Leadership Episodes

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 …

1,392 | Dr. Martin Mendelson Reveals the T.E.A.M. Approach to Trust Dr. Martin Mendelson is the Founder of Metamorphosis Coaching and a former Resident Faculty member at Spear Education, with more than 20 years of experience in executive coaching, team facilitation, emotional intelligence, and happiness studies. He has worked with leaders and teams across North America, helping them move beyond traditional command-and-control models into cultures built on clarity, cohesion, and accountability. Through his signature T.E.A.M. approach, Dr. Mendelson equips organizations to strengthen trust, align performance, and create sustainable growth without sacrificing well-being. A dynamic speaker and master facilitator, he challenges leaders to rethink how they lead and how they measure success. Dr. Mendelson is also an Executive Contributor for BRAINZ Magazine and the author of One Move Makes All the Difference, a practical guide to creating meaningful, lasting change through intention…

1,386 | Morgana Rae Reveals How Leaders Manifest Wealth With Purpose Morgana Rae is a 20 time number one international bestselling author of Financial Alchemy: 12 Months of Magic and Manifestation. For more than three decades, Morgana has been a pioneer in personal development as a seven figure spiritual life and leadership coach. She has guided thousands of clients, from artists and entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 executives and technology leaders, helping them heal the relationship between heart, spirit, and money so they can create meaningful impact in the world. The transformations her clients experience are often immediate and profound. Known by her community as “The Money Goddess,” Morgana has numerous documented cases of clients manifesting unexpected financial windfalls of five, six, and even seven figures within hours or days of applying her signature Financial Alchemy® process. Her proprietary six step Financial Alchemy® coaching method has been featured in major me…

1,384 | Elizabeth De Sevo on Choosing Moments That Shape Your Life Elizabeth De Sevo is a New Jersey native turned Madrileña who lives between the United States and Spain. An author, speaker, and global producer, she has managed the careers of Olympic figure skaters and produced live sporting events and international tours across the USA, Europe, and Asia, including Champions On Ice and Fantasy on Ice. Her work took on deeper meaning after the sudden loss of her mother, a moment that reshaped how she understands life itself. From that experience, Elizabeth realized that life is not measured in years, but in moments, and that we always have a choice in how we live them. This insight became the foundation of her signature concept, MOMents. Elizabeth is the author of Choose Your MOMents: How the Sudden Loss of My Mother Taught Me How to Live, an inspirational guide available on Amazon in 15 countries. Through her MOMents Method, she helps individuals and organizations cultivate …

1,381 | Kenny Stoddart on Building Psychological Strength for Leaders Kenny Stoddart is the founder of IronMind Advisors and the creator of the IronMind Mentality, a transformational framework for mastering mental resilience, strategic clarity, and performance under pressure. After decades of working with high-performing professionals across business, sport, and leadership, Kenny distilled the most effective tools for psychological strength into one adaptive mindset. Through consulting, executive coaching, and confidential advisory work, he equips leaders to turn chaos into clarity and stress into strategy. Known for blending neuroscience with practical, actionable insight, Kenny helps confirm decision-makers access calm under pressure, focus during fatigue, and conviction in moments of volatility. At the core of his work is a simple belief: mental fitness is the final frontier of sustainable leadership, and the IronMind Mentality provides the blueprint to build it. ━━━━━━━━…

1,376 | Dr. Shelley Holt on Courageous Leadership Across Home and Work Dr. Shelley Holt is an educator, author, and leadership consultant who helps leaders bridge home and work through courageous, values-driven leadership so families, teams, and communities can flourish together. Her book Speaking of Race Where We Live, Learn, and Earn is an insightful workbook that guides readers through honest reflection and meaningful exercises to better understand race, identity, and connection. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of experience in education across multiple leadership roles, Dr. Holt equips individuals and organizations to build cultural proficiency, foster belonging, and lead with empathy. Focusing on the spaces that shape who we are—home, school, community, and workplace—her work offers practical tools and restorative practices that spark growth, courage, and authentic dialogue. Whether you are beginning your journey or deepening your understanding, Dr. Holt’s miss…

