Leadership Episodes

1,484 | SPOTLIGHT FEATURE! Kenny Stoddart on Precision Thinking for Leaders Kenny Stoddart helps leaders stay dangerous in moments that expose everyone else. As the founder of IronMind Advisors, he works at the intersection of pressure, responsibility, and execution, where outcomes are decided in seconds and there is no room for hesitation. His focus is not on adding more knowledge, but on removing the internal interference that disrupts performance when it matters most. His work is built around a simple observation. Most leaders do not fail from lack of skill. They lose their edge when pressure distorts how they think, shifting them from deliberate action into rushed reaction. Kenny trains leaders to hold their ground mentally, to stay present, and to operate with controlled intensity instead of scattered effort. The result is a level of consistency that does not break under stress, fatigue, or uncertainty. There is no noise in his approach, no excess theory, no relian…

1,478 | Yosi Amram on Spiritual Intelligence and Leadership Yosi Amram is a licensed clinical psychologist, CEO leadership coach, author, and one of the early pioneers in the field of Spiritual Intelligence. His journey spans multiple worlds. From growing up in Israel surrounded by conflict and early exposure to trauma, to rising quickly through the military ranks, to building and leading two technology companies through successful IPOs after earning degrees from MIT and Harvard. On paper, it was a life defined by achievement. But success did not answer deeper questions. A profound personal crisis led Yosi into what he describes as a spiritual awakening, shifting his focus from external success to inner understanding. That turning point redirected his path toward exploring the deeper dimensions of human potential, consciousness, and leadership. He went on to earn a PhD in clinical transpersonal psychology and developed one of the first research grounded models of Spiritual…

1,475 | Kenny Stoddart on Leading When Decisions Really Matter Kenny Stoddart works with leaders who operate where decisions carry weight and mistakes have real consequences. As the founder of IronMind Advisors, his focus is not on adding more strategies or frameworks. It is on strengthening the one factor that determines how those strategies are used, the state of the mind under pressure. After years alongside executives and high-level performers, Kenny identified the true failure point. It is not a lack of ability. It is the erosion of clarity. Under pressure, thinking tightens, judgment slips, and reaction replaces intention. Over time, those small breakdowns compound into major outcomes. The IronMind Mentality was designed to address that at its core. It trains leaders to think clearly, filter noise, and execute with control in real time, even as complexity and pressure increase. His work is quiet, exact, and results-driven. Leaders seek him out not for motivation, …

1,472 | Dr Stephen Mateka on Supporting Youth Mental Health Dr. Stephen Mateka is a double board certified psychiatrist specializing in both General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and currently serves as Medical Director of Psychiatry and Co Chair at Inspira Health System. His work sits at the intersection of clinical care, leadership, and advocacy. He plays an active role in shaping mental health systems across New Jersey, serving as Immediate Past President of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association and advising the state’s Children’s System of Care. He also contributes at a national level through leadership roles with organizations focused on advancing child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Mateka’s expertise extends beyond practice into thought leadership. As Section Editor for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Psychiatric Times, he helps bring forward critical insights and developments in the field. Trained at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and th…

1,465 | Kenny Stoddart on Sharpening the Mind for Leadership Kenny Stoddart advises leaders in environments where the cost of a wrong decision is not theoretical. It is immediate, visible, and consequential. As the founder of IronMind Advisors, his work centers on a single variable most overlook. Not strategy. Not experience. But the condition of the mind under pressure. Because when that falters, everything else follows. Through years working with executives, operators, and high level performers, Kenny identified the real breakdown point. It is not capability. It is degradation. Focus narrows, judgment blurs, and reactions replace deliberate action. Small lapses that quietly compound into major outcomes. The IronMind Mentality was built to reverse that. Not by layering on more tools, but by refining how leaders process, filter, and respond in real time. The result is sharper thinking, steadier control, and execution that holds even as complexity increases. His work is …

1,461 | Maggie McCane on Sustainable Success Without Burnout Maggie McCane, LCSW, is a trauma therapist and founder of Rehoboth Therapy and Wellness, where she works with high performing men and leaders navigating pressure, stress, and identity driven patterns. Her work goes beyond surface level coping. Maggie helps clients understand what is happening beneath their performance, how stress, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation shape behavior, decision making, and identity over time. Using a blend of EMDR therapy, nervous system science, and practical regulation tools, she supports clients in building stability, clarity, and sustainable success without burnout. Her approach is grounded, direct, and results focused, helping leaders operate at a high level without sacrificing their well being. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.rehobothtucson.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check…

