The Leader's Mindset
autor: LeDuc Leadership & Media Group
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Say It Out Loud — Carmen Sederino on Leadership Development &…
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The Leader’s Mindset is a leadership strategy podcast for executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to think clearly, act decisively, and build high-performing teams. Hosted by Jason LeDuc, a former U.S. Air Force officer and leadership strategist, the show blends powerful interviews with practical Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) you can apply immediately. If you’re responsible for results and developing the leaders behind you, this show equips you to lead with clarity and confidence.
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- Say It Out Loud — Carmen Sederino on Leadership Development & Strategic Thinking · 56 minRehearsal is not the enemy of authenticity. It is the leadership development work almost nobody does out loud.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with…
- Your First One-on-One Meeting — Leadership Development and Strategic Thinking · 4 minLeadership development skips the meeting that sets the tone for everything that follows: your first one-on-one. The person across the table used to be your peer, and the agenda…
- Rented, Not Owned — Josh Sprague on Leadership Development & Strategic Thinking · 58 minLeadership development rarely covers the risk that can erase twelve years of work overnight: you do not own your marketing channels.You rent them. Josh Sprague found out the…
- What to Say When It's Your First Peer Feedback — Leadership Development · 4 minLeadership development lives or dies on the conversation you keep rehearsing in the car and never actually having. The person you have to correct sat next to you for three…
- Raise the Anchor — Kevin Voisin on Leadership Development & Strategic Thinking · 1 godz. 2 minLeadership development stalls for a reason most leaders will not say out loud: the problem is the anchor, not the engine. So they add engines. More hours, more headcount, more…
- What to Do When Your Team Doesn't Respect You Yet — Leadership Development · 4 minNo amount of leadership development buys respect — it gets built, not by being liked, and not by trying harder to be liked.You say something in a meeting and it lands flat…
- From Tactical to Strategic Thinking — Lisa Woodruff on Leadership Development · 56 minStrategic thinking is the first thing a new manager runs out of — your team has about 20% of their time left for your projects. You set two goals for the quarter. Everyone works…
- What to Say When Your Friends Suddenly Report to You — Leadership Development · 5 minLeadership development skips the hardest part of the promotion: the first time you have to tell a friend their work isn't good enough. Friday you were venting about the boss…
- The Inner Game Behind Team Leadership Skills — Rajesh Nagjee · 48 minThe leadership skills that scale a company are not the ones that keep a founder sane. Rajesh Nagjee calls himself a business physicist. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset…
- What to Do When Your Peer Becomes Your Boss — Leadership Development · 4 minLeadership development almost never covers the seat nobody trains you for — the one where your peer just became your boss. Carnegie Mellon researcher Robert Kelley, author of…
- The Hardest Thing a Tough Man Does — Bill McCamley on Team Leadership Skills · 60 minThe team leadership skills nobody trains you for: how to ask a man on your crew if he's okay.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Bill McCamley —…
- What to Do When Your Best People Keep Quitting — Team Leadership Skills · 5 minTeam leadership is usually the real reason your best people keep quitting — not money, and not a better offer somewhere else. By the time a great employee is interviewing…
- Succession Planning Starts on Day One — John Scott on Team Leadership Skills · 48 minThe team leadership skills that decide who replaces you get built years before you leave.Most succession planning happens far too late to be planning at all — and by then the…
- What to Do When Your Team Has Quietly Checked Out — Team Leadership Skills · 4 minTeam leadership gets tested less when people are angry and more when they go quiet — and a checked-out team almost never complains. Nobody quits. Nobody pushes back. People are…
- The Conversation Your Team Is Avoiding — Croft Edwards on Leadership Skills · 57 minThe leadership conversation your team is avoiding is the one deciding your results.Your last meeting was pleasant. Everyone nodded. Nobody argued. And the thing that actually…
- What to Say When Two Teams Won't Work Together — Leadership Skills · 4 minLeadership is what turns two warring teams into one. When Sales blames Ops and Ops blames Sales, you don't have a people problem — you have a scoreboard problem.Two teams playing…
