Podcast description: What happens when the need to control everything quietly runs your life—and limits your leadership, relationships, and peace?
In this powerful episode, Lily Love Tran sits down with Rose Huie to unpack one of the most common yet overlooked inner saboteurs: the Controller.
The Controller Saboteur believes control equals safety, success, and certainty. But underneath, it often creates burnout, strained relationships, and a constant sense of pressure—especially for high-performing leaders and entrepreneurs.

In this conversation, we explore:
How the Controller Saboteur shows up in leadership, business, and family life
Why control feels productive but actually blocks trust and growth
The hidden cost of “holding it all together.”
How to shift from control to Sage leadership, clarity, and inner calm
Practical awareness tools to loosen the grip of control without losing excellence

This episode is for leaders ready to lead with confidence without force, create results without burnout, and replace control with trust.

Rose Huie, CPA, CFP®, MBA, is the founder of Rose Y. C. Huie CPA, specializing in serving nonprofits, Chinese-owned businesses, and mentoring women CPAs to grow successful practices. With experience spanning Deloitte, The Clorox Company, and leadership in education, she combines financial expertise with coaching for professionals and families. Passionate about community impact, she is developing My Mother’s House, a nonprofit supporting seniors, single mothers, and children in an intergenerational living environment.

http://www.cpacoach.org and http://www.rosehuiecpa.com.
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In this episode of Saboteurs to Sage Power, Lily Tran sits down with CEO Coach Cosimo Marraffa to explore the patterns of the Stickler Saboteur, the inner voice that demands perfection, fuels overthinking, and keeps you stuck on small tasks instead of taking bold steps forward.

If you’ve ever delayed action because something didn’t feel perfect, spent too long polishing small details, or felt frozen by the pressure to get everything exactly right, this episode will feel like a breath of clarity and relief.

Lily and Cosimo dive into how the Stickler keeps you looping in overthinking, why it convinces you to prioritize tiny tasks over meaningful progress, and how it drains your momentum without you even noticing. They share practical, grounded ways to break free from perfectionism, trust yourself more, and move forward with confidence and ease.

By the end of this conversation, you’ll feel empowered to interrupt the cycles that keep you stuck and take aligned action toward what truly matters.

Tune in to activate your Sage and step into your next level. Remember, your Sage is your super power.

In this episode, we talk about two sneaky saboteurs that can quietly hold you back — the Hyper-Rational and the Avoider.

The Hyper-Rational lives in the left brain — it loves logic, facts, and control. But when it takes over, you can become too focused on thinking and not enough on feeling. It can make you seem distant, hurt deep relationships, and cause you to miss out on opportunities that need trust, intuition, and emotional connection.

The Avoider tries to keep everything calm and comfortable. It avoids conflict, tough conversations, and uncomfortable feelings. It might look like positivity, but really, it stops you from facing what needs to be faced and slows down your growth.

Together, these two saboteurs can paralyze your growth — keeping you safe but stuck, logical but lonely. Tune in as we uncover how to spot their patterns, disarm them, and awaken your Sage power to move forward with clarity, courage, and authentic connection.

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvette-ayuso/
Email: yvette@designedwithin.com

As an Integrative Brain Coach, Yvette is passionate about helping professional women from diverse cultures heal from the effects of traumatic or deeply challenging romantic relationships or family dynamics. If you’ve lost yourself while holding everything together, you’re not alone and it’s not the end of your story. Through psychology and a neuroscience-based approach, she helps you reconnect with the powerful woman within, rebuild your confidence, and lead your life from a place of purpose, not pain.