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Love Without Shrinking: Strategic Unruliness™ in Leadership

Empowering Women, Transforming Lives

Release Date: 02/12/2026

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What if the most loving thing you could do is stop betraying yourself?

In this February conversation, Rebecca Hall Gruyter welcomes back Kim Bolourtchi, keynote speaker, strategist, and creator of Strategic Unruliness™. Kim challenges high-performing women to examine the invisible rules they’ve absorbed over time, the ones that ask them to stay small, play it safe, or keep performing long after it stops feeling true.

Together, they unpack why so many accomplished women feel stuck even when they’re doing everything “right,” how these limits take root, and what it truly means to lead with clarity rather than compliance. Kim shares powerful insights from her work with leaders who transformed their teams and lives by choosing alignment over approval.

This conversation is an invitation to see self-leadership as an act of love. Not the soft kind, but the honest kind. The kind that says it’s time to stop shrinking and start leading from who you actually are.

As always, you can find our host, Rebecca Hall Gruyter, at www.yourpurposedrivenpractice.com.
Connect with Kim at https://www.kimbolourtchi.com
 

About the Guest

Kim Bolourtchi is a #1 International Best Selling author, a keynote speaker, strategist, and creator of Strategic Unruliness™, a bold framework for breaking the rules that no longer serve us, so we can live and lead with radical clarity.

She helps high-performing women stop shrinking, hiding, or performing and start building lives, careers, and communities that reflect the full force of who they are. Whether she’s working with executives, entrepreneurs, or everyday change-makers, Kim delivers the wake-up call we didn’t know we needed, and the clarity to do something about it.