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The Leader's Mindset
by LeDuc Leadership & Media Group
The Leader’s Mindset is a leadership strategy podcast for executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to think clearly, act decisively, and build high-performing teams. Hosted by Jason LeDuc, a former U.S. Air Force officer and leadership strategist, the show blends powerful interviews with practical Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) you can apply immediately. If you’re responsible for results and developing the leaders behind you, this show equips you to lead with clarity and confidence.
Episodes
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Raise the Anchor — Kevin Voisin on Leadership Development & Strategic Thinking
Leadership development stalls for a reason most leaders will not say out loud: the problem is the anchor, not the engine. So they add engines. More hours, more headcount, more effort — and the boat barely moves. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Kevin Voisin — a...
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What to Do When Your Team Doesn't Respect You Yet — Leadership Development
No amount of leadership development buys respect — it gets built, not by being liked, and not by trying harder to be liked.You say something in a meeting and it lands flat; someone else says it ten minutes later and the room nods. Gallup reports only about 21% of U.S. employees strongly agree…
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From Tactical to Strategic Thinking — Lisa Woodruff on Leadership Development
Strategic thinking is the first thing a new manager runs out of — your team has about 20% of their time left for your projects. You set two goals for the quarter. Everyone works hard. The goals still slip, and it was never effort. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down…
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What to Say When Your Friends Suddenly Report to You — Leadership Development
Leadership development skips the hardest part of the promotion: the first time you have to tell a friend their work isn't good enough. Friday you were venting about the boss together. Monday you are the boss. The Center for Creative Leadership surveyed 295 first-time managers and found the...
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The Inner Game Behind Team Leadership Skills — Rajesh Nagjee
The leadership skills that scale a company are not the ones that keep a founder sane. Rajesh Nagjee calls himself a business physicist. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with the CEO mentor who has spent three decades — 80,000 hours, by his own count, across 14...
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What to Do When Your Peer Becomes Your Boss — Leadership Development
Leadership development almost never covers the seat nobody trains you for — the one where your peer just became your boss. Carnegie Mellon researcher Robert Kelley, author of Harvard Business Review's "In Praise of Followers," attributes roughly 80% of an organization's success to followers.…
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The Hardest Thing a Tough Man Does — Bill McCamley on Team Leadership Skills
The team leadership skills nobody trains you for: how to ask a man on your crew if he's okay.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Bill McCamley — former New Mexico Secretary of Labor, state representative and county commissioner, and author of "Right, My Dudes. Now...
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What to Do When Your Best People Keep Quitting — Team Leadership Skills
Team leadership is usually the real reason your best people keep quitting — not money, and not a better offer somewhere else. By the time a great employee is interviewing elsewhere, you already lost them; the notice is just the paperwork. SHRM found that toxic workplace culture drove an estimated...
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Succession Planning Starts on Day One — John Scott on Team Leadership Skills
The team leadership skills that decide who replaces you get built years before you leave.Most succession planning happens far too late to be planning at all — and by then the market has usually made the decision for you.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc talks with John Scott —…
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What to Do When Your Team Has Quietly Checked Out — Team Leadership Skills
Team leadership gets tested less when people are angry and more when they go quiet — and a checked-out team almost never complains. Nobody quits. Nobody pushes back. People are polite, on time, and doing exactly what's asked — and not one inch more. The spark is gone, and because no alarm is…
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The Conversation Your Team Is Avoiding — Croft Edwards on Leadership Skills
The leadership conversation your team is avoiding is the one deciding your results.Your last meeting was pleasant. Everyone nodded. Nobody argued. And the thing that actually matters never got said.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Croft Edwards — a Master...
