The Illusion That’s Destroying Leaders

There’s a quiet enemy wrecking dealership leaders every day:

the illusion that leadership will get easier “once things change.”

Once the team is fixed…

Once the market shifts…

Once rates drop…

That illusion is stealing your confidence, your culture, and your peace.

What You’ll Learn

• Why expecting “easy” is what’s actually burning you out
• The 5 truths of reality from Phil Stutz
• Why chaos doesn’t mean failure
• The mindset elite operators share
• How victim thinking sneaks into leadership
• The shift that brings strength back to your store and your home

The Leadership Reality

You will never be exonerated from:

• Pain
• Uncertainty
• Hard work

Elite leaders don’t wait for an easier season—

they stop expecting one.

Your New Mantra

“Reality is the training.”

Every upset customer… a rep.

Every blown deal… a rep.

Every fire… a rep.

Every hard day… a rep.

You grow by facing reality, not negotiating with it.

The Hidden Cost

When you expect leadership to be easy,

you carry that frustration home.

Short fuse.

Low patience.

Half present.

Not because you don’t care—

but because the illusion disappointed you again.

Kill the illusion.

Your peace comes back.

War Room Challenge

When something goes sideways today, don’t ask:

❌ “Why me?”

Ask:

✅ “What is this teaching me?”

Then repeat:

“Reality is the training.”

Need Daily Discipline & Structure?

Text discipline to the number on the screen and get the AI Executive Assistant built for leaders in the War Room.

Go out today, embrace the difficulty,

and create some leadership fire.

See you tomorrow in the Dealership War Room. love the show? like, rate, review and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

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Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

Think Like an Elite Leader

Elite operators aren’t different because they “work harder.”

They’re different because they think differently.

Average leaders react.

Elite leaders run a system — a mental operating system that gives them calm, clarity, and control no matter how chaotic the store gets.

Today, you get that system.

What You’ll Learn

• Why you don’t rise to your goals — you fall to your systems
• The difference between reactive leadership and proactive leadership
• How elite operators eliminate drift and think with precision
• The full three-part Clarity Engine (MIQ System)
• Why outcome → leverage → urgency is your new leadership sequence
• How to reset your brain every morning in 60 seconds

The MIQ Operating System

Your new mental OS runs on 3 daily questions:

1. Outcome — What am I actually trying to create?
2. → Direction.
3. One Move — What’s the single action that changes everything?
4. → Leverage.
5. Cost — What happens if I don’t act?
6. → Urgency.

Together, they kill overwhelm, sharpen decisions, and turn scattered effort into decisive execution.

Before MIQs vs After MIQs

Before: scattered • reactive • overwhelmed • emotional • always behind

After: focused • calm • centered • decisive • leading, not chasing

The difference is not talent.

It’s the operating system.

Your 60-Second Ritual

Every morning, run these 3 questions:

• What’s the outcome I’m creating?
• What’s the one move that unlocks it?
• What’s the cost of not doing it today?

One minute.

Three questions.

An entire leadership reset.

Clarity → Confidence → Execution → Results.

War Room Challenge

For the next 7 days, run the MIQ ritual daily.

Prove to yourself that you can think like an elite operator.

These 7 days will change the way you lead, decide, and execute.

Want to Go Deeper?

Join the Velocity Mastermind — where elite leaders sharpen each other, build unstoppable systems, and transform their businesses from the inside out.

Link in the show notes.

Go create some leadership fire — and I’ll see you Monday in the Dealership War Room.

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Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

▶️ Subscribe here ➡️https://www.youtube.com/@chrishunsicker31

Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

Avoidance is expensive — and most leaders never calculate the bill.

Every leader pays a tax.

You either pay the tax of execution or the tax of avoidance —

one builds your future, the other steals it.

Most managers obsess over how uncomfortable action feels…

but almost never measure the destruction of inaction.

That’s why cultures drift, teams become inconsistent, confidence cracks,

and results stall.

Today, we expose the silent tax that’s draining your momentum.

What You’ll Learn

• Why inaction compounds like interest — but in the wrong direction
• How “the drift” slowly kills culture, standards, and confidence
• The Avoidance Tax: what it costs you in results, belief, and identity
• The 3-part cost filter: Money • Morale • Momentum
• Why delayed action destroys urgency — and how to flip it fast
• How one postponed behavior can tank an entire month

Framework of the Day: MIQ #3 — The Real Cost

Ask this every time you delay:

“If I put this off for 30 days, what happens to my money, my morale, and my momentum?”

Denominate the cost.

See it clearly.

Urgency instantly rises.

War Room Challenge

Take the one move you identified yesterday and run it through the cost filter:

Money: What does delaying actually cost in gross, CSI, throughput, bonuses?

Morale: What frustration, inconsistency, and drama grow when you stall?

Momentum: What traction, habits, and energy evaporate when you hesitate?

Write it down.

Face the numbers.

Then execute.

