Many women in leadership positions find themselves exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering why they can’t seem to get ahead despite working harder than everyone around them.
In this episode, Eleanor sits down with Emily Feairs, co-founder of Our Time to Lead and high-impact leadership coach, to break down what power actually is and why so many high-achieving women struggle to claim it. Emily spent her career advising some of the most powerful leaders in the country, from cabinet ministers and CEOs to executive teams navigating complexity, conflict, and change, and she’s noticed a pattern that keeps women stuck.
Tune in this week as Eleanor and Emily dive into how women become the organizational safety net and thereby lose authority. You’ll learn why clear is kind and how withholding direct feedback is actually the unkind choice. Emily breaks down what leadership looks like when you have a team, and how to use resentment as an indicator that boundaries have been crossed.
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Meet Emily Feairs:
Emily is the co-founder of a national non-partisan initiative to support and elevate women and gender-diverse candidates, Our Time to Lead. Initiated for Canada’s 2025 election, it builds on Emily’s work as a high impact leadership coach and adviser to senior women in the world of business. Emily has spent her career advising some of the most powerful leaders in the country from cabinet ministers and CEOs to high stakes executive teams navigating complexity, conflict, and change.
Today on Woman Owned:
Why power goes to people who position themselves as powerful, not necessarily those who earn it.
What happens when you allow people to feel intimidated by you or uncomfortable.
Why being everyone’s “helper” destroys your authority and exhausts your team.
How resentment signals where your boundaries have been crossed.
Why holding the standard helps people self-select out or rise to the occasion.
What leadership looks like when you have a team.
The difference between being nice and being supportive as a leader.
What strategic identity positioning is and why it matters for founders and senior leaders.
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