Mia Jerritt

10/27/2026

Let's talk about the stuff leaders don't want to talk about.
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Rejection. Self-doubt. Perfectionism. Burnout.
The exhausting need to prove our worth.
All those delightful little gremlins hiding in the shadows while we're busy trying to look like we've got our s**t together.
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I've experienced every one of them.
And this summer, they finally got my attention.
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In this video, I'm opening a conversation about the things we hide, the stories we believe and the patterns that quietly influence how we lead.
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Because you can’t change what you refuse to acknowledge.
AND because this is serious work - but I'm definitely not a serious person.
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So, let's start the conversation. What's one thing you've struggled with as a leader that you've rarely admitted out loud?
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And if you're ready for more conversations like this, come join us in the Visionary Leaders Lounge. We're bringing the shadows into the light—one uncomfortable truth at a time. 😉

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10/21/2026

Apparently, you can be here to change the world and still need to clean out the junk in your own closet.

Ask me how, I have a David Letterman top ten list. 😉

As I SLOWLY wander back into social media after my own spectacular hustle with burnout, I’m sharing something I created for anyone willing to admit that this meaningful, purpose-driven journey called life is often a messy one. If it's not - sorry, but you probably need some coaching!

Soul Conversations with Mia - 58 episodes. Plenty to explore. Whichever one triggers you is likely the one to start with. 😉

I’m recommitting to this project in the new year—with a little less polish and a little more truth.

We’re going into the conversations high-impact leaders often avoid, or hide, while we’re busy inspiring everyone else.

👉Failure.
👉Relationships that fizzle.
👉Rejection that hits harder than we admit.
👉Exhaustion we keep calling commitment.
👉Burnout we never thought would happen to US.
👉Money stories running the business.
👉Energy leaks we keep saying yes to.
👉And communication problems that apparently cannot be solved by hoping people read our minds.

Oh…and the juiciest one of all:

👉FEAR.

I might be seen!🙄
I might be ignored. 😢
I might fail. 😮‍💨
Hell...I might succeed—and then have to keep that image up.
I might disappoint people. 🤯
I might discover how much of my ambition has been fuelled by the need to prove I'm enough. 🤪

That last one? I have notes. Hell, I even wrote a song called 'Nothing Left to Prove'! Want to hear it!

Here we go!

SOUL CONVERSATIONS with Mia Jerritt is a powerful series about beautiful, messy, imperfect transformational journeys. In the series we explore personal and s...

10/14/2026

What if WE make leadership harder than it needs to be?
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Seriously. What if we're the ones complicating the hell out of it by overthinking, controlling outcomes, taking responsibility for junk that’s not ours to carry, and saying YES when every part of our being is screaming NO?
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We compete. Compare. Perform. Perfect. And then wonder why leadership is so damn exhausting!
Maybe leadership isn't the exhausting part. Maybe it's the weight of everything we're dragging into it.
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And I know exactly what I've been dragging around for years. The need to prove my worth!
Not exactly a lightweight piece of carry-on luggage!
For decades, I've built businesses, led teams, created programs, supported communities, raised money and poured my heart into helping others succeed.
AND somewhere beneath all that busy purposing was a belief I totally missed.
If I just do enough, achieve enough, give enough, help enough...THEN, I'll be enough.
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Well, that little strategy worked brilliantly. Until I crashed and burned this summer.
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And here’s what I've learned - when you're leading from the need to prove your worth, nothing is ever enough. There's always another opportunity to chase. Another person to help. Another achievement to pursue. Another reason to push harder.
And somewhere along the way, creating something meaningful loses its direction because it's hidden beneath something that was never supposed to be earned in the first place – you’re worth.
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What if leadership could be easier?
What if we stopped proving, controlling, and performing?
What if we stopped carrying other people’s responsibilities and empowered them to carry their own?
What if we asked – what am I here to create rather than prove?
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The hardest part of leadership isn't changing what we DO, it's letting go of who we believe we must BE….while we are DOING.
This is how leadership begins to feel lighter.
Less proving. More purpose.
Less force. More flow.
Less performance. More intention.
Less exhaustion. More alignment.
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Leadership is hard enough without making yourself the hardest person to lead.
And frankly, after 40 years of entrepreneurship, I'm ready to stop auditioning for my own damn life. 😂 🎥
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I'm looking forward to hosting a 3-question series within the Visionary Leaders Lounge Facebook Group on YOUR visionary leadership journey. Watch for details.

