89: Cal Walters — Reflections on 3 Years of Podcasting, Setbacks, and Self-Leadership

May 25, 2022 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living, Leadership

We're celebrating 3 years of podcasting!

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Today I get the mic flipped on me by my good friend Wes Cochrane. Wes joined me on Episode 84 when we interviewed his brother, Graham Cochrane, and as you’ll hear during this conversation, Wes was part of the reason I started this show in the first place.

So why am I doing this unique format today? Well, three main reasons.

First, I’ve had many of you ask when I was going to get behind the mic like I did the first 20+ episodes and share what I’ve been learning.

Second, this is a natural point of transition for me as my family and I are packing up to move in the next month and I’ll be changing jobs. It’s a natural moment of reflection.

And, third, we’re approaching the 3 year anniversary of this podcast starting, and it seemed appropriate to take a moment to celebrate and discuss highlights from the past 3 years.

On this episode, I get a bit vulnerable about some of my struggles over the past few years, some key lessons I’ve learned interviewing 65 or so leaders from all walks of life, I try to define what self-leadership means to me and how it’s different than self-help, I answer some listener questions at the end, and much more. I hope you enjoy this. Let me know what you think please! And whether you want more episodes in this format.

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88: Gino Wickman — How to Find Out if You’re an Entrepreneur, Create a Personal Vision, and Get Over Rejection

May 12, 2022 by Cal Walters in Courageous Leadership, Leadership, Intentional Living

I'm really excited to have Gino Wickman on the show today!

An entrepreneur since the age of 21, Gino has had an obsession for learning what makes businesses and entrepreneurs thrive.

At 25 he took over the family business, which was deeply in debt and in need of help. After turning the company around and running it for seven years, he and his partners successfully sold the company.

Gino then set out to help entrepreneurs and leaders get what they want from their businesses. Based on his years of real-world experience, he created the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), a practical method for helping companies achieve greatness. He has personally delivered more than 1,900 full-day sessions for more than 135 companies, helping them implement EOS. He is also the author of the award-winning, best-selling book Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, which has sold over 1 million copies, as well as five other books in the Traction Library that have sold almost 2 million copies. Gino is the founder of EOS Worldwide, an organization that helps tens of thousands of businesses implement EOS with the aid of an international team of over 450 professional and certified EOS Implementers and online support. There are over 130,000 companies using the EOS tools worldwide.

Gino is now devoting time and energy toward helping entrepreneurs-in-the-making get a huge jump-start on taking their entrepreneurial leap, which is why he created Entrepreneurial Leap. The mission of Entrepreneurial Leap is to find all of the entrepreneurs-in-the-making, at any age, wherever they are—to help them realize their purpose and live the life they were born to live.

Entrepreneurial Leap: Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur?

By Wickman, Gino

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Subscribe to the Entrepreneurial Leap YouTube Channel

Other items discussed during the interview:

10 Lessons Gino Learned from His Dad

10 Disciplines to Maximize Your Energy

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87: Whitney Johnson — The Benefits of Disrupting Yourself and Smart Growth

April 30, 2022 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living, Leadership

I want to publicly thank Ryan Gottfredson, a previous guest on this show, for introducing me to Whitney Johnson. I really think you will enjoy this interview. If you’re someone who feels a bit stagnant or like you’re coasting in this season of life, this conversation may inspire you to deliberately grow and find greater fulfillment.

Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America (2020). One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Whitney has worked at FORTUNE 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. She co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith, selected by Goldsmith in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach.

An award-winning author, Johnson teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. She is a LinkedIn Top Voice (2020) with 1.8 million followers. Her course Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times.

An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Author of the bestselling Build an A Team (a Financial Times Book of the Month), Disrupt Yourself (fittingly described by Publisher’s Weekly as “Savvy . . . often counterintuitive . . . superb”), and Smart Growth. She hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast with guests including Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and General Stanley McChrystal.

Whitney was co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen. Her role included fund formation, strategy, and capital raising. They invested and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea’s Coupang ecommerce platform, currently valued at $50 billion.

Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve

By Whitney Johnson

Disrupt Yourself, With a New Introduction: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve

By Johnson, Whitney

Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company

By Johnson, Whitney

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86: Chris Fussell — Leading Out of a Crisis, Navy SEAL Training, and Advice for New Leaders

April 15, 2022 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living, Leadership

Chris Fussell is the President of McChrystal Group, a leadership consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia and London, England. He became President in 2018 after joining the firm as Partner in 2012. He left the US Navy in 2012 after serving 15-years as a Navy SEAL Officer.

Chris is the author of 2017 WSJ Best Seller "One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams", and co-author of 2015 NYT Best Seller "Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World". He is a Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, a Senior Fellow at New America, a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the board of trustees with the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation.

Chris co-hosts the weekly podcast "No Turning Back" with Stan McChrystal where they interview the world's most consequential leaders.

I mentioned this episode of the Craig Groeschel Leadership podcast about Leading Out of a Crisis.

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

By McChrystal, Gen. Stanley, Collins, Tantum, Silverman, David, Fussell, Chris

One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams

By Fussell, Chris, Goodyear, C. W.

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85: Dr. Tim Elmore — On Generational Diversity & The 8 Paradoxes of Great Leadership

April 01, 2022 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living, Leadership

Dr. Tim Elmore is founder and CEO of Growing Leaders (www.growingleaders.com), an Atlanta‐based non‐profit organization created to develop emerging leaders. Since founding Growing Leaders in 2003, Elmore has spoken to over 500,000 leaders in businesses, universities, athletic teams and non-profit organizations, including The Home Depot, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, American Eagle and Chick-Fil-A as well as the San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Ohio State University, Stanford University and the University of Alabama athletics.

His work grew out of twenty years serving alongside Dr. John C. Maxwell where he focused on leadership for the emerging generations. Elmore has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, Psychology Today and he’s been featured on CNN’s Headline News and Fox and Friends to talk about leading multiple generations in the marketplace.

Tim was listed in the top 100 leadership speakers in America by Inc. magazine. He has written more than 35 books, including the best-selling Habitudes: Images That Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes. Tim and his wife, Pam, have two adult children, Bethany and Jonathan. He and Pam live outside of Atlanta. You can also find his work at: TimElmore.com

I learned a ton from this conversation. We talk about generational diversity and what each generation brings to the table and how us as leaders can lead well by harnessing these difference. So whether you’re a Baby Booomer, Baby Buster, Millennial, Gen Z, or don’t even know what generation you fit into, this episode has something for you. We also dive into mentoring, some great stories about John Maxwell, and his new book, The 8 Paradoxes of Great Leadership.

The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace

By Elmore, Tim