The Lead Up Podcast

A special guest joins Mike this week on The LeadUp Podcast. Sam Shapiro is a coach for mission-driven leaders, empowering them to lead themselves and others to greater fulfillment, enhanced well-being, and elevated impact.

Samantha has experience working in several healthcare facilities. She's learned that no matter how difficult the problems we are attempting to solve, our efforts to do so will only last for as long as our people are able to endure. She is passionate about helping people as well as their organizations with their health, growth, and development.

Sam and Mike discuss the importance of self-care in leadership. They discuss the need to do the hard work of self-care by asking yourself tough questions. Before asking someone else what they can do, ask yourself how you can do the work you need to do. Ask yourself how you can adjust your approach. Sam notes that self-care is fundamentally about connecting leaders with themselves.

Why are curiosity and self-reflection so important in leadership? Mike believes it opens up communication, while Sam says it makes awareness action-oriented. Sam talks about loosening the grip of the achiever, allowing the power of our unconscious mind to support our decision-making, and connecting to what we want our lives to be about and the legacy we want to leave.

Our conversation with Sam covers a number of topics including knowing when we're overusing our strengths and a helpful technique he calls the Three Gifts, which helps us train our brain to find the learning and opportunity in any situation.

Discover these and more by listening to the full episode.

Start changing your mindset today to move past perfectionism and accomplish big goals with our Overcoming Perfectionism and Daily Affirmations. Or you may want to try our 40-Day Success Challenge for personal growth.

You can learn more about Sam on her website.

On this episode of The LeadUp Podcast, Mike shares his 4 Corner Posts that you can utilize to make 2023 your greatest year.

Mike asks a few questions to get you thinking - Are you thinking or reacting? Are you making life happen or letting life happen to you? We have to ask ourselves these questions to know where our mindset is.

Take a listen to this episode and be sure to take some notes so that you can set and reach your goals for 2023.

Check out our Executive Book Summaries to help you along the way. We have over 15 already in our library and are adding 2 new summaries each month. 

On this episode of The LeadUp Podcast, Mike is joined by special guest, host of The Quote of the Day Show, Sean Croxton! Mike and Sean discuss a multitude of topics including expanding your self-image, how to let go of excuses, improving your commitment, and dealing with anxiety.

Sean shares about his career as a Health Coach and how it made him realize that a lot of people use a Be, Do, Have formula to achieve success when really people need to focus on the way they think and feel in order to chase their true goals. Mike and Sean discuss how we can’t lead well if we don’t think and feel well and how that relates to long-term commitment and action.

Sean specializes in money mindset and provides us with an insight into some of the most important practices you need to be implementing into your daily routines. Sean speaks about some of his favorite podcasts and book and makes a special note to Life Unlocked by Dr. Srinivasan Pillay as chapter 3 takes you through how most people want success but they don’t even realize that they fear success. People fear the unknown and success is full of the unknown. They talk about how impactful mindfulness is and how your brain is a belief confirmation machine and will shape your reality based on what you believe to be true.

Sean Croxton is a Certified Transformational Neurocoach who uses brain science to help online entrepreneurs, coaches, and course creators break through their mental blocks so they can take action, be seen, and stand out in a crowded niche.

Sean’s career online spans over a decade as one of the first YouTubers and podcasters in the holistic health space. As the founder of Underground Wellness, he hosted over 300 health-based interviews on his UW Radio podcast and created 7 popular online health events, including The Digestion Sessions and The Depression Sessions.  

In 2015, Sean stepped away from the health industry to pursue his dreams in the personal development space. He is the host of The Quote of The Day Show podcast, the creator of The Entrepreneur’s Mind Method course, and the author of The Course Cure: 5 Invisible Reasons Why High-Ticket Internet Marketing Courses aren’t Helping Your Business. 

If you would like to reach out or find more information about Sean and his podcast make sure to check out his website: Www.SeanCroxton.com.

On this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike shares 23 practices you can begin implementing in your routine to help make 2023 your best year ever! He encourages you to grab a notepad and pen to take in these practices that will help you avoid stepping into the new year fearful and prepare to make it the best year ever.

Mike asks you to evaluate yourself within areas you would like to see a change after listening to this episode, create a plan/strategy on how you will improve on these areas, and then reevaluate at the end of this year and watch your grade rise!

He shares his appreciation and gratitude for returning listeners and welcomes new listeners to this fantastic and inspiring episode.

Throughout this episode, Mike shares 23 practices he has been implementing in his life for as long as he can remember. These things have helped him improve as an individual, leader, mentor, friend, and family member. Here are some of the 23 practices you need to implement into your routine in 2023:

On this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike is joined by guest, David Horsager. David is the CEO of The Trust Edge Leadership Institute.

Mike and David talk about the key role that trust plays in organizations. David explains how he discovered, through lots of research, that trust is the biggest expense in an organization. He wrote The Trust Edge to teach leaders how to build trust within their teams.

