Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

What Playlist Is Running Your Leadership #shorts

6 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A brief spoken monologue by Susan Drumm that uses a 'playlist' metaphor to describe how subconscious beliefs and repeating mental stories (e.g., 'I have to prove myself') unconsciously shape mood, choices, and leadership. The speaker prompts listeners to identify the dominant belief ('name the track'), evaluate whether they want it, and deliberately replace it with a belief aligned with who they want to become.

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You've got a playlist running in your head right now. No, not music, but beliefs, doubts, old stories. And most of us, we didn't even pick the track. Beliefs like, I have to prove myself, or if I don't fix it, no one will, or I can't let them see I'm unsure. That's not intuition, it's just repetition. A mental track that's been playing for years. And like a song you've heard too many times, you just stop noticing it, but it still shapes your mood and your choices and ultimately your leadership. So here's your job here. The track, name it, what's the belief underlying your state of being? And then ask, do I actually want this playing? And if not, skip it. Find the song that matches who you're becoming. Because when you change your playlist, you change everything.