If you believe as I do, that intentional and consistent reading is key to success in business and in life, then this is your podcast. My goal each week is to bring you key thoughts and insights from my conversations with those I consider to be among today's brightest minds: our generation's non-fiction authors. We discuss their latest book, as well as their unique perspectives on Leadership, Business, Personal Development, Marketing, Career, and Entrepreneurship. If you love reading, or desire to do more of it, then consider this podcast your audio Cliff's Notes. The Read to Lead Podcast is a four-time Best Business Podcast nominee.
537: The Mastery Blueprint: 3 Steps to Becoming the Best You
Explore proven strategies and mindsets from experts like Richard Feynman, Scott H. Young, and Carol Dweck to help you master any skill and unlock your full potential.
7/23/2024 • 12 minutes, 13 seconds
536: Celebrating 11 Years: The Most Influential Books of the Read to Lead Podcast
In honor of our 11th anniversary, I thought it would be fitting to look back at 11 of the most influential books I've read since starting this journey. Each of these books has left a lasting impact on me and, I hope, on you too.
7/16/2024 • 15 minutes, 8 seconds
535: Negotiating Tips From a Former FBI Hostage Negotiator and a Top DC Publicist
From CEOs communicating with board members to managers negotiating salary increases and entrepreneurs looking to raise capital, it's impossible to overstate the role of persuasion in making your personal and professional goals a reality. The ability to convince others―respectfully and effectively―is one of the most important skills you can master, whatever your profession.
7/9/2024 • 41 minutes, 49 seconds
534: How to Live Future Ready with Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt
The renowned global though leader and Google's first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forward-thinking mindstate that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see.
7/2/2024 • 32 minutes, 4 seconds
533: How to Get Better at Anything with Scott H. Young
Whether you’re a student studying for an exam, an employee facing a new skill at work, or just want to get better at something you’re interested in, Scott's insights will help you do it better.
6/25/2024 • 51 minutes, 54 seconds
532: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions with Harry Max
Every business person who is even remotely interested in prioritization should read Managing Priorities. Whatever you need to prioritize—tasks, goals, OKRs, projects—this book is for you.
6/18/2024 • 29 minutes, 21 seconds
531: 48 Days to the Work (and Life) You Love with Dan Miller (an Encore Presentation of Episode 338)
48 Days to the Work You Love is packed with modern insight and timeless wisdom and provides a step-by-step process for creating a Life Plan and translating it into meaningful, satisfying daily work.
6/11/2024 • 30 minutes, 16 seconds
530: Understanding What Truly Matters, Making Strategic Decisions, and Effectively Allocating Your Time and Resources
Managing priorities is more than just making a to-do list. It’s about understanding what truly matters, making strategic decisions, and effectively allocating your time and resources.
6/4/2024 • 18 minutes, 1 second
529: How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete, and Succeed with Kelly Palmer (an Encore Presentation of Episode 234)
The book The Expertise Economy dares you to let go of outdated and traditional ways of closing the skills gap, and challenges CEOs and business leaders to embrace the urgency of re-skilling and upskilling the workforce.
5/28/2024 • 31 minutes, 20 seconds
528: The Only Business Metric That Matters is Ideaflow with Jeremy Utley (an Encore Presentation of Episode 446)
We all want great ideas, but few actually understand how great ideas are born. Innovation is not an event, a workshop, a sprint, or a hackathon. It's a result of mastering idea flow, a practice that elevates everything else you do.
5/21/2024 • 43 minutes, 36 seconds
527: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive with Jordan Raynor (an Encore Presentation of Episode 422)
We don’t need just another approach to changing our habits. What we need is an operating system that takes into account the full scope of our lives. Bestselling author Jordan Raynor presents this system, using seven powerful time-management principles drawn from the example of how Jesus lived.
5/14/2024 • 41 minutes, 45 seconds
526: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity with Steve Shwartz (an Encore Presentation of Episode 384)
Today’s AI systems are miracles of modern engineering, but no, humans do not have to fear robots seizing control or taking over all our jobs. In this exploration of the fascinating and ever-changing landscape of artificial intelligence, Dr. Shwartz explains how AI works in simple terms.
5/7/2024 • 23 minutes, 41 seconds
525: Extending Your Mind Through Connected Notes with Jorge Arango
By using the right tools and a bit of discipline, you can cultivate a “personal knowledge garden" where your thinking will blossom.
4/30/2024 • 40 minutes, 14 seconds
524: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life with Marcus Buckingham (an Encore Presentation of Episode 417)
Marcus shows you how to break free from this conformity—how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love.
4/23/2024 • 50 minutes, 42 seconds
523: Small Actions, Big Impact with Drs. Adaira Landry and Resa Lewiss
MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time.
4/16/2024 • 39 minutes, 21 seconds
522: Impact Players with Liz Wiseman (and Encore Presentation of Episode 400)
In Impact Players, New York Times bestselling author and researcher Liz Wiseman reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level.
4/9/2024 • 48 minutes, 42 seconds
521: The Future of Behavior Design with Dr. BJ Fogg (an Encore Presentation of Episode 324)
This proven, step-by-step guide will help you design habits and make them stick through positive emotion and celebrating small successes. Whether you want to lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or be more productive each day, Tiny Habits makes it easy to achieve—by starting small.
4/2/2024 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds
520: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 30th Anniversary Edition (an Encore Presentation of Episode 319)
A can't-miss conversation with the son of the legendary author of the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 30th Anniversary Edition.
3/26/2024 • 50 minutes, 24 seconds
519: Shipping Creative Work with Seth Godin (an Encore Presentation of Episode 344)
With this book as your guide, you'll learn to dance with your fear. To take the risks worth taking. And to embrace the empathy required to make work that contributes with authenticity and joy.
3/19/2024 • 22 minutes, 59 seconds
518: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully with Elaine Lin Hering
A paradigm-shifting book looking at the negative impact of silence and how we can begin to dismantle it in order to use our voices at home and at work.
3/12/2024 • 38 minutes, 49 seconds
517: The Vision-Driven Leader with Michael Hyatt (an Encore Presentation of Episode 312)
Today, we revisit a conversation I had with Michael Hyatt at the start of the pandemic about vision-driven leadership.
3/5/2024 • 36 minutes, 40 seconds
516: Take Your Career From Accidental to Intentional with Scott Jeffrey Miller
Most careers unfold accidentally, haphazardly, and with too much serendipity. That means lost traction, lost years, and lost opportunities. But your career doesn't have to be that way! Career on Course unpacks the 10 steps that will take your career from accidental to intentional.
2/27/2024 • 36 minutes, 43 seconds
515: The Top 5 Traits of a Servant Leader
I break down the five most important traits for a Servant Leader to possess: empathy, listening, healing, awareness, and persuasion.
2/20/2024 • 22 minutes, 59 seconds
514: How to Fix the Always-On Culture of Business with Malissa Clark
Malissa Clark shows you how to escape the trap of putting work at the center of everything and thus losing your well-being—or your company's performance—in the process.
2/13/2024 • 40 minutes, 41 seconds
513: How to Do More of What Matters to You with Ali Abdaal
We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there's another way? Armed with Ali's insights, you won't just accomplish it all. You'll feel happier and more fulfilled along the way.
2/6/2024 • 37 minutes, 30 seconds
512: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier with Huggy Rao
The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations.
1/30/2024 • 45 minutes, 16 seconds
511: The Brave Habit is Your Guide to Courageous Leadership with Todd Henry
Bravery is not reserved for the chosen few; it's a skill and a daily practice that can be developed. The Brave Habit provides a practical framework for courageous leadership and exceptional work.
1/23/2024 • 55 minutes, 10 seconds
510: Answer These 5 Questions to Build Your Legacy
I pose five questions you should ponder if you want to build a lasting legacy. I also include three exercises you can do right now to get started on the right foot.
1/16/2024 • 14 minutes, 18 seconds
509: The Impact of Dan Miller On Our Lives Continues
Dan has pancreatic cancer and has been given a few months to live. I share his impact on my life and that of a few others' lives.
1/9/2024 • 25 minutes, 6 seconds
508: The 9 Books I'm Most Looking Forward To in 2024
I've scoured the book release lists so that you don't have to, and I've selected the 9 books you need to pay attention to this year.
1/2/2024 • 19 minutes, 15 seconds
507: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of AI with Brian Evergreen
We are in the midst of an unprecedented degree of technology-driven change at the same time that society faces challenges more complex than our organizations and we as individuals have been prepared to handle.
12/26/2023 • 49 minutes, 13 seconds
506: Leading With Questions with Bob Tiede
Perfect for managers, executives, and other business leaders, Leading with Questions will earn a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in better engaging with and leading others.
12/19/2023 • 33 minutes, 20 seconds
505: The Family First Entrepreneur with Steve Chou
Most entrepreneurs start a business seeking freedom but end up in a prison of hundred-hour workweeks isolated from their loved ones. This book is a guide to do entrepreneurship differently—letting go of the hustle and embracing a family-first mindset instead.
12/12/2023 • 26 minutes, 35 seconds
504: Speak Up or Stay Stuck with Pam Marmon
In Speak Up or Stay Stuck, forward-thinking change management expert Pam Marlon unpacks a practical framework for implementing organizational change while ensuring your voice is heard.
12/5/2023 • 27 minutes, 9 seconds
503: Leadership Lessons Drawn From the Wisdom of Mom with Valerie Cockerell
In Manage like a Mother, Valerie Cockerell shares common-sense principles for anyone seeking to be an effective leader. She explains how raising children, nurturing their development, multitasking as only a mother does, managing conflicts, dealing with teenagers and being a great role model are some of the essential skills that leaders can easily apply to their professional working environments—with proven success.
11/28/2023 • 36 minutes, 43 seconds
502: Learning to Get Past Your Past with Jason VanRuler
The life you dream of isn't that far away. But you can't stay where you are. It's time to embark on your journey toward healing. Let Get Past Your Past be your guide along the way.
11/21/2023 • 31 minutes, 32 seconds
501: Discover Who You Already Are, Who You Want to Be, and How to Ensure Others See You That Way with Aliza Licht
How you show up in person, over email, and on social media, Aliza says, communicates your personal brand. That brand deserves thoughtful cultivation and crafting as you shape your narrative, build your network, grow your confidence, and plot your future.
11/14/2023 • 31 minutes, 41 seconds
500: Listen to This or Die with Ray Edwards
For anyone who wants to turn their life around but doesn't know how, the PASTOR method teaches how to harness marketing wisdom to get honest about what we really want from life and craft better beliefs and plans to help us start living life on our own terms.
11/7/2023 • 35 minutes, 29 seconds
499: Decision Making, Project Management, and Workplace Engagement with Gerald Leonard
In A Symphony of Choices, workplace culture and strategy expert Gerald Leonard provides you with the practical tools and real-world examples that will help you build the knowledge and skills you need to thrive in a project-driven world.
10/31/2023 • 35 minutes, 22 seconds
498: How to Win with Clarity-Fueled Communications with Steve Woodruff
From email to sales pitches, from workshops to resumes, Steven Woodruff’s Clarity Fuel Formula is the universal recipe for communications success.
10/24/2023 • 34 minutes, 59 seconds
497: How to Create Self-Leading Teams That Win with Kyle Buckett and Chris Mefford
In this revolutionary guide, Mefford and Buckett share crucial leadership strategies to help organizations revamp their work culture, throw out stifling hierarchical leadership models, and embrace a dynamic, results-oriented, and successful self-led team-oriented model instead.
