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Show Your Value with Lee Benson

Each week, we will explore the Art of Value Creation in three macro buckets. Material value creation, emotional energy value creation, and spiritual value creation.Lee Benson is a value creation expert with over 30 years of experience in the business world. He is the CEO of Execute to Win, a firm that helps organizations of all sizes to accelerate the value they create. Lee began his value creation journey early, pulling weeds for 25 cents an hour. Since then, he has founded and led seven companies,

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63:28

What Entrepreneurship Really Demands From Founders

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2026/01/14

In this episode of Show Your Value with Lee Benson, Lee is joined by Kass and Mike Lazerow, experienced founders and investors, for an honest conversation about the realities of building companies over the long term. Drawing on decades of experience starting, scaling, and exiting businesses, including high-growth ventures and acquisitions, the conversation focuses on leadership under pressure, founder responsibility, and the often overlooked behaviors that determine whether companies succeed ...

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53:41

From War Zones to Boardrooms: 8 Lessons the World...

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2026/01/07

2026 is here and this is how you start it right. Before you set goals, before you chase growth, before you tell yourself “this year will be different”… Listen to this. This special compilation of Show Your Value brings together stories of courage, leadership, sacrifice, and hard-earned wisdom from people who didn’t wait for permission, and changed thousands of lives because of it. Inside this episode: - A school in India dismantling 1,500 years of oppression by taking children from invisib...

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112:07

These Leaders See What Most Business Owners Never Will

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2025/12/31

In 2025, I sat down with world-class leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and strategists to answer one question: What actually creates value? This compilation brings together the most powerful moments, ideas, and hard-earned lessons from those conversations. These are not motivational soundbites. These are practical insights on leadership, decision-making, building businesses, and becoming someone people trust and follow. If you want to grow a business, lead better, and think at a higher level i...

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60:03

Why Booking.com Is Worth More Than The Top 4 Airlines...

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2025/12/24

Why is Booking.com worth more than the top four airlines combined, even though airlines control half of all traveler demand? In this episode of Show Your Value, I sit down with Terry Jones (former CEO of Travelocity, founding chairman of Kayak) to unpack one of the biggest missed opportunities in modern business. Airlines thought they were in the business of flying planes. Booking.com understood it was in the business of owning the customer journey. We dive into: Why airlines failed to ...

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57:24

Why Struggle Always Comes Before Success (Nobody...

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2025/12/17

In this episode of Show Your Value with Lee Benson, Lee sits down with Glenn Lundy, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and former automotive executive who helped grow a dealership by over 800 percent. Glenn shares powerful insights on why life moves in seasons of change, struggle, growth, and success and how understanding this cycle can completely shift the way you approach leadership, business, and personal development. They explore why AI is not a threat but a power-up tool for those who want...

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57:16

How To Build a Business Operating System That...

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2025/12/10

If your team keeps missing targets, slipping on priorities, or working in circles, this video will help you fix it. This week, I'm joined by Oren Fanok. We walk you through a complete business operating system that creates alignment, accountability, and predictable execution. This is the same framework used inside high performing companies that want clarity instead of chaos. You will learn: • How to set a clear aim so every person knows the direction • How to run a weekly cadence that driv...

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60:56

The Leadership Tactics That Actually Change Companies

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2025/12/03

Every leader talks about culture. Very few know how to build it. In this compilation, top operators and CEOs break down the tactics that actually change companies. You’ll hear the truth about integrity, clarity, accountability, scaling, reinvention, and the real work required to create lasting value. If you lead a team or a company, this is the playbook. What You’ll Learn • Why integrity is the foundation for every high-performing team • How misaligned expectations destroy trust inside orga...

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58:28

The Best Investment Your Company Isn’t Making (But...

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2025/11/26

Most companies obsess over equipment, software, and strategy... but completely overlook the one investment that drives everything: people. In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson sits down with David Eagles, Chief Transformation Officer at Goodwill Industries International, to explore how organizations can unlock massive ROI by focusing on human potential. They discuss how to lead with purpose, build high-performance cultures, and rethink leadership in a rapidly changing world. David ...

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34:37

Why Growing Slower Is The Fastest Path To $100M

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2025/11/19

Growing slower isn’t playing small it’s how real entrepreneurs build something that actually lasts. In this special Show Your Value compilation, we pull together the most powerful moments from multiple episodes to reveal why sustainable, patient, disciplined growth is the ultimate competitive advantage. You’ll hear from founders, operators, and leaders who have lived both sides of the journey scaling too fast and paying the price, and scaling intentionally and reaping the long-term rewards. ...

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69:33

The Untold Story of How Harley-Davidson Rebuilt a...

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2025/11/12

When Harley-Davidson was on the edge of collapse, Ken Schmidt helped lead one of the most iconic turnarounds in business history. As the former Director of Communications, Ken shares how Harley’s leaders stopped focusing on products and started focusing on people, rebuilding a culture of loyalty that made the brand legendary. In this episode, Ken reveals how emotional connection, trust, and authenticity can outperform any marketing strategy. You’ll learn what it takes to reignite culture, ral...