1,374 | Meghan Higney Reveals What It Takes to Build a Business That Lasts Meghan Higney is the founder of Message, a business builder, and mother of two who believes the hardest parts of entrepreneurship are not strategic but personal. She has led a consumer brand through uncertainty, pressure, and growth while learning that resilience and integrity matter more than bravado. In 2024, Meghan moved her family to central Mexico, redefining how she leads, measures success, and sustains balance in life and business. With a background in finance, investment, and leadership, she brings both emotional depth and practical insight to conversations about money, responsibility, and building with purpose. Her work centers on thoughtful leadership, honest communication, and creating businesses that last. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.wearmessage.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Ch…

1,373 | Kathy Eastwood Reveals the E3 Leadership Code for Sustainable Results Kathy Eastwood is the CEO and creator of the human-first E3 Leadership Code, a leadership strategist, and executive advisor with more than thirty years of experience as an operator across Ernst & Young, Hewlett-Packard, high-growth startups, and private equity-backed companies. Her upcoming book, The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance, offers real-world insights and actionable strategies to help executives achieve consistent performance, measurable ROI, and thriving cultures without burning people out. Through her work, Kathy reveals why trust must be built, not hired, and how leadership behavior shapes whether purpose turns into predictable results. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.eequalswhy.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmed…

1,367 | Jennifer Zach Shares the 3N Model for Leading Under Pressure Jennifer Zach is a catalyst for embodied leadership and workplace well-being. She integrates somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and applied neuroscience to help leaders connect body and mind, navigate stress effectively, and build trust that drives regenerative growth, stronger team performance, and lasting engagement. She is the author of Somatic Awareness: Leading with Body Intelligence and the creator of the 3N Model™ (Notice, Name, Navigate). Jennifer’s thought leadership has been featured in leading coaching and learning publications, and she is a sought-after speaker at the intersection of executive leadership, presence, and body intelligence. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Berrett-Koehler Publishers and on the Advisory Board for the Association for Talent Development (ATD) Hawkeye Chapter. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s gue…

1,365 | Tyler Chisholm Shares the Leadership Power of Curiosity Tyler Chisholm is a CEO, author, and podcast host whose leadership philosophy is built on one powerful principle: curiosity. Early in his career, Tyler believed great leaders had to have all the answers. But when certainty began to break both plans and people, he discovered that real leadership starts with asking better questions. As Co-Founder and CEO of clearmotive for more than 15 years, host of two long-running podcasts, and author of Curious as Hell, Tyler helps leaders shift from control to curiosity. Across boardrooms, interviews, and keynote stages, he inspires teams to think deeper, decide smarter, and lead with a mindset that creates lasting results. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.tylerchisholm.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier q…

1,360 | Dr. Melanie Gray on Building Workplace Cultures Where People Thrive Dr. Melanie Gray is a trauma-informed leadership coach, speaker, and founder of Dr. Melanie Gray Solutions, where she helps organizations transform workplace culture, prevent burnout, and build environments where both people and performance thrive. Early in her healthcare career, Melanie faced the realities of burnout firsthand — long hours, constant pressure, and the quiet erosion of confidence that comes from always giving but rarely receiving support. She saw dedicated professionals around her struggling too, feeling unseen, undervalued, and emotionally exhausted. Determined to find a better way, she immersed herself in trauma-informed care, leadership development, and workplace wellness. What began as personal healing evolved into a mission: helping leaders and teams move from burnout to breakthrough. Through her coaching, workshops, and organizational trainings, Dr. Gray equips professionals t…

1,359 | Christine Valdes Reveals Why True Success Is About Impact and Purpose Christine Valdes is a first-generation American, corporate leader, and real estate investor whose story is rooted in faith, resilience, and purpose. Her journey began when her family immigrated to the United States just before she turned two. Watching her parents raise six children while working full-time and running small businesses taught her the value of hard work, gratitude, and perseverance. They showed her that success isn’t handed to you — it’s built through daily choices and determination. Years later, as a single mother navigating financial hardship and emotional abuse, Christine faced some of her hardest seasons. Yet through courage, faith, and the desire to create a better life for her daughter, she rebuilt — stronger, wiser, and more compassionate. That experience shaped her mission to help others rise above their own challenges and thrive. Today, Christine serves as a Regional Sales …