TLP487: Three Ways to Motivate Teams and Align Strategy
The Leadership Podcast
Hans Lagerweij is the author of The Why Whisperer: How to Motivate and Align Teams That Get Your Strategy Done. In this episode, Hans shares that he wrote the book after watching great strategies fail during execution. He saw a gap between understanding the importance of purpose and actually implementing it. Hans explains that you can't shout your way to purpose. Whispering requires getting close to your team and having two-way conversations. He emphasizes that leaders need to listen to personal motivations and ideas from team members. Hans presents three options when there's...
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TLP486: Unruly: Deconstruct the Rules, Defy the Norms, and Define Your Success
The Leadership Podcast
Lauren Wittenberg Weiner is a speaker, business therapist, and bestselling author of Unruly: Deconstruct the Rules, Defy the Norms, and Define Your Success. In this episode, Lauren shares the pivotal moment that crystallized her unruly philosophy. When told she couldn't do something, she learned to transform that doubt into motivation rather than letting it paralyze her. She explains how reframing negative feedback as challenge fuel drives her leadership. Lauren explains the difference between gatekeepers who clone themselves and gateways who open doors. She tackles the transactional...
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TLP485: Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)
The Leadership Podcast
Hal Elrod is the bestselling author of “The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM).” The book offers a practical morning routine that has transformed the lives of over 3 million people. In this episode, Hal describes discovering the six practices that became the SAVERS method (Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, Scribing) during the 2008 financial crisis when he needed to rebuild his life and income. He shares how implementing these practices every morning doubled his income within two months and became the...
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TLP484: Balancing Innovation with Human Connection
The Leadership Podcast
Brandon Sawalich is the President and CEO of Starkey, leading 6,000 employees across 29 countries in the hearing healthcare industry. In this episode, Brandon addresses how healthcare leaders balance innovation with human connection. He explains that hearing health requires both cutting-edge AI technology and personalized care from healthcare professionals. He shares leadership lessons from guiding Starkey's transformation into a global brand while preserving its family culture. Brandon discusses how to maintain core values while under pressure to prioritize patient outcomes...
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TLP483: People Must Feel Valued Before They Can Add Value
The Leadership Podcast
Zach Mercurio is a researcher, and optimist instructor who specializes in purposeful leadership and meaningful work. He is the author of "The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance," that reveals the psychological foundation that drives human energy and performance in organizations. Zach addresses why 60% of employees don't feel cared for at work and how this creates a mattering deficit leading to quiet quitting or toxic behaviors. He discusses the Optimism course he created with Simon Sinek, which focuses on developing human skills that show people their...
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TLP482: The 100 Best Books for Work and Life
The Leadership Podcast
Todd Sattersten brings over 20 years of experience in nonfiction book publishing, and is the author of "The 100 Best Books for Work and Life." He's also the publisher at Bard Press and has dedicated his career to helping leaders navigate the overwhelming world of business literature. In this episode, Todd reveals how he curated 100 essential books into 25 problem-focused chapters, moving beyond traditional business categories to address both professional and personal challenges leaders face. He explains why growth comes from believing change is possible and how daily effort accumulates into...
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TLP481: The New Language of Leadership with Michael Ventura
The Leadership Podcast
Michael Ventura is an entrepreneur, author of “Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership”, and advisor to leaders at organizations including the ACLU, Google, Nike, and the UN. He has taught emotionally intelligent leadership at Princeton, West Point, and Esalen. In this episode, Michael explores why our natural childhood empathy fades as adults due to life complexity, cultural conditioning, and survival mechanisms that suppress this innate behavior. He explains how organizational design can create systems where empathy thrives through measurement, rewards, and leadership modeling...
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TLP480: Number One Factor for Changing Team Behaviors with Tamara Myles
The Leadership Podcast
Tamara Myles is a speaker, professor, and co-author of "Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee." She specializes in the science of human flourishing at work and serves as faculty at Boston College and the University of Pennsylvania. In this episode, Tamara challenges the biggest misconception leaders hold about purpose and productivity. She explains how leaders often view these as opposing forces, when research shows they actually create a virtuous cycle that drives engagement, performance, and innovation. Tamara emphasizes that self-awareness...
