Evoke Greatness Podcast

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 230 The Year Isn't Over. Neither Are You. | How the Final 60 Days Can Change What Comes Next What if some of the most meaningful progress you'll make this year hasn't happened yet? As the year winds down, it's easy to focus on everything you didn't accomplish. The goals that fell short. The habits that never stuck. The unexpected challenges that cha...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 229 The Overachiever Trap: Why Doing More Is Holding You Back with Bruce McLeod What if the very thing that made you successful is now the thing holding you back? For high achievers, being the dependable one, the problem solver, and the person who always steps up can quietly become part of who you are. But there comes a point where doing more stops creating progress. It sta...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 228 You Can Make the Right Decision and Still Lose Your Team | Michael Neuendorff (Pt. 2) What if the biggest leadership mistake isn't the decision you make, but how you bring people through it? Leadership gets complicated when the decisions you make impact the people who trust you to lead them. In Part 2 of my conversation with executive coach Michael Neuendorff, we e...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 227 The Leader You Were Won’t Get You Where You’re Going | Michael Neuendorff (Pt. 1) The skills that get you promoted aren't always the skills that will make you successful at the next level. In Part 1 of my conversation with executive coach Michael Neuendorff, we unpack what really changes when you step into a bigger leadership role, and why some leaders grow into th...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧Ep 226: What Building Spartan Taught Him About Surviving the Unthinkable | Brian Duncanson (Pt. 2) In part one of this conversation on Evoke Greatness , Brian Duncanson shared what decades of adventure racing and helping build Spartan taught him about choosing hard things. But what happens when you don’t get to choose the hard thing? In part two, Brian takes us deeper into the s...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧Ep 225: When Things Get Hard, Who Do You Become? | Brian Duncanson (Pt. 1) What happens when everything gets stripped away and there’s nowhere left to hide? In part one of this conversation on Evoke Greatness , Sonnie sits down with Brian Duncanson, known throughout the Spartan movement as “Spartan One” and “The Navigator.” For more than two decades, Brian has been one of the st...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep 224: The Messy Middle: How to Keep Moving When Everything Is Changing In this solo episode of Evoke Greatness , Sonnie talks about something most of us are experiencing in one form or another right now: change. Not change from the perspective of someone who has already made it through and can neatly explain what it all meant. Change from right in the middle of it. Sonnie sha...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep 223: How to Find What’s Stalling Your Business Growth | David Asarnow (Pt. 2) In part two of this conversation on Evoke Greatness , Sonnie and David Asarnow move from using AI effectively to identifying what is actually limiting your growth. David begins with the decision to step away from his business for an entire month and trek more than 120 miles through the Himalayas wi...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep 222: How to Use AI to Grow Your Business Without Losing Your Voice | David Asarnow (Pt. 1) In part one of this two-part conversation on Evoke Greatness, Sonnie sits down with David Asarnow, creator of the Revenue Multiplier Matrix, founder of Business Nitrogen, and former top trainer for Tony Robbins and Chet Holmes at Business Breakthroughs. David has driven more than $745...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep: 221 Why Every Human Has a Voice of Doubt: Esther Stanhope on Owning the Room and Becoming Visibly Brilliant (Pt. 2) 🎥 Now on video on Spotify & Apple Podcast What does it actually take to walk into a room and own it? Part 1 named the problem. Part 2 gives you the roadmap. Esther Stanhope is back and this time she goes further. Into the childhood wounds that feed the in...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep: 220 Why Smart, Talented People Stay Invisible at Work with Esther Stanhope (Part 1) 🎥 Now on video on Spotify & Apple Podcast What happens when the most talented person in the room is also the most invisible one? That is the question at the center of this conversation, and it is one most high performers never stop to ask until the promotion goes to someone else, the op...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep: 219 The 4 Elements Every High Performer Needs to Stop Running on Autopilot with Laura G. Patac (Pt. 2)  🎥 Now on video on Spotify & Apple Podcast You heard Part 1. You felt it. Now it gets practical. In Part 2, Laura G. Patac gets specific. She pulls back the curtain on the four-part framework inside her Strengths Velocity Lab™, breaks down the real difference between...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep: 218 Why High Performers Get Stuck: Strengths, Identity, and the Reinvention No One Talks About — with Laura G. Patac (Part 1) 🎥 Now on video on Spotify & Apple Podcast What happens when the life you built no longer feels like yours?  