Unboxing Your True Authority: Why Values Drive Leadership, Delegation & Business Mastery

In this featured episode of The Amazing Authorities Podcast, Carly Pepin sits down with Mitch Carson to unpack a radical reframe of personal growth, leadership, and success: true authority begins with knowing what drives you.

Rather than defaulting to cookie-cutter personality tests that place people in rigid boxes, Carly introduces the power of values-based leadership. She explains how your highest values—not your personality traits—determine where you naturally lead, stay resilient, and make the greatest impact. From early resistance to mastery, Carly shows how real growth comes from embracing both the challenges and rewards of what deeply matters to you.

Drawing from years of coaching founders and leadership teams, she shares how values help solve burnout, clarify purpose, and improve delegation. If you’re willing to go through pain and still feel energized, it’s probably a value. If you avoid it at the first sign of discomfort, it’s not. And that distinction changes everything.

Key Takeaways from the Episode:

• Why most personality tests miss the mark—and how values assessments offer a clearer path to purpose

• How to identify where you’re naturally built for resilience and mastery

• The link between values, fulfillment, and inspired delegation

• Why disengaged employees often just have misaligned job duties—not poor work ethic

• How to engage young leaders by speaking to what they value most

• How to increase team productivity and culture by linking personal values to company roles

Carly also shares her personal story of how identifying fashion as one of her top values led to a surprise business opportunity managing over 140,000 garments—and why that kind of flow and energy is only accessible when you’re aligned with what truly drives you.

Listen to the full episode here: