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Go First With Jaime Taets
by Jaime Taets, Owner, President & Founder
Hosted by CEO, leadership expert, keynote speaker and author Jaime Taets, Go First explores what happens when successful people stop waiting for certainty and start moving before they feel ready. Through honest conversations with CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs, athletes and high-performing leaders — along with Jaime's solo insights — the show goes behind the highlight reel to explore the decisions, fears, failures and transformations that shape successful people. Episodes explore leadership development, personal growth, resilience, burnout, decision-making, vulnerability, organizational change, energy, purpose and what it takes to create meaningful change in your work and life. Because clarity doesn't always come before action. Sometimes you have to Go First. If you're navigating a career transition, leading through change, questioning what success means now, facing a difficult decision or simply know there's
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The World Needs Your Wisdom: Jaime Taets on Turning Experience Into Impact & Going First
What do you do with everything you have lived through? The wins. The failures. The years that knocked you sideways. Most of us file it away and treat it like it is private. But what if the thing you learned the hard way is exactly what someone else needs to hear? In this solo episode, Jaime Taets...
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The Currency of Kindness: Kim Snow on Leading Franklin Center, Neurodiversity & the Courage to Go First
What happens when you leave a successful corporate career to lead a nonprofit you know as a parent, but not as a leader? Kim Snow knows this journey intimately. She spent years at Cargill leading strategy, marketing, and client services. Then she stepped into the role of Executive Director at...
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Your Body Knows Before Your Brain Does: Jaime Taets on The Fizzies, Intuition & Following What Feels Alive
You know that feeling when something just clicks? When your body tells you yes before your brain can explain why? Jaime Taets calls it the fizzies, and she believes it is the most honest data you will ever have about whether you are on the right path. In this solo episode, Jaime explains what the...
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Your Title Is Not Your Identity: Chris Heim on People-First Leadership, CEO Identity & Reclaiming Who You Are
What happens when you've achieved everything you set out to accomplish, but you wake up one day and realize you've lost yourself in the process? Chris Heim, a three-time CEO and founder of Heim Leadership, joins Jaime to talk about reclaiming your identity when the title no longer defines you....
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Stop Seeking External Validation to Feel Worthy: A Solo Episode on the Addiction to Validation
Why do so many leaders feel empty despite achieving everything they set out to accomplish? The answer might surprise you. It's not about insecurity or weakness. It's about validation, and it's addictive. In this solo episode, Jaime Taets pulls back the curtain on a theme she's seen emerging in...
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Redefining Success After the Title Is Gone: Dr. Linda Schubring on Identity, Control & Healing
What happens when the mountain you finally climbed disappears beneath your feet? Dr. Linda Schubring faced that exact moment and learned that losing a job doesn't mean losing your purpose. Dr. Linda Schubring joins Jaime Taets for an honest conversation about leadership, identity, resilience, and...
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Leadership Burnout: The Real Cause and What Leaders Get Wrong with Jaime Taets
What happens when you're a high-performing leader who loves the work, but you're exhausted in a way that a vacation won't fix? Jaime Taets gets honest about her own journey with burnout and what she's learned about the weight of responsibility. Jaime shares why burnout is one of the most overused...
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From Problem Solver to Coach: Matt Ropchak on Imposter Syndrome, Leadership Development & Redefining Success
Leadership development doesn't happen where you're comfortable. Matt Ropchak shares why the biggest breakthroughs begin the moment you stop keeping both feet in the familiar. Leadership development isn't about collecting promotions. It's about growing through uncertainty, embracing discomfort…
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You Have the Right to Dream: Lindsay Holden on Odele Beauty, Entrepreneurship & Leading With Intuition
You don't need to have everything figured out before taking the next step. Lindsay Holden shares why trusting your instincts, embracing progress over perfection, and believing in your vision can lead to extraordinary growth. Building a successful business isn't about having all the answers. It's...
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You Have the Right to Dream and Change: Andrea Sullivan on Identity, Success & Doing the Damn Thing
What happens when you finally achieve everything you thought you wanted, only to realize it doesn't feel like enough? Andrea Sullivan shares why your next chapter may begin when you give yourself permission to dream again. Personal growth can require letting go of the identity that made you...
