Ever wonder why change feels harder than it should? Or why even high-performing leaders sabotage their own success when the stakes are high?

These are just a few of the questions we unpacked with Casa De Confidence host Julie DeLucca-Collins in a rich and wide-ranging conversation on leadership, personal development, and emotional drivers in the workplace.

In this episode, we explore how unexamined patterns can quietly derail both individual growth and organizational performance.

We talk about the real work behind shifting from control to development – and what happens when leaders stop personalizing resistance and start understanding it. Whether it’s helping a team through accountability challenges, or guiding an executive past the Imposter Syndrome, we share why behavioural change needs both systems and emotional insight to take hold.

Julie also invited us to reflect on our own story and how we’ve built our consulting practice over the past two decades. We discuss what makes developmental work so impactful inside organizations, how to interrupt limiting beliefs, and why leaders need to start naming – and owning – their unmet needs before meaningful change is possible.

Our conversation also touched on:

• Why psychological safety is so often misunderstood;
• How to help leaders develop empathy as a skill, not a trait;
• What’s missing from most performance management systems;
• The cost of letting emotional discomfort dictate leadership decisions;
• And how to build the internal and organizational structures that make real change sustainable.

This episode is a powerful listen for entrepreneurs, team leaders, and executives looking to shift outdated patterns, navigate change more effectively, and lead with greater confidence and clarity.