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What to Say When Two Teams Won't Work Together — Leadership Skills
Leadership is what turns two warring teams into one. When Sales blames Ops and Ops blames Sales, you don't have a people problem — you have a scoreboard problem.Two teams playing two different games will call each other the enemy, and the harder each one works, the deeper the trench gets.…
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Bootstrapped 8 Years, No Co-Founder — Rei Vardi on Leadership Skills
The loudest default in startup leadership is that you need a co-founder. Rei Vardi never had one. Eight years in, Eon is bootstrapped, profitable, and running in roughly 40 states — and the closest Rei came to a co-founder was a partner who waited until a term sheet was on the table, then…
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What to Do When You're the Bottleneck — Leadership Skills for a Leader's Mindset
Leadership stops scaling the moment everything has to run through you. That's a bottleneck, not a bench. Nothing moves in your business unless it moves through you — every decision, every approval, every "hey, quick question." The better you are at doing everything, the worse it gets, because…
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Leadership Skills Under Stress: Your Skin Is Data — Mireille Vega, Biotech PhD
Leadership runs on a body you keep overriding. Your skin is data, not vanity — and it reports first.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Mireille "Dr. Mimi" Vega — a biotechnology PhD and skin-microbiome scientist who now runs her own skincare company — to argue…
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What to Do When You're All Tactics and No Strategy — Leadership Skills for the Leader's Mindset
Leadership is not the tactics you execute all day — it's the direction you protect time to set.Your team can be busy, hitting deadlines and clearing the inbox, while the business goes nowhere. From the inside that motion looks like momentum, right up until the quarter ends and nothing actually...
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Leadership Skills That Rewire Your Daily Actions — John Mitchell, University of Texas, on the Leader's Mindset
The leadership skills that decide your success are the ones you never consciously choose. Up to 95% of your daily actions run on autopilot — and those actions, not your intentions, determine how your career, your health, and your relationships turn out.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset…
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What to Do When You're the Most Senior Leader in the Room — Leadership Skills and the Leader's Mindset at the Top
Leadership at the top is lonely by design — the higher you go, the fewer people tell you the truth. When you're the most senior leader in the room, there's no boss above you to catch your mistakes and no safety net under you. Your job flips: you are no longer paid to have the answers, you are…
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Founder Syndrome: The Leadership Trap Nobody Warns You About
Most founders don't get pushed out. They quietly become the bottleneck in the thing they built — and they're the last to see it.The hardest leadership move isn't scaling the organization. It's knowing when to take your hands off the wheel before you start doing damage to your team, your mission,...
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What to Do When You're Managing People for the First Time – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
Getting promoted is not the same as knowing how to lead. The exact skills that made you the best performer are not the skills that make you a good manager. And if nobody tells you that, you'll spend your first year doing everyone's job except your own. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc...
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Build a Culture People Don't Leave — Michelle Edwards on Leadership, Employee Retention, & Workplace Culture
Most leaders think a great culture comes from a program, a committee, or a one-day training. It doesn't. Culture is built by leaders who pour into their people — and it shows up (or quietly disappears) in your retention numbers. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with...
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What to Do When Your Team Training Never Sticks – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
Training that doesn't stick is not a bad-training problem. It is a follow-through problem. The money isn't wasted in the training room — it's wasted in the days after, when nobody reinforces what people learned. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down how to make team training...
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Informed, Not Influenced — Kira Shishkin on Media Bias, News Minimalism, & Your Information Diet
Most people think they're informed. They're actually being influenced — and they can't tell the difference. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Kira Shishkin — founder and CEO of informed.now, the news-by-SMS service on a mission to put the power of facts back in...
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What to Do When You're Too Busy to Think Ahead – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
You're not behind because you're not working hard enough. You're behind because you never get an hour to just think. The day fills up with fires and "got a sec?", and the big moves that would actually change your business keep getting pushed to "someday" — and someday never shows up on the...
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Entrepreneurship Isn't Glamorous — Lauren Cashatt on Building a Nonprofit, Leading Volunteers, & Mission-Driven Leadership
Everyone posts the laptop on the beach. Nobody posts the 2 a.m. reality.If you've ever been sold the dream of "working for yourself" — freedom, flexibility, sunsets — the truth is that building something real is unglamorous, relentless work, and the leaders who last are the ones who show up for…
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What to Do When Your Business Is Stuck and You Can't See Why – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
A stuck business is almost never an effort problem. It is a diagnosis problem.Revenue's flat, the team's working hard, and you can't figure out why the needle won't move. The longer the real constraint stays hidden, the more effort you pour straight into the wrong place.In this Leadership TTP...
