Guiding you toward a life of purpose, progress, and personal growth. Each week, James interviews world-class thinkers, including prime ministers, Olympic gold medalists, billionaires, and visionaries, to uncover the habits, tools, and mindsets that drive meaningful success.
Hosted by James Laughlin—a 7-time world champion drummer, sought-after keynote speaker, and high-performance leadership consultant—this podcast brings you conversations with extraordinary individuals who have shaped industries, inspired nations, and achieved greatness.
Whether you're building confidence, breaking through barriers, or discovering your purpose, Lead on Purpose is your guide to turning challenges into opportunities and ambitions into achievements.
AI - what you NEED to know Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
Leadership Lessons From a Captain with Captain Sandy Ca ptain Sandy is a phenomenal leader, businesswoman and a world renowned super-yacht captain who stars in the hit BRAVO TV Series “Below Deck.” Sandy has over 30 years of international maritime experience, and she also has over 30 years sobriety under her belt. Recently, Sandy published her leadership book, “Be the calm or be the storm.” She speaks about leading with empathy, patience and understanding. Captain Sandy spoke about learning how ...
The 1% Rule Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show
How to Master Your Thoughts with Tom Sterner Thomas Sterner is the CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute. Tom is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. Tom spoke about thoughts and how the brain and body really work. We need to develop a deeper understanding about how our minds work, and then how to be in the driving seat rathe...
The MEDS you MUST take Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
How To Be a Consciously Connected Leader with Tanya Wilkinson Tanya Wilkinson is a conscious leader. From her background in marketing for major music labels, to an award winning career as a Business Director in advertising, to her incredible job as Head of Marketing and Events for Formula 1, Tanya has done it all. Tanya went from a life of rushing around and living at 100miles a minute, to a life of connection with herself, her community and nature. Tanya embraces conscious and connected leaders...
The #1 Trait of High Performers Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
Kill Brain Fog with Dr. Dana Cohen Dr. Dana Cohen has been in the integrative medical space for over 2 decades. She has made it her mission to find the root cause of disease through advanced functional testing. Dana co-authored a book titled “Quench” a few years ago. The book is about hydration and how to use optimal hydration to heal your body. Dana believes that the root cause of many diseases is dehydration. We spoke about hydration, nutrition and how all of this affects our decision-making a...
Stop Saying These Two Words Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
How To Lead with Love with Alister Gray Alister Gray is a spiritual teacher, coach, guide, mentor, and the founder of Mindful Talent, a global coaching and coach training organisation. Alister unlocks the hearts and minds of CEO’s, founders, and senior executives, as well as Grammy Award winners, actors, artists, and creators, guiding them to re-discover their true passions, purpose, and potential in order to thrive. He has quickly established himself one of the UK’s leading Executive Coaches &a...
The Secrets of High Performing Teams Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
Duro Oye is the CEO of 2020 Change - a multi-award-winning social enterprise leading the way to a more diverse and inclusive workforce in the UK. Duro is also a film-maker whose passion shines through in his art and his work. Duro is passionate about equipping the leaders of tomorrow with everything they need to thrive in the workplace. Duro uses his experience in life, to help inform and empower youth and help them realise the future they deserve to have. Duro shared a lot about his past and ex...
The #1 Regret of the Dying Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
Climate Crisis: How to lead through adversity with Tim Jarvis. Tim Jarvis is an incredible person. He is an explorer, a scientist, a climate change activist, and a world-class leader. Tim has 25 years of experience in environmental science and exploration expeditions to some pretty extreme places. In 2013, Tim led an expedition that recreated Shackleton’s “double” which saw Tim and his crew sail 1500km’s across the Southern Ocean from Elephant Island to South Georgia. They then climbed over Sout...
The Death of the Alpha Male Leader Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
How to lead through crisis with Dr. Jonathan Baktari Dr. Jonathan is the Founder and CEO of e7 Health, a company that uses technology to offer medical care while providing savings and a friction free experience for their clients. In 2019, they were named the best technology company in the healthcare space by Vegas Inc. Dr. Jonathan has 20+ years' experience in the medical field. He saw a need for a different way of doing things when it came to vaccinations, and decided to come up with a company ...