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The Fear You Choose: Kristi Piehl on Resilience, Hard Things & Choosing Fear Before It Chooses You
Resilience isn't built only when life gets hard. Kristi Piehl explains why choosing difficult things when you can may prepare you for the fear you can't choose. Kristi Piehl, Founder and CEO of Media Minefield, joins Jaime Taets for a vulnerable conversation about resilience, fear, leadership,...
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Filter the Voices Holding You Back with Giselle Ugarte
You control more than you think. Giselle Ugarte shares why you're more powerful than you realize and how to stop giving your power away to other people's opinions. Giselle Ugarte, performance coach, international speaker, and executive coach, joins Jaime Taets for a candid conversation about...
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Find the Consistency through the Peaks and Valleys with Ben Utecht
Leadership through adversity is not about avoiding the valley. It is about building a foundation strong enough to keep you moving through it. Ben Utecht, former NFL tight end, Super Bowl champion, speaker, author, and culture expert, joins Jaime Taets for a conversation about fear, failure,...
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Find Joy, Even in the Hard Times with Kelli Williams
Redefining success through joy means learning that resilience is not always about pushing harder. It is knowing when to pause, heal, and find joy in the storm. Kelli Williams, healing-informed executive coach, business and marketing strategist, storyteller, and former nonprofit leader, joins…
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Leadership Burnout: You Don't Get Extra Credit for Exhaustion with Josh Helgeson
Leadership burnout does not always happen when everything falls apart. Sometimes it happens when everything is going right, but the pace, pressure, and responsibility are no longer sustainable. Josh Helgesen, CEO and majority owner of Greiner Construction, joins Jaime Taets to talk about the…
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The Point Is Not to Have All the Answers with Hillary Spreizer
The point is not to have all the answers. Hillary Spreizer shares why leadership success is not about being the smartest person in the room. Hillary Spreizer, CEO and owner of Latitude Group, joins Jaime Taets for a brutally honest conversation about what leadership really looks like when the…
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Trust With Yourself Before You Chase More Success with Ashley Hawks
Trust with yourself is the foundation of sustainable success. Ashley Hawks shares what happened when the success she built no longer made her happy and how she rebuilt her life, leadership, and purpose from the inside out. Ashley Hawks, serial entrepreneur and owner of SOAR Leadership Groups…
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Leadership Burnout: Alignment Is Not a Soft Skill with Erin Newkirk
Leadership burnout isn't always about working too hard—it can be a signal that something is out of alignment. Erin Newkirk shares why leaders need to pause, ground themselves, manage their energy, and stop confusing performative work with productive leadership. Erin Newkirk joins Jaime Taets for…
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Succeed More Than You Fail
| Erin Newkirk is the Chief Brand and Marketing Officer at Caribou Coffee. Her career journey has been anything but typical and in this episode Erin shares her perspective on leading from the Head, Heart, Gut and Voice to truly create impact as a leader.
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Authenticity as a Leadership SuperPower
| Tami Enfield, a Brand Strategist and the founder of Brand Yourself, a consultancy launched in 2011. Not only does she LOVE marketing strategy, it’s also her passion. She loves consulting about as much as she loves reading about it. After launching Brand Yourself, she’s been told (and tries to...
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Measure Your Success in Years
| Shay Eskew is a world renown endurance athlete, a dad of 5 kids, and a believer that success is on the other side of the uncomfortable things. His story of overcoming trauma at the age of 8 that significantly changed the trajectory of his life has led him to lead a life that constantly…
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Live At Your Edges
Jill Kalogerson is a lawyer, a construction executive, a founder and owner and a community advocate, in addition to being a mom of 6! Through all of these roles, she has learned a lot about herself and how to live more at her edges so she is constantly challenging herself to grow. Her message is...
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If You Are in It, You Can’t Always See a Better Way
| Klaus Lemke, Managing Principal at Midion, shares his journey to helping organizations and leaders get unstuck by asking different questions and showing them a better way. So many of us use the same thinking to solve our problems instead of challenging ourselves to think differently and have...
