Practice Makes Permanent: Transforming Leaders with Dr. Anthony Randall

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged, and today we're joined by international award-winning author. A force behind transforming leaders, and we are talking to a man who has more black belts than I do around my waist. He is The masterful, the transformative, the unforgettable, Columbus, George's own My God, doctor.

You're listening to Mick Unplugged, hosted by the one and only Mick Hunt. This is where purpose meets power and stories spark transformation. innovation and into meaning. Because and becoming unstoppable. I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, you're in the right place. Let's get unplugged. Doctor Anthony, how you doing today, brother? Mick, how are you? Great to see ya. Great to see you too, man. You know, just catching up a little bit. Um

Talking to you for a while on social media, I don't think I realized how close we were to each other. So that's that's a a Mick error right there. But I'm honored to have my neighbor um on the show. So I've been looking forward to this one for a while, bro. That that sounds great. I've got probably more errors in life than you do. I'm just glad that uh Herb and Corey Thompson could connect us through Liberty Speaks and it's great to uh be working together.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Shout out to to Herb and Corey or Peaches and Herb as I like to call them when we're together. There you go. Dude, you know, I always start my shows off by asking my guests.

What's your because, right? Like Simon Sinek, good friend of mine, taught us to all start with our why. And I like to think that once you know your why, you're fueled by your because that thing that keeps you going, that promise that you make. So if I were to ask you today, Dr. Anthony, 2026, what's your because? Why do you keep doing the things that you do?

Yeah, well I love the question and uh I'm gonna go a little counter to Simon. I've got his book on my bookshelf, but uh I always wanna press like you do. Uh I don't think it starts with why. It starts with who and it starts with what. And that's the because. And so my because is to help people live a more epic

And I believe that that there's a a way to live a more excellent way of life when we align our passion, your because, our purpose, and our precision. And we can go in depth on that today if you'd like to, but that's the bottom line. How do we live a more excellent way? align with by aligning passion, purpose, and precision. And that's what I love to do. I love to see human beings flourish. Dude, and and we're gonna go there because as I've gotten to know you and your work.

One, I realized we had a lot in common. And then two, I've learned a lot uh through you and your work. You know, you've mentioned numerous times that practice makes permanent. Yeah. Right. And that kind of came became the foundation for your book, Practicing Excellence, which is a great segue into what you were going and saying. You know, I've had this thing, everybody that's listened to the show or watched the show.

You've heard me say this a thousand times. Michael Jordan never took a shot, he didn't practice. Steph Curry never takes a shot, he doesn't practice. Kobe Bryant never did a move, he didn't practice. And so when you saw those guys do things,

It was because they made those skills permanent. But you never see Michael Jordan take a full court shot because he never practiced those things, right? He never tried to master those things. So talk to us about Practice making permanent, both the mental, the physical, and the psychological aspects.

Yeah, so uh practice makes permanent, not perfect. I think that kinda destroys one of those uh isms that people typically think is practice makes perfect. Practice makes permanent, practice does not make perfect. So practice X. And uh that was kind of a a smaller book that I wrote a few years ago leading to practice. Focus around what you just talked about.

And I I truly believe that the living a more excellent way is found on the joy of practice. The joy of everyday, uh, you know, disciplined obedience. We can talk about that today, about training your trust, trusting your training. But the art of practice. And I think I learned that that art of practice in two different places, ah, three different places in my life. I would say one, my faith, uh the second martial arts.

And and then the third one in the military, specifically having an opportunity to serve uh in, you know, the Ranger and the Special Operations and Special Forces community as an army ranger. And as an officer and as a chaplain. Uh so those are the three places that I've learned that practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. So make sure you what you practice is exercise.

