You’re not just busy. You’re over functioning.

If you’re the one who always steps in, fixes things, and holds everything together…

this episode is for you.

What often looks like capability and leadership on the outside can quietly become something else. Over functioning.

In this episode of Take 5 With Me, Liz Murray explores the hidden cost of over functioning in leadership and why doing more is not the same as leading well. Drawing on her own experience, Liz unpacks how easily capable leaders slip from holding the vision into stepping into the weeds, fixing, rescuing, and carrying more than is theirs to carry. Because over functioning doesn’t come from a lack of skill. It comes from a pattern. And until you see it, you keep reinforcing it.

🎯 What You’ll Learn In this episode:

• The difference between being capable and over functioning

• Why over functioning often looks like leadership, but isn’t

• How stepping in and fixing can quietly undermine your team

• The hidden cost of carrying more than is yours to carry

• Why great leadership is about holding the vision, not controlling the outcome

• The shift from doing more to leading better

🧠 Key Insight Over functioning is not leadership. It’s control disguised as responsibility.

🔍 A Moment to Reflect Where are you stepping in and carrying something that is no longer yours to hold?

📣 Closing Thought You don’t need to do more to be enough. You need to lead in a way that allows others to rise.

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