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Escape the CEO Doom Loop is built for CEOs and leadership teams ready to grow. Each episode delivers practical insights, real-world stories, and tools you can use today to lead with clarity and scale with confidence. We spotlight what’s working—and what’s not—for leaders navigating growth, building culture, and driving accountability.
It’s more than a podcast—it’s a gateway to The CEO Playbook and the next step in becoming the leader your business needs next.
Update frequency:
every 17 days
Average audio length:
47 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
30 episodes
since April 29, 2025
episodic
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When Ken Misiewicz was asked to run Pleune Service Company, he told the founder he needed ten years to get ready. The founder asked if next Tuesday worked.
Then the recession hit, the bank pulled financing, and Ken says he didn’t sleep for three years. What he learned in the 17 years since is that …
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Nathan Austin has broken through four or five plateaus in twenty-six years of building Mytech Partners. Not one of them did he see coming, and not one of them did he solve alone.
An acquisition that pushed change faster than the business could absorb. Four equal partners dividing up a company that …
Dan Larsen took a CEO title he had always wanted, then spent a year learning it was the wrong seat for who he is. He came out of it with a coach, an honest look at what he is actually good at, and a rule he now builds everything around. Point the strategy the right way, then get the right people in…
Some of the people who built your company are not the people who scale it. That's the call growth-stage CEOs put off longest, because the person in question worked hard and got you here.
Pete Wolf bought Robinson Rubber Products, wrote the letter of intent before he'd even left his old jo…
Mike Amine walked away from a corner office, a 26-year run, and a guaranteed paycheck at MetLife to start over from zero at almost 50. No marketing department, no compliance department, no built-in resources. Just a leap of faith and his wife Marcy.
Ten years later he built Wealth Strategies Financ…
Most CEOs become successful by being excellent operators.
Then growth demands a different job.
You have to stop solving every problem yourself and focus on the work only the CEO can do.
In this conversation, Keith Nichol shares how he made that shift as he built Carrera Capital Advisors, why accoun…
Troy Schroeder built Clutch from a couple of people to just shy of 60, doubling the business several times in nine years. He was also the firm's best salesperson. Which made him, in his words, the thing standing in the way.
In this conversation, Troy sits down with Glen Dall and John Ninkovich…
A lot of companies say they care about leadership, then lower the standard when it is time to choose.
Barry Conchie does not do that.
This conversation gets into what leadership actually predicts, why most teams are built too safely, and why succession planning begins much earlier than most CEOs th…
A lot of CEOs think they have a growth problem.
What they really have is a leadership problem.
David Sokol shares what changed in his business when he stopped being the center of everything, invested in senior leadership, and treated culture like operating infrastructure, not soft stuff.
A few line…
Most CEOs think they have a culture problem. Michael Reddington says it's a conversation problem.
Michael is a certified forensic interviewer, president of Quaive, and author of The Disciplined Listening Method. He spent a decade with Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates training law enforcement…
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