🔥 Roarffirmations | December 2, 2025
This week’s theme is Awaken Curiosity: Being Inquisitive About Self, and while the word inquisitive often lends itself to thoughts of exploring the outside world and external influences, it doesn’t have to stay there.
One of the most forward-looking, proactive activities we can do in life is to turn our inquisitive lens inward — to look at ourselves in the mirror and be open to knowing ourselves more fully.
I know I’ve talked about this frequently in recent posts, but it’s important to me that I continue to share what I am experiencing and observing as I move forward after boldly stepping away from a 26-year career. And the one thing that stands out is this:
Being a great leader is not just about having the education and knowledge to manage people and projects. It’s more than having confidence and the courage to speak up boldly.
Being a great leader starts from one very humble position:
self-awareness built by inquisitive strength.
What does that even mean?
Being inquisitive isn’t just about knowing more — it’s about knowing more about yourself. When you begin to explore your own thoughts, patterns, opinions — the inner wiring that makes you uniquely you — that is what helps you build inquisitive strength. And it’s that inquisitive strength that lays the foundational structures that empower you to connect with others in a more authentic and impactful way.
And here’s why this matters.
During one of the highest-pressure projects of my career, I remember feeling drained — not just from the workload, but from the emotional toll of constant intensity. One morning, after a particularly difficult stretch, I realized something simple but important. I needed encouragement. I needed celebration. I needed someone to recognize both the wins and the struggles of my team — and of me, as their leader.
That moment of self-awareness led me to a deeper question:
If I need this… how must my team be feeling?
That one inquisitive moment — about my own needs — helped me see theirs. And that’s when I began daily stand-ups filled with encouragement, tiny games and contests, small prizes, and even a little team mascot that was passed around to the winning group each day.
A simple act of curiosity about myself helped me motivate, uplift, and support a team that needed the same spark and encouragement I was searching for.
This is why I believe that anyone can be given the title of “leader”, but it doesn’t mean that they automatically have the tools required to lead.
A true leader has an insatiable curiosity — a never-ending desire to understand and improve team dynamics.
A true leader yearns to do more, be more, help others more.
A true leader takes responsibility for actions, especially when the results are not positive.
As a true leader, you cannot guide others and build an award-winning, competitive, results-driven, high-performing team until you are willing to explore your own depths — and understand more deeply how you interact with and influence those around you.
A true leader doesn’t have all the answers, but she has the strength of her self-awareness and the courage to keep asking the hard questions in order to get to the answer that is required.
So, today, I ask you this:
Are you a true leader?
When you promote self-awareness and embrace inquisitiveness as a character trait (and not a flaw), you begin to show up and lead with more intention.
And I leave you with this parting quote from Roar Like A Woman:
📣Roarffirmation for today:
And the more clearly you see yourself,
the more powerfully you can guide others.
— With Gratitude,
Ronda 💛
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This Roarffirmation is your reminder that leadership begins with knowing yourself — and leaning into that strength so you can guide others with clarity and intention.
If you’re ready to rise into your own leadership through awakened curiosity, explore the empowering words inside Roar Like a Woman.
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