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David Lake Podcast

by David Lake

In this podcast, I track down the most experienced people I know to talk about categories ranging from mental health, leadership and unique careers. By referring to books, referencing podcasts, conducting interviews, my guests and I break down key take always in a wide range of topics. We talk about how you can apply these take aways to your life to get the most out of it and to overcome life’s hurdles. We only get one shot at life, so let’s make it the best one yet! Discover your advantages, level them up and dominate your life.

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Episodes

  1. 30: Listening: You’re Probably Doing it Wrong.

    In this episode, I talk all about listening and why it’s so important to communicating.

  2. 29: Effective Delegating

    I walk through a punch list of advice on how to effectively delegate tasks. I expand my on my own experiences in relation with each bullet point and expand on their ideas. I refer back to the book TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP.

  3. 28: Hang On no Matter What, Good Things Will Come. My Rough Journey on Landing my Dream Job.

    Good things will come to those who are patient enough to put in the persistence and wait for it. In this podcast I talk about my rough two-year journey of rejection after rejection and how I persevered to hang in there and land my dream job. Enjoy this episode thanks for tuning in

  4. 27- TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP pt2. 2yrs of Podcasting, Leading your Kids, Effective Empowerment.

    Start Time Agenda: 0:00:00 - intro 0:04:11- reflection on 2 years of Podcasting 0:08:18- How to led your kids to become transformational leaders 0:29:29- What good teams looks like and what they don’t 0:41:43- What effective Empowerment looks like 0:48:43- conclusion

  5. 26- TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP pt1. How to Implement It, Impacts on Followers, Transactional Leader

    Start Time Agenda: 0:00:00- Intro 0:04:30- overall thoughts about the book Transformational Leadership 0:07:27- Topic 1: What is Transformational Leadership, what traits and strategies a transformational leader possess. 0:28:42- Topic 2: How Transformational Leadership impacts followers in a...

  6. 25- A Guided Meditation. Walking through: Distractions, Calming Muscles, Gratitude, Focus, & Love

    Time Start agenda: 00:00 introduction 02:30 A guided meditation with me as your guide 21:30 conclusion.

  7. 24- Meditation- Lasting Positive Energy and Space to Ward of Stress. Narcissist-Become the Opposite

    Time Start agenda: 00:00 introduction 03:50 Meditation, Providing space, RAIN R= recognize it • Pause and notice it A= accept it / allow it • Don't try to fix it, or solve, just let it be I= investigate it • What sensations are going through your body N= nurture, • be friendly about it. Warmer...

  8. 23- DRIVEN. Key Steps to Dominate Your Mindset, 7 Factors of Success, and Tips From a Life Coach

    I dive into topics on the book DRIVEN by Brain Tracey. This book is a roadmap to health, wealth and success Time start agenda: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:04:15 Tips from a life coach 0:16:09 Steps for mastering your mindset 0:27:22 Seven factors for success 0:40:23 Conclusion

  9. 22- How to Relieve your Emotions, What Practice will Improve your Relationships, Bad Bosses

    Time start agenda 03:46 - Topic -1: Love Letters, no not the kind you write to your high school boy/girlfriend. These are for relieving your negative experiences you might have had in a constructive and supportive way. These are essential for getting out of your head and into the present moment....

  10. 21- Why Recommending How to Fix Things Never Works, Understanding Different Communication Styles

    I will be diving into the following topics from the book MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS by John Gray. Time Start Agenda: 0:00 -Intro 3:53 -Mr Fix it and The Home Improvement Committee 9:02 -Speaking Different Languages. How females and makes communicate differently and what to look for…

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  11. 20- Marcus Aurelius MEDITATIONS, Death, How to Live a Good Life, Develop Better Character

    Time stamps: 00:57 introduction 05:54- How thinking about death makes you live a more fuller life 11:25- Ways of the stoic, instructions on how to live a good life 22:40 - Develop a better character. Learning about Marcus’ family and how that influenced him. 36:19 - conclusion

  12. 19- Develop Better Judgement, Maneuver Warfare Works in Leadership, Setting Better Goals.

    Finally, I published another episode!! This one is on my popular series… leadership. Much of the information I come across comes from the podcasts that I listen to and I take notes on these. And after compiling endless notes on key takeaways I’ve learned over the years, I’ve created a podcast…

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  13. 18- What I’ve Learned After One Year of Making Podcasts

    Time Start Agenda: 00:00 Intro 04:27 Celebrating 1 yr of podcasting. 04:50 Investigate, implement, inspire 0:5:56 Using podcasting to connect with my friends and family during COVID 06:40 My fear of podcasting 07:42 The confidence I got out of podcasting and how that has benefited my life and…

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  14. 17- EXTREME OWNERSHIP (part-2) w/ Tommy Lake. Prioritize/Execute, Decentralized Command, Leading

    The long awaited release of part 2 of Extreme Ownership (Written by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin) is finally over. We saved the best topics for last, in this New York Times Best Seller. My brother Tommy Lake and I unpack key leadership fundamentals talked about in this book using our own past…

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  15. 16- Cope, Learn, Cherish - Life with terminally ill family

    Terminal Illness is a horrible thing to be dealt with in life and it is also difficult on the family. Between stress, frustrating communication, negative energy and not knowing what to do about the terminal illness, family members can enter a very dark time in their lifes. Fortunately, there is a...

