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Ryan's Leadership Lessons
by Ryan Stemen
Unlocking your leadership potential one lesson at a time.
Episodes
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Episode 12: Being Accountable to Your Team: The Highest-Leverage Leadership Habit
Accountability without training is just blame. Real accountability starts with the leader. In this episode: • What being accountable to your team looks like (not just demanding it from them) • Why accountability is the highest-leverage leadership habit • How to build a team where accountability...
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Episode 11: Leaders Don't Let Failure Define Them: Jobs, Oprah, and Your Next Chapter
Steve Jobs was fired from Apple. Oprah was fired as a news anchor. Failure wasn't their ending. It was their setup. In this episode: • Why the best leaders separate identity from outcomes • How to extract the lesson without carrying the label • What to do in the first 30 days after a professional...
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Episode 10: How I Beat the Sunday Scaries as a Leader
Sunday night dread isn't a personal failing. It's a leadership signal. In this episode: • My personal playbook for ending the week with clarity • The Monday-morning habits that make Sunday nights calmer • How leaders accidentally create Sunday Scaries for their teams, and how to stop Short…
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Bonus: How to Support an Underperforming Team Member in 90 Seconds
Might be the shortest leadership podcast ever. 90 seconds, 5 steps. When someone on your team is struggling: 1. Identify the root cause: skills, resources, or motivation? 2. Give clear, actionable feedback with specific examples 3. Set attainable, measurable goals 4. Offer training, mentorship…
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Episode 8: 18 Time Management Lessons Every Leader Should Steal
Your calendar is your leadership strategy in disguise. In this episode: • The meeting rules that save hours every week (45 not 60, 15 not 30) • Why multitasking is toxic and single-tasking is gold • How to block time for deep work, and actually defend it • The monthly reflection that eliminates...
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Episode 7: Planting Seeds for Future Leaders: How Great Leaders Multiply
The highest-leverage thing a leader does? Train the next leader. In this episode: • Why training your team is a multiplier, not a cost • How to spot and develop high-potential team members early • The “seeds” I plant in every role, and how long they take to grow If you want your impact to outlast...
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Episode 6: Marathons and Project Management: Why Endurance Wins in Leadership
I've run 17 marathons. Leading complex projects feels exactly the same. In this episode: • Pacing, fueling, and hitting the wall, in running and in projects • Why the middle miles (and middle phases) break most teams • How endurance thinking makes you a calmer, steadier leader For leaders…
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Bonus: Networking for Success: Build Doors Before You Need Them
Your network is an asset. But only if you build it before you need it. In this episode: • Why networking is career insurance, not job hunting • 3 low-pressure ways to build genuine professional relationships • How I think about giving first, asking second Short, practical, and worth sharing with...
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Episode 4: 99 Years of Leadership Wisdom: Lessons That Outlast Trends
Leadership trends come and go. Principles don't. In this episode: • Leadership insights distilled from nearly a century of wisdom • What changes with generations, and what never does • How to anchor your leadership style in timeless fundamentals For anyone tired of leadership fads and hungry for...
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Episode 3: What Aesop's Fables Teach Modern Leaders About Trust and Teamwork
2,500-year-old stories. Surprisingly modern leadership lessons. In this episode: • The Tortoise and the Hare: why consistency beats intensity in team performance • The Boy Who Cried Wolf: trust is slow to build, fast to lose • How to use simple stories to teach complex leadership ideas Great for...
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Episode 2: John Wooden's Pyramid of Success: 15 Blocks to Better Leadership
John Wooden won 10 NCAA championships. His Pyramid of Success is the best leadership framework nobody talks about enough. In this episode: • The 15 blocks of Wooden's Pyramid, translated for managers • Why industriousness and enthusiasm beat talent alone • How to use the Pyramid as a personal...
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Episode 1: 10 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
A cheap used book with priceless leadership lessons. In this kickoff episode, I break down 10 memorable takeaways from Dale Carnegie's classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People," and how they apply to leading teams today. In this episode: • Why Carnegie's principles still work 90 years…
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Welcome to Ryan's Leadership Lessons: Trailer
Unlocking your leadership potential one lesson at a time. I'm Ryan Stemen. Tax technology leader, endurance athlete, writer. In this show I share short, practical leadership lessons from real experience managing teams, projects, and complex solutions. What you'll get: 10 to 15 minute solo…
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Unlocking your leadership potential one lesson at a time.
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