Yeah. And, you know, just doubling down on what you just talked about. So, you know, you've got a diverse set of experiences, like you just said, from martial arts to to military service and a ministry, right? Like that's a lot of profound insights and growth that you've gone through. How did how does that inform your approach to like what you do when you work with companies and individuals today from a leadership

Yeah, I think uh, you know, Miyamoto Masashi said that, you know, every warrior should carry a pen and a sword, right? Uh from my military days, uh, you know, the guys that knew me before I became a chaplain, they just remember the Ranger Randall, right? And and I tell people all the time You can put the the chaplain into the ranger, but it it's hard to take the ranger out of the chaplain. And and I used to think that was a a tension.

you know, a disconnect and what I found over life of practicing is that really a And so what I try to bring to leaders, to to organizations, and to the public square is how do you bring your fullness of yourself to the public square? And and how do we take that fullness to better understand others and to seek understanding and to have that intellectually rigorous dialogue and discourse that allows us to collaborate, allows us to accept our differences, find our unity, and get things done.

And so so for me, uh, you know, when I g when I do coaching, we do leader development, we just take a very holistic perspective to that. You know, I began learning that um in the martial arts and then my time in the special operations community, uh allowing my opportunities there to work on human performance, uh, and then taking that into my time in professional college sports and then what we do today. So it's it's very much a holistic transformational process.

Dude, and you know, once I started following you, I saw something that you wrote. And I stood up out of my chair and it was like my skin was on fire because I was like, Yes, I needed to hear that. A lot of times in in leadership, in business, in entrepreneurship, in sport. We always talk about resiliency, right? And and so resiliency went from a a mindset, I think, to more like a trendy buzzword, right? Like if we were talking social media, it was a trendy hashtag.

And then I saw Dr. Anthony Randall say Where you really need to spend your time is understanding the concept of anti-fragile. So I want to give you some moments to break this down for everybody that's watching or listening about being anti-fragile. Yeah, so the the concept of anti fragility comes from Nassim Talib in his book Anti Fragile, which is a great read. Uh but you know, uh my time in the military, especially as a chaplain.

Combat tours and all of these things, the military started working on a resiliency project. They spent a couple hundred million dollars on it. And uh when I was doing some some graduate work several years ago, found that fifty-two percent of people, of soldiers that went through the resiliency training program actually had greater catastrophic thinking after the training than before. And and

My belief is that we need to go deeper. We need to go deeper than positive psychology. We need to go into this place of character formation. Establishing virtue and faith and freedom as a a triangle, a golden triangle that shapes who people are, to give them a greater foundation to res resist and respond to evil and to adversity and the things we face in this world. So the concept is pretty simple. You have people that are in a place of fragility.

Right? You have a pl place of resilience or a place of anti-fragility. And I think the illustration that I've seen, and I can't remember where it came from, was used in Greek mythology. Um if you're in a place of fragility, it's like Democles, right? The guy laying on the couch with the eating the grapes and the swords hanging above him with the horse hair. Yeah. If you don't

Practice in each and every day and prepare each and every day at how to overcome adversity, destroy self-limited beliefs, and learn how to show up and play up and finish every day. You're like Democles. The the tension on that sword's eventually gonna that horse hair is gonna snap and you're done. Resilience is the concept of the Phoenix, where you get hit, you get knocked down, you bounce back up.

To the original place that you And being a martial artist and and doing the things that I've done in my life, man, I've just never been satisfied with mediocrity. And and I think truly being a resilient person is just being mediocre. You get knocked down, you get back up again, and you stay there. And and so just like the Phoenix, it it dissolves, you know, it can fire and then it dissolves and it recompenses.

But being anti-fragile is like the hydra, right? If you remember the the Greek mythological creature, the hydra. Now you chop off a head, another one's coming back. And so being anti-fragile is about not just responding, resisting and responding to the But getting better from each and every one of those sets and reps. And uh an obstacle in life shouldn't be something you're fearful of. It should be something that you embrace and say, okay, how do we go by with and through this?

And so whether it's the trauma that I've seen in combat, whether it's being in high performance environments and sports or special operations or even doing martial arts. Um, there is a stress that we need to put ourselves under every day, emotionally, physically, psychologically, spiritually, mentally, physiologically, to help us get better every day. And I think some people have termed that post-traumatic growth. I just prefer the term being anti-fragile.

