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Small Brave Moves
Learn how to be braver in leadership and in life for exceptional results with Master Certified Executive Coach, Best Selling Author, and Certified Speaking Professional, Nicole M. Bianchi.
Small Brave Moves is a podcast for mid-level to c-suite leaders who own their growth and development, know there is always room for improvement, and are ready to start making the Small Brave Moves to achieve their goals, unlock their full potential, and lead with confidence, clarity, and authenticity.
Small Brave Moves
Brave Leadership Can Backfire: Here's Why You Should Practice It Anyway
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Most leaders only talk about the brave moves that worked. The ones with clean endings, obvious lessons, and rooms full of people nodding.
In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast keynote speaker and leadership expert Nicole Bianchi gets honest about a brave move she made that didn't go the way she hoped even when she thought she did everything right. And it cost her something real. Not because it was the wrong move. Because bravery was never a guarantee of a good outcome. It's a discipline. And disciplines don't promise results. They promise practice.
Nicole makes the case that bravery isn't a personality trait some people were handed at birth and the rest have to hope for. It's built one ordinary Tuesday at a time, when nothing is on fire and no one is watching, long before the big moment arrives.
She names the thing most bravery conversations leave out entirely: no matter how courageous you are, how thoroughly you prepare, or how good your intentions are, you cannot control how another person responds. The outcome was never yours to own. Which means the conquer yourself work doesn't end when the brave move is made. It begins again on the other side of it — in how you process what happened, what you do with what it cost you, and whether you stay with the practice anyway.
This episode is for every leader who made the move, paid the price, and is quietly wondering whether it was worth it.
This episode answers three questions:
- What does bravery as a discipline actually look like in practice on the days it works and the days it doesn't?
- What are the three rules of the bravery practice that hold even when the outcome doesn't go the way you hoped?
- How do you Conquer Yourself on the other side of a brave move that cost you something real and keep building the practice anyway?
The move you didn't make is always more expensive than the one you did — even when the one you made cost you something real. This episode is proof.
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