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The Leadership Podcast

The Leadership Podcast Why do we do this? We interview great leaders, review the books they read, and speak with highly influential authors who study them. How we do this? #1 We interview great leaders. #2 We review the books great leaders read and write. #3 We have fun!

May 27, 2026

Nick Black is the founder and CEO of GoodUnited, a former Army officer, co-founder of Stop Soldier Suicide, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and a UNC Distinguished Alumnus.

Nick focuses on a cost most leaders refuse to calculate: isolation.

What happens to your people when no one is checking on them?

After deploying...


May 20, 2026

Kevin Rice is the former co-founder and president of Hathaway, a digital consultancy acquired by Bounteous in 2021. He is now an angel investor at Theorem One Capital and host of the CEOs and ABCs podcast.

Kevin focuses on a gap most leaders don’t want to look at. The difference between who you are at work and who you...


May 13, 2026

What happens when you spend 10 years interviewing some of the world’s top leaders?

After 500 interviews with CEOs, generals, founders, bestselling authors, athletes, and elite performers, Jim Vaselopulos and Jan Rutherford discovered a surprising pattern. The most successful leaders were NOT the most polished, they...


May 6, 2026

Maria Brinck is the Founder & President of Zynergy International and author of “The Leadership We Need: A New Mindset for a Brighter Future.”

In this episode, Maria argues that the leadership crisis most organizations face isn’t a skills gap — it’s a flawed model. The qualities we’ve long rewarded in leaders...