162. Finding Your Leadership Style
Take Care Radio
In this episode, I’m digging into one of my favorite topics: leadership—but not the way you’ve seen it packaged into personality tests or “5 love languages” style frameworks. I wanted to share how to develop a leadership style that’s as individual as your fingerprint, rooted in your values, shaped by your personality, and reinforced by your boundaries and standards. Leadership isn’t about fitting into a type or pre-existing framework, leadership is about building a style that reflects who you are and leaves the world just a little better than you found it. Subscribe to my...
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161. The Habits of Motivating Others
Take Care Radio
Motivation isn’t a cause-and-effect process. I hear a lot of coaches and managers getting frustrated with a lack of motivation, complaining that their clients or employees “don’t buy in” to what they’re being taught. But all I hear is, “my client isn’t acting how I want them to act.” You’ll rarely, if ever, motivate someone externally, but with the right habits and tactics, you can uncover and pull out the motivation that already lies within. Subscribe to my Substack Newsletter for more Take Care Coaching Check out the Take Care website and...
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160. Discipline is Overrated
Take Care Radio
You don’t need more discipline to create lasting change. Willpower is overrated, misunderstood, and often blamed for struggles that really come down to stress, environment, and misaligned goals. Too many people beat themselves up with “shoulds” or rely on shame as fuel, only to spiral into guilt and inconsistency, when the truth is that discipline isn’t a sudden switch to flip—it’s a gradual practice cultivated through supportive environments, intrinsic motivation, and small, sustainable steps. Fueling change with joy, self-compassion, and purpose works far better than...
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159. The 12 Listening Blocks
Take Care Radio
Most people think that they’re a good listener—according to one study, 96% of people self-identify as being one. But other studies have shown that in general, we only remember about half of what others say to us, while other studies suggest that we listen at only 25% efficiency. The bottom line here is that none of us are really as great at listening than we think we are. Listening, which leads to responsiveness, is critical for long term social bonds and if you’re in the business of positively impacting the people around you, you’re going to need to sharpen your listening skills. That...
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158. Becoming a Positive Force in the World
Take Care Radio
It’s easy to be a critic. Really, we have enough haters and Debbie Downers out there in the world telling us that life is ending as we know it and everything sucks. We don’t need any more. Human beings are an experience—the way we show up impacts others. We can do a lot of good for people just by being a positive presence in a world that leans toward the pessimistic. Subscribe to my Substack Newsletter for more Take Care Coaching Check out the Take Care website and join the mailing list for insights delivered right to your inbox every week! Connect with...
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157. 3 Lessons on Working with Gen Z
Take Care Radio
Deloitte has released a global survey of 23,000+ Gen Zs and millennials with everything you need to know about the younger generations in the workplace. In just a few years, 74% of the workforce will be occupied by them, so these trends are especially relevant for us to understand as we’re hiring, training, and working with this generation. Today I wanted to share 3 key takeaways from this data, including what drives the younger generations, what they want out of their work vs. what they’re actually getting, and how to work with individuals and teams to help them prosper. ...
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156. 10 Books Every Leader Should Read
Take Care Radio
If you know me, you know I’m a big reader. Because I’ve read so many great self-development and leadership books, I’m constantly being hounded for book recommendations, but I hate giving them. Finding the right book for the right person is near impossible—books are highly person and highly contextual. The right book for you is incredibly dependent on where you are in your life and the kind of message you need at that specific moment. Despite my hesitation, I figured it was time to finally give out some book recs that I think every leader should be reading. Subscribe to my...
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155. 7 Habits to Build Trust
Take Care Radio
Society is facing a trend, one I find deeply worrisome, of becoming less and less trusting. Our trust in everything is decaying—we don’t trust information sources, we don’t trust the institutions that are there to help us, and most of all, we don’t trust each other. There’s plenty of research to indicate that trust, both at a societal and an individual level, is essential to wellbeing, individual performance, and collective performance. In other words, having more trust in general leads to a happier, more fulfilling, and more meaningful life. So while we can’t force a societal...
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154. How to Stop the Comparison Trap
Take Care Radio
Today, we’re throwing it back to a classic self-development topic that I don’t think gets talked about enough anymore: how to avoid falling into the comparison trap. Comparison as a universal human experience, but that doesn’t make it a helpful one in our current social communities. Our brains trick us into unfair judgments by comparing our full behind-the-scenes to others' carefully curated highlights—it’s a quick way to developing low self-worth. We’ll never be able to rid ourselves of comparison completely, but there are a few strategies and mindset reframes we can try out to...
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153. 3 Ways We Hurt High Performance
Take Care Radio
You know what they say about the road to hell—it’s paved with good intentions. In other words, sometimes we make a decision with only the best intentions, only to reap negative outcomes. It happens all the time in management and leadership. We incentivize the wrong thing or miscommunicate in small ways, and as a result, performance suffers. If you can isolate and stop these 3 management missteps, you’ll be giving your team or clients the best chance to rise to the occasion, rather than focusing on the things that don’t truly matter. Subscribe to my brand new Substack Newsletter...
info_outlineImposter syndrome manifests as that constant internal feeling that we don’t know enough, that we lack knowledge and ability, and that we don’t have what it takes to play a certain role or follow a certain profession. Thinking less of ourselves can lead to anxious feelings and self-sabotage, but it’s important to know that imposter syndrome is a very common issue and everyone at some point has gone through something like this before.
In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny talks about how to deal with imposter syndrome. More important than trying to overcome it, Danny explains, is trying to get familiar with it and trying to understand where is this feeling coming from and what is triggering it. There isn’t a magic pill to get rid of this problem but according to Danny: ‘if you always do your best, it will eventually eliminate the sensation of self-judgment.
(This episode is a re-run from April 2022.)
“Growth is inherently uncomfortable. You have to let your old self die to become this new self and the side dishes of that are going to be insecurity, they are going to be inadequacy, they are going to be embarrassment.” – Danny Coleman
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