Cal Walters

Intentional Leader with Cal Walters

Business EN ↓ 139 episodes

Let's be honest. The hardest person you will ever have to lead is the person you look at in the mirror everyday. Self-leadership is the most important thing we do as leaders, but it's hard. And it hasn't gotten any easier in a world of smart phone addiction, social media comparison, global pandemics, and information overload (just to name a few obstacles).That's why Intentional Leader exists. We help leaders take the guesswork out of self-leadership, fight a reactionary lifestyle, accelerate their personal growth, and achieve their God-given potential at home, at work, and in their communities...

Author

Cal Walters

Category

Business

Podcast website

www.calwalters.me

Latest episode

Jun 25, 2026

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Episodes

113: Graham Cochrane — Be a Rebel, Learn to Dream Again, and Create a Clear Vision for Your Life and Leadership 03.09.2024

Discover Your Unique Core Values: https://calwalters.me/course Graham Cochrane is a TEDx and keynote speaker, 7 figure entrepreneur, and bestselling author of How To Get Paid For What You Know and Rebel: Find Yourself by Not Following The Crowd (2024). Get a copy of Rebel: https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Find-Yourself-Following-Crowd/dp/1637745656 He speaks to over 80,000 people each month on his top...

112: Dr. Steven Stein — How to Gain Emotional Intelligence and Build Hardiness as a Leader 29.07.2024

Quick Gain Clarity with my Discover Your Core Values Mini Course: https://calwalters.me/course Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@intentionalleader_calwalters Learn more about Dr. Stein's work:  https://stevenstein.com/ Dr. Steven Stein is a world-renowned clinical psychologist, international best-selling author and sought-after speaker, and founder and Executive Chair of Multi-He...

111: Charlie Watkins (Pt. 2) — Worth the Wait: Selling Business for 11X More | Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success through Partnership with God 11.07.2024

Save Time and Avoid Regrets with my Discover Your Core Values Mini Course:  https://calwalters.me/course  Watch this conversation on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/1ki9gIkx54g Purchase Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success Through Partnership with God:  https://thrownorocks.com Charlie Watkins is a Christian husband, father, grandfather and leader. He came to Jesus in 1980 while serving as a nuclea...

110: Charlie Watkins (Pt. 1) — How Forgiveness Breeds Success | Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success through Partnership with God 11.07.2024

Save Time and Avoid Regrets with my Discover Your Core Values Mini Course: https://calwalters.me/course  Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1ki9gIkx54g Purchase Throw No Rocks: A Man's Guide to Success Through Partnership with God: https://thrownorocks.com Charlie Watkins is a Christian husband, father, grandfather and leader. He came to Jesus in 1980 while serving as a nuclear t...

109: Julian Treasure — Top TED Speaker and Speaking Expert on How to Speak So People Want to Listen 27.06.2024

Follow me at: https://calwalters.me/ YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@intentionalleader_calwalters Make Decision Making Easier with my Core Values Mini Course: https://courses.calwalters.me/offers/DmXNju9f/checkout Julian Treasure is a top-rated international speaker on sound and the critical communication skills of listening and speaking. Collectively, Julian's five TED Talks have been viewed o...

108: Jamie Winship — How to Avoid an Identity Crisis and Discover Your True Calling 14.06.2024

Follow Cal at https://calwalters.me/ Get back time and make decision making easier by discovering your core values: https://courses.calwalters.me/offers/DmXNju9f/checkout Jamie Winship has decades of experience bringing peaceful solutions to areas of the world that experience the highest levels of conflict. After a distinguished career in law enforcement in the metro Washington DC area, Jamie had...

107: Dr. Anna Lembke — Find Joy and Focus in a Dopamine-Overloaded World 23.05.2024

Discover Your Core Values with my Mini-Course: https://courses.calwalters.me/offers/DmXNju9f/ Checkout Get Dr. Lemke's great book, Dopamine Nation: https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/152474672X Preorder the Official Dopamine Nation Workbook: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593476212?tag=randohouseinc7986-20 Dr. Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford...

106: Dr. Michael Norton — The Ritual Effect 16.04.2024

Take Dr. Norton's Ritual Quiz Michael Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He has studied human behavior as it relates to love and inequality, time and money, and happiness and grief. He is the author of The Ritual Effect and the coauthor—with Elizabeth Dunn—of  Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending . In 2012, he was selected...

105: Ryan Hawk and Brook Cupps — The Score That Matters 29.03.2024

Get instant access to my new  Discover Your Core Values Mini Course People love to keep score. Managers keep score of a range of business metrics: market share, revenue, profit margin, growth rate. In our personal lives, social media has us keeping score by likes and followers. These external scores are outcome-driven and serve as proof of our success—money, fame, material possessions, wins—but th...

104: Dr. Amy Edmondson — The Science of Failing Well 22.02.2024

We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we're often torn between two "failure cultures": one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says  fail fast, fail often . The trouble is that both approaches lack the crucial distinctions to help us separate good failure from bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well. After decades of award-winning research,...

103: Clay Scroggins — How You Can Lead When You're Not in Charge 18.01.2024

Subscribe to Intentional Leader on YouTube !  Link is here: https://youtube.com/@intentionalleader_calwalters?si=NgU1Ui98hTofWc2I On this episode of Intentional Leader, we learn from speaker, author, and pastor Clay Scroggins on how to lead when we're not in charge. The reality is that most of us have a boss or supervisor, so how do we lead through influence when we lack authority? Clay is the aut...

