Leadership Episodes

Todd A. Krause on Scaling a Business with Better Systems | 1,572Todd A. Krause believes businesses don't struggle because they lack opportunity. They struggle because they outgrow the systems that once made them successful.A CPA, MBA, entrepreneur, and business strategist, Todd has spent his career helping organizations scale with clarity and purpose. As the owner of The Cleaning Authority in Fishers, he grew the business from $1.8 million to more than $4 million in revenue while creating an award winning workplace culture built on strong leadership and engaged teams.Today, through Silversun Consulting, Todd helps home service business owners overcome the challenges that prevent sustainable growth. His work focuses on building leadership, creating scalable systems, and developing healthy workplace cultures that allow companies to grow without relying on constant owner involvement.Drawing from decades of experience across finance, banking, entrepreneurship, and operatio…

Donald Sandel on Shifting Your Mind to Lead Better | 1,563Don Sandel operates at the intersection of leadership, mindset, and measurable human performance.With academic roots from Western Michigan University and advanced study spanning institutions such as Yale, UPenn, and UC Berkeley, his work reflects a deep commitment to understanding how people think, lead, and perform at their best. Over the past twenty five years, he has worked inside major organizations, shaping leadership development initiatives that influence not just individuals, but entire cultures.As the founder of GoPositiv, Don focuses on a critical shift that many overlook. Performance does not begin with strategy. It begins with mindset. His work challenges leaders to rethink how they approach pressure, change, and growth by building a more intentional, positive internal framework.He has led development efforts for global companies including Astellas Pharma, Allscripts, and United Airlines, and has part…

Nikki Cruise on Living with Purpose and Joy | 1,561Nikki Cruise believes joy is not the reward for overcoming life's challenges. It is the strength that carries us through them.An international speaker, coach, and founder of Joy Inspired, Nikki has dedicated her life to helping people reconnect with purpose, resilience, and authentic joy. Her message is rooted in lived experience, not theory. After overcoming profound personal adversity, including a season that left her in a wheelchair, she discovered that lasting fulfillment is not found by waiting for life to become easier. It is created through the choices we make every day.Today, Nikki equips leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals to build lives that are aligned from the inside out. Through her signature message, The Joy Factor, she challenges the belief that joy comes after success, showing instead that it is the foundation for stronger leadership, deeper relationships, greater creativity, and meaningful impact.W…

Maria R Riegger on Healing for Better Leadership | 1,558Maria R. Riegger believes personal growth is not just about achieving more. It is about understanding what has been quietly holding you back.A corporate attorney, civil litigator, author, TEDx speaker, and certified Inner Child Reparenting Coach, Maria brings a unique blend of professional expertise and personal development insight to the challenges modern professionals face. Her work sits at the intersection of success, healing, leadership, and self awareness.Through her experience working with parents and professionals, Maria noticed recurring patterns that often undermine both personal fulfillment and professional performance: procrastination, people pleasing, weak boundaries, burnout, and the lingering effects of unresolved emotional wounds. Rather than treating these as isolated problems, she helps people uncover the deeper beliefs and behaviors driving them.Drawing on her legal background, corporate experien…

Andy Johnson on Unlocking Your Full Potential 1,557Andy Johnson has spent a lifetime helping people perform when it matters most.A Master Certified Coach (MCC), leadership consultant, educator, and speaker, Andy brings more than 25 years of experience guiding individuals, leaders, and organizations toward higher performance, stronger leadership, and sustainable success. As the Founder and Director of Total Focus, he has worked across industries and continents, helping people unlock potential that often exceeds what they believed possible.What makes Andy's perspective unique is the breadth of his experience. From competing as a professional rugby player to serving as a Training Officer with the London Fire Brigade, he understands firsthand what leadership, resilience, and performance look like under pressure. Those lessons became the foundation for a coaching career dedicated to helping others thrive in demanding environments.Over the past two decades, Andy has coached…

Lonna Gibson on Turning Vision Into Lasting Impact | 1,555Lonna Gibson knows what it means to carry a mission forward when everything is on the line.At just 26 years old, she became the first employee of Challenge Air, a groundbreaking nonprofit founded by a Vietnam veteran determined to show children with disabilities that their limitations did not define them. When the organization's founder passed away only months later, Lonna was faced with a decision that would shape the rest of her career: step away or step up.She stepped up.Over the following years, she transformed Challenge Air from a small regional effort into a nationally recognized organization operating in 38 states, building partnerships with major brands including Southwest Airlines, Boeing, Xerox, and Pillsbury. Along the way, she learned firsthand how to lead through uncertainty, scale a vision, build sustainable systems, and honor a mission larger than herself.Today, as the founder of Seven & Assoc…

