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UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders

Cohesion Culture

Every leader has an UH-OH moment. The great ones know how to turn those moments into momentum.In UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with industry experts for candid, high-stakes confessions regarding their most crucial leadership mistakes. We peel back the curtain on the errors that cost time, money, and trust, and more importantly, we map out the exact steps taken to fix them.Designed for emerging leaders and seasoned executives alike, this podcast is

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40:42

From "Them vs. Us" to Cohesive Trust

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2026/02/24

What happens when your best leadership trait becomes your biggest liability? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, hosts Dr. Troy Hall and Trevor Crunelle sit down with Andrew Brümmer, a fractional executive, international mentor, and former stunt double for Robert Downey Jr! Andrew shares a raw and insightful UH-OH moment from his career: the time his commitment to team autonomy accidentally birthed "Golden Child Syndrome," alienating an entire department and creatin...

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33:23

Surviving Your Own UH-OH Era

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2026/02/17

What happens when you hit peak success at age 30, only to realize you’ve started coasting? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Trevor Crunelle chat with Aaron Trahan, founder of Performance Mindset Coaching. Aaron pulls back the curtain on his UH-OH era, a period where early career wins led to a dangerous comfort zone and a 360-degree feedback report that changed everything. We discuss how transcendental meditation keeps him grounded, why focus is a...

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32:24

Mingle Over Metrics: Why Real Connection Wins at Work...

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2026/02/10

What happens when a serial DIYer meets a leadership challenge he can’t fix with a toolbox?. In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy are joined by John Patsch, co-founder of Miingl. John is a craftsman who rolls up his sleeves to understand the how behind everything from garage projects to corporate culture. The UH-OH Moment John pulls back the curtain on a startup failure from 12 years ago that changed his perspective on leadership foreve...

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35:58

They Still Send Him Thank You Notes

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2026/02/03

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Ben-Jamin Toy and Dr. Troy Hall chat with Jim Carlough, a seasoned executive and Chief Sales Officer, to discuss one of the most difficult and often most mishandled moments in leadership: downsizing. Jim shares a candid UH-OH experience from earlier in his career, when following traditional “be firm, be direct, be short” guidance damaged trust, hurt his reputation, and left lasting emotional fallout for employees. He doesn’t sugarc...

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33:52

Why Your Biggest Business UH-OH Might Be Your...

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2026/01/27

What happens when a six-figure mistake forces a leader to look in the mirror? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with entrepreneur and insurance leader David Price for an honest conversation about accountability, ego, and growth under pressure. David shares how a $100,000 operational oversight exposed deeper issues around systems, leadership readiness, and removing himself from the business too quickly. Instead of deflecting blam...

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36:21

The Cost of Scaling Too Fast: A Leadership Lesson...

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2026/01/20

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Ryan DuBois. He’s an endurance athlete at heart, a builder by trade, and the kind of leader who’s learned most of his lessons the hard way. From scaling startups across the Southeast to grinding through 20-hour days in manufacturing, Ryan brings a grounded, people-first view of leadership when things stop going according to plan. Ryan shares his defining UH-OH moment, a rapid expansion tha...

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34:15

Using AI Without Losing Trust

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2026/01/13

What happens when integrity collides with convenience? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Trevor Crunelle chat with leadership coach, author, and podcaster Kathy Archer for a refreshingly honest conversation about confidence, competence, and the cost of leadership missteps. Kathy shares a pivotal UH-OH moment involving AI, trust, and a leadership value she holds deeply: integrity. What followed wasn’t a public disaster, but something quieter and mo...

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34:22

Not Everyone Wants the Next Promotion

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2026/01/06

What happens when a leader’s best intentions quietly become a burden? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and guest host, Trevor Crunelle, chat with Chris Lorence for a candid conversation about ambition, assumptions, and an unexpected leadership blind spot. Chris shares a powerful UH-OH moment that emerged from a leadership 360 assessment. While he was widely seen as capable, reliable, and driven, one insight hit hard. His constant push for growth and ...

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40:37

Episode 0 Repost: Ground Zero

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2025/12/30

This Ground Zero episode sets the tone for UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders. Before the guests, our hosts made their fair share of mistakes. Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy kick things off by sharing their own leadership UH-OH moments. From a simple technical oversight that could have derailed a client experience, to career-limiting behaviors that quietly stalled advancement, this episode gets honest about what mistakes cost leaders and what growth requires. You’ll hear why this podc...

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33:46

Trying to Be Everyone’s Friend Cost Me Everything

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2025/12/23

What happens when a leader wants to be liked more than trusted? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, John Little shares a pivotal leadership UH-OH from his early career at CNN. This mistake cost him credibility, confidence, and a leadership role. At just 27 years old, John stepped into leadership with good intentions and the wrong strategy: trying to be everyone’s friend. What followed was a lesson in accountability, trust, and the difference between being nice and be...

