THE LEARNING LEADER
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 #561: Bob Sutton – How Smart Leaders Make The Right Things Easier and The Wrong Things Harder (The Friction Project)
Bob Sutton is an organizational psychologist, Stanford professor, and New York Times bestselling author of multiple books including, Scaling Up Excellence, Good Boss-Bad Boss, and most recently, The Friction Project. WATCH this conversation on YouTube. And SUBSCRIBE! Order our NEW BOOK, The Score That Matters. “People spend far too much time obsessing about [...]
Episode #560: Dr. Barry Posner – Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Encourage Others to Act (The Leadership Challenge)
Dr. Barry Posner is the Chair, of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business where he’s worked for 47 years. He’s the best-selling author of many books, including The Truth about Leadership and The Leadership Challenge. WATCH this conversation on YouTube. And SUBSCRIBE! Read my [...]
Episode #559: Marshall Goldsmith – The Power of Executive Coaching, How To Give & Receive Feedback, & Attributes of The Best Leaders (What Got You Here Won’t Get You There)
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World and the top-rated executive coach at the Thinkers50 ceremony in London since 2011. Published in 2015, his book Triggers is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times #1 Bestseller! He’s also the author of [...]
Episode #558: Introducing Our New Book, “The Score That Matters,” (With Brook Cupps)
Order The Score That Matters NOW. CLICK HERE. In The Score That Matters, Ryan Hawk and Brook Cupps show that the internal score is what matters most—it reveals whether we are living in alignment with our purpose and values. Offering both descriptive and prescriptive advice and anecdotes, The Score That Matters will help you [...]
Episode #557: Hal Elrod – How To Create a Morning Routine That Works For You
Hal Elrod has survived multiple near-death experiences—including a head-on car crash with a drunk driver that left him with 11 broken bones, and more recently a rare form of cancer that doctors gave him a 30% chance of surviving. He is the author of 12 books, most notably, The Miracle Morning—which has [...]
Episode #556: Morgan Housel – A Guide To Human Behavior, Telling Great Stories, Becoming a Reasonable Optimist, Writing Advice, Mr. Beast, & What Never Changes
Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund. He’s the author of The Psychology of Money, which has sold over four million copies, and The New York Times Bestseller Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes. He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the [...]
Episode #555: Shane Parrish – Raising Your Standards, The Difference Between Nice & Kind Feedback, The Inner vs. Outer Scoreboard, & Turning Ordinary Moments Into Extraordinary Results (Clear Thinking)
Shane Parrish is the entrepreneur and wisdom seeker behind Farnam Street where he focuses on turning timeless insights into action. Shane’s work has been featured in nearly every major publication, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking: [...]
Episode #554: Tim Urban – Becoming a High-Rung Thinker, Being The Boss of The Ideas In Your Own Head, Writing Wait But Why, & The Best Advice He’s Ever Received
Tim Urban is the writer/illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why, a long-form, stick-figure-illustrated website with over 600,000 subscribers and a monthly average of half a million visitors. He has produced dozens of viral articles on a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence to social anxiety to humans becoming a multi-planetary [...]
Episode #553: Dr. Eric Potterat – Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World’s Top Performers (Learned Excellence)
Eric Potterat, Ph.D., is a clinical and performance psychologist. He retired as a commander from the US Navy after twenty years of service, during which he helped create the mental toughness curriculum used during Navy SEALs BUD/S training. Eric spent several years as the director of specialized performance for the Los Angeles [...]
Episode #552: Brian Johnson – How To Activate Your Heroic Potential, Develop Charisma, Become Intrinsically Motivated, Build Emotional Stamina, & Live With Arete
Brian Johnson is the Founder & CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation and the author of Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential. As a Founder/CEO he’s built and sold two social platforms. As a Philosopher and teacher, he’s trained more than 10,000 Heroic Coaches from 100+ countries and created a protocol that changes [...]
Episode #551: Greg Harden – How To Control The Controllables and Stay Sane in an Insane World (A Conversation With Tom Brady’s Mentor)
Greg Harden is best known for working with 7-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. He also worked with Super Bowl MVP Desmond Howard, and 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps. Brady, Howard, and other athletes credit Harden with inspiring them to overcome obstacles and achieve success in their professional and personal lives. [...]
Episode #550: Dan Patrick – The Art of Interviewing, Leaving ESPN, Working With Dave Matthews & Adam Sandler, Asking Better Questions, & Taking Care of Your Team
Dan Patrick is a Hall-of-Fame sports broadcaster and host of The Dan Patrick Show (1M+ listeners, 371 affiliates). Prior to that, he spent 18 years at ESPN hosting the 11:00 SportsCenter (known as “The Big Show”). Dan went on to be the three-time host of the Olympics for NBC Sports. He’s also [...]
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