- Bootstrapped 8 Years, No Co-Founder — Rei Vardi on Leadership Skills · 59 minThe loudest default in startup leadership is that you need a co-founder. Rei Vardi never had one. Eight years in, Eon is bootstrapped, profitable, and running in roughly 40…
- What to Do When You're the Bottleneck — Leadership Skills for a Leader's Mindset · 5 minLeadership stops scaling the moment everything has to run through you. That's a bottleneck, not a bench. Nothing moves in your business unless it moves through you — every…
- Leadership Skills Under Stress: Your Skin Is Data — Mireille Vega, Biotech PhD · 54 minLeadership runs on a body you keep overriding. Your skin is data, not vanity — and it reports first.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Mireille…
- What to Do When You're All Tactics and No Strategy — Leadership Skills for the Leader's Mindset · 5 minLeadership is not the tactics you execute all day — it's the direction you protect time to set.Your team can be busy, hitting deadlines and clearing the inbox, while the business…
- Leadership Skills That Rewire Your Daily Actions — John Mitchell, University of Texas, on the Leader's Mindset · 1 godz. 7 minThe leadership skills that decide your success are the ones you never consciously choose. Up to 95% of your daily actions run on autopilot — and those actions, not your…
- What to Do When You're the Most Senior Leader in the Room — Leadership Skills and the Leader's Mindset at the Top · 5 minLeadership at the top is lonely by design — the higher you go, the fewer people tell you the truth. When you're the most senior leader in the room, there's no boss above you to…
- Founder Syndrome: The Leadership Trap Nobody Warns You About · 1 godz. 2 minMost founders don't get pushed out. They quietly become the bottleneck in the thing they built — and they're the last to see it.The hardest leadership move isn't scaling the…
- What to Do When You're Managing People for the First Time – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 4 minGetting promoted is not the same as knowing how to lead. The exact skills that made you the best performer are not the skills that make you a good manager. And if nobody tells…
- Build a Culture People Don't Leave — Michelle Edwards on Leadership, Employee Retention, & Workplace Culture · 54 minMost leaders think a great culture comes from a program, a committee, or a one-day training. It doesn't. Culture is built by leaders who pour into their people — and it shows up…
- What to Do When Your Team Training Never Sticks – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 5 minTraining that doesn't stick is not a bad-training problem. It is a follow-through problem. The money isn't wasted in the training room — it's wasted in the days after, when…
- Informed, Not Influenced — Kira Shishkin on Media Bias, News Minimalism, & Your Information Diet · 56 minMost people think they're informed. They're actually being influenced — and they can't tell the difference. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with…
- What to Do When You're Too Busy to Think Ahead – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 4 minYou're not behind because you're not working hard enough. You're behind because you never get an hour to just think. The day fills up with fires and "got a sec?", and the big…
- Entrepreneurship Isn't Glamorous — Lauren Cashatt on Building a Nonprofit, Leading Volunteers, & Mission-Driven Leadership · 1 godz. 1 minEveryone posts the laptop on the beach. Nobody posts the 2 a.m. reality.If you've ever been sold the dream of "working for yourself" — freedom, flexibility, sunsets — the truth…
- What to Do When Your Business Is Stuck and You Can't See Why – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 5 minA stuck business is almost never an effort problem. It is a diagnosis problem.Revenue's flat, the team's working hard, and you can't figure out why the needle won't move. The…
- Not Every Startup Should Raise Venture Money — Matt Ober on Venture Capital, Go-To-Market, & Backing Founders · 42 minMost founders treat raising venture money as the finish line. A lot of them are chasing a round they don't actually need. And while they're chasing it, the thing that would have…
- What to Do When You've Hit a Ceiling as a Leader – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 5 minHitting a ceiling is not a talent problem. It is a feedback problem. You've been good for years — and that's exactly the trap. The higher you climb, the less honest feedback you…
- You Can't Lead Others Until You Lead Yourself — Tiffany Morice on Self-Leadership, Military Discipline, & Authentic Leadership · 1 godz. 0 minMost leaders try to fix their team before they fix their own foundation. But you can't pour into your people from an empty cup — and no title, rank, or org chart changes that…
