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It’s been a few months since I landed in South Africa. It’s been an exciting and tumultuous time for me. Transitions can be quite stressful, and taking on one that involves uprooting to a completely new continent and culture has been no exception.

Not only was I excited to explore a new place and new culture, but I was running my business, gathering information to start a non-profit in a foreign environment, maintaining healthy exercise and workout...

Robin is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer, facilitator, and retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin has taken his life's work of recruiting spies and broken down the art of leadership, communication, and relationship building into his newest book Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction. In this episode, we discuss the mechanisms behind building trust, what it takes to be...

David Burkus is a best-selling author, a sought after keynote speaker, and former business school professor. His newest book, Pick a Fight, argues that what a team is fighting for is a powerful and potent driver of performance and collaboration, but not just any fight will do. He’s delivered keynotes to the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, his TED talk has been viewed over 2 million times and his writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday,...

Grant Baldwin is a speaker, podcaster, author, entrepreneur. He is the creator of the popular podcast The Speaker Lab and the online course Booked and Paid to Speak, through which he has trained more than two thousand speakers. He is also the author of the book The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform. In this episode, we discuss what makes a great public speaker, how to handle curveballs while speaking, what it takes to make it as a...

Michael Bungay Stanier is at the forefront of shaping how organizations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership behavior and competency. His book The Coaching Habit is a best-selling coaching book with over 700,000 copies sold, and he is the author of his newest book The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever.

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Christine Carter, Ph.D., is a sociologist and the author of The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction (2020), The Sweet Spot: How to Accomplish More by Doing Less (2017) and Raising Happiness (2011). A senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, Carter draws on the latest scientific research in psychology, sociology and neuroscience — and uses her own often hilarious real-world experiences — to give...

Dealing with emotions when we’re trying to get to the bottom of things can be very tricky. Feelings tend to get in the way, and few of us know what to do with them whether they are our own or others’.

In this episode, I share with you a personal example of this happening to me recently. Not only did feelings get in the way of problem-solving, but I actually handled the situation very poorly. Fortunately, that gives us an opportunity to take a look at how I went wrong, and what we...

David Marquet, a top graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, commanded the nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe from 1999 to 2001, transforming it from the worst-performing submarine in its fleet to the best. Since retiring from the Navy, Marquet has worked with businesses nationwide as a leadership consultant. He is the founder of Intent-Based leadership and author of the best-selling Turn the Ship Around and his newest book, Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You...

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A friend of mine is having issues with someone in his building. As the president of his condo board, he interacts with a wide variety of personalities. One woman, in particular, had been making demands of him, yelling and "berating" him to do something she wanted.

"No, absolutely not. I will not be doing what she wants. Especially in the way she is asking," he tells me.

And how could you blame him? How inclined would you feel to do something where the...