Making Bold Moves
A leadership podcast for experienced professionals navigating bigger roles, higher expectations, and career transitions.
If you’ve ever found yourself overthinking decisions, holding back in meetings, or questioning your judgement as your role grows, this podcast will help you think clearly and communicate with confidence.
Each week, Liz Boswell shares practical coaching insights to help you:
• Speak with confidence at work without over-explaining
• Make better decisions under pressure
• Handle difficult conversations calmly and clearly
• Navigate leadership transition without losing yourself
• Build credibility and trust at senior level
Whether you’re stepping into leadership, preparing for promotion, or moving from corporate into consultancy, you’ll learn how to communicate in a way that reflects your experience.
Popular topics include:
leadership communication, decision making at work, imposter syndrome at senior level, overthinking at work, building boundaries, leadership transition, stepping up to senior manager, corporate to consultant transition, speaking up in meetings, handling workplace pressure, and building confidence in leadership roles.
Episodes
26 episodes
How to Handle Pressure at Work Without Taking It Personally
If you’ve ever felt your judgement questioned at work, struggled to stay calm under pressure, or found yourself over-explaining decisions in senior conversations, this episode will resonate.As you move into more senior roles, leaders...
Why it's OK to pause when you're making difficult decisions as a senior manager (it's not the same as procrastinating)
In this episode we explore the power of the pause and why it's a bold move for women in business.Pausing to think could be seen as procrastination by those around you, yet moving too quickly can sometimes lead to mistakes and at senior l...
Stop arguing with that inner critic and start to manage it
If that voice inside your head gets louder as responsibility increases, this episode is for you.In this episode of Making Bold Moves, Liz Boswell explores Bold Move 6: Quiet the Inner Critic - Liz explains why the inner c...
Learn to delegate strategically to free up space and stop taking on too much as a female leader
If you’re busy all the time but still feel like you need to do more, this episode is for you.In this episode of Making Bold Moves, Liz Boswell explores Bold Move 5: Stop Taking on Too Much — a conversation for capable lea...
The 3 Best Ways to Protect your Boundaries and Avoid Burnout
Protecting your boundaries doesn’t mean caring less, it means leading more strategically.In this episode of Making Bold Moves, Liz Boswell explores Bold Move 4: Protect Your Boundaries a practical conversation for senior ...
The real reason why influence matters more than capability for women in leadership
Why does leadership get harder as you become more senior?Why isn’t experience enough anymore? And why does influence start to matter more than capability at this level?In this episode, Liz Boswell explores how trust is shaped through...
How to Ask for What You Want as a Female Leader (in a direct way without feeling pushy)
If asking for what you want feels uncomfortable or risky, this episode is for you.Many capable people hold back from asking for a pay rise or a promotion because they might look pushy or desperate.In this episode, Liz explores why...
How to Get your Point Across in Meetings when you're Transitioning into Leadership as a Woman in Business
If you know what you want to say but hesitate to speak up, this episode is for you. Being heard in meetings isn’t about confidence or volume, it's about behaviour.In this episode, Liz explores why capable people hold back even when they ...
Welcome to Bold Moves for Leaders - Your Roadmap to 15 Bold Career Moves
Welcome to the new season of Making Bold Moves – designed especially for women in leadership.I’m Liz Boswell, and in this series we’ll explore the Bold Leaders Roadmap — 15 practical moves to help you step into leadersh...
How senior leaders use feedback without losing authority
At senior levels, feedback stops being a confidence issue and becomes a judgement issue.When responsibility increases, feedback can feel more personal because decisions carry wider consequence, visibility, and interpretation.In th...