On this episode, Cal begins the substantive deep dive into servant leadership principles. Over the course of this podcast series, Cal will explore 9 key principles to servant leadership.

On this episode, Cal explores the first three principles and provides illustrations and keys to applying them in your life:

1. Servant leaders empower others;

2. Servant leaders give credit; and

3. Servant leaders take the blame.

At the end, Cal provides discussion questions to help you examine whether you are applying these to your leadership!

Keep growing and keep getting better! When you do, everyone benefits!

On this episode, Cal introduces a topic he is very excited to discuss -- servant leadership.

Perhaps you generally like the sound of servant leadership but have yet to fully dive into the principles required to lead as a servant. Or perhaps you're skeptical whether taking a "servant leadership" approach can really get the job done in your team, organization, or business.

Whatever your views are, please tune in to hear Cal set the ground work for this exciting "deep dive" into this incredible philosophy of leadership. I think you and your team will benefit!

On this episode, Cal shares a story from his days playing college football and contrasts that story with a NFL Hall of Fame player. You never know when opportunities will come, so the preparation you do today makes all the difference.

On this episode, Cal’s wife Natalie joins to discuss some of her insights from leading a rapidly growing business development team in the software space. 

Cal briefly shares how he and Natalie met, and Natalie shares some of her key leadership principles, how she strives to remain people-centered in a world filled with deadlines and quarterly metrics, the importance of self-care, and many other lessons learned.

Tune in for a fun discussion on life and leadership!

As long as we live a life focused on ourselves, we will never be truly fulfilled. It is counter intuitive, but the more we give of ourselves, the more we get.

As we seek to live a more intentional live, living a life that matters and contributes to the world and others is fundamental.

On this episode, Cal shares his own story of service, some anecdotal and empirical examples of service leading to a more fulfilled life, and some key principles to shifting our focus from ourselves to other people.

Life is short, let's make it count!

We all fail; we all fail often; and we all will continue to fail for the rest of our life. Yet, many of us tip toe through life trying to avoid failure at all costs.

On this episode, Cal offers 4 principles to maintaining a healthy view of failure and using the gift of failure to propel us forward towards achieving success and maximizing our potential.

1. Focus on success instead of "not failing"
2. View failure as a gift
3. Separate your failures from your identity
4. Keep going -- you may be right on the other side of a breakthrough!

The mind is a powerful thing. To accomplish something, we have to first believe it can be done.

To maintain a healthy self-identity, we have to be careful about the words we tell ourselves and the people we allow to speak into our life.

On this episode, Cal discusses the power of self-belief and provides 3 key principles to maintaining a healthy self-identity.

Who do you say that you are?

Who do you believe that you can become?

The answers to these two questions is critical to us maximizing our potential!

If we want to reach our full potential and make a significant contribution to the world, we have to move beyond good intentions and begin to live intentionally.

On this episode, Cal explores two keys to intentional living:

1. Making a life mission; and

2. Developing a plan for personal growth.

On this episode, Cal continues a two-part discussion on the importance of courageous leadership. Cal builds on the leadership principles discussed in Episode 8 by sharing three principles of courageous leadership:

1. Courageous leadership intentionally confront current reality, even when it's ugly;

2. Courageous leaders confront their own blind spots; and

3. Courageous leaders set clear expectations and provide honest feedback.

Our leadership and influence with either shrink or grow in direct proportion to the amount of courage we choose to have.

Acts of courage are often what makes a leader a leader. We know this instinctively, yet courage is easier to talk about than it is to put into practice.

On this episode, Cal begins the first part of a two-part discussion about courageous leadership and shares his first two principles of courageous leadership:

1. Courageous leaders champion change; and

2. Courageous leaders take action and are decisive.

By the end of this episode, Cal hopes to convince you that you are a leader and that your leadership will shrink or expand in proportion to the amount of courage you choose to have.