10/17/2023 • 48 minutes, 36 seconds
496: Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions with David Dodson
David Dodson explains how to get better at running virtually any kind of organization by breaking down each critical skill into digestible, bite-sized sub-skills, that you can learn quickly and easily.
10/10/2023 • 36 minutes, 43 seconds
495: Turning the Power of Mindset Into Action with Eduardo Briceño
With this innovative and refreshing framework of balancing learning and performing, individuals and companies can reach their boldest aspirations.
10/3/2023 • 45 minutes, 51 seconds
494: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put On the Spot with Matt Abrahams
Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public speaking to interviewing to networking—with essential strategies from a Stanford lecturer, coach, and host of the popular Think Fast, Talk Smart The Podcast.
9/26/2023 • 39 minutes, 37 seconds
493: The Inner Journey of Leadership with Dan Rockwell
In this timeless, eye-opening tale of redemption, Bob’s tailspin journey through loss and catastrophic failure invites readers to examine the nature of genuine leadership and embark upon their own story of self-discovery.
9/19/2023 • 30 minutes, 14 seconds
492: Walmart, Amazon, and the Battle for Our Wallets with Jason Del Rey
For years, Walmart and Amazon operated in separate spheres—one a massive brick-and-mortar retailer, the other an online giant. But in 2016, Walmart aggressively moved into the world of e-commerce, while Amazon made big bets in physical retail. What can we learn from them? Turns out, a lot.
9/12/2023 • 41 minutes, 19 seconds
491: Your Future Self with Hal Hershfield
Your Future Self describes the mental mistakes we make in thinking about the future and gives us practical advice for imagining our best future so we can make that vision a reality.
9/5/2023 • 32 minutes, 3 seconds
490: The Learn-It-All Leader with Damon Lembi
In The Learn-It-All Leader, Learnit CEO Damon Lembi shares the leadership mindset you need to make better decisions, take bolder risks, and build stronger teams.
8/29/2023 • 42 minutes, 14 seconds
489: How to Work with (Almost) Anyone with Michael Bungay Stanier
This book shows you how to build the best possible relationship. One conversation. Five questions. Detailed guidance on how to prepare and set the relationship up for success. Key insights on how to maintain the relationship so that it will continue to thrive.
8/22/2023 • 42 minutes, 53 seconds
488: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past with Dan Miller
A culmination of weekly inspiration shared with Dan Miller’s inner circle over the past 20 years!
8/15/2023 • 40 minutes, 47 seconds
487: Closing the Confidence Gap with Kelli Thompson
Closing the Confidence Gap will show you how to advance with confidence. You’ll hear deeply personal stories and walk away with practical tools to show you how to claim your role as a confident leader.
8/8/2023 • 46 minutes, 57 seconds
486: Hidden Genius with Polina Marinova Pompliano
After learning from the world's most successful people, you will have a mental toolkit to help you tackle thorny problems, navigate relationships, and use creativity and resilience in times of uncertainty.
8/1/2023 • 52 minutes, 49 seconds
485: An Unbound and Unbridled Path to Unstuck Growth with Bryan Orr
Unconformed is a toolkit for preventing and overcoming that "stuck" feeling and exploring the many paths to success, no matter your age or life stage. With many stories about successful people from diverse backgrounds, this book offers a fresh look at learning and working.
7/25/2023 • 52 minutes, 18 seconds
484: The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams with David Burkus
Discover how to develop a clear, concise understanding of how your team’s culture affects its performance. Follow this simple, practical blueprint to cultivate a Best Team Ever environment and set your team on a path to success.
7/18/2023 • 41 minutes, 25 seconds
483: The Illusion of Choice with Richard Shotton
The Illusion of Choice identifies the 16 1/2 most important psychological quirks that everyone in business needs to bear aware of today—and shows how any business can take advantage of these quicks to win customers, retains customers and sell more.
7/11/2023 • 45 minutes, 35 seconds
482: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In with Steven Van Cohen
In Connectable, you’ll learn how tackling the issue of worker loneliness head on can transform an isolated workforce into one that’s happier, more engaged, and more productive.
7/4/2023 • 48 minutes, 54 seconds
481: How to See What Others Don't with Constance Dierickx
Whether you are at the start of your leadership journey or have held a senior leadership role for years, Meta-Leadership will arm you with knowledge and insights to achieve the highest results from yourself and your team.
6/27/2023 • 36 minutes, 48 seconds
480: The Case for Good Jobs with Zeynep Ton
The Case for Good Jobs provides leaders with the blueprint they need to choose excellence by providing good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth both for their employees and their organization.
6/20/2023 • 33 minutes, 4 seconds
479: Finding Clarity, Confidence, and Courage with Heather Penny
Are you tired of chasing a dream you aren’t even sure you want anymore? Or have you accomplished your dream only to discover it’s not as fulfilling as you thought it would be? It’s time to get excited about your life again.
6/13/2023 • 42 minutes, 31 seconds
478: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age with Dr. Carl Marci
Rewired provides scientifically supported solutions for everyone who wants to restore their tech-life balance.
6/6/2023 • 37 minutes, 11 seconds
477: Why Work is No Longer Working and What To Do About it with Seth Godin
In The Song of Significance, Seth Godin provides a roadmap for the business leaders who are willing to create a meaningful future while bravely rejecting the outmoded management models that are no longer serving us. As Godin writes, “Choosing significance is to dance with fear, and choosing fear requires belief that what we’re doing matters.”
5/30/2023 • 39 minutes, 41 seconds
476: Choosing Greatness and Achieving Exceptional Outcomes with Christina Curtis
If you're a leader, entrepreneur, executive, or anyone who wants to squeeze more time, money, and joy from every day, Choosing Greatness is a must-have book that's brimming with tools and strategies!
5/23/2023 • 38 minutes, 2 seconds
475: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most with Adam Alter
A groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even business models that prevent us from achieving our full potential.
5/16/2023 • 42 minutes, 38 seconds
474: How to Talk About Your Work Using Purposeful Self-Promotion with Lisa Bragg
With proven tools, techniques, and insights, Bragging Rights will help you understand and tell the world about your true superpowers, so you can access new opportunities and, along the way, elevate others.
5/9/2023 • 45 minutes, 9 seconds
473: How to Make a Sustainable Living from Your Creativity with Miriam Schulman
After twenty years of selling art as well as coaching other artists, Miriam Schulman knows that now is the time to leave the rat race behind and pursue your highest dreams. It's time to gamble on yourself.
5/2/2023 • 35 minutes, 18 seconds
472: Arguing for the Good in Bad English with Valerie Fridland
Language change is natural, built into the language system itself, and we wouldn’t be who we are without it. Like, Literally, Dude celebrates the dynamic, ongoing, and empowering evolution of language, and it will speak to anyone who talks, or listens, inspiring them to communicate dynamically and effectively in their daily lives.
4/25/2023 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 9 seconds
471: The Microstress Effect with Karen Dillon
How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it.
4/18/2023 • 40 minutes, 40 seconds
470:Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower with Morra Aarons-Mele
The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. As leadership expert and self-proclaimed anxious achiever Morra Aarons-Mele argues, anxiety is built into the very nature of leadership. It can—and should—be harnessed into a force for good.
4/11/2023 • 35 minutes, 4 seconds
469: Optimizing Learning and Development in the Workplace with James McKenna
Upskill, Reskill, Thrive illustrates how to create and sustain learning and work environments that honor and empower individuals in ways that promote knowledge generation and sharing.
4/4/2023 • 43 minutes, 51 seconds
468: Stop Writing Books Nobody Reads with Debs Jenkins
You don’t need a long book published by a traditional publisher to get what you need. You need to get short valuable ideas out to your market in a professional way, as quickly as possible. That can be by blogging, writing articles, making videos or by writing a book.
3/28/2023 • 42 minutes, 33 seconds
467: Success Starts With Your Thinking with Mind Your Mindset Author Megan Hyatt Miller
Drawing upon the latest insights from the fields of performance psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, as well as case studies from clients and their own personal experiences, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller explore the power of ideas to shape superior outcomes, not only in business, but in every aspect of life.
3/21/2023 • 41 minutes, 5 seconds
466: Transform How You Talk, Listen, and Interact with Chuck Wisner
Our conversations—at home, at work, or in public—can be sources of pleasure and stepping-stones toward success, or they can cause pain and lead to failure. Chuck Wisner shows how we can form a connection from the very first conversation and keep our discourse positive and productive throughout any endeavor.
3/14/2023 • 33 minutes, 10 seconds
465: What to Say to Get Your Way with NYT Bestselling Author Jonah Berger
This book provides a powerful toolkit and actionable techniques that can lead to extraordinary results. Whether you’re trying to persuade a client, motivate a team, or get a whole organization to see things differently, this book will show you how to leverage the power of magic words.
3/7/2023 • 39 minutes, 49 seconds
464: The Power of Clarity with Ann Latham
In The Power of Clarity, Ann Latham exposes the unrecognized confusion and explains how to eliminate it. This fascinating guide to workplace productivity and effectiveness draws upon extensive research and case studies to demonstrate how you can get better results in far less time while also increasing confidence and commitment.
2/28/2023 • 27 minutes, 33 seconds
463: Redefining What It Means to Sell with Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown
The Unsold Mindset reveals a counterintuitive approach not just to selling but to life. It's a journey toward an entirely new mindset—the greatest sellers on the planet aren't successful because of what they do, they're successful because of what they think.
2/21/2023 • 49 minutes, 33 seconds
462: Make More Sales, Build Loyal Relationships, and Make More Money with Jen Gitomer
From attracting customers online and face-to-face to helping secure lifelong relationships, referrals and reorders, by building trust over time, minute by minute; to ensuring profitable sales and customer loyalty, you will learn 212 strategies that when put into practice, will make your sales and success soar.
2/14/2023 • 47 minutes, 15 seconds
461: Audio Book Summary: Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset.
2/7/2023 • 13 minutes, 54 seconds
460: Find Focus and Fight Distraction with Dr. Gloria Mark
In Attention Span, psychologist Gloria Mark reveals surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. She also shows how much of what we think we know is wrong.
1/31/2023 • 47 minutes, 35 seconds
459: You MUST Market Your Book with Honorée Corder
New and even experienced authors often feel overwhelmed by everything they're told they must do. It can be hard to know where one should be putting their energy. Honorée has a gift for teaching what's important in a way that's easy to understand and remember.
1/24/2023 • 29 minutes, 26 seconds
458: Over 10MM Copies Sold: My Summary of Atomic Habits
In just over four years since its release, it has officially sold more than 10MM copies! In this episode, I share an audio summary of Atomic Habits by James Clear.
1/17/2023 • 17 minutes, 29 seconds
457: Turn Your Passions Into Profits with Matt McWilliams
So many entrepreneurs either run a profitable business but hate their work or run a business they love, with a message they’re proud of, without making any money. There’s a better way to build a business, one that helps you wake up every day excited and full of purpose and make a profit.
1/10/2023 • 50 minutes, 5 seconds
456: The 6 Books I'm Most Excited About Coming Out in 2023
As I take a look ahead, these are the six books I'm most excited about that are coming out in the first half of 2023.
1/3/2023 • 20 minutes, 43 seconds
455: My Six Favorite Books I Read This Year
Much of my reading outside the reading I do for the podcast was centered around notes, knowledge retention, and learning. These are my favorites I read in 2022, but not necessarily released in 2022.
