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Hosted by Mark Graban · business · EN · 416 episodes
My Favorite Mistake is a podcast about learning without blame in business and leadership.Hosted by Mark Graban, the show features honest conversations with leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers about a meaningful mistake they made—and what they learned after things went wrong. It’s not just my favorite mistake; it’s yours, it’s ours, and it’s what we can all learn from when things don’t go as planned.This isn’t a podcast about failure theater, gotcha moments, or simplistic “lessons learned.” It explores how real people reflect, improve, and lead better in complex organizations—without scapegoating, shame, or hindsight bias.Drawing on systems thinking, Lean management, continuous improvement, and psychological safety, each episode focuses less on who messed up and more on what the system taught us.My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
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Signup to Generate a PitchMy Favorite Mistake is a podcast about learning without blame in business and leadership. Hosted by Mark Graban, the show features honest conversations with leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers about a meaningful mistake they made, and what they learned after things went wrong.
My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership is hosted by Mark Graban. The show has published 416 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Tony Robbins Call He Rescheduled -- with Tyler McBroom" (19 October 2026, 41 minutes), "Fix Your Process, Not Your People: The Deal He Lost by Adding Value -- Grant Harris" (12 October 2026, 44 minutes), and "Dr. Jen Moran on the Practice Everyone Said Not to Buy" (5 October 2026, 41 minutes).
My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 43 minutes across 416 episodes.
Booking probability for My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership are Business & Management Consulting. My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership has a business audience.
Mark Graban hosts My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership, a business show with 416 episodes published.
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Episode #371
In 2016, CPA Tyler McBroom had a call on the calendar to discuss partnering with Tony Robbins’ accounting alliance. It was set for 10:30 PM his time, because the other side was in Australia. The day before, Tyler and...
Episode #370
Grant Harris teaches leaders to fix the process, not the people. Then he created the friction he helps clients remove, and it cost him a speaking deal. A cold inbound lead arrived in his LinkedIn inbox: an association...
Episode #369
Her attorney and accountant told her not to buy the dental practice, then quit when she did. The appraisal came in at about 5% of the asking price. Dr. Jen Moran, an AACD board-certified restorative dentist, founded...
Episode #368
Eric Dingler and his wife met every week to review the numbers in their business. When they moved to Costa Rica, they paused that meeting for what was supposed to be six weeks. The pause lasted a year. Losing a client...
Episode #367
Stephanie Mitchell came back from vacation and got called into the C-suite. They wanted her to run the hospital laboratory temporarily. She was an ICU nurse who had moved into administration, she knew nothing about lab...
Episode #366
Dr. Jonathan Thorp spent a career building systems, methods, and models that made work more functional. His mistake was assuming that creating the value was where the work stopped. Promoting it struck him as vanity, the...
Episode #365
Susan von Seggern handed the finances to her business partner and stopped looking at them. Then she decided their Los Angeles PR agency should open a New York office -- a lease, three hires, salaries, insurance, payroll...
Episode #364
Steve Montague had been flying for the airline about two years when he decided to let his captain be wrong. He was paired with a captain who shut him down every time he offered anything. Asked about routing around a...
Episode #363
Michael Chaleff took a year between the Navy and law school and spent it working as a restaurant magician -- walking up to strangers who had been drinking, interrupting conversations they were happy to be having, and...
Episode #361
Tiffany Auvil spent more than twenty years inside the U.S. healthcare system, starting as a volunteer firefighter and eventually serving as System Director of Outpatient Clinics for a three-hospital health system. She...
Episode #360
Bill Rasmussen got fired by the Hartford Whalers, then chased an idea almost nobody believed in: sports television around the clock. He burned through his own money, his credit cards, his son Scott's money, and money...
Episode #359
In fighter jet aviation, errors can be fatal -- so the systems built around learning from them have to actually work. My guest is Christian "Boo" Boucousis, a former Royal Australian Air Force fighter pilot and CEO of...
Episode #358
Andrea Carpenter and Elizabeth Ledoux, co-founders of The Transition Strategists, were mid-negotiation on a business succession deal -- Andrea buying into Elizabeth's business -- when Andrea found out she was pregnant...
Episode #356
Publishing strategist Wiebke Tasch had built a bestselling book and a comfortable full-time income on Amazon -- enough to quit her PR job. Then one morning an automated email told her she had violated Amazon's terms...
Episode #355
To save a few thousand dollars in legal fees, six-time Silicon Valley CEO Mike Grossman decided to act as his own lawyer on a routine distribution contract. Years later, when Dun & Bradstreet moved to acquire his...
Episode #354
<p >Kate Lowry was fresh out of college and working at McKinsey when she saw a colleague do something she believed was seriously wrong -- something that could constitute blackmail, with another employee's ability to...
Episode #353
<p >Eric Ries had a 40-page business plan. An Excel model so complicated it would crash Excel. A team of elite students, real investors, and a working product. What he didn't have was a strategy -- and he didn't realize...
Episode #352
<p >Joe Hennes runs Tough Pigs, the premier Muppet fan site, and for years he also worked at Sesame Workshop -- the dream company he had been writing about since 2006. In this conversation, Joe is unusually candid about...
Episode #351
<p >Deborah Coviello has spent her career walking into businesses with quality crises and operational pressure, and walking out with stronger leaders behind her. In this conversation with Mark Graban, she shares the...
Episode #350
<p >Jesse Jackson, contact center leader and host of Set Lusting Bruce, joins Mark Graban to share his favorite mistake: going gun-shy as a new leader when veterans push back with "we tried that, it didn't work." Jesse...
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Author of The Mistakes That Make Us, My Favorite Mistake
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