Tools & Support

Text OVERWHELM to the number on screen to access the AI Execution Bot —

your partner for clarity, urgency, and intelligent decision-making.

Avoidance has a price.

Execution has a payoff.

Choose the one that builds your future.

Go create some leadership fire — see you tomorrow in the Dealership War Room.
love the show? like, rate, review and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

▶️ Subscribe here ➡️https://www.youtube.com/@chrishunsicker31

Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

Stop solving the wrong problem — fix your aim, not your effort.

Most leaders don’t have an execution problem — they have an aim problem.

You’re grinding, pushing, reacting, swinging hard…

but if the swing isn’t pointed at the right target, more effort won’t save you.

Today, we fix the root issue: outcome blindness.

What You’ll Learn

• Why overwhelm is actually directionless thinking, not workload
• The dangerous trap of task-chasing vs. outcome-leading
• How leaders confuse noise with mission — and lose power
• Why meetings, huddles, and processes fail (hint: outcome undefined)
• The Outcome Filter: a simple sentence formula that restores clarity fast
• How outcome clarity becomes the foundation of ALL leadership competence

Framework of the Day: The Outcome Filter

“The outcome I’m trying to create is ___ so that ___.”

Use it for anything: huddles, follow-up, scheduling, culture, sales momentum.

Outcome → Focus → Emotional control → Better decisions → Better days.

War Room Challenge

Pick one leadership overwhelm you identified yesterday.

Run it through the Outcome Filter:

The outcome I’m actually trying to create is ____ so that _____.

This one move will snap your mind into clarity.

Tools & Support

Text OVERWHELM to the number on screen to get the AI Execution Bot — the tool that helps you refine outcomes, tighten decisions, and build consistency daily.

Aim first.

Outcome first.

Clarity first.

Go create some leadership fire — see you tomorrow in the Dealership War Room.
love the show? like, rate, review and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

▶️ Subscribe here ➡️https://www.youtube.com/@chrishunsicker31

Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

Stop solving the wrong problem — fix your aim, not your effort.

Most leaders don’t have an execution problem —

they have an aim problem.

You’re grinding, pushing, reacting, swinging hard…

but if the swing isn’t pointed at the right target, more effort won’t save you.

Today, we fix the root issue: outcome blindness.

What You’ll Learn

• Why overwhelm is actually directionless thinking, not workload
• The dangerous trap of task-chasing vs. outcome-leading
• How leaders confuse noise with mission — and lose power
• Why meetings, huddles, and processes fail (hint: outcome undefined)
• The Outcome Filter: a simple sentence formula that restores clarity fast
• How outcome clarity becomes the foundation of ALL leadership competence

Framework of the Day: The Outcome Filter

“The outcome I’m trying to create is ___ so that ___.”

Use it for anything: huddles, follow-up, scheduling, culture, sales momentum.

Outcome → Focus → Emotional control → Better decisions → Better days.

War Room Challenge

Pick one leadership overwhelm you identified yesterday.

Run it through the Outcome Filter:

The outcome I’m actually trying to create is ____ so that _____.

This one move will snap your mind into clarity.

Tools & Support

Text OVERWHELM to the number on screen to get the AI Execution Bot — the tool that helps you refine outcomes, tighten decisions, and build consistency daily.

Aim first.

Outcome first.

Clarity first.

Go create some leadership fire — see you tomorrow in the Dealership War Room.
love the show? like, rate, review and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

▶️ Subscribe here ➡️https://www.youtube.com/@chrishunsicker31

Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

Why your days explode by 9:14 AM — and how to reclaim control.

Most leaders aren’t drowning because they’re bad.

They’re drowning because they’re overloaded, mentally jammed, and operating inside a fog disguised as busyness.

This episode breaks open one of the biggest hidden killers of leadership momentum: overwhelm without direction.

If your days collapse, your team slips, your temper rises, and your confidence cracks — you’re in the Overwhelm Trap.

Today, we start the arc that pulls you out of it for good.

What You’ll Learn

• The real reason overwhelm hits (it’s NOT workload — it’s lack of direction)
• Why “busy” leaders secretly struggle the most
• The 3 things overwhelm steals from you: clarity, confidence, control
• The dealership scenario that proves overwhelm is environmental, not personal
• The foundation of the Clarity Engine — your way out
• The 3 MIQs (Most Important Questions) that instantly cut through chaos

War Room Challenge

Identify one leadership area that feels overwhelming right now.

Not five. Not ten. One.

Hold it in your mind — tomorrow, we run MIQ #1 and dismantle it.

Tools & Support

Text OVERWHELM to the number onscreen to get the AI Execution Assistant — built to help you clear mental clutter, tighten decisions, and execute with precision.

Overwhelm isn’t a character flaw.

It’s leadership without clarity — and today is the turning point.

Go create some leadership fire, and I’ll see you tomorrow in the Dealership War Room.
love the show? like, rate, review and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

▶️ Subscribe here ➡️https://www.youtube.com/@chrishunsicker31

Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

The Formula That Transforms Your Store, Your Team, and Your Legacy

There are two types of dealerships:

Those that wait… and those that create.