  16. 15- Pain w/ Jimmy Lake. Life Hacks, Neuromodulation, Brain Implants, Employee Praise & Autonomy

    Debilitating chronic pain causes people to be locked up inside their own bodies as prisoners. After years of suffering in this type of pain, patients see my brother Jimmy Lake, who works closely with the surgeons in the operating room, to install neuromodualtion implants into the patient’s…

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  17. 14- Sometimes I Struggle with…Pep Talks to get me out of my Destructive Ways of Thinking.

    We all see those photos of people on social media with their smiling faces on a tropical beach somewhere and we question ourselves if we have made some wrong moves in our life's. We feel our struggles are only what a select small few endure while everyone else appears to be so happy. The reality...

  18. 13- Interviewing (part-2) Example Interview Responses.

    Stories stick. Weather someone shares their stories of their failures, or of their successes these are lessons that have stuck with me. I’ve learned so much from some of my favorite podcast hosts on how they answer leadership style questions via their examples and stories. With the countless...

  19. 12- Interviewing (part-1) w/ Tommy Lake. Unpacking Candidate Selection Criteria.

    The reality is most bosses are looking for a particular set of skills and characteristics in the candidate they select for the position at their company, and if someone doesn’t discover these advantages they may get out matched by a candidate that they simply should have beat. Too often people...

  20. 11- YouTube w/ Ricky Roy @TwoBitDaVinci. Hitting 10M views, The New Era of Marketing, Dream Big

    With over 10 million total views, Ricky Roy has taken his YouTube channel to a level most of us could only dream of. Using his diverse background in mechanical engineering, his coding abilities from designing F-18 fighter jets at the Department of Defense (DOD) and his passion for cutting edge...

  21. 10- Military Sergeant, Nuclear Scientist Recruiter, Weapons Incinerator HR Manager w/ David Stoeckle

    Loading nuclear weapons onto bombers, installing top secret Gatling Guns onto fighter jets, tracking down world renown scientists and convincing them to work at the Nevada Test Site, coordinating with the base commander about international spies, staffing the world’s largest weapons incinerator…

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  22. 9- Stress w/ Jessica Gearhart. Recognize it, Balance it, and Dominate it.

    With the COVID pandemic taking place, the number of people who are depressed and anxious has skyrocketed. Heightened levels of unchecked stress is typically the culprit. Most people might know of 2 to 3 measures of how to reduce stress, but if they were honest they probably don’t even tap into...

  23. 8- The Tahoe Life and Parenting w/ Royce Reardon and Chris Bussey

    In this episode, I interview my two good friends Chris Bussey and Royce Reardon. We talk about our childhood memories growing up in South Lake Tahoe. Tahoe offered us so many unique opportunities that you just don’t get anywhere else. We talked about the importance of childhood sports and how…

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  24. 7- Sports w/ Josh Etchegoyhen. The Performance Formula, Metrics, Tangible And Pendulum Skills.

    Josh Etchegoyhen and I tag team various topics in this episode on sports. With our combined 70+ years of experience playing sports and Josh’s 25+ years of coaching experience, we unpack key topics in sports. Whether you’re a parent trying to motivate your kids to become better athletes, or if you...

  25. 6- EXTREME OWNERSHIP (part-1) w/ Tommy Lake. Cover and Move, Check your Ego, Simple

    My first guest, cohost and my brother, Thomas (Tommy) Lake helps me discuss topics in the book EXTREME OWNERSHIP, written by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Tommy is a manger at Panasonic for the battery production team who oversees project management inside the Reno Nevada Tesla Giga Factory. I…

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  26. 5- TALK LIKE TED. Become a Confident Public Speaker. Posture, Passion, Story Telling, Conversation.

    Most people are terrified of public speaking. With the fear, anxiety, and stress this may bring, many people just avoid it as best they can. However, they are surrendering some huge benefits in their life’s by doing so. Becoming a confident public speaker goes far beyond just having a…

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  27. 4- The COVID Pandemic Experience, 3 months of journal entires and some lessons learned.

    Over the last 3 months, I’ve been doing an occasional journal entry on the impacts this COVID pandemic has had in my life. Let this podcast serve as a time capsule to remember this unique experience now or in the future to come. I realize that we many not share the same exact experiences but I…

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  28. 3- Get better sleep, why you need it, my rough go around at it, and 3 Things to improve your sleep.

    I was tired of getting bad sleep and waking up 6-8 times a night so I decided to do some research on it. I’ve applied these 3 simple things each day and it’s made a huge difference to my sleep. I also dive into the details of why we need sleep and the benefits of it. And don’t accept the false...

  29. 2- WORK HAPPY WHAT GREAT BOSSES KNOW. What employees never forget, communication, & evil twin

    Book review of Work Happy What Great Bosses Know by Jill Geisler, recap of podcast 1, topic-1: What employees will never forget/forgive, topic-2: Your Evil Twin, topic-3: communication, topic-4: you should NOT treat everyone the same.

  30. 1- THE 5AM CLUB, The 20-20-20 Formula, 4 empires (Mindset/ Physicalset/ Heartset/ Soulset)

    If you are crunched for time from a busy schedule with your kids/ work/ life; or if you have good intentions of trying to exercise, meditate and/or journal but your day just seems to slip away, then this episode is for you. In fact, the impacts of following the 20-20-20 formula, as outlined in...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

In this podcast, I track down the most experienced people I know to talk about categories ranging from mental health, leadership and unique careers. By referring to books, referencing podcasts, conducting interviews, my guests and I break down key take always in a wide range of topics. We talk about how you can apply these take aways to your life to get the most out of it and to overcome life’s hurdles. We only get one shot at life, so let’s make it the best one yet! Discover your advantages, level them up and dominate your life.

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David Lake

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