UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders

What happens when your greatest strength becomes your biggest liability? In today's episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Jimmy Burroughes, founder of JBL High Performance and author of Simplified to Amplify . Jimmy shares a vulnerable look into his spectacular 2017 burnout. Two and a half years of 18-hour workdays, intense global travel, a...

When you spend 15 years winning, it's easy to become overconfident in your playbook. In today's episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Jason Peach, President and CEO of West Community Credit Union.  Jason opens up about a historic shift in the economic landscape that caught his hyper-growth strategy exposed, and the crucial...

What does it mean to be a competent leader? In this sobering and deeply vulnerable episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with M.K. Palmore, a former US Marine Corps officer, retired FBI Special Agent, and current tech executive. M.K. shares a personal UH-OH from his early days in federal law enforcement: a moment when he allowed a rigid, mission-firs...

What happens when your $700 million real estate empire collapses in a high-stakes hostile takeover? In this episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with entrepreneur, former public company CEO, and actor turned performance coach Boaz Gilad. Boaz shares the unfiltered story of the exact moment he realized his New York development company was...

What happens when a 28-year-old Navy nuclear engineer steps in to run a power plant and tries to tell a 40-year veteran how to do his job? In today's episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with David Petrash, veteran, business leader, pastor, and author of "Ripple of Faith". David shares an early-career UH-OH where his perso...

In this episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with international guest Natalie Bouchard, a self-described cohesion architect from Calgary, Canada. Natalie opens up about a massive, multi-front collapse where she lost her waterfront home, her relationship, hundreds of thousands of dollars to a business scam, and faced a major health s...

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with John Lowe, the former long-time CEO of Jeni's Ice Creams and current co-founder of Amuck Consumer. John shares his fascinating career trajectory from practicing law and working as general counsel at GE during a global financial crisis to leading a hyper-growth creative ice cream brand. The heart...

What happens when your natural, high-performing, Type-A personality accidentally creates a culture of exclusion? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with author, professor, and founder of Coaching for Clarity, Matt Dickerson. Matt vulnerably shares an UH-OH moment from his corporate days: being blindsided by a formal HR complaint that...

What happens when a lifetime of high-level problem solving meets a year of uncontrollable life events? In this episode, Ben-Jamin Toy interviews Eugene Manley Jr., a mechanical engineer and cell biologist turned nonprofit founder, to discuss the un-plannable side of leadership. Eugene shares his UH-OH moment regarding the steep learning curve of fiscal sponsorship and the high cost of missing out...

In this episode, we sit down with Joseph Zahaitis, a veteran sales leader in the global payments industry and an avid gamer who understands that whether you are in a military simulation or a boardroom, community is everything. Joe shares a vulnerable look at a massive UH-OH moment from early in his tenure at a senior leadership role: losing 50% of his team in one week. Joe opens up about the mista...

In this episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy are joined by Matan Cohen-Citron, a movement expert and hypnotist who shares a harrowing UH-OH moment that transformed his approach to life and business. After a near-death experience left him in a state of trauma and misalignment, Matan had to confront the hard truth that he was prioritizing his b...

What happens when a Six Sigma Black Belt realizes her processes are working, but her people are walking?  In today's episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, co-hosts Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Hanna Bauer, founder of Heartnomics and faculty member at the Maxwell Leadership team.  Hanna shares her honest journey through the 2008 publishing disruption, a time marked by t...

In today's episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Walter Dusseldorp, also known as the Dutch Mentor. Walter shares his incredible journey from a high-stakes career as a flight paramedic to becoming a seasoned hospital administrator and C-suite executive. He reveals a critical UH-OH moment from his early transition into management: the realiz...

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, hosts Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with coach and parkour enthusiast Garrett Wood. Garrett shares a vulnerable look into his time leading a 100-person team in the high-stakes hospitality industry, where he fell into the trap of living and dying by the spreadsheet. We explore the chilling UH-OH moment that acted as his wake-up call: s...

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, hosts Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with executive coach and relentlessly positive business owner Jill Avey. Jill takes us behind the scenes of her own career-defining UH-OH... a time when she was juggling a high-travel corporate job, a side business, and multiple nonprofit board roles. She shares the reality of how being stretch...

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Wes Towers, founder of the Australian digital agency Uplift 360. Wes dives deep into a harrowing UH-OH moment from a decade ago when he accepted a massive, out-of-scope dating website project specifically to keep a bored lead developer engaged. The plan backfired when the developer resigned just...

We are reaching into the archives to bring back a conversation that resonates just as strongly today as it did during its first release. Join Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy at the Cohesion Corner™ headquarters as they chat with Davin Salvagno, a leader dedicated to the art of discovering and amplifying human potential. In this episode, Davin openingly discusses how his creative outlets in music and co...

Join Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy at the Cohesion Culture™ headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina, for a masterclass on leadership and feedback. In this episode, our special guest Liz Weber shares her journey from a childhood in a family of 13 to navigating the global stage as an intern at the U.S. Department of State. Liz reveals a pivotal UH-OH experience where a lack of courage led to bl...

In this inspiring episode, Katie Blomquist, founder of Going Places, reveals a leadership lesson about the importance of asking.  Learn how her initial hesitation to seek sponsorships nearly cost her nonprofit valuable opportunities, and discover the mindset shift that transformed her approach to fundraising. Katie shares her unique journey of providing new bikes to low-income elementary school ch...

What happens when your best leadership trait becomes your biggest liability? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, hosts Dr. Troy Hall and Trevor Crunelle sit down with Andrew Brümmer, a fractional executive, international mentor, and former stunt double for Robert Downey Jr! Andrew shares a raw and insightful UH-OH moment from his career: the time his commitment to team au...

What happens when you hit peak success at age 30, only to realize you’ve started coasting? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Trevor Crunelle chat with Aaron Trahan, founder of Performance Mindset Coaching. Aaron pulls back the curtain on his UH-OH era, a period where early career wins led to a dangerous comfort zone and a 360-degree feedback report tha...

What happens when a serial DIYer meets a leadership challenge he can’t fix with a toolbox?. In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy are joined by John Patsch, co-founder of Miingl. John is a craftsman who rolls up his sleeves to understand the how behind everything from garage projects to corporate culture. The UH-OH Moment John pulls back the...

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Ben-Jamin Toy and Dr. Troy Hall chat with Jim Carlough, a seasoned executive and Chief Sales Officer, to discuss one of the most difficult and often most mishandled moments in leadership: downsizing. Jim shares a candid UH-OH experience from earlier in his career, when following traditional “be firm, be direct, be short” guidance damage...

What happens when a six-figure mistake forces a leader to look in the mirror? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with entrepreneur and insurance leader David Price for an honest conversation about accountability, ego, and growth under pressure. David shares how a $100,000 operational oversight exposed deeper issues around systems, lea...

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Ryan DuBois. He’s an endurance athlete at heart, a builder by trade, and the kind of leader who’s learned most of his lessons the hard way. From scaling startups across the Southeast to grinding through 20-hour days in manufacturing, Ryan brings a grounded, people-first view of leadership when t...