Being the one who “always steps up” may look like leadership on the surface - but when it’s rooted in fear, urgency, or over-responsibility, it comes with a cost. In this episode, Cara gently unpacks the hidden pattern of over-functioning and offers a grounded path back to clarity, shared ownership, and sustainable leadership.
If you’ve been carrying more than your share - quietly, automatically, and often without acknowledgment - this conversation is for you.
In this episode, we explore:
This episode is especially for leaders who:
Key takeaways:
If this episode felt familiar or touched something tender, you’re not alone. Many leaders carry quiet emotional weight behind the scenes. If you’re ready to shift these patterns in yourself or your team, click the “Let’s Connect” button on the Tutum Leadership Coaching website to schedule time with Cara for one-on-one coaching.
You don’t have to lead from exhaustion. Support is here.
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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In this episode:
Cara explores the power of grounded leadership and how calm can become an anchor for teams experiencing stress, uncertainty, or overwhelm. Through reflection, practical examples, and actionable tools, this conversation helps leaders reclaim their presence and step into steady, emotionally intelligent leadership.
We cover:
• The myth that loud or high-energy leaders are “stronger” leaders
• Why grounded calm is a strategic advantage in today’s workplace
• What calm looks like in real, everyday leadership moments
• The inner work required to cultivate calm from the inside out
• How to respond when calm feels inaccessible or out of reach
• The ripple effect calm has on team culture and psychological safety
• A reflection moment to help you identify where calm is most needed in your leadership
This episode is for you if:
• You’ve been told you’re “too quiet” or “too calm”
• You often feel responsible for regulating the room
• You’re tired of absorbing everyone else’s urgency
• You want to lead with more clarity, steadiness, and emotional stability
• You’re ready to strengthen your grounded presence as a leader
If this episode spoke to you, I’d love to support you more personally.
👉 Click “Let’s Connect” on the Tutum Leadership Coaching website to schedule 1:1 coaching support - especially if you’re craving more calm, clarity, or confidence in your leadership journey.
Thank you for listening.
Your presence here matters.
Your calm is needed.
And you’re not leading alone - you have community here.
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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Self-trust isn’t something you lose overnight. It thins slowly, softened by pressure, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and the weight of being responsible for others. But your inner voice - the one that used to feel clear and steady - hasn’t disappeared. It’s waiting for you to return to it.
In this heartfelt Thanksgiving episode, Cara explores what happens when leaders disconnect from their instincts, how to recognize the moments where self-trust is missing, and the small, meaningful steps that bring you back to your own grounded knowing.
Whether today feels joyful, complicated, or lonely, this episode offers a warm reminder: you’re not behind - you’re becoming. And you don’t have to walk that path alone.
In this episode, we explore:
Who this episode is for:
Leaders who feel unsure, overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or disconnected from their own intuition - especially during a holiday season that can amplify loneliness, expectations, and invisible emotional labor.
A gentle reminder:
The holidays can feel lonely - even for leaders. If this episode stirred something in you, or if you’re realizing how much you’ve been holding quietly: You don’t have to hold it alone.
Click the “Let’s Connect” button on the Tutum Leadership Coaching website to schedule a 1:1 coaching conversation with Cara.
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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What if the heaviness you’re feeling isn’t a sign that you’re failing - but a sign that you’re healing something much bigger than you? In this episode, we explore the truth most heart-led leaders have never been told: discomfort is often evidence of transformation, not inadequacy.
If you’ve been questioning yourself, carrying inherited dysfunction, or wondering why your leadership feels so exhausting, this conversation will help you reframe what resistance really means. You may not be the cause of the struggle… you may be the one breaking the cycle.
In this episode, we explore:
This episode is for you if:
Key takeaway:
You’re not failing. You’re evolving.
And sometimes the person who feels the most pressure is the one doing the most healing.
If this message resonates with your heart or your leadership journey, I’d love to support you.
Click the “Let’s Connect” button here or on the Tutum Leadership Coaching website to schedule a one-on-one conversation with me. Sometimes the next step isn’t pushing through - it’s receiving support.
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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Sometimes leadership asks more of you than you ever signed up for.
You don’t just inherit a title - you inherit unspoken expectations, emotional labor, and systems that were never yours to fix alone.
In this grounding, compassionate episode, Cara explores the invisible weight leaders carry and why so many heart-led leaders quietly blame themselves for burdens that don’t belong to them. Through reflection, honesty, and gentle release, this episode invites you to finally set down what’s not yours… and reclaim the clarity and breath you deserve.
If you’ve been feeling tired in a way sleep doesn’t fix, this conversation will speak directly to your soul.
🌿 Show Notes
In This Episode, We Explore:
This episode is for leaders who feel:
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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You’re not the only one lying awake wondering if your decisions are helping or hurting.
This episode is a love letter to the hidden network of heart-led leaders doing the work behind the scenes - the ones whose leadership is steady, grounded, and deeply felt even when it’s not loud.
Cara invites you to explore the power of quiet community: the invisible web of influence built through presence, not performance. Together, we’ll unpack what it means to lead with calm, build trust in uncertain times, and create cultures of psychological safety where people feel seen and supported.
You’ll be reminded that quiet doesn’t mean small - it means intentional. And that your leadership, even when unseen, is shaping lives more than you know.
If you’re ready to lead with more clarity, compassion, and confidence, visit TutumLeadershipCoaching.com and click “Let’s Connect” to schedule a conversation with Cara. You don’t have to lead alone - and you don’t have to lead loud to make an impact.
💭 Reflection Prompts for Listeners
🔗 Connect with Cara
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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Were you born to lead - or just the one who couldn’t walk away?
