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Self-Awareness and Leadership

You want to trust your team, enjoy your work and have something left for the people at home. Understanding your own habits is part of making that happen.

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Episode Summary

You want to trust your team, enjoy your work and have something left for the people at home. Understanding your own habits is part of making that happen. Your confidence can sound like a final decision when you’re still thinking. Your instinct to help can turn into telling someone what to do. And the person who gets under your skin might be bringing up something worth looking at in yourself. Rich Hoffmann joins me to explore how self-awareness helps you notice those patterns and choose what to do next. We talk about where those habits come from, the pause between a reaction and a response, and the practice it takes to change. You’ll hear personal stories about meditation, psychedelics and learning to see yourself beyond your thoughts, your past and your business. These ideas show up in everyday decisions: when to speak, when to listen, who to hire and who gets your time. You’re choosing the people you’ll spend years working with and the kind of life your business supports. Knowing yourself helps you make those choices deliberately.

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Top 10 Takeaways

  1. Self-awareness starts with noticing your own patterns and how they affect the people around you.
  2. A habit that once helped you feel safe may be getting in your way today.
  3. Your confidence can sound like a decision when you’re still thinking out loud.
  4. You don’t need every answer to lead; curiosity can help others find better ones.
  5. What bothers you in someone else can reveal something worth examining in yourself.
  6. Be honest about whether you’re helping someone choose or steering them toward your answer.
  7. You may not control your first reaction, but you can practice choosing your response.
  8. An insight becomes useful when you practice it in the moments you usually struggle.
  9. Your thoughts, your past and your business are parts of you, not your entire identity.
  10. Choose people you enjoy; your relationships shape both your work and your experience of life.

Sound Bites

“And then I’ll select the best thought to share instead of the first thought.” — Rich Hoffmann

“So that’s where I think in leadership, it’s good to do leadership with people and not to people.” — Rich Hoffmann

“And that pause… Is where the control resides.” — Ryan Tansom

“All I want to do is have fun. And so my whole thought process is like, how do I build a life? Where I can work with the people I love.” — Ryan Tansom

About Rich Hoffmann

Rich Hoffmann is the founder of Trusted Leadership Coaching, where he works with entrepreneurial leaders and teams through individual coaching, team coaching and workshops. He also co-hosts the Entrepreneurs United podcast with John St. Pierre. I invited Rich after appearing on their podcast and hearing him talk about self-awareness and the experiences, including his time at College Pro Painters, that shaped how he leads.

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