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The Partnership Playbook: Lead with Clarity, Create Leverage & Reclaim Time

Phil Hayes-St Clair

Helping leaders grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and bring real meaning to their teams. The Partnership Playbook is for CEOs, founders, and go-to-market leaders who want to grow without noise, scale without burnout, and build partnerships that actually matter. You’ll hear clear thinking on: - How to become a great CEO - How distribution, supply chain, and product partnerships create resilience - How leaders use partnerships to simplify strategy, not add more work Hosted by

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01:00:39

153. RE-RELEASE: Colonel Kim 'KC' Campbell on...

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2026/01/19

Meet former US Air Force fighter pilot, Colonel Kim 'Killer Chick' Campbell. This is her story including a harrowing experience during a mission in Baghdad, where her aircraft was critically damaged and she had to rely on emergency backup systems to get home safely. Learn how partnerships, trust, and debriefing play a critical leadership role in high-stakes environments.Connect with Kim:Get Flying in the Face of Fear by Kim 'KC' CampbellVisit Kim's websiteConnect with Kim on LinkedInNew episodes

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09:19

152.Why the best GTM partnerships in 2026 start with...

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2026/01/14

What if this year’s partnership growth doesn’t come from doing more — but from choosing better?Most GTM leaders are pushing harder on partners in a market that’s already tight on trust, attention, and momentum. The result? Activity without progress. Deals that drift. Partnerships that quietly stall. In this episode:Learn how to open deeper, more transparent partner conversations that drive growth instead of frictionDiscover how IDEAL+™ helps you decide which partnerships deserve focus — and which

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12:45

151. Paradox leadership: How CEOs make better...

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2026/01/12

What do you do as a CEO when two opposite decisions are both right — and choosing only one puts your business at risk?In this episode of The Partnership Playbook, Phil Hayes-St Clair breaks down how to build the paradox leadership muscle — the capacity to think clearly, decide confidently, and coach teams effectively when contradictions are real and unavoidable.You’ll learn:How to recognize and name the paradoxes shaping growth and leadership in 2026 — before they paralyze decision-makingWhy the

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47:36

150. The “boring” infrastructure behind...

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2026/01/09

Can your partnerships actually scale—or are they just good intentions?Many leaders confuse volume for value and "partner" for "vendor." But as David Johnson, CEO of Vervent, explains—real partnership is a strategic lever for growth and resilience, not just a nice-to-have.In this deep-dive episode, you’ll learn:A proven 3-part framework to identify and grow strategic partnershipsWhy integrity, not innovation, is your real growth multiplierHow to balance risk, regulation, and go-to-market velocity🎧

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07:31

149. Holding space in grief

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2025/12/15

My thoughts on leading in light of the devastating events at Bondi Beach in Australia on 14 December 2025.Learn more at philhsc.com

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148. CEO Damon Lembi on how to build growth...

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2025/12/12

Are you building partnerships that actually work or just deals that eventually die?Damon Lembi, CEO of Learnit, shares 30+ years of lessons from growing a 2-million-learner business and surviving the dot-com bust. In this episode:Learn the “Ideal” framework to pressure-test any partnershipDiscover the biggest growth mistake Damon made—and how he’d fix itReframe training as your most powerful revenue unlock, not a costListen now to reimagine how partnerships and growth really scale.New episodes

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11:15

147. How to move from suppressing to regulating...

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2025/12/10

Are you leading from presence or from a body that’s in quiet panic while you hold the room together?Most CEOs underestimate the emotional load of leadership. This episode reframes emotional steadiness as an executive skill, not a personality trait, and gives you the tools to build it.In this episode, you’ll learn how to:Use breath, grounding, and cognitive tools to regulate your emotional state in real timeIdentify emotional triggers before they appear so you can stay ahead of escalationSeparate

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09:21

146. What happens when GTM, Product & Partnerships...

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2025/12/09

What would happen to your company’s growth engine if GTM, Product and Partnerships finally spoke the same language?Most companies struggle because their core functions operate on different maps, different clocks, and different definitions of success. This episode gives GTM leaders the clarity and structure to unify the business, restore operational calm, and accelerate growth and leadership maturity.In this episode, you’ll learn how to:Build a shared operating system that aligns GTM, Product, and

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56:05

145. How Martin Herbst thinks about go-to-market...

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2025/12/05

What happens when you treat partnerships like internal rituals not just external deals?In this episode, JobAdder CEO Martin Herbst shares how to lead with trust, simplify strategy, and build partnerships that actually scale.Here’s what you’ll learn:Why internal partnerships must come before external onesHow to avoid complexity and accelerate value in partner dealsThe discipline of saying “no” to grow the right wayMartin and Phil break down actionable frameworks, partnership psychology, and growth

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144. How CEOs can help develop their leaders

