Leadership Chemistry

I work with a lot of people in corporate America and I'm beginning to notice a pattern, one where many people are feeling a lack of agency, both at work and in their personal lives. These people feel like what they do is inconsequential and feel stuck—they're disempowered and disengaged. There's this idea that leadership and positive change has to come from the "top" but it isn't true. Any of us can lead, any of us can make a difference from any position or place of power. Whether you realize it or not, your beliefs and actions affect the people around you, so it's up to you whether you want to be influencing people positively or negatively. Leadership doesn't start from the top—it starts with you.

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This week, I want to talk about the subtle forces that drive us, aka our micro-motives. We're diving deep into how these small, often subconscious desires and preferences shape our lives, choices, and even our sense of fulfillment. I'll share stories about everything from my lifelong cardio struggles to nerding out on psychology as a clue to my own micro-motives—and why owning those inner drives can be the key to crafting a meaningful life. Identifying our micro-motives helps us engineer passion (not just follow it), build real talent, and align our actions with what matters most to each and every one of us.

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There's a phenomena that occurs whenever we learn something new, where once we've learned something, we can't un-know it. Not only that, but we have a hard time remember what it felt like not to know it at all. As coaches and leaders, this leads us to a big problem—we need this knowledge and expertise to help our clients, but we can't always get our message across in a way that lasts. If you want to impact your clients' behavior in a meaningful way, you have to speak their language and understand how to communicate your ideas so they actually stick.

(This episode is a re-release.)

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When your team or your clients can't solve any of the problems they face without you, something has gone wrong. From my early days in customer support, where a salty colleague taught me the value of bringing solutions (not just problems), to my first management role where "Google it" became a legitimate policy, I've seen firsthand how a lack of creative thinking, ownership, and confidence holds teams back. Today we dig into the psychology behind why people don't know how to solve problems—perfectionism, dependence, fixed mindsets—and more importantly, how to shift that dynamic through better leadership habits. You'll learn how to stop being the bottleneck, foster confident detachment, implement simple decision-making frameworks, and create a team culture that promotes autonomy, accountability, and trust.

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Back in the early days of content creation and blog writing, listicles were all the rage. Nowadays, they're much less popular, but sometimes a good listicle just hits right and that's why today I'm sharing 9 quotes I live by. There's a lot of wisdom in the world (some of it even from the brains of various Coleman family members) so I thought I'd gather it in one place for your listening pleasure.

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The whole goal of this podcast and my business is to help people become a better, higher-performing version of themselves in life and in work. Luckily for all of us, there are three scientifically grounded, battle-tested principles of high performance that I coach every client through and rely on myself. You may get a bit of an emotional hit—negative or positive—while listening to these, and if you do, I highly encourage you to think about why that is and what that might mean for your life, your productivity, and the way you show up every day.

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Part of coaching is changing minds, but as any coach knows, changing someone's mind is no easy task. In order for someone to see themselves and the world differently, they have to come to the conclusion on their own—but you do have influence in leading them there. If you can get your clients to change their minds, you'll change their results and revolutionize their lives.

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Most people I work with are looking for ways to increase their productivity, but we've all got the wrong ideas on how to go about it. There are 4 common myths surrounding productivity, when in reality productivity is simple: it's a balance between doing what is urgent and what is important, and very few things are both.

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Imposter syndrome manifests as that constant internal feeling that we don't know enough, that we lack knowledge and ability, and that we don't have what it takes to play a certain role or follow a certain profession. Thinking less of ourselves can lead to anxious feelings and self-sabotage, but it's important to know that imposter syndrome is a very common issue and everyone at some point has gone through something like this before.

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny talks about how to deal with imposter syndrome. More important than trying to overcome it, Danny explains, is trying to get familiar with it and trying to understand where is this feeling coming from and what is triggering it. There isn't a magic pill to get rid of this problem but according to Danny: 'if you always do your best, it will eventually eliminate the sensation of self-judgment.

(This episode is a re-run from April 2022.)

"Growth is inherently uncomfortable. You have to let your old self die to become this new self and the side dishes of that are going to be insecurity, they are going to be inadequacy, they are going to be embarrassment." – Danny Coleman

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This episode is coming to you for the first time from Colorado as Kels and I settle into our new home. We didn't have to move, but there was something more calling to us. Something was pulling us towards change and new challenges, because we need those things if we want to build a life we're excited about living. Our surroundings shape our behaviors, and trying something new is a part of living in alignment with our values, which in turn fuels wellbeing. Today I want to share with you the 13 sources of wellbeing and how they drive motivation, engagement, and fulfillment. Building a meaningful life isn't a one-and-done situation—it's a continuous process. There's always something new to try that can move us towards purpose, growth, and resilience.

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