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 #602: The Learning Leader Team of Coaches – Sherri Coale, Brook Cupps, Geron Stokes, Eli Leiker – Helping Teams Become Elite and People Become Excellent
Sherri Coale was the head coach of the University of Oklahoma women’s basketball team for 25 years (1996-2021). In 2009 and 2010, she took her team to back-to-back Final Fours. Coach Coale was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. Sherri is also the best-selling author of Rooted to Rise: The Redwood [...]
Episode #601: Matt Mullenweg (CEO of Automattic) – Defining Your Creed, Hiring Talented Leaders, & Leading in a Remote World
Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic. Automattic is a fully distributed company with 1,900 employees. Matt is known for developing the free and open-source web software, WordPress. WordPress is used by 43.4% of all websites. There are over 810 million WordPress websites. Matt is a leader I’ve been following (and cold [...]
Episode #600: Keith Hawk & AJ Hawk – Setting The Standard, Failure Stories, Taking Ownership, Giving Great Keynotes, & What The Great Teams Do Differently From The Good Ones
AJ Hawk is the all-time leading tackler in Green Bay Packers history. He won a National Champion at Ohio State University and was voted captain of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl-winning team (2010-2011). He was inducted into the Ohio State University Hall of Fame in 2019. Currently, he is a co-host [...]
Episode #599: Richard Winters, M.D. – Leadership Lessons From Mayo Clinic (“You’re The Leader, Now What?”)
Dr. Richard Winters is a practicing emergency physician and executive coach at Mayo Clinic. As program director of leadership development for the Mayo Clinic Care Network, he coaches senior leaders, facilitates retreats, and delivers programs that train leaders at healthcare organizations worldwide. He is also the author of the Wall Street Journal [...]
Episode #598: Sam Parr (Founder of The Hustle) – Living By a Mantra, Thinking Big, Growing (and Selling) a Media Company, Persuading Others, Becoming a World-Class Writer, Working The Cold Email Muscle, and Pursuing Excellence
Sam Parr founded The Hustle in 2016. In just 4 years, he grew it to become one of the Internet’s biggest newsletters. He then sold it to HubSpot for tens of millions of dollars. He’s the host of a couple of podcasts, My First Million, and Moneywise. He also collects motorcycles, does [...]
Episode #597: Daniel Pink – The Art of Selling, How To Persuade Others, and The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Dan Pink is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven books — including To Sell Is Human and Drive. His books have sold millions of copies around the world, been translated into forty-two languages. He also gave one of the most viewed Ted Talks of all time called The Puzzle [...]
Episode #596: Arthur Brooks – The Art & Science of Happiness, Defining Your Purpose, Working with Oprah, Living Authentically, and Building The Life You Want
Arthur Brooks teaches leadership and happiness at Harvard Business School… He is also a columnist at The Atlantic, where he writes the popular “How to Build a Life” column. Arthur is the author of 13 books, including the 2023 #1 New York Times bestseller Build the Life You Want: The Art and [...]
Episode #595: Anne Mahlum (Founder of solidcore) – How To Bet on Yourself, Build Confidence, Smash Your Goals, Scale a Business, and Earn $100m
Anne Mahlum is a founder and CEO whose entrepreneurial ventures have resulted in a personal net worth of over 100 million dollars. She founded the non-profit Back on My Feet and grew it into a national organization. She then founded and led Solid Core from 1 location to 130 and sold last [...]
Episode #594: Charles Duhigg – Asking Deeper Questions, Developing Listening Skills, The Matching Principle, The Harvard Study, and How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection (Super Communicators)
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on New York Times bestseller lists. His second book, Smarter Faster Better, was also a New York Times bestseller. His latest book is Supercommunicators – How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. [...]
Episode #593: Kim “Killer Chick” Campbell – Contingency Planning, Responding to Adversity, Earning Trust & Respect, Flying in the Face of Fear, and How To Run a Debrief
Kim Campbell is a retired Air Force Colonel who served for over 24 years. She has flown more than 100 combat missions protecting troops on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2003, Kim was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism after successfully recovering her battle-damaged airplane after an intense [...]
Episode #592: Ed Batista – How To Give Useful Feedback, What Great Leaders Do, and Why We All Need An Executive Coach
Ed Batista spent 15 years as a Lecturer and Leadership Coach at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Ed’s work as a coach began after a 15-year career in management, during which he took two years off to earn an MBA at Stanford and helped launch three new organizations. In addition to [...]
Episode #591: Ryan Holiday (LIVE! In Austin) – Good Values, Good Character, Good Deeds (Right Thing, Right Now)
Ryan Holiday is one of the world’s bestselling living philosophers. His books like The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key appear in more than 40 languages and have sold more than 5 million copies. His latest [...]
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