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In The Lead

In The Lead

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"In The Lead" is a podcast dedicated to exploring the development of character strengths and their profound impact on effective leadership. Through engaging conversations with influential guests, we provide listeners with valuable insights and practical tools to navigate their leadership journeys. Each episode focuses on essential themes of personal growth, self-awareness, and the principles that inspire great leaders. Join us as we empower you to elevate your leadership skills and stay in the lead.TLC Management Personal Development Personal Success
Episodes
  • Three Kinds of Rest

    Three Kinds of Rest
    Jul 20 2026
    You can manage your time perfectly and still arrive at Friday completely emptied. Time management doesn't fix depletion. That's a different problem — and that's what this episode is about.

    In five minutes, Nathan Metz walks through three kinds of rest that most leaders aren't getting: the decision to actually stop (cessation), knowing the place that fills you back up (location), and the deepest rest of all — the one that comes from knowing your work is held by something larger than your outcomes. Drawing from Hebrews 4 and Paul's letter from prison, this is a short episode with a long shelf life.
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    7 mins
  • Unmanaged Time

    Unmanaged Time
    Jul 6 2026
    July is vacation month. And if you're like most leaders, you're already negotiating with yourself about how available you need to stay. This episode is for you.

    Time is the one resource every person has in exactly equal measure — twenty-four hours — and yet something happens to it when nobody's paying attention. In this episode, Nathan Metz draws from Gordon MacDonald's Ordering Your Private World to name four things that happen to unmanaged time: it flows toward your weaknesses, it comes under the influence of dominant people, it surrenders to every emergency, and it quietly drifts toward whatever earns the most applause. Odds are, you'll recognize yourself in at least one.

    But the episode doesn't stop at the problem. Nathan closes with three practical moves for reclaiming your time — knowing your rhythms, building real criteria for your yes, and learning to plan your time before you're under its pressure. Plus a simple framework for thinking about fixed time versus flex time that you can put to work immediately.

    This is Part 1 of a two-part summer series on time and rest. Part 2 is next.
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    16 mins
  • The Coach Who Listens

    The Coach Who Listens
    Jun 15 2026
    Great listeners aren't born — they're built. In this episode, Nathan steps back and hands the floor to one of the most-watched communication talks of the last decade. Celeste Headlee spent decades as a public radio host before she asked herself a hard question: What actually makes a conversation good? Her answer, delivered in a 2015 TEDx talk, is one of the most practical things a leader can hear.
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    16 mins
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