In this engaging conversation, Jay Jeezy shares his journey of personal growth, emphasizing the importance of stepping into one's truth and living with intention. He reflects on his early life experiences, the challenges he faced, and how he transformed a scarcity mindset into one of abundance. Through music, he found a means of self-discovery and healing, while also recognizing the significance of forgiveness and the impact of leadership. Jay emphasizes the value of curiosity, learning, and sur...
Jul 11, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 525
Mel Robbins is the creator and host of the award-winning The Mel Robbins Podcast, one of the most successful podcasts in the world, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. She has amassed 28 million followers online and is one of the most respected experts in mindset, life improvement, and behavior change. The Wall Street Journal calls her a “billion-view podcaster” and TIME Magazine says she gives millions of listeners around the globe “a reason to believe in themselves.” — Get sent fresh l...
Jun 27, 2025•51 min•Season 1Ep. 524
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia, CEO of VeeFriends, and a 6x New York Times bestselling author. Outside of his businesses, “GaryVee” has spent the last decade pioneering the practice of building a personal brand online through his original content. — Get sent fresh leadership interviews, articles, stories, and events every Friday at: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe...
Jun 20, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 523
From humble beginnings to a self-made multimillionaire with over $6 billion to date in global product sales and a starring role on ABC’s newest business reality TV show, Shark Tank, Daymond John is the personification of the American Dream. He continues to set standards of excellence while expanding his interests in fashion, branding, marketing, consulting, entertainment, and beyond. This industry leader, best-selling author, and ground breaking entrepreneurial expert has evolved into a highly s...
Jun 13, 2025•16 min•Season 1Ep. 522
Dr. Eric Edwards is the CEO & Chairman of Phlow, a B Corporation that helps brilliant minds bring medicines to life through advanced development and manufacturing in America. — Get sent fresh leadership interviews, articles, stories, and events every Friday at: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe
Jun 06, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 521
Subscribe to Real Leaders+ to gain access to these events when they happen live: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe Speaker : Andy Alsop, CEO of The Receptionist Session Description: Many companies prioritize structure and efficiency to scale, but true growth comes from empowering employees at every level. This session explores how employee supremacy —a model where employees are trusted as the driving force of innovation—can revolutionize your organization. Learn how to balance autonomy with ali...
May 19, 2025•31 min
Subscribe to Real Leaders+ to gain access to these events when they happen live: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe Speaker: Top Impact Company CEO Aaron Zeper of DMD Systems Recovery, LLC Session Description: Most companies looking to scale focus on process, process, process. And while process is important, innovation is mandatory. Discover how to leverage controlled anarchy to drive innovation and scale your business effectively. This session will teach you to balance creativity with structure...
May 12, 2025•35 min
Subscribe to Real Leaders+ to gain access to these events when they happen live: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe Join Keith Bearden, CEO of Alter Eco Foods, for an inspiring session on how mission-driven companies can scale impact while achieving lasting business success. With a wealth of experience in consumer packaged goods, industrial ingredients, and food services, Keith has mastered the art of turning vision into reality. From building high-performance teams to executing strategic turnar...
May 05, 2025•32 min
Subscribe to Real Leaders+ to gain access to these events when they happen live: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe Employee ownership isn’t just a trend—it’s a powerful strategy to drive growth, build alignment, and leave a lasting legacy. Darin Anderson, Chairman & CEO of Salas O’Brien, shares the company’s journey from single owner to closely held ownership, to an ESOP, and finally to a thriving direct ownership model with 90% employee participation. This session delivers actionable strat...
Apr 28, 2025•40 min
Subscribe to Real Leaders+ to gain access to these events when they happen live: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe Discover how Dan Green, CEO and co-founder of Helpsy, transformed his Wall Street expertise into a mission to keep clothes out of landfills while creating meaningful, impactful jobs. Learn how Helpsy’s unique model blends second-chance employment, incentive pay, and employee ownership to align efforts, inspire hard work, and foster accountability. Gain insights from Dan on overcomi...
Apr 21, 2025•46 min
Subscribe to Real Leaders+ to gain access to these events when they happen live: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe Speaker : Top Impact Company CEO Brandon Schwertner of Priority Power Session Description: Power demand is intensifying at a rate never seen before from emerging industries like AI. What is the balance in meeting this demand and underlying decarbonization goals? What does the world of energy look like decades into the future? Session Objectives: What does AI mean for power demand? ...
Apr 14, 2025•39 min
Are you a LinkedIn Lunatic? On this episode, Kevin explores the underground of reddit which exposes the satirical humor of linkedin. Also, do you work on Saturday's? Perhaps you're fed up by today's hustle culture. Two takes on this. If you're still reading this perhaps you're curious about how to fire people. Kevin shares his experience in how to do it quick.