I love that so much, brother. For the person that's listening or watching right now, that's like, yeah, I like that. But I need to understand how to put that into practice for me or a couple of things that I could do to reverse that mindset or or to embrace this new anti-fragility or anti-fragile uh mindset. Like what are some things that people can do that's in their common day to day?

Well, I've learned a lot of this practice from from failure, right? And so I think just having the courage to get up every single day and to step out in the public square, uh and and Get in getting the arena is is one thing, is being willing to just be willing to show up every day, to play up when you have an opportunity to play up, and then be committed to finishing.

And so um, you know, the first part of that I think goes back to practicing When we identify our passion or our because, it helps us overcome adversity. Mm-hmm. Right. And then when we align that passion with purpose, the purposeful use of our gifts and our abilities and talents, when we focus on practicing our gifts and our abilities and talents and skills every What that does is it prevents us from getting just consumed with the dilemmas and the distractions of self-limiting belief.

The inner voice, the external voices, all all of those things. And instead we're able to stay focused on purposeful practice of what we're good at. That requires what I call disciplined obedience. Right. No one likes, I mean, I I'm not I don't know what you I've got three kids, right? Discipline and obedience aren't their two favorite words as they're growing up, but I've got two in college now and in a high school and they sure appreciate some disciplined obedience now in what they're doing.

So discipline is is the art of just practicing well every single day. And obedience, um, you know, as a theologian in Hebrew, there's no word for obedience. The word is actually Shema, which means to listen. So people that have disciplined obedience are people every day that are willing to get in the arena, to show up and play up and finish.

And not only be disciplined in their practice, being willing to listen and learn and apply, being humble to be taught every day. And then the last thing is precision. When you align your passion and your purpose, then that gives you precision to focus on exactly where your feet are at and be present in that moment and get after it, right? So I'll just I'll stop there, but there's some more depth there that we can get into on practicing the excellence.

Yeah, you know, I I wanna go as deep as you wanna go in practicing excellence. And you and I have already talked about we're gonna have a part two and maybe we'll do a master class for for people, because I totally believe everything that you just said and and I think What I heard you say and I'm gonna repeat it my way for everybody, I think the first step

is just acknowledging failure. Yeah. I think a lot of times we hide from we made a mistake or we messed up or or we didn't we didn't do as good as we wanted to do or as someone else wanted us to do. It's okay to accept that. As long as you're willing to correct and get better. Right. I think a lot of times we take we take failure and we begin to stack failure. You know, like me in my background, I'm all about stacking win.

Right. Well, in order to stack wins, every once in a while I have to not win so that I understand what I have to do to course correct. But the opposite is also true. A lot of times people will get into the woe is me or, you know, I'm not good enough. And then they start stacking losses and they can't get themselves out of it. Um, one of the things that

that I've ha have always appreciated about you and you call it using your four vowels. And I put that into place um not only with my team, but myself. Right. And so I'd love for you to walk us through. These vowels, using our vowels. And I I love a person that has easy ways for me to remember things. So thank you for doing that. So so everybody watching or listening, Dr. Anthony is going to teach us how to use our vowels.

So so do you mind if I share a story leading up to that? Okay, so we're starting with vowels because You keep call saying Doctor Anthony. That doctor took a lot of long long hours, right? I mean, I never I took the SAT three times, Mick. I never broke a thousand. I was the third alternate to get into West Point. Right. My my junior year in advanced English composition, my professor sat me down.

Took out an essay that I'd written. There was more red ink on it of his handwriting than black ink that came out on my computer. And he said, Wow. He said, Cadet Randall, he said, when was the last time you had a urine analysis and drug test? And I said, Sir, I he goes, Are you on drugs?

