience. For free resources check out my YouTube channel @‌juliecass (Add link here)

4. Have a Worry Neutralizing Mantra

We have been feeding our worry brains for far to long with stress inducing thoughts. The best way to rewire your worry brain is to have a neutralizing mantra. If you are worried about money – “I live in an abundant world and abundance is flowing to me”. If you are worried about health – “My Body does wellness”. A great general worry free mantra is – “I trust everything is working out for me. I trust the timing”

5. Shift to Gratitude and Action

Replace mental looping with forward momentum. For every worry, ask: “What’s one small action I can take?” Then write down 3 things you’re grateful for right now. This combo of action and appreciation helps retrain your brain to see opportunity over fear.

By incorporating these five practices, you can begin to shift from chronic worrying to mental clarity and peace. These techniques don’t require hours of effort but simply a little awareness and consistency. Whether you’re navigating life changes, decision fatigue, or general anxiety, remember that you have the tools to change your emotional state, starting now.

The Power in Pause: Three Key Mindset Shifts I Learned in Ireland

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The Power of Pause: Three Key Mindsets I Learned in Ireland

 

The Power in Pause: There’s something sacred about slowing down and I want to share with you the key mindset shifts I learned while in Ireland recently.

Whether it’s a quiet morning with tea in hand, a solo walk through nature, or simply choosing to unplug for a while – these moments of stillness aren’t just restful. They’re restorative. They bring us back to ourselves.

After taking the time to slow down, reflect, and reconnect, I’m walking away with a few powerful truths. Maybe you’ll recognize them too:

Stillness fuels clarity.
We spend so much time doing, fixing, rushing. But when we stop – even for a moment – something magical happens. The noise quiets. The answers come. When you pause, ideas don’t need to be forced; they find you.

Presence sharpens your power.
You can’t lead – your team, your family, or yourself – if you’re not fully here. Disconnection drains us. But presence? It makes us magnetic. It’s the secret sauce to powerful leadership and authentic connection.

Joy isn’t a luxury – it’s a strategy.
Feeling good isn’t something to squeeze in when everything else is done. Joy is fuel. It raises our energy, lifts our vision, and brings us back to what matters. When we honor joy, we honor our worth.

Alignment doesn’t require a plane ticket.
You don’t need to escape your life to live in alignment. You just need to choose it – with each decision, each boundary, each breath. Alignment is a practice, not a destination.

So today, I invite you to pause. Breathe. Ask yourself:
What would it look like to choose alignment today?
What would it feel like to honor stillness, presence, and joy – just for you?

You don’t need to earn it. You just need to begin.

With pause I feel immense gratitude for you as part of my community. 💚

If you’re looking for more soul food to propel your personal growth and to harness optimal wellness, check out my online Vision workshop.  I think you’ll love it!

Thank you for reading.

With love,

Julie

Follow These Simple Steps to Manifest Your Dreams with Ease in 2025

Follow These Simple Steps to Manifest Your Dreams with Ease in 2025

 

The Holidays are over, it is the middle of winter and you feel the pressure of a new year beginning. This time of year can feel daunting and even a bit depressing. What happens with a lot of people is they start the new year off with ambitious goals to finally make the changes they want to see in their life, but this can come with a lot of pressure and create even more stress.

We tend to be hard on ourselves this time of year, we put pressure on ourselves to hit our goals and stick to our resolutions. There is an element to this that is great to get some motivation, but the flip side is it can create feelings of overwhelm and the good habits tend to slip, by the time we reach February.

Want this to feel different this year? Ready for some ease in 2025?

These 3 simple strategies will help you create with ease, reduce stress and allow you to make lifestyle changes and resolutions that will last the whole year.

 

1. Have Micro Goals.

Big changes don’t happen overnight, and that’s okay. The best way to reset for the new year is to start small, with micro-goals that build momentum over time*.* ✨

Think of micro-goals as tiny, achievable wins that help you feel accomplished without the overwhelm. These small steps create the energy you need to tackle your bigger goals throughout the year. 💪

Here are some ideas for micro-goals this January:

🌱 Drink an extra glass of water each day.

🌱 Declutter one drawer or corner of your home.

🌱 Spend 5 minutes journaling your thoughts or intentions.

🌱 Take a 10-minute walk daily, even if it’s just around the block.

🌱 Stretch for 5 minutes every morning or evening.

🌱 Send a kind message to a friend or family member.