This episode is the line in the sand.

For 199 episodes, we’ve been building the pieces — dissatisfaction, vision, first steps, resistance.

Today, episode 200 brings them together into one code — the formula that predicts, diagnoses, and guarantees change.

If your store feels stuck…

If you’re carrying the entire load…

If you’re one crisis away from collapse…

This is the episode that flips your leadership identity forever.

What You’ll Learn

• The exact formula elite leaders use to create change on command
• Why change never starts in the store — it starts in you
• How dissatisfaction fuels the leader you must become
• How to create a vision of yourself that your team can actually follow
• How “one small step” unlocks unstoppable momentum
• Why resistance is not the enemy — it’s the indicator you’re on the right path
• The identity shift: from overwhelmed operator to thermostat leader

War Room Challenge

Choose the version of yourself your store needs next.

Write it. Name it. Step into it for 24 hours.

Ask yourself daily:

“Who must I become to lead my team into the future?”

This is not a tactic — it’s a transformation.

Identity → Discipline → Culture → Legacy.

If this episode opened something up inside you, scan the QR code and join the Velocity Mastermind — the tribe where elite leaders forge clarity, culture, and execution at the highest level.

Go create some leadership fire, and I’ll see you Monday in the Dealership War Room.love the show? like, rate, review and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

▶️ Subscribe here ➡️https://www.youtube.com/@chrishunsicker31

Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

You don’t lose your team because they hate change.

You lose them because change threatens something important to them.

In this episode, Chris breaks down the psychology behind resistance — and why your perfectly clear rollout still fell flat — using the five hidden “losses” that trigger automatic pushback.

Resistance isn’t defiance.

It’s fear, identity, uncertainty… and it’s predictable.

What You’ll Learn

• The 5 psychological drivers of resistance
• (loss of competence, control, identity, certainty, time)
• Why your best people are often the most resistant
• How to melt resistance without force
• How small wins and clarity shift the entire change equation
• Why resistance is not the enemy — it’s the roadmap

War Room Challenge

Ask these five diagnostic questions before your next change rollout:

1. What are they afraid of losing?
2. What part of the change feels unclear?
3. What seems too big or too fast?
4. What quick win can reduce fear immediately?
5. How can I reinforce their competence and identity?

Answering these five questions gives you your next move — instantly. 
love the show? like, rate, review and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

▶️ Subscribe here ➡️https://www.youtube.com/@chrishunsicker31

Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

Big change doesn’t fail because people resist it —

It fails because it feels too big.

Your team isn’t pushing back.

They’re overwhelmed.

In this episode, Chris breaks down why the Gleicher Formula collapses when F = zero — and how to make change immediately winnable by giving your people the first three steps and nothing more.

What You’ll Learn

• Why teams drown in complexity
• The “3-Foot Level” your people actually operate in
• How 3 simple steps turned a failing recon rollout around
• Why momentum beats perfection
• How early wins melt resistance and build belief

War Room Challenge

Pick ONE change you’re rolling out.

Write down the first 3 steps — simple, safe, winnable.

Execute them today.

Small wins start the avalanche.

If you want help breaking big change into simple, executable first steps, text CHANGE to the number on your screen to get the AI Execution Assistant. love the show? like, rate, review and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

📥 Join free here ➡️ https://info.chrishunsicker.com/private-podcst

Connect with Chris on Social

Daily leadership insights, dealership-specific execution tips, and behind-the-scenes coaching moments.

• LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hunsicker-3437205/
• Instagram ➡️ @christopherhunsicker
• Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575644134790

Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

▶️ Subscribe here ➡️https://www.youtube.com/@chrishunsicker31

Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.

Your team isn’t resisting change — they’re resisting the fog.

They don’t shut down because they’re afraid of hard work.

They shut down because they can’t see where you’re going.

Confusion is the silent killer of change.

And if your vision is weak, fuzzy, or nonexistent… resistance wins every time.

In this episode:

• Why your team isn’t lazy — they’re lost
• The brutal truth behind the Gleicher Formula (D × V × F > R)
• How to pass the 30-Second Vision Test
• The AI hack to turn fuzzy goals into powerful buy-in

The 30-Second Vision Test

If you can’t describe what winning looks like in 30 seconds or less —

you don’t have a vision, you have a wish.

Your team moves toward pictures, not pressure.

Make the future clear, emotional, and winnable.

Execution Bridge:

Pick one area of your dealership that needs change.

Answer these four questions:

1️⃣ What does a win look like?

2️⃣ How does it feel when it’s working?

3️⃣ What will the customer experience?

4️⃣ How will the team benefit?

Then condense it into 30 seconds — simple, emotional, and visual.

Because when your people can see the destination, they stop resisting the road.

You’re not selling cars anymore — you’re selling ideas.

So close them on your vision, or they’ll buy into their excuses instead. Go create some Leadership Fire.

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Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

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If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.