I said, Wow, no sir, I'm not on drugs. He goes, You've got to be on something because this is the worst writing I've ever read at the United States Military Academy. And then he failed me in advanced English composition. Right. It has been years of practice and a couple other opportunities and stories I share in my keynote of

people speaking into me to overcome self domain beliefs, to love to write. And today we've written a couple of books and I I I love to write. So that we'll go back to the vowels now, but just know that This this guy ain't no good at grammar, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, uh in my seventh and eighth grade, you know, grammar teachers like, son, you don't write no good.

You know? And uh I said that once in a keynote and I had I had a person in the audience go, you mean you don't write that well? And I'm like, if I gotta explain the joke to you, then it's you know so anyways, the five vowels, right? So I think I think for leadership, you know, you break it down to these five vowels, acronyms are always a good When you're walking into organization and you want to create a culture of excellence,

You know, A is assess, right? Um assess the situation and I always try to assess the audience. Who's my influencers and who are my influential leaders? And I think we see that in society today. We have all sorts of people that are influencers. Way more followers and likes than I like. What impact are they are they really having versus an influential leader that gets stuff done? They're committed to the process, right? And and they they lead by influence, not by power or role or response.

So that's A. The second one is enlist. Enlist, and a good friend of mine, Clint Hurdle, who I had the privilege to serve with in the with the Pittsburgh Pirates for eight years, Clint used to always tell us to pick your mount rush. Who are those four or five people chiseled in stone that that are always gonna be there for you foundationally? So A is assessed, E is enlist. Enlist the night enlist you're Mount Rushmore or the Night.

Who is going to have your back? Who who captures your vision, builds your strategy, and drives your execution? With passion, purpose, and precision, by the way, right? Who who who demonstrates trust, adaptability, and execution? Who develops leaders of character as moral ethical thinkers and high EQ?

It lists those people and then who's also on that team willing to to confront you and be candid. I mean, we've got an amazing team at Vanguard twenty one and I've surrounded myself with a whole bunch of people that are willing to just bludgeon me in the face if I need it because Because I need those kind of leaders around me, right? So you've got to surround yourself, enlist, enlist. Identify the people and I'll even go so far as say identify the terrorists.

Because if you've ever been in an organization You know there's always someone out there that's trying to destroy everything they're trying to put together. They're trying to destroy the energy the organization and it's always about they're out for themselves or they've been wounded or hurt or what they've always got some sort of motive.

you know, hard-heartedness, self-righteousness, whatever it is, that they'll do everything they can to destroy your organization. We talk talent management. I talk all the time about, you know, you can hire high character individuals and create a high culture organization. Or you can hire a bunch of characters. And they're gonna destroy your organization. So you've got uh you gotta identify the people that are gonna do everything they can to break that down.

And and frankly, HR people, we can talk about this on a more empathetic level, but you've got to identify them, you've got to isolate them, and then frankly, you just have to eliminate them. Do you want a championship culture or not? Do y do you want to be a transformational change agent in the public square? And quite frankly, some people just don't want to get on board with a growth mindset and be a team player and win. And they need to go find some place.

So that's the A, E and the I. The O is observed. And I'm a big fan of emotional intelligence. We teach a lot of emotional intelligence in our leadership courses. We teach EQ. We we we facilitate EQ 360s. And so I think Observe. Observe. Have some social awareness. Understand empathy and compassion, but also understand cultural values. Understand the written rules and the unwritten rules. I know you're an athlete.

You and I spent some time in some locker rooms, right? I mean, how many of us know that there's there's written rules and there's there's unwritten rules, right? And there's always the clubhouse boss, right, that runs the clubhouse, that runs the locker room and you either follow those rules or not. And so

Observe when you come in as a leader. Observe what the written and the unwritten rules are, right? Um Legacy is a great book about the all-black Kiwis and the all-blacks, the Kiwi, the New Zealand rugby team. They had some they have some written rules. They have some written principles that make them great. I guarantee you there's probably also some unwritten rules in there too.

So observe. And then the last one, you, is utilize. So assess, uh, um, enlist, identify, observe, and then utilize. Utilize a coaching language and a coaching culture. We're finding just study after study.

that when you implement a coaching language and a coaching culture When you bring in leadership and a development and executive coaching, when you build an internal executive coaching bench, when you teach your leaders in depth to spend more time coaching and less time directing, you begin to empower people. And draw the full potential out of people rather than enabling people to keep asking you for the answer.

