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Uncommon Impact
by Nathan Whitaker
Uncommon Impact is a leadership podcast hosted by Nathan Whitaker—speaker, author, and Super Bowl–winning former NFL executive. The show features thoughtful conversations with leaders from sports, education, business, and media, exploring how teams are built, how values are tested, and how leaders create lasting impact. Each episode focuses on leadership, culture, decision-making under pressure, and living with purpose.
Episodes
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Nathan Whitaker: 5 Things Good Leaders Stop Doing
Good leadership isn’t only about what we learn to do. Sometimes it’s about what we learn to stop doing. In this solo episode, Nathan shares five habits good leaders should leave behind: making leadership about themselves, solving every problem, leading from a distance, reacting too quickly, and...
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Kris Carter: From Harvard Law to Africa | Faith, Failure & Meaningful Work
Kris Carter’s career has rarely followed a straight line. Since graduating from Harvard Law School, he has worked in law, technology, music, microfinance, entrepreneurship, manufacturing in Africa, and venture capital. But behind those career pivots is a deeper story about identity, faith, risk,...
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Jim McKenzie: Leading Change, Casting Vision & Inspiring Hope
How do you lead people through change without losing them along the way? Jim McKenzie spent 24 years in education, including more than two decades in leadership, before stepping away from a job he loved without knowing exactly what would come next. Today, he serves schools and leaders as a...
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Nathan Whitaker: Own Your Role
What’s the difference between accepting your role and owning it? Nathan shares the unusual story behind The Soul of a Team—a book that began with a rejected 60,000-word manuscript and had to be completely reinvented—and then explores one of its central principles: Own Your Role. Through the story...
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Andy Janning: Great Stories Aren't Safe
What makes a story worth telling — and a life worth living? Andy Janning has spent decades helping organizations and leaders tell better stories. But his own story has increasingly pushed him toward work that is anything but safe. In this episode of Uncommon Impact, Andy joins Nathan Whitaker to...
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Chris Archer: More Than the Player
Former MLB All-Star Chris Archer spent 17 years in professional baseball, including 10 seasons in the major leagues. Today, as a Special Assistant with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he's using those experiences to help develop the next generation of players. In this episode of Uncommon Impact, Chris...
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Nathan Whitaker: Success vs. Significance: What Are We Really Chasing?
What does it really mean to make an uncommon impact? Years ago, Tony Dungy’s college football coach Cal Stoll told him, “Success is uncommon.” That idea eventually helped inspire our book Uncommon—and, years later, the name of this podcast. But being uncommon isn’t simply about achieving uncommon...
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Larry Shyatt: Why Great Followers Matter
What makes a great follower? And why might developing great followers matter just as much as developing great leaders? Larry Shyatt has spent more than four decades in basketball as a head coach, assistant coach and mentor. Along the way, he served as an assistant to three Hall of Fame-caliber...
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Tansley Stearns: Purpose, Courage, and the Story Behind Choose the Bear
Tansley Stearns, president and CEO of orsa credit union, joins Nathan Whitaker for a conversation about purpose, courage, financial agency, and the responsibility of leaders to expand what their organizations believe is possible. Tansley shares how orsa’s work with survivors of domestic and...
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Nathan Whitaker: What Uncommon Leadership Looks Like
What does culture actually look like in the everyday life of an organization? In this solo episode of Uncommon Impact, Nathan Whitaker reflects on lessons from the podcast’s first four guests and explores two themes that surfaced repeatedly: culture and connection. Drawing from experiences in...
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Samir Suleiman: Tough, Fair, and Built to Last
What does strong leadership look like when the pressure is high, the personalities are difficult, and every decision affects the entire organization? Samir Suleiman spent more than two decades in the NFL with the Jacksonville Jaguars, St. Louis Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Carolina Panthers....
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Matt Rom: Leadership That Lasts - Authenticity, Purpose, and People
What does it mean to build something that lasts beyond your career? In this episode of Uncommon Impact, University of Oklahoma Associate Vice President Matt Rom shares lessons on authentic leadership, creating meaningful workplace cultures, navigating change, and investing in people. Although he...
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Kent Maxson: Leadership, Culture, and Education-Based Athletics
What is the real purpose of sports? In this episode of Uncommon Impact, Nathan Whitaker sits down with Kent Maxson, Athletics Coordinator at the American School Foundation in Mexico City, to discuss leadership, culture, and why athletics should develop people—not just produce victories. Drawing...
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Donnie Jones: Leadership, Relationships, and Winning Teams
What makes a leader worth following? In this episode of Uncommon Impact, Nathan Whitaker sits down with longtime friend Donnie Jones, head basketball coach at Stetson University and former University of Florida assistant coach during the Gators' back-to-back national championship seasons. Donnie...
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Why Uncommon Impact?
Why Uncommon Impact? Why do some people leave those around them better than they found them? Welcome to Uncommon Impact. In this introductory episode, Nathan Whitaker shares the vision behind the podcast and why he believes the most meaningful conversations aren't just about success—they're about...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Uncommon Impact is a leadership podcast hosted by Nathan Whitaker—speaker, author, and Super Bowl–winning former NFL executive.
The show features thoughtful conversations with leaders from sports, education, business, and media, exploring how teams are built, how values are tested, and how leaders create lasting impact.
Each episode focuses on leadership, culture, decision-making under pressure, and living with purpose.
HOSTED BY
Nathan Whitaker
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Uncommon Impact is a leadership podcast hosted by Nathan Whitaker—speaker, author, and Super Bowl–winning former NFL executive. The show features thoughtful conversations with leaders from sports, education, business, and media, exploring how teams are built, how values are tested, and how leaders...
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