Episode 5 — Lesson 2: Cultivate Your Curiosity

What if the most transformative thing you could do as a leader costs nothing, requires no qualification, and is available to every single one of us?

Welcome back to From Their Story To Yours — where history's greatest leaders hand you the playbook, one lesson at a time. Your host Elaine McLoughlin is back with Lesson 2 of Season 1: Self Leadership — and this one is going to stop you in your tracks.

Lesson 2: Cultivate Your Curiosity.

This episode, Elaine introduces us to a historical figure whose hunger to learn, question, and explore didn't just define who they were — it defined what they were able to achieve. In a world that rewards certainty, this leader chose curiosity. And it changed everything.

But who are we talking about? That's the reveal — and it's coming in Episode 6. Trust us, you will not see this one coming. Come back and find out. 🎙️

Season 1: Self Leadership is in full swing — and the deeper we go, the clearer it becomes. The leaders who changed the world were always working on themselves first.

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Episode 4 — Bonus Episode: Lincoln's Global Influence with Richard Carwardine

He shaped a nation. But his reach went far further than that.

Welcome back to From Their Story To Yours — and to a very special bonus episode. Elaine sits down once again with the brilliant Richard Carwardine to explore a side of Abraham Lincoln that doesn't get nearly enough attention: his global influence and what the world made of the man, the myth, and the leader.

How did a self-taught lawyer from rural Illinois become a symbol of hope, freedom, and leadership across the entire world? What did ordinary people in Britain, Europe, and beyond see in Lincoln that made him mean so much to so many? And what does that tell us about the kind of leadership that truly transcends borders, generations, and time?

Richard has dedicated years of scholarship to exactly these questions — and this conversation is as fascinating as it gets.

Season 1: Self Leadership continues — and it turns out, understanding how Lincoln was seen by the world tells us just as much about leading ourselves as anything else.

📚 Read More:

• 📖 Global Lincoln by Richard Carwardine — Amazon
• 🔗 Richard Carwardine — Wikipedia
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Episode 3 — The Expert: In Conversation with Richard Carwardine

The lesson was Take Your Sense of Humor Seriously. Lincoln was the leader. Now meet the man who wrote the book on it — literally.

This episode, Elaine sits down with Richard Carwardine — one of the world's foremost Lincoln scholars and the author of Lincoln's Sense of Humor — for a conversation that goes deep into the wit, wisdom, and calculated genius behind one of history's most beloved leaders. This is the kind of interview that makes you want to clear your afternoon and take notes.

Richard unpacks how Lincoln's humor wasn't just personality — it was policy. A tool he returned to again and again to navigate impossible pressure, manage difficult people, and keep himself grounded when the world was anything but. If you thought you understood Lincoln after Episode 2, this conversation is going to take you even further.

Season 1: Self Leadership continues — and this episode is proof that the best lessons don't just come from history books. Sometimes they come from the people who wrote them.

🎙️ A special thank you to Higher Ground Leadership at Gettysburg for making this conversation possible.

Higher Ground Leadership at Gettysburg

📚 Learn More About Richard Carwardine:

• 🔗 Richard Carwardine — Wikipedia
• 📖 Lincoln's Sense of Humor — Goodreads

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