And that's one of the hugest things that's in our marketplace today, in our society today. That's why we've got so much incivility in the public square, is we're overwhelmed with information and misinformation, and people today are just comfortable being told what to think. But high performing organizations, high performing cultures, high character leaders, they coach people how to think. And when you can coach organizations in depth how to think.

You begin to create morally and ethically autonomous leaders that get stuff done. And you flatten out organizations and you begin to move much faster and and you and that's how you win. Bro, I I couldn't have said it any better. Again, we have so much in common. We have a lot of principles and theories and and teachings uh in common because I s say the same thing. It's not about titles. It's not even about

roles, assignments. It's have you done enough so that this person can lead on their own? So that you can trust them to walk away and the job is done. And when you've when you're able to do that and there's trust, two ways. Right. Not just one way, but when there's two way trust.

That's the secret sauce to scaling. I don't care what business it is. I don't care it it could be a sports team. If you want to know the way to win and to always win, there's gotta be two-way trusts because everything that I believe Starts with trust, right? And when I trust you and I know that you trust me, together we're

Together we're unbeatable. So you talked about Vanguard twenty one. I wanna give you the floor. To talk about some of the amazing initiatives and endeavors that you all are working on, um, what you plan for in the future, and then obviously, you know, anything that you just want to talk about in general before we

Sure. Well, you know, very blessed to to lead this amazing company, Vanguard 21. We um launched it full time when I retired from the military five years ago. Um, you know, leadership development coaching space, we built it to a seven-figure company in less than 36 months. And we've built it around a team of people. That's why I didn't name it after myself, right? So we've got 19 amazing people on the team, coaches, facilitators, leaders across the marketplace.

And uh we have a there's the bottom line, we have a lot of fun. We transform leaders and we coach excellence and we win. I mean, if if if you're looking to have leadership transformation in your organization, if you're learning to see how Excellent coaching can impact your organization and you like to win. Hey, you know, maybe we can talk sometime and share some common values and ideas.

Uh so that's what we do and we have a lot of fun with it. Um right now, you know, we've we've been across the marketplace, Mick. Uh we work in Fortune 100, 500 companies, pro college sports. Um you know, small, medium-sized companies. The couple fractals that we're really passionate about right now and having some opportunities. Actually where I'm traveling to this week to do some work is in private equity and in public education. Because transformational leadership

Transforms the marketplace, right? I mean, you go from private equity to to public education, right? So what we're finding with PE uh firms and with portfolio companies is that if we can get involved upstream with a portfolio company, And and help. And typically, you know, a P comes in, grabs a portco, typically they keep the leadership in place, but they've got to figure out how to make change.

Or they they take the entire leadership out and put new leaders in with, you know, fractal or, you know, um different kinds of C-suites in there. Um fractal. Or or they keep some of the C suite and they replace some of them. The bottom line is if you want a three X or five X an organization, start with leadership.

start with building that culture of trust. And so what we're we're doing is we're we're looking right now and and working with some different private equity uh folks and some portfolio companies that they're identifying, hey, we want you to partner with us upstream. And from the time we take a portfolio company and and get them into the marketplace, we're going to have you do leadership development and coaching in depth through that 18, 24, 36 months.

And and you see the ROI on that, right? That's one. The second one's public education. I'm a publicly educated dude, right? Like I grew up in Colorado, I went to Pomona High School. Shout out to the Panthers, right? You know, so uh I I believe in public education and I and I believe that it can get better.

And I believe that we can transform that space. And what we've seen now is that public education has seen the impact of coaching. And so right now we're working with a couple of different school districts and um hopefully with a potential State Department of Education where we're coming in and and certifying principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors, and key faculty as ICF professional coaches.

