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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LATEST EPISODE
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 [...]
Episode #356: Stewart Friedman – How To Parent With Purpose & Fuel Your Career
Stew Friedman is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1984. He earned PhD from the University of Michigan. As founding director of The Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses. Friedman [...]
Episode #355: Ramit Sethi – How To Live A Rich Life
Ramit Sethi is the New York Times best-selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. He co-founded PBwiki and graduated from Stanford, where he studied technology and psychology. His blog, iwillteachyoutoberich.com, hosts over 1,000,000 readers every month. They read his material to learn how to use psychology and systems to [...]
Episode #354: WELCOME TO MANAGEMENT Book Launch Party With Doug Meyer
This is the recording from the conversation I had with Co-Founder/President of Brixey & Meyer, Doug Meyer, in front of many of our friends, clients, and colleagues at the Dayton office of Brixey & Meyer. WELCOME TO MANAGEMENT provides practical, actionable advice to help new managers build and lead committed teams in [...]
Episode #353: Jeni Britton Bauer – How To Create A ‘Craveable’ Reason To Return
Jeni Britton Bauer is an American ice cream maker and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the artisan ice cream movement, she introduced a modern, ingredient-driven style of ice cream making that has been widely emulated across the world but never duplicated. Jeni opened her first ice cream shop, Scream, in 1996, then founded [...]
Episode #352: Patrick Lencioni – The Five Key Actions Of Excellent Leaders
Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to helping leaders improve their organizations’ health since 1997. His principles have been embraced by leaders around the world and adopted by organizations of virtually every kind including multinational corporations, entrepreneurial ventures, professional sports teams, the military, nonprofits, schools, [...]
Episode #351: John Maxwell – The Laws Of Leadership (Follow Them & People Will Follow You)
John C. Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, coach, and author who has sold over 20 million books. Dr. Maxwell is the founder of EQUIP and the John Maxwell Company, organizations that have trained more than 5 million leaders worldwide. Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government [...]
Episode #350: Tom Rath – Answering Life’s Great Question
Tom Rath is an author and researcher who has spent the past two decades studying how work can improve human health and well-being. His 10 books have sold more than 10 million copies and made hundreds of appearances on global bestseller lists. Tom’s first book, How Full Is Your Bucket?, was an instant [...]
Episode #349 – An Inside Look At The Book Writing Process With Jay Acunzo
Jay Acunzo and I open up the hood and look inside the book writing process. We covered: research, outlining, drafting, editing, publishing (traditional or self?), the benefit of a podcast, superlatives (best story, most useful research, hardest part, easiest part, interactions with our editors), and practical takeaways for your whether you want [...]
Episode #348: Simon Sinek – Why Consistency Beats Intensity (Playing The Infinite Game)
Simon Sinek may be best known for popularizing the concept of WHY in his first TED Talk in 2009. It rose to become the third most watched on TED.com, with over 40 million views and subtitled in 47 languages. Simon is the author of multiple best selling books including Start With Why (global best [...]
Episode #347: Steven Strogatz – How Calculus Reveals The Secrets Of The Universe
Steven Strogatz is a professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. After graduating summa cum laude in mathematics from Princeton in 1980, Strogatz studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He did his doctoral work in applied mathematics at Harvard, followed by a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship [...]
Episode #346: Cameron Mitchell – Yes Is The Answer, What Is The Question?
Cameron Mitchell is the founder & CEO of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants. In 2018, they celebrated their 25th anniversary. He employees more than 5,000 people and his restaurants do $300m/year in sales. He is the author of Yes Is The Answer, What Is The Question? He has been recognized as Entrepreneur of the [...]
Episode #345: Kamal Ravikant – Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Kamal Ravikant has trekked to one of the highest base camps in the Himalayas, earned his US Army Infantry patch, walked 550 miles across Spain, lived in Paris, been the only non-black, non-woman member of the Black Women’s writers’ group, written several best-selling books, won a San Francisco-wide modeling contest, gotten drunk [...]
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