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Have you ever been around something—or someone—for so long that you stop truly seeing its value? In this thought-provoking episode, we explore how easily familiarity can turn into taking things for granted. From relationships to responsibilities, we unpack how this mindset quietly shapes our everyday lives—especially our leadership. When gratitude fades, ingratitude can take its place, often without us realizing it. This conversation challenges us to pause, reflect, and intentionally rediscover appreciation, because taking people or opportunities for granted is the last thing we want to do in our life and leadership.  These episodes are recorded while rolling down the highway, taking advantage of some windshield time. Raw, real, and rolling at 70mph [or so]. Conversations straight from the highway with road noise and real talk. Buckle up for current thoughts, real insights, and the kind of content you didn’t know you needed.

In this Road Session episode, we dive headfirst into the wonderfully annoying world of frustration—you know, that feeling when your plans fall apart, your Wi-Fi quits on you, or life just says “you're going to be stuck for awhile!” But instead of letting those moments send us into a spiral, we’re flipping the script. We explore how frustration can actually be fuel for creativity, clarity, and purposeful action. If you’ve ever yelled “WHY?!” at anything in life, this episode is your new inspiration.

Crisis has a funny way of flipping the table on life as we know it. Suddenly, the rules change and everything around us changes, including our context. In this last episode of a four-part series, we talk about what happens when things fall apart and how to roll with it, grow from it, and maybe even laugh through it. Because when the world shifts, we’ve got two choices: morph or dwarf. Let’s choose morph.

In this episode, we turn life’s messes into launchpads. Crisis isn’t the end—it’s the upgrade. What if the moments that feel like everything's falling apart are actually the exact points where something new can begin? Let's explore how to reframe crisis—not as failure or disaster, but as raw material for growth, clarity, and transformation. 

Road Sessions — These episodes are recorded while rolling down the highway, taking advantage of some windshield time. Raw, real, and rolling at 70mph [or so]. Conversations straight from the highway with road noise and real talk. Buckle up for current thoughts, real insights, and the kind of content you didn’t know you needed.   In this first Road Session episode, we're talking intentionality—because great leadership doesn’t happen by accident. Listen as we explore how purposeful intentions, clear beliefs, and a little less autopilot can change the way you lead. Be ready to answer the three big questions every leaders needs to explore.

What if your worst moment is actually your biggest breakthrough in disguise? In this episode, we flip the script on crisis and show you how to squeeze meaning, momentum, and maybe even a little magic out of the mess. Because if you're in it… you might as well grow from it. Join us as we continue our conversation on navigating crisis.

Join us for a real, relatable, and surprisingly fun dive into how to stay grounded, lead well, and keep your cool when everything feels upside down. Expect mindset tools, practical steps, and maybe a laugh or two—because even in chaos, we can shine. Guess what? The storm isn't the end; it's just the middle.

We kicked off a three-episode series chatting about qualities that effective leaders practice. Some do it intentionally and some do it because it is just simply who they are. The interesting thing is that when I ask people to tell me about their favorite leader or about great leadership qualities, they never use these three words. But, everything they tell me falls under one of these three categories. 

This month we continue our conversation about measure probabilities. Last month we talked about what can damage your leadership, and this month we turn the attention to what can build your leadership. We are going to chat about “measurable probabilities” as it relates to your leadership. Do you want to grow your influence? 

There are certain things that we do in our leadership that can bring certain results. In other words, if you do abc, then xyz is probably going to happen. And, while we may not understand how it happens, it will happen. We are going to chat about what some of those “measurable probabilities” are as it relates to your leadership. 

Most people spend more time, effort, energy, and money trying to improve their golf game and hobbies than they do their leadership!  Sometimes we just don’t know where our leadership needs to improve or shift. In this episode we continue our conversation about those things that need to always improve. When they don’t, we can do unintentional damage.   Be sure to check out last month’s Budge on Apple, Google Play or Spotify. Listen as we touch on the first of three things that need to always shift. 

Most people spend more time, effort, energy, and money trying to improve their golf game than they do their leadership! Sometimes we just don’t know where our leadership needs to improve or shift. In this episode, we will uncover some areas that need to continually shift. When they don’t, we do unintentional damage. Hence, the leadership shift. [Don’t try to say it out loud too fast!]

We all have a middle blank issue. If [blank] would [blank] then [blank]! We are going to revisit this issue and do a deep dive into what we can do to move beyond. There are some below the surface factors that we have to be aware of and pay attention to in our leadership, teams and relationships that are direct results of our middle blank issues not being resolved. Let’s resolve them! 

So many leaders have commented on how tough is has been leading people in the workplace the last two years. Truth is, it has probably been tough all along, but the last two years have intensified everything. This is largely because of the commitment issue we are experiencing. So, how do we lead when others seem to be so uncommitted? How do we inspire commitment? What keeps people [and us] from being committed? 

So many leaders have commented on how tough is has been leading people in the workplace the last two years. Truth is, it has probably been tough all along, but the last two years have intensified everything. This is largely because of the commitment issue we are experiencing. So, how do we lead when others seem to be so uncommitted? How do we inspire commitment? What keeps people [and us] from being committed?