Show Your Value with Lee Benson

In this episode of Show Your Value with Lee Benson , Lee is joined by Kass and Mike Lazerow , experienced founders and investors, for an honest conversation about the realities of building companies over the long term. Drawing on decades of experience starting, scaling, and exiting businesses, including high-growth ventures and acquisitions, the conversation focuses on leadership under pressure, f...

2026 is here and this is how you start it right. Before you set goals, before you chase growth, before you tell yourself “this year will be different”… Listen to this. This special compilation of Show Your Value brings together stories of courage, leadership, sacrifice, and hard-earned wisdom from people who didn’t wait for permission, and changed thousands of lives because of it. Inside this epis...

In 2025, I sat down with world-class leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and strategists to answer one question: What actually creates value? This compilation brings together the most powerful moments, ideas, and hard-earned lessons from those conversations. These are not motivational soundbites. These are practical insights on leadership, decision-making, building businesses, and becoming someone peopl...

Why is Booking.com worth more than the top four airlines combined, even though airlines control half of all traveler demand? In this episode of Show Your Value , I sit down with Terry Jones (former CEO of Travelocity, founding chairman of Kayak) to unpack one of the biggest missed opportunities in modern business . Airlines thought they were in the business of flying planes.  Booking.com understoo...

In this episode of Show Your Value with Lee Benson, Lee sits down with Glenn Lundy, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and former automotive executive who helped grow a dealership by over 800 percent. Glenn shares powerful insights on why life moves in seasons of change, struggle, growth, and success and how understanding this cycle can completely shift the way you approach leadership, business, and p...

If your team keeps missing targets, slipping on priorities, or working in circles, this video will help you fix it. This week, I'm joined by Oren Fanok. We walk you through a complete business operating system that creates alignment, accountability, and predictable execution. This is the same framework used inside high performing companies that want clarity instead of chaos. You will learn: •...

Every leader talks about culture. Very few know how to build it. In this compilation, top operators and CEOs break down the tactics that actually change companies. You’ll hear the truth about integrity, clarity, accountability, scaling, reinvention, and the real work required to create lasting value. If you lead a team or a company, this is the playbook. What You’ll Learn • Why integrity is the fo...

Most companies obsess over equipment, software, and strategy... but completely overlook the one investment that drives everything: people. In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson sits down with David Eagles, Chief Transformation Officer at Goodwill Industries International, to explore how organizations can unlock massive ROI by focusing on human potential. They discuss how to lead with purp...

Growing slower isn’t playing small it’s how real entrepreneurs build something that actually lasts. In this special Show Your Value compilation, we pull together the most powerful moments from multiple episodes to reveal why sustainable, patient, disciplined growth is the ultimate competitive advantage. You’ll hear from founders, operators, and leaders who have lived both sides of the journey scal...

When Harley-Davidson was on the edge of collapse, Ken Schmidt helped lead one of the most iconic turnarounds in business history. As the former Director of Communications, Ken shares how Harley’s leaders stopped focusing on products and started focusing on people, rebuilding a culture of loyalty that made the brand legendary. In this episode, Ken reveals how emotional connection, trust, and authen...

Charlie Garcia shares his incredible journey from military intelligence to advising six U.S. presidents, building billion-dollar businesses, and transforming broken education and philanthropic systems. We dive into his time at the White House, how he led statewide education reform, what it takes to scale impact through R360, and the leadership frameworks he's used every step of the way. If yo...

Running a successful company is harder than turning one around, and most leaders get complacent long before they realize it. In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson sits down with John Rossman, former Amazon executive and author of Big Bet Leadership, to unpack how great companies lose their edge and what it takes to stay on offense. John helped launch the Amazon Marketplace and has led lar...

Today I'm with Tom Willis, co-author of The Great Engagement and founder of Phoenix Perform. They explore what it really takes to build a high-performing culture and why so many leaders fail to do it. Tom shares what separates teams that thrive from those that stay stuck. You’ll hear how personal integrity, leadership behaviors, and clear purpose can transform both individuals and entire orga...

