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Leadership

A series of sessions on why no leadership decision is neutral. Each one distributes power, consequence and cost, and these episodes ask who is left carrying them.

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Episode #67

2 September 2026

The Six Stages of Financial Power Where Are You

You can earn a lot of money and still have very little financial power. In this episode, Chisom Udeze challenges common assumptions about money, wealth, and success, introducing a practical framework for understanding financial power through six stages—from Stability to Multiplication. The episode concludes with a Financial Power Audit to help you identify where your financial leverage truly lies and what you need to build next.

You Think You Have Power. Do You?

What if most of what we call power is not actually power at all? In this episode, Chisom Udeze challenges common assumptions about power, distinguishing it from confidence, influence, and representation, and introduces a practical framework for understanding how power is built, exercised, and sustained. The episode concludes with a Power Audit to help you identify where power truly sits in your own life—and what you may need to build next.

Leadership is Political Part 4 Stop Surviving Start Building Power

In this episode, Chisom argues that understanding harm is not enough if we remain powerless to prevent it. She explores what it means to build power—individually, collectively, and institutionally—and why leadership, organisations, and society must move beyond helping people survive harmful systems to changing who holds power within them.

Leadership is Political Part 3 The White Man Archetype

In this episode, Chisom examines the workplace archetype that shapes who is seen as leadership material and who is treated as a problem. She explores how the same behaviours are rewarded or punished depending on race, gender, class, and proximity to the organisational default, revealing that what looks like perception is, in fact, a system of power.

Leadership is Political Part 2 The Values Gap

Most organisations have values, but pressure reveals whether they are commitments or simply branding. In this episode, Chisom explores why the gap between stated and lived values is a feature of organisational design, not just hypocrisy, and what leaders, managers, and employees can do when the values they were promised no longer hold.

Leadership is Political Part 1 - What People Recover From

Poor leadership leaves lasting costs—burnout, self-doubt, and the slow work of rebuilding confidence—but we treat them as personal failings instead of leadership failures. In this episode, I argue that leadership is inherently political because every decision distributes power, consequence, and cost, and I ask why we never measure the damage people are left to recover from.

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