🌱 Replace 5 minutes of scrolling with reading a book or listening to a podcast.

🌱 Make your bed every morning (a small win to start the day).

🌱 Write down one thing you’re grateful for at the end of each day.

🌱 Try a new healthy recipe this week.

Remember, progress is progress, no matter how small. Celebrate your wins, and watch how these tiny shifts build into something amazing. 🌟

2. Spend 5 Minutes a Day Feeling Your Intended Results.

This is a simple exercise that is the magic ingredient in manifesting or magnetizing your goals. Most of us get really disappointed when we work so hard but still feel like we are never catching up to what we really want to create. We think about what our goal is and then we go into an action plan. Over time this begins to feel hard so we can feel disappointed and give up.

To create more ease, spend five minutes a day feeling the goal or vision as if it has already happened. This brings the emotional element into goal creating or manifestation which acts like a fertilizer to our dreams because the subconscious mind responds to emotions. If we are constantly “trying” or “working hard” from the emotion of frustration, or lack then the subconscious mind responds to this. When we feel the goal in our body as if it has happened and sit in this feeling for few minutes a day we are now feeling joy, abundance peace and our subconscious mind can now respond to these emotions instead which is like rocket fuel for our dreams.

5 minute a day exercise:

  • Go to a quiet space where you will not be disturbed
  • Play some relaxing music
  • Sit or lie down in a comfortable position
  • Imagine your self at the end, meaning you have achieved your goal or vision. How does this feel in your body? What do you see? Who are you with? What are you doing? How does it smell? – crystalize the vision as clearly as possible.
  • Turn the volume up on those emotions you are feeling as if the goal has happened.
  • Remember this is the magic ingredient (the feelings) or the emotional side of manifesting.

 

3. Gratitude for what ‘Is’.

Having goals is great, we are always creating so it is powerful to give our creations a direction so we become conscious about it. However, we also need to be in the moment, to recognize the beauty in the ‘now’, the magic that is all around us. The best way to do this is to spend time in gratitude. To think and feel all the things we are already grateful.

You can do this by having a gratitude journal, or simply closing your eyes and thinking of 3 things a day you are grateful for.

This gratitude practice will:

  • Reduce stress
  • Allow you to feel the magic that is all around
  • Raise your vibration and energy

The best part is with gratitude you raise your energy which allow for your creations to come with more ease, you magnetize rather than chase. It also reminds us to enjoy the journey.

Here is to a magical 2025!

With Love,

Julie Cass

The Positive Change Group

#JanuaryReset #MicroGoals #SmallStepsBigChange #IntentionalLiving #NewYearMotivation #EnergyInMotion

Embrace Winter Wellness

Embrace Winter Wellness: Four Fun Ways to Stay Healthy

Winter is here, bringing cozy sweaters, hot cocoa, and the occasional snowball fight. But with shorter days and colder weather, it’s easy to let your health habits slip. Fear not! Here are four fun ways to stay healthy this winter by focusing on movement, thoughts, people/environment, and eating/supplements.

1. Keep Moving: 10 Minute motivation

Don’t let the chilly weather turn you into a couch potato to get you off the coach give yourself 10 minutes. You can do anything for 10 minutes, walk the dog, lift weights, dance, yoga etc. Movement not only warms you up but also boosts your immune system and keeps those winter blues at bay.

2. Upgrade your thoughts and feel better.

Your mindset plays a crucial role in your overall health and the winter months can be a challenge to our joy. Starting your day with uplifting affirmations can give you the boost you need. Try these repeating these when you first open your eyes:

  • I am strong and healthy
  • My body does wellness
  • I have all the energy I need today
  • I embrace the magic of winter

3. Create a happy and healthy environment

Your environment and the people around you can greatly impact your health. Create a cozy, inviting space at home with warm blankets, soft lighting, and perhaps a crackling fire. Lighting a scented candle can boost your mood and create a warm ambiance. Be picky about who you spend your time with as this effects your mood and your stress levels. They key is make more plans with people who make you feel good.

4. Nourish Your Body

Winter is the perfect time to indulge in hearty, nourishing foods. Focus on seasonal home cooked meals like soups and stews. Don’t forget about hydration—drink plenty of water and enjoy warm herbal teas. Consider supplements like vitamin D (since sun exposure is limited in winter), omega-3 fatty acids, and elderberry to boost your immune system. A well-nourished body is better equipped to fight off winter colds and flu.

