Live Coaching Conversation: Spotting the Right Hire in 5 Minutes
Release Date: 06/02/2025
Before You Hold Anyone Accountable, Start Here
Leadership is Feminine®
We love the idea of accountability—until it gets uncomfortable. Until it requires us to tell the truth and stop making excuses for what we’ve been tolerating. In this powerful episode, Kris Plachy explores the deep connection between accountability, self-trust, and personal agency—and why even the most successful women can find themselves over-tolerating, over-accommodating, and avoiding difficult conversations. Kris challenges high-achieving women to stop externalizing the problem (“Why won’t they just…”) and instead reclaim responsibility for their own responses, expectations,...
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Why Play Belongs in Leadership
Leadership is Feminine®
In this week’s episode of Leadership is Feminine®, Kris speaks straight to the hearts of high-achieving women who are carrying so much—the businesses they run, the households they manage, the people they care for, and the decisions they make every hour of the day. Kris argues that successful women don’t just deserve joy. They require it. After years of hosting immersive client retreats, she’s seen firsthand what happens when accomplished women are offered a space designed entirely for them: where they don’t have to drive, plan, decide, or take care of anyone. They get to receive....
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The Real Cost of Avoiding Accountability
Leadership is Feminine®
Kris is back with another round of the pet sitting saga—but this time, it’s about more than just unreliable pet sitters. It’s a story about accountability, boundaries, and leadership. Through a string of mishaps (and three fired sitters), Kris explores how these small, personal frustrations mirror the much larger issue of how we manage people in our lives and businesses. When expectations aren’t met, many leaders justify, tolerate, or avoid confrontation. But as Kris shares, avoiding accountability—whether with a pet sitter or an employee—only recycles poor performance and creates...
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The Power of Discomfort in Developing Real Leaders
Leadership is Feminine®
This week on Leadership is Feminine, Kris Plachy and her Director of Operations, Michelle Arant, sit down for an unscripted conversation that captures leadership in its most human form. What started as a casual team discussion turned into a powerful reflection on how we handle discomfort, accountability, and growth — both in business and in life. Through the lens of a lighthearted story about a pet sitter, Kris and Michelle explore how everyday moments can reveal our relationship with responsibility and self-management. They discuss the tendency to over-accommodate others, the generational...
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Brainkeeping: The Leadership Practice You Didn’t Know You Needed
Leadership is Feminine®
What if your mind needed the same care as your home? In this episode, Kris introduces the concept of brainkeeping—a leadership practice as vital as housekeeping. Just as we tidy our physical spaces, our mental and emotional spaces require regular clearing, reflection, and renewal. Kris shares how her lifelong curiosity and deep conversations with friends and clients have shaped her unique approach to coaching high-achieving women. Through brainkeeping she helps leaders sort through the clutter of overthinking, self-doubt, and noise—so they can access their clarity, wisdom, and creativity....
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Stop Wing-ing It: Make Your Business an Asset (Not a Job)
Leadership is Feminine®
As we head into the final quarter of the year, Kris invites you to shift your focus—from running the business to owning the business. She challenges high-achieving female founders to stop operating on autopilot and start thinking like the visionary asset holders they are. Too many women spend years building companies without ever asking the most important question: What’s the plan? Whether you eventually want to sell, scale back, or simply create more freedom, your business deserves a clear direction—and so do you. Kris also introduces the Sage Mini Mastermind, a 12-week experience...
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Tactical Advice Won’t Save You, But Self-Trust Will
Leadership is Feminine®
What does it feel like to finally stop overworking, over-explaining, and over-proving—and instead lead from a place of grounded confidence? In this episode, Kris shows us what life and leadership look like when self-trust and self-worth are fully integrated. She shares the story of a client who went from being minimized by her partners to running a thriving $10M company while taking a guilt-free month away from her business. This transformation illustrates the power of moving beyond surface-level fixes to address the root issue: believing yourself and believing in yourself. Kris outlines the...
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Success Won’t Fix Your Worthiness Problem
Leadership is Feminine®
What if your worth wasn’t tied to your revenue, your output, or anyone else’s approval? In this episode, Kris takes us deeper into the heart of worthiness and why so many high-achieving women still wrestle with believing in themselves—even after building successful companies, raising families, and achieving goals most people only dream of. Kris breaks down the difference between self-trust (believing yourself) and self-worth (believing in yourself), and why the latter is the quiet, constant hum that shapes everything you do. She explores how conditional worth shows up in subtle...
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Stop Compartmentalizing Your Confidence
Leadership is Feminine®
Why can you trust yourself to build a multimillion-dollar company—but not to have one hard conversation? In this episode, Kris pulls back the curtain on the anatomy of self-trust. From visionary ideas to money, health, relationships, and leadership, she reveals why so many women compartmentalize their confidence—rock solid in some domains, shaky in others. You’ll hear how past experiences, identity “totems,” and cultural conditioning quietly erode our confidence, and why fear, vulnerability, and inherited stories often dictate where we doubt ourselves most. More importantly, Kris...
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Breaking the Generational Code of Self-Doubt
Leadership is Feminine®
Why do so many accomplished women still doubt themselves—even after building extraordinary lives and businesses? Kris continues her Self-Trust & Self-Worth mini-series with a powerful exploration of the programming women inherit from generations before us. She invites us to reflect on the systemic, cultural, and ancestral patterns that quietly shape how women value themselves—and why even the most accomplished female founders still lie awake at night second-guessing their own decisions. From hiding success out of guilt to resisting difficult conversations at work, Kris shows how the...
info_outlineEver hired someone because they “seemed great”... and then spent months wondering what the hell happened?
This week on Leadership is Feminine starts the series where I am letting you listen in on actual coaching conversations with female founders.
I coach a founder who’s been there. She’s rebuilding her team—and this time, she’s determined to do it differently. No more hiring based on a hunch. No more hoping a great personality will magically turn into aligned performance.
Instead? She’s learning to ask better questions, speak her expectations out loud (not just assume them), and trust herself in the interview process—not just the person sitting across the table.
You’ll hear us:
- Workshop real interview questions (and rewrite the fluff into clarity)
- Role-play what it sounds like to actually vet for values
- Talk through the emotional aftermath of a few painful mis-hires—and how to give yourself grace and move forward with more strength
Whether you’re hiring right now or just thinking about the next addition to your team, this conversation will change the way you think about values, culture, and your own role as the leader of both.
Contact Information and Recommended Resources
Join me in Sonoma in August so we can meet in person! Go to www.thevisionary.ceo/beyondceo to register your interest.