• Leadership With EXPERT Educator: Dr. Stephanie Duguid
    Jun 28 2026

    Doctor Stephanie Duguid shares her inspiring leadership journey rooted in her mother's legacy, emphasizing authentic communication, boundaries, and cultural transformation. Discover practical frameworks and leadership tips to overcome burnout, empower women in leadership, and build trust.


    Key Topics


    • Leadership foundations from childhood experiences


    • The importance of authentic communication and connection


    • Frameworks for personal and professional growth


    • Strategies to prevent and manage burnout


    • The role of culture in organizational success


    • Women in leadership and overcoming imposter syndrome


    • The impact of mentorship and legacy


    • Leadership tips for building trust and engagement


    Sound Bites

    "Leadership begins with growing up in connection."

    "Boundaries are essential for preventing burnout."

    "Serve with goodness, lead with greatness."



    Chapters


    00:00 Introduction to Dr. Stephanie Duguid

    01:55 The Roots of Leadership and Connection

    11:29 The Impact of Personal Loss on Leadership

    17:03 A Leadership Framework to Lead Better

    22:16 Athletics and Leadership: A Personal Journey

    26:36 Burnout and Boundaries in Leadership

    28:04 The Shift to Online Education

    30:53 Burnout and Boundaries in the Workplace

    35:09 Leadership Beliefs and Self-Perception

    38:45 How to Have Authority While Maintaining Leadership

    42:36 Navigating Leadership Challenges for Women

    50:26 Legacy and Leadership Impact


    Resources

    Website - https://meetdrstephanie.com

    John Gordon's Leadership Principles - https://amzn.to/4eqFUeL


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    52 mins
  • Pizza Chef to Millionaire (Gino Barbaro's Leadership Journey)
    Jun 21 2026

    How do you build wealth without losing sight of what matters most?

    In this episode of The Manager’s Mic, Paul Leon sits down with entrepreneur, investor, and bestselling author Gino Barbaro to discuss money, legacy, leadership, faith, and family.

    Gino shares how he went from working in a family pizza restaurant to helping build a real estate portfolio with more than $300 million in assets under management. More importantly, he explains why true wealth is about more than money.

    The conversation explores money mindset, financial habits, limiting beliefs, family values, entrepreneurship, and the lessons Gino learned while building businesses, raising six children, and creating a lasting legacy.

    Whether you’re just starting your career, growing a business, leading a family, or working toward financial freedom, this episode offers leadership tips to help you think differently about money and success.

    About Gino Barbaro

    Gino Barbaro is an entrepreneur, investor, certified money coach, bestselling author, and podcast host. Through Barbaro360, he helps families build lasting legacies by improving their relationship with money, family, and personal development.

    He is the co-founder of Jake & Gino and has helped grow a multifamily real estate portfolio with more than $300 million in assets under management.

    See a few of the resources, Gino recommends

    Happy Money, Happy Life, and Happy Legacy - https://amzn.to/4a2BYhN

    The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason - https://amzn.to/4vbSp3H

    Men are from Mars, Women Are From Venus - https://amzn.to/43Nfwpl

    See Gino’s Barbaro Website
    https://barbaro360.com/about-us/

    Chapters

    00:00 Trailer and Introduction to Gino Barbaro

    01:58 The Importance of Legacy

    04:14 Building a Strong Financial Foundation

    10:05 Understanding Money Archetypes

    16:10 The Role of Faith in Wealth

    21:14 Overcoming Personal Gremlins

    31:55 Finding Faith in Difficult Times

    33:00 Secrets to a Lasting Marriage

    36:34 Understanding Family Dynamics

    39:32 The Immigrant Experience and Its Impact

    43:22 Wealth vs. Riches: Building Lasting Wealth

    47:16 Defining Legacy and Its Importance

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    54 mins
  • How This LEADER Won Despite Burnout?
    Jun 14 2026

    In this episode of The Manager’s Mic, I sit down with Melissa Coloton, a commercial leadership expert with 20 years of experience and more than $1 billion in new business generated throughout her career.

    Melissa shares how high performers, sales leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs can pursue success without burning out, abandoning themselves, or sacrificing their health, energy, and relationships. We talk about purpose at work, career identity, self-compassion, sales success, personal connection, and how to stay grounded when life or work becomes unsustainable.

    This conversation covers burnout, purpose, sales leadership, high-performance habits, emotional resilience, career setbacks, self-leadership, and what it means to honor yourself while still pursuing meaningful results.

    You will learn how to:

    • Redefine purpose beyond one title, job, or achievement
    • Stay connected to yourself during career pressure and uncertainty
    • Practice self-compassion when success starts to feel heavy
    • Recognize when ambition is being driven by fear
    • Build sales success through belief, relationships, and personal connection
    • Navigate change without losing your health, energy, or identity

    The goal is simple: build success without losing yourself in the process.

