#14 A Listener’s Leadership Question

What happens when “leadership” gets confused with making top-performing girls sacrifice for the sake of others’ feelings?

In this episode, I share a listener’s real-life story about her daughter’s basketball team—and a coach’s controversial decision that left the A-team with ill-fitting uniforms so the B-team could pick first.

You’ll hear the listener’s thoughtful reflections on how this sets the wrong standard for girls, dampens motivation, and creates entitlement instead of true leadership.

She also raises concerns about power dynamics between coaches and players, the gendered double standard in youth sports, and big questions about what we call “leadership” and how misguided standards take root.

Tune in to hear the full problem, straight from a listener who’s navigating it in real time. Then, in the next few episodes, we’ll use Good Guide Leadership to unravel this problem for the benefit of everyone involved.