29 - The Disruptor's Dilemma: Innovation without Burnout or Chaos
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
Release Date: 12/23/2025
33 - The Hidden Cost of Overfunctioning: How Leaders' Inner Wounds Shape Their Cultures
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
What happens when the very traits that make women exceptional leaders quietly erode their intimacy, wellbeing, and sustainability? In this episode of The Game Changer, Dr. Sharalyn Payne sits down with Dr. Brittany McGeehan to expose The Powerhouse Paradox—the hidden emotional architecture behind over-functioning, rescuing, and chronic self-reliance among C-suite women. This is a masterclass on how early life dynamics quietly shape boardroom behavior, relationships, and mental health—and what it takes to break the cycle without dimming your power. Key Takeaways The Powerhouse Paradox...
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31 - Beyond Mindset: How Heartset and Presence Redefine Leadership
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
In this episode of The Game Changer with Dr. Sharalyn, we sit down with Regina Huber, CEO of Transform Your Performance, global leadership expert, and former Boston Consulting Group leader, to challenge one of leadership’s most persistent assumptions: that mindset alone is enough. With leadership experience spanning five continents and a career that bridges elite consulting, entrepreneurship, media, and executive coaching, Regina brings a rare global and practical lens to leadership development. In this conversation, she introduces a more complete leadership model—one that integrates...
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30 - Beyond Goals: Reprogramming the Inner Game That Determines Your Business Results
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
Most leaders don’t fail because they lack ambition, discipline, or intelligence. They fail because they are unknowingly running outdated internal programs that sabotage clarity, decision-making, and momentum. In this powerful conversation, Dr. Sharalyn Payne sits down with Dr. Alain Salas to dismantle the myths of traditional goal-setting and expose what actually governs performance: mindset architecture, emotional regulation, and subconscious decision loops. This episode is a wake-up call for leaders who are doing “everything right” and still feel stuck, depleted, or frustrated by...
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29 - The Disruptor's Dilemma: Innovation without Burnout or Chaos
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
Disruptive leaders are often the ones who see what’s broken long before others are willing to name it, but vision without discipline can quietly create burnout, resistance, and chaos. In this deeply personal and strategic episode, Dr. Sharalyn explores the hidden cost of constant disruption and reveals how elite leaders drive innovation without exhausting their people or destabilizing the system. If you’re leading change, carrying urgency, and feeling the tension between speed and sustainability, this episode offers clarity, recalibration, and a more powerful way forward. Key Takeaway...
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28 - Rethinking Healthcare: Innovation with Purpose
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
Healthcare is no longer just a line item—it’s a leadership decision with human, cultural, and economic consequences. In this episode, Dr. Sharalyn Payne sits down with Donovan Pyle to unpack how wasted healthcare dollars quietly drain employee well-being, suppress creativity, and erode organizational performance—and how visionary leaders can reclaim healthcare as a lever for economic empowerment, trust, and retention. This conversation challenges executives to move beyond cost containment and into strategic stewardship, where benefits design becomes a catalyst for freedom, focus, and...
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Episode 27 - Lead to Serve, Serve to Scale: The Hidden Power of Influence
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
In this week’s conversation, Kurt Uhlir — accomplished executive, operator, and global speaker — dismantles one of leadership’s oldest misconceptions: that authority is the source of power. In reality, influence multiplies when leaders choose to serve. Kurt brings decades of experience leading high-growth companies and elite teams. In this episode, he reveals why the leaders who scale organizations — the ones whose teams outperform, innovate, and stay committed — are those who practice strategic service, not performative leadership. Together, we explore why the organizations built...
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Episode 26 - Leading Change When the System Works Against You: Moving the Unmovable
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
Most leaders don’t fail because they lack vision — they fail because the system they’re leading inside was never built for the change they’re trying to produce. In this episode, Dr. Sharalyn reveals the strategies high-impact leaders use to accelerate change even when culture, politics, and power structures seem immovable. Verified research shows that organizational resistance, not individual capability, is the top barrier to transformation. This episode gives leaders the tools to navigate that resistance with clarity, authority, and influence. Key Takeaway Systems don’t respond to...
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Episode 25 - The Courage Advantage: Why Conflict is the Catalyst for Leadership
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
In this episode of The Game Changer with Dr. Sharalyn, Leah Brown—global legal leader, award-winning executive, and strategic advisor—reveals why conflict is the proving ground for influence, innovation, and integrity. In a world where leaders are pressured to keep the peace, Leah Brown argues the opposite—conflict isn’t the enemy; it’s the ignition point of true leadership. According to Harvard Business Review, 57% of employees avoid conflict, even when it costs the organization time, trust, and millions in rework. But courage isn’t just a character trait—it’s a competitive...
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Episode 24 - The Leadership Lead: Mindset Shift Every Founder - and Leader- Must Make
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
Episode Description In this episode of The Game Changer with Dr. Sharalyn, founder coach Andrew Poles reveals what truly separates high-performing leaders from those who burn out trying to do it all. Having coached over 10,000 entrepreneurs, Andrew breaks down the mindset shift every founder must make to scale sustainably, the hidden traps in transitioning from operator to CEO, and why great leaders master storytelling as a strategic tool of influence. He also shares how endurance training in ultramarathon mountain biking has shaped his philosophy on mental resilience, leadership pressure,...
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Episode 23 - The Anatomy of a Game Changer: Disrupting Without Breaking What Works
The Game Changer With Dr. Sharalyn
Every high-impact leader faces this tension: how do you drive disruption without destabilizing what already delivers results? In this episode of The Game Changer with Dr. Sharalyn, Dr. Sharalyn Payne unpacks the anatomy of a true game changer—those rare leaders who can build the future while honoring the foundation. You’ll learn how to introduce bold innovation without burning out your people or breaking the systems that sustain performance. This is disruption by design, not destruction. Key Takeaways: What you’ll take away from this episode: Not all change is progress. Game changers...
info_outlineDisruptive leaders are often the ones who see what’s broken long before others are willing to name it, but vision without discipline can quietly create burnout, resistance, and chaos. In this deeply personal and strategic episode, Dr. Sharalyn explores the hidden cost of constant disruption and reveals how elite leaders drive innovation without exhausting their people or destabilizing the system.
If you’re leading change, carrying urgency, and feeling the tension between speed and sustainability, this episode offers clarity, recalibration, and a more powerful way forward.
Key Takeaway
The most respected disruptors aren’t the loudest voices in the room. They’re the leaders who change systems without breaking people.
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