- What to Do When You're Promoted Into Leadership With No Training – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 5 minGetting promoted is not a reward problem. It is a training problem nobody warned you about.Friday you were a teammate. Monday you're the boss — and no one handed you a playbook…
- Networking That Actually Builds Business — Sarah Hubbard on Intentional Networking, Referral Partnerships, & Follow-Through · 60 minMost people network the way they were taught: collect business cards, pitch what you do, and wait for the business to roll in. It doesn't work anymore. If you're grinding…
- What to Do When Your Business Grows Faster Than You Can Lead – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 5 minHitting a growth ceiling is not a hustle problem. It is a leadership problem. You built the thing — and now the thing is bigger than you can lead. Every problem still lands on…
- Pitch Investors Like You're the Expert — Tristan Pollock on Fundraising, Scaling Startups, & Building Movements · 60 minPitch Investors Like You're the Expert — Tristan Pollock on Fundraising, Scaling Startups, & Building MovementsMost founders walk into the pitch meeting already losing — treating…
- What to Say When Your Team is Busy But Not Aligned - Leadership Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures · 5 minYour team doesn't need more tasks. They need to know what matters most this week — and why. When leaders communicate tasks without intent, people guess. Priorities compete…
- Use AI to Amplify Your People, Not Replace Them — Steve Brown on AI Strategy, AI-First Leadership, & Business Growth · 57 minUse AI to Amplify Your People, Not Replace Them — Steve Brown on AI Strategy, AI-First Leadership, & Business Growth Most leaders are using AI to do the same things a little…
- What to Say When a Team Member Misses a Deadline – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 4 minA missed deadline is not a discipline problem. It is a conversation problem. If you dread the talk that has to happen after someone drops the ball, you do not need more courage…
- Fear-Based Leadership Is the New Normal — Kate Lowry on the Predator Playbook, Startup Red Flags, & Whistleblowing · 53 minMost people are still playing by the old rules — show up, do good work, stay loyal, and you'll be taken care of. The problem? The social contract changed, and nobody told you…
- What to Say When You Delegate (So It Doesn't Come Back Wrong) – Leadership TTPs · 7 minDelegation that comes back wrong is not a people problem. It is a hand-off problem. If work keeps boomeranging back to your desk — or you keep redoing it yourself — the…
- Public Speaking Is a Leadership Superpower — Sebastian Uzcategui on Communication & Confidence · 54 minMost leaders aren't held back by a shortage of ideas. They're held back because they can't make people feel them. You can be the smartest person in the room and still watch your…
- What to Do Before Every Meeting So it Actually Ends With a Decision – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 6 minA bad meeting is not a people problem. It is a preparation problem. When you walk into a meeting without a clear outcome, defined roles, or the hard question you are actually…
- From Success to Significance — Raj Gupta on Leadership Legacy, Stewardship, & Developing Leaders · 47 minMost leaders spend their whole careers chasing success — titles, compensation, recognition. Then they move on, and everything they built quietly slows down. Success is what you…
- Stop Drowning in Email: Build a Response Window System – Leadership Tactics Techniques & Procedures · 6 minEmail overload is not a discipline problem. It is a leadership systems problem. If you're checking messages every 20 minutes, you're paying a focus tax your calendar can't…
- Stop Using AI for Faster Emails — Jason P. Carroll on AI Strategy, Hiring, & Coaching · 59 minMost leaders are using AI to write faster emails and clear busywork. That is the smallest thing it can do. The real payoff is strategic: better thinking, better hiring, and…
- The 10 Minute Weekly 1:1 That Actually Works – Feedback, Delegation and Leadership Development · 5 minA weak one-on-one is not a time problem. It is a structure problem. When your one-on-ones keep getting canceled or drift into status updates, your team learns something you…
- Raising Capital With Intention — Jeffrey Fidelman on Fundraising, Execution, & Building Connection · 57 minMost founders don’t fail because the idea is bad. They fail because the fundraising process is chaotic. If you treat raising capital like a “someday” task — a spreadsheet here…
- Decision Fatigue: How Leaders Stop Getting Stuck – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures · 5 minDecision fatigue is not a willpower problem. It is a leadership systems problem. If you are making decisions all day, the quality drops, the speed drops, and eventually you…