12/27/2022 • 28 minutes, 6 seconds
454: Eliminate Difficult Conversations using the Disconnect Principle with Ann Latham
The Disconnect Principle provides the missing link that will change the way you think about feedback, accountability, and performance management forever. This is the approach that will allow you to be the empathic and effective manager, employee, or peer that you would like to be.
12/20/2022 • 34 minutes, 48 seconds
453: How to Trade Shame, Guilt, and Fear for a More Fulfilling Life with Neal Samudre
Neal and Carly Samudre believe that joy is what’s missing from our ability to make lasting change in our lives. Building on biblical insights and the latest findings in positive psychology, Start from Joy outlines an emotionally healthy approach to change―one where joy leads the way.
12/13/2022 • 31 minutes, 55 seconds
452: Results of My Listener-Reader Survey
This week, I share the results of my 2022 Listener-Reader Survey and where the Read to Lead Community is headed.
12/6/2022 • 20 minutes, 5 seconds
451: How to Create, Live, and Sell a Powerful Personal Brand with Dr. Cindy McGovern
Learn how to create, live, and sell your own personal brand―even if you hate sales!―with step-by-step help from the First Lady of Sales.
11/29/2022 • 30 minutes, 13 seconds
450: Primal Storytelling with Anthony Butler
Whether you’re competing for local foot traffic or global downloads, Primal Storytelling will help you forge authentic connections with your audience, improve your brand performance in social media and SEO, and supercharge your content results.
11/22/2022 • 42 minutes, 15 seconds
449: Communication Secrets of the World's Greatest Salesman with Carmine Gallo
The communication tools Jeff Bezos created are so effective that former Amazonians who worked directly with Bezos adopted them as blueprints to start their own companies. Now, these tools are available to you.
11/15/2022 • 43 minutes, 30 seconds
448: Transform How You Communicate and Lead with René Rodriguez
Amplify Your Influence shows you how to leverage a variety of behavioral motivators to achieve positive outcomes and results and frame our ideas in a way that encourages engagement and gets and active response from your followers.
11/8/2022 • 41 minutes, 17 seconds
447: The Inside Story of a Multibillion Dollar Behemoth with Mike Evans
Grubhub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he grew a multibillion dollar behemoth that changed the way we eat.
11/1/2022 • 26 minutes, 54 seconds
446: The Only Business Metric That Matters with Jeremy Utley
We all want great ideas, but few actually understand how great ideas are born. Innovation is not an event , a workshop, a sprint, or a hackathon. It's a result of mastering idea flow, a practice that elevates everything else you do.
10/25/2022 • 43 minutes, 26 seconds
445: Peak Your Profits with Jeff Blackman
After 36 years of testing, research and development, Jeff Blackman's explosive business-growth system that shows you step-by-step how to Peak Your Profits.
10/18/2022 • 44 minutes, 45 seconds
444: How the Future Works with Helen Kupp
How the Future Works offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people.
10/11/2022 • 36 minutes, 8 seconds
443: 18 Words to Live By with Kent Sanders
Originally written as letters from a father to a son, 18 Words to Live By is a practical handbook for life and a heartfelt reminder of what matters most.
10/4/2022 • 39 minutes, 36 seconds
442: Your Most Important Work is Always Ahead of You with Cynthia Covey Haller
The final book from the late legendary leadership expert Stephen R. Covey of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame, offers inspiration and optimism about living your best life.
9/27/2022 • 38 minutes, 10 seconds
441: The 4 Key Components to Taking Smart Notes
If you'd like to see the outputs that result from your content consumption efforts lead to new connections, well-deserved promotions, and opportunities that were previously out of reach, then you have to learn how to take smart notes.
9/20/2022 • 16 minutes, 22 seconds
440: A New Approach to Making Business Personal with Vincent Pugliese
Join author Vincent Pugliese on a backwards journey that starts with your character and curiosity and ends with your offer, and discover all the opportunities waiting for you when you turn your attention from being a wealth of knowledge and experience towards being a wealth of connection.
9/13/2022 • 55 minutes, 30 seconds
439: How to Future-Proof Your Business with Jonathan Brill
In Rogue Waves, Jonathan Brill—a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision-making under uncertainty—shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.
9/6/2022 • 36 minutes, 32 seconds
438: How to Engage Your Employees and Drive Organizational Excellence with Patrick Veroneau
Leaders who align their leadership behaviors to motivate and satisfy the needs of their teams will build cultures that are both engaging and profitable.
8/30/2022 • 37 minutes, 45 seconds
437: Got Years of Notes Scattered All Over the Place? Let's Fix That!
Is your appetite for learning far greater than the time you have available to process it? Want a better system for retaining what resonates with you and ultimately expressing it in your own way? Your help is here!
8/23/2022 • 18 minutes, 47 seconds
436: The Undefeated Marketing System with Phillip Stutts
What if the key to future business success lies in a simple and secret marketing approach that presidents use to get elected and startups use to become unicorns? Now you can learn it too!
8/16/2022 • 38 minutes, 59 seconds
435: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem Into a Breakthrough Success with Danny Warshay
Entrepreneurship is not a spirit or a gift. It is a process that anyone can learn, and that anyone can use to turn a problem into a solution with impact.
8/9/2022 • 46 minutes, 4 seconds
434: Leading With Heart with John Baird and Edward Sullivan
As we reach the peak of the Great Resignation, two veteran executive coaches help today's leaders learn how to retain and inspire their teams through the one thing their research has found works: LEADING with HEART.
8/2/2022 • 48 minutes, 14 seconds
433: You MUST Write a Book with Honoree Corder
Beyond technology, software, social media networks, even advertising and marketing campaigns, the biggest and best tool you'll ever have in your belt is a book with your name on the cover.
7/26/2022 • 34 minutes, 35 seconds
432: How Creativity Rules the World with Maria Brito
Maria Brito illustrates how creativity is merely a series of habits, actions, and attitudes that anyone can develop—regardless of who you are and what you do.
7/19/2022 • 46 minutes, 38 seconds
431: LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies with Donna Serdula
LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies shares exactly what you need to know to optimize your profile according to your goals.
7/12/2022 • 36 minutes, 1 second
430: The Secret Society of Success with Tim Schurrer
In The Secret Society of Success, Tim Schurrer invites you to reevaluate your definition of success and learn a new, freer way to go about achieving it.
7/5/2022 • 46 minutes, 55 seconds
429: The Magic Formula That Will Make You Rich with Noah St. John
Whether you want to become a millionaire, build wealth faster, or retire early, join the more than one million people worldwide who are already using Noah’s iconic method to transform your life in less than five minutes a day.
6/28/2022 • 38 minutes, 22 seconds
428: The 5 Secrets to Lasting Love from the Go-Giver Marriage
To say love is what makes a marriage work, is like saying it takes oxygen to climb a mountain. Yes, oxygen is necessary. But not sufficient.
6/21/2022 • 54 minutes, 17 seconds
427: Simple Money, Rich Life with Bob Lotich
A 21-day kick-start to stress-free money management.
6/14/2022 • 37 minutes, 59 seconds
426: A New Way to Think with Roger Martin
Reading like a series of one-on-one sessions with one of the world's leading business thinkers, A New Way to Think is an essential guide for any current or aspiring business leader.
6/7/2022 • 49 minutes, 13 seconds
425: A Radical New Way to Negotiate with Barry Nalebuff
From a leading Yale Expert and serial entrepreneur comes a radical, principled, and field-tested approach that identifies what's really at stake in any negotiation and thereby ensures you get your half—so you can focus on growing the pie.
5/31/2022 • 47 minutes, 27 seconds
424: Deep Purpose is the Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies
A distinguished Harvard Business School professor offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right.
5/24/2022 • 38 minutes, 2 seconds
423: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company with Whitney Johnson
Growth occurs when learning is internalized—when we try something new and invest the effort to move it from being something we do to something we are.
5/17/2022 • 32 minutes, 39 seconds
422: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present & Wildly Productive
We don't need just another approach to changing our habits. What we need is an operating system that takes into account the full scope of our lives. In these pages bestselling author Jordan Raynor presents this system, using the seven powerful time-management principles drawn from the example of how Jesus lived.
5/10/2022 • 41 minutes, 43 seconds
421: Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact with Chick-fil-A's Mark Miller
Are you working harder than ever but struggling to make progress? You can escape the quicksand of busyness, distraction, and complexity...starting today!
5/3/2022 • 37 minutes, 25 seconds
420: A Radical New Approach to Greater Success and Fulfillment
Personal accountability is the bedrock upon which all sustained success in life is built. Yet, what if nearly everything we have been taught about accountability is wrong?
4/26/2022 • 30 minutes, 16 seconds
419: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management
Rich. Wealthy. Well-heeled. Moneyed. Affluent. Not bad—but why not get Stacked instead? If you’ve ever dreamed of a basic philosophy of money that’ll help you live bigger, be bolder, and laugh harder, you need this book.
4/19/2022 • 43 minutes, 27 seconds
418: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others with Stephen M. R. Covey
Stephen M. R. Covey has made it his life's work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. In his newest and most transformative book, Trust & Inspire, he makes the compelling argument that even though our world has changed drastically, our style of leadership has not.
4/12/2022 • 48 minutes, 16 seconds
417: How to Love What You Do, Do What You Love, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life with Marcus Buckingham
World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best—both at work and in life.
4/5/2022 • 50 minutes, 32 seconds
416: The Extraordinary Unordinary You with Simone Knego
Do you wake up every day feeling like you're going through the motions, that the hundreds of choices you make have almost no impact on the people around you? Simone Knego says you really only need to change the way you see yourself and the world around you will change.
3/29/2022 • 25 minutes, 11 seconds
415: Restoring Meaning, Purpose, and Fun to Your Life and Work with Dr. Sunil Raheja
In Dancing with Wisdom, Dr. Sunil Raheja shows you how to stop going through the motions and become the fully alive human being you were always intended to be.
3/22/2022 • 29 minutes, 59 seconds
414: Taking Your Next Book From Blank Page to 10,000 Copies Sold with Chandler Bolt
In this conversation with Self-Publishing School's Chandler Bolt, he walks us through a proven path to taking your book to bestseller status.
3/15/2022 • 33 minutes, 42 seconds
413: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life with Todd Cherches
VisuaLeadership will forever change the way you think and communicate by showing how you can quickly and easily leverage the power of visual imagery, mental models, metaphor, analogy, storytelling, and humor to help you take your game to a whole new level.
3/8/2022 • 31 minutes, 19 seconds
412: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness with Elaine Pofeldt
Could you be the bottleneck that is preventing your business from the growth you'd hoped for? Today's guest has just the help you need to get over the hump to the next level.
3/1/2022 • 38 minutes, 23 seconds
411: The Actions That Will Make AND Keep Your Family Rich
If the American dream of formal education, work, buying a house, working some more, and trying to raise a family, isn't leading you where you want to go, then this is for you!
2/22/2022 • 34 minutes, 59 seconds
410: Creating the Most Persuasive Presentations of Your Life with Dan Roam
Dan's new book outlines a fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers, and anyone who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences.
2/15/2022 • 44 minutes, 5 seconds
409: Break Free From Daily Burnout, Struggle Less, and Thrive More in Work and Life with Nataly Kogan
Filled with simple, science-backed practices and Nataly's contagious energy, The Awesome Human Project will teach you how to create more supportive relationships with yourself, with your thoughts and emotions, and with other people, so you can become the awesome human you're meant to be.
2/8/2022 • 43 minutes, 22 seconds
408: How to Lead a Life of Significance by Embracing Your Trials with Warwick Fairfax
In Crucible Leadership, Warwick Fairfax explains what he learned about himself from a devastating failure – who he was and who he was not, what his unique design, purpose, passions, and vision really were.
