The Leadercast Podcast
by Leadercast
Join host Brian Morris, as he digs into the fictional stories and real-life experiences that shaped some of today’s most interesting leaders. If you listen regularly, you may hear, “I’ve never said this before, but . . .” dropped by our guests. It’s a guaranteed 30 minutes of inspiration plus hot tips to up your leadership game.
Episodes
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141: The Power of Empathy w/ Ryan Dowd
Ryan Dowd is the Executive Director of a Large Homeless Shelter in Chicago leading over 6000 volunteers. Ryan’s expertise gives him an acute perspective on the power of empathy and gratitude in building better communities.
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140: Taking Good Risks w/ Ramsey Jay Jr.
Ramsey Jay Jr. is the other half of the co-author duo of The Mentorship Engine. Ramsey is a full time consultant teaching companies how to fix acute business problems. Ramsey talks about the power of taking good risks and the ABF model of mentorship. Any guesses on what ABF means? Check it out.
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139: Transforming Education w/ Peter DeWitt
Peter DeWitt is the CEO and Founder of Instructional Leadership Collective and has spent almost 20 years in the K-12 education space. Leadership starts with the children of the future, and leading them is not too different from leading adults. This episode is all about giving and receiving…
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138: Empowering Employees w/ Perry Timms
Perry Timms is the Founder and Chief Energy Officer of People and Transformational HR as well as being a 2023 Inductee of the HR Most Influential Hall of Fame. This episode is all about how workplace energy influences company culture and that starts with energizing your employees.
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137: Leading in a Partnership with Lisa Bilyeu
Lisa Bilyeu is the co-founder of Quest Nutrition and President of Impact Theory. In this episode, Lisa dives into the necessities of a partnership from interpersonal to business. Lisa will also be joining us on stage this year for our 2024 flagship event called G.H.O.A.T. This episode is a sneak...
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136: Emotional Exploration in Leadership w/ Dr Jody Carrington
Dr. Jody Carrington is a Renowned Psychologist, Human Connection Expert, and Bestselling Author of “Feeling Seen” (2023). Jody has the unique experience of twenty-plus years working with kids, and perfecting her core message of power comes from true connection with others. At the end of the day,...
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135: Lead Like an Anarchist w/ Ari Weinzweig
Ari Weinzweig is CEO and co-founding partner of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, which includes around a dozen food and service organizations. Ari will be one of our keynote speakers at our big annual event coming in May, called GHOAT. He refers to himself as a “lapsed anarchist”, and after…
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134: Navigating Through Crisis w/ Lisa Lutoff-Perlo
Lisa Lutoff-Perlo is the former CEO and President of Celebrity Cruises. How do you lead a travel-based company when the entire world stops traveling? Lisa breaks down crisis and management into three phases to navigate your team around it. You know what could be a crisis? Not listening to this...
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133: Bring Your Team With You w/ Dr. Katie Lee
Dr. Katie Lee is a dentist, speaker, and author of “Saved by the Mouth”. Dr. Lee was involved in an ATV accident as a teenager, which left her without many teeth and rendered her jaw immobile. Dr. Lee experienced how oral health affects systemic health and the benefits of dental implants which...
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132: Breaking Patterns w/ Tony Martignetti
Tony Martignetti is the Chief Inspiration Officer at Inspired Purpose Partners. Tony’s passion and skill set lies in curing burnout and truly finding your passion. If you need a change of mindset or figure out the key to burnout, we created this episode just for you. Developing world-class…
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131: Leadership in Your Community w/ Rebekah Moon
Rebekah Moon is the Vice President of Investor Services at the Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce and a long-time partner with Leadercast. This week, Rebekah gives us the inside scoop on what it is like to partner with Leadercast with a focus on building strong community relationships and...
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130: Franchise Leadership w/ Jesse Keyser
Jesse Keyser is best known as an entrepreneurial franchise manager where he leads businesses in brands such as Ideal Image, and Sports Clips. He was always motivated by success but realized true success further down the road. Two takeaways from Jesse: 1. Use more carrot than stick 2. Don’t burn...
