Making Bold Moves
Making Bold Moves is a leadership podcast for senior women in professional services navigating high-stakes career transitions.
If you are preparing for partnership, stepping into greater responsibility, or quietly questioning your next move, this podcast is for you.
Hosted by award winning leadership transition coach Liz Boswell. Each episode offers structured thinking, practical insight and strategic clarity to help you lead at partner level with judgement and confidence.
If you’re navigating growth, uncertainty, or a meaningful transition and you want thinking support rather than step-by-step guidance you're in the right place.
For private transition coaching, visit: https://www.boldmovescoach.co.uk/leadership-transitions
Making Bold Moves
Bold Move 5 - Stop Taking on Too Much (and start delegating strategically)
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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 leaders who care deeply about quality, standards, and their people, and who often end up carrying far more than they should.
We'll look at the real reason you're struggling to delegate - it’s about protection. Protecting standards, protecting your team, and protecting others from pressure even at your own expense.
Liz shares real coaching examples and her own experience to unpack:
- Why capable leaders edge towards burnout without realising it
- How “protecting” your team can unintentionally disengage them
- Why assuming capacity is more damaging than asking
- How delegation builds capability, confidence, and trust
- The difference between delegating tasks and delegating outcomes
You’ll learn a simple, practical way to rethink prioritisation as deciding what only you should be doing, and turning everything else into a strategic delegation decision.
This episode is especially for you if you’re busy, tired, and wondering how you got here
Liz also shares three clear steps you can use immediately to stop taking on too much without lowering standards, overwhelming your team, or losing control.
This episode sits within Stage 2 of the Bold Moves Roadmap: Managing the Inner Load, where responsibility increases and sustainable leadership depends on clarity, trust, and letting go at the right level.
🎧 Listen if you want to lead with impact, build a stronger team, and create space to think again.
Preparing for Partnership?
If you are a senior woman in professional services navigating the transition to partner-level responsibility, learn more about private leadership transition coaching here
https://www.boldmovescoach.co.uk/leadership-transitions
Making Bold Moves is a podcast for people who are capable, thoughtful, and quietly questioning how they’re showing up at work and in life.
I’m Liz Boswell. I work with leaders and professionals who don’t need more advice, but do need space to think clearly, especially when the pressure is on.
Each episode is a calm, mentoring-style conversation grounded in real client moments. We look at the stories people carry, the behaviours those stories create, and the small, practical shifts that change how things land day to day.
You’ll hear honest reflections, psychologically precise questions, and simple actions you can try immediately, without overhauling your life or becoming someone else.
If you’re stepping into more responsibility, more visibility, or simply feeling the weight of decisions that matter, this podcast is here to help you slow things down, think more clearly, and move forward in a way that feels grounded and real.
A quiet companion for people who want to make better moves, not louder ones.
