Introduction

Sope Agbelusi opens the first Everyday Leadership episode of 2024 without a single new year strategy. Instead he asks listeners to do one thing: reclaim their name.

The John Doe you didn't know you became

Many people have subconsciously adopted a placeholder identity built from labels and expectations handed to them by other people.

The client who played small for eight years over one comment

A manager told a client he had too much ego. The client absorbed it as fact and played smaller than his track record for a decade.

The Steph Curry scouting report

A pre-draft report called Curry too small and unlikely to defend well. Ninety percent was wrong, but the ten percent with truth was worth taking on board.

Self-compassion over self-esteem

Self-compassion is non-evaluative: it lets someone confront their flaws honestly and adjust after failure without collapsing their identity.