Beka Shea
Challenge to Lead: Build Stronger Teams. Scale Smarter.
You’ve built a strong business. Now your next challenge? Leading a team that can scale without you. Hosted by Beka Shea—former military officer, mechanical engineer, and executive advisor—Challenge to Lead is the weekly leadership podcast for growth-minded CEOs with 50–500 employees. Each short, tactical episode delivers a powerful idea or shift in thinking to help you build stronger leaders, create scalable systems, and reclaim your focus. No fluff. No jargon. Just the real stories and work of leading better.
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Beka Shea
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Nov 7, 2025
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Episodes
Scariest Business Moment 31.10.2023 9:34
Every leader has one. It’s how you get through it that counts.
Don’t Let The Ball Drop 30.10.2023 3:35
Don’t assume someone else on the team is going to get to the critical stuff.
Gratitude in the moments 27.10.2023 4:56
It’s not possible to be immersed in a life where you don’t take things for granted, but it is possible to restore your soul with Small Moments.
Don’t Let Your Bad Performers Cost You The Good Ones 26.10.2023 5:22
Great teammates want to work with other great teammates - and for a leader that recognizes that.
Stability Before Growth 25.10.2023 5:16
If you want longevity, consider stability first.
Showing Grace 24.10.2023 5:46
We are all on our own journeys and the best thing you can do as a leader and a human is to give them grace while they are evolving.
Business After Layoffs 23.10.2023 5:55
Leadership requires hard choices. How do you make them in the right way?
You Get What You Need 20.10.2023 3:51
“You can’t always get what you want, but I’d you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.”
Don’t Have The Answer 19.10.2023 7:12
We talked a lot about bringing Solutions along with problems, but sometimes it’s good to come to the table with just the problem and let your advisors help you figure it out
Experience versus Facts 16.10.2023 6:45
How to get buy in
The Secret to “Enough” 13.10.2023 6:22
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity." -Melody Beattie
Small tweaks 11.10.2023 4:35
To become an expert at something, we have to put our 10,000 hours in, and that includes a lot of small improvements overtime.
Machine experts 10.10.2023 4:18
You’ve built a machine that works, now bring in an expert to help you evaluate it and maintain it.
The Simplifying Question 09.10.2023 4:44
“What would it look like if it were easy?”
Celebration Friday! 06.10.2023 3:14
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt
Personal Discipline 05.10.2023 6:50
A leader’s greatest challenge is having the ability to maintain personal discipline.
Accountability = Discipline 04.10.2023 4:50
No one can hold you accountable, but you can put systems in place to make it easier to exert personal discipline
New schedules 03.10.2023 4:36
New seasons of life are always tough, but the secret is to just keep moving forward until it feels normal
Protecting Time When You Don’t Want To 02.10.2023 4:44
Good leaders have personal discipline
Life Is Poker, Not Chess 29.09.2023 2:08
“Chess, for all its strategic complexity, isn’t a great model for decision-making in life, where most of our decisions involve hidden information and a much greater influence of luck.” Annie Duke
Better Decisions More Success 28.09.2023 4:46
Improving decision quality is about increasing our chances of good outcomes, not guaranteeing them. Annie Duke
Play The Probability 27.09.2023 4:51
“What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge.” Annie Duke
Go Find An Expert 26.09.2023 3:03
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki
Action, indecision, and acceptance 25.09.2023 5:57
Indecision is not where you want to live. Move the needle left or right!
Don’t Know? Don’t Hire! 22.09.2023 3:04
Figure it out as you go is not a recipe for hiring success.
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