{"podcast":{"title":"The Empowered Leader Podcast","slug":"the-empowered-leader-podcast-7445842","podcast_index_feed_id":7445842,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/59236.rss","website_url":"https://substack.iprofessionalcoaching.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/59236/d1e51b0f12362ecf4e737c35b4aa226f.jpg","author":"Margaret Williams, MS, ACC","episode_count":608,"summary":"The Empowered Leader is a community-based publication for women who are done contorting themselves to survive broken systems and are ready to lead with power, clarity, and impact.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T14:23:12.679288+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-empowered-leader-podcast-7445842"},"episode":{"title":"[Update] Using Your Voice to Change the World","slug":"update-using-your-voice-to-change-the-world","published_at":"2026-07-08T07:30:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-empowered-leader-podcast-7445842/update-using-your-voice-to-change-the-world","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-empowered-leader-podcast-7445842","url":"https://substack.iprofessionalcoaching.com/p/update-using-your-voice-to-change","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206010102/cfa4bba58ceab89b4f5ce1f6d0ebcfb7.mp3","summary":"Using your voice to change the world gets confused with going viral. With having a TED talk. With writing the bestseller. With waiting until you have the platform, the audience, the credentials, the right room. So leaders go quiet and call it timing. They tell themselves they will speak when they are bigger, safer, more polished, more ready. And the rooms they are already in, never hear the truth they were uniquely placed to tell. That is not a strategy. That is silence with better marketing. Why This Matters The world does not change in viral moments. It changes in repeated rooms. It changes: • at the dinner table • in the meeting • in the text thread • in the elevator • in the hallway after the call • in the moment a child overhears you Cultures shift one truth at a time, told by one person who would not stop telling it. You do not need a microphone. You need a room. And you are already in one. Don’t wait for the platform. Use the room you are in. For marginalized leaders, especially, the trap is doubled. You have been told that your voice would only matter If it was big enough, polished enough, credentialed enough. And you have been told that your voice was too much the moment it became any of those things. So you waited. You softened. You held back the truth for a stage that kept moving. But your voice has been changing the world at scales no one was measuring. In how you raised the next generation. In how you described the system to a colleague. In how you sat at the table and spoke when no one expected you to. That has always been a world-changing voice. You have just been taught not to count it. The Cost of Waiting for the Right Stage It shows up in the body : • a chest full of unspoken sentences • a throat that aches without explanation • a tiredness that comes…","meta_description":"Using your voice to change the world gets confused with going viral. With having a TED talk. With writing the bestseller. With waiting until you have the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":728,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-empowered-leader-podcast-7445842/episodes/update-using-your-voice-to-change-the-world/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-empowered-leader-podcast-7445842/update-using-your-voice-to-change-the-world.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}