The Leaders Lab

“When you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, you’re either checking out or checking in - which way are you gonna go? The pain, the joy, the laughs, the tears of living inside this skin to the best of my ability and serving others every day - that’s the gift of recovery, right? That’s the gift of the journey.”  My guest this week is an absolute treat to have a conversation with, and I hope...

“It’s not about perfection, it’s about progress. You can keep progressing every day. I don’t care if they’re minuscule or if they’re big - but if you can just keep getting the wins and compounding that, things are gonna add up to big results.” What happens when you put two sales leaders in one podcast episode? Without even trying, you produce a geek out session on the topic of all things sales, bu...

This week on The Leaders Lab Podcast, we talk about something we haven’t discussed on the show before - and that’s how AI is changing not just the business world, but our lives in general.  Joining us to tackle this very timely topic is an investor in the applications of powerful emerging technologies; someone who believes these technologies are transforming our world - and our place in it; someon...

“If we don’t decide how we’re going to spend our days, then our clients, our family, whoever, is gonna decide for us and we just move along. Having that structure there is super freeing…” This week, my guest and I geek about organization - specifically how to make important decisions on how you want to spend your time, the tools that can help you get to those decisions, and structuring how you can...

“The time I’ve got with my kids is in my diary. Everything is scheduled in. For me, organization is at the heart of everything that I do.” My guest this week is a breath of fresh air as he shares with us his family’s story, personal transformation, and the discipline it took to take him where he is now - in such a candid manner.  I would say this week’s episode is a great mix of easy conversation...

“There were so many people who couldn’t believe that I was doing what I was doing. Build yourself, do your own thing. I do believe that what you focus on expands, and I really wanted to focus so I can expand the thing that I’m passionate about and love…” I am excited to share with you this week my guest’s story of personal growth and business growth.  She reminds us that when we focus on the thing...

“If you are interested in building wealth through investing, we welcome men and women - I believe that men can be bad bitches, too. It’s about energy. It’s about the mindset and perspective.” I am so happy that this week’s interview gets to discuss universally relatable topics like following what you’re really passionate about, getting back up after you fall, and how you can truly realize your sel...

“You’re meant for more than this. This is not what your life is meant to be like… There’s a great quote that goes ‘When the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change, change must happen’ - I resonate with that so much, I use it a lot in all of my businesses.” This week’s guest knows what it's like to feel that you are meant for something more or better. He admittedly spent a...

“It goes back to understanding that I didn't have a choice that I had cancer, it is what it is. But I could always choose how I wanted to react to it…” I am truly honored to have had the chance to produce this week’s episode and share it with all of you. My guest this week was voted as one of The Top Eight Most Inspirational People Of All Time. By listening to this conversation, you will begi...

“I’ve always loved helping people, that’s one of my core values.” In this episode, our guest helps us to look into ourselves and ask what our purpose is and what kind of impact and legacy we’d like to leave this world. A lot of the great leaders I know didn’t come from an easy life, they’ve had to go through stages of transformation and were often underdogs. Our guest his week was no exception to...

“To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.” In this episode, we are reminded about the importance of aspiration, and how taking risks is very important in order to make your aspirations happen. Our guest this week is a big believer that you have to exercise your risk tolerance like a muscle so that you can become stronger and able to withstand greater pressure.  We also...

“I deeply, deeply care about inclusion. I do believe that the greatest equalizer is actually not education. It’s our human skills. I think every single one of us arrived in this world - whether we had opportunities or not, whether we’re the right skin color, we’re from the right country, whatever it is - having these really unique, incredible combinations of things that make us us, and so many tim...

“It’s exhausting, it’s empty, it’s shallow, it’s interference - you’re living in fear every single day when you live in a zero-sum game of not enough.” In this episode, allow me and my very awesome guest to take you on a journey from the “world of not enough”, through the “world of just enough”,  and finally into the “world of more than enough”... He is the perfect guest to accompany us this week...

“I really believe, dollar for dollar, nothing beats a book. It’s the download of an entrepreneur's mind…” In this episode, we talk about lessons shared with us by a multi-million dollar serial entrepreneur and an advocate of smaller business owners around the world on different ways to help you on your journey - from marketing, sales, finance, team building - basically the whole entrepreneuri...

“Do you realize that any of this doesn’t matter or mean anything if you don’t mean anything to yourself? The disease of addiction doesn’t discriminate whether you’re from Park Ave or a park bench, or whether you’ve been to Yale or jail.” In this episode, we hope to inspire people all around the world who may be struggling with addiction, or have had a similar situation in the past, to realize thei...

“You can’t declare yourself trustworthy. You have to behave yourself into a reputation where your mentor finds you trustworthy because of your track record… because you don’t gossip, you don’t lie, you don’t inflate or conflate facts with your emotions… just some things you could do to earn and keep the trust of a mentor.” In this episode, we take a very deep dive into mentorship relationships, by...

“I appreciate you keeping me safe, but I’m good… I can cross the street, I can go to college, I can leave town, I can try this new job… I can even fail! And I’ll be okay.” In this episode, I hope you take away a lot of beautiful realizations as much as I did talking to this week’s wonderful guest. We get vulnerable and speak openly about what we think it takes to be a better leader based on our ow...

“Living a life aligned to oneself - once we get to that place, we access the energetics of longevity and peak performance…” In this episode, allow yourself to take a pause as we discuss something that leaders and entrepreneurs often take for granted, but is actually one of the most important things to prioritize in our journey towards true success and fulfillment. This week, we talk about optimal...

“One of the stats we’re most proud of and aligned with our mission as an organization is that our clients have given over 200 million dollars back to charity. It’s great evidence of how generous and charitable entrepreneurs are, and I don’t know that they get enough credit for that… ” In this episode, although we mainly talk about dealmaking, investment banking, exit planning, and wealth managemen...

“A lot of the things we do in our lives are trial and error, and certain moments in life just change certain paths.” In this episode, we step back to be reminded of what really matters to us in life. As leaders, we sometimes forget why we do things that we do - it could be family, a very personal goal, making the world a better place, among other things. It is very important to take the time to re...

“I’d rather be third string on the championship team than the number one player on the team that lost - and the day that I had that pivot of mindset, everything changed. Now I have incredible humans that work alongside me, I get to lean on their expertise, and I get to do what I’m good at which is (1) use my relationship capital to attract incredible human beings and (2) use my entrepreneurial min...

“If you're creating content for LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook, you can repurpose the content, use it on Tik Tok and all the other platforms. Now the majority of your customer base may not be on Tik Tok, but a small percentage of them are. So if you're creating the content once, you can reuse the same content, put it everywhere and get a bigger bang for the buck. It may not do...

“It's your time to re-ignite your fire to achieve your ultimate potential and live the life you want.” In this episode, we talk about how to create a winning mindset, simple steps you can use to achieve big things in your life, best ways to overcome fear & doubt, and so much more. To help make this happen, joining me on the mic this week is someone with a mission to help people with a des...

“The more you learn, the more options you can create for yourself, as long as you don’t have the fear of trying something new. It opened me up to new ways of thinking and looking at things - I believe that helped foster my world view about work, about what I wanted to do…” In this episode, we dive deep into leadership - which is always what the show is about, but from a different take this week. M...

“If you look back at anything horrible or traumatic you’ve been through in your life, the chances are it’s probably benefited you in some way; as difficult as that is to swallow…” In this episode, we dive deep into the topic of character development through a unique angle which our guest this week gladly and generously opened up for us. As the founder of a character development organization that u...