Candidate text to go on on the landing page: joshuaspodek.com. It’s shorter than version 1, but less detail.
If you smoke or gamble, it’s hard to help others stop.
You haven’t felt or overcome the emotional and social challenges.
Stopping alone—that is, “leading by example”—doesn’t motivate others, nor does lecturing facts, numbers, ten little things, or even answering “what’s one thing someone can do today.”
Changing deep-rooted behavior and culture is possible, even deeply rewarding, but it requires long-term, deep work, including listening, empathy, understanding others, persistence, firm resolve, accountability, and other hard parts of leadership.
That’s what I do. I apply leadership to our culture to stop it from rewarding behaviors that pollute and deplete.
Yes, I avoid polluting and depleting, but that’s not leadership. It shows what’s possible. It enables a vision and mission. Without it, I would lack credibility and integrity. It’s necessary hands-on practical experience that enables leadership.
I practice and deliver hands-on practical leadership to address our culture’s greatest problems in ways that are effective, rewarding, and fun.
