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The COMPOSURE Podcast

You’re a gifted, natural leader. You’ve accomplished great things, and, as a member of an underrepresented group, you’ve overcome incredible obstacles to get there. By all measures, you’ve built a successful career and you’re a rising star in your field. But there’s a catch (and a big one): Despite all your success, you still feel like an impostor. You may doubt your own abilities, be sensitive to rejection, be prone to perfectionism, or experience a host of other feelings that hold you back, preventing you from reaching your fullest potential.Kate Purmal and Lee Epting host The COMPOSURE Podcast. Kate and Lee co-authored the eponymous book, and now they’re bringing the core concepts of their work to the airwaves. Join us for exciting, groundbreaking, and — most of all — necessary conversations that will help you transition from manager to leader, deal with conflict, craft a leading vision, and much, much more.

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A Risk-Taker’s View on Why Having a Career Path May Be Holding You Back

April 05, 2022 • Kate Purmal and Lee Epting • Season 1 • Episode 11

“I can’t think of anything more terrifying than knowing what I’ll be doing in ten years’ time.”

In this episode, Clare Salmon, a career senior leader, takes Drew Tweedy and COMPOSURE co-author Lee Epting down a path through her life, exploring how her tolerance for risk has created extraordinary opportunity.

But even amidst her success, Clare tells a familiar story: A brilliant businesswoman, often the smartest person in the room, yet always feeling like a fraud. Like many of us, our early childhood experiences shape our future experiences, and Clare tells us how her early childhood experiences led her to take risks because she truly believes she had nothing to lose.

Join us for this entertaining, inspiring, and surprising conversation, where Clare teaches us the value of risk tolerance, mixed with incredible diligence, some helpful allies, and lots and lots of animals by her side (trust us, you’ll want to stick around for that last part!).

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