Jan 15, 2025•19 min•Season 5Ep. 4
What do you do when you're working overtime doing someone else's job that you're not getting paid for? You're an entrepreneur who has so many ideas but you don't know where to focus.. where do you spend your time? You've just been appointed CEO but you're not ready.. what now?
Jan 12, 2025•43 min•Season 5Ep. 3
In this episode, Kevin combs Reddit for a poor examples of leadership and finds an example that will make you never want to present again! By looking at criticism as a constructive learning tool, we can grow and mature in our roles.
Jan 10, 2025•25 min•Season 5Ep. 2
In 2025 the Real Leaders Podcast shifts to focus on community questions and content tailored to our community to support real people with real work/life questions. If you're looking to become a better leader for a better world, subscribe to RL+ to get direct access to the practitioners in Real Leaders magazine online, subscribe here: https://real-leaders.com/subscribe
Jan 09, 2025•27 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Ankur Edkie is the Co-Founder & CEO of Murf AI, an early-stage funded start-up working on simplifying voice audio and making high-quality voice overs accessible to everyone, using artificial intelligence. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/top-impact-companies-2025/...
Dec 17, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 520
Palash Soni is the CEO of Goldcast, an AI-powered B2B Video Campaign Platform that transforms marketing by putting video and events at the heart of the customer journey. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/top-impact-companies-2025/...
Dec 10, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 519
Dr. Artika Tyner is the CEO & Founder of Planting People Growing Justice, an organization that is set on building strong communities by developing leaders and empowering them to discover their own leadership potential in order to make an impact in the world. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://...
Dec 03, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 518
Peggy Shell is the CEO & Founder of Creative Alignments, a recruiting company that partners with quickly growing companies in consumer products and technology that are using their business as a force for good by creating people-focused cultures, commitment to DEI, or impact-focused products or services. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real ...
Nov 26, 2024•41 min
Keith Bearden is the CEO of Alter Eco Foods, a chocolate-centric, sustainability-directed food company that takes healthy indulgence to a new level. Alter Eco is dedicated to spreading social justice and environmental regeneration while creating a new category of enlightened indulgences. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Award...
Nov 19, 2024•37 min
Bob Miles is the Founder & CEO of Salad Technologies, the world's most affordable GPU cloud for AI/ML inference at scale. In this episode, Bob shares how to think about disrupting a massive trillion dollar market. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/top-impact-companies-2025/...
Nov 14, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 515
Dena Trujillo is the CEO of Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention. For over 20 years, Dena has operated at the intersection of nonprofit and for-profit, discovering and amplifying models that scale innovative solutions and maximize social impact. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a volunteer Crisis Counselor — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: ...
Oct 29, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 514
Asim Bawany is the CEO of Codup, a full-service development agency that builds technology solutions customized for the specific needs of clients to help them overcome challenges and grow their bottom lines. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/top-impact-companies-2025/...
Oct 22, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 513
David Obrand is the CEO of Salesloft, which powers durable revenue growth for the world’s most demanding companies. Salesloft’s industry-leading Revenue Orchestration Platform uses purpose-built AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Rea...
Oct 15, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 512
Yonatan Raz-Fridman is the Founder & CEO of Supersocial, a metaverse studio and tech company with a mission to create and empower digital communities to play, explore, socialize and meaningfully express themselves in the next era of the Internet. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/top-...
Oct 08, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 511
Andy Alsop is the President & CEO of The Receptionist, a versatile, effective and easy-to-use Visitor Management system. In this episode, Andy inspires leaders to shift to Employee Supremacy, a philosophy that prioritizes employees before customers. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/top-...
Oct 01, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 510
Eytan Wiener is the CEO of Getida, the global leader in Amazon FBA auditing and reimbursement solutions for sellers and consumer brands. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/top-impact-companies-2025/...
Sep 24, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 509
Brad Black is the Founder and Co-CEO of EO Products, a certified B-Corporation based in Marin County, CA who has been making plant-based skincare products with a higher purpose in mind: to make personal care products that care for the whole person and the planet. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/...
Sep 17, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 508
Michael Walsh is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cariloop, which helps families manage their loved ones' care needs by connecting them to an employer-sponsored caregiver support platform. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com Apply for the The 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards : https://real-leaders.com/top-impact-companies-2025/...
Sep 10, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 507
Travis Howerton is the Co-Founder & CEO of RegScale, compliance and cybersecurity experts who are sharpened in highly regulated industries from nuclear energy to the military to financial services. RegScale overcomes speed, timeliness, and cost effectiveness limitations in legacy GRC by bridging security, risk, and compliance through our Continuous Controls Monitoring platform. — Read the Magazine and Join the Community for Impact: https://real-leaders.com...
Sep 03, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 506