Distraction Is Killing You Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
Story-telling for the Future with Devon Murphy-davids Devon Murphy-Davids is the CEO of Inspiring Stories - an NZ charity behind Festival for the Future. Devon is passionate about leadership, and she believes that the youth deserve a future that offers them equal opportunity to flourish and to reach their full potential. Devon is also passionate about storytelling. The stories Devon has heard throughout her life have shaped how she approaches leadership and her every day life. Devon spoke to me ...
How to multiply your time Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
Why Vulnerability is essential in Leadership with Mayor Tory Whanau Tory Whanau is the first Maori Mayor of Wellington, NZ. She took the time out of her busy schedule to talk to me about leadership, vulnerability and her role as Mayor of Wellington. Tory was elected on a platform of change. Her focus is more affordable housing, better public transport, and greater opportunities for walking and cycling. Tory is passionate about protecting the vulnerable in our communities and also looking after t...
Why Vulnerability is essential in Leadership with Mayor Tory Whanau Tory Whanau is the first Maori Mayor of Wellington, NZ. She took the time out of her busy schedule to talk to me about leadership, vulnerability and her role as Mayor of Wellington. Tory was elected on a platform of change. Her focus is more affordable housing, better public transport, and greater opportunities for walking and cycling. Tory is passionate about protecting the vulnerable in our communities and also looking after t...
The Truth About Purpose Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
Why diversity matters with Karen Pflug Have you ever wondered how you could take on a role that you knew not-too-much about and absolutely succeed? Karen Pflug is an incredible person who shared her experience with doing just this. Karen Pflug is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Ingka Group. Ingka Group is the largest IKEA retailer and represents about 90% of IKEA retail sales. It is a strategic partner to develop and innovate the IKEA business and help define common IKEA strategies. Ingka Gr...
Why diversity matters with Karen Pflug Have you ever wondered how you could take on a role that you knew not-too-much about and absolutely succeed? Karen Pflug is an incredible person who shared her experience with doing just this. Karen Pflug is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Ingka Group. Ingka Group is the largest IKEA retailer and represents about 90% of IKEA retail sales. It is a strategic partner to develop and innovate the IKEA business and help define common IKEA strategies. Ingka Gr...
The Hidden Secrets of High-Performing Teams Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
How to Embrace the Suck with Former Navy Seal Brent Gleeson Brent Gleeson is a former US Navy Seal. He is also a best-selling author of 2 incredible books, and an award winning entrepreneur. Brent is an incredible human. In our conversation he opened up about the pain and suffering he experienced in the Navy, and how he learned to welcome that pain and really celebrate it. That life lesson inspired him to write his best-selling book “Embrace the Suck.” He has learned so many lessons throughout h...
How to Embrace the Suck with Former Navy Seal Brent Gleeson Brent Gleeson is a former US Navy Seal. He is also a best-selling author of 2 incredible books, and an award winning entrepreneur. Brent is an incredible human. In our conversation he opened up about the pain and suffering he experienced in the Navy, and how he learned to welcome that pain and really celebrate it. That life lesson inspired him to write his best-selling book “Embrace the Suck.” He has learned so many lessons throughout h...
The Hidden Secrets of High-Performing People Former World Champion, James Laughlin, shares his high-performance habits, methodologies, and tips for leaders and high performers. Send me a personal text message - Pre-order my new book TODAY - www.thehabitbook.com Support the show...
Two Rules every leader should know with Peter Anderton Peter Anderton is the founder of Internal Alignment, a company that helps businesses create levels of alignment that they’ve never experienced before. Peter is also well-known for his TED Talk “Great Leadership comes down to only 2 rules’” which has been viewed over 1.4 million times. Peter shared some great insights in this episode about how to lead a high-performing team and what the steps are to achieving this. He also spoke a lot on how ...
Two Rules every leader should know with Peter Anderton Peter Anderton is the founder of Internal Alignment, a company that helps businesses create levels of alignment that they’ve never experienced before. Peter is also well-known for his TED Talk “Great Leadership comes down to only 2 rules’” which has been viewed over 1.4 million times. Peter shared some great insights in this episode about how to lead a high-performing team and what the steps are to achieving this. He also spoke a lot on how ...