So that they can begin coaching within their schools and within their districts and then taking their teachers and their their faculty through our two and a half day leadership transformational leadership course that intros them to coaching. And create a coaching culture with this Gen Z generation that's hungry to be coached. They're hungry to get potential John out of them. And it's also gonna increase cultures of trust.

within your administration and your faculty, with your with your staff and faculty, principals, students, teachers, the whole bit. So those are two fractals we're really excited about right now. I d I love it, man. I love it. I appreciate the the hard work uh that you and your team do. Um,'cause being in the leadership development space, uh especially when you're talking with adults

Everybody's agreeable day one until you start doing the hard things, right? And then it's like, oh, wait a second. I need to change. Something, something needs to change. So, so I get it, man. Like, what do you personally have coming up or or recently released or anything that you want to discuss?

Well uh you know You and I partner with Liberty Speaks, Corey and Herb Thompson, so they represent us as keynote speakers. And so I just did a a keynote for a national sales conference a few weeks ago for a um you know global global security company uh beat the br blizzard into Indianapolis and and they had a great culture. This is an amazing company and and I think ninety percent of their folks

came to the conference despite the weather. So it was just being it was great being around a a high performing culture like that. Uh and uh so just keynoting a lot this year, practicing excellence. Um so I have three key keynotes. I do practicing excellence, I do leader as coach, how you create a high culture uh coaching environment, and then I do uh another one.

for law enforcement and for military on on um how do you prepare the warrior soul and how do you prepare practice protect and persevere the warrior soul so those are kind of three keynotes that I do but I'm really passionate Vic about practicing Because that book is all about how do we restore civility with faith and trusted leadership in the public.

And and that's one of my passions in life. We have lost the civility in our public square and I just really believe that, you know, if we take this golden triangle philosophy of of freedom, virtue and and and faith and tie those together that we can create a public square, we can have civil discourse, we can have dialogue, and and we can we can figure out that we're not always gonna see eye to eye, but

When our end state is human flourishing, when our end state is creating a space where people can flourish, and we seek to draw that potential out, you and I may have a different way to get after that, but can we find some likeness in doing that? Right. And just to close on that, one of my one of my favorite put on my my chaplain hat, one of my favorite sermons is by Dr. King.

And and he had a sermon called Transform Nonconformist. It's out of Romans 12, 1 and 2. And he preached it probably half a dozen or dozen times in the 50s and 60s. It is still 127% relevant today. And and one part of that sermon that he gives, he talks about that, you know, um transformation of purpose doesn't come from being a nonconform. Matter of fact, being a nonconformist can actually lead to exhibitionism. That's Dr. King's words, right? But that transformation is internal.

When we're willing to have a growth mindset, a white belt mentality, when we're willing to allow That transformation to occur internally through a transcendent God, through a faith, through whatever that may be the case. Then the transformation that's internal will truly help us be more transformational as non-conformists in a society that's conforming to things that. There's probably a better way. There's probably a better way for us to live a more

Right. And so that's my passion is how do we restore civilian the public square? And and that includes your company, your organization, your school, your team, your community. So that's what I really love to speak on is people realizing. Man, there's more. We're we have more in common than we do, you know, difference. And and how do we bring that together? And I've always had a passion to do that. I've always had a passion to bring people together.

So that's what I'm really passionate about and uh love to do it, man.

Absolutely. So before I get you out of here with my rapid five. Where can people find and follow doctor Anthony? Yeah, so uh mostly on LinkedIn. I'm fifty two, not a big Instagram guy, trying

But still have to ask my kids how to use it, right? So uh you can mostly follow me on LinkedIn, uh Vanguard Twenty One, Vanguard XXI. You can follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, we do some stuff on Instagram and X, but mostly LinkedIn And then if you want to go to our website for leader development and coaching, that's www. Dot vanguard xi dot com So whether you're looking for leadership development and coaching in the marketplace, whether you want to become an ICF professional coach.

We have five different ICF professional courses, level one, two, and level three courses that you can come and get your professional certification. And then if you're looking for individual executive coaching, offsites, retreats, those kind of things, boom, vanguard XXI.com. And the second place you can find me is at www.anthonyrandall.org.

