Sabine Lehner - Turnaround Practice

18/06/2026

What you really need to build your strategy.

Strategy takes clear thinking.
Your options, your goal, the steps to get there.

But that thinking needs space.
When your attention is split, you're working with reduced capacity and your planning suffers for it.

A clear, focused mind has full access to your strategic thinking. A distracted one doesn't.

So before you build the plan, protect your focus. That's where the real capacity lives.

And then follow me for more on strategy building and a mindset that works for you - instead of against you.
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17/06/2026

This is how your mind gets you off track.
Self-doubt is learned self-distraction.

It pulls your attention to everything that could go wrong, so you miss the path to getting it right. All that mental energy spent on doubt is energy not spent on the thing in front of you.

And the key word is learned. At some point your brain picked this up as a way to keep you safe. It's a pattern, not a fact about who you are.

From my conversation with Sarah on The Magic in the Middle podcast.

16/06/2026

Last Friday was likely the most exciting hour of my whole week. I joined Sarah Marr Dumas on her podcast The Magic in the Middle for a conversation that goes well below the surface of confidence and self-doubt.

We talked about something I see again and again in my work: capable, accomplished people who have the track record, the experience and the results, and still hear that voice telling them they're not enough.

Some of what we covered:

Why doubt and capability so often go hand in hand, even for people who have done hard things many times before.

The difference between doubt that undermines you and doubt that's actually trying to tell you something useful, and why knowing which is which matters.

How I combine executive coaching with deep mindset work, because you can't think your way out of a subconscious pattern. Until you find the old pattern running in the background, all the strategy in the world only takes you so far.

The moving goalpost pattern that keeps capable people perpetually feeling like they're falling short, no matter how much they achieve.

If any of that sounds familiar, this conversation is for you.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUA_AWaUCE

15/06/2026

You know your stuff.
So here's what doesn't add up: the doubt still shows up right when you need to speak.

Because self-doubt isn't a surface problem. It's a subconscious pattern, firing before you've had a chance to think.

Positive thinking and affirmations don't touch it, because they're working at the wrong level.

This free 26-minute audio works where the pattern actually runs. Twenty-six minutes, in your own space, and you show up lighter, clearer, steadier.

Not louder.
Just no longer second-guessing yourself.

"My mind was clearer in the morning. It taps into another frequency of the brain." Nina, Director, Local Government

Free to listen, link below and in the comments.

https://www.turnaroundpractice.au/confidence-audio -audio-signup

11/06/2026

It's official: Turnaround Practice has won Best Executive Wellness & Coaching Practice at the APAC Insider Australian Enterprise Awards 2026. 🥰

This is the recognition for the work I do with female leaders: helping them step into confidence, develop their strategy and execute with impact.

What makes this approach unique is combining strategic coaching, capability building and deep mindset work.

Because you can't think your way out of a subconscious pattern, and mindset alone won't build your strategy.

Thank you to every client who trusted me with their development. And thank you to all my supporters.
I wouldn't have made it without you❤️

https://apacinsider.digital/winners/turnaround-practice/

10/06/2026

BTS reality: not every recording goes to plan.

The magpies had other ideas today. Landed on the balcony for their morning snack.
Full volume.
Sometimes you just have to laugh it off and try again. That's the job. 😂🤣

10/06/2026

Self-doubt doesn’t live at the surface. So surface level fixes don’t work.

Positive thinking, telling yourself you’re good enough, or pushing through, rarely touch where self-doubt actually runs.

It runs in the deeper patterns underneath.
Those fire automatically before you’ve even had a chance to think.

That’s the level I work at with clients.
And it’s the level the confidence audio works at.

26 minutes, in your own space, working on the patterns that run self-doubt rather than talking over them.

No affirmations.
Nothing airy-fairy.

Just the same approach I use in my 1:1 work, made accessible for you to use on your own time.

Download the free Confidence Audio 🎧👇🏻

https://www.turnaroundpractice.au/confidence-audio -audio-signup

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A free audio session using guided imagery to help female leaders reset their mindset and build the foundation for confidence. Download instantly. Based in Sydney, available worldwide.

09/06/2026

Did you get out of bed today and think: today I am going to doubt myself?
Didn't think so.

Self-doubt runs as an involuntary subconscious pattern.
Nothing conscious, nothing you decide to do.
It fires automatically in the background before you even get a chance to think.

I created a free confidence audio for leaders who know their stuff but doubt themselves.
The same approach I use with my 1:1 clients.

No airy-fairy. No fluff.
Just 26 minutes in a relaxed comfortable space to build the foundation for confidence.

Comment "audio" and I'll send it to you. It's free.

08/06/2026

Self-doubt doesn’t live at the surface. So surface level fixes don’t work.

Positive thinking, telling yourself you’re good enough, pushing through, none of that touches where self-doubt actually runs.

It runs in the deeper patterns underneath.
The ones that fire automatically before you’ve even had a chance to think.

That’s the level I work at with clients.
And it’s the level the confidence audio works at.

26 minutes, in your own space, working on the patterns that run self-doubt rather than talking over them.

No affirmations.
Nothing airy-fairy.
Just the same approach I use in my 1:1 work, made accessible for you to use on your own time.

Comment “Audio” and I’ll send it to you.
It’s free.

05/06/2026

Are you a confident leader and still insecure in certain situations? Here is why.

Under pressure our brains want one answer.
You're confident or you're not.
But that's not how it works, and telling yourself it should be is adding pressure you don't need.

Confidence is situational.
You can lead a team with complete certainty and feel uncertain with a specific client, in a new environment, or when the pressure feels higher than usual. That doesn't exclude each other.
That's context.

Observe what's actually going on.
What's the trigger?
What's the situation?

That's far more useful than deciding once and for all whether you're confident or not.