2/1/2022 • 30 minutes, 44 seconds
407: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance with Dr. Nate Zinsser
The Director of West Point’s influential Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.
1/25/2022 • 33 minutes, 47 seconds
406: A Workaholic's Cure for Anxiety with Charlie Hoehn
If you or someone you know suffers from bouts of anxiety, or from workaholism, or both, this conversation is one you do not want to miss.
1/17/2022 • 35 minutes, 33 seconds
405: How the Power of Pace Can Help Your Organization Achieve All New Levels will Elizabeth Knox
With years of experience helping organizations reimagine their identities, communication, and effectiveness to create a more productive workplace, Elizabeth Knox details her experience and data-driven strategies to help readers evaluate and discover a pace that allows both their organization and employees to succeed.
1/10/2022 • 39 minutes, 19 seconds
404: Leading Successful Meetings, Dynamic Workshops, and Effective Training Events with Paul Maltby
The Fearless Facilitator consolidates twenty years of experience and hard-learned lessons into a summary of powerful techniques you can deploy now.
1/3/2022 • 41 minutes, 21 seconds
403: How History's Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together with Robert Dilenschneider
CEO and respected advisor Robert L. Dilenschneider examines the trajectories of iconic figures to reveal the choices that enabled them to fulfill their potential.
12/27/2021 • 34 minutes, 20 seconds
402: Reclaim Control and Make Every Situation a Win-Win with Gail Rudolph
Gail Rudolph helps readers discover how to harness their innate interpersonal power, revealing the cues and signals that help us respond effectively.
12/20/2021 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds
401: How Great Leaders Prepare, Perform and Prevail with Jim Afremow and Phil White
This book taps into the same tips and techniques honed by top-tier athletes, such as how to get in a "zone," thrive on a team, and stay humble, to become a champion at work and the ultimate team player at home.
12/6/2021 • 35 minutes, 40 seconds
400: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact
Drawing on insights from leaders at top companies, Wiseman explains what the most influential players are doing differently, how small and seemingly insignificant differences in how we think and act can make an enormous impact.
12/5/2021 • 48 minutes, 33 seconds
399: Applying Relationship Rules in Business for Ultimate Success with Honoree Corder
Want to take your networking to another level? Apply the rules of personal dating to cultivate valuable business relationships like never before!
11/29/2021 • 36 minutes, 5 seconds
398: Learning and Development Programs That Stick with Meredith Bell
Use this book as a roadmap for strengthening the people in your organization and building a positive coaching culture.
11/22/2021 • 32 minutes, 23 seconds
397: Thursday is the New Friday with author Joe Sanok
Learn to let go of the paralyzing need to be perfect. Find out how to navigate your fears of failure. And stop holding onto the industrial mindset that logging hours boosts productivity.
11/15/2021 • 42 minutes, 11 seconds
396: How to Write a Non-Fiction Book That Sells with Julie Broad
In Self-Publish & Succeed, trusted best-selling author and entrepreneur Julie Broad shows you that writing a successful nonfiction book starts long before you write your first chapter. To write a book that boosts your brand, generates a profit, and makes you an influencer in your industry, you need the 'no boring books' way.
11/8/2021 • 27 minutes, 38 seconds
395: How Leading Organizations Blend the Digital and Physical with Robert E. Siegel
Siegel shows how to create lasting profits and growth in the smartest way possible: by creating a solid partnership between digital innovation and traditional business operations―in other words, by marrying brains and brawn.
11/1/2021 • 28 minutes, 7 seconds
394: Take Your Life Back From Your Business with Dr. Sabrina Starling
Grinding it out is grinding us up. Work should support life, not the other way around. The irony is the less we work, the more effective we become. In The 4 Week Vacation, you will discover strategies to build a thriving life and business. Get ready to take your life back!
10/25/2021 • 35 minutes, 52 seconds
393: You Can Change Other People with Peter Bregman and Howie Jacobson
In You Can Change Other People, the world's number-one executive coach, Peter Bregman, and Howie Jacobson, PhD, share the Four Steps to help the people around you make positive change - even if they've been stuck for years.
10/18/2021 • 31 minutes, 21 seconds
392: Stimulate Greater Engagement and Productivity with Roy Heintz
How engaged are your people? What does their performance productivity look like? Sadly, 67% of those surveyed said they were “not engaged” and 18% said they were “actively disengaged!”
10/12/2021 • 32 minutes, 21 seconds
391: Take Back Your Time the Guilt-Free Way with Chrisy Wright
Decide what matters. Stop doing what doesn't matter. Create a schedule that reflects what matters. Protect what matters. Be present for what matters.
10/4/2021 • 28 minutes, 44 seconds
390: The Magnetic Leader with Chris McClure
In The Magnetic Leader, discover 18 Essential Actions you can practice daily to upgrade your influence and impact. People will follow your lead, becomes more confident, draw out the best in each other, enjoy healthy relationships, and make a difference!
9/27/2021 • 34 minutes, 28 seconds
389: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short Term World with Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark shares unique principles and frameworks anyone can apply to their situation, as well as stories from her own career and other professionals' experiences.
9/20/2021 • 38 minutes, 40 seconds
388: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy with John Meese
Survive and Thrive paves the path for any entrepreneur to start from scratch and build a profitable business in any economy, including this one.
9/13/2021 • 42 minutes, 26 seconds
387: 8 Tools You Need to Get Paid the Money You Want with Jill Young
The Earning Advantage is a unique resource for employees to earn more money while promoting their company's growth.
9/6/2021 • 48 minutes, 8 seconds
386: How to Listen Like You Mean It with Ximena Vengoechea
In Listen Like You Mean It, Ximena offers an essential listening guide for our times, revealing tried-and-true strategies honed in her own research sessions and drawn from interviews with marriage counselors, podcast hosts, life coaches, journalists, filmmakers, and other listening experts.
8/31/2021 • 35 minutes, 33 seconds
385: The Simple Habit That Expands Your Influence and Boosts Your Career with Jeff Brown
If you already know that reading is critical for success, Read to Lead (the book) will help you get more out of the books you read. If you aren’t a reader (yet) it will help explain why you should be, and give you tips on how to jump into it painlessly.
8/23/2021 • 32 minutes, 27 seconds
384: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity with Steve Shwartz
Although we don't have to worry about evil robots rising to power and turning us into pets, artificial intelligence is here to stay, and we must learn to separate fact from fiction and embrace how this amazing technology enhances our world.
8/17/2021 • 23 minutes, 34 seconds
383: The Speed of Trust with Stephen M. R. Covey
Stephen M. R. Covey shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and all stakeholders—is the single most critical component of a successful leader and organization.
8/9/2021 • 37 minutes, 50 seconds
382: 7 Practical Tools to Take Charge of Your Career with Ted Fleming
Ted Fleming, head of talent development for CVS, shares simple, powerful advice for finding the right job or growing in an existing role.
8/1/2021 • 32 minutes, 18 seconds
381: Lead with Your Values to Advance Your Career with the Wharton School's G. Richard Shell
Driven by dramatic, real-world examples from his classroom, today's headlines, and classic cases of corporate wrong-doing, The Conscience Code shows how to create value-based workplaces where everyone can thrive.
7/26/2021 • 43 minutes, 56 seconds
380: Big Ideas for Fueling Irresistible Corporate Cultures
In Pathway to Purpose, service excellence expert Jamey Lutz unveils time-tested strategies that have helped transform once good companies into truly exceptional ones.
7/19/2021 • 34 minutes, 33 seconds
379: Finding Purpose and Passion in Your Career and Personal Journey
Close your eyes. Do you see, feel, and sense a vision of yourself that does not align with your current life? If so, that means it's time to grow; it's time to change.
7/12/2021 • 32 minutes, 35 seconds
378: The 8 Step Blueprint To Building A Profitable Personal Brand Business
It’s no secret that more people than ever before are building thriving businesses around their personal brands. But why do some create six- or even seven-figure businesses while so many others strive to make a consistent income? Find out in this conversation with my good friend Mike Kim.
7/5/2021 • 56 minutes, 47 seconds
377: How to Unlock and Activate the Wisdom of Others
Many industries worldwide are stuck as they struggle to survive and grow. Stuck businesses do not react, pivot, and redirect, which can be catastrophic. In Unstuck, Craig Lemasters shares techniques he has used in a lifetime of helping Fortune 500 companies fill their knowledge gaps.
6/26/2021 • 27 minutes, 28 seconds
376: The 8 Pillars of Trust That Drive Results
You will learn strategies to increase alignment, overcome attrition, and get absolutely clear on executing your top priorities.
6/21/2021 • 39 minutes, 22 seconds
375: Develop Today's Team for Tomorrow's World of Work
Talent Transformation will help you engage your workforce, set meaningful goals, and make decisions based on data and logic instead of guesswork. It will help you lead with confidence, embrace uncertainty with an unrivaled degree of flexibility and agility, and achieve long-term success.
6/14/2021 • 25 minutes, 41 seconds
374: The Long-Distance Teammate with Kevin Eikenberry
This book tackles the most important issues presented by long-distance teamwork. Learn the mindset, skillset, and habits you need to be a successful, engaged, and valued long-distance contributor.
6/7/2021 • 34 minutes, 3 seconds
373: 50 Lessions for Life and Leadership
This book features fifty original, powerful stories that will shape the lives of its readers, helping them to become better leaders and people.
5/31/2021 • 16 minutes, 50 seconds
372: How to Talk to Yourself the Way God Talks to You
There’s no need to remain stuck thinking unhelpful thoughts. Learn how you can fill your mind with encouraging, life-enriching truths through a gospel-saturated, 31-day challenge that can help you replace a destructive mindset with a positive, empowering, and godly one.
5/24/2021 • 35 minutes
371: The Walk-On Method to Career and Business Success
Professional success is your control, much more than you realize. Ordinary people will accomplish extraordinary feats when their energy is properly channeled.
5/17/2021 • 34 minutes, 33 seconds
370: The Unconventional Path to Breakthrough Ideas with Cyril Bouquet
Through the ALIEN method, you will learn how to develop out-of-this-world ideas. ALIEN Thinking, the book, can help anyone find innovative solutions to the most difficult problems.
5/10/2021 • 38 minutes, 38 seconds
369: Future-Proofing You with Jay Samit
This book is perfect for anyone who is tired of jobs with no security, hopes to truly realize their professional and personal potential, and is looking for a way to build a better life for them and their family.
5/3/2021 • 41 minutes, 4 seconds
368: Taking Depression Head-On with Victoria Mininger
In Daring to Fight, Victoria Mininger candidly shares her painful battle with clinical depression and lays out practical steps she used to fight it every day.
4/26/2021 • 32 minutes, 11 seconds
367: The Quest to Build a Culture That Rocks with Arnie Malham
In Worth Doing Wrong, Malham provides strategies for creating a culture that will help you smash business goals, achieve win-win relationships with your clients, generate buzz in your community, and cultivate a workplace that you and your employees will love.
4/19/2021 • 33 minutes, 3 seconds
366: Win at Work and Succeed at Life with Megan Hyatt Miller
Megan Hyatt Miller and Michael Hyatt's new book shares their proven, practical plan to help you win at work and succeed at life.
4/12/2021 • 32 minutes, 8 seconds
365: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking with Jon Acuff
If you want to tap into the surprising power of overthinking and give your dreams more time and creativity, learn how to DJ the soundtracks that define you. If you can worry, you can wonder. If you can doubt, you can dominate. If you can spin, you can soar.