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Not Every Startup Should Raise Venture Money — Matt Ober on Venture Capital, Go-To-Market, & Backing Founders
Most founders treat raising venture money as the finish line. A lot of them are chasing a round they don't actually need. And while they're chasing it, the thing that would have built the company — getting in front of clients — doesn't get done. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason…
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What to Do When You've Hit a Ceiling as a Leader – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
Hitting a ceiling is not a talent problem. It is a feedback problem. You've been good for years — and that's exactly the trap. The higher you climb, the less honest feedback you get. Everyone tells you what you want to hear, so the one blind spot that would unlock your next level stays invisible....
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You Can't Lead Others Until You Lead Yourself — Tiffany Morice on Self-Leadership, Military Discipline, & Authentic Leadership
Most leaders try to fix their team before they fix their own foundation. But you can't pour into your people from an empty cup — and no title, rank, or org chart changes that. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Tiffany Morice — combat veteran, federal executive…
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What to Do When You're Promoted Into Leadership With No Training – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
Getting promoted is not a reward problem. It is a training problem nobody warned you about.Friday you were a teammate. Monday you're the boss — and no one handed you a playbook. Yesterday's peers are today's direct reports, and the cost of guessing is real: your best people start checking out...
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Networking That Actually Builds Business — Sarah Hubbard on Intentional Networking, Referral Partnerships, & Follow-Through
Most people network the way they were taught: collect business cards, pitch what you do, and wait for the business to roll in. It doesn't work anymore. If you're grinding through events and still hearing crickets, the problem usually isn't you — it's the spray-and-pray playbook. In this episode…
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What to Do When Your Business Grows Faster Than You Can Lead – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
Hitting a growth ceiling is not a hustle problem. It is a leadership problem. You built the thing — and now the thing is bigger than you can lead. Every problem still lands on your desk, every decision waits on you, and the company you started is quietly stalling because you've become the...
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Pitch Investors Like You're the Expert — Tristan Pollock on Fundraising, Scaling Startups, & Building Movements
Pitch Investors Like You're the Expert — Tristan Pollock on Fundraising, Scaling Startups, & Building MovementsMost founders walk into the pitch meeting already losing — treating the investor like the smartest person in the room.But that investor sees a hundred pitches a week. You're the one who...
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What to Say When Your Team is Busy But Not Aligned - Leadership Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Your team doesn't need more tasks. They need to know what matters most this week — and why. When leaders communicate tasks without intent, people guess. Priorities compete. Decisions slow down. And everyone defaults to the loudest fire instead of the right priority. In this episode of The…
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Use AI to Amplify Your People, Not Replace Them — Steve Brown on AI Strategy, AI-First Leadership, & Business Growth
Use AI to Amplify Your People, Not Replace Them — Steve Brown on AI Strategy, AI-First Leadership, & Business Growth Most leaders are using AI to do the same things a little faster and a little cheaper. That's 20th-century thinking — and it's how you get out-competed. Used right, AI doesn't…
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What to Say When a Team Member Misses a Deadline – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
A missed deadline is not a discipline problem. It is a conversation problem. If you dread the talk that has to happen after someone drops the ball, you do not need more courage. You need a repeatable reset script that moves the conversation from blame to standards — fast. In this Leadership TTP...
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Fear-Based Leadership Is the New Normal — Kate Lowry on the Predator Playbook, Startup Red Flags, & Whistleblowing
Most people are still playing by the old rules — show up, do good work, stay loyal, and you'll be taken care of. The problem? The social contract changed, and nobody told you. Fear-based leadership is no longer the exception — it's becoming the default, and the people it targets usually don't see...
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What to Say When You Delegate (So It Doesn't Come Back Wrong) – Leadership TTPs
Delegation that comes back wrong is not a people problem. It is a hand-off problem. If work keeps boomeranging back to your desk — or you keep redoing it yourself — the breakdown usually isn't who you picked. It's how you handed it off. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down the...