In this episode of Tutum Talk, Cara Nance challenges the myth that real leaders are “naturals” who never doubt, struggle, or fail. Together, we explore what it really means to lead from truth instead of performance - and why vulnerability isn’t weakness, but a living example of courage.
You’ll discover how authentic leadership invites trust, strengthens teams, and creates cultures where people feel safe to show up as their full selves.
Because the best leaders aren’t born - they’re becoming.
🎧 Tune in for a grounded conversation about the invisible labor of leadership, the power of authenticity, and how modeling vulnerability transforms teams from the inside out.
💬 Key Takeaways
🪞 Reflective Prompt for Listeners
Where in your leadership are you performing instead of connecting?
What might shift if you allowed your true self to take the lead?
💡 Shareable Quote
If this episode resonated with you, share it with another leader who might need this reminder: authenticity isn’t the opposite of strength - it is strength. To explore strengths-based leadership coaching or team retreats, visit tutumleadershipcoaching.com and click “Let’s Connect.”
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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Every leader experiences moments when confidence feels far away - the pause before you speak, the hesitation before you act, the question that stirs up doubt. In this episode, Cara Nance unpacks what confidence really means in leadership, and how to rebuild it from the inside out.
Rather than chasing confidence as a fixed state, Cara invites you to see it as a relationship with yourself - one built through honesty, recovery, and trust.
Through reflective storytelling, gentle guidance, and a strengths-based lens, this episode offers a grounded path back to self-trust and presence in your leadership.
💡 In This Episode:
🪴 Reflection Prompt
“What’s one small, brave moment you’ve had this month - something you did even while you felt unsure?”Confidence doesn’t always announce itself.
Sometimes it whispers: keep going.
🤝 Want to Go Deeper?
If this conversation resonated with you and you’d like more support in building confidence and clarity as a leader, click the “Let’s Connect” button at tutumleadershipcoaching.com to schedule time with Cara. Together, you’ll explore how to lead from your strengths - and trust yourself in the moments that matter most.
🔗 Connect with Cara
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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What if leadership wasn’t about perfection - but about presence?
In this reflective episode, Cara invites you to release the pressure of performance and rediscover your natural influence. You’ll explore what happens when authenticity becomes your leadership strategy - and how your energy, tone, and self-trust shape every room you walk into.
Through real coaching stories and quiet moments of reflection, you’ll learn how to:
Because when you lead from who you are, not who you think you should be - your influence becomes effortless.
✨ Notable Quotes:
“People can feel when you’re performing - but they can also feel when you’re real.”“Influence isn’t built on image - it’s built on trust.”
“Your authenticity gives others permission to exhale.”
“Your presence is your power.”
🌿 Reflection Prompt:
Where in your leadership might you be performing instead of connecting?
What shifts when you let presence - not perfection - take the lead?
🔗 Resources Mentioned:
💛 If you enjoyed this episode:
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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When you step into leadership without a roadmap, it’s easy to feel lost, lonely, and unsure if you’re doing it right.
In this episode of Tutum Talk, Gallup-Certified Coach and founder of Tutum Leadership Coaching, Cara Nance, explores what it means to lead without a clear path - and how to find your footing when you’ve been handed responsibility without real preparation.
You’ll learn why so many new and seasoned leaders alike feel stuck in survival mode, and how unclear expectations and inherited dysfunction quietly drain trust and morale. Cara shares real stories, reflective questions, and practical ways to begin leading with more presence and less pressure - even when you don’t have all the answers.
💭 In this episode, you’ll hear:
Whether you’re a new leader learning as you go, or a seasoned one rebuilding after burnout, this episode is your reminder:
You don’t need the whole map to lead well - just the courage to take the next right step.
If this episode resonates with you, please take a moment to follow, rate, and review Tutum Talk wherever you listen.
It helps more leaders find this community - and reminds them they’re not alone on the journey.
Visit tutumleadershipcoaching.com to learn more about leadership coaching, retreats, and team experiences that bring calm to chaos and connection to teams.
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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Welcome to the first full episode of Tutum Talk with Cara Nance - a space for reflective leaders who care deeply, lead with heart, and sometimes wonder if they’re doing it right.
In “You’re Not Broken - You’re Becoming,” Cara explores the quiet ache of leadership doubt - that moment when you question your confidence or your capacity - and reframes it as an essential part of your growth.
You’ll learn how to:
This episode is an invitation to pause, breathe, and remember that every leader is a work in progress - and that your uncertainty might actually be proof of your evolution.
Reflection Question:
Where in your leadership are you being invited to become right now?💬 Key Takeaways
🔗 Connect with Cara
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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What if leadership doesn’t start with a title… but with a question?
In this trailer episode, Cara Nance - leadership coach, former educator, and founder of Tutum Leadership Coaching - introduces the heart behind Tutum Talk.
You’ll hear why this podcast was born, what “leadership is influence” truly means, and how real leadership begins not in the boardroom… but in the mirror.
Through personal story, gentle truth-telling, and a calm invitation to reconnect with your own power, Cara invites you into a new kind of leadership - one rooted in presence, healing, and humanity.
Whether you’re burned out, stepping into new responsibility, or simply craving space to reflect… you belong here.
Because together, we’re building a world where leadership feels a little more human… and a lot more tūtum.
🔑 In This Episode
🧭 Take What You Need
This episode is for you if:
💌 Stay Connected
If this message resonates with you, let’s stay in the conversation.
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and click Let’s Connect to schedule a conversation with Cara.
About Tutum Talk:
Tutum Talk with Cara Nance is a podcast for leaders who lead with heart - even when they doubt themselves. Through honest conversations about presence, intuition, courage, and connection, Cara helps listeners build leadership rooted in humanity, not perfection.
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