4/5/2021 • 34 minutes, 10 seconds
364: The Power of a Graceful Leader with Alexsys Thompson
In The Power of a Graceful Leader, Alexsys Thompson shares how to begin integrating who you are and how you lead.
3/29/2021 • 27 minutes, 41 seconds
363: The Common Path to Uncommon Success with John Lee Dumas
Based on thousands of interviews from John Lee Dumas’ highly acclaimed podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, this revolutionary 17-step roadmap provides a proven path for entrepreneurs like you to achieve the financial, location, and lifestyle freedom you are capable of. Let The Common Path to Uncommon Success show you how.
3/22/2021 • 30 minutes, 50 seconds
362: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You with Mark Herschberg
Mark's book The Career Toolkit will help you master networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, and career planning. It's a multivitamin for your career.
3/15/2021 • 33 minutes, 54 seconds
361: 12 Indispensable Success Secrets from the Hype Handbook
If you're a business owner, entrepreneur, executive, artist, activist, or thinker who can honestly say that you are truly trying to make the world a better place, it is your moral imperative to learn how to harness raw emotion and irrational thinking to your benefit.
3/8/2021 • 43 minutes, 8 seconds
360: Advice for Working Moms from Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Joann Lublin
A longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist and mother compares two generations of women - boomers and GenXers - to examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.
3/1/2021 • 32 minutes, 19 seconds
359: How to Make Your Family Business Last with Mitzi Perdue
Your family business faces a 70% of not making it to the next generation. The good news is you can change those odds, and Mitzi Perdue's book can give you the tools to do it.
2/22/2021 • 30 minutes
358: Resilient By Nature with former NFL Great Reggie Williams
In Resilient By Nature, Reggie Williams provides an intimate account of his remarkable journey while also sharing his unique perspectives on a wide variety of topics.
2/15/2021 • 26 minutes, 16 seconds
357: The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias
A timely, must-have guide to understanding and overcoming bias in the workplace, from the experts at FranklinCovey.
2/8/2021 • 28 minutes, 32 seconds
356: Mastering the Art of Public Speaking with Michael J. Gelb
Mastering the Art of Public Speaking will guide you to rediscover your natural gift for communication while strengthening your confidence and your presence.
2/1/2021 • 32 minutes, 57 seconds
355: Discovering the Hidden Forces That Drive Your Best Work with Todd Henry
Rewards like money, perks, and praise lead to short-term wins but don’t really do much to ward off the pull of habit and complacency. So, what’s the secret to unleashing our best work? And how can we use it to achieve lasting results with our teams and in our lives? The Motivation Code shows the way.
1/25/2021 • 42 minutes, 28 seconds
354: How to Stay On Top Forever with the Help of Today's Tech Titans
Through 130 interviews with insiders from Mark Zuckerberg to hourly workers, Alex Kantrowitz shows how the tech titans operate cultures of invention.
1/18/2021 • 44 minutes, 34 seconds
353: 99% Invisible's Roman Mars on the Hidden World of Everyday Design
You are about to see stories everywhere, YOU BEAUTIFUL NERD.
1/11/2021 • 26 minutes, 41 seconds
352: How to Get Paid for What You Know with Jonathan Milligan
Jonathan Milligan gives you a simple four-step framework to rise above the noise and build a real business.
1/4/2021 • 33 minutes, 18 seconds
351: 22 Ways to Stop Procrastinating with Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy's life-changing global bestseller Eat That Frog! has now been adapted to the specific needs of students.
12/28/2020 • 27 minutes, 13 seconds
350: The Rise of an Iconic Brand with former Dunkin' Donuts CEO Robert Rosenberg
In 35 years as CEO of Dunkin' Donuts, Robert Rosenberg grew the company from $10 million in sales to over $2 billion, with more than 3,000 outlets.
12/21/2020 • 31 minutes, 21 seconds
349: Why You Need to Be Unapologetically Ambitious with Shellye Archambeau
Unapologetically Ambitious invites us to move beyond the solely supportive roles others expect us to fill, to learn how to carefully tread the thin line between assertive and aggressive, and to give ourselves permission to strive for the top. Make no apologies for the height of your ambitions.
12/14/2020 • 28 minutes, 30 seconds
348: Lessons for Today's Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History
Here you'll find sixteen well-researched and carefully curated case studies of world leaders that reveal powerful lessons that today's leaders can apply to their own professional lives.
12/7/2020 • 25 minutes, 16 seconds
347: Lessons On Lasting Leadership from the Greatest Leaders of All Time
Leadership Endurance is for any leader who feels called to a lifetime of service in the leader's chair.
11/30/2020 • 23 minutes, 46 seconds
346: Raising Your Kids in a Tech-Driven World with Arelene Pellicane
In Screen Kids Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the tools you need to make positive changes. Plus, you’ll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention.
11/23/2020 • 40 minutes, 23 seconds
345: Solve Any Problem Faster, with Less Risk, and Lower Cost with Stephen Shapiro
Apply just one of the book's 25 lenses and you will quickly discover better solutions. Apply all of them and you will be able to solve any problem - in business and in life.
11/16/2020 • 28 minutes, 3 seconds
344: The Practice and Shipping Creative Work with Seth Godin
With this book as your guide, you'll learn to dance with your fear, to take the risks worth taking, and to embrace the empathy required to make work that contributes with authenticity and joy.
11/9/2020 • 22 minutes, 57 seconds
343: The Self-Evolved Leader with Dave McKeown
The Self-Evolved Leader is a practical guide to help C-suite executives and leaders at all levels resist the pull of the urgent so they can focus on the medium- and long-term direction of their team, the development of their people, and the successful delivery of shared goals.
11/2/2020 • 35 minutes, 50 seconds
342: Close the Gap Between Dreaming and Doing with Kary Oberbrunner
Unhackable is the 30-day elixir for creating flawless ideas, leveraging superhuman focus, and achieving optimal human performance through flow.
10/26/2020 • 39 minutes, 30 seconds
341: When More Is Not Better with Roger L. Martin
Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policy makers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-read guide for saving democratic capitalism.
10/19/2020 • 29 minutes, 14 seconds
340: The Bridge From You Dreams to Your Destiny with Mark Victor Hansen
You were born with a destiny. Your job is to discover it. Once you begin to practice the art and science of asking to discover your destiny and start to move toward it, you can manifest innumerable blessings for yourself and others.
10/12/2020 • 25 minutes, 39 seconds
339: What Mothers Never Tell Their Daughters with Dr. Michelle Deering
Author, speaker, and psychologist Dr. Michelle Deering shows you how to clarify issues, connect, and communicate better with your mother or daughter or anyone.
10/5/2020 • 43 minutes, 24 seconds
338: 48 Days to the Work (and Life) You Love with Dan Miller
In this 20th anniversary edition of Dan's bestseller, you will find everything you need to move you toward finding - or creating - work you love in just 48 days.
9/28/2020 • 30 minutes, 9 seconds
337: Change (the) Management with Author Al Comeaux
Change (the) Management draws on Al Comeaux's decades of experience in-seat as a change champion and senior executive at well-known companies, as well as decades of research on the subject of organizational change.
9/21/2020 • 36 minutes, 46 seconds
336: Building an Unbeatable Business with Square Co-Founder Jim McKelvey
The Innovation Stack is an irreverent first-person look inside the world of entrepreneurship, and an inspiring business narrative that's much bigger than the story of Square.
9/14/2020 • 39 minutes, 39 seconds
335: How to WIN in a World of Comparison
Stop giving Comparison power. Take control of your life, starting now!
9/8/2020 • 28 minutes, 29 seconds
334: The Business of Friendship with Shasta Nelson
Shasta Nelson teaches you how to develop healthy and appropriate friendships at work that can benefit both you and your organization.
8/31/2020 • 34 minutes, 22 seconds
333: Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do with Michael Brody-Waite
In Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts, Michael explains what drug addicts do to recover and provides a step-by-step program you can use to break free from your mask addiction to thrive in both work and life.
8/24/2020 • 43 minutes, 36 seconds
332: Knockout Networking with Michael Goldberg
In Knockout Networking, Michael Goldberg provides you with the same lessons he's shared with industry titans, helping anyone become an expert at prospecting while building and maintaining client relationships.
8/17/2020 • 32 minutes, 20 seconds
331: How's the Culture in Your Kingdom? with former Disney VP Dan Cockerell
How's the Culture in Your Kingdom? introduces relevant examples, compelling stories, and common-sense concepts that prepare leaders to lead their own kingdom.
8/10/2020 • 45 minutes, 46 seconds
330: Leadership Lessons from Hockey's Greatest Coaches
In Behind the Bench, journalist Craig Custance sits down for film sessions and candid conversations with some of the hockey world's most notable modern luminaries.
8/3/2020 • 43 minutes, 48 seconds
329: 3 Simple Steps to Create a Life Full of ENERY and Live Your Best Every Day
The Energy Clock shows you how to adjust your mindset and accomplish more meaningful work with fewer distractions.
7/27/2020 • 31 minutes, 23 seconds
328: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders with Alain Hunkins
Cracking the Leadership Code is designed to shorten your leadership learning curve and accelerate your leadership growth.
7/20/2020 • 35 minutes, 19 seconds
327: The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur with John Jantsch
The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur is a guide for creating a deeper relationship with the entrepreneurial journey.
7/13/2020 • 29 minutes
326: Win Every Day with Chick-fil-a VP Mark Miller
Mark Miller shares proven practices to release the untapped potential in your people, create strong competitive advantage, and win not just on game day but every day.
7/6/2020 • 27 minutes, 35 seconds
325: Building a Brand People Love From Day One with Emily Heyward
Whether you're starting a new business, launching a new product line, or looking to refresh a brand for a new generation of customers, Obsessed shows you why the old rules of brand-building no longer apply, and what really works for today's customers.
6/29/2020 • 24 minutes, 44 seconds
324: The Future of Behavior Design with BJ Fogg
Based on twenty years of research and Fogg's experience coaching more than 40,000 people, Tiny Habits cracks the code of habit formation.
6/22/2020 • 37 minutes, 3 seconds
323: Using Authority, Warmth, and Energy to Get Exceptional Results
One of the nation's premier talent agents and career advisors shows you how to catapult your career and your life forward with three key communication strategies―Authority, Warmth, and Energy.
6/15/2020 • 30 minutes, 36 seconds
322: Fix This Next with Mike Michalowicz
In Fix This Next, Mike shows you how to utilize his system, repeating it every time your company plateaus or meets a new challenge. It will move your business forward decisively fast.
6/8/2020 • 32 minutes, 34 seconds
321: Habits of a Champion with Dana Cavalea
In Habits of a Champion, Coach Dana Cavalea shares 15 lessons about what it takes to become a champion. He shares stories and insights from some of the world's top performers in sports, life, and business.
6/1/2020 • 28 minutes, 23 seconds
320: Maximize Profits by Investing in Your People with Sherry Deutschmann
When entrepreneur Sherry Deutschmann first decided to start a business, she knew she wanted to build something totally different. In Lunch with Lucy, Sherry tells the story of the creation of that company, LetterLogic, and how she turned it into a $40-million company by putting employees first - even ahead of customers and shareholders.
5/25/2020 • 35 minutes, 30 seconds
319: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 30th Anniversary Edition with Stephen M. R. Covey
Jeff chats with Stephen M. R. Covey, son of the late Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century!
