Leadership Lifestyle Podcast

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were about 9 million job openings in December.  Yet, there are nowhere near that many applicants available to fill those openings.  At the same time, there are endless stories of people applying to 100’s of jobs and never getting even one interview.  You’ll also see the same job posted, and reposted and then promoted again with 100&...

Everyone loves to receive recognition.  Then why is it so rare?  Do you let the day-to-day grind get in the way?  Maybe you’re so used to having the same people around you that you take them for granted?  Whatever the case, you need to change.  If you want to lead at the highest levels, providing recognition isn’t just something you need to do, it’s needs to help define who you a...

Whether you’re just starting your career or starting a company as an entrepreneur, you need to know your leadership role as you grow your career or your company.  Many people struggle by not knowing what their actually leadership role is.  As you grow in your career or your company, you need to understand in you’re on the Execution level, the Bridge level, or the Vision level.  On this...

Unfortunately, if you run a business, at some point you’re going to have to let someone go.  You know, fire them.  There are so many crazy stories of how horribly people are fired and it’s sad to see.  What’s sadder, is how most managers do not take action on a nonperforming team member.  The manager doesn’t want to be the bad guy or affect someone’s life, but yet, th...

Ok, we all know it.  Most meetings are time wasters.  You don’t learn anything knew.  It could have been an email.  However, meetings can be a super valuable tool, if you use them the right way!  On this week’s episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, we promise not to waste your time about meetings :).  Learn how to make them effective and maybe even share this with your leadershi...

It might be morbid way to think about it, but you are living your eulogy in life, at home and at work.  If you’re leading anyone, then your eulogy will say how you led them.  Did you just get stuff done?  Did you make them effective at their own role?  Or, did you go beyond having followers and actually created Legacy Leaders?  On this week’s episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast...

As the saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side of the septic tank.  You get frustrated in your career and other places seem so much better.  The fact is all jobs will have things you won’t like.  You need to look a little deeper into you.  Just changing your mindset changes how you perform, regardless of your job role.  When you can get to the right type of work for you an...

When you become a Leader, there is one distinct difference that you’ll notice about your energy.  Being physically tired is easier to deal with compared to being mentally tired.  Everything about your leadership will revolve around your ability to stay mentally strong.  The problem is, every challenge will be competing for your mental capacity.  On this week’s episode of the Leadership...

Sounds strange but moving on is the same for winning and losing.  Yes, I know, it’s much more glorious to win but you can’t stay there.  You can’t be that person that peaked in high school or did an amazing thing, but yet never expand from that.  Losing also DOES NOT DEFINE you.  It was a moment in time.  That’s it.  On this week’s episode on the Leadership Lifestyle...

Facts are facts.  If you are going to achieve something, you’ll have to join a “club” meaning, whatever group of people you are going to lead.  There is a price to be paid for it.  Also, there is a process to not only getting into the club but moving up in the club. For many of us, this isn’t a fun process.  On this week’s episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast,...

How do you show up?  Does it change based on who you’re with?  Maybe it changes with the situation?  They say IQ gets you in the room and EQ keeps you in the room.  Have you thought about your GQ status?  In this episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, we talk about all 3 Q’s.  Why they are important and how you can actually hurt you when you don’t know which Q to use or how...

We’ve all heard the expression, short term gain-long term pain.  That’s what happens when teams are managed through fear like, hit these numbers or else.  It’s also an incredibly lazy way to lead people. In fact, I wouldn’t consider you a leader if this is what you do.  On this week’s episode on the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, I’ll explain that your Culture le...