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40:40

The Promotion He Didn’t Want and the Price He Paid

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2025/12/16

What happens when success comes faster than wisdom? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Donzel Leggett shares a powerful early-career UH-OH that many emerging leaders will recognize and few will admit. Thrust into management before he even wanted the role, Donzel felt the pressure to prove himself, deliver results, and not let anyone down. He did exactly that. And it nearly wrecked his health, his energy, and his life. Working 16 hour days, pursuing an MBA, and chasi...

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35:11

When Your Business Partner Buys a Car with Your Money

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2025/12/09

Regina Huber has lived in six countries, speaks multiple languages, knows dances from across Africa, and built businesses on two continents. But her biggest UH-OH didn’t happen on the dance floor. It happened in Brazil when a trusted business partner drained a joint account to buy himself a shiny new car, derailing their entire venture and leaving Regina with a $100,000 loss, an angry neighborhood, and a long road back to confidence. In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leade...

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33:03

The Weekend That Cost Millions

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2025/12/02

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Ben-Jamin Toy chats with the endlessly energetic Dr. Danny Brassell, a man who’s lived enough careers to fill a mini-series and enough UH-OH moments to keep it interesting. Danny opens up about the weekend he and his wife bought ten investment properties across the country, from Phoenix, to Salt Lake City, Mississippi, Indianapolis, and Florida. The deal looked golden… right up until it evaporated into a multi-million-dollar catast...

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44:21

Navigating Growth Seasons

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2025/11/25

In this episode of Uh-Oh Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin welcome the dynamic and deeply authentic Kenya Dunn. Known for her power, influence, and transparency, Kenya brings the kind of honesty leaders rarely show publicly. From plant lessons to business lessons, Kenya draws unexpected connections between growth, care, and the moments where everything nearly falls apart. You’ll hear the candid UH-OH that shaped Kenya’s leadership approach, the cost of the mistake, h...

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31:56

Why Women Must Advocate for Themselves

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2025/11/18

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, hosts Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy welcome Rosie Zilinskas. Rosie is a Certified High Performance Coach, keynote speaker, and founder of No Woman Left Behind. Rosie shares her powerful journey from surviving a difficult divorce to thriving as a corporate executive and coach dedicated to empowering women in the workplace. Listeners will hear Rosie’s candid UH-OH moment: the realization that waiting to be noticed for her hard work was ...

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39:06

The Day Assumptions Broke the Budget

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2025/11/11

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Jeff Price, CEO of Communications Advisory Service. Jeff opens up about the costly UH-OH that hit his company for $47,000 and the even bigger impact it had on his confidence, delegation habits, and leadership mindset. From learning to ask the obvious questions to understanding how integrity sometimes comes with a price tag, Jeff walks through what happened, what it taught him, and how his team r...

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32:26

The One Where the HR Pro Learned Her Own Lesson

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2025/11/04

Even the best leaders have their UH-OH moments. For Danielle Shroyer, a seasoned HR leader turned coach, her big one came down to something deceptively simple: unclear expectations. In this episode, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Danielle to unpack how a performance improvement plan turned into a lesson in communication, comprehension, and compassion. They talk accountability, silent toxicity, and why Brené Brown's “clear is kind” is a leadership survival skill. If you’ve ever thought, ...

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35:26

What Happens When You Set Big Goals… But Don’t Change...

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2025/10/28

In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with John Knowlton, a seasoned entrepreneur and C12 Coach, who shares the moment he realized that setting big goals without changing behavior is a recipe for frustration. John opens up about the year his wealth management firm set a $1 billion target... then stalled out. Through a candid discussion about time studies, misplaced priorities, and personal accountability, he reveals how the UH-OH tu...

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35:49

The UH-OH That Sparked a Movement

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2025/10/21

What happens when everything you’ve built—your reputation, your funding, your credibility—is rooted in the wrong story? Dr. Deborah Heiser, founder of The Mentor Project and author of The Mentorship Edge, joins Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy to share the UH-OH moment that completely changed her career. As a young researcher in the field of aging, Deborah realized she was studying only one side of the coin—frailty, decline, and disease—without ever asking what we have to look forward to as we...

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33:09

What I Learned from a Union Showdown

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2025/10/14

When leadership meets culture clash, lessons get learned the hard way. In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, host Ben-Jamin Toy chats with Kevin Wayne Johnson, founder of The Johnson Leadership Group, to unpack a defining leadership UH-OH. From his 34-year federal career to leading through union politics and organizational culture, Kevin shares what happens when you step into leadership without understanding the unwritten rules — and how character, respect, and integri...

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