UIP- Episode 18: Power Integration
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[00:00:00] This is unapologetically in Power, the podcast for ambitious women who are done performing and ready to lead from their unapologetic truth. I am Jennifer Damaskos and here. We don't play small in this space. We dismantle burnout, reclaim your energy and activate the unapologetic leader you are always meant to be, so you can lead, earn, and live from your unapologetic self.
We've uncovered the identity [00:01:00] shadows that quietly shape your business decisions. We've named the power leaks that drain your energy and momentum. We've built the strategic boundaries that protect your capacity and expand your authority, and here's the next level. You can't just fix these pieces one by one.
You have to integrate them. Because fragmented leadership, even with good intentions, still leaves you exhausted, inconsistent and reactive. You end up managing chaos instead of creating consciously. But when you integrate your power, that's when you start leading from your whole self.
That's when your business shifts from survival to sovereignty. That's when every decision feels aligned. Every boundary holds naturally, and every choice compounds towards your vision instead of pulling you off track. [00:02:00] There was a season when I was doing all the work, but only in pieces.
I catch my good girl, CEO, shadow, creeping into client negotiations and trying to correct myself mid-sentence. I'd plug a few power leaks only to watch new ones pop up in different places. I'd set boundaries with intention and then quietly break them when guilt or fear got louder. Each effort helped in the moment, but nothing stuck.
Because I wasn't integrating, I was just managing systems. So here's what that looked like. On Monday, I swore I wouldn't answer weekend messages. By Saturday, I already responded to three urgent texts. On Tuesday, I recognized I was under pricing, but by Thursday I'd already quoted below market because my shadow whispered.
Don't push it. [00:03:00] On Wednesday, I told myself I'd stop wasting hours on admin work by Friday. I was still formatting proposals at midnight because it felt easier than letting go. I was aware I was trying, but I was exhausted by the constant internal tug of war. The breakthrough came when I stopped asking, how do I manage these patterns?
And started asking, how do I bring all of me? The confident, unapologetic, future-focused me into every decision. When I began leading from whole self alignment, everything shifted. My boundaries held because they reflected my values, not my fears. My leak slowed because my choices were aligned at the source.
My shadows quieted because they felt integrated, not suppressed, and for the [00:04:00] first time, I wasn't just running a business, I was leading from my unapologetic Power integration is where awareness becomes transformation. And here's what the research shows. Harvard Business Review of 2023, leaders who integrate values, identity, and Behavior are three times more trusted and significantly more effective at strategic decision making.
Stanford Center for Compassion Research. Says Whole self-leadership, reduced success markers by nearly 40%, and boosts innovation by 30%. McKinsey's women in leadership report for 2023 says Women who feel aligned between identity and business model are twice as likely to scale sustainably and [00:05:00] far less likely to struggle with imposter syndrome.
Journal of Business Venturing for 2023 says, entrepreneurs who integrate shadow work and boundaries are over 60% less likely to relapse into burnout. Daniel Gomez's research on emotional intelligence says Leaders who integrate self-awareness with self-regulation see stronger financial performance and resilience through crisis.
The takeaway, fragmentation drains you, integration sustains you. So what does fragmented leadership look like? Let's give some examples. Fragmented leadership looks like setting a boundary, then breaking it when the client pushes back, quoting a premium price, then discounting at the last minute.
Delegating to your [00:06:00] team redoing the work because it feels easier planning strategy, but spending most of your time firefighting integrated leadership looks like making every decision through your future self lens pricing that honors both your service and sustainability. Boundaries that hold naturally because they reflect your vision systems and delegation that stick because they're built from alignment.
The difference one keeps you constantly patching holes. The other has every part of you rowing in the same direction. So here's the power integration assessment for today. Step one, let's do a shadow check. Name your dominant shadow, the good girl, overachiever, martyr, chameleon, [00:07:00] perfectionist. Name her. Ask, what does this shadow care about and how can I honor that without letting it run the show?
The second step, we need to do a leak check. Identify one to two ways you gave away time, energy, or money this week. And then ask what pattern created this leak and how could I design around it? For the third step, we need to do a boundary check. You look at one boundary you set, but didn't hold. Then you need to ask, what vision am I betraying when I break this boundary?
The fourth step is integration action. So you need to choose one decision you're facing this week. You need to ask, how would my [00:08:00] future self integrate shadow, leak and boundary here? Then the last step is to anchor it. You need to write it down. So I choose to blank because it aligns my shadow work, energy, and boundaries with who I am becoming.
Integration isn't about perfection, it's about consistency, and this is exactly why Rise module two, reveal doesn't stop with spotting shadows, patching leaks, or setting boundaries. It culminates in power integration, so you're not just managing systems, but transforming how you lead.
Inside module two, you'll create your whole self-leadership map, bringing shadow, work, leak protection, and boundary design into one system. The integration decision [00:09:00] matrix, it's a way to run every choice through alignment with your future self shadow integration practices, honoring shadow wisdom without letting it sabotage your business.
Energy architecture, designing your business to stop leaks at the root and boundary embodiment. Moving from enforcing rules to naturally living them, because awareness is the spark, but integration is the fire. So let me ask you, where are you still leading from fragmentation? How much energy are you spending negotiating with yourself instead of moving forward?
What opportunities are you missing? Because different parts of you are pulling in opposite directions. The cost of fragmentation compounds every [00:10:00] day in energy, in clarity, in growth, but the moment you integrate, you step into consistency. You reclaim your power, and you finally lead as the unapologetic whole version of you.
And if you're ready to make that shift, not just see the patterns, but to integrate them fully, rose rise, enrollment is open now. This is unapologetically in power. I'm Jennifer Damaskos, and it's time to lead from your whole self.
