From Exhaustion to Excellence: Dark Optimist Mindset Shifts for Effective Leadership
Release Date: 07/10/2025
ENCORE: Leverage Your Expertise to Grow Profitable Businesses
Bold Business Podcast
The depth of your knowledge opens up new opportunities. The more you learn, the more you realize there’s so much left to explore, which is why curiosity is key. Asking questions like, “What’s going on behind this process?” or “What discoveries can help our industry improve?” is crucial. Also, consider what we might be doing that could inadvertently create new problems for our customers. Sometimes, the way our industry works can be frustrating, which might motivate us to develop solutions to address its shortcomings. To make this happen, it’s super important to have a team...
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Leading Through Uncharted Territory: Lessons for CEOs in Fast-Changing Markets
Bold Business Podcast
Yesterday’s playbook is useless for tomorrow’s problems. Smart companies evolve their people, keep clarity around priorities, navigate uncertainty and grow. The Gauntlet of Growth for sustainable growth has six parts: sharpening focus, calibrating culture, strengthening leadership, elevating talent, aligning structures, and amplifying communication. These insights are derived from hands-on work with high-growth companies that help founders and leaders scale their organizations. In this episode, you will learn what it truly means to navigate change, how your role as a CEO...
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UNCHARTED: The Role of Gut Feelings: Transforming Shame into Strength and Assertive Action
Bold Business Podcast
Are you responsible FOR your team or TO them? It takes courage to confront and transform the internalized shame and disgust that can affect our ability to harness anger as a force for good. The next time you experience feelings of anger or shame, take a moment to pause and ask yourself, “Is this truly mine, or did I absorb it from someone else?” You may be surprised by what you find. This reflects the underlying myths society holds about anger. Any unresolved feelings of anger or shame could negatively impact your well-being, hinder your focus, and affect your business’s bottom...
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Become a Conscious Creator: Elevate Your Life and Business With Positive Belief
Bold Business Podcast
Business teams thrive or struggle based on the attitude of their leadership. As a leader, you have the power to influence and uplift your team's environment, creating a significant impact through clear internal communication and a strong external presence. Are you building an opportunity or obstacle into your company culture? Both conscious and unconscious beliefs shape self-image, behavior, and relationships. By managing your self-talk, you can control your outcomes. It’s possible to take action that shifts your mindset so you—and your organization — can bounce back stronger each...
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Seeds of Wisdom: Power is the pause
Bold Business Podcast
In the pursuit of success, many people become fixated on future goals, often missing a vital ingredient for achievement: the power of taking a pause. How we manage our time dramatically influences what we can really accomplish. Welcome to an exciting ENCORE episode of the BOLD Business Podcast! This conversation originally aired on Seeds of Wisdom by author . , a strategic growth consultant, dives deep into the transformative concept of pausing in the world of business, unravelling what pausing truly means, the incredible power it brings, and how it serves as a strategic tool for...
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Prepare Like a Pro: How to Reflect, Reorient, and Re-engage for 2026
Bold Business Podcast
Unlock your competitive edge by planning earlier than everyone else. Strategic planning is more than an annual box to check; it is a time to reflect, reorient, and reengage your company with its long-term objectives, and to align today’s priorities with them. The true cost of distraction goes beyond just affecting mental focus; it impacts your bottom line. It's not only about lost productivity; on average, it takes about 23 minutes and 15 seconds to switch between business activities. Even though we are working effectively, the time lost hinders our company from maximizing its...
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ENCORE: Skyrocket Your Business with Strategic Prioritization
Bold Business Podcast
Your success relies on your ability to continually grow over time by ensuring that what you do today aligns with your long-term goals. It can be tough, and let's be honest, the word "preparation" often gets a dull reaction. However, without it, you won’t fully understand how your current resources can impact the results you're seeking. Three key factors really drive sustainable growth. First, what are your nonnegotiables? When two things are equally important, one must always take precedence. That shows your priorities and how everything gets done. Second, carve out protected...
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Bold Moves and Hard Lessons: Success and Surviving Mistakes
Bold Business Podcast
There are invisible signals that differentiate bold business moves from costly mistakes. Calculated risks — financial, emotional, and strategic — unlock opportunities. In today’s fast-paced environment, modern businesses need to embrace rapid change, particularly with the rise of AI. Start by focusing on what you know best: the strengths of your business, yourself, and your partners. Then, analyze how AI is impacting your industry and how your customers’ needs and purchasing behaviors are evolving. In this episode, you will learn how to identify clues that indicate success or failure....
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The Art of Controlled Risk: Navigating Entrepreneurship’s Challenges
Bold Business Podcast
How do you dare to innovate when there are mouths to feed and mortgages looming? It’s time to cut through the theory — real, practical risk-taking is not just bold, it’s smart and can lead to significant gains. Life comes with constraints, but by embracing them, you can shift your perspective and unlock innovative solutions that go beyond the standard “workable” options. It’s absolutely possible to pursue your biggest dreams while taking calculated risks that maintain your stability. While pragmatic risk-taking may not have the flashiest reputation, its potential for...
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Staying Out of the Comfort Zone: Raising Your Hand for Messy Problems
Bold Business Podcast
Not every industry trend is worth chasing after. How you allocate your time is something you can truly manage. Leverage your experience to step up and embrace new, riskier challenges. Your time is your most valuable asset, and being open to failure demonstrates to yourself and your superiors that you are willing to take risks and explore new opportunities. As technology evolves at lightning speed, stepping into situations that highlight your cross-functional curiosity can help you build essential skills while sharpening your business instincts. In this program,...
info_outlineStamina is the new leadership approach, focusing on intentional quick wins to build your team’s confidence and maintain progress in today’s unpredictable marketplace.
Accountability is not only essential, it is everything. A shift in mindset involves claiming the outcome as your choice, taking responsibility for the outcomes that have occurred, and recognizing that radical accountability is crucial for creating lasting relevance for your company.
In this program, you will learn to fully embrace every action as your choice, be intentional, and claim accountability. You will discover that the challenging path is what builds resilience. Intentionality, combined with unconventional thinking, is essential for navigating through chaos.
Jess Dewell speaks with Ralph H. Groce III, President and Chief Operating Officer at Scroobious, about how today’s leadership demands boldness and the willingness to break what is not yet broken.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
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You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.