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129: Initiate Real Change w/ Chanda Hinton
Chanda Hinton is the founder of The Chanda Center for Health and a disability healthcare advocate. Suffering a spinal cord injury at the age of 9, Chanda has made it her mission to fight for equitable healthcare for individuals with long-term physical disabilities. Chanda championed a bill in the...
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128: Holistic Leadership w/ Ethan Martin
Ethan Martin is the Co-Author of “The Mentorship Engine” with a professional passion for partnering with CEOs to help them improve their company - starting with their team. In this episode, Joe and Ethan, take on how to find a mentor, when you need one, and when to start becoming one. Ethan says...
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127: Spark Your Teams w/ Brad Wise
Brad Wise is the founder of Wolf House Fables and the creator of Leadercast’s 2024 event Spark, premiering January 24th. Brad’s passion lies in the power of awe and wonder to inspire teams to reach greater heights. In this episode, Brad gives us a preview of Spark and the tools you need to…
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126: Remote Work Must-Dos w/ Paaras Parker
Paaras Parker is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Paycor, an HR software company centered around people management. Paaras and Joe give a catch-all on content in this episode from things you must do as a remote team to having the tough conversations to build trust from all sides. Developing...
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125: Strategic CFO Leadership w/ Dan DeGolier
As the Founder and CEO of Ascent CFO Solutions with over 30 years of experience, Dan knows all about working alongside leaders to help them reach their potential. Strategy is needed at all levels of a company, especially cultivating team relationships and balancing dynamics.
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124: Best of Leadercast 2023
2023 has come to an end, and as a special treat we wrapped some of the best learnings (certainly not all of them) into one crash course, sprint race of an episode. From five of your favorite Leadercast contributors, comes five pieces of practical advice we learned this year, and will take into…
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123: The Truth of Entrepreneurs w/ Brooke Janousek
Brooke Janousek is best known as a fractional CMO and the founder of The Grow CMO, a fractional leadership solution for effective marketing growth. Brooke and Joe discuss how entrepreneurship isn’t what you think it is and the importance of getting to know your team deeply in a remote world. Want...
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122: Bragging as a Superpower w/ Peggy Klaus
Peggy Klaus is best known for her best-selling book “BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It.” Peggy and Joe discuss the true ART of bragging and how you don’t do it as much as you think so it’s time to ramp it up. See just what bragging can get you, by starting with this…
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121: Unlock Your Leadership Potential w/ Lena Thompson
Lena Thompson is known for her keynotes and workshops, helping people tap into hidden potential by creating liberation from self-imposed limitations. Lena and Joe dive into leadership starts with leading yourself which starts with knowing yourself. Get self-reflective and dive in. Check out more...
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120: Don’t Struggle in Silence w/ Darryll Stinson
Darryll Stinson is a former Division I athlete and Founder of Second Chance Athletes. Darryll preaches vulnerability for authentic connection by sharing his story on the struggle of addiction. The best way to get out of the cave is to reach a hand towards the light. Learn more about Darryll at...
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119: What Great Leaders Do w/ Ryan Hawk
Aside from being one of Leadercast’s keynote speakers at our Super Teams event this fall, Ryan Hawk is best known as the host of The Learning Leader Show. Starting his journey of leadership as a high school freshman captain of the football team, Ryan had to learn the importance of team and...
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118: Rewire Your Brain for Success w/ Rory Vaden
Rory Vaden is a NYT Best Selling Author and a Co-Founder of Brand Builders Group, a company to help you build your personal brand by finding your edge. Rory’s insights on the switch from achievement leadership to service leadership, and how we all use our personal brand every day will leave you...
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117: Leveraging Assessments w/ Kirsten Moorefield
Along with being a panelist in Leadercast’s SuperTeams 2023 event, Kirsten is the Co-Founder and COO of Cloverleaf, a workplace personality assessment tech company. Kirsten talks all things goal setting, team building and enhancement, and personal development using the tool of professional and...
