Black Belt Leadership

What are you afraid of? What keeps you awake at night? What haunting image holds you back from reaching your goals and dreams? What do you fear? And more importantly, WHY? That's the topic of this week's Black Belt Leadership Podcast.

What can you learn about leadership from the Bible? It turns out, a LOT! It's a record of leadership success and failure, spanning thousands of years of recorded human history - with real-life applications even today.

On this episode of Black Belt Leadership, we explore the idea that success starts with asking the right questions. Dr. John shares personal experiences and insights on finding success from within. He emphasizes that defining success and refining that definition is key to achieving goals and ambitions. Dr. John also shares how his dad instilled in him a passion for reading and how self-reflection c...

What if there was an uncommon school, where we continue our education beyond the basics of K-12, or even college, focused on success? There is, and here's where you find it and enroll. That's what you'll learn in this week's "Be a Black Belt Leader" podcast.

Pine caterpillars mindlessly follow one other, wreaking havoc on the forests they inhabit, oblivious to the harm they cause. Sadly, so do we. In this week's leadership installment, Dr. John tackles the dangerous trend of "Herd Mind" and how it harms individuals and society as a whole.

What can the gangsters of the 1930s teach us about leadership? They can reveal to us the fallacy of denial. We live in a culture that wants to blame anyone and everyone for their problems, except themselves. How should a Black Belt Leader respond to the fallacy of denial? That's the topic of this week's podcast.

A ladder is nothing but a tool - just an instrument to use in order to arrive at some destination. What is the "Lesson of the Ladder" and how does it lead to more success? That's what I tackle in this week's Black Belt Leadership Podcast.

Grass cannot reproduce weeds any more than an apple tree can reproduce oranges. The same is true for leadership. We reproduce after our own kind. We are sowing the seeds of leadership in the lives of those who are following. What does that look like when it germinates and grows? That's the topic of this week's Be a Black Belt Leader Podcast.

Who said it was OK to stop measuring progress and rewarding success? America's standing in the world is waning, because we've stopped winning as a society and started settling for less. What happened to winning? That's the topic of this week's "Be a Black Belt Leader" podcast. What Happened to Winning?

When the names we call ourselves cast blame, insult, ridicule, or humiliation on ourselves, we close the door to our future success. This is how you change the conversation you're having with yourself.

A leadership lesson from Star Trek reminds us the greatest enemy to our success often lurks within ourselves. How do you learn to recognize and conquer your Enemy Within? That's the topic of this week's "Be a Black Belt Leader" Podcast.

You can't effectively move forward in life and get where you want to go if you're constantly looking at where you've been. This is how you let go of the past and start moving forward toward your destiny. Enjoy this week's MASTER Your Life Moment on the Be a Black Belt Leader podcast.

Your job is where you earn an income.  Your calling is where you cultivate an outcome.  You get to choose which of these becomes the driving force in your life.  In this episode of Black Belt Leadership, you'll discover how to go from simply working for a living to fulfilling your destiny.

Is what matters to you moving you forward, or keeping you going in circles riding the roller coaster of life?  Life can be a roller coaster, full of twists and turns, that keeps bringing us back to the same place over and over again.  What's the answer?  How do we get off the roller coaster so we can start moving forward and live our lives ON purpose, FOR a purpose?  That's the...

How do you respond when "life" gets in the way of progress? When you get entangled or tripped up?  How do you turn obstacles into opportunities?  Here's another leadership lesson from "Little Armani", a Black Belt Leader in training.  

Armani is growing, but he's not yet growing up. There's a lesson in that for all of us. Growing is easy. Growing up demands more.  Are you growing up, or simply growing?  There's a LOT to learn from our new puppy we can apply to being a better Black Belt Leader and that's the topic of conversation this week.

Who mentors you matters.  What if Dick Grayson hadn't met Bruce Wayne, but met the Penguin instead.  How would his life have been different?  This we explore in this Black Belt Leadership "MASTER Your Life" podcast.  

We live in a divisive world that is increasingly selfish, ungrateful, and resentful.  Rather than focusing on what we have, we're taught to focus on what others have that we don't.  It's viewing the world through a narrow, distorted lens of entitlement that blurs this essential truth: When you start each day being thankful for what you have, and the people who are in your life, you open...

If we choose to settle for STATUS QUO, that's all we'll ever get. We've killed our opportunity to learn, accomplish, and become more. How do you answer the question, "Of all the things I could be doing...?"  I help you answer that well in this installment of Black Belt Leadership's "MASTER Your Life" podcast.

If you want to continue to become a better version of YOU every single day, this is how you stay in the Growth Zone.  A simple, but highly effective growth hack. That's the topic of this week's MASTER Your Life Podcast from Black Belt Leadership.

High-performance teams and individuals are seen as "the best of the best", and people seek them out for that reason.  I learned a lot about preparation and performance, and that's the topic of this week's "MASTER Your Life" podcast.

Your words speak.  So do your actions. If you want to be an effective, respected leader, your saying and your doing must be congruent.  How you perform on the stage of life is the topic of this week's MASTER Your Life Podcast.

It's as old as human history, and the destroyer of so many personal and business relationships.  It's a failure of leadership and a thief of success. What is it?  The answer will be found in this week's "MASTER Your Life" Podcast.

Henry Ford famously quipped, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, your right." There's a LOT of Truth in that statement. In this week's "MASTER Your Life" newsletter, I expose the truth that can't never could do nothing, no how!  Enjoy this Black Belt Leadership "MASTER Your Life" moment.

When you have a vision, it is your goals that provide direction, motivation, and the framework to take the action necessary to achieve them.  In this workshop, you'll learn the strategies and tactics to define, refine, implement, and achieve your goals - allowing you to experience more success in your life or your business.  In this expanded podcast episode, you'll learn the essential st...