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Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®

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How come some people are always winning? Like they"re just running downhill, loving life, while others of us are over here thinking, "if I take a break, everything will break." Are you delivering results from a constant state of urgency? And are you tired of feeling like you"re the only one who actually cares about doing exceptional work? The Problem Most Leadership Advice Won"t Solve: You"re not broken, you"re just Hardcore without being At Ease. While leadership wisdom is timeless, today"s

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17:40

How to Get Time Back as a Coach or Creator: The 5...

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2026/10/06

Ep68: How to Get Time Back as a Coach or Creator: The 5 Tools I Use Every DayHardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®Coaches and creators who are grinding away often wonder whether an easier path to the work exists. The right tools can help a coach or creator get time back without trading away quality of life. Business advisor Shelly Rood shares the five tools she uses every day to do exactly that.Episode DescriptionShelly Rood is flooded with emails from well-intentioned people asking

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43:44

How to Respond to "You're So Busy" (And What to Ask...

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2026/09/29

Ep67: How to Respond to "You're So Busy" (And What to Ask Instead) | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®Someone tells you "you're so busy," and it lands like an attack, like you can't manage your own schedule. This episode shows how to respond to "you're so busy" without guilt, and what to ask instead when the phrase is on the tip of your tongue.Episode Description"You're so busy" usually comes from people who mean well. It still treats the full life you built like something

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20:38

Your Big Moment Runs on Private Work | Drag Racing...

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2026/09/23

Ep66: Your Big Moment Runs on Private Work | Drag Racing Lessons | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®Your big moment runs on private work: the months of effort nobody sees while you wonder why you keep showing up. At the inaugural Dodge NHRA Great Lakes Nationals, a record-breaking day of drag racing proved it.Episode DescriptionA rainout washed away Shelly Rood's anniversary plans at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan. She went back the next day with her 16-year-old son,

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47:36

Show Up Anyway: What to Do When You Feel Like You...

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2026/09/15

Ep65: Show Up Anyway: What to Do When You Feel Like You Don't BelongHardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®Mitze Alexander's first supervisor told her women didn't belong in the military. She had no barracks, no female support, and no one to tell, and she knows what it's like to feel like you don't belong somewhere you know you're supposed to be. She stayed anyway, and built a twenty-year career to prove him wrong.Episode DescriptionMitze Alexander knows what it feels like to walk into a

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36:34

How to Become a Lived Authority Without Anyone's...

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2026/09/09

Ep64: How to Become a Lived Authority Without Anyone's Permission | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®Episode DescriptionHow does someone become a lived authority without anyone else's permission? Right now, someone with real judgment, earned the hard way, is waiting for a stranger to say it's allowed before they act on it. In this solo teaching episode, Shelly Rood explains why the ten thousand hour rule and formal certification were never built to answer that question, and what it

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55:13

Michigan's Defense Leadership, From Two Different Chairs

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2026/09/01

Ep63: Michigan's Defense Leadership, From Two Different Chairs | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®Michigan's defense leadership doesn't come from one seat. This week you'll hear host Shelly Rood interview two entirely different chairs, and uncover what holds both of them up when nobody's checking the work anymore.This episode is dedicated to Julie Fathbruckner, a founding member of Women in Defense who spent years working alongside AUSA and NDIA on behalf of Michigan's defense

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41:05

The Leadership Job That Never Clocks Out

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2026/08/25

Ep62. "The Leadership Job That Never Clocks Out" with Guest Brigadier General Daniel J. Kramer II, Assistant Adjutant General, Michigan Air National GuardThe meeting won't end. The phone buzzes through dinner. And somewhere along the way, you started believing that if you were doing this right, you'd have this balanced by now.The more responsibility a leader carries, the more the job follows them home, and it never fully clocks out. This episode sits inside that trade with someone who's lived almost

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38:02

Selfridge's $2 Billion Build-Out: The Judgment Call...

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2026/08/18

Ep61: Selfridge's $2 Billion Build-Out: The Judgment Call No Committee Could Overrule | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self® with host Shelly RoodVicky Rowinski's team got told no twice on the F-35. Her read on the numbers never changed anyway, and neither did the outcome for Selfridge.A few times a year, Shelly Rood checks in with Vicky Rowinski, head of economic development for Macomb County, to hear where things stand at Selfridge Air National Guard Base. This time, there's two

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31:51

How to Write a Personal Manifesto That Holds Steady...