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116: Team Strength Building w/ Brittany Driscoll
Brittany Driscoll is the Co-Founder and CEO of Squeeze, a personalized massage experience from the founders of Drybar. Brittany’s health scare at a young age emphasized the importance of taking care of all aspects of yourself from mental to physical in order to be the best leader possible. In…
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114: Hybrid Work Since ‘99 w/ Laura Liotta
Laura Liotta cultivated work-life balance in the late 90s when she became the first person to build a PR agency model with an all remote industry of experts in 1999. Laura discusses her “Jerry Maguire moment” when she quit her high paying job to discover how to make your job work for you under…
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113: The Power of Walking w/ Carlos Whittaker
Carlos Whittaker is storyteller, speaker, a master of hope and author of the latest release “How to Human” which breaks down the ways we can connect with each other despite what may divide us. Joe and Carlos discuss the cure to the culture divide is to “walk with someone” and create empathy. This...
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112: What You Actually Need w/ Nicole Walters
Nicole Walters is best known for quitting her six-figure sales job in front of 10,000 people and building a million-dollar business in one year. But sometimes having it all doesn’t equate to fulfillment. Nicole and Joe discuss how the need isn’t always having more but realizing what you need was...
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111: When to Fold ‘Em w/ Ray Attiyah
Ray Attiyah is an recreational poker player as well as a serial entrepreneur, investor and author of “Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve & Grow Their Business”. This episode takes on a special format to illustrate how leadership is really one big poker game. Don’t know...
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110: Unlocking Strength w/ Luis Velasquez
Luis Velasquez is the Founder and Executive Coach at Velas Coaching. Luis has expertise as a “Jerk Whisperer'' by finding common ground in misunderstandings through vulnerability. Joe and Luis dive in about the motivation to release suffering through ultra marathons and the unlocking true…
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109: Influence = Sales w/ AJ Vaden
AJ Vaden is the CEO and Co-Founder of the personal brand strategy firm Brand Builders Group as well as an 8-figure entrepreneur. AJ joins us to talk all about how sales is synonymous with influence and how we all need sales to leverage our leadership skills. Whether or not you’re in sales, it’s...
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108: Lessons from The Chosen w/ Derral Eves
Derral Eves is the Executive Producer of The Chosen and the influencer to influencers from the beginning of YouTube. Being a leader is all about having influence and knowing what to do with it. With great influence comes great responsibility. Or something like that, right? Find Derral Eves, The...
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107: Collaborative Negotiation w/ Kathryn Valentine
Kathryn Valentine is the CEO of Worthmore Strategies, an organization that uses research to help organizations advance and retain female talent. Kathryn and Joe talk about the switch from competitive negotiation to collaborative and why everyone will need to start making this change soon....
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106: Office Inspiration w/ Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on “The Office” but he is also the Founder of Soul Pancake and the lead on Peacock TV’s “The Geography of Bliss”. We are sharing a full length special episode from Rainn recorded for our SHIFT program. In this episode, Rainn talks all…
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105: Heal Your Inner Leader w/ Deepak Shukla
Deepak Shukla is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and TEDx speaker who founded Pearl Lemon Group. In this episode, Joe and Deepak connect on the vitality of understanding your own mental space because the box of the leader isn’t contained in the workplace. This is a deep one. Developing...
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104: HBDI Team / Leadership w/ Ann Herrmann-Nehdi
Ann Herrmann-Nehdi is the Chief Thought Leader and Chair at Herrmann International, the originators of the HBDI assessment. The HBDI is one of the most salient thought processing tests in the professional world. In this episode, Ann and Joe talk about the importance of knowing the strengths of…
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103: Authentic Wisdom w/ LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton is a highly-renowned actor best known for his roles as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the host of PBS Kids “Reading Rainbow” for which he received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards as host and executive producer. In this exclusive full-length interview,...
