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 #710: Ravi Gupta – The Anti-Dabbler’s Guide to Mastering One New Skill Every Year, Why Presence Isn’t Enough, Bourdain’s Masterclass in Humility, and Pairing Reasonable Goals With Delusional Ones
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. Ravi Gupta is the founder of RePublic Schools, whose flagship Nashville schools became the first in Tennessee to rank in the top 5% statewide for both growth and [...]
Episode #709: Vanessa Van Edwards – How to Connect with Anyone, Master Small Talk, and Ask the 9 Power Questions That Deepen Every Relationship
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. Vanessa Van Edwards is a behavioral researcher, Harvard instructor, and founder of Science of People. Her books Captivate and Cues have been translated into 18 languages, and her [...]
Episode #708: Danny Meyer – How You Make People Feel: The Founder of Shake Shack & Union Square Hospitality Group on Culture as Soil, the 49/51 Hiring Formula, and Leading With Generosity
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. Danny Meyer is the founder of Union Square Hospitality Group and one of the most influential restaurateurs of his generation. He built New York landmarks like Union Square [...]
Episode #707: Andy Stanley & Sam Kaufman – Problems to Solve, Tensions to Manage, The 3 Questions Behind Every Great Decision, and The 7 Essentials of Enduring Leadership (What Great Leaders Do)
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. Andy Stanley is the founder of North Point Ministries, which he started in Atlanta in 1995 and has grown into 8 churches across metro Atlanta and a network [...]
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 [...]
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