1,460 | How Scott Doggett Helps Leaders Build Better Teams Scott Doggett is the Founder and Chief Servant Leader of the National Academy of Leadership Development and author of Priceless! See People Differently. Lead People Better. With nearly 30 years of leadership experience, Scott has seen firsthand how small, everyday interactions quietly shape culture, performance, and the way people see themselves. That insight now drives his work, helping leaders shift from managing tasks to truly valuing people. His message is simple but powerful. When people feel seen, supported, and understood, everything changes. Engagement rises. Trust deepens. Performance follows. Today, Scott is leading a growing movement to rehumanize the workplace, challenging leaders to rethink how they show up and reminding organizations that their greatest asset is not strategy or systems, it is people. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.national…

1,455 | Kenny Stoddart on How Elite Leaders Think Under Pressure Kenny Stoddart works with leaders who cannot afford to get it wrong. As the founder of IronMind Advisors, his focus is not on teaching more strategy, tactics, or frameworks. It is on strengthening the one thing every decision depends on, the quality of the mind making it. Across years of working with senior operators, executives, and high performers, Kenny saw the same hidden issue. Even the most capable leaders drift under sustained pressure. Not because they lack skill, but because their thinking becomes compromised. Subtle hesitation. Emotional noise. Loss of precision. And over time, that compounds. The IronMind Mentality was built to correct that at its source. Not by adding more, but by stripping away what interferes with clear thinking, steady judgment, and controlled execution. His work is quiet, direct, and exacting. Leaders come to him to sharpen their edge, stabilize their thinking, and operate …

1,454 | Justin Ferland on Turning Teams Into Thriving Cultures Justin Ferland is the General Manager of Sales and Operations at Serendipity Labs Costa Mesa, where he drives growth through community focused partnerships and a people first, advisory approach to sales. With more than 15 years of leadership experience across hospitality, consulting, and operations, Justin has built and scaled teams while leading successful operational and cultural turnarounds. He is known for creating environments where professionals thrive through trust, collaboration, and meaningful connection. Guided by the belief that a rising tide lifts all ships, Justin brings a leadership style rooted in partnership and shared success, showing how strong relationships fuel both business performance and personal growth. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.serendipitylabs.com/us/ca/costa-mesa-pacific-arts-plaza/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, o…

1,451 | Mary Lou Panzano on Leading Through Change and Loss Mary Lou Panzano is an award winning communications executive turned leadership coach, advisor, and speaker with more than 35 years of experience guiding organizations through complex change. After a profound personal loss, she stepped away from her corporate career to focus on what matters most to her, helping people grow, adapt, and truly prosper. Today, she works with individuals and leaders to navigate change with clarity, confidence, and resilience, both in business and in life. Mary Lou is a best selling co author of Cracking the Rich Code, Volume 18 and a contributing author to The Art of Connection: 365 Days of Resilience. Her upcoming book, Cementing Change: Cracking the Code for Communications that Work, is set for release in 2026. Deeply committed to service, she is a former board president of her local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and remains active in her church and community. Mary Lou lives in New …

1,450 | From F16 Pilot to CEO Anthony Bourke’s Story Anthony “AB” Bourke is a highly experienced F-16 fighter pilot who has flown tactical missions in countries all over the world. He has accumulated more than 3,000 hours of flight time in numerous high-performance aircraft and was one of the first pilots to fly his F-16 over New York City in the homeland defense efforts on September 11th. Following his impressive military career, “AB” took the tools and techniques that made him one of our nation’s premier fighter pilots and applied those to the competitive world of business. He ascended early in his career to become the top-producing mortgage banker in the Western US for a prominent lending institution. His success in the mortgage industry led to a new opportunity at a California-based start-up company where his team of 40 professionals dramatically grew revenue from $500,000 to $65M in three years. Following these two endeavors, “AB” partnered with two other fighter pilots …

1,448 | Bill Derrick on Surviving Cancer and Turning Adversity Into Strength Bill Derrick is a business leader, author, and speaker whose life and work are grounded in resilience, faith, and perseverance. With degrees in civil engineering and business from the University of Minnesota, he began his career in large-scale construction before joining his family’s company, Derrick Companies, in 1989. Alongside his family, Bill helped grow the business through years of success until the Great Recession of 2007 brought devastating challenges. After five years of fighting to keep the company alive, he emerged from that season stronger, only to face an even greater test in 2013 with a diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma, a life threatening blood cancer. Through extensive treatment, including chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, Bill has remained in remission and continues to share his story as a source of strength and hope for others. His book, Restored by the Storm: Navigating Throu…

