The Warrior Servant Leader Podcast

Tough Love Thursday! What is mental toughness and why should you care if you have it? Chris Dorris , is a Mental Toughness Coach who has been training people to perform at their best since 1994. For Chris, mental toughness means to BE ALL IN. Today we chat about: Knowing the critical difference between hoping for a result and intentionally deciding what you will create. Why commitment changes how...

Wisdom Wednesday! What stance would you take if you had to live, as a Christina, in one of the most politically and religiously divided regions in the world? Drawing from a rich family heritage rooted in the principles of peace and justice, Sami Awad, has devoted his professional and personal life to championing these values. And he does this while living as a christian in the Palestinian Christia...

TACO Tuesday! Today’s guest, Scott Woolley, shares some incredible  stories, lessons, people, opportunities, successes, and failures behind an ordinary life to an extraordinary career. His friends call him a real life Forrest Gump! Scott shares how his career began as a teenager working in his family’s business, to working for legendary rock band, Led Zeppelin. He shares how he became lifelong fri...

Tough Love Thursday! Struggling with burnout, identity and sustainable success? Well, today’s guest, Liz Watt, has been there too. From raising 5 boys to being the founder of one of the largest regional natural health conferences in the Rocky Mountain Region, Be Healthy Utah, today she shares real-life, grounded approaches to holistic wellness and success. She is a firm believer to be a true WSL,...

Wednesday Wisdom! What happens when you pray with everything you have - and the healing does not come?   What happens when heaven feels silent, God seems absent, the loss becomes permanent, and the thought you are afraid to say out loud begins to form: God, have You abandoned me? Series Reconnection PAT: Welcome to The Warrior Servant Leader Podcast. I am Pat Welsh, and this is Spiritual Endurance...

TACO Tuesday Meets Tough Love Thursday! Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! How Modern-Day Politicians Are “Killing Off” Their Own Step into the political jungle and you’ll hear it before you see it: the roar of the lions, the growl of the tigers, the snarl of the bears. They’re all prowling for power—and lately, they’ve been turning on their own. It’s a fascinating thing about nature: some of the...

What do you do when you have lost your way, afraid of what bad thing is going to happen next or have just completely gassed out? Today’s guest is Will Paulson—a husband, father, U.S. service member, ICF ACC-certified wayfinding coach, and founder of Wayward Purpose. Will works with people who have reached a point where they simply don’t know anymore—people who may be incredibly capable and respons...

What do you do when you are on the receiving end of judicial injustice that involves your 9 year old special needs daughter? You Stand Up, Show Up and Defend What you believe - and Take Action and Crush Obstacles. And it helps that you are veteran of 20 years in the United States Marine Corps, armed with a degree in Psychology. Today's guest, Keith Barton, is that 20-year Marine Corps veteran, for...

Wednesday Wisdom! Richard J. Krauland brings an unusual combination of mathematics, business leadership, philosophy, personal adversity, and more than three decades of lived Christian faith to conversations about science, God, and the search for truth. For the first forty-one years of his life, Richard describes himself as spiritually uncertain and, for a time, an atheist. His perspective changed...

Is your past your schoolhouse or your prison? Tough Love Thursday is here! We dive into the question and some real answers with today’s guest on the Warrior Servant Leader Podcast. Lt. Col. Otis McGregor (ret), Green Beret, is the CEO and Founder of Tribe + Purpose, where he provides the guidance and expertise to reshape the culture and structure of small businesses and launch them to the next sta...

Is your past your schoolhouse or your prison? Tough Love Thursday is here! We dive into the question and some real answers with today’s guest on the Warrior Servant Leader Podcast. Lt. Col. Otis McGregor (ret), Green Beret, is the CEO and Founder of Tribe + Purpose, where he provides the guidance and expertise to reshape the culture and structure of small businesses and launch them to the next sta...

Are you really the leader you say you want to be? What leader are others really experiencing? Wednesday Wisdom, with a T.A.C.O Tuesday Meets Tough Love Thursday message! Whew! that's a mouthful. Today we continue with Leadership Life Essentials 4, 5, and 6. And this one leans a little bit more toward the tough love approach. So put only our big boy/girl pants and dive into the deep end of a messag...