    Chapters
    00:00 Melissa Coloton on Success Without Burnout
    02:21 What Purpose Means in Business
    05:12 Men, Women, Family, and Purpose at Work
    08:34 Career Setbacks, Identity, and Losing Purpose
    13:23 Self-Compassion During Hard Seasons
    18:01 How to Stay Connected to Purpose
    24:31 Practical Ways to Honor Yourself
    31:23 The Law of Whatever
    34:16 Humor, Improv, and Real Conversations
    37:18 How Purpose Drives Sales Success
    39:20 Selling With Belief and Personal Connection
    43:25 What Baby Biotechs Teach Us About Purpose
    50:12 Reverse Engineering $1B in Sales Success
    56:38 Burnout, AI Disruption, and Career Identity

    Follow Melissa

    Website: https://melissacoloton.com/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissacolton/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissa_coloton/

    For more tips on leadership, visit The Manager’s Mic: https://www.themanagersmic.com/

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • AI is NOT Coming For Leaders
    Jun 4 2026

    I sit down with Sean Patton, MBA ACC, a former U.S. Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret. Sean is also an executive performance coach, keynote speaker, author, and host of the popular podcast No Limit Leadership. His experience in building trust in teams, creating a compelling vision, and leading through uncertainty will empower you to lead better.

    Do you want to level up your leadership skills by connecting the principles of military leadership with those of business ownership to shape organizational culture for the better?

    If yes, then we invite you to join our conversation as we discuss how to:

    ✅ Build trust across teams with different goals and competing priorities

    ✅ Create a leadership vision that inspires high performers

    ✅ Lead through conflict, friction points, and uncertainty

    ✅ Strengthen workplace culture through communication and feedback

    ✅ Develop employees so they stay engaged, grow, and perform at a higher level

    ✅ Understand why human leadership matters more as AI changes management

    Chapters

    00:00 Trailer and Newsletter Plug

    01:02 Meet Sean Patton

    02:14 Understanding Special Forces and Leadership Dynamics

    6:23 Leadership Challenges in Complex Environments

    12:01 Building Trust And Relationships in Leadership

    17:28 The Importance of Vision and Intensity in Leadership

    21:04 Navigating Leadership Transitions

    23:36 Lessons From Business Ventures

    27:40 Sean Patton’s Journey to Self-Discovery

    30:06 The Leadership Trinity Framework

    35:53 The Future of Leadership in a Tech-Driven World


    Follow Sean Patton, MBA:

    Website: https://SeanPatton.me

    Coaching: https://Novus.Global/seanpatton

    Book (A Warrior’s Mindset: The 6 Keys to Greatness): https://amzn.to/4a6W4r4

    Podcast (No Limit Leadership): https://nolimitleadership.buzzsprout.com

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolimitleadership

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nolimitleadership

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLimitLeadership

    For more practical tips on communication, sales enablement, team building, workplace culture, and leadership development, follow The Manager’s Mic Podcast.

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    42 mins
  • Why Teams Underperform (and How to Fix It)
    May 28 2026

    This leadership conversation features coaches Brian Powell and Tom Reynolds exploring how effective leadership, coaching, and intentional team development drive organizational effectiveness. They explain how to build high-performing teams through psychological safety, honest communication, and strong collaboration in real workplace conditions.

    About Bryan Powell

    Bryan Powell is the co-author of The Efficient Frontier of Teaming™, a number one Amazon Best Seller in three leadership categories. The book offers a practical framework for understanding why capable teams underperform and what it takes to move beyond high performance toward Optimal Performance™. It was built inside real teams operating under real accountability pressure.

    Alongside Brian’s coaching practice, he is finalizing his doctoral research in performance psychology focused on how psychological safety shapes team performance in results-driven environments.

    Tom Reynolds

    Tom Reynolds is the co-author of The Efficient Frontier of Teaming™ with Brian Powell, where he contributes his expertise around psychological safety and agile goal setting. Specifically, his chapters help teams to see how the right kind of conflict can build psychological safety, and that you can hit a moving target if you plan as though your plan will break down.

    With a background in business and clinical psychology, Tom uses a practitioner-scholar approach to design leadership solutions that bridge the divide between research and practical application. He holds a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Widener University, the only program in the United States to provide integrated training across those two disciplines.