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Public Speaking Is a Leadership Superpower — Sebastian Uzcategui on Communication & Confidence
Most leaders aren't held back by a shortage of ideas. They're held back because they can't make people feel them. You can be the smartest person in the room and still watch your best thinking die in silence — simply because you never learned to use your voice. In this episode of The Leader's...
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What to Do Before Every Meeting So it Actually Ends With a Decision – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
A bad meeting is not a people problem. It is a preparation problem. When you walk into a meeting without a clear outcome, defined roles, or the hard question you are actually trying to answer, you get a long discussion, unclear owners, and a follow-up meeting to schedule the next meeting. In this...
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From Success to Significance — Raj Gupta on Leadership Legacy, Stewardship, & Developing Leaders
Most leaders spend their whole careers chasing success — titles, compensation, recognition. Then they move on, and everything they built quietly slows down. Success is what you achieve. Significance is what continues because of you — and almost no one is taught how to build the second one. In…
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Stop Drowning in Email: Build a Response Window System – Leadership Tactics Techniques & Procedures
Email overload is not a discipline problem. It is a leadership systems problem. If you're checking messages every 20 minutes, you're paying a focus tax your calendar can't afford — and your real priorities never move. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down a five-tactic response...
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Stop Using AI for Faster Emails — Jason P. Carroll on AI Strategy, Hiring, & Coaching
Most leaders are using AI to write faster emails and clear busywork. That is the smallest thing it can do. The real payoff is strategic: better thinking, better hiring, and better conversations with the people you lead. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Jason P....
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The 10 Minute Weekly 1:1 That Actually Works – Feedback, Delegation and Leadership Development
A weak one-on-one is not a time problem. It is a structure problem. When your one-on-ones keep getting canceled or drift into status updates, your team learns something you never meant to teach: this is not a priority. And the one place where small problems get surfaced early quietly disappears.…
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Raising Capital With Intention — Jeffrey Fidelman on Fundraising, Execution, & Building Connection
Most founders don’t fail because the idea is bad. They fail because the fundraising process is chaotic. If you treat raising capital like a “someday” task — a spreadsheet here, a few random follow-ups there — you don’t just lose investors. You lose momentum. In this episode of The Leader’s…
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Decision Fatigue: How Leaders Stop Getting Stuck – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
Decision fatigue is not a willpower problem. It is a leadership systems problem. If you are making decisions all day, the quality drops, the speed drops, and eventually you start avoiding decisions altogether. That is when teams stall, priorities blur, and you feel “behind” no matter how hard you...
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Belonging Isn’t a Perk — Dr. Roz Cohen on Connection, Inclusion, and Engagement
Ping pong tables don’t create connection. Perks don’t replace feeling seen. And “culture” doesn’t happen by accident—especially in a hybrid workforce. In this episode of The Leader’s Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Rosalind Cohen (Dr. Roz) — Founder & President of Socius Strategies, Chief...
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How to Give Feedback Without Starting a Fight
Feedback does not fail because people are too sensitive. It fails because leaders make it personal, unclear, or overwhelming. If you lead people, you will have to correct something—missed expectations, messy communication, disrespect in a meeting, or habits that quietly drag the team down. The...
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Burn the Old Rules, Lead from Within – Chet Hirani Talks Building Trust and Decision Making
Most leaders are “doing it the way we’ve always done it” — and wondering why performance, trust, and momentum stall. In this episode of The Leader’s Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Chet Hirani — international speaker, executive coach, podcast host, and bestselling author of Burn The Rules…
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Leading Through Uncertainty - Leadership Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Silence creates stories. And in uncertainty, the stories are usually worse than the truth. If you lead people, you will have moments where you don’t know yet—numbers are moving, priorities are shifting, the plan is still forming. The mistake is thinking you have two options: pretend you have the...
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The Leader’s Mindset is a leadership strategy podcast for executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to think clearly, act decisively, and build high-performing teams. Hosted by Jason LeDuc, a former U.S. Air Force officer and leadership strategist, the show blends powerful interviews with practical Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) you can apply immediately. If you’re responsible for results and developing the leaders behind you, this show equips you to lead with clarity and confidence.
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