By incorporating these four points—movement, positive thoughts, a supportive environment, and nourishing foods—you can stay healthy and vibrant all winter long. Embrace the season with joy and keep those winter blues at bay! ❄️🌟

Happy Holidays!

Julie Cass

The Positive Change Group

Creating a Healthy Money Mindset Over the Holidays

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Creating a Healthy Money Mindset Over the Holidays

The holiday season, with its flurry of festivities and gift-giving, can be a time of joy but also financial stress. Developing a healthy money mindset is crucial to navigating this period with both magic and practicality.

Embrace Abundance with Gratitude

Begin by shifting your focus from scarcity to abundance. Each day, acknowledge and appreciate the wealth already present in your life, whether it’s financial, relationships, or experiences. Gratitude attracts more positive energy, fostering a sense of abundance rather than lack. Affirm: “I am grateful for the abundance I already have, and I welcome even more into my life.”

Set Intentional Spending Plans

Create a budget that reflects your holiday goals and values. List all potential expenses, including gifts, travel, and social activities. Allocate funds to each category, ensuring you prioritize what truly matters. This mindful approach prevents overspending and aligns your financial decisions with your values. Affirm: “I manage my money with wisdom and intention, ensuring I spend on what brings joy and meaning.”

Find Joy in Simplicity

The holidays are not just about grand gestures but also small, meaningful moments. Embrace the magic of simple pleasures—handmade gifts, heartfelt messages, and quality time with loved ones. These practices often carry more emotional value than expensive purchases. Affirm: “I find joy in the simple and meaningful, recognizing that true wealth is in moments shared.”

Manifest Prosperity with Positive Affirmations

Daily affirmations can reinforce a positive money mindset. Repeat phrases like: “I am a magnet for prosperity,” “My financial decisions support my well-being,” and “I attract wealth with ease.” These affirmations help rewire your subconscious beliefs about money, fostering a healthier relationship with finances.

Empowering Cycle of Giving

The act of giving creates a powerful ripple effect that benefits both the receiver and the giver. For the receiver, it fosters feelings of appreciation, support, and connection, reinforcing their belief in the goodness of people and their own worthiness to receive. For the giver, it enhances their sense of abundance and gratitude, as they experience the joy and fulfillment that comes from contributing to others’ well-being. This mutual empowerment strengthens a healthy money mindset by shifting focus from scarcity to abundance, highlighting the positive impact that responsible and heartfelt giving can have on individuals and communities alike. Affirm: “Giving enriches my life and the lives of others, creating a cycle of abundance and joy.”

Stay Present and Mindful

Practice mindfulness to stay present in your financial decisions. Avoid impulse purchases by pausing and considering the necessity and value of each item. Mindfulness keeps you grounded and in control of your spending. Affirm: “I make thoughtful and deliberate financial choices that enhance my holiday experience.”

By blending a magical spiritual approach with practical strategies, you can create a balanced and healthy approach to the holidays. Remember our mindset dictates our experience so upgrading with your mind with these healthy affirmations will create a peaceful and abundant experience for you this holiday season.

Here is a short video on How Joy for Others Magnifies Your Abundance. 

by Julie Cass

The Positive Change Group

A powerful time to let go of the gunk that’s keeping you STUCK

Letting go of the gunk

Now is a powerful time to let go of the gunk that’s keeping you STUCK.

Do you feel overwhelmed and unproductive? Or maybe you keep procrastinating on that thing you want to get done or accomplish. Do you feel like you’re in a spin cycle and tired of feeling the heaviness of stress. Or maybe imposter syndrome keeps creeping up and is holding you back from making that bold step. It’s time to let go.

All these negative emotions create gunk in our emotional tank, and it makes it almost impossible to feel joy. In fact, we may have moments of joy and happiness but they can be fleeting.

So how do we shift? How to we tip the scale in our favour to feel the better feels?

The answer to this is simpler than you might think. However, many of us are doing the one thing that is making it worse because it is what we have been taught from a young age.

The biggest thing that keeps us stuck is by ignoring our feelings or burying them. We tell ourselves, I should be grateful, look at the glass half full. And yes, this is true, but it is hard to do that when we ignore our feelings. If we bury our emotions because we feel guilty or less of a person to have them, we make it worse. We create slug in our emotional tank. When we build this sludge up over the years, we leave little room for joy and happiness.

The key to shifting with ease is to feel what you are feeling, to validate your feelings, to honour and respect your feelings so you can heal. When we do this the most amazing thing happens. We shift. We feel better. The heavy emotions no longer hold us hostage and we have created the space to let in the good.

