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The Leader"s Mindset

LeDuc Leadership & Media Group

The Leader’s Mindset is a leadership strategy podcast for executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to think clearly, act decisively, and build high-performing teams. Hosted by Jason LeDuc, a former U.S. Air Force officer and leadership strategist, the show blends powerful interviews with practical Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) you can apply immediately. If you’re responsible for results and developing the leaders behind you, this show equips you to lead with clarity and

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00:04:26

What to Do When Your Peer Becomes Your Boss —...

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2026/10/06

Leadership development almost never covers the seat nobody trains you for — the one where your peer just became your boss.Carnegie Mellon researcher Robert Kelley, author of Harvard Business Review's "In Praise of Followers," attributes roughly 80% of an organization's success to followers. Every leadership book is about the other 20%. This episode is about the 80%: how to follow well when the chair moves out from under you, without resenting the new boss or losing your own

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00:59:41

The Hardest Thing a Tough Man Does — Bill McCamley on...

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2026/10/01

The team leadership skills nobody trains you for: how to ask a man on your crew if he's okay.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Bill McCamley — former New Mexico Secretary of Labor, state representative and county commissioner, and author of "Right, My Dudes. Now What?" Bill ran a state's unemployment system through the pandemic, survived his own suicide attempt in the middle of it, and today teaches suicide prevention to union construction

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00:04:40

What to Do When Your Best People Keep Quitting — Team...

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2026/09/29

Team leadership is usually the real reason your best people keep quitting — not money, and not a better offer somewhere else.By the time a great employee is interviewing elsewhere, you already lost them; the notice is just the paperwork. SHRM found that toxic workplace culture drove an estimated $223 billion in turnover costs over five years, and that 58% of employees who quit over culture said their manager was the main reason.What you'll learn:- Why the stay interview beats the exit interview,

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00:48:14

Succession Planning Starts on Day One — John Scott on...

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2026/09/24

The team leadership skills that decide who replaces you get built years before you leave.Most succession planning happens far too late to be planning at all — and by then the market has usually made the decision for you.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc talks with John Scott — a CPA and tax partner at a nearly 500-person firm, where he also leads the virtual CFO practice for law firms — about why the average age of your leadership group predicts your company's future

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00:04:28

What to Do When Your Team Has Quietly Checked Out —...

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2026/09/22

Team leadership gets tested less when people are angry and more when they go quiet — and a checked-out team almost never complains.Nobody quits. Nobody pushes back. People are polite, on time, and doing exactly what's asked — and not one inch more. The spark is gone, and because no alarm is going off, most leaders miss it until output slips. Gallup found only 31% of U.S. employees were engaged at work in 2025, and attributes roughly 70% of the variance in team engagement to the manager.What

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00:56:58

The Conversation Your Team Is Avoiding — Croft...

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2026/09/17

The leadership conversation your team is avoiding is the one deciding your results.Your last meeting was pleasant. Everyone nodded. Nobody argued. And the thing that actually matters never got said.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Croft Edwards — a Master Certified Coach and U.S. Army veteran (five years active duty, another twenty in the National Guard and Reserve), now president of Croft & Company and author of The Liquid Accordion. Croft's teacher

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00:04:25

What to Say When Two Teams Won't Work Together —...

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2026/09/15

Leadership is what turns two warring teams into one. When Sales blames Ops and Ops blames Sales, you don't have a people problem — you have a scoreboard problem.Two teams playing two different games will call each other the enemy, and the harder each one works, the deeper the trench gets. Meanwhile the customer is the one paying for it. Harvard Business Review found that 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional — missing on budget, schedule, spec, or what the customer expected. So if your

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00:58:42

Bootstrapped 8 Years, No Co-Founder — Rei Vardi on...

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2026/09/10

The loudest default in startup leadership is that you need a co-founder. Rei Vardi never had one.Eight years in, Eon is bootstrapped, profitable, and running in roughly 40 states — and the closest Rei came to a co-founder was a partner who waited until a term sheet was on the table, then demanded half the company.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Rei Vardi — an EV mobility platform founder who started Eon with one car in a Boston University dorm room — to unpack

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00:04:30

What to Do When You're the Bottleneck — Leadership...

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2026/09/08

Leadership stops scaling the moment everything has to run through you. That's a bottleneck, not a bench.Nothing moves in your business unless it moves through you — every decision, every approval, every "hey, quick question." The better you are at doing everything, the worse it gets, because your team learns to bring you all of it. Gallup studied Inc. 500 CEOs and found the high delegators generated 33% more revenue than the ones who held on. Not because they worked harder. Because

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00:54:05

Leadership Skills Under Stress: Your Skin Is Data —...