102: Brian Johnson — How to Activate Your Heroic Potential, Fight Negative Thinking, Create Better Habits, and Live with Areté 16.11.2023

The views expressed on this podcast and page are those of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy, position, or endorsement of the US Army, DoD, or the US Government. I'm so pumped to welcome Brian Johnson to the podcast! Check out Brian's brand new book:  Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential Download the Heroic app for free:  https://www.heroic.us/join Brian Johnso...

101: Dr. Chevy Cook — On Leadership Lessons from the Secretary of the Army, Finishing a PhD in Character Development, and How to Manage Energy 16.08.2023

It's great to welcome Dr. Chevy Cook back to the podast!  Chevy was on the show for Episode 36 , but a lot has happened since that interview.  We catch up on him finishing his PhD, serving as the speechwriter for the 25th Secretary of the Army, the Honorable Christine Wormuth, completing the Battalion Commander Assessment Program (BCAP), and taking command as the Battalion Commander of Headquarter...

100: Juliet Funt — A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work 07.06.2023

Featured in top media outlets such as Forbes, CNBC, and Fast Company, Juliet Funt is a globally renowned keynote speaker, tough-love advisor to the Fortune 500, founder and CEO of the efficiency training firm, Juliet Funt Group . Juliet is the author of  A Minute to Think , nominated for the Next Big Idea Club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Susan Cain and Adam Grant. She is an evangelist f...

99: Doug Jones — Lessons from Ranger School, Achieving Excellence in Physical Fitness, and How to Stay Sharp as a Leader 24.04.2023

After graduating from West Point (where I'm pretty sure Doug was the #1 ranked cadet in our class in physical fitness, which is incredible, but I couldn't get a straight answer from Doug on that fact), Doug commissioned as an infantry officer, graduated from Ranger School, and then went on to leave at several different levels at home and in combat.   Doug was awarded multiple Bronze Star medals, i...

98: Simone Askew — On Being the First Black Female First Captain at West Point, Authentic Leadership, and Advice for Mentors 09.01.2023

It's great to be back after taking a few months off!  I'm really excited about all we can learn together in 2023!   Today I have the privilege of sharing my interview with Simone Askew . In 2017, she became the first African American woman to earn the role of First Captain, the leader of the Corps of Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point .  This is regarded as a major step in...

97: Cassie Holmes, Ph.D. — How to Live a Happier Life 07.10.2022

Download this free 12-page PDF to get 12 key ideas to make you a better leader today.   Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Her research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one's lifetime, and how much hap...

96: General Alizai — Leadership Reflections from the Afghan Army's Last Commander 23.09.2022

Commander of Special Operations Command of the Afghan National Army Haibatullah Alizai, took over as Afghanistan's Chief of General Staff (the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs equivalent) just days before the Taliban made a push into Kabul, after General Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai was removed from the post.  On this episode, he discusses his perspective on leading during the difficult moments in Afghan...

95: How to Be a Leader That's Not about You 09.09.2022

On today's quick hit episode, Cal shares three keys to being a leader that's not about you.  If you're interested in growing in your leadership practice and being inspired to think differently and unlock greater personal potential, we want to give you a gift. Just click the link below and tell us where to send you 12 Ideas That Will Make You A Better Leader In 2022.

94: Ryan Gottfredson — How to Elevate your Mind and Why Most Leader Development Programs Fail 26.08.2022

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph. D. is a cutting-edge mindset author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. He helps improve organizations, leaders, teams, and employees by improving their mindsets. Ryan is currently a leadership and management professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University...

93: Garry Ridge — How He Built an Incredible Culture of Purpose and Engagement at WD-40 12.08.2022

Garry Ridge has 25 years of experience as Chairman and CEO of WD-40 Company. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego, where he teaches the principles and practices of corporate culture in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program. Garry's philosophy on company culture is based on Aristotle's quote – "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Turning that...

92: Stephen Drum — Getting through Navy SEAL Training and How to Perform under Intense Pressure 28.07.2022

Would you like to partner with us at Intentional Leader?  Consider becoming a monthly supporter on Patreon.  Sign up here !   If you're interested in growing in your leadership practice and being inspired to think differently and unlock greater personal potential, we want to give you a gift. Just click the link below and tell us where to send you 12 Ideas That Will Make You A Better Leader In 2022...

91: Sabrina Dalton — Leadership as a Mom & The MMoment II (An Event with Military Mentors) 08.07.2022

Sign up here to attend the MMoment II on July 23, 2022 in Alexandria, VA!  The MMoment is an intentional, purposeful investment in you by us, your team at Military Mentors , or MM for short (the spelling of the MMoment is a play on our name). Our version of an immersive experience, it is an intense, 1-day experience twice a year for ~50 national security professionals, both civilian and military....

[REPLAY] 49: Patrick Lencioni — Building Trust, Embracing Conflict, and the 6 Types of Working Genius 24.06.2022

This episode with  Patrick Lencioni  is a great segue from the article released by Wes Cochrane last week titled, " Does Your Team Suck at Workplace Conflict? "  Read that article  here .   Patrick Lencioni is one of the founders and president of The Table Group , a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement. P...

BRB - I'm Moving! 24.06.2022

Hello my friend! I wanted to share a very short message today… As many of you know, I'm a lawyer in the Army.  And part of being in the Army (at least for what I do), means we move every few years.  During the month of June, my family and I will be moving from the area around Fort Bragg, NC to Charlottesville, VA where I'll be teaching at the Army JAG School .  I'm really excited to get to work th...

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