Fire Forged Leader

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes relationships are like sliding on black ice and we have to steer into the skid! It's totally against what makes sense, but it's what is needed at the time and that is what really matters. This episode is more on every day relational leadership and everyone can benefit. Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass&quo...

Send us Fan Mail Ever look at a fire extinguisher - Of course you have! Looking at the gauge, you will notice red on both sides of the green area. One side is undercharged, the other is overcharged. In this podcast the host takes us on a walk through how this is similar to leadership in many ways.  We need to access where we are at and make sure that we stay in the green!  Support the show 🔗 Read...

Send us Fan Mail It's a statistic that only 3% of the population actually sets goals and you are 42% more likely to achieve them if you write them down. Holy crap, sure doesn't take much to get into the top 1.5% of the Best of the Best does it? So what's the rest? Well it's not sexy, but the rest is straight up Discipline and Consistency. I warned you it wasn't sexy! So be...

Send us Fan Mail “I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.” ― Jordan B. Peterson He has a hell of a point with this. Join the Fire Forged Leader as he breaks down what Jordan Peterson means when he calls people to be a monster!  Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Res...

Send us Fan Mail Yup, you heard it here first folks....No One Cares! With our children we give them latitude to learn, to fail, to grow. Well, we should anyhow, if you don't...step back and re-evaluate! So if we are giving our children latitude like this, why don't we give ourselves the same grace? Why do we beat ourselves up, why do we worry about what others are thinking, why do we tal...

Send us Fan Mail We as leaders often have a hard time getting out of our own way. This comes in the form of Ego many times. But how does our ego lend itself to the people we lead? How does it affect our marriages, our children, or the people we lead in the community or in the work environment? Generally, the answer is horribly and in the best case scenario it's poor at best. Listen in to this...

Send us Fan Mail There is an untold reason why fitness/nutrition people tell you to drink a gallon of water per day. Believe me it's not as clear cut as it seems. But the theory goes beyond the consumption of water...it's practical advice for many areas of life. Listen to the damn podcast already!  Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass&...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I meet with a very special guest who has overcome a tremendous amount of adversity, partnered with the people around her to face the adversity and come out on the other side a true Fire Forged leader! Victory King is an amazing person that continues to embrace the power of the team and shares her insights with us on how she was able to endure so much and learn fro...

Send us Fan Mail  “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." - James Clear People don't lack time... People don't lack money... People don't lack resources... or even motivation What they lack is systems! Systems create our habits, without these systems in place to create new habits, we slip backward into our natural habits. Our natural...

Send us Fan Mail In many ways, our lives are a circus and we create them to be that we. We put on a show for others that aren't the ones that should truly matter. We put the proverbial lipstick on a pig for a short encounter with some person that you see rarely, while day in and day out we neglect ourselves or the ones closest to us.  Let's vow to change our focus today and do things for...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode the Fire Forged Leader talks about people being bad neighbors and how to avoid this type of behavior so we can work together to get more accomplished. Simple framework that leads to results! Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass" to @realstevebaumgartner on Instagram or @SteveBaumgartner1975 on Facebook -----...

Send us Fan Mail As human's we are messed up piles of goooooo We are wired in the most peculiar ways, we are we drawn to responding negatively? Why do we not find joy in every situation? Better question is...How do I go against the grain and find joy and be positive in my interactions to produce better outcomes? Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM &qu...

Send us Fan Mail In a conversation with my 4-year-old son, we discussed the important topic of equanimity and the strength of controlling our minds and emotions. It's ok to have emotions, but to allow them to control you or for you to be scared of them is detrimental to our self.  Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass" to @realstevebaum...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast describes ways that you lose trust in yourself and how you build that back through holding your integrity high.  Self-Confidence doesn't come from external forces is comes through believing in yourself!  Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass" to @realstevebaumgartner on Instagram or @SteveBaumgartner1975 on...

Send us Fan Mail So often we as humans wait for things to happen to us, rather than change the trajectory of the destination. We wait for the separation of our marriages, we wait for the review, we wait for our boss to come down on us, whatever the case is...we are waiting! Why don't we change the script?  In this episode, Steve will deliver a short framework to help change the narrative, so...

Send us Fan Mail George Williams and the entire Reliability X crew think about things a little bit differently. They believe in people, honor the value that they bring, and allow them to utilize what they are passionate about to achieve overall company success. Invest in people and they will invest back! Join me while I talk to this very creative thinker and business owner - George Williams! Suppo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I discuss the 3 types of drivers from my perspective: Aggressive, Meek and Assertive and correlate those to leadership styles, then follow that up with some quick tips on how to be the leader the people around you deserve! 🔥🔥🔥Fire Forged Leader🔥🔥🔥 Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass" to @realstevebaum...

Send us Fan Mail AI Avatars are everywhere right now, people find themselves very drawn in by them and for good reason! It's my belief that these avatars represent something about the who you want to be and that is why you are drawn to them so much. I will break down a 5 point framework on how to be the hero of your own movie as Joe Rogan states so you can put the avatar behind you because yo...

Send us Fan Mail Dylan Bain a father, husband, leader, coach and mentor takes us on a journey of his life, having his integrity challenged, finding a vivid vision in a beat down situation and crafting his career to support his life. This is a great conversation. Check Dylan out at: https://fiscallysavage.com to "Take Control and Live Free!" He offers many services to help people meet the...

Send us Fan Mail Drew Dudley talks about daily leadership interactions that result in life changing events for another. He calls these moments lollipop moments based on an experience that he had while in college. Please join me as we discuss this concept.  Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass" to @realstevebaumgartner on Instagram or @Steve...

Send us Fan Mail Aristotle told us long again that "The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts" I look at this message like getting a log home from IKEA and it showing up as a pile of logs.  Please join me as I discuss this message on the Fire Forged Leader Podcast!  Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass" to @realstevebau...

Send us Fan Mail A gritty and raw episode about the zero sum mentality of people and how to deal with it. You have a choice to make around these people, you can live your life at the bottom of the bucket with the other crabs or you can make the choice not to be a crab! Act upon the world, grow out of the bucket, don't be a crab! Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. John Ross, best selling author and subject matter expert in the Maintenance/Reliability field joins Steve in a conversation around investing in others, finding and filling gaps and a lot more. This is a great episode that you will not want to miss. Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass" to @realstevebaumgartner on Instag...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss a framework for acting upon the world. So many people live their lives being pushed around by the world. Events shape their path, rather than them cutting through and creating their own. Join me in discussing this framework to be a force upon the world. Support the show 🔗 Ready to Unlock Your Purpose and Restore the Order? 📩 DM "glass" to @r...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Fire Forged Leader, Steve has the priveledge of interviewing 2 military men that are both highly successful in life! This is a great conversation about: 1) The difference between former military who are very successful in civilian life, while others struggle 2) Differences between leadership in the military vs. civilian leadership 3) Ways to overcome the dif...