How Lenna Rodriguez Supports Veterans After Service | 1,551Lenna Rodriguez has spent her life serving in places where leadership, resilience, and courage are not optional.A retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3, Lenna served for more than 20 years in some of the military's most demanding roles, spanning intelligence, criminal investigations, civil affairs, and special operations support. From deployments in Africa and Afghanistan to leading complex investigations as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, her career was built on protecting others and solving problems under pressure.But for Lenna, service did not end when she took off the uniform.Today, she is a passionate advocate for veterans, military families, and those facing the invisible challenges that often follow military service. Through her work supporting America's Warrior Partnership and the "Know a Vet, Tell a Vet" initiative, she helps strengthen a…

[SPOTLIGHT FEATURE] Kenny Stoddart on The Mind Behind Elite Leadership | 1,538Kenny Stoddart specializes in the psychology of high-consequence leadership.As the founder of IronMind Advisors, he works with leaders whose decisions carry weight, affecting organizations, teams, and outcomes far beyond themselves.While most professionals focus on external performance, Kenny focuses on the internal systems that drive it. The quality of thought, emotional control, attention, and judgment under pressure.His IronMind Mentality framework helps leaders eliminate mental interference, navigate complexity with clarity, and execute decisively when stakes are highest.Because leadership is not tested when conditions are easy.It is revealed when uncertainty, pressure, and responsibility converge at the same moment.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Enjoying the show? Support the conversation!👉 Today’s guest: www.ironmindadvisors.com🎬 Need standout video, podcast, or branding conte…

How Christopher Bylone Builds Real Workplace Belonging | 1,531Christopher Bylone is on a mission to prove that belonging is more than a workplace initiative. It is a human need.As the founder of Innovation Unbiased and host of the podcast I Know I Belong When..., Christopher brings together data, storytelling, and lived experience to spark meaningful conversations about identity, inclusion, and human connection. His work challenges organizations and individuals alike to move beyond performative efforts and build cultures where people genuinely feel seen, valued, and empowered.A cancer survivor, advocate, and corporate leader, Christopher has spent years shaping belonging strategies for global organizations, leading multimillion dollar initiatives, strengthening employee communities, and helping transform workplace culture from the inside out.But his commitment to belonging did not begin in the boardroom. It began with a belief that everyone deserves a place where they …

Dr Alison Pattison on Turning Vision Into Action | 1,528Dr. Alison Pattison thrives at the intersection of education, leadership, entrepreneurship, and advocacy.As a professor, Senior Doctoral Chair at Grand Canyon University, entrepreneur, podcast host, speaker, and advocate, she has dedicated her career to helping people turn ideas into impact. Her work spans health and human services, leadership development, higher education, and developmental disability advocacy, all connected by a common mission: empowering others to create meaningful change.Known for her ability to bridge academic excellence with real world application, Dr. Pattison mentors emerging leaders, researchers, and professionals who want to make a difference in their communities and industries. Whether guiding doctoral candidates, launching innovative projects, or leading conversations that inspire growth, she brings a unique blend of strategic thinking, compassion, and vision.At her core, Dr. Pattison …

Kenny Stoddart helps leaders master the one variable that determines performance under pressure: their own mind.As the founder of IronMind Advisors, he works with executives, founders, and high level operators whose decisions carry real consequences. His focus is not on motivation or productivity, but on strengthening judgment, emotional discipline, and clarity when conditions become chaotic.Through the IronMind Mentality, Kenny helps leaders eliminate internal noise, sharpen decision making, and maintain control when pressure is highest.Because at the highest level, success is rarely limited by talent. It is determined by who can think clearly when everything is on the line.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Enjoying the show? Support the conversation!👉 Today’s guest: www.ironmindadvisors.com🎬 Need standout video, podcast, or branding content?🌐 www.positivetalkproductions.com📡 Listen on BLEAV:https://bleav.com/shows/positive-talk-radio/🍎 Apple Podcast:https://podcas…

Kenny Stoddart on Mental Discipline for Leaders | 1,515Kenny Stoddart operates in the space where leadership is no longer theoretical. Where pressure compresses time, uncertainty clouds judgment, and the quality of a person’s thinking becomes the difference between collapse and control.As the founder of IronMind Advisors, Kenny works with executives, founders, and high level operators who are expected to perform when conditions are unstable and the stakes are real. His work is not centered on inspiration, productivity hacks, or surface level mindset language. It is about mental command. The ability to remain clear, disciplined, and decisive when most people default to reaction.What Kenny identified through years alongside elite performers is that pressure does not create weakness. It exposes it. The issue is rarely intelligence or capability. It is internal interference, emotional static, fractured focus, and the gradual erosion of precision under sustained demand.The …

