Ep 380: The One Where Adam Tears Apart a Leadership Post
Release Date: 10/13/2025
Ep 393: Why Relief Isn't the Same as Freedom
The Transformational Leader
Relief can make life feel calmer, but it isn’t the same as freedom. When the anxiety settles, the overwhelm quiets, and life becomes more manageable, it’s easy to assume the work is done. But relief often comes from pulling back, managing ourselves, and staying within safer edges, reducing pain without expanding who we are.
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Mid-week Ep 150: Sébastien Page
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s mid-week episode, Adam Quiney is joined by special guest Sébastien Page for a live conversation exploring leadership from the inside out. Sebastian brings a background in finance, investing, and leadership philosophy, and together they dig into topics ranging from sports psychology and mindset to what our assumptions about human beings reveal about how we lead. The conversation is curious, candid, and occasionally provocative, with Sebastian game to be challenged and willing to push back as they explore the edges of leadership thinking. Adam shares why he enjoyed this...
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Ep 392: Why Isn't Awareness Changing Things For Me?
The Transformational Leader
Awareness alone doesn’t create change. In this episode, Adam Quiney explores why insight, learning, and even powerful conversations often fail to move the needle, and how real transformation requires stepping into action, discomfort, and the energetic cost of change.
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Mid-week Ep 149: Adam Quiney
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam explores the signal-to-noise crisis of the modern world through the lenses of AI, fear, money, and misdirected leadership, unpacking how reacting to fear quietly creates more of it, how leadership always happens in partnership with our circumstances, and how we often use our power in the wrong direction without realizing it. He examines why money is such an effective painkiller for lives we’re not fully inhabiting, how control masquerades as integrity, and what “maximizing not giving a f*ck” actually points to beneath the...
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Ep 391: Transformational Practice
The Transformational Leader
Transformation doesn’t happen through insight alone; it happens through practice. In this episode, Adam Quiney explores what it means to practice transformationally, why change can’t be shortcut, and how leadership is built by choosing a new way of being in the face of resistance.
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Ep 390: From the Vault Ep 158 — Being a Clearing for Leadership.
The Transformational Leader
In today’s episode, I’d be tackling something even the most brilliant of leaders have difficulty dealing with—acknowledging their role in the way people under them are showing up. Understandably, if something is wrong with the team, it’s always easier to deal with the people and issues involved rather than examining your role as a leader in creating that clearing. If you want to feel more empowered as a leader, you need to look through different lenses to check how you are contributing to the issues and what you can do differently. All that and more in this episode!
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Ep 389: From the Vault Ep 156 — Attraction vs. Enrolment
The Transformational Leader
Leaders tend to get attracted to external factors and thus get disempowered once it is gone. They were driven from outside motivation and not enrol on the possibility of getting motivated from within themselves. In this episode, the focus will be on differentiating attraction and enrolment, why attraction is a trap for leaders and coaches, and how enrolment helps you to be continuously driven. This episode will also highlight how attraction and enrolment tends to be confusing, the nature of attraction and why people tend to lean towards it, and how you can develop yourself into enrolment. Take...
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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!
info_outlineIn this episode, Adam Quiney breaks down a popular leadership post and exposes what most advice misses: the cost of real growth. He explains why true leadership isn’t about rushing from control to impact but learning to face what keeps us stuck, slow down, and be present with the discomfort we avoid.