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 #626: Rob Kimbel – Living By Your Values, Caring For Your People, Taking The Back Seat, & Creating Opportunities That Improve Lives
Rob Kimbel is an owner of Kimbel Mechanical Systems, located in Fayetteville, AR. He joined KMS in 1993, and in 2001, at the age of 26, he became the CEO and grew what was then 3 local plumbers making a couple hundred thousand dollars a year into a national company with more [...]
Episode #625: Melody Wilding – Effectively Managing Up, Designing Your 1:1s, Getting Paid What You’re Worth, Creating The 1 Pagers, & Earning The Triple Win
Melody Wilding is a professor of human behavior at Hunter College. Her background as a therapist and emotions researcher informs her unique approach, weaving evidence-based neuroscience and psychology with professional development. She is the author of Trust Yourself and Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge. Watch our conversation [...]
Episode #624: Chris Beresford-Hill – Writing Excellent Cold-Emails, Taking Responsibility of Your Career, Pushing Your Edges, Becoming Dave Matthews’ Pen Pal, Building Culture, & Leading a Creative Agency
Chris Beresford-Hill is the Worldwide Chief Creative Officer at BBDO. Previously he spent 2 years as North America President and CCO of Ogilvy, where he helped bring the agency and its clients a new level of relevance. He brought Workday to the Super Bowl, led the team that brought in the Verizon [...]
Episode #623: Stu McLaren – Building Communities, Stories About Transformation, A World-Class Onboarding Process, & The Business Model of The Future
Stu McLaren is the go-to person for turning passion into profit through membership businesses. As the founder of The Membership Experience and co-founder of Membership.io, Stu has helped thousands of entrepreneurs create recurring revenue and thriving communities by leveraging his proven membership strategies. Watch our conversation on YouTube. And SUBSCRIBE! This is [...]
Episode #622: Alex Hutchinson – Why We Seek Big Challenges, Adding Texture To Time, The Explorers Gene, Working Through Uncertainty, Tom Hanks, and Pushing The Limits of Human Performance
Alex Hutchinson is the New York Times bestselling author of Endure and a National Magazine Award-winning journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. A former long-distance runner for the Canadian national team, he holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia and a Ph.D. in [...]
Episode #621: Rachel Botsman – Being Comfortable with Uncertainty, Giving Trust Before It’s Earned, Being on Time, Giving Great Keynotes, & How To Trust and Be Trusted
Rachel Botsman has become an expert on trust in the modern world. She’s written three books: What’s Mine is Yours, Who Can You Trust, and How to Trust and Be Trusted. Her TED talks have amassed over 5 million views. And she teaches at Oxford University’s Business School where she created pioneering [...]
Episode #620: Steve Magness – Defining Success on Your Terms, Setting Process Goals, Speaking Up in the Face of Fear, Winning The Inside Game, & Living a Meaningful Life
Steve Magness is world-renowned for his work on high performance. He’s the best-selling author of many books including, The Passion Paradox, Do Hard Things, and Win The Inside Game. Watch our conversation on YouTube. And SUBSCRIBE! This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire 1 person, hire [...]
Episode #619: Mike Maples Jr. – Practicing Reckless Optimism, Betting On Founders, Bill Gates Hiring Mike Sr at Microsoft, Being Overprepared, & What It Means To Do YOUR Best
Mike Maples Jr is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate. He has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade and was recently profiled by Harvard Business School for his lifetime contributions to entrepreneurship. Some of his early investments include: Twitter, DemandForce, Twitch, and Applied Intuition. Mike is also [...]
Episode #618: Chase Jarvis – Never Play It Safe, Work Your Creativity Muscle, Trust Your Intuition, Tell Great Jokes, & Become a Transformational Leader
Chase Jarvis is a photographer, director, artist, and entrepreneur. He was the CEO of an online education platform called Creative Live from 2014 to 2022. He’s earned countless awards for his photography and creative work including a Pulitzer Prize for a New York Times story he contributed to called “Snow Fall.” He’s [...]
Episode #617: Adam Galinsky – How To Inspire Others, Build a Team, Speak Up For Yourself, Thrive Through Adversity, & Become Their Favorite Boss
Adam Galinsky is a social psychologist and Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He delivered one of the most viewed Ted Talks of all time called “How to Speak Up for Yourself,” and he’s the author of a great new book called Inspire: The Universal [...]
Episode #616: Bob Stoops- Building a Winning Culture, Connecting With People, Creating a Coaching Forest, Caring For Your Team, & Winning Championships
Bob Stoops was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2021. He was the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1999 to 2016. He led the Sooners to a 191-48 record over his career. His 2000/2001 team won the national championship. He earned the National [...]
Episode #615: Brad Thor – The Art & Science of Storytelling, Creating Surprise, Billions, Ray Donavon, & The Willingness (& Ability) To Break The Rules
Brad Thor is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four thrillers, including SHADOW OF DOUBT, NEAR DARK, BACKLASH, SPYMASTER, THE LAST PATRIOT, and BLOWBACK. Brad has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Analytic Red Cell Unit. In 2008, Brad shadowed a Black Ops team in Afghanistan [...]
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