Bryan Daigle on Leading with Presence and Purpose | 1,512Bryan Daigle works with men who have achieved success on paper but know something deeper is still missing.As a men’s leadership coach, he helps executives, entrepreneurs, and fathers strengthen the part of their lives most often neglected in high performance culture, emotional presence, connection, and intentional leadership at home and at work.After building multiple businesses, including a lifestyle business inspired by The 4 Hour Workweek, Bryan reached a realization many high achievers quietly face. External success does not automatically create fulfillment, peace, or strong relationships. That insight pushed him into deeper personal work and ultimately reshaped the direction of his life and mission.Today, through coaching, men’s groups, and immersive experiences, often in nature and wilderness settings, Bryan helps men move beyond performance driven identities and reconnect with who they are underneath the p…

Larry Robertson on The Power of Authentic Leadership | 1,506Larry Robertson has spent a lifetime studying what makes people truly worth listening to, following, and trusting. From the battlefields of military leadership to boardrooms across the world, his work has always centered on one enduring belief: leadership is not about power or titles, but about clarity, humanity, and the courage to make a real difference. As founder of Robertson Burns, Larry has advised global executives, transformed leadership cultures, and helped organizations generate billions in new business by teaching leaders how to communicate with authenticity, inspire trust, and lead with purpose.His journey is anything but ordinary. From working cattle stations in Australia and traveling through Asia to serving as a British Army captain and advisor at the highest levels of international leadership, Larry’s life has placed him in rooms where decisions shape nations and futures. Yet through every chapter, his …

Gillian Nycum on The Future of Human Centered Leadership | 1,505Gillian Nycum is helping redefine what leadership looks like in a world that no longer responds to pressure, performance masks, or outdated systems. A leadership strategist, executive coach, and writer, she works at the intersection of human potential, systems change, and deep personal transformation. Her work is rooted in a powerful belief: people are not problems to be fixed. Beneath burnout, disconnection, and self-doubt is often untapped brilliance waiting for the right conditions to emerge.Drawing from more than two decades of experience across education, government, law, technology, and the creative industries, Gillian helps leaders, teams, and individuals move beyond survival mode and into sustainable alignment, trust, and meaningful contribution. Trauma-sensitive and informed by a neurodiversity lens, her approach challenges the systems that ask people to shrink themselves in order to belong. Instead, she …

Sean Archer on Rising from Trauma to Purpose | 1,500Sean Archer is living proof that a painful past does not define a person’s future. Rising from trauma and survival into leadership and purpose, he transformed his life from the factory floor to the writer’s desk with grit, discipline, and relentless determination. An author, MBA graduate, and industrial Maintenance Manager, Sean tells the stories most people are too afraid to face. Through his upcoming memoir, The Invisible Leash, he reveals the unseen battles behind rebuilding a life and becoming the kind of man who refuses to stay broken.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love!👉 Check out today’s guest: www.seanarcherlives.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 …

SPOTLIGHT FEATURE! Kenny Stoddart on Composure Under Extreme Pressure | 1,494Kenny Stoddart works with leaders in the moments where composure separates those who lead from those who unravel.As the founder of IronMind Advisors, his focus is on how leaders think and operate when pressure is high and time is limited. Not adding more tools or frameworks, but sharpening the internal discipline that drives clear decisions and controlled execution.Through years of working with high level performers, Kenny identified the real breakdown point. It is not a lack of capability, it is the loss of control under pressure. Thinking becomes rushed, attention fragments, and decisions lose precision.His work trains leaders to stabilize their thinking, stay fully present, and act with intention even when conditions are unpredictable. The outcome is consistent performance that holds through stress, fatigue, and complexity.There is no excess in his approach. No noise, no reliance on mot…

1,487 | Tom LeNoble on Rising Through Adversity Tom LeNoble is an international speaker, resilience coach, and executive leader who helps individuals and organizations navigate change, uncertainty, and reinvention with clarity and purpose.His career spans Fortune 500 companies, high growth startups, and mission driven ventures, including leadership roles at Facebook (Meta), Walmart.com, Palm (HP), and MCI (Verizon), as well as founding Taranga Enterprises. Across these environments, he has focused on one consistent theme: helping leaders adapt, innovate, and perform through disruption.Tom is the creator of the RiskAbility Factor™, a leadership framework designed to help people make bold, aligned decisions in uncertain conditions. His work blends strategic thinking with grounded human insight, making him a sought after voice on resilience, reinvention, and modern leadership.He currently serves as CEO of the Academy for Coaching Excellence and coaches global social entre…

1,484 | SPOTLIGHT FEATURE! Kenny Stoddart on Precision Thinking for LeadersKenny 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 LeadershipYosi 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 MatterKenny 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 HealthDr. 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 LeadershipKenny 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 BurnoutMaggie 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…