So, if you are ready to get unstuck, follow along with me in this simple tapping exercise to let go and be free.

Tapping video link HERE

by Julie Cass

www.thepositivechange.com

Turning Your Vision into Reality: The Four Essential Elements

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Turning Your Vision into Reality: The Four Essential Elements

Do you believe you are worthy of your heartfelt desires?

Turning your vision into reality requires a commitment to nurturing your dreams and aligning yourself with your deepest desires. Here are the four essential elements that will help you manifest your vision:

  1. Clarity
    The foundation of any successful vision is clarity. Allow yourself to dream without limits, giving yourself full permission to desire what you truly want. The clearer and more specific your vision, the easier it becomes to bring it to life. Clarity helps you focus your energy and attention, creating a detailed mental image of what you want to achieve. The more vivid your vision, the more powerfully you can attract the resources, opportunities, and people needed to manifest it.
  2. Embody It
    Embodying your vision means aligning yourself mentally, emotionally, and spiritually with your desired outcome. Rather than seeing your vision as something distant that you need to chase, view it as an integral part of who you are. Imagine your vision as a movie playing in your mind, where you are the main character living out your dream. This mental rehearsal helps to internalize the vision, making it feel real and attainable. By embodying your vision, you remove the separation between your current reality and your desired future, bridging the gap between thought and manifestation.
  3. Feel It
    Emotions are the fuel that drives manifestation. To accelerate the realization of your vision, immerse yourself in the feelings associated with its fulfillment. Feel the love, joy, gratitude, and excitement as if your dream has already come true. These positive emotions act like fertilizer, nourishing your vision and encouraging it to grow. The more you can cultivate these feelings, the stronger the magnetic pull of your vision becomes, drawing it closer to your reality.
  4. Allow It
    Finally, allow your vision to manifest by stepping out of your own way. Often, doubts, fears, and feelings of unworthiness act as barriers to your success. Acknowledge these blockers, and consciously choose to release them. Affirm your worthiness and repeat positive affirmations such as, “I am worthy of my desires,” and “I release all resistance holding me back from my dreams.” By allowing your vision to unfold without interference, you create a clear path for it to become reality.

Summary

The key to turning your vision into reality lies in these four essential elements: gaining clarity on what you truly want, embodying your vision as an intrinsic part of yourself, cultivating the positive emotions associated with its fulfillment, and allowing it to manifest by removing any self-imposed barriers. When these elements are in harmony, your vision naturally transforms from a dream into reality.

Julie’s VISION online program is available for only $47 CAD, register now and replace your traditional goal setting methods with techniques that actually work!

by Julie Cass

The Positive Change Group

Your Vibration is Directly Linked to Your Success

Your Vibration is Directly Linked to Your Success

 

The laws of the universe – makes us all accountable for our own happiness and misery.

The energy or frequency you emit, known as your vibration, influences the outcomes in your life as well as having a discrete influence over those around you. High vibrations, associated with positive emotions and thoughts attract positive experiences and opportunities this means that your vibration is directly linked to your success.

Likewise, lower vibrations that are linked to negativity, attract challenges and setbacks. By consciously raising your vibration through practices like gratitude, mindfulness, and positive thinking, you align yourself with success and well-being.

The core idea is that by taking responsibility for your inner state, you can shape your external reality.

True success, is success in all areas of your life; relationships, wealth, health, career. When success is lacking in an area of your life, you may still feel unbalanced.

Let’s take a look at 5 laws of the universe and how to make them work for you:

Law of Polarity

“Everything has an opposite. If you’re dealing with a difficulty, there is equally the opportunity to achieve something beneficial.”

Make this law work for you by tuning into the thing you want to be experiencing versus focusing your energy on what you do not what to be experiencing. For example, if work feels hard and you keep telling yourself it is hard,  know that ease is also a opportunity or an outcome you can experience by focusing on ease. “This comes easy to me, I do this with ease”.

Law of Vibration

“Every particle in the universe vibrates at a particular frequency. By raising your vibrational energy through positive thoughts and emotions, you attract better experiences.”

The best way to make this law work for you is by checking in with your energy before starting a task. If you feel off or stressed, hit pause, take a few deep breaths, maybe go outside and once you feel the shift withing, then go back to the task.  You will be operating from an elevated vibration which will feel better.

