March 24, 2026
Episode 224 Live Podcast with Dr. Megan Weinkauf
with Dr. Megan Weinkauf, Professor, leadership coach, author, and host of The Faithful Leader podcast
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Episode 224 Live Podcast with Dr. Megan Weinkauf
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In this episode I'm sharing something special — a live podcast event I hosted earlier this month with Dr. Megan Weinkauf, where the two of us went deep on a topic that holds so many of us back without us even realizing it: limiting beliefs. I want you to sit with the question Megan and I opened with — what if the only thing standing between you and the life you want is a belief you haven't challenged yet?
Megan is a professor, leadership coach, author, and host of The Faithful Leader podcast. She walked our room of women through her Five R model — Recognize, Realize, Release, Receive, and Reengage — and it isn't a "do these steps and you're fixed" formula. It's a new rhythm you get to practice with grace, progress over perfection. We talked about where these beliefs come from, how they quietly shape our leadership and the words we speak, and how to take one small action to move forward.
I love that this was something we worked on together during the conversation, not just talked about. If you've been telling yourself "I'm not ready," "someone else is already doing this," or "everything depends on me," this one is for you. Keep going — and grab a pen, because there's real work to do here.
Key takeaways
- Awareness begins when you start thinking about what you're thinking about — limiting beliefs often hide as simple, matter-of-fact statements like 'I'm not ready yet' or 'everyone depends on me.'
- Your brain believes what you repeat, so choose your narrative carefully — even the stories you never say out loud are shaping your decisions.
- Work the Five R model as a rhythm, not a checklist: Recognize the belief, Realize where it came from, Release the lie, Receive the truth, and Reengage with one small action.
- Limiting beliefs come from repeated experiences — childhood, generational and cultural rhetoric, perfectionistic environments, even old labels someone once put on you.
- Your leadership flows from your identity: if you don't believe you're capable, you hesitate, avoid risk, over-control, and struggle to release and trust your team.
- Confidence doesn't come first — movement does. Take the small action before you feel ready, and the emotional charge gets lighter each time you show up.
- When you get frustrated with someone else, pause and check whether you're actually frustrated with yourself — and let people be on their own journey so they can grow.
Chapters
- 00:00Thank you to sponsor Colonial Title
- 01:30Welcome and today's topic: limiting beliefs
- 03:00Sharing from the room and introducing Dr. Megan Weinkauf
- 05:00Signs your thinking is holding you back (Recognize)
- 09:00The Five R model and giving yourself grace
- 13:00Where limiting beliefs originate (Realize)
- 19:00How limiting beliefs affect your leadership
- 27:00Transformational vs. transactional leadership
- 34:00Breaking the loop of negativity (Release & Receive)
- 40:00Reengage with one small action
- 43:00What your life could look like one year from now
“What if the only thing standing between you and the life you want is a belief you haven't challenged yet?”
“Your brain believes what we repeat, so we have to choose our narrative carefully.”
“The ceiling of our leadership is often the ceiling of our beliefs about ourselves.”
“Confidence really doesn't come first, it's movement first.”
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About Dr.
Professor, leadership coach, author, and host of The Faithful Leader podcast
Dr. Megan Weinkauf is a professor, transformational leadership coach, author, and podcast host of The Faithful Leader. Her doctoral research focused on the mindset of transformational leaders, and she helps leaders recognize and overcome the limiting beliefs that hold them back.
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