# [S5, Ep29] 2025: What a Year! Leadership Lessons, Overcommitment, and Scaling with Intention Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/s5-ep29-2025-what-a-year-leadership-lessons-overcommitment-and-scaling-with-intention Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/s5-ep29-2025-what-a-year-leadership-lessons-overcommitment-and-scaling-with-intention.md Podcast: [Female Founder Unplugged](https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031) Published: 2025-12-18T11:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2326429/episodes/18362863-s5-ep29-2025-what-a-year-leadership-lessons-overcommitment-and-scaling-with-intention.mp3 Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2326429/episodes/18362863-s5-ep29-2025-what-a-year-leadership-lessons-overcommitment-and-scaling-with-intention.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/episodes/s5-ep29-2025-what-a-year-leadership-lessons-overcommitment-and-scaling-with-intention Duration seconds: 783 ## Resource Send us Fan Mail 2025 stretched a lot of founders and exposed some serious cracks in the way we lead. In this episode, I’m unpacking the biggest leadership lessons I learned this year and the 3 high-voltage shifts I’m making to step into 2026 with more clarity, space, and CEO energy. If you’ve been the bottleneck, the fixer, the Chief Everything Officer… this one’s for you. Episode Highlights: ⚡ Why 2025 cracked open old leadership habits📉 The real reason your team is still waiting on you🧠 Th... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/episodes/s5-ep29-2025-what-a-year-leadership-lessons-overcommitment-and-scaling-with-intention/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/s5-ep29-2025-what-a-year-leadership-lessons-overcommitment-and-scaling-with-intention.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.