<p><strong>This is the audio companion to this week’s full article</strong></p><p><p>Pop your email here and I’ll make sure you’ll get Braver Leadership delivered weekly</p></p><p></p><p>You knew the job would be different when you started leading other leaders. More meetings, bigger decisions, more politics to navigate. What you didn’t expect was how much harder it would be to see if you were doing it well.</p><p>This episode explores the transition that catches most leaders off-guard: when your outputs stop being yours, when decisions feel slower because the question changed, and when your calendar looks full but your impact feels unclear.</p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><p>* Why success now lives in other people’s wins (and why that’s harder than it sounds)</p><p>* The meta-decisions you’re making that nobody taught you about</p><p>* How your expertise became less relevant than you expected</p><p>* Why releasing control is the hardest part of the role</p><p>* What actually signals whether you’re doing well at this level</p><p><strong>The shift from doing to shaping:</strong></p><p>When you were managing people who do the work, feedback was everywhere. Projects shipped or they didn’t. Problems got solved or they escalated. Now you’re managing people who manage the work—and the line between what you did and what happened has gone fuzzy.</p><p>You shape conditions. You unblock. You ask questions that help others think more clearly. All useful things. None of them produce a spreadsheet you can point to at the end of the quarter.</p><p><strong>Resources mentioned:</strong></p><p>If this episode resonated, the Leader of Leaders diagnostic can help you see where the pressure is actually concentrating. It takes 3 minutes and gives you an immediate snapshot of where the weight is building and how your leadership patterns may be amplifying it.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://tally.so/r/obeXgM"><strong>Complete the diagnostic here →</strong></a></p><p>You’ll receive your results immediately as a PDF. And if the patterns suggest saboteurs are at work, you’ll be invited to complete the Saboteur Assessment—a research-backed tool that identifies the specific internal voices creating the load.</p><p><strong>About Braver Leadership:</strong></p><p>Ian Browne works with experienced leaders making the transition from managing work to managing other leaders. Through the BRAVER™ framework and Positive Intelligence methodology, he helps leaders build the internal capacity this transition actually requires.</p><p>Connect: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianbrowne-uk/">LinkedIn</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://ianbrowne.substack.com/">Substack</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://braverleadership.com/">Website</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://ianbrowne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">ianbrowne.substack.com</a>