5/18/2020 • 50 minutes, 19 seconds
318: 5 Steps to Kill Busyness with Garland Vance
Everyone is busy. And it's killing us all. But it doesn't have to be this way! If you're ready to do less, get more done, and enjoy life, it's time to get un-busy!
5/11/2020 • 43 minutes, 9 seconds
317: No One's Listening and It's Your Fault with Pam Marmon
Leading change at your organization can be a daunting proposition while you face mounting pressure for growth. As a senior leader, what should be an exciting time for your organization becomes a challenge, leading to a fear of change and the belief that change is hard. Pam Marmon shares a refreshing and radical truth: With the proper process, change is not hard.
5/4/2020 • 25 minutes, 51 seconds
316: Could You Survive Shark Tank?
Your business may never appear on the TV show, but following the principles in this book will ensure you avoid the fatal mistakes entrepreneurs often make in the real world.
4/27/2020 • 33 minutes, 1 second
315: Thinking Like a Boss with Kate Crocco
With plenty of inspiring stories and actionable steps you can take - starting now - Kate Crocco exposes the twelve limiting beliefs that are holding you back from your true potential.
4/20/2020 • 31 minutes, 24 seconds
314: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
In Experimentation Works, Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke shows what constitutes best experimentation practice, illustrates how that works at leading companies, and answers some fundamental questions.
4/13/2020 • 35 minutes, 47 seconds
313: Building a Compelling Subscription Model with Robbie Kellman Baxter
With The Forever Transaction, you have everything you need to build durable, long-term relationships with every customer, and leverage them for ultimate business success - today, tomorrow, and forever.
4/6/2020 • 39 minutes
312: The Vision Driven Leader with Michael Hyatt
The Vision-Driven Leader guides you through a series of 10 questions that not only serve as a diagnostic tool, but also shed light on the vision-crafting and vision-casting process.
3/30/2020 • 36 minutes, 36 seconds
311: The Life-Change Power of Trustiing Yourself with Margie Warrell
You’ve Got This! is a must-read for everyone, from seasoned leaders, to those embarking on their adult lives, and anyone in between who just needs encouragement to rise to take that leap
3/23/2020 • 29 minutes, 42 seconds
310: Leading with Gratitude with Adrian Gostick
Adrian and Chester introduce eight simple ways managers can show employees they are valued. They supplement their insights and advice with stories of how many of today’s most successful leaders effectively incorporated gratitude into their leadership styles.
3/16/2020 • 31 minutes, 26 seconds
309: Discussing the Art of Doing Nothing with Celeste Headlee
Burnout is now classified as a legitimate medical diagnosis. Do Nothing offers an understanding of how we've arrived at this point and how to break the cycle.
3/9/2020 • 32 minutes, 30 seconds
308: Cracking Complexity with David Benjamin
Filled with stories and advice distilled from years of experience applying the Complexity Formula across a broad range of sectors, David Benjamin and David Komlos have delivered the defining handbook for current and future leaders.
3/2/2020 • 29 minutes, 28 seconds
307: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Work with Bruce Daisley
Bruce Daisley draws on both his experience at companies like Twitter, Google, and YouTube and his relationships with experts in psychology, economics, and behavioral science to help bring back joy to our burned out, unproductive work culture.
2/24/2020 • 38 minutes, 42 seconds
306: The Successful Speaker with Grant Baldwin
In this conversation, you will learn the five-step roadmap to starting and scaling a speaking business from the ground up.
2/16/2020 • 43 minutes, 18 seconds
305: Ditch the Me Mindset and Change the World with Dr. Eric George
In We, Dr. George presents the value of embracing a mindset of connectedness, where the people we encounter represent the source of a fulfilling life.
2/10/2020 • 33 minutes, 8 seconds
304: Discover How You Contribute to the World with Tom Rath
Tom Rath's new book, Life's Great Question, will show you how to make your work and life more meaningful, and greatly boost your wellbeing.
2/3/2020 • 27 minutes, 31 seconds
303: Riding the Next Wave of Disruption with Paul Estes
You don't have to quit your job to live a balanced life, reskill, unlock new opportunities, or start that side hustle you can't stop thinking about.
1/28/2020 • 27 minutes, 27 seconds
302: Never Go With Your Gut with Gleb Tsipursky
Poor decision making can devastate an enterprise. In Never Go With Your Gut, learn how leaders like you can avoid terrible advice, cognitive biases, and bad judgment to save your business and bottom line.
1/20/2020 • 41 minutes, 42 seconds
301: Delivering the Ultimate Customer Service Experience with Micah Solomon
In Ignore Your Customers (and They'll Go Away), Micah reveals the secrets of how you can transform your own customer service and culture.
1/13/2020 • 37 minutes, 50 seconds
300: Sharpen Your Marketing Message and Cut Through the Noise with Bill Cates
Radical Relevance will help you cut through the daily barrage of messages your prospects experience, to reach the right people at the right time with the right message.
1/6/2020 • 37 minutes, 45 seconds
299: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want with Anese Cavanaugh
This highly-anticipated follow-up to Contagious Culture shows aspiring leaders how to embody the qualities they wish to cultivate in their organizations.
12/31/2019 • 38 minutes, 56 seconds
298: Master Your Code with Darren J. Gold
Master Your Code combines ancient wisdom and modern science to produce an essential guidebook for what we all want - a life of joy, fulfillment, and happiness.
12/23/2019 • 31 minutes, 13 seconds
297: A Practical Guide to the Design and Implementation of Strategy
In The Strategy Mindset 2.0, Dr. Chuck Bamford shows you how several popular strategy myths can actually stunt your company's growth.
12/17/2019 • 24 minutes, 30 seconds
296: Earning a Debt-Free Degree with Anthony O'Neal
In Debt-Free Degree, Anthony teaches you how to pay for college without student loans - whether you've started saving or not.
12/9/2019 • 25 minutes, 26 seconds
295: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring companies. They have the resilience to thrive in an ever-changing world, while their competitors fall by the wayside. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead the rest of into the future.
12/3/2019 • 24 minutes, 12 seconds
294: Exceptional Presentation Delivery with Tim Pollard
Mastering the Moment employs Tim Pollard's engaging style, making the guidance as absorbing to read as it is to adopt.
11/26/2019 • 52 minutes, 43 seconds
293: Attract Top Talent and Build a Thriving Culture
The Problem Isn’t Their Paycheck guides you through the changes you need to make in your business to attract (and retain) the 12% of employees who bring their all - and maps out the financial reward that comes with retaining employees.
11/19/2019 • 30 minutes, 24 seconds
292: Transforming Your Business with Amanda Slavin
Amanda Slavin unveils the tools to measure and grow your brand's engagement, forge a deeper, more personal connection with customers, and unite your employees around a shared mission.
11/9/2019 • 48 minutes, 7 seconds
291: How to Have Conversations That Matter with Celeste Headlee
In We Need to Talk, Celeste Headlee outlines strategies that have made her a better conversationalist and offers actionable steps anyone can take to improve their communication skills.
11/4/2019 • 31 minutes, 53 seconds
290: Build Your Business, Quit Your Job, and Live Your Ideal Lifestyle
Tom and Ariana guide current and aspiring entrepreneurs through the major aspects of making it happen with a simple step-by-step process.
10/28/2019 • 38 minutes, 35 seconds
289: Taking the Work Out of Networking with Karen Wickre
Networking can feel phony, awkward, and intimidating - but it doesn't have to. Here you'll find a more authentic way to make connections.
10/21/2019 • 30 minutes, 5 seconds
288: The High Achiever's Guide with Maki Moussavi
In The High Achiever's Guide, Maki Moussavi shares her best tools and processes to determine what fulfillment means to you so you can thrive with empowered confidence.
10/11/2019 • 32 minutes, 31 seconds
287: How to Grow Your Business Like Amazon with Steve Anderson
Technology and Risk expert Steve Anderson has analyzed and distilled Bezos' shareholder letters to reveal the key 14 Growth Principles that unlock the lessons, mindset, and steps Bezos has used to make Amazon the massive success it is today.
10/7/2019 • 36 minutes, 15 seconds
286: Escape the 9-5, Create a Life You Love and Still Pay the Bills with Marianne Cantwell
Trapped in a job or business that's "just not you"? Marianne Cantwell's straight-talking bestseller will help you break out of the career cage and Be a Free Range Human.
9/30/2019 • 50 minutes, 59 seconds
285: The 10 Laws of Trust with JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson
The 10 Laws of Trust is the playbook for breaking through operational silos and CYA mentality that plague so many organizations today.
9/23/2019 • 25 minutes, 47 seconds
284: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable"?
9/16/2019 • 31 minutes, 38 seconds
283: Creating a Remarkable Culture with Chick-fil-a Veteran Dee Ann Turner
When it comes to running a business, the most important decisions a leader makes are not about products or locations--they're about people. Now Dee Ann Turner is ready to share her secrets on how to build, sustain, and grow an organizational culture that attracts world-class talent and consistently delights customers, no matter what your industry.
9/9/2019 • 30 minutes, 33 seconds
282: Becoming Dr. Seuss with Brian Jay Jones
Coming right off the heels of George Lucas and the bestselling Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones is quickly developing a reputation as a master biographer of the creative geniuses of our time.
8/26/2019 • 37 minutes, 6 seconds
281: How You Too Can Find a Business Within You with Kajabi Cofounder Travis Rosser
You may not realize it, but we were all given a gift that we should be sharing with the world. The experiences you have accumulated throughout your life can turn you into a potential entrepreneur, says Travis Rosser.
8/20/2019 • 33 minutes, 5 seconds
280: Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It
John R. Brandt offers leaders an actionable Anti-Nincompoopery Plan based on retaining three deceptively simple, research-validated strategies: innovation, talent, and process.
8/12/2019 • 29 minutes, 23 seconds
279: Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, and Build a Successful Business
Online marketing's self-described crash-test dummy is back for his third visit, this time to discuss his brand new book on how to create Superfans.
8/12/2019 • 41 minutes, 10 seconds
278: How to Become the Leader You Would Follow
In Management Mess to Leadership Success, you'll find 30 leadership challenges, honed by FranklinCovey through years of research that illustrate how to rise when you fall and how to survive and even thrive as an unfiltered leader.
8/5/2019 • 40 minutes
277: How to Succeed in a Project Driven World
Leading projects thinker Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez looks at how some leading companies, governments, schools, and universities have already embraced projects as the way to deliver on their strategy and ambitions.
7/29/2019 • 34 minutes, 50 seconds
276: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become Digital Leader with former Amazon Executive John Rossman
In Think Like Amazon, former Amazon executive John Rossman, who launched and scaled Amazon Marketplace, gives business leaders the ultimate playbook on how to "think like Amazon" and succeed in the digital age, with an inside look at the authentic beliefs, leadership principles, and techniques used to build and manage the dynamic business we all admire, if not fear, today.
7/22/2019 • 31 minutes, 40 seconds
275: Get Better Work, Take More Time Off, and Finance the Life You Want in the Gig Economy
Traditional full-time employment is disappearing. Increasingly, in its place are short-term assignments, contract work, and freelance jobs - the gig economy. Are you ready?
7/15/2019 • 32 minutes, 26 seconds
Encore Episode: 5 Killer Books on Public Speaking and Effective Communication
As I take some time away with family, I've prepared this encore episode especially for you. It originally published as Episode 200 of Read to Lead, which itself takes a look back of five special interviews. Enjoy!
7/8/2019 • 47 minutes, 33 seconds
274: An Audio Summary of Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt
In this episode, I share the insights and ideas I gleaned from reading Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt. It's one of the most practical books I've read in quite some time.
