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Hosted by The Leader · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 264 episodes
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The Leader’s Mindset is a leadership strategy podcast for executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to think clearly, act decisively, and build high-performing teams. Hosted by Jason LeDuc, a former U.S. Air Force officer and leadership strategist, the show blends powerful interviews with practical Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) you can apply immediately. If you’re responsible for results and developing the leaders behind you, this show equips you to lead with clarity and confidence.
The Leader hosts The Leader's Mindset, a business show with 264 episodes published.
Getting promoted is not the same as knowing how to lead. The exact skills that made you the best performer are not the skills that make you a good manager. And if nobody tells you that, you'll spend your first year doing
Most leaders think a great culture comes from a program, a committee, or a one-day training. It doesn't. Culture is built by leaders who pour into their people — and it shows up (or quietly disappears) in your retention
Training that doesn't stick is not a bad-training problem. It is a follow-through problem. The money isn't wasted in the training room — it's wasted in the days after, when nobody reinforces what people learned. In this
Most people think they're informed. They're actually being influenced — and they can't tell the difference. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Kira Shishkin — founder and CEO of informed.
You're not behind because you're not working hard enough. You're behind because you never get an hour to just think. The day fills up with fires and "got a sec?", and the big moves that would actually change your busines
Everyone posts the laptop on the beach. Nobody posts the 2 a.m. reality.If you've ever been sold the dream of "working for yourself" — freedom, flexibility, sunsets — the truth is that building something real is unglamor
A stuck business is almost never an effort problem. It is a diagnosis problem.Revenue's flat, the team's working hard, and you can't figure out why the needle won't move. The longer the real constraint stays hidden, the
Most founders treat raising venture money as the finish line. A lot of them are chasing a round they don't actually need. And while they're chasing it, the thing that would have built the company — getting in front of cl
Hitting a ceiling is not a talent problem. It is a feedback problem. You've been good for years — and that's exactly the trap. The higher you climb, the less honest feedback you get. Everyone tells you what you want to h
Most leaders try to fix their team before they fix their own foundation. But you can't pour into your people from an empty cup — and no title, rank, or org chart changes that. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jas
Getting promoted is not a reward problem. It is a training problem nobody warned you about.Friday you were a teammate. Monday you're the boss — and no one handed you a playbook. Yesterday's peers are today's direct repor
Most people network the way they were taught: collect business cards, pitch what you do, and wait for the business to roll in. It doesn't work anymore. If you're grinding through events and still hearing crickets, the pr
Hitting a growth ceiling is not a hustle problem. It is a leadership problem. You built the thing — and now the thing is bigger than you can lead. Every problem still lands on your desk, every decision waits on you, and
Pitch Investors Like You're the Expert — Tristan Pollock on Fundraising, Scaling Startups, & Building MovementsMost founders walk into the pitch meeting already losing — treating the investor like the smartest person in
Your team doesn't need more tasks. They need to know what matters most this week — and why. When leaders communicate tasks without intent, people guess. Priorities compete. Decisions slow down. And everyone defaults to t
Use AI to Amplify Your People, Not Replace Them — Steve Brown on AI Strategy, AI-First Leadership, & Business Growth Most leaders are using AI to do the same things a little faster and a little cheaper. That's 20th-centu
A missed deadline is not a discipline problem. It is a conversation problem. If you dread the talk that has to happen after someone drops the ball, you do not need more courage. You need a repeatable reset script that mo
Most people are still playing by the old rules — show up, do good work, stay loyal, and you'll be taken care of. The problem? The social contract changed, and nobody told you. Fear-based leadership is no longer the excep
Delegation that comes back wrong is not a people problem. It is a hand-off problem. If work keeps boomeranging back to your desk — or you keep redoing it yourself — the breakdown usually isn't who you picked. It's how yo
Most leaders aren't held back by a shortage of ideas. They're held back because they can't make people feel them. You can be the smartest person in the room and still watch your best thinking die in silence — simply beca
Jeffrey Fidelman
Founder & Managing Director · Fidelman & Company
1 appearance on this show
Rosalind Cohen
Founder & President · Socius Strategies
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Oxley
nationally recognized author, speaker, and executive coach · The Oxley Group
1 appearance on this show
Matt Ebert
Founder and CEO · Crash Champions
1 appearance on this show
Philip Atkinson
founder · Orbit Architects
1 appearance on this show
Kira Shishkin
informed.now
1 appearance on this show
Jason P. Carroll
Aptive Index
1 appearance on this show
Ramsey Bergeron
Bergeron Wellbeing
1 appearance on this show
Keith Willis
Core Management Training
1 appearance on this show
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