See me on Rise to the Occasion with Chelsea Behrens

Chelsea Behrens created a community on Corporate Career Courage: how to be a catalyst for change, a champion for diversity, and thrive as a leader.

She interviewed me and posted the video. We covered a range of leadership topics and stories. She went from having done no burpees to 66 days in a row and counting!

Watch the video

Show notes

Interview with Joshua Spodek

Josh Spodek is a leader in action! His action motivated me into doing a challenging exercise—10 burpees every day for 66 days.Â

In this interview, learn how doing burpees has helped Josh as a leader, how taking action changes behavior and helps you learn, and why the most impactful leaders honor the people theyâ€™re leading through understanding their emotions.

Josh is committed to doing transformative work by helping leaders on his award-winning podcast, Leadership and the Environment, create an environmental legacy. He challenges accomplished leaders to follow-through on acts for the environment and follows up with them in a subsequent episode to share what they learned.

Watch the video

Key Takeaways:

Leadership is â€œhelping someone do what they havenâ€™t yet figured out what to do.â€
Shifting from following instructions to taking initiative
Personal leadership and developing skills to become a leader
How Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA) helps with leadership development
How taking action changes behavior and helps with learning
Joshâ€™s transparent experience preparing for TEDx
How feedforward, instead of feedback, can change your life
How a leader honors the people theyâ€™re leading through understanding emotions and motivation
Stories, images, beliefs, listening, and questioning are more powerful in leadership than argument and debate

Episode Resources:

Watch the video

Read my weekly newsletter

On initiative, leadership, the environment, and burpees