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The Power of Your Internal Voice
Megan Lindahl Goodrich is a trauma survivor who writes about her experiences in the book, Beyond Terminal: Processing Childhood Trauma to Reclaim Self. In this episode she shares her journey to healing and how it’s helped her step deeper into her leadership and purpose. Trauma does not have to be...
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Are You Having the Tough Conversations?
Gene Hammett is an executive coach who has lived many lives, including the collapse of his business and the rebuilding of his live. He was drawn to coaching when he realized that he was not a great leader, and through his own development decided that his purpose is to help other leaders on their...
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Leadership is a Service Job
Leah Berend is a force in the private equity and investment world. She joins us to share her perspective on how business has to change, leaders have to lead in a different way and be present in their leadership to produce the results of the future. This podcast will inspire you and give you hope...
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Just Own It…Own It All
The more we work on ourselves, the more successful we will be in all aspects of our lives. Dawn Dahlby is a successful entrepreneur, speaker and Author of Live WELLthy, and she attributes her success to decades of personal development work. She works on herself so she can be better for those…
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Model the Way Forward
As leaders, our job is to not always have the answer, but to model the way forward in how we get to the answer. When we get hung up on being the smartest in the room or feeling like we don’t have it all together, we show up in a way that isn’t authentic and that shifts the culture of our team....
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Never Settle, Dig Deeper
Kelly Veit is the CEO of Veit & Company. She joins us to share her non-traditional career path that has allowed her to use her superpowers to become the leader the organization needs at this phase of their growth. Kelly’s deep commitment to her own growth has helped her ensure she has the skills...
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Leaders are Dealers of Hope
Kelly Aronson joins the podcast for a second time to share more wisdom and how she is re-inventing herself to keep her passion and energy as a leader. As our career progresses, it can be easy to get caught on auto-pilot, focusing on issues and what next problem you need to solve. But you can’t...
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Finding Your Internal Source of Motivation
David Strohsack has led a successful corporate career, rising through the ranks to now leading a newly acquired company through significant change and transformation. Through it all he has leaned on his internal motivation to be better and do better to help him become a truly conscious leader....
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Everyone Can Impact Through Story
As leaders we tend to lead and persuade people with data and logic, but brain science tells us that people are not persuaded by that, they are persuaded by emotion. Sally Zimney, Speaker, Coach and Author helps us understand the impact of sharing simple stories to connect with people and inspire...
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1% Happier
Chelsey Paulson, the queen of culture and leadership, and one of my fantastic team members joins us to talk about Happiness. Not from a fluffy perspective, but from a scientific, find the source and focus on it perspective. Our world needs more leaders, more humans who have the tools to find more...
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The Life You Lead Is the Lesson You Teach
So…this one is a deep one. Be prepared to laugh, maybe cry a little, but truly be impacted. I’m so grateful to have Mick White, a dear friend of mine on the podcast to share his story around finding his purpose and how he is living into it every day. Find out more about Mick’s 100 year manifesto...
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Humility as a Success Superpower
How do you embrace a beginners mindset, how can humility help you create a career and a journey that leaves a legacy? Kanthi Yalamanchili has had a very unique path to success, one that has forced her to use her humility as a superpower to step into new roles where she had no experience and…
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How Strong is Your Strategic Thinking Muscle?
Many of us spends are days in full execution mode, answering emails, attending meetings and heads down working through issues. We don’t spend much time thinking strategically or planning for the future. And, even if we are given time in our schedule to think, it’s sometimes hard to know where to...
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The Beauty in Getting “Kicked Off the Wheel”
So many times, in life, circumstances happen to us that make us question our worth, deplete our confidence and sometimes knock us down all together. But what if that “kicked off the wheel” moment is there to help you find strength in new places? What if it’s there to help you build muscle for...
