Limitless Leadership Lounge

Britt Hunter was the number one women's basketball recruit in the country. Then her knee shattered three possessions into her first game at Duke. What happened next is not the story you would expect.

This week Britt joins Jon and Coach Jim for a conversation about resilience, curiosity, and what she now tells the 14 to 24-year-olds she works with about the habits you build in your lowest moments being the ones that carry you through the next one.

Her story starts later than you think it does, and it ends somewhere none of the recruiting coaches saw coming.

Connect with Britt: LinkedIn, Instagram, or [email protected]

Grab her workbook Own Your Adventure: https://books.google.com/books/about/Own_Your_Adventure.html?id=MPf30QEACAAJ

The Limitless Leadership Lounge was selected by MillionPodcasts as one of the Top 100 Leadership Development Podcasts in the world: millionpodcasts.com/leadership-development-podcasts

"This should have just been an email."

If your team has ever thought that, this episode is for you.

This week Jon and Coach Jim go solo to break down the four types of meetings every leader needs to understand: the one-on-one, the leadership team meeting, the full staff meeting, and the off-site. Each one has a time and a place, and using the wrong type wastes time, erodes trust, and quietly signals to your team that you do not value their attention.

They also cover the one thing almost every meeting is missing at the end — and without it, even a great meeting is just a conversation.

The Limitless Leadership Lounge was selected by MillionPodcasts as one of the Top 100 Leadership Development Podcasts in the world: millionpodcasts.com/leadership-development-podcasts

When the shooting started at the Las Vegas concert, Todd Blyleven got his family out. Then he turned around and went back in.

For eight hours.

This week Todd joins Jon and Coach Jim for one of the most powerful conversations the Lounge has ever had. He is the son of Hall of Fame pitcher Bert Blyleven, a former professional baseball player, a speaker, a songwriter, and someone who carried more than 30 people out of a mass shooting with his own arms while the gunfire was still happening.

He also has a lot to say about therapy, intangibles, what it means to define success on your own terms, and the three words that became his life's mission.

Connect with Todd: toddblyleven.com

Find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-blyleven

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/todd.blyleven/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/todd.blyleven/

And X: https://x.com/BlylevenTodd

The Limitless Leadership Lounge was selected by MillionPodcasts as one of the Top 100 Leadership Development Podcasts in the world: millionpodcasts.com/leadership-development-podcasts

What if the word ATTITUDE could be an entire leadership framework? Coach Pat Sullivan spent 34 years proving that it can.

This week Pat joins Jon and Coach Jim for a conversation about what winning culture actually looks like, why your best players have to be your best team players, and what he learned from watching Michael Jordan talk to a brain-injured young man for an entire halftime while the rest of the arena left him alone.

Pat has over 500 wins, a Hall of Fame induction, and a book called c But the most memorable thing he shares in this episode might just be two words.

Grab the book: https://www.amazon.com/Attitude-Cornerstone-Leadership-Pat-Sullivan/dp/1482708582

The Limitless Leadership Lounge was selected by MillionPodcasts as one of the Top 100 Leadership Development Podcasts in the world: millionpodcasts.com/leadership-development-podcasts

The average school superintendent lasts three years. Tom Trigg lasted nearly two decades. He also has a marriage approaching 50 years. And he spent years studying the one coach whose definition of success most leaders have heard but very few actually live by.

This week Tom joins Jon and Coach Jim for a conversation about longevity, loyalty, contentment, and what it really means to build something worth staying for.

If you have ever wondered whether patience and perseverance are still competitive advantages in a world that rewards jumping ship, this episode will have something to say to you.

Connect with Tom: [email protected] or call 913-220-5676

Every leader is a public speaker whether they think of themselves as one or not. Every team meeting, every one-on-one, every moment you stand in front of your people and try to move them toward something — that is public speaking. And most leaders were never taught how to do it.

This week Jon and Coach Jim break down Coach's S.P.E.A.C. formula: five letters, five keys, and a framework that works whether you are on a stage in front of thousands or in a conference room with four people.

Start strong, prepare the right way, use eye contact and engagement to keep your audience, build an agenda with the power of story, and close in a way that actually moves people to action. It is all here.

