Step Wise
by Foster Mobley
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About this podcast
For over 45 years, Dr. Foster Mobley has had the unique opportunity to guide thousands of leaders from the board room to the locker room. Naturally curious, Foster is now unraveling stories of growth, learning, triumphs, and—more importantly—struggles of leaders in his podcast, Step Wise. This is a series of conversations between Foster and the change agents he admires. Each of these guests has taken their own path to growth and awakening.
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We look forward to sharing these fulfilling conversations and the leaders who are a part of them with you soon.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 44 episodes
- Season Three Recap: Foster Mobley on Being Seen, Learning to Fail, and Why You’re Already Enough · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 17This season, Foster talked with Olympians, a mountaineer who guided the first blind climber to the top of Everest, a symphony conductor, CEOs, healthcare leaders, and a friend…
- Valorie Kondos Field Asks Foster Mobley What the Wise Man Taught Him About Leading · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 16Fifteen years ago, Foster Mobley looked at the 277,000 leadership books already in print and decided not to write number 277,001. He wrote an allegory instead: a 114-mile walk…
- Jennifer Webster on Why the Best Leaders Never Lose Sight of the Basics · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 15Jennifer Webster is the CEO of DispatchHealth, which brings complex, hospital-level care into patients’ homes. Her teams walk into living rooms on some of the hardest days of…
- Jordyn Wieber, Amy Williams, Eric Larson, Tim Baldwin, and Rob Brown on What Leadersh*t Got Right, Got Wrong, and Still Needs to Say at 15 · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 14Fifteen years ago, Foster Mobley tried to trademark the title of his first book, Leadershit. The trademark office said no. Too profane. Within a few years, bookshelves were full…
- Stephen "Shed" Shedletzky on What Happens When Speaking Up Feels Safe and Worth It · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 13Stephen "Shed" Shedletzky is an author, keynote speaker, and leadership expert who's spent over a decade helping leaders do the one thing most get backward: creating a culture…
- David Betts on How an ALS Diagnosis Became His Teacher (Part 2) · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 12David Betts carries a contradiction most leaders never reconcile: he's living with a degenerative disease that attacks speech and movement, and he spends his days building…
- David Betts on ALS, AI, and What Happens When Fear Becomes Fuel (Part 1) · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 11David Betts spent 22 years building teams at Deloitte, scaling their public health practice from one state to 20 during a pandemic, and getting very, very good at solving other…
- Foster Mobley and Jana Devan on Wisdom and AI · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 10Wisdom isn't the opposite of speed. It's what comes after. Everyone's panicking about AI. Either you're adopting it or you're getting left behind. Speed or irrelevance. That's…
- Norman Huynh on Why it Takes Presence to Lead · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 9A 38-year-old conductor asks a single question that changes everything: "What would it sound like if we didn't shy away from that high note?" Norman Huynh, Music Director of the…
- Marycay Durrant on What Horses Can Teach Us About Leading · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 8Marycay Durrant doesn't believe in the traditional leadership playbook. She's a vibrancy architect who works with some of the world's most successful companies—Pepsi, Deloitte…
- Luis Benitez on Guiding the First Blind Climber up Everest and What It Taught Him About Leadership · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 7A kid with asthma and allergies growing up in Saint Louis is not the profile you'd guess for someone who ends up standing on the summit of Everest six times. Luis Benitez did…
- Dr. Foster Mobley on Loneliness, Ego, and Why Leadership Can Be So Isolating · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 6Half of all CEOs say they feel lonely in their role. Sixty-one percent say it actively hurts their performance. So why don't more leaders talk about it? In this episode, Foster…
- Benjamin Smith on Why "Fixing Yourself" Is the Wrong Goal · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 5Benjamin Smith was a high school quarterback who could hit every throw in practice and none of them under pressure. That gap between what he could do alone and what he could do…
- Sarabeth Rees on Why Ending Child Trafficking Starts With a Conversation · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 4"It's not going to happen to my niece." That sentence, Sarabeth Rees says, is the most dangerous one we tell ourselves. It feels true, it feels protective, and it is almost…
- Margaret Aitken on What Ten Years Inside the U.S. Senate Taught Her About the Power of Words · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 3Margaret Aitken spent a decade as press secretary to Senator Joe Biden, and what she watched up close wasn't political strategy. It was the quiet, specific way one person could…
- Miss Val & Sam Peszek on Coaching, Grit, and Leading Across Generations · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 2Seven NCAA championships. An Olympic silver medal. A breast cancer diagnosis. A torn Achilles. Between them, Valorie Kondos Field and Sam Peszek have racked up more defining…
- Step Wise Is Back: Season 3 Teaser · 2 min · Season 3 Episode 1Something is different about Season 3. Step Wise has always been about the kind of wisdom that doesn't make the highlight reel. The decisions made at 2am. The moment a coach says…
- Dr. Foster Mobley: Honoring Self, Others, and the Organization · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 13In this reflective season finale of Step Wise, the mic turns toward our host, Dr. Foster Mobley. Interviewed by Jana Devan, Foster explores what it means to lead with empathy…
- Dr. Matt Brubaker: How to Lead Through Change Without Losing Your Humanity · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 12What does it take to lead with wisdom in a world that never stops changing? In this episode of Step Wise, Dr. Foster Mobley sits down with Dr. Matt Brubaker, Chairman and CEO of…
- Mark Eckhardt: Leading Through Conflict and Complexity · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 11Conflict isn’t something to avoid—it’s something to understand. In this episode of Step Wise, Dr. Foster Mobley sits down with Mark Eckhardt, co-founder and CEO of Common and…