That is the question at the center of this conversation, and it is one most high performers never think to ask until they are already stu...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep: 217 What Great Parents Actually Do Differently and How to Start Today | Margot Machol Bisnow (Pt 2)  🎥 Now on video on Spotify & Apple Podcast Part 1 revealed what successful entrepreneurs had in common as kids. Part 2 gets into the moments that actually made the difference — the real, unglamorous decisions where parents either build something in their kids or quietly...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep: 216  What Successful Entrepreneurs Had in Common as Kids and How to Raise One | Margot Machol Bisnow  (Part 1) 🎥 Now on video on Spotify & Apple Podcast  Margot Machol Bisnow spent years sitting across from some of the most celebrated entrepreneurs of our time and kept asking the same question: "How did you become who you are?" They didn't all come from...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 215: Comfort Is a Trap — David Schnurman on Choosing the Hard Path On Purpose (Pt.2) Episode Summary Comfort feels safe. David Schnurman says that's exactly the problem. In part two of this conversation, David and Sonnie dig into the second year of his family's life abroad — the year that almost didn't happen. When summer camp got cancelled due to COVID, the...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 214: How to Stop Playing It Safe and Start Living the Life You Want with David Schnurman (Pt. 1) What does it look like to stop waiting on someday? In this rich, deeply human conversation, Sonnie sits down with David Schnurman — entrepreneur, two-time author, TEDx speaker, and CEO of Lawline — to unpack what it really takes to trade comfort for the life you actually want. D...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 213: How to Rewire Your Brain for Peak Performance and Lead at Your Best When It Matters Most | Dr. Izzy Justice (Pt. 2) What if everything you thought you knew about peak performance, stress, and confidence was missing the one thing that actually matters? In Part 2 of this conversation, neuroscientist and performance expert Dr. Izzy Justice is back — and this time, we&apos...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep 212: What Your Brain Does Before Greatness | Dr. Izzy Justice on Flow, Fear & Peak Performance (Part 1) There is a moment right before the swing, before the speech, before the decision that changes everything. And in those seconds, your brain is either working for you — or against you. Dr. Izzy Justice has spent his career studying exactly that moment. As Chief Neuroscie...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 211 How to Organize Your Life, Protect Your Energy and Put Yourself Back on the List | Lisa Woodruff (Pt. 2) You started Part 1 understanding the weight you've been carrying. Now it's time to put it down. In Part 2 of this conversation, Lisa Woodruff is back and we are going deeper . We're talking about the practical, no-excuses systems that will change how y...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Ep. 210 How to Stop Drowning in Clutter and Reclaim Your Mental Clarity | Lisa Woodruff (Pt. 1) 📝 Show Notes What does the pile of paper on your counter have to do with your capacity to lead? More than you think. Lisa Woodruff is the founder of Organize 365 and author of the upcoming book Escaping Quicksand . She has spent decades helping women build functional systems for the...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Episode 209: Dominance vs. Prestige, Human Skills, and the Science of Leadership Influence | Dr. Benjamin Granger (Pt. 2) 📝 Show Notes What does evolutionary biology have to do with your leadership style? More than you think. In Part 2 of this conversation, Sonnie and Dr. Benjamin Granger go deeper into the science of leadership, from the two paths humans use to gain social st...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Episode 208: Becoming a Leader Worth Following | Dr. Benjamin Granger (Part 1) 📝 Show Notes What separates a leader people genuinely want to follow from one they simply tolerate? In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Sonnie sits down with Dr. Benjamin Granger, organizational psychologist and author of A Leader Worth Following , to explore the human side of leadership that m...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Episode 207: How to Find Your Voice at Work and Stop Playing Small, with Minda Harts (Part 2) What is staying quiet at work actually costing you? Not just the missed moment… But the opportunity, the growth, the confidence, and the standard you’re setting for what you’re willing to tolerate. In Part 1 of this conversation, I sit down with Minda Harts to unpack the hidden cost of...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Episode 206: Why Speaking Up at Work Is Harder for Some Leaders, with Minda Harts Part 1 What is staying quiet at work actually costing you? Not just the missed moment…  But the opportunity, the growth, the confidence, and the standard you’re setting for what you’re willing to tolerate. In Part 1 of this conversation, I sit down with Minda Harts, Author of Talk to Me Nice: The...