Not Your Dad’s Leadership Blog

Follow along for insights, reflections, tips and tools I’ve learned on my journey from workplace trauma and burnout to a Certified Leadership Coach focusing on how it feels to lead rather than just how it looks on paper.

(and also musings on being a millennial woman in this day and age. ☺️)


A Blog By Lindsey Maza

Lindsey’s Lessons Lately ✨
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Lindsey’s Lessons Lately ✨

2022 and 2023 were the year of failures, second guessing, trying to be someone I’m not, wanting a new life... Then finally remembering remembering who the f*ck I am. The amazing thing about failing is, it teaches us beautiful lessons that we may have never learned without it.

So fail as you must, but always take those lessons with you.

Here are my lessons lately:

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How Future Scripting Elevates Your Year-End Review
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How Future Scripting Elevates Your Year-End Review

Picture this: It’s December 2024, and you're seated across from your boss, ready to dive into your year-end review. And because at the beginning of the year, you already scripted your evaluation, you know exactly how this will play out.

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The Transformative Impact of Self-Love in the Workplace
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The Transformative Impact of Self-Love in the Workplace

Self-Love is the foundation behind every skill, every connection, and every single thought, belief, and action you take.

Even when you are leading other people, you are still leading from yourself. So why not lead from a place of loving yourself?

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How to Start Healing from a Toxic Workplace
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How to Start Healing from a Toxic Workplace

After experiencing a toxic workplace, it’s easy to hold on to the anger and resentment and guilt. Which is fine. Feel your feelings. But what if you could start healing slowly but surely? Because I promise you, what’s even easier is living your life once that anger and resentment and guilt have been released.

Click to read three ways you can start healing from workplace trauma:

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How to be anti-hustle culture and still get ahead
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How to be anti-hustle culture and still get ahead

But Lindsey, what if I want that promotion? What if I want a raise? Don’t I need to “hustle” to do that?

I hear you. And, yessss, but mostly no.

Truth is, there is a sustainable way to hustle.

Here are five ways to practice sustainable hustling. (Is that real term? Did I just coin it?)

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