Hosted by Liz Jolley, founder of The School of Courage™, this podcast helps ambitious women navigate leadership, motherhood, overwhelm, confidence, relationships, and emotional resilience without losing themselves in the process.
Each episode helps women create more space, reclaim their power, and become Your Grounded Self with more clarity, courage, and self-trust in real life.
These are some of the best first episodes if you are new to The Great Leader Great Mom Podcast. Start here for grounded conversations on leadership, motherhood, overwhelm, confidence, and emotional well-being.
A strong place to begin if you feel torn between ambition, motherhood, pressure, and the desire to feel more grounded in your real life.
Start here if your inner dialogue is harsh, exhausting, and quietly undermining your confidence at work and at home.
A favorite for women who are tired of chasing balance and want a more honest, grounded way to think about work, home, and self.
Learn to use the Power Question Framework to define success and lead yourself when your company’s expectations are constantly shifting.
Start here if you keep thinking the right role, boss, or workplace will finally make you feel secure, valued, or enough.
A beautiful episode for women who want more emotional steadiness and a more compassionate relationship with real life.
These conversations are rooted in three core ideas that help women feel more grounded, more present, and more powerful in real life.
Learn to notice what is happening in your mind, emotions, and relationships so you can respond with more awareness instead of living on autopilot.
Go DeeperCreate space between what happens and how you react so you can stop spiraling, stop people-pleasing, and make decisions from self-trust instead of pressure.
Go DeeperBecome the version of you who can lead at work, love at home, and stay rooted in who you are without losing yourself in the process.
Go DeeperChoose the area where you want support most right now — belonging to yourself, staying grounded at work, or being more present at home. You can also search for a specific challenge, feeling, or conversation below.
Below you’ll find the full list of episodes in this category. Start with the one that best matches what you’re facing right now, or scroll to explore them all.
Instead of wishing your terrible week away, learn how to move from your reactive "lizard brain" into your planning prefrontal cortex so you can stop just surviving your life and confidently take back the driver's seat.
High-achieving women often live in the "Success Contradiction"—winning at work but drowning at home. Liz Jolley explores how the thought "I have too much to do" creates a cycle of reactivity and how to use the Space Method.
In this episode of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, Liz Jolley unpacks the hidden cost of perfectionism and why it keeps so many women confused, overthinking, and stuck. If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by a job decision, afraid of making the wrong
Explores The Mind Reader—the inner critic that decides what everyone thinks before they speak, fueling overthinking and anxiety.
Unpacks The Catastrophizer—the inner critic voice that turns one meeting correction into feeling like a fraud, and how to create space.
Explores why knowing what to do at work doesn't always mean doing it, and how default thoughts shape your emotional reactions.
If these conversations are helping you feel more grounded, more present, and more powerful in your real life, there are a few ways to keep going. Listen on your favorite platform, start with the featured episodes above, or explore deeper support through The School of Courage.
Come back anytime you need support around leadership, motherhood, overwhelm, confidence, relationships, or emotional resilience.