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67:05

The Man Trusted by Presidents, Generals, and...

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2025/11/05

Charlie Garcia shares his incredible journey from military intelligence to advising six U.S. presidents, building billion-dollar businesses, and transforming broken education and philanthropic systems. We dive into his time at the White House, how he led statewide education reform, what it takes to scale impact through R360, and the leadership frameworks he's used every step of the way. If you're a leader, entrepreneur, or someone committed to legacy-driven impact, this conversation is for yo...

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61:17

5 Reasons Successful Companies Fail (and How to Stop...

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2025/10/29

Running a successful company is harder than turning one around, and most leaders get complacent long before they realize it. In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson sits down with John Rossman, former Amazon executive and author of Big Bet Leadership, to unpack how great companies lose their edge and what it takes to stay on offense. John helped launch the Amazon Marketplace and has led large-scale transformations at T-Mobile and beyond. He breaks down the playbook for building anti-f...

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54:07

5 Leadership Habits That Instantly Build Trust w/Tom...

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2025/10/22

Today I'm with Tom Willis, co-author of The Great Engagement and founder of Phoenix Perform. They explore what it really takes to build a high-performing culture and why so many leaders fail to do it. Tom shares what separates teams that thrive from those that stay stuck. You’ll hear how personal integrity, leadership behaviors, and clear purpose can transform both individuals and entire organizations. What we cover: - Why culture change must start with the CEO - How to create clarity and...

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58:21

I Built a $55M Company Then Lost It All. Here’s What...

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2025/10/15

In this episode of the Show Your Value Podcast, host Lee Benson sits down with entrepreneur John St. Pierre, who built a 55 million dollar company… and lost it all. John opens up about the painful lessons behind that collapse and the powerful mindset that helped him rebuild his success. He calls it patient ambition, the balance between drive and discipline that every founder needs to master. Together, Lee and John unpack what really happens when you grow too fast, why most entrepreneurs ove...

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54:50

Struggle Better: The CEO Playbook for Value Creation...

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2025/10/08

If your business feels busy but not better, this is for you. Lee Benson shares a practical, no-fluff system to get unstuck: build a healthy relationship with struggle, define value clearly, operate with live resistance on the front lines, and install a management operating system that scales (a true Value-Creation System). You’ll learn - Struggle, redefined: healthy vs. unhealthy vs. intentionally designed struggle and how to raise your tolerance to create more value. - Organize & Deve...

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67:55

How to Lead People Who Are Nothing Like You with...

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2025/10/01

What does real leadership look like in today’s workplace? Aviation executive and leadership expert Stephanie Chung shares her 40-year “overnight success” story and explains why leadership is not about DEI but about ROI. In this episode you will discover: - Why most employees only give 60 percent at work - The crisis of character affecting today’s workforce - How to lead across six different generations - Why diversity of thought drives profit and growth - The ALLY and EARN frameworks fo...

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71:06

How Peter Cuneo Saved Marvel from Bankruptcy and...

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2025/09/24

On this episode of Show Your Value we sit down with Peter Cuneo, the legendary turnaround CEO who rescued Marvel Entertainment from bankruptcy and transformed it into a global powerhouse, eventually selling to Disney for $4 billion. Peter shares the leadership lessons that guided him from serving as a Navy officer in Vietnam to running billion-dollar companies. He reveals: - How Marvel’s “wagon wheel strategy” with 4,700 characters built unstoppable synergy - Why not knowing anything about...

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65:16

How ONE School in India Is Dismantling 1,500 Years of...

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2025/09/17

What does it take to break a 1,500-year-old system of poverty and oppression? In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee is joined by Dr. Abraham George, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Shanti Bhavan. His groundbreaking schools are helping children from India’s poorest families rise from one-room huts to top universities like Stanford, Duke, and Princeton. Dr. George shares: - His near-death experience in the military that shaped his life’s mission - How he built and sold a mult...

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66:42

Stop Chasing Titles, Start Creating Value with Kash...

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2025/09/10

Kash Rocheleau went from executive assistant to CFO, then to CEO of a $30M+ company in just five years. She wasn’t chasing titles, she was chasing opportunities, learning, and creating value. In this episode of Show Your Value with Lee Benson, Kash shares: - How she moved from EA to CEO without a pedigree or master plan - Why chasing titles for the wrong reasons leads to burnout - The truth about leadership, servant stewardship, and creating value - How sugar reduction, health, and nutri...

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62:33

The Framework That Replaced 80% of My Workweek

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2025/09/03

Is it possible for a CEO to go from an 80-hour workweek to just 15, all while increasing the value of their company? The answer is yes, and it’s not about magic, it’s about a fundamental shift in leadership. Many leaders are trapped in a cycle of endless work, constant firefighting, and team misalignment. They believe the only way to grow is to grind harder. In this episode, 8-time founder Lee Benson dismantles that myth and unveils the powerful frameworks he used to reclaim his time and bui...

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