In this episode of the Show Your Value Podcast, host Lee Benson sits down with entrepreneur John St. Pierre, who built a 55 million dollar company… and lost it all. John opens up about the painful lessons behind that collapse and the powerful mindset that helped him rebuild his success. He calls it patient ambition, the balance between drive and discipline that every founder needs to master. Toget...

If your business feels busy but not better, this is for you. Lee Benson shares a practical, no-fluff system to get unstuck: build a healthy relationship with struggle, define value clearly, operate with live resistance on the front lines, and install a management operating system that scales (a true Value-Creation System). You’ll learn - Struggle, redefined: healthy vs. unhealthy vs. intentionally...

What does real leadership look like in today’s workplace? Aviation executive and leadership expert Stephanie Chung shares her 40-year “overnight success” story and explains why leadership is not about DEI but about ROI. In this episode you will discover: - Why most employees only give 60 percent at work - The crisis of character affecting today’s workforce - How to lead across six different genera...

On this episode of Show Your Value we sit down with Peter Cuneo, the legendary turnaround CEO who rescued Marvel Entertainment from bankruptcy and transformed it into a global powerhouse, eventually selling to Disney for $4 billion. Peter shares the leadership lessons that guided him from serving as a Navy officer in Vietnam to running billion-dollar companies. He reveals: - How Marvel’s “wagon wh...

What does it take to break a 1,500-year-old system of poverty and oppression? In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee is joined by Dr. Abraham George, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Shanti Bhavan. His groundbreaking schools are helping children from India’s poorest families rise from one-room huts to top universities like Stanford, Duke, and Princeton. Dr. George shares: - His near-d...

Kash Rocheleau went from executive assistant to CFO, then to CEO of a $30M+ company in just five years. She wasn’t chasing titles, she was chasing opportunities, learning, and creating value. In this episode of Show Your Value with Lee Benson, Kash shares: - How she moved from EA to CEO without a pedigree or master plan - Why chasing titles for the wrong reasons leads to burnout - The truth about...

Is it possible for a CEO to go from an 80-hour workweek to just 15, all while increasing the value of their company? The answer is yes, and it’s not about magic, it’s about a fundamental shift in leadership. Many leaders are trapped in a cycle of endless work, constant firefighting, and team misalignment. They believe the only way to grow is to grind harder. In this episode, 8-time founder Lee Ben...

What does it take to go from outlaw biker to Marine to saving over 15,000 lives during the fall of Afghanistan? In this powerful episode of Show Your Value, host Lee Benson sits down with Daniel Stinson to hear his incredible journey of redemption, faith, and purpose. Daniel shares how he grew up in a rough family, found brotherhood in a motorcycle club, hit rock bottom, and then experienced a God...

What separates companies that scale from those that stall? Philippe Bouissou, former Apple executive and author, joins Lee Benson on Show Your Value to break down the Four Dimensions of Alignment every business must master to grow faster than its market. From Apple’s lessons under Steve Jobs to case studies on Levi Strauss, Segway, and beyond, Philippe explains how alignment between customer pain,...

What does it really take to lead a global company with over 250 facilities across 60 countries? In this episode, Jennifer Harvey, CEO of Crown Worldwide Group, shares the habits that define quietly powerful leadership. From navigating economic disruption and succession planning to empowering employees to innovate, she offers a candid look into what sustainable leadership looks like at scale. You&a...

What makes a legendary leader? Garry Ridge shares the secret sauce behind growing WD-40 from $300M to over $3B without ever laying off a single employee. In this episode, Lee Benson sits down with Garry Ridge, the man who led WD-40 for 25 years and built a tribal culture that turned a simple blue and yellow can into a global icon. From psychological safety to the “maniac pledge,” Garry unpacks the...

Why do some of the smartest leaders still fall short? In this powerful episode, host Lee Benson sits down with Joe Davis, former Senior Partner and Chair of BCG North America, to uncover what really determines long-term leadership success. Spoiler: it’s not skill, intelligence, or experience. Drawing from his 35+ years at Boston Consulting Group and his new book The Generous Leader, Joe unpacks wh...