And that's my Anthony Randall Speaks keynote speaking website. And so if you're looking for a keynote, looking for uh more than a keynote, and that's what I always I try to share. I don't do keynotes, I do a keynote experience. So I will invest in your folks, your people, your industry for a couple days, come in, do a keynote, do some breakout sessions, some panels, and truly just spend time and be present uh with your folks as they align their passion, purpose, and precision to practice action.

I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Dude, I appreciate you more than you know. I'm gonna get you out of here with my rapid fire quick five. That was it. All right. Number one, as a keynote speaker, what's your pump up song that you're listening to right before you walk out of the store?

Dirk Spentley Burning Man. I'm a little bit steady. I'm a little bit Rolling Stone. I'm a little holy water. I'm still a little bit of a burning man, right? Because I'm still in that process, right? So that's my walk-up song. Dirk Spentley Burning Man. I love it. I love it. Number two, if you could have a martial arts match with any historic figure, who would it be? Oof.

You know what? I would probably love to train with um sensei Jagaro Kano. So sensei Kano was the father of modern-day martial arts. and and took judo out of uh Japanese jiu jitsu and the practice of the samurai and and that's where Brazilian jiu jitsu and all that comes from today. So I would say uh Sensei Kano. Okay, I dig it. What's one leadership lesson you wish you had learned sooner? Coaching.

Too many people call themselves coaches on LinkedIn. The number one thing that people tell us after day one of our professional coaching courses is that typically look at the floor and they drop their shoulders. Uh I've been telling people I'm a coach, but I'm not So I wish I would have learned the art and science of how to coach um a lot a lot sooner than I did because it's been transformed.

Bro, we have the same thing in common. Like I tell people all the time, like, give me your qualifications and certifications to tell me you're a coach versus somebody who's done one thing kind of good and now you're trying to show other people how to do that one thing worse than you do. We have a lot of clients that we get they're like retreads on a tire. Yeah, the coach I was coaching with. That this this is coaching. Like that was not coaching. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Beyond your board.

What's your favorite book that you always recommend? Who? Well scripture's always a good one. Hmm, my favorite books, I think, for leadership. Man, I love Good to Great by Jim Collins. It's one of my favorites. Um I love stories about people. So uh right now I'm reading Henry Kissinger's book, Leadership. And uh great deep dive on just some incredible leaders from around the world.

Margaret Thatcher to Anwar Sadat to, you know, I mean, just really great read. So I'm reading Kissinger's leadership right now. Um, good to great is a great one. And then probably on the EQ side, Daniel Goldman. Um, primal leadership. If you wanna better understand emotional intelligence and how to lead with EQ, just not the science behind it, I I think that's a go to. Primal leadership for sure. There's probably

I love it, brother. I love it. Last one. As the book and the story of Anthony Randall continues to be written, what's one word you want in that book to define and describe you? Hmm. Legacy. My greatest joy in life is um and my greatest prayer in life is that my children figure it out better than I did. And so um When that when that final day happens I hope I can I can look back and

See my kids um being transformational leaders in the public square, transforming people's lives and and making an impact in this world to allow people to flourish. And um yeah, that's probably my biggest My biggest thing. I love it, bro. Completely, completely love it.

Ladies and gentlemen, this has been Dr. Anthony Randall, bro. I appreciate you more than you know. This was an amazing conversation. We will definitely do another part in person. We're gonna get to see each other several times this year, so we'll make sure that we We record in person too because we have a lot to to really talk about it and show you. Love it, man. Absolutely love it. Look forward to seeing you in a few weeks and thank you again and Just to your

Folks listen, man, just be encouraged. And everybody shout out some gratitude and some thanks to Mick Hunt for his podcast because they're uh they're phenomenal. I enjoy listening to them as well. Man, you're phenomenal, bro. You're phenomenal. To all the viewers and listeners, as always, remember your because is your superpower. Go unleash it.

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