Episodes

Sept. 14, 2026

The Emotional Intelligence of Insecurity: How Hidden Fears Shape Leadership Behavior

Every leader carries fears and insecurities they’ve learned to hide. Over time, those hidden struggles build invisible walls—walls that shape how we lead, how we relate, and how others experience us. What we think are strengths are often just sophisticated defense mechanisms. Tyler Dickerhoof is a leadership mentor, entrepreneur, host of the Impact Driven Leader community, and USA Today best-selling author of The Things We Hide. With 25-plus years of experience and more than $750 million in bus...
Sept. 7, 2026

Mastering your Emotions: Emotional Brilliance

Today we have more intense emotions and a sense of overwhelm, causing all of us stress. Leaders are dealing with so much more than they have in the past. A study on stress in America tells us that 47% of people are experiencing Anxiety, 44% are sad, 39% are angry, while 75% of us feel we could use more emotional support. For much of that support, they are turning to their leaders, who now need more counseling and coaching skills. What are they and we to do with this abundance of emotions and fee...
Aug. 31, 2026

Leading & Self-Managing Through Adverse & Ambiguous Times (Encore)

In our fast-paced, high-tech, ever-evolving world the speed of change, decision-making is getting faster, the level of competition fiercer, and adversity, ambiguity are striking harder than ever. As this is the current and future state of our world, it is imperative that people stay level-headed and focused to effectively function at optimal capacity. The ability to be that stabilizing influence in a world of constant disruption can provide a true competitive advantage and determine the long-ter...
Aug. 24, 2026

Leading from Within: Emotional Intelligence, Resilience & the Science of Being Human

Dr. Dave Rabin, MD, PhD is a senior research scientist on faculty at The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), the Executive Director of The Board of Medicine, and the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Apollo Neuroscience. His research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of action of psychedelic drugs and developing evidence-based guidelines for unregulated medicines and therapies that have proven effectiveness. His upcoming book A Simple Guide to Being Alive (June ...
Aug. 17, 2026

What Reality TV Can Teach You About Leadership

Dr. Steven Stein is a world-renowned clinical psychologist, entrepreneur, and expert in emotional intelligence, hardiness, and human behavior. As Founder and Executive Chair of Multi-Health Systems (MHS), he has spent more than four decades helping leaders and organizations better understand what drives performance, teamwork, and success. Beyond his work with organizations around the world, Dr. Stein is known as the psychologist behind dozens of reality television productions, where he has helpe...
Aug. 10, 2026

Leadership and Emotional Fitness

Find out why over 1M people view his TED Talks. Join us, especially if you're in Public Safety for a rare look at how extraordinary experiences shape us, our happiness, wellbeing and performance. Paul J. Zak is a professor at Claremont Graduate University and is ranked in the top 0.3% of most cited scientists with over 180 published papers and more than 19,000 citations to his research. Zak’s two decades of research have taken him from the Pentagon to Fortune 50 boardrooms to the rainforest of P...
Aug. 3, 2026

The Octopus Organization: Most companies are built for a world that no longer exists

Phil Le-Brun is a former corporate VP and International CIO at McDonald’s Corporation. He co-led the consolidation and modernization of technology across thirty-eight thousand restaurants in 120 countries. He now leads the Amazon Web Services Executives in Residence team, former business and public sector leaders who mentor and guide Fortune 500 leaders on their journeys to create more adaptable organizations. He is a sought-after speaker and has been featured in Harvard Business Review, the Wal...
July 27, 2026

Identity Before Skill: What Most Leadership Programs Get Wrong About First-Time Managers - Encore

Alicia Rius is an ICF PCC-certified leadership coach, former co-founder and COO, and author of Lead With Clarity: How New Managers Turn Confusion into Confident Leadership. She lived the doer-to-leader leap firsthand, scaling distributed teams across Europe and the US in fast-moving startup environments. Today, through Hive Leadership & Team Coaching, she helps engineering organizations strengthen their leadership pipeline by equipping first-time managers with the clarity, structure, and confid...
July 20, 2026

