Mid-week Ep 137: Mounica Veggelam & Brian Piper
Release Date: 04/23/2025
Ep 388: From the Vault Ep 151 — The Impact You Can't Get Present To
The Transformational Leader
In this episode, the focus will be on the Impact You Can’t Get Present To as a leader. It is a discussion along with how your blindspots work and expanding your range as a leader. Also in this episode are these discussion points: What does the phrase the Impact You Can’t Get Present To means?, What blindspots mean, what it does, and ways to get feedback, the distinction between leadership and therapy, your familiar and unfamiliar zone of leadership, managing and providing feedback as a leader and keeping your ego safe, and sitting with the impact. Also, listeners are invited to join the...
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The Transformational Leader – My Journey: Part 1
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam kicks off a multi-part origin series tracing his path up to choosing coaching - an honest, unvarnished look at how a bright, passionate, open-hearted kid learned to dial down his own light. He explores the meanings he made from early structure and playground bruises, how “trauma” often lives in the stories we create about events, and the survival strategies that followed: hypervigilance, perfectionism, chameleon-like charm, overtalking to avoid intimacy, and numbing to feel creative or safe. Rather than the familiar arc of “it...
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Ep 387: Resistance and Leadership
The Transformational Leader
We all say we want to lead better, but the moment real growth asks something of us, resistance kicks in. In this episode, Adam Quiney breaks down how resistance hides in our need for comfort, authenticity, and staying in control. Leadership only develops when we lean into the very things we avoid. Listen and enjoy!
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Ep 386: The Three Levels of Leadership and Your Projects
The Transformational Leader
There are three levels of leadership through the lens of your projects. Every leader has projects, but not all projects create transformation. Some are driven by fear and urgency, others by comfort and control. Real growth begins when you choose projects that demand transformation, not just effort.
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Ep 385 : The Ontology of Leadership Memes
The Transformational Leader
Leadership wisdom spreads fast, but not all of it goes deep. Scroll through LinkedIn and you’ll find endless “leadership memes” that sound inspiring at first glance, yet often oversimplify what it really means to lead. They make leadership look easy, but few of them invite us to look deeper, at who we are being underneath all the doing.
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Mid-week Ep 148: Sakeb Nazim
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s midweek episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam is joined by longtime friend and fellow law-school graduate, Sakeb Nazim, for a rich exploration at the intersection of law, leadership, and spiritual growth. Together they dive into the deeper philosophies behind our legal system - including the moral tension of “innocent until proven guilty,” the emotional impact of practicing within a structure built on judgment and protection, and how the profession shapes the heart over time - before widening the conversation into plant medicine, spirituality, and the internal...
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Ep 384: Exposing the Gnarly
The Transformational Leader
Leadership is more than insight and inspiration; it's about embracing the messy, uncomfortable, deeply human parts we often want to hide. Every leader has their own "gnarly stuff"—the judgments, insecurities, and reactions that don't fit neatly into a lesson or success story.
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Mid-week Ep 147: Adam Quiney
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s live episode, join Adam Quiney for a grounded yet expansive conversation on leadership, completion, and taking aligned action. Adam explores the energetic nuances of transforming your life and work — including how youth intersects with transformation, the pitfalls of premature independence, and what it really looks like to complete powerfully with your coach. Adam also dives into real-time leadership - working with the energy in the room rather than forcing outcomes, and the practical (and often uncomfortable) steps required to truly move a project forward instead of...
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Ep. 383: The Possibility of Taking On Your Work
The Transformational Leader
True transformation starts when you’re willing to be seen. Many people try to do the work through books, podcasts, or private reflection. These are safe spaces where vulnerability is optional. Real growth doesn’t happen in isolation. It begins when you step into a relationship, risk being witnessed, and allow yourself to be known exactly as you are.
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Ep 382: The Art of Learning
The Transformational Leader
Learning isn’t about getting faster; it's about getting deeper. In our rush to master new skills or achieve transformation, we often turn learning into another race against time. But true growth doesn’t come from speed; it comes from surrender, patience, and staying present through the discomfort of not knowing.
info_outlineOn this week’s mid-week episode, Adam Quiney hosts a Live Coaching and Feedback Demonstration with Mounica Veggelam and her client, Brian Piper.