David shares the 8 pillars leaders need in order to effectively build trust within their teams:

Mike and David also talk about measuring the results of using these 8 pillars and how to measure trust within employee engagement. David shares how a lack of trust and how an abundance of trust can impact the mission of an organization as well as the impact these have on recruitment and retention.

David shares his three main tips for leaders to bring into the new year to ensure they start the year excited and capable of building trust within their teams:

For more information about David’s 8 pillars and how trust is the biggest expense in an organization head over to the following website: www.Trustedge.com.

On this episode of The Lead Up podcast, Mike is joined by guest Paul Gustavson.

Mike and Paul speak about the power of imagination and how you can optimize your imagination to shape the future and those around you.

Paul provides us with an insight into full-spectrum innovation and how you can implement it as a leader. They also discuss why it’s better to live in imagination as opposed to living in memory.

Paul talks about his book, Imagine: The surprising truth about hope and the 12 powerful ways to invent the future. He shares how the inspiration came during the pandemic when he noticed that everyone just needed hope – and hope comes from imagination.

Mike and Paul talk about one of the most impactful chapters in his book, The Power of Curiosity, and how it’s an absolute must-read, not only for leaders but for parents and anyone that still dreams.

Paul states that success is when imagination meets reality, so make sure to give his book a read so that you can begin maximizing your imagination and your team's imagination!

For more information about the book and Paul, head over to his website:  www.Theimaginebook.com/leadup 

On this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike is joined by Mickey Trent. Mickey works with Anteris Talent Advisors, a retained executive search and talent acquisition consulting firm. Mickey has over 20 years of healthcare executive recruiting experience and she shares how she got into recruiting and how the pandemic really changed the game for recruiting.

Mike and Mickey talk about their favorite aspects of recruiting and Mickey shares how she loves working with so many different people and seeing them grow in positions. They also talk about the challenges recruiters are facing right now and how money is not the driving force for people leaving their jobs to go to similar positions at different organizations.

They discuss why it’s so important for companies to hire the right people in today's workforce. Mickey speaks about how she’s seeing, particularly in the healthcare sector, that employees are doing a lot more and with less so it’s crucial that organizations are finding the perfect fit. Mike shares his ideas on ‘closed-loop systems’ when it comes to the hiring process and why ensuring you let people know when they don’t get the job is so important. 

Mike and Mickey discuss the main questions organizations need to ask why they’re looking for leaders as being the following:

If you’d like to work with Mickey or would like some more information about the work she does you can reach her by phone: 615.519.6955, email: [email protected], or website: www.anteristalentadvisors.com 

In this episode of The LeadUp Podcast, Mike talks to us about dreaming big.

He shares an acrostic for DREAM

D is for desire

R is for relationships

E is eliminating bad relationships/habits

A is action

M is make mistakes

Listen to this episode to learn how each of these can help you to dream bigger and achieve those dreams.

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On this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike is on his own today for episode 308 to share with you why mindset matters and how you can begin to strengthen your mind for success in all areas of leadership and life. Mike is also going to share with us 3 books he highly recommends, three practices you need to implement to create habits around, and three ways you can protect your mindset as you strengthen over time.

Mike remembers a rhetorical question asked by a speaker, “Do you want to know what the next year or next five years is going to look like for you?”. As he listened the question became more interesting as he was in a growth period and looking for life’s easy button. His answer which stuck with Mike was “Your life one year from now, your life five years from now is going to be exactly like it is right now, unless you change the way you think”. 

Mike goes on to share his three ideas to shift your mindset.

The three books Mike recommends are The 4:8 Principle by Tommy Newberry, a biblically routed mindset book, As A Man Thinketh by James Allen, a small book written in 1902 but the principles are still the same, and finally Mindset by Carol Dweck, which teaches the difference between growth and fixed mindset. 

After touching on the personal journey he’s been on, Mike gives us three tips to sustain our mindset.

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As a Man Thinketh

The 4:8 Principle

Mindset

On this episode of The LeadUp Podcast, Mike is joined by guest, the human igniter, Carolyn Swora! Carolyn joins the podcast from Burlington, Ontario. She shares spent 17 years in the corporate world before branching out into her own business working on culture, leadership and helping leaders realize that self-awareness is the key way to lead in the workplace and in life!

Mike and Carolyn speak about the following topics leaders should be aware of:

Carolyn gives her best advice to leaders listening to this episode. She encourages you to listen to your body, trust your own intuition and get curious about how you respond to situations. Mike and Carolyn speak about how self-awareness is like an onion, there are so many layers we need to peel back, and how self-awareness is the differentiator between successful and unsuccessful leaders.

Mike encourages you to check out Carolyn's book, Rules of Engagement to learn more about these critical topics, which you can find here: Rules of Engagement. Carolyn also gives some exciting information about her new book, Ignited Leadership. The book includes vital information about how you can gain an understanding of the three centers of intelligence and trauma-informed leadership. This is definitely a conversation leaders need to be having to progress in the future of leadership, post-pandemic. Ignited Leadership will be released in Spring 2023.

For more information head over to: www.carolynswora.com.

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