Law of Attraction

“You attract what you focus on. Focusing on positive things brings you more positive things. When you focus on the negative side, such as problems, it will bring you more problems.”

Make this law work for you by paying more attention to where your energy is being focused. This is a powerful law when we work with it to attract more of what we want.

Law of Inspired Action

“To manifest things, you must take inspired or intentional actions towards your goals, not just wish for outcomes.” See your desire as a reality to help take the first steps to inspired action.

Use this law by allowing the action part to be fun and easy. When you take inspired action it doesn’t feel hard, it feels right. If you don’t feel this then take a pause to shift your energy then start your actions again.

Law of Cause and Effect

“Every action has a reaction or consequence. This teaches accountability for our actions.” Actions inspired by higher vibrations lead to better consequences.

The best part of this law is you get to be accountable for your actions and others get to be accountable for theirs. Think of how much energy you waste on worrying about other peoples actions or taking offense to them. You can let this go and let the universe take care of it.

Using these laws of the universe can positively impact your vibration which directly impacts your success. By maintaining a high vibration through positive thoughts, emotions, and actions, you align yourself with opportunities, resources, and people that resonate with success. Conversely, low vibrations rooted in negativity and self-doubt can create obstacles and hinder progress. Understanding and consciously elevating your vibration can be a powerful tool in achieving your goals and manifesting the life you desire.

True fulfillment arises when you find harmony and growth across these key aspects, ensuring a well-rounded and balanced life.

If you are ready to increase your vibration and upgrade your programing to create a success mindset book your complimentary hypnosis consult here.

By Julie Cass

The Positive Change Group

Can You be a Great Leader If You Are an Emotional Person?

Can You Be a Great Leader If You Are an Emotional Person?

We are human which means we all have emotions. It is impossible not to have emotions. The question is, are you a an emotionally healthy leader? Meaning that you are in-tune with your own emotions; you do not suppress them or ignore them, and you know how to emotionally regulate. You are aware of when your triggers come up and are willing to look at them and do the inner work to shift. Our emotions are always acting as guides, telling us when we are in or out of alignment. An emotionally healthy leader is a conscious and impact leader that creates positive ripples. We need more emotionally healthy leaders today.

Five Signs of An Emotionally Healthy Leader

1. They’re Happy When You Succeed and They Give You the Credit

Emotionally healthy leaders understand that their success is intertwined with the success of their team members. They genuinely celebrate your achievements and ensure that you receive the recognition you deserve. They do not feel threatened by your success; instead, they see it as a validation of their leadership. This behavior fosters a positive work environment and motivates team members to continue striving for excellence.

2. They Value Your Opinion

An emotionally healthy leader values diversity of thought and encourages open dialogue. They actively seek out and listen to your opinions, knowing that different perspectives can lead to better decision-making and innovation. By valuing your input, they demonstrate respect and trust, making you feel valued and integral to the team. This inclusive approach helps build a collaborative and supportive workplace culture.

3. They Own Their Mistakes

Leaders who are emotionally healthy are not afraid to admit when they are wrong. They understand that acknowledging mistakes is a sign of strength, not weakness. By taking responsibility for their actions, they set a powerful example for their team, promoting a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. This transparency builds trust and encourages others to be honest about their own mistakes, fostering a learning environment.

4. They Are Actually Happy When You Succeed

Beyond just giving you credit, emotionally healthy leaders take genuine joy in seeing you grow and succeed. They invest in your development and provide opportunities for you to advance. Their happiness for your success is sincere, not just a performative gesture. This genuine support helps build strong, positive relationships within the team and encourages a culture of mutual respect and encouragement.

5. They Do Not Project Their Moods or Stress onto You Because They Know How to Regulate

Emotionally healthy leaders are self-aware and have developed strong emotional regulation skills. They do not let their personal stress or negative emotions affect their interactions with the team. Instead, they manage their emotions effectively and maintain a calm and composed demeanor, even in challenging situations. This emotional stability creates a safe and stable work environment, where team members feel secure and focused on their tasks without the added pressure of dealing with a leader’s unpredictable moods.

Emotionally healthy leaders create a positive, inclusive, and supportive work environment by celebrating your successes, valuing your input, taking responsibility for their actions, genuinely supporting your growth, and regulating their emotions effectively. These qualities not only enhance team morale but also drive better performance and overall organizational success.

To do a personal deeper dive into this by booking a complimentary discovery call for Julie’s executive leadership coaching program. Link HERE

by Julie Cass

The Positive Change Group