    Ask about their free team-building tool, the team contract!

    https://www.theefficientfrontierofteaming.com/contact-us

    Buy Their Book

    https://amzn.to/4fJ7R2i

    Chapters

    00:00 Trailer

    00:50 Meet Bryan Powell & Tom Reynolds

    04:04 The Challenge of Team Alignment and Development

    05:44 The Role of Authenticity and Disagreement in Teams

    07:28 Building Trust Through Tough Conversations

    08:56 Frameworks for Psychological Safety Across Industries

    12:34 The Team Contract Tool for Engagement

    14:10 Workplace Changes and Future Skills with AI

    16:06 Essential Competencies for the Next Decade

    19:44 Reflections on Using AI in Education and Work

    22:03 The Power of Human Judgment in the Age of AI

    24:23 Building Authentic Teams and Leadership Mindsets

    28:16 The Impact of Authenticity and Engagement on Performance

    33:19 Research Insights on High-Performing Teams

    36:13 The Partnership and Journey of the Authors

    41:02 Final Advice for Leadership Teams Seeking Effectiveness

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    45 mins
  • The MOST Missed Step in the ADDIE Framework
    May 20 2026

    The ADDIE model helps managers, trainers, and content creators build training that is structured, useful, and easier to improve. In this video, Paul Leon walks through the five stages of ADDIE and explains the step that many teams underuse after launch.

    Many organizations analyze, design, develop, and implement training, but stop at rollout or at basic participant feedback, rather than measuring whether people learned, applied the skill, and improved results. This video shows how to use the ADDIE model to strengthen training content, sales enablement, team development, and learning outcomes.

    You will learn how to:

    • Analyze learner and performance needs before building content
    • Design training with clear objectives, structure, assessments, and brand consistency
    • Develop better content with AI and stakeholder review
    • Implement training with teams or field reps
    • Evaluate results through feedback, application, and business-impact data

    The goal is simple: build training content your team can actually use.

    Chapters

    00:00 Why the ADDIE Model Matters
    00:24 Analyze: Start With Learner and Performance Data
    02:08 Design: Build With Objectives and Structure
    03:01 Develop: Use AI With Stakeholder Review
    05:01 Implement: Launch the Training
    05:28 Evaluate: The Step Most Teams Underuse

    For more practical tips on management, training, sales enablement, leadership communication, and building better teams, visit The Manager’s Mic:


    https://www.themanagersmic.com/

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    10 mins
  • What I've Learned LEADING Over 17 Direct Reports!
    May 14 2026

    Bad feedback can quietly damage team trust, even when a manager has good intentions. In this episode of The Manager’s Mic, Paul Leon shares lessons from managing 17 direct reports and explains how new managers can give feedback that builds rapport instead of breaking it.

    This conversation covers why self-awareness matters, how intention and impact are not the same, and why psychological safety is critical when giving feedback.

    Paul Leon also breaks down a simple feedback framework for managers: be timely, be specific, and stay forward-looking. For new managers, feedback is not just about correcting behavior. It is an opportunity to build trust, improve communication, and create a safer team culture where employees feel comfortable speaking up.

    Chapters

    00:00 Why Bad Feedback Damages Team Trust

    03:13 Self-Awareness for Better Manager Feedback

    04:23 Fast Feedback Loop: Timely, Specific, Forward-Looking

    06:29 Three Feedback Rules for New Managers

    07:32 Building Rapport Through Difficult Conversations

    Watch or listen to more from The Manager’s Mic on tips for new managers

    • https://www.themanagersmic.com/

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    13 mins
  • Why Burnout Is NOT Your Real Problem: Dr. Heather Kidwell
    May 6 2026

    In my conversation with Dr. Heather Kidwell, she shared her expertise in strategic leadership. Her insights will help newer managers avoid burnout. Learn strategies to reconnect with your purpose to overcome a challenging work environment.

    Follow Dr. Heather Kidwell

    An Article to Overcome Burnout

    https://humanitydrivenleadership.substack.com/p/its-not-just-burnout-its-something

    Learn About The BurnUP Program

    https://www.humanitydrivenleadership.com/the-burnup-sm-method

    LinkedIn

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherkidwell/

    Chapters

    00:00 Introduction to Dr. Heather Kidwell

    01:53 Defining Strategic Leadership

    04:46 Management vs. Leadership

    07:32 Trends in Young Professionals and Management

    09:21 Personal Experiences in Corporate Leadership

    11:07 Defining Your 'Why'

    13:48 Navigating Career Transitions

    16:30 Understanding Shame

    20:18 Finding Happiness and Purpose

    25:18 Future Focus: Convergent Depletion Syndrome

    26:33 Understanding Burnout and Exhaustion

    28:25 Convergent Depletion Syndrome Explained

    30:27 Exploring Solutions and Support Systems

    33:59 The Role of Spirituality in Leadership

    34:49 The Performative Nature of Corporate Environments

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    40 mins