Edition 2025.07.31
In this issue: You are missing an essential leadership tool if you’re not friends with the five core emotions: fear, hurt, anger, sadness, and joy. When ignored, they don’t disappear—they quietly shape your decisions, sabotage your presence, and block trust. This week, we explore how emotional fluency isn’t optional—it’s the upgrade your leadership has been waiting for.
Featuring insights from Judith, Bob, and the LiveWright Team.
You can’t lead others clearly if you’ve disconnected from yourself. Reclaim emotional presence, and you’ll access sharper intuition, more meaningful decisions, and deeper self-trust.
For many high-achieving women, leadership has meant learning to lead without feeling. We’re taught to organize, to drive, to deliver. But too often, we’re not taught to feel—and that omission comes at a high cost.
Without emotion, your leadership becomes transactional. Efficient, yes. But distant. Your presence flattens. Your relationships suffer. Your body carries the burden.
At LiveWright, we teach women to tune into what they’re feeling—not as a luxury, but as a leadership imperative. Because when you disconnect from what you feel, you lose access to your deepest source of wisdom, alignment, and power.
When we reintroduce emotional presence into the leadership equation, we watch it shift everything: intuition returns, returns, relationships soften, and results take on meaning again.
Try This: The “Whole-Story” Emotional Check-In
1. Name a challenge or decision you’re wrestling with right now.
2. Ask: What emotion am I avoiding in this situation: fear, sadness, anger, hurt, joy?
3. Let yourself feel it—without solving it.
4. Now ask: What would change if I let this emotion guide me instead of silence me?
This isn’t an act of indulgence. It’s intelligence. Let your full emotional story speak before you act.
Want to explore what it means to lead with both intellilgence and emotion? Schedule a clarity call here.
One More Thought:
The parts of you you’ve sidelined for success? They’re not in the way—they are the way. Reclaim your emotional presence, and you reclaim the power to lead from your whole self.
LiveWright, with embodied clarity and emotional truth,
Dr. Judith Wright
Disconnection from emotion is disconnection from power. Re-engage your emotional signals to lead with precision, presence, and sustainable impact.
You can’t lead what you won’t feel.
Many leaders I work with are high-functioning, intellectually sharp, and emotionally… shut down. They’ve learned to prioritize performance while downplaying anything that might feel “soft.”
But there’s nothing soft about emotional intelligence. In fact, when ignored, it becomes your blind spot.
In our LiveMORE work, we see this all the time: Leaders disconnect from their emotional signals—and suddenly struggle to make clear decisions, build trust, or create momentum. It’s not because they lack strategy. It’s because they’ve lost access to themselves.
Your emotional life is your feedback loop. When you feel disconnected your emotions are the breadcrumbs that bring you home.
Try This: Daily Emotional Debrief (End-of-Day Ritual)
1. Recall a moment you felt tension or charge today.
2. Name what you were feeling—not just the event, but the emotion (fear, anger, hurt, etc.)
3. Ask: Did I act from that emotion—or with awareness of it?
4. Write one sentence about what this emotion was asking for.
This builds your capacity to feel fully, respond wisely, and lead congruently.
Ready to bring full spectrum intelligence to your leadership?
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Remember: Emotional signals aren’t noise—they’re your inner compass recalibrating you toward clarity. The more you feel, the more precise your leadership becomes.
LiveWright, feel fully, and lead wisely,
Dr. Bob Wright
Ignoring emotion doesn’t make it go away—it just makes you harder to follow. When you lead with emotional congruence, you lead with clarity, trust, and real-time influence.
Most leaders think they need more strategy. What they really need is more congruence.
You can’t lead clearly if you’re numb to what you feel. Emotions are not distractions—they’re internal signals guiding you toward what matters, what’s misaligned, or what’s trying to emerge.
In our LiveMORE program, we teach leaders how to decode these signals in real time. Because when you ignore your emotions, you end up leading from autopilot. But whey you honor them? You lead from truth.
Here’s what we’ve see: The most effective leaders aren’t those who hide their emotions. They the ones who use them as fuel.
This Week’s Practice: Feel First Decision Audit
1. Identify one decision you made this week.
2. Ask: What feeling did I override or dismiss?
3. Consider: What might have changed if I’d led from emotional clarity instead of control?
This is how we shift from reactive management to transformational leadership.
That’s the work we do in LiveMORE—building emotional agility, embodied presence, and transformative alignment.
Our next LiveMORE cohort starts on August 15. If you’d like to join us, email hello@livewright.com, or visit livewright.com/LiveMORE to learn more.
Final Thought:
Leadership without emotion isn’t clarity—it’s disconnection. The five core feelings—fear, hurt, anger, sadness, and joy—aren’t liabilities. They’re essential intelligence. If you’re not engaging them, you’re leading with half your power.
LiveWright, with your full emotional range,
Dr. Bob, Dr. Judith, and the whole LiveWright Team