You’ve probably felt it before: you did the course, earned the certification, sat through the workshop, took the notes and then the first real moment arrived and you still felt unprepared. That disconnect is not a character flaw, and it’s not proof you’re “bad at leadership.” It’s usually a training…
Maybe it’s greater confidence, better decisions, or finally following through on the goals you’ve been putting off. That’s where self-leadership comes in. The Self-Leadership Lab is a 60-day experience featuring 9 live calls with Marc and Teresa, designed to help you become more effective at leading yourself. 🚀 We begin…
self-leadership may be the missing piece. Our Self-Leadership Lab begins November 2, and we’re limiting enrollment to just 15 participants. Want to experience what it’s all about before making a decision? Join us for a FREE live workshop tomorrow, October 19, at 4 PM Pacific! 👉 Register: modernleadership.us/workshopsocial #SelfLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment…
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2048620/fan_mail/new) Looking to lead yourself effectively? Sign up for our free Monday October 19th workshop, "It's Not a Discipline Problem: modernleadership.us/workshop (https://modernleadership.us/workshop) You can be rock solid in one area of life and totally derailed in another, and it has nothing to do with “willpower.” Marc…
If you struggle with confidence, difficult decisions, or following through on the things that matter, self-leadership may be the missing piece. Our Self-Leadership Lab begins November 2, and we’re limiting enrollment to just 15 participants. Want to experience what it’s all about before making a decision? Join us for a…
You’re struggling to find clients. So you focus on marketing, networking, and generating leads. But what if the real obstacle is your hesitation to ask someone to work with you? That’s the power of self-leadership: recognizing the patterns that keep you stuck, even when you think you’re solving the right…
And that means more than discipline. More than willpower. More than forcing yourself to push through whatever challenge is in front of you. Because real self-leadership starts with understanding what’s happening beneath the surface. Why do you react the way you do? What assumptions are influencing your decisions? Are you…
Someone brings you a problem and your brain lights up with the perfect answer. That moment feels like leadership, but it is often the fastest way to lose trust, miss the real issue, and train people to stop coming to you at all. Marc and Teresa unpack how strong leaders…
is the very thing that could give you your time back? 🎯 You’re the person everyone counts on. The one who figures things out. The one who delivers, solves problems, carries responsibilities, and somehow keeps everything moving. And because you’re capable of handling so much, people keep giving you more.…
Most leadership struggles aren’t a skills gap, they’re an autopilot problem. If you’ve ever wondered why smart, driven people still get stuck in the same reactions, the same team dynamics, and the same stress patterns, this conversation gives you a clear place to look: inward. We sit down with Dr.…
and started asking, “What am I going to get from it either way?” 🎯 There’s probably something you’ve been putting off. A decision. An investment. A conversation. An opportunity. A step toward something you genuinely want. And if you’ve been hesitating, that doesn’t automatically mean you don’t want it badly…
Your brain is amazing at one thing that can quietly wreck your progress: it can take the exact action that would help you and file it under “danger,” “too much,” or “not worth it.” We dig into that mislabeling pattern and why it shows up as perfectly reasonable logic like…
Every one of us experiences life through a filter. That filter has been shaped over years by our experiences, our families, our environment, school, work, relationships, successes, failures—even the things we’ve watched happen to other people. And eventually, some of those experiences stop feeling like experiences. They start feeling like…
You can be incredibly self-aware and still have blind spots. Patterns you’ve repeated for years. Assumptions you stopped questioning. Reactions that have become automatic. Ways of thinking that feel completely normal because you’ve been living inside them for so long. And that’s why sometimes, you need a spotter. Someone who…
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2048620/fan_mail/new) The most dangerous obstacles in leadership aren’t the ones you can name, they’re the ones you keep calling “just the way I am”. Marc and Teresa open up a different kind of conversation: a live “spotter” style walkthrough where we practice noticing the hidden beliefs…
“I don’t have enough time.” “I don’t have the energy.” “I’m not ready.” “What do I have to offer?” Sometimes those things reflect very real circumstances. But sometimes? They’re stories we’ve repeated so many times that we’ve stopped recognizing them as stories. And that’s where self-leadership begins. Not by forcing…
The question you ask yourself can change the way you see the entire situation. There’s a huge difference between: “Why do I have to be the one who does this?” and… “Why am I the right person for this?” Same challenge. Same person. Same responsibility. But an entirely different perspective.…
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2048620/fan_mail/new) Everyone keeps bringing you the same problems and part of you is proud, and part of you is tired. We dig into why that happens and why it often has less to do with other people “dumping” on you and more to do with a…
It is doing exactly what it was built to do. Protect you. Keep you where it already knows is safe. So it tells you stories. New feels risky. Different feels dangerous. The stories you can hear are not the problem. It is the ones running underneath that you don't even…
Leadership gets a lot harder when you ask people to go somewhere you refuse to go yourself. Strategy matters. Knowledge matters. Experience matters. But people are paying attention to something else, too: Are you willing to live what you’re asking of them? If you expect accountability, can you accept accountability?…
We love believing that if we create the perfect plan, work hard enough, and do everything “right,” we can guarantee the outcome. But we can’t. You can’t control whether someone says yes. You can’t control exactly how quickly the business grows. You can’t control how other people respond. You can’t…
Your plan didn’t fail because you lacked grit. Sometimes the plan is simply finished, and the real work is admitting it before you waste another year trying to “push through” a plateau that won’t budge. We dig into what to do when you’ve been executing, learning, and showing up like…
Someone challenged that question. Said it wasn't the right one. Try this instead: How can growing the business make me a better father right now? How can becoming a better father make me a better business owner right now? I didn't have an answer right away. But the question changed…
More money. More time. More energy. The perfect circumstances. Everything finally lining up. It can feel responsible to tell yourself: “Once I have those things, THEN I’ll take action.” But sometimes waiting for the perfect conditions is just another incredibly convincing way our minds protect us from doing the uncomfortable…