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2026/08/11

Episode 60 - "How to Write a Personal Manifesto That Holds Steady When Life Won't" Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®, Hosted by Shelly RoodYou can't conquer a season that refuses to end, but you can write a personal manifesto that holds steady when life won't. This episode teaches you exactly how.Some seasons don't have a finish line. You can grit your teeth, keep your head down, and wait for it to be over, but terrain like that doesn't respond to force. In this episode, host

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40:49

What Advancement Demands of the Person Leading It

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2026/08/04

Episode 59 - "What Advancement Demands of the Person Leading It," with guest Stacey EemanSound familiar? You're pushing your whole team forward in manufacturing, aerospace, or any high-pressure industry, and somewhere along the way you've quietly decided one of them is never going to catch up.On this episode of Hardcore and At Ease, host Shelly Rood sits down with Stacey Eeman, Director, Industry Strategy at SME, for a conversation about leadership, change management, and technology adoption inside

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19:59

Friendship and Leadership Are Not the Same Thing

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2026/07/28

Ep58, Friendship and Leadership Are Not the Same ThingYou can lead a team through anything. Run a program with a hundred moving parts. So why does female friendship keep being the terrain you get wrong?Episode DescriptionLeadership and friendship are not the same skill, and for most of her adult life, host Shelly Rood confused the two. In this solo episode, she names two women veteran friendships that ended in recent years, the wilderness underneath both, and what she's still learning about

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54:46

Doing Everything Right Doesn't Always Feel Like Winning

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2026/07/21

Episode 57: "Doing Everything Right Doesn't Always Feel Like Winning"You built the life you wanted, and you still feel like you can't win.Our guest is holding three real, hard-won ambitions at once, and still learning to feel like herself inside all three at the same time. That's not failure. That's what ambition looks like when nobody's handed you a map for it.On this episode of Hardcore and At Ease, host Shelly Rood gets into what happens when isolation shows up right when you look like you're

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24:49

Don't Put Me in a Box (One Year of Proof the Plan Works)

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2026/07/14

Episode 56: "Don't Put Me in a Box" (One Year of Proof the Plan Works)Someone put you in a box today. Maybe you did it to yourself, calling it a marketing problem or a confidence problem, when the truth was something else entirely.Episode Description:This is the One Year on Air episode, and instead of a highlight reel, Host Shelly Rood gets specific about the two places she got boxed in this year: the podcast itself, and the women veteran support services her team runs.She walks through the category

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41:48

Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head...

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2026/07/07

EP55: Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above WaterYou've built your whole identity around what you accomplish, and it worked, until the day it didn't. This week, host Shelly Rood sits down a fellow Veteran - a retired Navy SEAL - who says the strongest people he's ever known are the first ones to ask for help, and who's still working out what it costs when you don't.Andy Stumpf spent seventeen years as a Navy SEAL, six of those on SEAL Team Six. In February 2005, an insurgent shot

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26:03

Don't Be Boring, Here's the Fix: Storytelling 101

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2026/06/30

Episode 54: "Don't Be Boring, Here's the Fix: Storytelling 101"Ever watched someone's eyes glaze over the second you started talking? You're not imagining it. And it's fixable.Episode DescriptionThis year, two interviews landed on Shelly's calendar that felt like a dream to book. Both guests are good people living lives of real service. Both conversations still fell flat, and not because of who they were.In this solo episode, Shelly unpacks what those two conversations had in common, and holds it up

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57:58

What Strong Looks Like After the Hard Stuff

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2026/06/23

Episode 53: "What Strong Looks Like After the Hard Stuff"Strong is not the absence of hard stuff. It is what you build on the other side of it. This episode shows you what that looks like in practice.The leaders who perform at the highest level have usually been through the most. The question nobody asks out loud is how do you stay yourself through all of it — still sharp, still clear, still in the game — when the terrain has been relentless.In this conversation we explore that through the lens of

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35:47

FISDAP Study Guide: Paramedic Exam Prep Answers...

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2026/06/19

FISDAP Study Guide: Paramedic Exam Prep Answers (Bonus Episode)What you're getting: This episode is a straight resource drop. We're going audio on the Fisdap Medical Study Guide—all the questions, all the answers, organized by medical topic so you can listen, study, and prepare without staring at a blank outline wondering where to start.The problem this solves: If you're studying for paramedic certification or teaching paramedic education, you've seen the question outlines. They tell you what to

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38:53

The Eight Relationships Every Ambitious Leader Needs

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2026/06/16

Episode 52: "The Eight Relationships Every Ambitious Leader Needs"Hook: What if the people around you are the real difference between a career that's fine and a career that's legendary? Not your resume. Not your wins. The people who see your potential before you do.What You'll DiscoverIn this episode, Shelly goes deep into Chapter 8 of Creator Capitalist by the Category Pirates to break down relationship capital—the invisible asset that compounds over time and transforms your entire

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53:30

When You've Gone Over the Edge (And How to Come Back)

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2026/06/09

Episode 51 - Kevin Barnhill: "When You've Gone Over the Edge (And How to Come Back)"You know exactly what you're doing—cutting people off mid-sentence, getting short, getting harsh—and you can't seem to stop. The people closest to you have noticed the shift. The question isn't whether you've drifted. It's whether you can actually come back.EPISODE DESCRIPTIONYou spend eight years in a high-pressure role thinking you're fine. You tell yourself the hard edge is necessary, that it's part of the job

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28:23

Why Women Veterans Keep Getting Misread: What 242...

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2026/06/02

Episode 50: "Why Women Veterans Keep Getting Misread: What 242 Just Told Us"You show up. You read the room. You fill what needs filling before anyone asks. And somehow you still leave feeling like nobody quite got you. That is not a character flaw. It is an unmapped pattern. And 242 women veterans just gave us the map.This episode brings you the results from 242 women veterans who completed the Wildflower Assessment for Women Veterans™. The data reveals how this demographic is wired with a precision

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