10/05/2026

Some of my most insightful leadership training didnt come from a book, course, workshop, contract.
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It happened when I was exhausted, filthy, and cramping with MILES to go. I've spent much of my adult life as a solopreneur AND a solo athlete—running, cycling, climbing, triathlons, mountain biking, skiing and doing things that often had me question my own sanity. 😂
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And I recognize those difficult events taught me a lot about leadership that couldn't be learned from a book. AND, theres some fascinating research behind it.
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A new study involving more than 9,500 people across Canada, the US, Germany and the UK found that women who participated in sport for at least three years were nearly 50% more likely to hold leadership roles, 37% more likely to aspire to senior leadership, and nearly 25% more likely to have negotiated their salary than women with little or no sport experience. The research shows an association rather than proving sport caused those outcomes. *Elf Beauty Investor Press Release

I am very intrigued by this research, and it doesn't really surprise me!
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Personally, endurance events taught me how to dig REALLY deep.
They taught me that discomfort isn't necessarily a signal to quit.
That falling apart and failing are two ENTIRELY different things.
That sometimes the hill is bloody steeper than it looks, and that’s okay. 👌
Sometimes great achievement comes with the proverbial blood, sweat and tears.

AND, the most important things endurance events taught me wasn't how to push, it was when to push and when not to.
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There is a profound difference between digging deep because something matters and driving yourself into the ground because your worth depends on finishing. Maybe I’ve done both. 😬 One builds self-trust and the other eventually builds burnout. Maybe I’ve done both. 😬

Endurance events taught me to listen to my body (hopefully). Regulate under pressure (maybe). Recover after disappointment (eventually). Get back up after failure (and a good nap). Trust myself when things got uncomfortable (begrudgingly).
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And, most importantly: That I can do hard things without needing them to be easy.

09/30/2026

REMINDER IF IT WORKS FOR YOU!

This is a FREE leadership event hosted by Floridian, Reden Dionisio. There will be 5 speakers sharing insights on mission and impact. I will be presenting on Leadership from the Inside Out: Substance before Strategy.
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If you are feeling like a powerful dose of inspiration and direction - this may be the event for you. Yes...it's early if you live on the west coast but what a great way to start the day!
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Here is the link to register for an early morning of inner work.

Registration:

Leadership Reset helps high-performing leaders recognize drift, regain clarity, and realign — virtual experiences year-round plus the annual Leadership Reset Live.

09/29/2026

There’s a saying I love:
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“A religious man goes to church and thinks about fishing. A spiritual man goes fishing and thinks about God—or Source, or the Universe, depending on who is listening.”
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And visionary leadership works the same way. You can be sitting in a mind-numbingly repetitive strategic planning meeting thinking about your next vacation......or lying on a beach having the most strategically important lightning bolt of your career.
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Visionary leadership is less concerned with where insight happens and far more concerned with whether we have created the space to hear it.
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🙌That is intuition.
🙌Dropping out of the head and into the heart.
🙌Listening to the gut feeling that makes absolutely no sense on the spreadsheet.
🙌Trusting the knowing that arrived before the evidence did.
🙌That is power from within.
And maybe you're working so hard to find the answer that you're simply too damn busy to hear it?!
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Join me inside my private visionary leadership FB Group called Leaders of the New Paradigm for inspiring and relevant content as it pertains to leadership moving forward.
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09/28/2026

I'm honoured to be a featured speaker at Genuine Leaders Reset: Mission & Impact this Saturday, October 3.

I'll be joining a group of leaders for a live virtual experience focused on an important question: Does the mission you're executing still match the impact you want to make?

We'll explore leadership, alignment, purpose, and practical ways to lead with greater intention - at work and in the areas of life that matter most.

If that conversation resonates with you, I'd love to have you join us.

October 3, 2026 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM ET | Live VirtualRegistration: https://leadershipreset.lovable.app

09/23/2026

I have spent years performing... like a rodeo clown... without realizing I was performing.
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Performing competence, strength, productivity, success, worthiness! And feeling the cost of it without even realizing it.
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Performance is exhausting because it always needs an audience. WTF.
It needs recognition. Validation. Results. Approval. Evidence that what we're doing matters.
BUT... intention doesn't.
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Intention requires a completely different energy. One that asks:
What am I really here to create?
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot as I return from my spectacular burnout plot twist. I used to believe that if something mattered deeply enough, I needed to push harder to make it happen.
More effort. More visibility. More striving. More proving. More doing.
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Apparently, my strategy was: If it's not working... exhaust yourself more enthusiastically!
(Also known in some circles as spiritual bypassing – in this case, wearing Lululemon.)
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What I'm discovering is almost the opposite. When I'm clear about my intention, there is considerably less force. Decisions become easier. The unnecessary falls away. I stop chasing every opportunity and responding to every invitation. Competing with invisible people I completely invented in my own head. Or convincing people that my work matters.
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Now I ask one question: Does this serve what I'm here to create?
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👉Yes? Move.
👉No? Take a hike.

