If you’re here for leadership, especially personal leadership, you’re going to hear about one of the most important things you can do to improve. What Joel talks about and how he lives are how you develop skills people think you can’t learn, such as integrity, discipline, and resilience. You can, but you have to act—specifically to challenge yourself, not just passively read about or watch. We talk about cold showers,[…] Keep reading →

Joel Runyon is an athlete and entrepreneur. He has influenced me as much as nearly anyone through sharing his pursuit of his potential, which resulted, in me, in my sidcha practices and concept. In his words I travel the world, run ultra marathons, and build businesses. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. He is the founder of IMPOSSIBLE – a company dedicated to helping people push their limits[…] Keep reading →

For anyone who listened to Emily’s first conversation thought, “Oh, turning off a computer at night that’s not really that hard.” Having launched a book, it’s a very hard time. It’s extremely stressful. It’s not easy. She still did it. So you’ll hear, despite Emily’s defining environmental differently than I expected her experience was remarkably similar. I think if you’re listening to this in order to take on challenges yourself,[…] Keep reading →

Daniel and I had an unscripted, unguarded, very vulnerable conversation. It’s not often that two men on an Internet chat that tears well up and people get choked up. He actually ended up posting this interview on his podcast because of the rawness of the emotion that came up and so look at the notes for this podcast to get the links to his podcast to listen to that. This[…] Keep reading →

Welcome to my second conversation with Judith Glaser. This conversation was more challenging for me because we never got to talking about what I consider the environment. I’m including it to give an alternative perspective, well, mainly because I enjoyed talking to Judith so much but most of all to learn others perspectives because there’s a view that I have but I don’t consider leadership to involve telling others what[…] Keep reading →

  If you’re thinking about taking on a personal challenge and you’re thinking twice about doing it because you might fail or you might not be able to live up to it, listen to Jim’s story. His whole story of his life is about failing and responding by developing resilience and being able to figure out ways to keep going. Everyone can learn from him. I certainly can. I certainly[…] Keep reading →

With the Rocky movie franchise overdone, it feels hard to imagine the original when it came out. Neither the movie nor Sylvester Stallone were institutions. I grew up in Philadelphia and I remember some of its popularity, certainly for Rocky II. It was nominated for 9 Oscars and won 3. If the Rocky movies are about anything, they’re about a man finding within himself the discipline and motivation to achieve[…] Keep reading →