THE LEARNING LEADER SHOW
Welcome to The Learning Leader Show. My mission is to have deep conversations with the world’s most thoughtful leaders and share their useful life stories and leadership wisdom. I speak with CEOs, Special Forces Operators, Entrepreneurs, Best-Selling Authors, Professional Athletes, and more. Our conversations are open dialogs where my guests share their most valuable experiences and learnings for the benefit of The Learning Leader Show audience. You will find links to each episode and the corresponding show notes at the bottom of this page.
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Episode List & Show Notes
All episodes are listed below, newest first. Each episode link has show notes with major topics discussed and links to books & other resources mentioned in the episode.
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Episode #706: Daniel Lubetzky – KIND Snacks Founder & Shark Tank Investor on Kindness, Grit, Values-Driven Leadership. and Building a Billion-Dollar Brand
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is a USA Today, LA Times, Success Magazine, and Publishers Weekly Best-Seller! I think you'll find it useful. Daniel Lubetzky graduated from Stanford Law School. And then declined lucrative job offers to start his own business, only paying himself $24,000 a year for a decade. And [...]
Episode #705: Dr. Martin Seligman – Positive Psychology, Learned Optimism, Grit, PERMA, Agency, Resilience, and Predicting the Future
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is a USA Today, LA Times, Success Magazine, and Publishers Weekly Best-Seller! I think you'll find it useful. Dr. Martin Seligman is one of the most influential psychologists alive. He's the founder of positive psychology and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs [...]
Episode #704: Strauss Zelnick – The Leader Who Greenlit Dirty Dancing, Owns Grand Theft Auto, Loves Being Coached, and Might be the Fittest CEO Alive
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is a USA Today, LA Times, Success Magazine, and Publishers Weekly Best-Seller! I think you'll find it useful. Strauss Zelnick is the Chairman and CEO of Take-Two Interactive... The company behind Grand Theft Auto and NBA 2K. He also runs ZMC, the private equity firm he [...]
Episode #703: Angela Duckworth – Why Grit Isn’t Enough, Situation Over Willpower, How Belief Gets Borrowed, John Wooden’s Socks, and How the Right People and Places Bring Out Your Best
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is a USA Today, LA Times, Success Magazine, and Publishers Weekly Best-Seller! I think you'll find it useful. Angela Duckworth is a psychologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a MacArthur "genius" grant recipient. Her book Grit was a #1 New York Times bestseller, [...]
Episode #702: Blake Mycoskie (Founder of TOMS) – Hitting Every Goal & Still Feeling Worthless… Gratitude, Mantras, and Hiring Like a Champion
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is a USA Today, LA Times, and Publishers Weekly Best-Seller! I think you'll find it useful. Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS Shoes in 2006 after a trip to Argentina, where he saw children without shoes and built a company around giving away a pair for every pair [...]
Episode #701: Mark Pincus (Founder of Zynga) – Why We All Need a Coach, Maintaining High Standards, The Book of Life, Aggressive Ambition, and Why Your Instincts Are Almost Always Right
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is a USA Today and LA Times Best-Seller! I think you'll find it useful. Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga, the social gaming company he built from zero to $12.7 billion, pioneering a category that generated over a billion app installs and introduced hundreds of [...]
Episode #700: Keith & AJ Hawk – Conscious Competence, Delusional Confidence, Stacking Days, After-Action Reviews, Taking Big Risks, The Power of Compounding, and Modeling High-Standards
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is a USA Today and LA Times Best-Seller! I think you'll find it useful. Every 100th episode, I record with my dad and my brother. Today, we are celebrating episode #700… My dad, Keith Hawk (also known as Pistol), spent decades leading sales teams at LexisNexis [...]
Episode #699: Jack Raines – How to Build Your Career, Increase Your Surface Area For Luck, and Find Your Purpose | Why Memories Compound Faster Than Money
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is a USA Today AND LA Times Best-Seller! I think you'll find it useful. Jack Raines is a writer and investor. At 24, he quit his corporate finance job at UPS, bought a one-way ticket to Barcelona, and spent the next year traveling through 25 countries [...]
Episode #698: Joanna Stern – How to Think for Yourself in the Age of AI, Why Deep Work Still Matters, Making Career Decisions With ChatGPT, and How to Stay Human on Purpose
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is now available! I think you'll find it useful. Joanna Stern is an Emmy Award-winning technology journalist, chief technology analyst for NBC News, and founder of the independent media company, "New Things." She is best known for her 12-year tenure at The Wall Street Journal, and [...]
Episode #697: The Price of Becoming – The Compounding Practices of High Performance (My New Book is Now Available!). “Have a Plan. Work the Plan. Plan for the Unexpected.”
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is now available! I think you'll find it useful. This is a conversation with my research assistant, editor, friend, and all-around good dude, Dan Smith. We focused the bulk of this on the story behind writing my new book, The Price of Becoming. And how it could [...]
Episode #696: Dr. Zeke Emanuel – The Six Rules for Health & Longevity, The Harvard Study on Happiness, The Truth About Biohacking, Social Connection, and How to Avoid Being a Schmuck
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is now available for pre-order. To learn more about all of the pre-order bonuses (it's worth it), CLICK HERE. Ezekiel J. "Zeke" Emanuel, MD, PhD, is a prominent oncologist, bioethicist, and health policy expert. Currently Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, he was [...]
Episode #695: Andy Stumpf – Leadership Lessons From SEAL Team Six, Discipline vs. Motivation, Team Guy vs. Navy SEAL, High Standards, and How To Be Drownproof
My new book, The Price of Becoming, is now available for pre-order. To learn more about all of the pre-order bonuses (it's worth it), CLICK HERE. Andy Stumpf is a retired Navy SEAL who spent 17 years on active duty, including assignments with one of the most elite special operations units in the [...]
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