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102: Make No Assumptions w/ Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt is a Nashville-based actor, activist, cancer survivor, best selling author and founder of The Tyler Merritt Project. Tyler and Joe hit on all topics from overlapping lives in Las Vegas to how to be true to yourself outside of preconceived biases. This episode is a 45 minute...
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101: Strategy, Not Tactics w/ Don Schmincke
Don Schmincke is an Award-Winning Speaker, Researcher, Founder of the SAGA Leadership Institute, delivered over 1,700 speeches and consulted over 7,000 CEOs. In this episode Don and Joe talk all about the importance of suffering and sacrifice in work culture and the reason you haven’t found...
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100: Leading with Love w/ Richard Rohr
For our 100th published episode, we wanted to give you all an exclusive full-length interview with Father Richard Rohr. Father Richard was named “one of the most popular spirituality authors and speakers in the world” and joined Leadercast during “The One Thing” event. In this episode, Rohr talks...
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99: The F Word w/ Catherine Price
Catherine Price is a speaker, consultant and award-winning science journalist who dares to talk about the F word…FUN. She’s done the research to prove how having fun leads to a healthier life. Good thing you’re listening to this episode so you can get started on having fun right away. To learn…
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98: Liberating Structures w/ Erin King
Erin King is the Chief Digital Officer of Strikepoint Media and a keynote speaker for the AI age. In this episode, Erin and Joe discuss the importance of using AI to enhance the human experience and establishing systems and structures one at a time. Whether you find yourself with too much…
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97: Fierce Optimism w/ Eddie Ndopu
Eddie Ndopu is the Global Disability Advocate for the United Nations and an award winning humanitarian. Eddie dives deep on what true accessibility looks like, the necessity of optimism and hope, and how strength can be greatly overrated. Eddie and Joe may have just created the most heartfelt and...
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96: Prioritizing People w/ Stephanie Chung
A trailblazer in every sense of the word, Stephanie Chung was the first African-American president in private aviation, a former C-Suite Exec. of Wheels Up, and an award-winning speaker and coach. Stephanie reminds us that at the core of our work, we are not leading companies, we are leading…
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95: The Good in A.I. w/ Dr. Radhika Dirks
Radhika Dirks is the Founder and CEO of XLabs and Ribo, and was named a Woman in AI to Watch by Forbes in 2020. Radhika’s story with us starts with stepping off the plane into the snowy lands of West Lafayette, Indiana, and she leaves us with the oath we all must take before incorporating...
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94: The New Workplace w/ Julie Bauke
Julie Bauke is the Chief Career Strategist of the Bauke Group and the author of Stop Peeing on Your Shoes: Avoiding the 7 Mistakes That Screw Up Your Job Search. This episode is overflowing with Julie’s practical career advice from discovering your next chapter to retaining all-star employees.…
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93: Patient Purpose w/ Paul Spiers
Paul Spiers is the Founder of The New P&L Brand Purpose Institute focused on helping leaders rediscover their purpose. Paul brings his wisdom across the pond to talk with Joe about finding purpose in yourself and your business to build stamina lasting through weak company culture and quick…
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92: The Long Game w/ Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark is one of the Top 50 business thinkers and #1 Communication Coach in the world, while also being a keynote speaker and best-selling author. The episode is packed full of advice on setting long-term goals in a short-term world and how to monetize yourself without being on social media....
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91: Ugly Babies w/ David Burkus
David Burkus is a world leading business thinker and bestselling author of four business and leadership books. David and Joe talk about the importance of leadership as a team effort (no longer exclusive to C-Suite Executives), how to pick your fights, and the practice of seeing your idea as an…
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Join host Brian Morris, as he digs into the fictional stories and real-life experiences that shaped some of today’s most interesting leaders. If you listen regularly, you may hear, “I’ve never said this before, but . . .” dropped by our guests. It’s a guaranteed 30 minutes of inspiration plus hot tips to up your leadership game.
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