CAPE Lead

CAPE Lead

Business EN ↓ 214 episodes

Welcome to the CAPE Lead podcast, where amazing things happen. This podcast was created by retired US Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Timothy “Chachi” Pachasa, and was created to discuss emerging leadership concepts, and hopefully open up the thought process for how we interoperate with our people and our teams. CAPE Lead focuses on teaching leaders how to succeed through solid understandings of Caring, Alignment, Perspectives, and Expectations.

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CAPE Lead

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Latest episode

Jul 19, 2025

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Episodes

Ep 25-02 Lead, Follow, or get the fuck out of the way! 19.07.2025

Today's podcast is dedicated to one of my favorite teammates, and the man who inspired this podcast, Mr. Reggie Moore. In this conversation, we talk about an age-old military phrase called lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way. However, inside this podcast, we explore a deeper understanding of this concept and how we can practically apply it in our lives.

Ep 25-01- I'm back!! 16.07.2025

This episode is my return from an 18 month break from being locked out of my podcast. This is where I share some exciting new updates, and discuss some of the evolution of CAPE Lead over the past two years.

Ep 24-01 The New Fundamentals of Leadership- Intro 20.01.2024

A new year brings new thoughts! In todays episode, I tease out my refreshed look at leadership fundamentals, and how we apply them in our daily lives!

Ep 23-04 Moral High Ground Take 2 10.08.2023

Wow. In this episode you get to hear me battle with my recent struggle with maintaining the moral high ground!

Ep 23-03 Random Walk 08.08.2023

How do we measure someone's value to an organization? Listen to this and tell me what you think!

Ep 23-02 Words is Important 03.08.2023

Today, we discuss (once again, LOL) how purposeful we are with our words, and what we can do to engage with our followers better!

Ep 23-01 Control the controllables 20.07.2023

Today we discuss what we can do to control the controllables in our life (through the lens of expectations), and we talk about the possible understanding of narcissism in our lives.

Ep 22-06 Japanese Pancakes 07.11.2022

This episode discusses the metaphorical relationship between making regular pancakes, making Japanese pancakes, and how we can apply leadership principles to understand the difference in the two

Ep 22-05- Expectations vs Standards 02.11.2022

This episode discusses the differences between expectations and standards in our every day lives.

Ep 22-04 90 Degrees 02.02.2022

This episode discusses the simple things that we can do to find value and make leadership easier for ourselves and others

Do 22-03 Five Hard Skills 17.01.2022

This episode discusses our mindset of buying a car, and the correlation we can make with how we give our people hard skills to be successful in life and leadership

Ep 22-02 Tim vs Tor 13.01.2022

This episode is a discussion about our mindset,and how we can help ourselves and others grow from being a vicTIM, to a vicTOR!

Ep 22-01 Proud Father 06.01.2022

This episode discusses a conversation that our seven year old son Rennan had with my wife about his understanding of expectations

Ep 21-11 Does Military Leadership Work? 29.12.2021

Today, we discuss whether the military model for leadership "really" works, and whether or not we have the capacity to evolve our leadership processes.

Ep 21-10 Customer Service Expectations 15.10.2021

Today's podcast is brought to you by a frustration I had in the customer service realm, where a store manager was very unclear about the expectations of what he could provide for me

Ep 21-09- Noah and Rennan 11.10.2021

This episode is brought to you by my two sons Noah and Rennan. What I discussed today is born of conversations I had with them yesterday not only about expectations, but about the importance of using the correct words.

Ep 21-08 Expectations Revisited 09.09.2021

In this episode, I revisit some of my key concepts toward understanding expectations, and I explain why expectations are so important in our daily lives.

Ep 21-07 Input vs Feedback 02.09.2021

Today's episode discusses our understanding of the differences between input, feedback, and how we interact with these two concepts

Ep 21-06 Organizational Commitment 01.09.2021

In this episode we discuss our understanding of both obedience and discipline, but then also add in a third dimension of what is our understanding of organizational commitment inside our respective workplaces.

Ep 21-05 Unpacking Obedience vs Discipline 10.02.2021

This episode expands on my conversation on the Free Range American Podcast with Jarred Taylor where I brought up the difference between obedience and discipline, and how the military has grossly oversold obedience AS discipline.  I reference a great article by Safa Mahzari (link below) in helping reinforce this concept. #leadership #capelead #expectations #gooddudeership https://safamahzari.m...

Ep 21-04 Information Plus Context 05.02.2021

Today’s episode discusses what we can do to understand the information we give other people, and what we can do to make sure that we’re adding context to that information to make sure that we are leading expectations.

Ep 21-03 Breathing Down Your Neck... 28.01.2021

This episode discusses how we can be more positive and the science that backs the positivity that comes from giving people benefit of the doubt and trying to look on the bright side of things. #leadership #capelead #expectations #Pachasa8 #gooddudeership

Ep 21-02 Revisiting Perspectives 25.01.2021

This episode revisits a previous podcast about perspectives and what we can do inside our respective organizations to shape conversations toward a mutual sharing of perspectives and understanding

Ep 21-01 Don’t Put Oil In Your Gas Tank 08.01.2021

This episode discusses our foundational understanding of not only leadership theory, but human connection theory

Ep 20-36 Actions vs Expectations 16.12.2020

This episode discusses the subtle difference between our actions and the expectations of our actions.  Being able to differentiate between these two topics (if only philosophical) can be the key to avoiding frustration and/or conflict.

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