What can a Fortune 500 company, a military unit, a healthcare organization, and a small business all learn from a simple team challenge? Today's guest, David Lengyel, has spent more than 40 years helping organizations answer that question. As founder of Venture Up, he has worked with over 400,000 participants and thousands of teams, studying what causes teams to succeed, struggle, communicate, inn...

This episode opens a multi- week conversation about spiritual endurance. It helps listeners understand that suffering is not proof that God has abandoned them. Trials expose what faith rests upon, invite honest conversation with God, and can form the endurance needed to serve others with humility and strength. Central takeaway Faith does not eliminate struggle. Faith brings struggle into conversat...

This episode opens an eleven week conversation about spiritual endurance. It helps listeners understand that suffering is not proof that God has abandoned them. Trials expose what faith rests upon, invite honest conversation with God, and can form the endurance needed to serve others with humility and strength. Central takeaway Faith does not eliminate struggle. Faith brings struggle into conversa...

What did someone else's worst day in their life teach you about yourself? Today's returning guest, Peter Forcelli, talks about 9/11, Fast and furious Operation and the aftermath of both in his life. Pete is a survivor of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center, and the lung cancer that he later developed because of his work in the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero. He is a re...

To Hell, Heaven and Back with M.K. Kathy McDaniel For 40 years, she was an expert in Real Estate Property Management. In 2000, she became very ill, was placed on a ventilator, and placed into a medically-induced coma for about 18 days, where she had a Distressing Near-Death Experience that changed her life. It took her 20 years to come to terms with this event She has toured many parts of "Hell" a...

It’s Wednesday—Hump Day. We’ve made it halfway through the week. Some of us are charging forward with purpose. Some are hanging on by our fingernails. And some have already mentally clocked out and are wondering whether it’s too early to pour a whiskey. Well, today, we are taking a break from leadership, preparedness, character, chaos, crisis, and the general unraveling of polite society. We are n...

There is so much chaos, noise and distractions going on these days - in sports, politics, internationally and even on local apps, like Next Door, that I felt it was time to follow up on the Basics Of Leadership episode from last Tuesday. Buckle up! There are no guests, just me and you in a very frank, get your head out of you know where and start taking control of your life. We begin with the firs...

TACO TUESDAY! The Lessons the Police Academy Couldn’t Teach Us Twenty-two weeks to put on the badge. A career to understand the life behind it. Nearly every police career begins with the same question: ”Why do you want to be a cop?” Every police academy begins with a promise. If a recruit successfully completes the required hours, examinations, scenarios, physical training, firearms qualifications...

Wednesday Wisdom! From Today’s guest, Jan Allen Ackley, is an author, veteran, executive, and wonderful storyteller with a message that sticks. Jan grew up in the hills of southeast Ohio, Appalachia region, where grit, humor, and a strong sense of purpose shaped his journey. His memoir,  Searching for Change , is more than a personal story—it’s a deeply-human look at finding happiness in hardship...

T.A.C.O. Tuesday! Take Action Crush Obstacles Today’s guest, Bridget Truxillo, is a former SWAT officer, undercover narcotics detective, and employment attorney who helps first responders protect their careers, understand their workplace rights, build resilience, and thrive both on and off the job. Bridget brings a rare and powerful perspective as a former SWAT officer, undercover narcotics detect...

Tough Love Thursday! The message you may not want to hear, but need to. Today's guest, Steve Barton, is an executive coach, author, and creator of The Game of Ten®, a powerful awareness-based framework helping leaders operate at their highest level of clarity, confidence, and performance. Steve has over 47 years of real-world business experience, having grown a company from $200,000 to $2 million...

Wednesday Wisdom! Buckle up and be ready to laugh, a lot! Today's guest, Kevin Davis, is a 53 year old Christ-follower, lifelong entrepreneur, father of two daughters, and husband to Michelle... his first and only love. Early in their marriage, Kevin nearly lost it all. Chasing career success, he buried himself in work while his wife and newborn daughter waited for a husband and father who wasn't...

T.A.C.O. Tuesday! Take Action Crush Obstacles! All the way from Scotland, today's guest, Stephen Gribben. has been delivering results with CEOs, Senior Executives & Teams since 1998, building a successfully dedicated Coaching practice based exclusively on Client referrals. He is also the bestselling author of "Key Coaching Models" (Pearson book) which now, in its 2nd edition, has universal lea...