THE LOVE-LED™ SHIFT | EPISODE 1: The System Is Breaking And You’re Not the Problem
Release Date: 07/26/2025
501: Behind the Rank: When Your Confidence Depends on the Scoreboard with Missy Hydes
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Missy Hydes is a NVP with Arbonne that has been in this profession for 22 years. In 2019, something happened she has never been able to explain. For three months, her business multiplied in a way that didn't make any sense. She wasn't pushing. She wasn't up until 2 a.m. on the closing night turning over every rock. She was running a 6 a.m. bible study, and telling her team that she loved them. Every day. Here's what she couldn't explain. The people on her team started moving without her having to carry them. Other leaders started asking her what she was doing and she didn't even know what to...
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500: Behind the Rank: Annie Steicke on the Hidden Cost of Always Being the Strong One.
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Annie Steicke is a RVP with Arbonne. For 13 years she believed great leaders stayed strong no matter what. They didn't let their team see them struggle. They stayed positive, held everything together, and carried the weight silently. From the outside, her business looked successful. Inside, leadership was getting heavier. In this episode of Behind the Rank, Annie shares what happened when she realized she had spent years confusing perfomrance with leadership, why pretending everything was okay slowly disconnected her from her self and the people she loved most, and how one simple act of...
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499: Behind The Rank: Tanya Sheldon on Joining to Become Someone, Then Losing Her
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For many leaders, the fear of losing what they've built is more exhausting than building it ever was. In this episode I’ve got another Behind the Rank story for you. I'm joined by Tanya Sheldon, an elite leader with LifeVantage, to explore what happens when you spend a decade climbing toward freedom, only to find yourself white-knuckling everything you've earned. Tanya joined network marketing to become someone. And for years, that calling was enough to carry her forward. But after hitting one of the top ranks in her company, something quietly shifted. The becoming got pushed aside, and the...
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498: The 3 Phases of LOVE-LED™ Development
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When you look at the leaders who seem to be winning in this profession, it is easy to assume they have it all figured out, but behind the scenes, many are stuck in a heavy, exhausting middle ground where growth has completely stalled. In this final installment of our special four-part mini-series, I map out the exact journey to breaking free from that survival mode by breaking down the Three Phases of LOVE-LED™ Development. If you missed the first three episodes in this special 4-part LOVE-LED™ series where I share the new work I've been doing with leaders, make sure to check those...
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497: How Success Hijacked Your Calling
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Achieving a massive milestone or hitting the top rank is supposed to bring a sense of peace, but for so many builders, the morning after success actually brings a heavy, sleepless anxiety. In this third installment of our special four-part mini-series, I reveal more on how a fear-led system quietly takes over your business, and how it slowly conditions you to ignore your natural instincts until your self-worth is completely rented from a monthly title. If you missed the first two episodes in this special 4-part LOVE-LED™ series where I share the new work I've been doing with leaders, make...
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496: The Four Leadership Masks
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For years, leaders in this industry have been handed a standard playbook for growth, but many are finding that hitting the next big milestone feels much heavier than it should. In this second installment of our special four-part mini-series, I’m going deeper into the hidden underlying architecture of your business, because when fear quietly hijacks the source position of your leadership, it doesn't stay invisible. Instead, it alters how you post, how you communicate with your team, and how you handle slow months by forcing you behind a protective posture. In this episode, we unpack the four...
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495: Why Success Feels Heavier Than It Should
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For the past decade, I have taught love as a business philosophy, but I recently had to face a painful contradiction: I was building a LOVE LED™ company while leading myself entirely from fear. Today is the first installment of a special mini-series I’m bringing to you here on the podcast, where I’m breaking down why success so often feels heavier than it should. I’m sharing the raw truth of how a fear-led operating system broke me down and how that same pattern causes brilliant leaders to watch their growth collapse the moment they trade their original calling for rank obsession. This...
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494: Behind the Rank: Liz Turner on Building a Business That Gives More Than It Takes
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For many leaders, the personal business feels easy and it's the team that becomes exhausting. In this latest episode of Behind the Rank, I'm joined by Liz Turner, an Executive Sales Leader with Norwex, to go deeper and discuss what happens when you love your personal business but struggle to lead your team. As you'll hear today, for 5 years Liz operated from a place of fear-disguised-as-strategy, pushing herself and her team while secretly holding all the pressure inside. We explore the reality of her pusher mask, the moment she realized she'd emotionally disconnected to protect herself, and...
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493: The Book It Took Me 6 Years To Write
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We are often told that success requires a thick skin and a relentless grind. But what happens when that skin becomes a wall that keeps everyone out - including yourself? This is a deeply personal solo episode for me, as I share the behind-the-scenes of the journey that has taken me 6 years to put into words. I’m sharing the story behind my upcoming book, Love Led Growth, and the "middle of the fire" moments that finally made it possible to write. For the last several years, I realized I was living a contradiction: teaching leaders how to lead with love while running my own business from a...
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492: Behind the Rank: Michele Hawley on Being the Engine Everyone Depends On
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Many leaders fall into the trap of becoming the engine of their business, or the one person everyone depends on to keep momentum alive. In this latest episode of Behind the Rank, I’m joined by Michele Hawley to discuss the heavy cost of being that engine and what happens when you finally trade pushing for presence. As you’ll hear today, for years Michele carried the emotional weight of her organization, operating from a place of borrowed belief and the need to prove her worth. We explore the reality of the specific mask she realized she was wearing, the exhaustion of saving the day for...
info_outline🎙THE LOVE-LED™ SHIFT
A 5-part audio series for the leaders who can’t keep doing it the old way. This is your line in the sand, naming what’s breaking, what’s next, and how to build what lasts.
I’m so excited to bring you Episode 1 of The LOVE-LED™ SHIFT series. This marks a bold line in the sand, a declaration that we’re done with the fear-led system that’s been quietly eroding your confidence and forcing you to trade your peace for performance.
If you’ve been putting in the work but still feel disconnected, if your content isn’t landing, your team feels disengaged, and that spark you once had seems dimmed, this episode, and the ones that follow, were made for you.
Let me be clear: you are not the problem. The truth is, you’ve been operating inside a system that’s broken, a fear-driven approach that no longer serves who you are or the kind of business you’re called to build.
As I shared in the trailer, we’re stepping into a new era of LOVE-LED™ Leadership. One that aligns with your values, honors your peace, and actually works. This isn’t the end of your growth. It’s the beginning of something far more authentic, fulfilling, and sustainable.
Listen to Learn:
1:14 - How we got to where we are today with an old system that has led to burnout and disengagement
3:35 - What artificial growth looked like during the COVID boom and why it wasn’t sustainable
6:30 - Why your struggles aren't a personal failing, but rather a direct consequence of operating within a broken and outdated business system
8:32 - A look at the "fear-led system" and the key difference between it and a LOVE-LED™one
11:04 - What distinguishes urgency from genuine belief and why urgency only provides short-term, unsustainable results
15:58 - How my personal achievement led to unexpected feelings of sadness and what this disconnect revealed about the emptiness of externally driven success
Make sure to listen to all of the other episodes in this series, below!
THE LOVE-LED™ SHIFT | EPISODE 2: Why Content Alone Can’t Build the Business You Were Called to Lead
THE LOVE-LED™ SHIFT Starts Now | EPISODE 4: What LOVE-LED™ Leadership Actually Looks Like
THE LOVE-LED™ SHIFT Starts Now | EPISODE 5: This Is Where Fear Ends and LOVE-LED™ Leadership Begins
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