The Leader I Needed with James (Trig) Rosseau, Sr. | Emotional Intelligence, Imposter Syndrome, Mentoring, Servant Leader, New Promoted Manager cover art

The Leader I Needed with James (Trig) Rosseau, Sr. | Emotional Intelligence, Imposter Syndrome, Mentoring, Servant Leader, New Promoted Manager

The Leader I Needed with James (Trig) Rosseau, Sr. | Emotional Intelligence, Imposter Syndrome, Mentoring, Servant Leader, New Promoted Manager

By: James Rosseau Sr.
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Are you a newly promoted manager who got the title, the office, and the responsibility, but nobody actually taught you how to lead people? Do you feel like you're spending your days babysitting, firefighting, and faking your way through meetings? Are you starting to wonder if imposter syndrome is just your gut telling you the truth? The Leader I Needed will help you become the people-first leader others actually want to follow. Each episode gives you real tools, honest conversations, and a repeatable system for leading people that produces results without burning you out or forcing you to fake it. I'm James Rosseau Sr. I spent 20-plus years in corporate leadership, including leading a team of 40 at JPMorgan Chase in New York City. When I stepped into that role, nobody handed me a playbook. My office was a closet nobody had cleaned out. I made the mistakes. I led from my desk when I should have been leading from the hallway. What changed everything was a simple shift: I stopped managing tasks and started investing in people. I learned that emotional intelligence wasn't a soft skill, it was THE skill. And I spent the next two decades refining that philosophy across leadership roles, consulting engagements, and mentoring the next generation of leaders. Now I'm building the show I needed back then, for the leader you're becoming right now. If you are ready to stop feeling like a fraud in your own role, start building real trust with your team, and finally lead with a system instead of survival mode, this is the podcast for you. Grab your coffee, close your office door, and let's get to work. #PurposeDrivenCareer #Careers #CareerAdvice #CareerGuidance #CareerManagement #Entrepreneurship #PurposeDrivenLeadershipCopyright 2025 The Corelink Solution Economics Management Management & Leadership Personal Development Personal Success
Episodes
  • 225. The Hidden Reason Your Projects Keep Stalling

    225. The Hidden Reason Your Projects Keep Stalling
    Jun 30 2026
    Your projects keep stalling and you've been blaming the wrong thing. It's not your team. It's not that they lack ownership. It's not that they don't care. The real reason is something most new managers don't see coming, and once you see it, you can fix it this week. Are you leaving meetings feeling aligned, only to come back a week later and realize nothing moved? Are you constantly refereeing decisions nobody seems willing to make? Are you carrying the anxiety of entire projects because no one knows what they actually own? In this episode, you'll learn why productive meetings don't create ownership, why decisions freeze when no one knows who has the authority to call it, and how to bring clarity to one stuck project before this week is out using a simple framework. Two sentences. That's all it takes to save yourself two weeks of spinning. I'm James Rosseau Sr. I've spent 20-plus years in corporate leadership leading large teams at JPMorgan Chase, Allstate, LegalShield, and beyond, and I've watched this one thing drain projects over and over. If you're tired of meetings that lead nowhere, frozen decisions, and carrying the weight of every project on your back, this episode is for you. Grab your coffee, close your office door, and let's get to work.
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    15 mins
  • 224. Treating Everyone the Same Is Failing Your Team

    224. Treating Everyone the Same Is Failing Your Team
    Jun 23 2026
    You were told to treat everyone the same. Same feedback, same expectations, same approach. That's fairness, right? But what if that sameness is the thing quietly tanking your team? In this episode of The Leader I Need It, James Rosseau breaks down why identical leadership is lazy leadership — and introduces four roles every leader needs to move between: coach, cheerleader, confidant, and counselor. He shares the story of a single email from his CEO that activated his fight or flight and left him reading it over and over for weeks — then unpacks what that moment taught him about how we show up for people. If you've been leading with sameness and calling it fairness, this one is going to challenge everything you thought was working.
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    12 mins
  • 223. The Skills That Got You Promoted Are Now Working AGAINST You

    223. The Skills That Got You Promoted Are Now Working AGAINST You
    Jun 16 2026
    The skills that got you promoted may be the ones now working against you. If you were a great individual contributor, the game slowed down for you. You knew the systems, knew where the answers lived, knew how to score. Then you became a manager, and the game sped right back up. The rim moved. The court changed. And the instincts that made you dependable, the "I'll just do it myself" reflex, the urge to route around the difficult teammate, the pressure to have every answer, those instincts now create the very problems you're trying to fix. In this episode, James Rosseau Sr. unpacks the three shifts every new manager has to make to stop leading with old instinct and start leading with new awareness. You'll hear why your promotion was a reward for mastering a game you already understood, why leadership is not the next level of that game but a different game entirely, and why the new game is won through your people, not around them. James also shares the story of "Montel," a team member he almost wrote off at Card Services who became one of his strongest players the moment James stopped managing harder and started investing differently. By the end of this episode, you'll be able to spot exactly where you're leading from old habit and know what to do about it. Three weekly action steps included.
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    17 mins
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