1,444 | Kenny Stoddart on Why Pressure Reveals True Leaders Kenny Stoddart leads IronMind Advisors with a singular focus: preparing leaders for the moments that test everything. The kind of moments where pressure is real, stakes are high, and hesitation is costly. Over decades spent working alongside top performers, Kenny saw a pattern. It was not talent or experience that separated those who sustained success from those who unraveled. It was how they handled pressure internally. That realization became the foundation for the IronMind Mentality, a system designed to train the mind behind the decisions, not just the decisions themselves. Today, Kenny works closely with executives and operators who carry weight. People responsible for outcomes, direction, and the performance of others. His work helps them eliminate noise, think with precision, and operate with control even when conditions are unpredictable. This is not about motivation or surface level performance. It is abo…

1,439 | How Henry Bowles Builds Resilient High Performing Leaders Henry Bowles, PhD, is a communication expert, keynote speaker, and advisor with doctorates from Harvard and Oxford. With decades of experience, he equips leaders, teams, and organizations to build resilience, sharpen mindset, and perform at the highest level. He is the creator of the REV: Respond, Expand, Venture framework, a practical system designed to help individuals navigate pressure, adapt quickly, and take decisive action in complex environments. A Fulbright Fellow and Harvard Horizons Scholar, Henry has taught extensively at Harvard and Oxford, trained in journalism at Northwestern’s Medill School, and presented his research around the world. He also completed the full improv curriculum at Second City, bringing a dynamic, real world edge to his communication and leadership work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: [LINK] 🎬 Need stunning videos, clea…

1,435 | Kenny Stoddart Shares the IronMind Mentality Explained Kenny Stoddart is the founder of IronMind Advisors and the architect behind the IronMind Mentality, a high performance framework built for leaders operating in pressure, complexity, and uncertainty. After decades working alongside top performers across business, sport, and leadership, Kenny distilled the core principles of psychological strength into a single, adaptive system. One that develops mental resilience, sharpens strategic clarity, and drives consistent execution when it matters most. Through private advisory, executive coaching, and high level consulting, he works with decision makers who cannot afford hesitation. Leaders responsible for outcomes, teams, and direction. His approach blends neuroscience with real world application, equipping clients to stay composed under pressure, focused through fatigue, and decisive in high stakes moments. Kenny’s philosophy is clear. Mental fitness is not optional. …

1,434 | Kurt Bush on Leading Authentically Without Self Doubt Kurt Bush is a certified Internal Family Systems practitioner, trauma-informed coach, and co-founder of Brimstone Coaching Group. With a background in corporate leadership, pastoral ministry, and coaching, he helps leaders move beyond self-doubt, step into authenticity, and lead with confidence. Having navigated his own experience with imposter syndrome, Kurt brings both empathy and practical insight to his work. Through Brimstone’s E + R = T approach, Encounter plus Reflection equals Transformation, he guides individuals and teams from exhaustion and frustration toward clarity, resilience, and wholeness. Kurt is also the co-author of Live Fully. Lead Authentically. , where he explores the connection between self-awareness, leadership, and meaningful impact. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.brimstonecoachinggroup.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio,…

1,432 | Dylan Bost on Building a Business Without Burnout Dylan Bost is the founder of Sunny HQ and author of *The 7 Mirrors*, a framework for building a business and life rooted in alignment rather than urgency. With 30 years of experience in design, architecture, and entrepreneurship, Dylan’s path includes a full professional collapse that led him to rebuild from the inside out. Today, he helps founders simplify their systems, reclaim their time, and lead with clarity. His work connects business strategy with personal growth, guiding leaders to respond instead of react, design with intention, and build companies that support their lives rather than consume them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://dylanclaytonbost.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coache…

1,423 | How Trish Steele Empowers Women to Lead with Purpose Trish Steele is the founder of The Women of Steele, a faith centered membership movement created alongside her daughters to support women in leadership, identity, and long term impact. Through leadership circles, mentorship, and curated retreat experiences, she guides women who are committed to living with purpose, strengthening their identity, and building generational influence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://trishsteele.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday to Friday! #PositiveTalkRadio #Inspiration #Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━…

