ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The CEO Shift is a leadership podcast for CEOs, agency owners, and founders ready to think differently about how they lead, grow, and scale.
Hosted by Shawndel Spader of Spader Group, each episode features real conversations with experienced CEOs, authors, and industry experts who share the mindset shifts that helped them move from reactive to intentional leadership.
This is not about doing more. It is about leading better.
From decision-making and team development to profitability, systems, and mindset, The CEO Shift explores what it actually takes to build a business that works for you, not because of you.
If you are ready to stop spinning your wheels and start leading with clarity, confidence, and purpose, this podcast is for you.
Follow The CEO Shift on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hosted by Shawndel Spader of Spader Group, each episode features real conversations with experienced CEOs, authors, and industry experts who share the mindset shifts that helped them move from reactive to intentional leadership.
This is not about doing more. It is about leading better.
From decision-making and team development to profitability, systems, and mindset, The CEO Shift explores what it actually takes to build a business that works for you, not because of you.
If you are ready to stop spinning your wheels and start leading with clarity, confidence, and purpose, this podcast is for you.
Follow The CEO Shift on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
22 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
34 episodes
since April 28, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What does it look like to lead yourself first? Kim Hanson, CEO of LearningRx, joins Shawndel Spader to talk about taking the reins of the global brain training company her father founded, and what she had to learn about the CEO role, and about herself, along the way.
Kim explains what brain traini…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
What if the suffering you feel as a CEO is not a sign that you are failing, but a sign that your business is trying to help you heal? In this episode of The CEO Shift, Shawndel Spader talks with Sarah Stokes, founder of The Juicy Good Life, Business Joy Coach for the over-giver, and author of Worth…
About 80% of businesses fail, and David Guttman will tell you it is almost never the market that killed them, it is leadership.
David has spent a 35 year career building, scaling, and exiting 8 and 9 figure companies. He has bought and sold 15 businesses, raised more than $25 million across fintec…
Most CEOs have a dashboard full of warning lights they have learned to drive right past. In this episode of The CEO Shift, Shawndel Spader talks with Kashonna Marrow, President and CEO of Simply Kashonna LLC, about authenticity, rest, and the vision you were never meant to carry alone.
Kashonna is…
What if the most expensive thing in your business is the decision you keep putting off?
In this episode of The CEO Shift, Shawndel Spader talks with Jess Haney, Partner and COO of Kismet Marketing, about decisive leadership and the shift every growing CEO eventually faces: learning to let go.
Jes…
Growth rarely stalls because a CEO stopped working hard. It stalls because everything still lives in one person's head. Shawndel Spader sits down with Angela Dee, founder and CEO of Ascend Strategic Advisory, to unpack why clarity, not effort, is the real engine of scale.
With more than 20 years i…
What if your core values aren't a poster on the wall, but the immutable DNA of your company?
In this episode of The CEO Shift, Shawndel Spader talks with Marc Robertz-Schwartz, President of RTU Solutions and author of The RED APPLES Way, about why the word "core" is the part most CEOs skip.
Marc …
If nobody notices you in a networking room, you are not in the wrong. You are just in the wrong room. Angela Obert opens with that reframe and does not let up.
Shawndel Spader sits down with Angela Obert, Franchise Owner and Community Facilitator of Network In Action Minnesota, a curated, trust-fi…
What happens when someone tells you that you will never be a CEO? On this episode of The CEO Shift, host Shawndel Spader sits down with Henry DeVries to explore the mindset shifts, strategies, and leadership lessons that move CEOs from operator to visionary. About Henry DeVries: Henry DeVries is th…
The amount of time you have been in business has nothing to do with how sophisticated your operations are.
On this episode of The CEO Shift, Shawndel Spader talks with Pamela Slim, award-winning author and CEO of the Pamela Slim Agency, about scaling a business through productized IP.
Pam has spe…
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