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Navigating the Seasons of our Careers
Any successful person will tell you that their career has had many different seasons. Seasons when you hit the gas and focus on your career and seasons where you are braking and focusing on your own life or your family. It’s normal and being able to make the right choices for you at the right…
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Permission to go off the Trail
| Leaders of all types and experience levels are feeling restless right now. We all feel kind of stuck and as our guest Sarah Line describes it, Creating Cages of Comfort. We know there’s more out there, we know there’s growth we want to have, and we don’t know how to gain the courage to do it....
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The Impact of Restlessness
There is a new tension evolving in the business world. This tension of restlessness on the side of the employees and frustration from leaders. We each want more, but we aren’t sure what we need. Our energy is low and it’s compounding the issue. Dena Mayne, COO of Keystone discusses her…
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What Does it Take to Write A Book?
Stephanie interviews CEO and Founder Jaime Taets, and Chief Strategy Officer, Chelsey Paulson about the pure joy as well as agony of writing a book. What it takes to start with an an idea and bring it to life in the form of a book. They share their mindset and details on the writing and process,...
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Lean into the Edge
How often does fear impact our approach and decisions as leaders? Matt Schwandt joins us and shares his wisdom and approach around leaning into the edge of fear and how it can shift your perspective. Learn more and connect with Matt at https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schwandt-360aba243/ Matt is…
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Be Kind to Yourself
Leadership is hard sometimes, but when you figure out that your job is to be the coach and not the doer, things get a lot easier. Andy Dulka has honed his leadership skills over his entire career and continue to learn and evolve as a leader. He shares his leadership wisdom with us in this podcast...
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Creating The Space for Culture to Thrive
Kelly Kolar has spent her entire career creating spaces that support growth and comfort. As the Founder of Kolar Design, she has built office, healthcare and other spaces around the world. She shares her leadership journey and what she has learned about how spaces truly create environments where...
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If You’re Not Sure, You’re Sure
Eric Harkins is the President and Founder of GKG Search & Outplacement, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm that helps organizations Get talent, Keep talent & Grow talent. He is also an Amazon #1 best-selling author of: Great Leaders Make Sure Monday Morning Doesn’t Suck; How to Get, Keep & Grow...
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Design the Life You Want
Missy Chicre, CEO at Menttium joins us and shares her story of how she constantly strives to design the life she wants, not the life that others want for her. And while that is always a struggle, and takes hard work, she has proven in her career that people will support you and you can still...
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Growth Happens In Reflection
Marney Andes is an Author, Keynote Speaker and Leadership Coach that has taken her Fortune 50 experience and turned that into a career that helps others leaders build their best lives. In this episode we talk about as leaders how important it is to recognize your own bias and how to use the day…
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Do What You Want To Do, Not What You Have To Do
Michael Levin has been responsible for ghostwriting close to 1000 books. He helps people bring their message to life to share with the world. In this this podcast he shares his story and his leadership wisdom with us around how to focus on doing what you want to do and not what you have to do to...
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Show Up To Listen and Not Be Heard
Tricia Timm, lawyer, venture investor, author and speaker joins us to share her journey as a Latina in the corporate world and as an immigrant who has worked to find her own voice. Her guidance is so impactful and can help all of us as leaders creating greater belonging in our own teams and...
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Be The Change You Want to See
Simon Bray is a change agent and innovator who has worked with global brands to help them evolve. He also just happens to be a part of the group that Jaime climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with. They discuss their passion around leadership and the change that leaders need to be prepared to lead as well as...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hosted by CEO, leadership expert, keynote speaker and author Jaime Taets, Go First explores what happens when successful people stop waiting for certainty and start moving before they feel ready.
Through honest conversations with CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs, athletes and high-performing leaders — along with Jaime's solo insights — the show goes behind the highlight reel to explore the decisions, fears, failures and transformations that shape successful people.
Episodes explore leadership development, personal growth, resilience, burnout, decision-making, vulnerability, organizational change, energy, purpose and what it takes to create meaningful change in your work and life.
Because clarity doesn't always come before action. Sometimes you have to Go First.
If you're navigating a career transition, leading through change, questioning what success means now, facing a difficult decision or simply know there's
HOSTED BY
Jaime Taets, Owner, President & Founder
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