The Leadership Velocity Crisis: Why Great Leaders Become the Bottleneck and How to Scale Beyond It

Most CEOs don’t realize they’ve become the bottleneck inside their own success, and Rajesh Nagjee lived that story himself before he solved it. He is a CEO mentor, creator of CEO Freedom OS™, and a trusted advisor endorsed by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith and Dr. Ivan Misner. For 30 years, he has helped 350+ CEOs running $5M to $25M companies move from chief problem solver to strategic leader, without losing control of what they built. Rajesh Nagjee built his first company, burned out running it, and n...
July 13, 2026

THRIVE: Future-Proof Your Life: A strategic playbook for thriving in the age of AI

Frederic Marshall is a pioneer in identifying the research-based behavioral patterns of top performers—and then helping global innovators like Apple, Pfizer, and Genentech scale those behaviors to drive billions in brand growth. He is a recognized expert in change management, launching new brands, and sales force effectiveness. He’s personally trained over 130,000 people in fourteen countries. And the Quantum Learning team has helped launch seventy-four new brands in the biopharma space that hav...
July 6, 2026

Readback: A Marine Aviator’s Manual for Navigating Life’s Hardest Lessons

Ryan A. Cherry, Colonel, USMC (Ret.), is an executive coach, speaker, and retired Marine aviator and senior military leader with over twenty-five years of service around the globe. From leading helicopter squadrons in the Indo-Pacific to advising top Department of Defense leaders on crisis response and autonomous aviation strategy, he has dedicated his career to leading under pressure. Cherry is widely recognized for building and mentoring high-performing teams, driving innovation, and leading c...
June 29, 2026

From Executive to Leader: Motivating not from Positional Authority but from connection and deep trust to build long-term profit and success

If your most brilliant minds are also your most challenging, you are in the right conversation. Our guest today is Susan Inouye, co-creator of Sawubona Leadership and the author of the #1 bestseller Leadership’s Perfect Storm on millennials and transformational change. She works at the intersection of profit, purpose, and presence, helping executives transform themselves into better leaders, thus transforming their managers and rising millennial and Gen Z talent into connected, accountable, high...
June 22, 2026

The Voice-Driven Leader

Jeremie Kubicek is a dynamic communicator, seasoned entrepreneur, and influential content creator whose work has shaped leaders and organizations across the globe. He is the author of Making Your Leadership Come Alive—a national best-seller and The Peace Index, as well as the co-author of The 100X Leader, 5 Voices, 5 Gears, The Communication Code, and the newly released Voice-Driven Leader (November 2025). As the Co-Founder of GiANT, Jeremie leads a global enterprise dedicated to certifying coac...
June 15, 2026

Why legacy-driven leaders succeed when others fall short in crisis

Robert DeLaurentis, widely known as the “Peace Pilot,” is an aviation circumnavigator, author, speaker, philanthropist, and Navy Gulf War veteran. He has flown over all seven continents, both poles, and across 53 countries, carrying experiments for NASA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, while championing the global peace movement in a plane called the Citizen of the World for the World. A successful entrepreneur and real estate investor, Robert grew his business and retired at 37 by apply...
June 8, 2026

Peak Performance: A Healing Wonderland

Tania de Jong AM has garnered an international reputation as an award-winning social entrepreneur, acclaimed soprano, inspirational speaker and storyteller, creative alchemist, philanthropist and spiritual journey woman. She is a passionate leader for social change and one of Australia's most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators, having developed 6 businesses and 4 charities. When she was just 14 years old her best friend told her not to bother having singing lessons. So, it's not surp...
June 1, 2026

Identity Before Skill: What Most Leadership Programs Get Wrong About First-Time Managers

Alicia Rius is an ICF PCC-certified leadership coach, former co-founder and COO, and author of Lead With Clarity: How New Managers Turn Confusion into Confident Leadership. She lived the doer-to-leader leap firsthand, scaling distributed teams across Europe and the US in fast-moving startup environments. Today, through Hive Leadership & Team Coaching, she helps engineering organizations strengthen their leadership pipeline by equipping first-time managers with the clarity, structure, and confide...
May 25, 2026

