183. How to Become a Leader with Jade Teta + Ray Hinish
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This week, I got to chatting with two people who have been massive positive influences on my life—Jade Teta and Ray Hinish—on whether or not leadership is innate or can be developed. While we ultimately agree that natural temperament and early experiences shape a person’s potential, true leadership can absolutely be cultivated through self-awareness, education, and inner growth. Leadership is less about position and more about one’s “nervous system”—the internal state from which actions and influence emerge. Through experience, we’ve individually found that authentic leadership...
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182. Can People Change?
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Do people really change? And I don’t mean changing as in one-off behaviors, like biting your nails or drinking soda, I mean like changing intangible qualities, like thinking patterns, industriousness, leadership, or creativity. There are some out there that think you either “have it” or you don’t, but I don’t think that change is as cut-and-dry as a simple yes or no. Of course, we all have limits outside of our control, but I say people can and do change—so long as we believe it’s possible for ourselves. Too many people stifle their own growth by believing change is impossible...
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180. Break Bad Habits, Make Better Decisions, & Change For Good
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I've talked about setting goals, but the flip side of that, and what I’m talking about this week, is changing the bad habits and behaviors you’d like to let go of—the “I wills” of behavior change vs. the “I won’t’s.” Look, change is hard, and doubly so when you don’t have the most powerful of motivation, but I’m coming at you with 4 strategies you can implement when breaking those bad habits feels a bit too hard. Subscribe to my Substack Newsletter for more Take Care Coaching Check out the Take Care website and join the mailing list for insights...
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179. Letter From My Future Self
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The New Year is a sacred time for me, so in this episode, I wanted to share a powerful reflection practice: writing a letter from your future self. Research shows our brains treat our future selves like strangers, which is why it can be so hard to make choices that benefit us long-term. But when we intentionally imagine our future lives—how we feel, how we spend our time, what has changed—our motivation, willpower, and follow-through increase. Vividly articulating the next version of our lives helps us set clearer intentions and move toward them with purpose. Subscribe to my...
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178. Why Your Habits Don't Stick
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There’s a ton of great information about habit building out there, so why are you (and me, and everyone else) still struggling to make our habits stick? When I think back to my own life, I realized I’ve never actually changed a habit intentionally, and that’s actually the reason why I’ve been able to make lasting change. Instead of changing habits, change your identity, and then the habits start to take care of themselves. Rather than trying to “eat more vegetables,” think of yourself as a healthy person, and watch how you’ll pick that habit up effortlessly. That’s...
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177. What Successful People Do Differently
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If you’ve been listening to this podcast lately, you’ll know that last week I completed something a long time coming: I did a Hyrox competition. While the race itself was miserable by every measurable standard, it reinforced a powerful truth: growth rarely feels good in the moment, but it often feels right in hindsight. I liken it to the Japanese concept of “Misogi”—voluntarily choosing discomfort to expand our physical, mental, and emotional capacity. Avoiding discomfort slowly erodes our confidence, resilience, and sense of aliveness, while leaning into hard things does the...
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176. Seeing Eye to Eye With Difficult People
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Today’s topic is something we’ve all experienced, but maybe more so during the holidays as we spend more time with distant relations: not seeing eye-to-eye with people—at work, at home, everywhere—and I wanted to share some ideas on what we can do about it. There’s a worrying trend that all of the Big 5 personality traits are dropping, and especially agreeableness. That friction amongst us wrecks relationships, influence, and connection. In my eyes, the solution isn’t raw empathy so much as perspective-taking: meaning deliberately imagine how the other person sees the world (their...
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175. 10 Lessons on Life, Love, and Leadership
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In this week’s episode, I’m sharing the top 10 lessons currently shaping my life and mindset. From the freedom that comes with realizing nobody’s actually paying that much attention to you, to the power of taking action before motivation strikes, to the paradox of accepting yourself before you can change—these ideas hit across psychology, happiness, identity, and resilience. I share why permission is an inside job, how the 3 C’s of happiness keep me grounded, why doing the right thing doesn’t always deliver the result you expect, and why the most unreasonable choices tend to become...
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174. Using the 5 Core Personality Traits to Understand Ourselves Better
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I’m notorious for hating personality tests. Humans are infamously terrible at self-awareness, and personality tests become an excuse for people to act like the most base-version of themselves without any reason to change for the better. That being said—there is a personality model that’s been intriguing me lately, one that paints a more complete picture, and exists on a sliding scale to make room for the inevitable changes of personality. It’ll never be the be-all-end-all of understanding people, but it’s a useful tool for understanding ourselves and the people we work with. ...
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173. Doers vs. Drivers
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Today I wanted to share a favorite leadership story of mine about JD Rockefeller and what it teaches us about shifting from being a “doer” to being a true “driver.” From inputs vs. outputs vs. outcomes to the Pygmalion Effect, I’m breaking down why great leaders step back, think deeply, develop their people, and focus on long-term results rather than endless tasks. This episode an off-the-cuff, no-script pod, but I’d invite you to audit how you spend your time, bump up their “driver” percentage just 5%, and start leading with vision instead of busyness. Subscribe to my...
info_outlineThis week, I got to chatting with two people who have been massive positive influences on my life—Jade Teta and Ray Hinish—on whether or not leadership is innate or can be developed. While we ultimately agree that natural temperament and early experiences shape a person’s potential, true leadership can absolutely be cultivated through self-awareness, education, and inner growth. Leadership is less about position and more about one’s “nervous system”—the internal state from which actions and influence emerge. Through experience, we’ve individually found that authentic leadership arises from integrity, humility, and clarity rather than surface-level techniques or authority. Real leadership involves balancing self-development with service to others, fostering environments where both individuals and communities grow together through clarity, direction, and empathy.
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