Success and Gratitude: Why Great Leaders Revisit Where They Came From
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
How do great leaders keep success from breeding entitlement? In this week’s episode, John Maxwell teaches why revisiting where you came from—and cultivating gratitude—creates the stable foundation every leader needs to rise higher. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss real-life strategies to help you anchor your leadership in authentic gratitude and apply John’s insights today. Key takeaways: To balance an entitlement mindset, put gratitude beside it. You always need to go back and visit where you came from. You never want to...
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Leaders Who Get the Most Give the Most
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Anne Frank said, “None has ever become poor by giving.” In this week’s episode, John Maxwell unpacks the three types of generosity that set extraordinary leaders apart and reveal the true path to influential leadership. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow share practical strategies for weaving generosity into your leadership journey, equipping you to start making a bigger impact today. Key takeaways: A clenched fist gives nothing but is also unable to receive anything. If you sow a lot of seeds, the harvest takes care of itself. If you...
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The Growth Guarantee (Part 2)
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What separates leaders who keep expanding their impact from those who quietly plateau? In this week’s episode, John Maxwell continues revealing the promises and pitfalls on the path to continual, intentional growth. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson share how to recognize your growth zone and offer strategies you can use to keep advancing in your leadership journey. Key takeaways: Don’t be a know-it-all. Be a learn-it-all. You don’t coast to greatness. Everything you want but don’t have, and everything you need but don’t have, is...
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The Growth Guarantee (Part 1)
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Growth isn't automatic, but it can be guaranteed. In this week's episode, the first in a two-part series, John reveals his personal blueprint for guaranteed growth and the three simple disciplines that set extraordinary leaders apart. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson offer strategies to help you turn intentional growth into a daily habit, no matter where you’re starting. Key takeaways: You can't learn anything while you're talking. Sustained thinking will change your life. Your growth must be intentional. Our BONUS resource for this...
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What People Misunderstand About Success (Part 2)
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This week on the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, find out what an ice cube can teach you about patience and results. Today, John Maxwell finishes up his two-part lesson on the compounding power of daily action, reflection, and intentional growth on the path to lasting leadership success. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede dive into real-world strategies and personal stories to help you immediately implement John’s teaching. Key takeaways: Your first step is your most important step. Success is a series of steps, not one giant leap. ...
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What People Misunderstand About Success (Part 1)
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The real measure of success isn’t the recognition you receive, but the daily choices no one sees. In this week’s episode—the first in a two-part series—John unpacks the misunderstood foundations of success and reveals why consistency, not accolades, is the true driver of extraordinary results. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede share practical strategies for applying John’s success journey to your own leadership and team impact. Key takeaways: Desire is the seed of every great accomplishment. The greatest way to make progress is to...
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Are You Leading a Good Life or Just Maintaining a Good Image?
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Are you leading a life of real impact, or just working hard to perfect your image? In this week’s episode, John Maxwell teaches how embracing authenticity over appearance is a central pillar for meaningful leadership and lasting success. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson share practical strategies to help you bring authenticity to the forefront of your leadership—on your team, at home, and beyond. Key takeaways: The way to balance and stabilize an image issue is authenticity. You lose your authenticity when you try to hold onto things that you no...
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Good Leaders Make Friends, Not Fans
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Are you letting your success create distance between you and your team? In this episode, John Maxwell unpacks why leadership success can easily lead to isolation—and what you can do to resist it. Discover how making friends (not just fans) helps you stay relatable, authentic, and influential. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede dive into real-life strategies to help you put connection at the heart of your leadership journey. Key Takeaways Success can isolate, but connection is the cure. Intentional relationships keep leaders grounded and...
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How to Stabilize Your Success
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How do you keep your success from becoming the very thing that sabotages your leadership? In this week’s episode, John Maxwell reveals the overlooked practices that stabilize lasting achievement and keep leaders grounded at every stage of their journey. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson share real-world strategies and thoughtful application to help you translate John’s insights into leadership habits you can use today. Key takeaways: True success starts within—before you pursue outer victories, define what success means to you at the deepest...
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Learn These Skills to Become a Memorable Leader: A Fireside Chat with John Maxwell and Jeff Henderson
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Do you want to be the kind of leader people never forget? This week in a first-of-its-kind react-style Maxwell Leadership Podcast episode, John Maxwell sits down with Jeff Henderson to share the essential skills that turn everyday leadership into a lasting legacy. As John teaches, Mark Cole provides practical strategies to help you activate John’s teachings and elevate your impact right now. Key takeaways: Empowering others doesn’t diminish your influence—it multiplies it, as the best leaders know they’re always stronger...
info_outlineGrowth isn't automatic, but it can be guaranteed. In this week's episode, the first in a two-part series, John reveals his personal blueprint for guaranteed growth and the three simple disciplines that set extraordinary leaders apart.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson offer strategies to help you turn intentional growth into a daily habit, no matter where you’re starting.
Key takeaways:
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You can't learn anything while you're talking.
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Sustained thinking will change your life.
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Your growth must be intentional.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Growth Guarantee (Part 1) Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Guarantee and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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