Maybe that’s one of the biggest shifts leadership needs right now.
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We’re living in the most connected, informed and technologically advanced workplace in history…...and somehow, we’re also the most exhausted.
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More tools. More notifications. More meetings. More pressure to prove we’re doing enough.

Research keeps telling us the same story: people have less energy, less focus, and less engagement than they’ve had in years. Maybe the answer isn’t becoming more productive. Maybe…it’s becoming more intentional.
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Performance consumes energy. Intention directs it.
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What are your thoughts on this?

09/14/2026

There comes a point in your leader’s journey when you must ask yourself the difficult question: Am I leading from truth… or am I hiding behind an image to prove that I’m worthy?
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For a long time, many of us learned to measure our value externally. By the number of invites and followers. The amount of recognition and applause. The revenue and the bank account. The title and responsibilities. The number of clients and contracts.
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We become exceptional performers who struggle with comparing and competing. And somewhere along the way, we can become so focused on proving our value that we disconnect from the very thing that makes us valuable. The truth and the beauty of who we are.
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AND…know this intimately. I have spent far too much energy looking sideways to measure my progress against someone else's, wondering why they were being chosen, questioning whether I was doing enough, achieving enough, being seen enough.
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And beneath all the fear, uncertainty, and noise was the deeper question: Am I enough? Am I good enough? Do I know enough? Have I done enough?
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That is not the energy that supports the important work we are here to do. Because when our self-worth depends on being chosen, recognized or validated, we don't lead from truth. We perform for approval. And performing is F$ exhausting.
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AND THE TRUTH ISN’T. It’s hard for sure and it’s also liberating.
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The truth says:

👉I don't need to become more like someone so my contribution matters.
👉I don't need to compete with someone else's gifts to see the power of mine.
👉I don't need to prove my worth to anyone.
👉The world doesn't need another perfectly packaged version of us trying to earn our place not a curated version of what we want the world to think.
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The world needs our gifts—not our self-doubt. It NEEDS our ideas. Our wisdom. Our lived experience. Our stories. Our courage. Our truth.
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So perhaps the next evolution of leadership isn't about becoming more impressive but about becoming less performative. Less comparison. Less proving. Less noise. More clarity. More truth. More YOU.
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Because ex*****on without clarity can build something impressive.

But clarity and truth build a LEGACY.
CLARITY + TRUTH BEFORE EX*****ON = LEGACY
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One of the bravest things a leader can do is stop asking, “Will they approve of me?” …and start asking: “What becomes possible when I no longer require approval!?”

09/12/2026

It’s impossible to believe it’s been 365 days since we said goodbye to your big laugh, constant smile, and sassy attitude.
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Although you’re incredibly missed, it’s comforting to know you are somewhere free of all the suffering we create for ourselves on this journey called life.
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You blessed us with the most important values: love, family, self-confidence, good food, and joy. You were a simple woman who required nothing but these things. You needed nothing else.
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You were never looking for the next thing. Material possessions were unnecessary—unless, of course, they came from the dollar store. You couldn’t have cared less about status, wealth, accolades, or validation, unless it had something to do with your children and grandchildren.
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Your greatest pride in life was being a mom and a wife. I asked you once if there was anything you regretted in life, and you answered quickly, without hesitation: NONE.
What a way to live your life.
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No one could camp like you. Create celebrations like you—complete with all the necessary items from the dollar store. Cook luxury dinners like you. Laugh like you. Get into harmless trouble like you. Or match their socks to their shirt quite like you.
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You are missed every day.
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And I am so grateful I learned some of life’s most important lessons from you:
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Be steady.�Be strong.�Be confident.�And most importantly—
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HAVE FUN ON THIS JOURNEY CALLED LIFE.
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If you’ve read to the end, I have one request.
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If your mom or dad are still here today, reach out. Send flowers. Send a text. Make the call. Stop by and visit.
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Because one day, sooner than you can imagine, you will be writing this post.