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TLP479: Make Work Fair with Siri Chilazi
The Leadership Podcast
Siri Chilazi is a senior researcher at the Women in Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School, and co-author of "Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results." She helps organizations bridge the gap between research and practice using evidence-based approaches to workplace fairness. In this episode, Siri explains why workplace fairness requires redesigning systems rather than changing people, demonstrating how structured processes like predetermined interview questions produce less biased results than open-ended conversations. She argues that organizations must analyze workforce...
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TLP478: The Consequences of Inaction with Nick Cooney
The Leadership Podcast
Nick Cooney is the founder and managing partner of Lever VC, an early stage fund focused on food and ag tech innovation. He also founded the Lever Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing a humane and sustainable food system, and authored "What We Don't Do: Inaction in the Face of Suffering and the Drive to Do More." In this episode, Nick tackles the Malthusian Trap debate and explains why more people face starvation today in raw numbers than ever before, despite technological advances in food production. He argues that capitalism alone cannot solve global food insecurity because it...
info_outlineSara Sabin is an executive leadership and intuition coach. In this episode, she shares her core philosophy that leadership starts with mastering your internal world. Sara describes how leaders can rewire thought patterns through simple daily exercises, explaining the neuroscience behind how small efforts compound for dramatic confidence improvements.
She tackles the biggest intuition myth that emotions equal gut feelings, explaining true intuition appears as clear, emotionless flashes while emotions masquerade as insight.
Listen to discover why leaning into discomfort and maintaining sharp thinking skills will determine whether you thrive or become obsolete in an AI-driven world.
You can find episode 477 on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Watch this Episode on YouTube | Myths About Intuition with Sara Sabin
Key Takeaways
[03:21] Sara explains AI laziness wasn't "one lightning moment" but "a slow creep" of observing marketing and content "starting to look the same."
[05:25] Sara distinguishes AI from human delegation, noting team members get the opportunity to expand in a certain area and to use their brain.
[07:31] Sara clarifies AI can complement critical thinking if "used after you've done the critical thinking part" but warns replacement impairs your "ability to stand out."
[15:01] Sara reveals her core insight that "leadership is an inside job" with every leadership skill having "an internal component."
[17:22] Sara explains emotional regulation isn't about "transcending emotion" but "the ability to acknowledge emotions, accept them" when triggered.
[20:50] Sara explains habitual thought patterns influence your belief systems which determine your actions and changing them is easier than you might think.
[26:30] Sara busts the myth that "emotion is not the same as intuition," defining real intuition as "a very clear, emotionless flash."
[32:36] Sara outlines her worst-case AI scenario where "everyone starts to look the same" mentally, losing creativity and becoming "open to manipulation."
[39:41] Sara challenges listeners to lean into discomfort and not get lazy while maintaining a sharp brain.
[41:17] And remember...“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Quotable Quotes
"Leadership is an inside job."
"Lean into discomfort. Don't get lazy."
"Emotion is not the same as intuition."
"Your habitual thought patterns influence your belief systems which determine your actions and behaviors and therefore your results."
"A little bit of effort every day goes a long way."
"Unless you understand the internal pieces that drive the external strategy and make it work, then you won't ever get to the realm of being exceptional."
"Until you are in a place of emotional neutrality, you cannot be an excellent communicator, period."
"Intuition is just a very clear, emotionless flash of something."
"Use your emotional triggers and your resistance to things to learn something."
"Pay attention to when you get triggered, it's pointing to a layer that you need to shed."
"AI can be a tool to augment and improve critical thinking, but it can't replace critical thinking."
Resources Mentioned
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The Leadership Podcast | theleadershippodcast.com
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Sponsored by | www.darley.com
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Rafti Advisors. LLC | www.raftiadvisors.com
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Self-Reliant Leadership. LLC | selfreliantleadership.com
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Sara Sabin Website | www.sarasabin.com
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Sara Sabin LinkedIn | www.linkedin.com/in/sara-caroline-sabin
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Sara Sabin X | @SaraSabin1
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