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Episode #142: Inside-Out Leadership: How High-Commitment Teams Are Built (and sustained) - Best of 2025 — Leading into 2026

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In this insightful episode of the Wake Up Eager Workforce podcast, Suzie Price reflects on the year of the Inside-Out Leader, where true leadership starts from within. As we transition from 2025 into 2026, Suzie unpacks the five Wake Up Eager truths that guide high-commitment, low-drama leadership, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, emotional freedom, and clarity in leadership.

Suzie explores the role of accountability and how it’s not about blame, but about clarity that fuels self-motivation. She also highlights the power of aligning your actions with your intrinsic motivators, leading with purpose, and keeping the balance between people, performance, and purpose. Drawing from powerful insights shared by her guests—Dr. Ron Bonstetter, Joe Gagnon, Catherine Foster and Douglas White—she illustrates how small, intentional actions can lead to monumental shifts.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

  • How leadership starts with owning your energy and emotions
  • The 1% Solution: How small daily actions create big, lasting momentum
  • Why emotional freedom is a leadership superpower and how to achieve it
  • How to create an actionable accountability plan that drives results
  • How to design value and align your intrinsic, extrinsic, and systemic dimensions for a successful brand

Plus, hear real-world examples of leaders transforming their teams and organizations through inside-out leadership, moving from transactional to legacy-building approaches.

Join Suzie for an inspiring episode that will help you take the driver's seat in your leadership journey, starting in 2026.

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Takeaways of Episode #142 --- 

  • If you’re not consciously driving, stress takes the wheel. Leadership begins when you take the driver’s seat.
  • Small daily alignment builds big momentum—and turns setbacks into fresh starts.
  • You are not your emotions—but emotional freedom comes from listening to them.
  • Accountability isn’t blame—it’s clarity that fuels self-motivation.
  • Always give more than you get and leave more than you take.
  • People first is your strongest bet—and the real win is balance across all three dimensions.
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In this episode:

[00:05:06] Suzie Price: “Accountability becomes effortless when it aligns with your motivators. When you understand what drives you, follow-through feels less like discipline and more like momentum.”

[00:16:39] Suzie Price: “Emotional freedom in leadership starts when you stop fighting your feelings and begin listening to them. They’re tools, not obstacles.”

[00:22:49] Suzie Price: “Leadership isn’t about doing it all perfectly, it’s about doing it with clarity. Once you’ve gained clarity, it’ll give you the energy to keep moving forward.”

[00:27:49] Suzie Price: “Small daily actions lead to big shifts. The 1% Solution, even when done in small doses, compounds over time and builds real momentum.”

[00:50:00] Suzie Price: “A brand becomes truly powerful when it moves from transaction to legacy. You create lasting trust by aligning your values and purpose with your actions.”

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