How to Stay Calm as a Leader When Your Team Is Watching

Holding it together while everything around the business shifts? This episode is for the business owner leading a team through a hard season, the recovering perfectionist who freezes before big decisions, and the people person who keeps holding on too long. Evelyn Kershaw shares how she learned to stay calm when her team was watching.

Evelyn Kershaw is a second-generation hairstylist, entrepreneur, and mentor with more than 36 years in the beauty industry. She owns The Evelyn Kershaw Salon in Plano, Texas, where clients come from all over the world, and she is growing it into a franchise. She also trained as a spiritual director during COVID. Together, she and Amanda talk about trusting yourself, letting go of outcomes, and the emotional maturity it takes to lead.

In this episode, you will learn:

🏢 The reason Evelyn chose franchising over a second location

🤝 How attracting the right people starts with trusting yourself

🧘 What changes when you quit proving yourself

🎯 Letting go of outcomes, "the hardest easy thing"

💡 Evelyn's favorite mistake: holding on to people too long

👀 How to stay calm as a leader when your team is watching

CHAPTERS

00:00 Meet Evelyn Kershaw

01:27 What's next after 36 years: franchising