[LL]: Courage Comes Before Confidence
Hey Leader 🙌 Here’s a truth bomb: You cannot lead from the front while hiding from criticism. Here’s what I mean. A couple of weeks ago, my friend Shawn Stevenson invited me onto The Model Health Show. Shawn is an incredible human, thought leader, and host of one of the world’s leading health podcasts. What […]
[Monday Mindset]: The Hidden Lesson Behind the Fall Season
Happy Monday Mindset! I traveled to Michigan over the weekend for my brother Barrett’s wedding this Friday. I’m fired up to celebrate this next chapter with him and our family! And coming from sunny Southern California, something immediately caught my attention. The changing colors of fall. The leaves turning. The temperatures dropping. Nature preparing for […]
[LL]: The World Sees the Launch. Leaders See This.
Hey Leader 🙌 NASA just sent four astronauts toward the International Space Station on October 1. Incredible! But here’s what most people miss: The launch wasn’t the impressive part. The preparation was. Before ignition, NASA and SpaceX completed a formal readiness review. Systems checked. Risks assessed. Teams aligned. Only then were they cleared to launch. […]
[Monday Mindset]: Life Is Fragile. Live With Urgency
Happy Monday Mindset! Life is fragile. And sometimes we get a terrifying reminder. Last month marked the 25th anniversary of September 11th. Then just last week, I watched the news about the terrifying incident aboard a flight from Dubai to Israel. Thankfully, tragedy was avoided because of some heroes like the co-pilot. But as I […]
[LL]: The 48 Hours That Changed How I Lead
Hey Leader 🙌 March 2020. Within hours, our entire Fit Body business model was essentially illegal. Hundreds of locations. Tens of thousands of clients. And no playbook for what came next. We had 2 choices: Freeze. Or figure it out. We chose the latter. And what happened over the next 48 hours taught me one […]
[Monday Mindset]: This Too Shall Pass
Happy Monday, Mindset! Last week marked the official start of fall. Living in Southern California, I joke that we really have 2 seasons: 3 summers and 1 fall. So while it doesn’t feel like fall in the traditional sense, as if you were growing up in Michigan like me. But even here, you can feel […]
[LL]: The Leadership Lesson That Humbled Me
Hey Leader 🙌 A couple of weekends ago, I was in Detroit, Michigan, celebrating my cousin’s wedding. Beautiful event. 10 out of 10 weekend. But I got humbled. I was catching up with a cousin, Elaina, who is the life of the party and a beautiful soul. She married into our family when I was […]
[Monday Mindset]: The $30 Lesson I Didn’t Expect
Happy Monday, Mindset! A few weeks ago, I walked into a big-box gym in Michigan expecting to pay $30 for a day pass. I walked out with one for free. But here’s the interesting part: I never asked for a discount. I simply got curious. I started talking with Cassandra, my new friend who was […]
[LL]: Leadership Lesson: 25 Years Later, This Leadership Lesson Remains
Hey Leader 🙌 25 years ago, I walked into an 8 am college class as an 18-year-old freshman at Michigan State. 4 hours later, I walked out to a different world. Without smartphones or constant internet access, my classmates and I had no idea what had happened. Then I saw the images. Like millions of […]
[Monday Mindset]: 4 Hours Later, The World Had Changed
Happy Monday, Mindset! 25 years ago, I walked into an 8 am class at Michigan State. I was 18 years old. No smartphones fed us breaking news. So when my classmates and I walked out around Noon, we had no idea that in those 4 hours, the world had changed. I returned to my dorm […]