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2025/12/03

What happens to growth when your business scales faster than the leaders running it?Every CEO eventually feels it: managers who were strong at 10 people struggle at 30, directors quietly absorb pressure they don’t want to reveal, and culture begins to crack under the weight of rising expectations. Leadership doesn’t automatically scale just because the company does and ignoring that gap slows growth more than any external threat.In this epsisode:Learn how to identify when your leadership team is

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143. How GTM leaders can reverse slowing growth

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2025/12/01

What if slowing growth isn’t a market issue but a system issue inside your GTM motion?This episode breaks down the four symptoms slowing your revenue momentum and gives you simple, practical ways to regain clarity, control, and confidence.Build a pipeline based on truth, not hopeRemove buyer risk faster than you add valueUse partners to restore momentum and accelerate growthYour next level of growth and leadership starts by removing motion masquerading as progress. Listen to the episode to reset

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142. What most founders get wrong about partnerships

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2025/11/28

What if your biggest growth unlock was… gratitude?In this episode, David Homan shares how relationship orchestration, not transactions, is the core ingredient to partnership growth.You’ll learn:How to turn relationships into non-linear growth enginesA 5-principle framework that outperforms traditional networkingThe biggest mistake people make after saying thank you (and how to fix it)New episodes Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.More from Phil Hayes-St Clair:Subscribe to the Wednesday Partnership

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141. How to match energy with workload to drive...

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2025/11/27

What if your leadership effectiveness had less to do with discipline… and everything to do with how well you manage your energy?When energy drops, CEOs don’t just feel tired — they lose clarity, emotional steadiness, strategic judgment, and the ability to lead partnership-driven growth with intention.Make sharper, calmer decisions by aligning your physiology with the outcomes you expectBuild a repeatable energy system that fuels creativity, communication, and long-term growthRemove hidden drains

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140. How Jeff Bezos makes decisions to unlock growth

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2025/11/24

What if the biggest threat to your company’s growth isn’t bad decisions — but slow ones?Every CEO knows the drag created when decisions stall. That gap between information and action quietly erodes trust, slows execution, and creates cultural drag. In this episode, Phil unpacks Jeff Bezos’s decision framework — refined in conversation with Adam Grant — and shows how increasing your decision velocity drives partnership alignment, organizational clarity, and sustained growth.Learn how to use a simple

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03:48

139. How I deliver value to you is changing (starting...

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2025/11/23

How I deliver value to you starts today.New episodes Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.More from Phil Hayes-St Clair:Subscribe to the Wednesday Partnership Newsletter (and get immediate access to my Frameworks Vault)Find me on LinkedInThe Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs,

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10:07

138. Most Replayed Moment: How to build growth...

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2025/11/14

What if your next big growth opportunity is a new relationship?Too many founders chase transactions and miss out on the power of long-term partnerships. In this episode, Scott Kelly, investor and media collaborator, reveals how he vets founders, why “trust but verify” matters, and the subtle language that separates good deals from bad ones.You’ll walk away with:A simple heuristic for evaluating partnerships before the contractA mindset shift that turns cold outreach into recurring opportunityReal

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47:36

137. The hidden cost of partnership meetings (and how...

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2025/11/05

What if the way you run meetings is quietly capping your global growth?In this episode, discover how Rumi.ai founder Ramsey Pryor is rewriting the go-to-market playbook through partnerships and AI-driven meeting memory. You’ll learn:Why “brand doesn’t travel” — and what founders can do before launching abroad.How to turn meeting chaos into a recall system that powers decision-making.The true meaning of partnership as a force multiplier for growth.🎧 Tune in to learn how partnership and growth come

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09:40

136. Why treating suppliers as vendors is slowing...

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2025/10/31

Are your suppliers helping you grow or just filling orders?If you're treating vendors like fixed-line costs instead of future-shaping partners, you're holding back growth, agility, and margin.In this episode, you’ll discover:How to assess your current supplier relationships across 12 critical partnership elementsThe 3 maturity levels—Baseline, Growth, and Strategic—and what shifts each one unlocksPractical moves to transform a vendor into a co-invested growth partnerWant to build partnerships that

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135. How to re-build trust when a partnership breaks...

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2025/10/30

Why do some partnerships crumble over small issues while others grow stronger from them?In this episode you’ll learn:The 4-step framework to repair any partnership issue without blame or confusionHow to prevent small missteps from derailing big opportunitiesWhy system fixes—not apologies—are your fastest path to partnership growthListen now to turn a miss into momentum—and make your partnerships unbreakable.Get the MISS Principle download here.Thanks to Fiverr for sponsoring this episode! Use this

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01:05:54

134. How to Build a Leadership Platform That Attracts...

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2025/10/28

What if the key to partnership-driven growth isn't strategy—but curiosity?Whether you're leading a team, selling under pressure, or building a movement, this episode with Ryan Hawk will flip your assumptions. From his journey through sports, sales, podcasting, and publishing, Ryan unpacks how commitment, standards, and relationships drive real results.In this episode, you'll learn:Why your curiosity is the most underused business advantageHow to lead former peers without losing trust—or momentumA

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