The Limitless Leadership Lounge was selected by MillionPodcasts as one of the Top 100 Leadership Development Podcasts in the world: millionpodcasts.com/leadership-development-podcasts

What does it mean to be an uncommon leader? John Gallagher has a definition that will stick with you, and it starts with a shopping cart in a parking lot.

This week John joins Jon and Coach Jim for a conversation about faith, business, the moment a 2.3 performance review changed everything, and what it really takes to grow from someone who needed a mentor into someone others seek out as one.

If you have ever wondered whether your faith and your professional life belong in the same room, this episode will have something to say to you.

Connect with Jon: coachjohngallagher.com

Listen to The Uncommon Leader podcast: coachjohngallagher.com/podcast

Subscribe to the Champions Brew weekly newsletter: coachjohngallagher.com/blog

Connect With John on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/coachjohngallagher

Most leaders prepare a presentation by asking the wrong question. Cindy Skalicky has spent her career helping them ask the right one instead, and the difference is everything.

This week Cindy joins Jon and Coach Jim to talk about what it actually takes to move an audience from the red light of resistance to the green light of go. She is a public speaking coach, keynote speaker, and author of Red Light, Green Light, and she has a framework that will change how you think about every presentation you give from here on out.

If you have ever watched someone read their own PowerPoint slides and thought there has to be a better way, this episode is for you.

Grab the book: Red Light, Green Light on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1966168268

Connect with Cindy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-skalicky/

Listen to the Red Light, Green Light podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/116vzIk2w13v2LzwPoTcix

What does it take to walk up to Jamie Dimon, Paul McCartney, or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company and start a conversation? Chad Coe has done all of that and more, and his answer to how he got there will surprise you.

This week Chad joins Jon and Coach Jim for a conversation about confidence, connection, and what it really means to build an abundant life. His story starts in a special education classroom with padded walls at age eight and ends somewhere most people never reach.

If you have ever talked yourself out of approaching someone who intimidated you, this episode is for you.

Connect with Chad on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadcoe/

Find his books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/33kfpkyj

Learn more about Coe Financial Group: https://www.coefinancial.com/

What if the leadership skills you use every day at work are the exact same skills you need at home, and vice versa? This week, Jon Goehring and Coach Jim Johnson welcome Dr. Amanda Allard, PhD in Interpersonal Communication and founder of Allard Advising, for one of the most refreshingly original and practically useful conversations the Lounge has ever had on communication, leadership, and what it actually takes to thrive in both worlds at once.

Dr. Amanda opens with a story that reframes everything that follows. Her mother's incarceration when she was nine years old. A college scholarship that disappeared a month before graduation. A university that shut down. And a journey that took her from wondering if she could ever afford college to earning a doctorate from Michigan State. She shares that path not for sympathy but because it is the foundation of everything she now teaches about resilience, adaptability, and finding your voice when life does not go as planned.

The conversation digs into Dr. Amanda's Voice to Power framework, a four part model built around the insight that a great leader is 80 percent a great communicator, and that communication does not stop at the office door. She explains how the same skills that help you navigate a difficult team policy change, including the bandwagon effect and leading people to the solution rather than telling them the answer, are the exact same skills that help you influence your mother in law, negotiate with your toddler, and maintain your marriage through the turbulence of new parenthood.

Jon and Coach draw out some of the sharpest moments of the episode when Dr. Amanda unpacks her dissertation research on gossip, which she argues is not just a negative behavior but a fundamental communication tool that humans have used to build relationships and civilizations. She explains the difference between positive and negative gossip, why men and women gossip equally but about different things, and why the real leadership mistake is not that your team gossips but that you are probably gossiping positively about your best people to everyone except the people themselves.

The episode also covers active listening as a trained skill rather than a passive one, how to build genuine relationships in fully remote teams, the three parenting styles every leader should understand and why authoritative beats authoritarian every time, and why becoming a parent actually makes most leaders significantly better at time management and intentionality.

Whether you are a working mom trying to find your voice in both worlds, a leader who wants to communicate with more influence and less friction, or simply someone who has never thought about what your communication style is actually doing to the culture around you, this episode will give you new language and new tools for every conversation you have.

Connect with Dr. Amanda: allardadvising.com

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