6/29/2019 • 13 minutes, 4 seconds
273: Applied Empathy with Michael Ventura
Empathy is not about being nice. It's not about pity or sympathy, either. It's about having a deep understanding of your consumers, your colleagues, and yourself.
6/21/2019 • 28 minutes, 8 seconds
272: The Daily Decision That Changes Everything with Brian Dixon
If you're ready to get unstuck, love your work, and make the dream happen, entrepreneur and business coach Brian Dixon has a message for you: Start With Your People.
6/17/2019 • 26 minutes, 3 seconds
271: Unlimiting Your Beliefs with Ironman Karen Brown
Karen Brown shares 7 keys to greater success in your personal and professional life by accessing the power of the unconscious mind through scientifically-proven techniques and patterns.
6/10/2019 • 41 minutes, 56 seconds
270: 7 Simple Actions to Get the Right Things Done and Achieve Your Goals
Taking control of your time and life doesn't have to be complicated. If you're serious about squashing stress and taking control, read Accomplish It.
6/3/2019 • 34 minutes, 8 seconds
269: The All-New Second Edition of Same Side Selling
Same Side Selling will help you to escape the competitive, adversarial dynamic that gives salespeople a bad name.
5/23/2019 • 34 minutes, 53 seconds
268: How to Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team Back on Track
Learn how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done.
5/20/2019 • 48 minutes, 25 seconds
267: Making Your Company Fit for Human Life
Moe Carrick offers a fresh, honest, and direct roadmap for leaders everywhere who seek to make their workplace fit for human life. And, she offers advice for workers and encourages them to be their authentic selves.
5/14/2019 • 39 minutes, 6 seconds
266: 6 Energy Habits to Master the Business Travel Life
Whether you realize it or not, you have a certain energy level that you’ve developed on the road. Is your status as good as you think it is or even hope it to be?
5/6/2019 • 49 minutes, 4 seconds
265: Ryan Levesque on the Single Most Important Decision Before Starting Your Business
Starting a business is hard. Most people fail, but it doesn't have to be that way. It starts with asking WHO instead of WHAT.
4/29/2019 • 49 minutes, 8 seconds
264: Life Is Too Short to Do Things You Can't Stand
Host Jeff Brown argues that too many people are living someone else's life, trudging along in a job they hate. Is that you? Stop, Jeff says. Life is too short!
4/22/2019 • 11 minutes, 12 seconds
263: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Liife with Laura Gassner Otting
Laura Gassner Otting teaches you how to ignore the rules that created your limits, align your energies and your actions, and do work that really matters so that you can live your best life.
4/16/2019 • 34 minutes, 43 seconds
262: How to Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself with Heather Hansen
Life is full of trials, and sometimes you need a warrior spirit to overcome them. In The Elegant Warrior, Heather Hansen shows you how.
4/9/2019 • 28 minutes, 57 seconds
261: Great Leaders Have No Rules with Kevin Kruse
In Great Leaders Have No Rules, New York Times bestselling author Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership.
4/2/2019 • 46 minutes, 25 seconds
260: How to R.E.S.E.T. Your Mindset with Natalie Eckdahl
Everyone suffers from mindset issues of one kind or another. If you want to learn how to attack yours head on, then Natalie Eckdahl is here to help.
3/25/2019 • 41 minutes, 29 seconds
259: Nurturing the Crazy Ideas That Transform Industries
Safi Bahcall joins Jeff Brown and reveals the surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about the spread of new ideas.
3/18/2019 • 56 minutes, 32 seconds
258: Dead End Job? Do This Next!
I share the next three steps you need to take if your current job is no longer fulfilling you and you're not sure what to do next.
3/11/2019 • 9 minutes, 8 seconds
257: Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins
Mark Schaefer will challenge your view of what it means to be a marketer today and provide a radical new blueprint for business growth.
3/5/2019 • 31 minutes, 45 seconds
256: 3 Reasons to Consider Going Boss-Free
I share three compelling reasons why now, more than ever, you should consider self-employment, as well as details about my upcoming free online conference.
2/25/2019 • 7 minutes, 43 seconds
255: Gain an Authentic, Dedicated, and Diverse Online Following From Scratch with Brendan Kane
In One Million Followers, Brendan Kane teaches you how to gain an authentic, dedicated, and diverse online following from scratch.
2/18/2019 • 34 minutes, 31 seconds
254: Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters
Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step-by-step framework to teach you how to effectively explore and leverage entrepreneurship to gain freedom, fulfillment and financial security.
2/12/2019 • 33 minutes, 14 seconds
253: Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication Mastery
Vocal Leadership provides proven techniques and daily exercises to help you develop a commanding voice and presence, and improve vocal quality, mental acuity, body language, and self-esteem to dramatically increase your influence.
2/5/2019 • 29 minutes, 9 seconds
252: Cultural Brilliance is DNA of Organizational Excellence
In Cultural Brilliance: The DNA of Organizational Excellence, Claudette Rowley offers organizations a step-by-step guide to intentionally assessing, designing, and integrating cultural change that's iterative, each success building on previous successes.
1/28/2019 • 22 minutes, 45 seconds
251: How Lasting Change Can Happen in an Instant with James Fell
Motivation expert James Fell teaches readers how to skip the hard part and go directly from intention to committed action.
1/21/2019 • 35 minutes, 38 seconds
250: Redesign Your Business to Work Less, Earn More and Be Free with Natalie Sisson
Learn how to harness and exploit your own potential, experience, skills and knowledge in the new, digital economy, and create a profitable business based around YOU.
1/14/2019 • 28 minutes, 16 seconds
249: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth - and How You Can Too
Chris Hogan destroys millionaire myths that are keeping everyday people from achieving their financial independence.
1/7/2019 • 21 minutes, 5 seconds
248: 3 Books You Must Read to Make the Most of 2019
Today I share three books that have been life-changing for me and my friends and colleagues. Read these books to start the year, and I believe it'll become your best year yet.
12/31/2018 • 10 minutes, 2 seconds
247: Hospitable Leadership with Terry A. Smith
Practicing leadership with a hospitable mindset is the right way - the moral way - to lead people. But when understood properly, hospitable leadership has a radical edge. And, it brings revolutionary results.
12/22/2018 • 33 minutes, 17 seconds
246: Leader by Choice? Yes says Andres Valdes
Andres Valdes shares the 7 inspirational decisions that helped him overcome failures, setbacks, and life's punches by using self-leadership to turn adversity into an advantage.
12/17/2018 • 33 minutes, 5 seconds
245: The Path to Mastery with Thane Marcus Ringler
The life experiences Thane shares speak to the reality that, more often than not, we will fail. But, in failing there's learning. And in learning there's growth.
12/10/2018 • 30 minutes, 59 seconds
244: Building a Successful Business Through Faith in People and a Culture of Hospitality
The unvarnished tale of a rags-to-riches story that any entrepreneur or restaurant enthusiast will love and learn from.
12/3/2018 • 26 minutes, 14 seconds
243: Success in Business Begins with Clarity
Clarity Wins is a proven handbook to create competitive advantage in any marketplace. You don't have to spend a million dollars to rise above the noise and grow referrals. You just need to learn how to be clear.
11/26/2018 • 37 minutes, 16 seconds
242: Building Atomic Habits with James Clear
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for getting 1% better every day.
11/19/2018 • 46 minutes, 56 seconds
241: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation with Dan Schawbel
Back to Human is designed to help you discover how the next generation of leaders will create a workplace where teammates feel genuinely connected, engaged, and empowered, without relying on technology.
11/12/2018 • 29 minutes, 56 seconds
240: The Serving Mindset: Stop Selling and Grow Your Business
What if you could stop selling altogether and grow your profits? With The Serving Mindset, you'll learn how to serve, elevate your business success, and feel great about it!
11/5/2018 • 37 minutes, 51 seconds
239: How to Master Content Strategy with Pamela Wilson
Do you have a vision you want to share with the world — but you feel overwhelmed by the firehose of advice you find online? Then Master Content Strategy from Pamela Wilson is your guidebook.
10/29/2018 • 35 minutes, 22 seconds
238: 8 Surefire Ways to Dramitically Grow Your Business by Becoming the Obvious Choice
In this solo episode, I outline what I've learned over the years running my own business, to help me stand out among everyone else and get noticed.
10/22/2018 • 21 minutes, 56 seconds
237: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners and Experts with Someting to Teach
The roadmap to success as a knowledge worker, professional, and expert has changed. This is the guidebook for navigating and thriving in this new world.
10/15/2018 • 34 minutes, 21 seconds
236: Do You Have WHO It Takes with Steve Trautman
Author Steve Trautman offers revolutionary yet practical ideas for every level of an organization so that you can manage talent risk with clear, measurable, and relevant data.
10/8/2018 • 30 minutes, 32 seconds
235: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers with Word of Mouth
The book Talk Triggers finally gives you the practical framework you need to turn customers into volunteer marketers.
10/1/2018 • 30 minutes, 49 seconds
234: How Smart Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete and Succeed
The Expertise Economy shows how the most forward-thinking companies, big and small, are transforming their employees into experts and, ultimately, creating their biggest competitive advantage.
9/24/2018 • 31 minutes, 24 seconds
233: Stretched Too Thin with Jessica N. Turner
Popular author and lifestyle blogger, Jessica Turner helps working moms live with intentionality, love their families well, practice healthy self-care, and thrive both at work and at home.
9/17/2018 • 22 minutes, 15 seconds
232: Digital Habits for a More Balanced Life with Arlene Pellicane
We know that overusing technology harms our health and relationships, but how can we rewire our habits for a healthier life? Arlene Pellicane has the answers.
9/10/2018 • 31 minutes, 56 seconds
231: How to Go From Overwhelmed to Highly Effecient and Reclaim Your Life with Kris Ward
Win the Hour, Win the Day author Kris Ward walks us through her time management for small business strategies and techniques.
9/3/2018 • 36 minutes, 54 seconds
230: How Collaboration Beats Competion as a Strategy for Success with Paul Skinner
What if the competitive model of business is broken? Collaborative Advantage, says Paul Skinner, can be used to drive a greater level of success that is better for you, better for your customers and better for society.
8/27/2018 • 35 minutes, 4 seconds
229: How to Design Your Business to Run Itself
Instead of sacrificing your family, friendships, and freedom to keep your business alive, what if instead your business could run itself, freeing you up to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit?
8/20/2018 • 39 minutes, 14 seconds
228: The Most Important Meeting of Your Life with Jim Sheils
The Family Board Meeting is a carefully designed, easy-to-follow strategy for creating outstanding quality time with your children.
8/13/2018 • 38 minutes, 38 seconds
227: Revolutionize Your Career and Make BIg Things Happen with Derek Loudermilk
The steady career path is a thing of the past: disruption is here to stay. You need to be able to keep learning, growing and reinventing yourself to stay valuable in the midst of this change. Superconductors shows you how.
8/6/2018 • 32 minutes, 23 seconds
226: Rule for Remarkable Remote Leadership with Kevin Eikenberry
The cofounders of the Remote Leadership Institute, Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel, show leaders how to guide their teams by recalling the foundational principles of leadership.
7/29/2018 • 23 minutes, 7 seconds
225: How to Reinvent Yourself as a Leader (Because Eventually You'll Need To)
John and Mark identify seven common stalls most leaders will face, suggesting radical changes in mindset, behaviors, and skills on the way to reinventing themselves as "sophisticated" leaders.