1,421 | How Lauren Wu Redefines Leadership Without Burnout Lauren Wu, Esq., CIPP/US, is a keynote speaker and former healthcare privacy executive with more than a decade of experience in senior leadership roles at companies such as Evidation Health, Roche, and Exact Sciences. Her work focused on privacy, regulation, and ethical decision making, often shaping how systems operate behind the scenes. After a significant health event led her to step away from her executive career, Lauren gained a new perspective on how high performing systems often rely on individuals pushing beyond their limits. This experience reshaped her understanding of leadership, power, and sustainability. Today, Lauren speaks on rethinking power, not as constant output or control, but as the ability to design systems where people can thrive without sacrificing their well being. Through her work, she challenges leaders to see empathy and authenticity as strengths, not liabilities. She is also a writer an…

1,418 | Greg Thomas on Leadership Mentorship and Championship Culture Greg Thomas has spent 29 years serving students in public education as an at risk counselor and mentor. For more than 22 years, he has also coached high school athletics, including serving as an assistant basketball coach on the 2023 to 2024 6A State Championship team that finished a perfect 40 and 0 season, as well as sponsoring a bowling program that has won four state championships. He is the author of two five time award winning books and is passionate about guiding young people toward confidence, purpose, and success. Greg is married to his wife Becky and is proud of their blended family of seven children and ten grandchildren. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://gregthomasconnect.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agenc…

1,417 | Valeriya Hjertenaes Reframes Neurodiversity in the Boardroom Valeriya Hjertenaes is a PhD level expert in neurodiversity and sustainability leadership, working at the intersection of human performance, social sustainability, and leadership in complex systems. As a neurodivergent leader with lived experience of OCD, she approaches leadership through the lens of cognitive diversity, structural resilience, and decision intelligence. Her work reframes neurodiversity not as an inclusion topic but as a performance advantage that strengthens ethical leadership and long term value creation. Valeriya is the founder of the 5E Enablers Method™, a sustainable leadership framework built on five strategic principles: Empathize, Evolve, Evaluate, Enhance, and Empower. The model equips boards and executive teams to translate human complexity into measurable resilience, better decisions, and sustainable performance. With more than 15 years of cross cultural leadership experience ac…

1,416 | Hyacinth Morrison on Growing Leaders Who Drive Results Hyacinth Morrison is a global HR executive, leadership coach, and founder of SDA People Partners, where she helps organizations lead with both performance and humanity. With more than 20 years of senior leadership experience across industries such as manufacturing, banking, education, and consumer goods, Hyacinth advises CEOs and executive teams on building stronger cultures, developing leaders, and aligning people with purpose and results. Her philosophy is simple. When leaders grow, organizations transform. By combining strategic insight with compassion and practical leadership tools, Hyacinth helps companies create workplaces where people feel valued, trusted, and motivated to contribute at their highest level. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://sda-peoplepartners.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our m…

1,413 | Samantha Mazola Shares Her Journey From Trauma to Leadership Samantha Mazola is the founder of Transformation and a powerful voice for high-functioning survivors ready to move beyond survival mode. After overcoming childhood trauma, poverty, and addiction, she now helps others regulate their nervous systems, rebuild their identity, and reclaim leadership of their lives. Her work blends health, wellness, mindset, and lived experience to guide people through real transformation from the inside out. Samantha has built a thriving community of more than 10,000 email subscribers and a growing social audience where she shares practical tools for healing, discipline, and personal growth. Through podcast conversations and speaking engagements, Samantha brings raw honesty, real-life perspective, and actionable insight on trauma, resilience, and how people can rebuild their lives with clarity and purpose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out…

1,412 | Dr. Scott Geise on Leadership Through Service and Sport Dr. Scott Geise is a lifelong supporter of the Niagara County community. A graduate of Newfane High School, he went on to attend Hobart College, where he was a two sport athlete. He earned All American honors in football and played defense for three national championship lacrosse teams. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Hobart Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002. Dr. Geise received his dental degree from the SUNY Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in 1988 and was commissioned into the United States Army Dental Corps. He served in Germany from 1988 to 1991 before returning home to care for patients throughout Niagara County. In addition to his dental practice, Dr. Geise is a published author and an active contributor to his community. He lives in Newfane with his wife, Larina, and their three sons, Stone, Myles, and Thorne. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check …