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2026/09/03

Leadership runs on a body you keep overriding. Your skin is data, not vanity — and it reports first.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Mireille "Dr. Mimi" Vega — a biotechnology PhD and skin-microbiome scientist who now runs her own skincare company — to argue that the skin is not a surface to treat but a daily feed on stress, sleep, and inflammation load. Mimi explains why cortisol shows up on your face before you consciously feel depleted, and why the

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00:04:46

What to Do When You're All Tactics and No Strategy —...

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2026/09/01

Leadership is not the tactics you execute all day — it's the direction you protect time to set.Your team can be busy, hitting deadlines and clearing the inbox, while the business goes nowhere. From the inside that motion looks like momentum, right up until the quarter ends and nothing actually moved. Gallup found only 22% of employees strongly agree their organization's leadership has a clear direction — which means almost eight out of ten people are working hard with no idea where it's

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01:07:57

Leadership Skills That Rewire Your Daily Actions —...

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2026/08/27

The leadership skills that decide your success are the ones you never consciously choose. Up to 95% of your daily actions run on autopilot — and those actions, not your intentions, determine how your career, your health, and your relationships turn out.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with John Mitchell, who teaches Advanced Leadership of Self at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business and is the mental coach to UT's 18 head coaches. John is the

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00:04:40

What to Do When You're the Most Senior Leader in the...

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2026/08/24

Leadership at the top is lonely by design — the higher you go, the fewer people tell you the truth.When you're the most senior leader in the room, there's no boss above you to catch your mistakes and no safety net under you. Your job flips: you are no longer paid to have the answers, you are paid to build the people and systems that produce them without you. In DDI's Global Leadership Forecast, 77% of organizations said they don't have a strong bench of leaders ready to step up — so

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01:02:37

Founder Syndrome: The Leadership Trap Nobody Warns...

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2026/08/20

Most founders don't get pushed out. They quietly become the bottleneck in the thing they built — and they're the last to see it.The hardest leadership move isn't scaling the organization. It's knowing when to take your hands off the wheel before you start doing damage to your team, your mission, and your own legacy.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Luke Mickelson — founder of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, the largest bed-building charity in the world

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00:04:18

What to Do When You're Managing People for the First...

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2026/08/18

Getting promoted is not the same as knowing how to lead. The exact skills that made you the best performer are not the skills that make you a good manager.And if nobody tells you that, you'll spend your first year doing everyone's job except your own.In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down what to do in your first weeks as a new manager — how to stop out-working your team and start leading them.💡 This episode is for leaders who want to lead well their very first time in

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00:54:24

Build a Culture People Don't Leave — Michelle Edwards...

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2026/08/13

Most leaders think a great culture comes from a program, a committee, or a one-day training. It doesn't.Culture is built by leaders who pour into their people — and it shows up (or quietly disappears) in your retention numbers.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Michelle Edwards — award-winning leadership advisor, speaker, and author of DEI Died. Leadership Lives — to break down how she built one of the most diverse, most-awarded, and highest-retention

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00:04:43

What to Do When Your Team Training Never Sticks –...

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2026/08/11

Training that doesn't stick is not a bad-training problem. It is a follow-through problem.The money isn't wasted in the training room — it's wasted in the days after, when nobody reinforces what people learned.In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down how to make team training actually stick — the debrief that turns a workshop into changed behavior.💡 This episode is for leaders who want their team's training to actually change behavior — especially:- Leaders tired of

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00:55:54

Informed, Not Influenced — Kira Shishkin on Media...

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2026/08/06

Most people think they're informed. They're actually being influenced — and they can't tell the difference.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Kira Shishkin — founder and CEO of informed.now, the news-by-SMS service on a mission to put the power of facts back in your palm — to unpack the difference between being informed and being influenced, why sensationalism is a bigger sin than bias, and what a clean information diet looks like for a busy leader

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00:03:58

What to Do When You're Too Busy to Think Ahead –...

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2026/08/04

You're not behind because you're not working hard enough. You're behind because you never get an hour to just think.The day fills up with fires and "got a sec?", and the big moves that would actually change your business keep getting pushed to "someday" — and someday never shows up on the calendar.In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down five tactics (plus a bonus) for making time to think ahead — so the strategic work that actually moves your business

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01:01:06

Entrepreneurship Isn't Glamorous — Lauren Cashatt on...

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2026/07/30

Everyone posts the laptop on the beach. Nobody posts the 2 a.m. reality.If you've ever been sold the dream of "working for yourself" — freedom, flexibility, sunsets — the truth is that building something real is unglamorous, relentless work, and the leaders who last are the ones who show up for it anyway.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Lauren Cashatt — former Hollywood stunt woman, business and lifestyle coach, and founder of the Million Mile

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