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Do The Work

Do The Work

By: Chuck Hutchison
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Do the Work is a reflective podcast for leaders and strivers focused on accountability, ownership, and personal growth.


This podcast isn’t a roadmap to success or a step-by-step system. It shares lessons drawn from lived experience—from growing up on a farm in rural Ohio to championship football at Ohio State, the NFL, and executive leadership in business. Along the way came real challenges—injury, divorce, family addiction, custody battles, and career disruption—that shaped a core belief: lasting results come from doing the work, especially when clarity is late.

Each episode explores leadership, responsibility, pressure, people, and perseverance, with an emphasis on controlling what you can and moving from intent to action.


Do the Work is for those who value discipline, accountability, and steady progress when outcomes aren’t guaranteed.

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Episodes
  • Episode 7 Community
    Feb 7 2026

    Episode 7 — Community

    Lights reveal the situation.
    Camera shows you’re not alone.
    Action is still yours.

    Community is what sustains responsibility — not replaces it.

    This episode is about community after responsibility is accepted and help has been used properly.

    Community is not comfort.
    It is not consensus.
    And it is not belonging for its own sake.

    Community is a structure where standards are visible, accountability continues, and responsibility is reinforced through proximity.

    Because responsibility is personal —
    but it is rarely sustained in isolation.

    Who This Episode Is For

    For people who:

    • have acted
    • taken ownership
    • accepted responsibility
    • remained accountable
    • and asked for help without giving up control

    Not for affirmation.
    Not for comfort.

    For those who understand that the right community doesn’t make responsibility easier —
    it makes walking away from it harder.


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    4 mins
  • Episode 6 Resorting To Help
    Feb 7 2026

    Episode 6 — Resorting to Help

    Lights reveal the situation.
    Camera confirms you are still in it.
    Action has already been taken.

    Resorting to help is what happens when effort is real — and still insufficient.

    This episode is about asking for help without abandoning responsibility.

    Resorting to help is not weakness.
    It is not avoidance.
    And it is not handing things off.

    It is recognizing the limit of what you can do alone —
    and choosing support without surrendering ownership of the outcome.

    This episode explores when help is necessary, when it becomes an excuse, and how to involve others without stepping away from what remains yours to carry.

    Because asking for help does not remove responsibility.
    It clarifies it.

    Who This Episode Is For

    For people who have:

    • acted
    • taken ownership
    • accepted responsibility
    • remained accountable
    • and done their best

    And still face something they cannot resolve alone.

    Not for rescue.
    Not for dependency.
    Not for relief.

    For those who understand that help can support action —
    but never replace it.


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    4 mins
  • Episode 5 Doing Your Best
    Feb 7 2026

    Episode 5 — Doing Your Best

    Lights reveal the situation.
    Camera keeps you in it.
    Action demands a response.

    Doing your best is what remains when conditions aren’t ideal and outcomes are uncertain.

    This episode is about what “doing your best” actually means — not as effort or intention, but as conduct.

    Doing your best is not intensity.
    It is not motivation.
    And it is not measured by results.

    It is choosing to act to your standard again —
    after the outcome,
    after the attention fades,
    when no one is checking.

    Because outcomes aren’t shaped by what you do once.
    They’re shaped by what you’re willing to repeat.

    Who This Episode Is For

    For people who have acted.
    Taken ownership.
    Accepted responsibility.
    Remained accountable.

    And now must decide how they will continue — without guarantees.

    Not for reassurance.
    Not for performance.

    For those who understand that doing your best is not about trying harder —
    it’s about acting the same way when it would be easier not to.


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    4 mins
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