The Baggage Reclaim Sessions Ep. 301 Self-Leadership with Ruthie Zerai: How to Stop Living at the Mercy of Others
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Sep 26, 2025 Ruthie Zerai, a leadership coach focused on self-leadership, discusses the power of reclaiming agency over your life. She explains how resentment signals a loss of personal power and dives into the dangers of passivity and people-pleasing in work environments. Zerai emphasizes human leadership, advocating for vulnerability and wellbeing over perfectionism. With insights on entrepreneurship, she encourages prioritizing rest and establishing practical routines for self-connection, urging listeners to take actionable steps towards leading themselves.
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Burnout Sparked Ruthie's Career Shift
- Ruthie shares she experienced burnout after stepping into honesty and healing people-pleasing.
- That burnout triggered her shift into coaching and dedicating to self-leadership work.
Self-Leadership Is Managing Yourself
- Self-leadership means managing yourself and taking responsibility rather than deferring to others.
- Ruthie says reclaiming self-leadership ends resentment and restores agency and belonging to yourself.
Resentment Reveals Lost Agency
- Resentment flags where you've forced yourself into obligations and lost agency.
- Natalie and Ruthie explain resentment shows you where boundaries were overridden and change is needed.