The Manager Method with Ashley Herd

Have you ever wanted to be known as the “best boss ever”? Now you can learn exactly how to do that. Ashley Herd (250K on Tiktok), a former Chief People Officer and General Counsel with experience supporting leaders across organizations including McKinsey and Yum! Brands has trained over 250,000 managers throughout her career. Now, she’s unveiled a practical, real-world guide called The Manager Method: A Practical Framework to Lead, Support, and Get Results (February 10, 2026 // Hay House) that ...
May 18, 2026

Encore: Coaching Strategies for Turbulent Times

In today's show, Drs. Relly Nadler and Cathy Greenberg will share some of the cutting-edge tools they have been using with their coaching and training clients during these turbulent times. They have helped thousands of leaders to perform in the top 10% over the last 3 decades, utilizing emotional intelligence, positive psychology, neuroscience, and peak performance technologies. For more information about Dr. Relly Nadler and to download one of our free eBooks, go to https://drrellynadler.com
May 11, 2026

Getting You and Your Team Disruption Ready (encore)

Tony Martignetti is a trusted advisor, coach, experience creator, author, podcast host, and speaker. He brings together over 25 years of business and management experience, formal training, and extreme curiosity to elevate leaders and equip them with the tools to navigate through change and unlock their true potential. He loves guiding people to find clarity in their lives so they are energized, fully present, and unstoppable. When leaders unlock their potential and lead from a place of inspire...
May 4, 2026

Bee Wise – Leadership Lessons from Inside a Busy Beehive

As a beekeeper, Philip Atkinson lives in Alsace, France and loves spending summers tending to and observing the precious bees and spending the winter learning, reading and writing about them. Throughout the whole year, Phillip supports leadership teams and leaders to grow and develop. He is the founder of Hive-Logic.com Coaching & Communications. The company runs like a collaborative beehive, supporting senior leaders and teams at multinational organizations to perform at their best through coac...
April 27, 2026

From Fired at 45 to Founding ESPN: The Mindset Behind Impossible Ideas

Garrett Sutton is an attorney and best-selling author of eleven entrepreneurial books, including Start Your Own Corporation and Loopholes of Real Estate, which have sold over one million copies as part of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Advisor series. He is the co-author with ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen and ESPN Historian Mike Soltys of Sports Heaven: The Birth of ESPN, and is also the Executive Producer of the documentary film by the same name. Garrett graduated from the University of California at...
April 20, 2026

Hybrid Intelligence as a Catalyst of Agency amid AI with Dr. Cornelia Walther

Dr. Cornelia C. Walther is a humanitarian leader with 20+ years at the UN driving social change. Now a Wharton/University of Pennsylvania Fellow, she pioneers research on hybrid intelligence and prosocial AI through the global POZE alliance to build Agency amid AI for All. Her focus Is on harnessing AI to bring out the best in and for people and planet. Contact info: corneliacwalther@gmail.com For more information about Dr. Relly Nadler go to: https://drrellynadler.com
April 13, 2026

The Soulfluence Method: A New Model for Conscious Leaders

Are you doing everything “right” but still feel stuck or unfulfilled? Today’s guest is Grace Najean, a transformational leadership strategist, keynote speaker, and former Master Coach for Tony Robbins. With over 5,000 hours of coaching, she has helped high achievers including executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers shift from burnout into aligned, intuitive leadership. Her method, The Soulfluence Awakening, blends mental clarity, energy mastery, and embodied presence to create success that f...
April 6, 2026

Encore: Coaching the Leaders Brain

Joseph O’Connor is an author, International Executive Coach, Coach Trainer, Founder of the Neuroscience Coaching Centre. His Key Focus is Helping coaches, executives, managers, and other professionals to be more successful in work and happier in life. Joseph is also the co-founder of the International Coaching Community (ICC), and one of the best known and respected coaches and coach trainers in the world. Joseph was a professional musician where it is clear that success is much more than just b...