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Fifteen years ago, Foster Mobley tried to trademark the title of his first book, Leadershit. The trademark office said no. Too profane. Within a few years, bookshelves were full of F-bombs, and Leadershit: Rethinking the True Path to Great Leading suddenly looked downright polite. For the book&apos…

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Stephen "Shed" Shedletzky is an author, keynote speaker, and leadership expert who's spent over a decade helping leaders do the one thing most get backward: creating a culture where people actually want to speak up. After serving as chief of staff to Simon Sinek, he authored Speak Up…
David Betts carries a contradiction most leaders never reconcile: he's living with a degenerative disease that attacks speech and movement, and he spends his days building technology so people with that same disease can tell stories. His career path makes unexpected sense once you know it. He …
David Betts spent 22 years building teams at Deloitte, scaling their public health practice from one state to 20 during a pandemic, and getting very, very good at solving other people's problems. He's the kind of leader who walks into chaos and thinks: what's actually needed here? Th…
Wisdom isn't the opposite of speed. It's what comes after. Everyone's panicking about AI. Either you're adopting it or you're getting left behind. Speed or irrelevance. That's the choice, right? Wrong. Foster sits down with Jana Devan to talk about what's actually…
A 38-year-old conductor asks a single question that changes everything: "What would it sound like if we didn't shy away from that high note?" Norman Huynh, Music Director of the Bozeman Symphony, doesn't lead like most people. He asks more than he tells. He builds competence and…
Marycay Durrant doesn't believe in the traditional leadership playbook. She's a vibrancy architect who works with some of the world's most successful companies—Pepsi, Deloitte, PayPal, Children's Hospital Los Angeles—to help leaders discover something they've been missing t…
A kid with asthma and allergies growing up in Saint Louis is not the profile you'd guess for someone who ends up standing on the summit of Everest six times. Luis Benitez did exactly that, and along the way became the guide who led Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber, to the top of the w…
Half of all CEOs say they feel lonely in their role. Sixty-one percent say it actively hurts their performance. So why don't more leaders talk about it? In this episode, Foster sits down across the table for an unusually candid conversation about his own experience with loneliness, the moment …
Benjamin Smith was a high school quarterback who could hit every throw in practice and none of them under pressure. That gap between what he could do alone and what he could do with everyone watching became the question that's driven his entire career: where does steady confidence actually com…
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