17. How to Stop Dreading Every Meeting on Your Calendar

You've tried the time blocking, the shorter meetings and taking digital notes. But the hours disappearing from your week were never on your to-do list, they're going somewhere else entirely.In this guest episode of The Way She Leads, Megan sits down with strategic alignment consultant Becca Rusinko for a conversation that starts where most leadership advice won't: you are not bad at prioritizing. You are handed 25 priorities and told, “Make it work.” Becca has led through the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, and she left finance not from burnout, but because her world had gotten too small. What she brings back is infrastructure: two repeatable rhythms that turn a beautiful strategic plan into something your team can actually use, without asking anyone to work a 70-hour week to prove they care.KEY TAKEAWAYSWhy the hours vanishing from your week were never on anyone's project planThe difference between a strategic roadmap and a strategic GPS The two rhythms that reclaim time instead of costing it: monthly recalibration on outcomes, weekly execution sprints on the groundHow to run a weekly sprint that develops your people while the work gets doneWhy dread before a meeting is data, not weakness and what your nervous system knows before your calendar doesRESOURCESBecca Rusinko Strategic Alignment Consultant & Speaker LinkedIn | Instagram | Website🎧 Becca's 5-minute primer on the two rhythms 📚 The Artist's Way | Julia Cameron Megan AkatuFall Remembrance WorkshopLinkedIn | Instagram | Website | Podcast#feminineleadership #leadyourselffirst #itsthelittlethings #womeninleadership #quietpower #feminineenergy #influence #thewaysheleads