7/22/2018 • 33 minutes, 7 seconds
224: 7 Simple Steps to Doing Work You Love
Everything you need to make the leap from the "9 to 5" you hate to earning six-figures doing work you love from anywhere.
7/16/2018 • 45 minutes, 7 seconds
223: The Key to Your Future Freedom Lies in Freelancing
With the world moving rapidly towards a freelance model, Freelance to Freedom is not only timely and necessary, but it’s also entertaining, engaging and paints a picture for anyone looking for a life of freedom with money, time and location.
7/10/2018 • 48 minutes, 46 seconds
222: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing with Dan Pink
Bursting with bid ideas and enduring lessons, WHEN will transform how you think about your past, your present, and your future.
7/2/2018 • 36 minutes, 26 seconds
221: Your Guide to Personal and Financial Success as a Creative Entrepreneur with Lisa Robbin Young
Creative Freedom dives into how to own your dreams without selling your soul. It's your guide to personal and financial success as a creative entrepreneur.
6/25/2018 • 38 minutes, 53 seconds
220: Communication Secrets to Get From Good to Great with Carmine Gallo
As the nature of work changes and technology carries things across the globe in a moment, communication skills become more valuable - not less.
6/18/2018 • 37 minutes, 42 seconds
219: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges Into New Value Frontiers
Alice's book is a practical guide for any business leader who wants to build, expand or reinvent their company by finding new value in global challenges.
6/12/2018 • 24 minutes, 19 seconds
218: Revolutionize How You Work with The Fun Formula
In The Fun Formula, Joel Comm reveals that the best path to success - in work and in life - is to focus on our passions.
6/4/2018 • 41 minutes, 11 seconds
217: How the World's Leading Entrepreneurs, Thought Leaders, and Cultural Icons Achieve Success
Everything you need to create a truly rich life is already in your possession. This book shows you how to make it happen.
5/28/2018 • 32 minutes, 14 seconds
216: How to Cope with the Changing World of Work
Stephen Warley discusses what to do if you're feeling anxious about your work, and how to prepare for the inevitable future changes.
5/21/2018 • 33 minutes, 19 seconds
215: The 5-Step Blueprint for Getting a Seating on the Executive Team
Read this book to learn what they don't teach in business school about becoming a high-impact Chief-level executive.
5/12/2018 • 25 minutes, 18 seconds
214: How to Break Free from the Trap of Success
Discover stories of real people who've faced moments of choice that caused them to dig deep, find their courage, and create a life and career of meaning.
5/7/2018 • 24 minutes, 51 seconds
213: How You Can and Why You Should Consider a Sabbatical Soon
This book is witty and wise and provides insightful guidance and motivation for anyone facing change, seeking career-life balance, or weighing a next step.
4/30/2018 • 23 minutes, 38 seconds
212: Grow Your Business, Attract More Clients, and Make More Money with Robin Waite
Robin's book will help you change your perceptions of your own business so that you can get out of your own way.
4/23/2018 • 33 minutes, 22 seconds
211: How Hidden Networks Can Transform Your Life and Career with David Burkus
When it comes to networking, forget the outdated advice you've already heard. Learn how to make use of the hidden networks you already have.
4/16/2018 • 33 minutes, 19 seconds
210: 8 Steps to Launching Your Own Mastermind Group
I've launched a number of mastermind groups over the years. Here's what I've found to be the path to launching yours successfully.
4/5/2018 • 17 minutes, 37 seconds
209: Take Control and Be More Optimistic About the Future
Retirement is changing, and the process you use to make critical decisions about your life and money must too.
4/2/2018 • 24 minutes, 26 seconds
208: How to Stay In Love With Your Entrepreneur In a Crazy Startup World
Learn how to keep your relationship strong when there's a startup in the family.
3/26/2018 • 35 minutes, 28 seconds
207: How to Take Your Startup From Idea to Empire
Throughout this book, celebrated entrepreneurs share ideas that worked for them. With a fleet of trusted experts by your side, starting a business will be faster, less confusing, and a whole lot more fun.
3/19/2018 • 35 minutes, 37 seconds
206: How to Take Charge of Your Brain and Program More Happiness Into Your Life
We have more control over our minds than we think. Learn how to train your brain to create the life - and future - you want.
3/12/2018 • 43 minutes, 15 seconds
205: How to Achieve Success, Create Balance, and Experience Fulfillment
Learn how achieving success, creating balance, and experiencing fulfillment begin and end with Remember Who You Are.
3/6/2018 • 36 minutes, 30 seconds
204: Finding Happiness, Focus, and Productivity No Matter How Busy You Are
Rather than rush through another day leaving things un-done and roses un-sniffed, take a beat and a breath and take back your day with The Free-Time Formula.
2/26/2018 • 40 minutes, 56 seconds
203: How to Leave a Legacy: A Tribute to My Father
What I learned from my father's passing was the incredible impact he had on everyone he encountered.
2/19/2018 • 11 minutes, 31 seconds
202: How to Think Like a Super Connecter, Not a Networker
How can you become a Superconnector? Scott and Ryan share instructive anecdotes from a who's who roster of high achievers, revealing how to systematically manage a professional community and maximize its value.
2/13/2018 • 53 minutes, 55 seconds
201: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future
Prepare for an inspiring journey, following an ancient manuscript with powerful lessons that will transform your life.
2/6/2018 • 30 minutes, 39 seconds
#200: A Look Back at 5 Killer Books on Public Speaking
In this milestone episode, we look back at the last 100 episodes and feature 5 interviews focused on the art of relating, communicating, and effective public speaking.
1/30/2018 • 50 minutes, 54 seconds
#199: Hiring, Firing and Creating an Amazing Team Culture
The complete guide every busy leader needs for creating an amazing team culture.
1/23/2018 • 41 minutes, 23 seconds
#198: How to Be the Leader Creative People Need with Todd Henry
No matter what creative field you're in, Herding Tigers will give you the confidence and the skills to foster an environment in which clients, management, and employees have a product they can be proud of and a process that works.
1/16/2018 • 40 minutes, 55 seconds
#197: The Secrets of Effective Leadership with Brad Lomenick
H3 Leadership is an application-driven, practical leadership playbook and road map that provides a proven process on how not only to run but finish well in the leadership race.
1/8/2018 • 41 minutes, 32 seconds
#196: 5 Steps to Achieving Your Most Important Goals
In Your Best Year Ever, Michael Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals.
1/2/2018 • 37 minutes, 42 seconds
#195: Eight Keys to Achieving Your Goals
Mark Schinnerer takes you into a fresh story and unpacks, through a corporate/agricultural allegory, the success of setting and achieving goals.
12/26/2017 • 30 minutes, 54 seconds
#194: Leadership from the Inside Out with Kevin Cashman
Leadership from the Inside Out serves as an integrated growth experience that helps leaders understand how to harness authentic, value-creating influence and elevate impact.
12/19/2017 • 36 minutes, 21 seconds
#193: The Best Book I've Read this Year
I've read over 50 books this year. And my favorite hasn't even been featured on the podcast, until now. Join me as I share the key insights I gleaned from The Big Leap.
12/5/2017 • 21 minutes, 18 seconds
#192: Learning to Embrace Imperfection with Jon Acuff
If you're tired being a chronic starter and want to become a consistent finisher, you have two options: You can continue to beat yourself up and try harder, or you can give yourself the gift of done.
11/20/2017 • 29 minutes, 17 seconds
#191: How to Lead with Gratitude
Seth Buechley tackles the plaguing question of why ambitious people struggle to find satisfaction and reveals what they can do about it.
11/14/2017 • 35 minutes, 54 seconds
#190: High-Stakes Leadership with Constance Dierickx
Learn why some leader are so effective when the stakes are high while others fall apart. Why some are able to not only survive, but to lead their organizations to new heights even in risky, fast-changing times.
11/7/2017 • 29 minutes, 20 seconds
#189: Monetize Your Expertise with Dorie Clark
(readtolead in the “how did you hear about us” section)
10/30/2017 • 38 minutes, 36 seconds
#188: How to Lead When You're Not In Charge with Clay Scroggins
Clay Scroggins explains what is needed to be a great leader - even when you answer to someone else.
10/24/2017 • 32 minutes, 48 seconds
#187: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job with Patrick McGinnis
McGinnis details how to invest just 10 percent of your time and resources, and still become a successful entrepreneur without losing a steady paycheck.
10/16/2017 • 34 minutes, 1 second
#186: Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business with Shayne Hughes
Shayne Hughes shows you how, as leaders, to take your ego out of the equation in order to watch your company thrive.
10/9/2017 • 31 minutes, 8 seconds
#185: Building a StoryBrand with Donald Miller
Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer in a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about how you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.
10/3/2017 • 41 minutes, 8 seconds
#184: The Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
Alan Alda tells the story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor.
9/28/2017 • 31 minutes, 46 seconds
#183: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months
The 12 Week Year is a how-to book for both individuals and organizations that would like to accomplish more in less time.
9/18/2017 • 14 minutes, 57 seconds
#182: The Top 10 Ways to Be a Great Leader
In this practical book, you'll discover how to lead with your heart, learn as you go, and love what you do.
9/11/2017 • 26 minutes, 46 seconds
#181: How to Achieve the Success You're Wired For
Learn how to get a leg up on your competition, discover the value you have to offer, and find the answers you need to be truly successful.
9/2/2017 • 33 minutes, 13 seconds
#180: How to Start a Business While Working a Full-Time Job
It is possible to leverage the margins of life outside your job to grow your business on the side, even if there are things like small children in the mix for you.
8/29/2017 • 42 minutes, 24 seconds
#179: How to Become the Person Others Follow
Leadership Step by Step treats leadership for the first time as the active, social, emotional, expressive, performance-based field it is - like acting, sports, improve, music, dance, and more.
8/21/2017 • 40 minutes, 1 second
#178: How to Market a Book with Joanna Penn
So you've written, or are writing, your non-fiction book? Great! But once it's complete, how do you market it effectively? Joanna Penn is here to help!
8/14/2017 • 39 minutes, 18 seconds
Try My Members-Only Book Club for Just $1
For a limited time, you can try my members-only book club for just one dollar. Act fast as this offer is only open to the first 30 people. Visit readtoleaduniversity.com and enter 'DOLLAR' at checkout.
7/31/2017 • 2 minutes, 49 seconds
#177: How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness
What if you could turn your greatest fears and obstacles into your biggest advantages and opportunities? With Akshay Nanavati's help, you'll learn to turn emotions like fear into health, wealth and happiness.
7/24/2017 • 29 minutes, 49 seconds
#176: How to Find a Mentor and Benefit from Being One
While most people agree that having a mentor is a good thing, they don't know how to find one or use one. And despite widespread approval for the idea of being a mentor, most people don't think they have the time or skills to do so.
7/16/2017 • 33 minutes, 55 seconds
#175: The 4 Best Interviews from the First 4 Years
As Read to Lead celebrates it's 4th anniversary, I take a look at the four best conversations - one from each of the first four years.
7/10/2017 • 38 minutes, 20 seconds
#174: How to Energize People Every Day
Kristi’s latest book reveals the surprising, everyday actions that any leader can take to be an inspiring and motivating force.
6/30/2017 • 31 minutes, 27 seconds
#173: The Starving Artist is a Myth
Bestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is in fact a competitive advantage in the market place.
6/22/2017 • 59 minutes, 37 seconds
#172: Focused Success in a Distracted World
Jeff breaks down the finer points of one of last year's most popular books, Deep Work by Cal Newport.
