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The New Leader Playbook is a history and leadership podcast built on the mistakes of the past.Instead of recycling leadership clichés and motivational myths, this show digs into real historical cases of bad leadership, failed decision-making, and power misused—and turns them into a modern playbook for leaders who don’t want to repeat the same errors.Each episode explores moments when leaders made the wrong call, ignored warnings, trusted bad advice, or doubled down on failing strategies. From political and military disasters to corporate collapses and cultural breakdowns, the show ...

The Espresso Hour is a leadership and performance podcast delivering concentrated lessons from the world of elite coaching, high performance, and great leadership.Strong coffee. Sharp thinking. Real leadership.This podcast explores coaching leadership, performance psychology, and the systems behind sustained excellence—one focused conversation at a time. Each episode studies legendary coaches, championship teams, and high-performing leaders from across football, basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, and beyond, blending sports history, biography, and leadership analysis into fast, practical ...

Pressure, Process, Performance is a leadership and sports podcast about how great coaches, teams, and leaders perform when the stakes are highest.Every leader faces pressure. Every champion trusts a process. Every great organization is judged by performance.This podcast studies elite coaching, high-performance leadership, and the systems behind sustained excellence. Each episode explores legendary coaches, championship teams, and iconic programs from across football, basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, and beyond, blending sports history, biography, and leadership analysis to uncover how ...

Stuff You Missed in Business Class is a business and history podcast about the real lessons they don’t teach in school.While business classes focus on case studies with clean endings and heroic CEOs, this podcast digs into the messy reality of leadership, bad management, and disastrous business decisions that shaped companies, industries, and entire economies.Each episode explores real historical cases of business failures, leadership mistakes, corporate collapse, and decision-making under pressure. From bankrupt empires and toxic CEOs to failed strategies and organizational dysfunction, the...

Leadership Under Pressure is a history and leadership podcast about what happens when leaders are forced to decide with incomplete information, limited time, and everything on the line.Each episode examines real moments from history where leadership was tested by crisis, uncertainty, and high stakes. Some leaders rose to the moment. Many did not. The show explores decision-making under pressure, leadership failure, judgment errors, power dynamics, and how stress, fear, and urgency change the way leaders think.From military and political crises to organizational and cultural turning points, ...

The Bad Manager Podcast is a history and leadership show about the people who were put in charge—and shouldn’t have been.Each episode explores real stories from history where bad management, poor leadership decisions, and misused authority caused teams to fail, organizations to collapse, and people to pay the price. These aren’t stories of villains twirling mustaches. They’re stories of managers who ignored feedback, chased the wrong metrics, protected their ego, or confused control with competence.From military and political hierarchies to businesses, institutions, and large ...

History Miss is a history and leadership podcast about the stories history got wrong—or left out entirely.While textbooks and documentaries focus on victories, heroes, and neat conclusions, this podcast digs into the missed warnings, bad leadership decisions, and quiet failures that actually shaped the world. These are the moments leaders ignored reality, trusted the wrong people, doubled down on failing strategies, or made choices that looked reasonable at the time—and disastrous in hindsight.Each episode explores real historical cases of leadership failure, decision-making under pressure...

BigLead is a leadership and performance podcast about how great leaders think bigger, build better systems, and lead organizations to sustained success.Big results don’t come from big speeches. They come from big thinking, big standards, and big leadership decisions made consistently over time.This podcast explores elite coaching, high-performance leadership, and the systems behind winning cultures. Each episode studies legendary coaches, championship teams, and iconic leaders from across sports, business, and organizations, blending biography, sports history, and leadership analysis to ...

Power, Mistakes, and Consequences is a history and leadership podcast about what happens when authority goes unchecked and decisions can’t be undone.Each episode explores real moments from history where power, poor judgment, and critical mistakes collided. These are stories of leaders who made the wrong call, ignored warnings, trusted bad advice, or doubled down when reality demanded restraint—and the consequences that followed.From political and military disasters to corporate collapses and cultural turning points, the show examines leadership failures, decision-making under pressure, ...

History That Sucks is a history and leadership podcast about the worst decisions ever made—and the people who made them.While most history shows celebrate victories, heroes, and turning points, this podcast focuses on the moments when everything went wrong: leadership failures, disastrous judgment calls, power gone to someone’s head, and decisions that should never have been made—but were.Each episode explores real historical cases of bad leadership, catastrophic mistakes, and unintended consequences. From military disasters and political collapses to corporate implosions and cultural ...

Not Founders – Failures Podcast is a history podcast about leadership that didn’t work.While most business and leadership shows obsess over founders, visionaries, and success stories, this podcast looks in the opposite direction—at the leaders who failed, the decisions that backfired, and the moments in history when authority, ambition, or confidence went disastrously wrong.Each episode explores real historical cases of bad leadership, strategic failure, organizational collapse, and power miscalculation. From governments and armies to companies and movements, these are stories where ...

Leadership History You Were Never Taught is a podcast about the leadership stories history class skipped.This show uncovers the forgotten failures, quiet disasters, and uncomfortable leadership decisions that shaped the world—but rarely make it into textbooks or motivational speeches. These are real moments from history when leaders made the wrong call, followed bad advice, ignored reality, or doubled down when they should have stopped.Each episode explores leadership mistakes from history, failed decision-making, power dynamics, organizational collapse, and the human cost of authority used ...

Strange, Dark, and Ancient is a true crime and history podcast exploring the most disturbing, mysterious, and violent stories from the ancient world.Long before detectives, courts, and forensic science, there were crimes so strange they defied explanation, betrayals so dark they haunted empires, and acts of violence so shocking they reshaped civilizations.Each episode uncovers a real case from ancient history, telling the full story behind historical murders, political assassinations, poison plots, ritual killings, court conspiracies, and unexplained crimes from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, ...

Leadership Lessons from History is a history and leadership podcast exploring the real decisions that shaped the world—for better and for worse.Each episode examines leadership lessons from history, focusing on critical decisions, leadership failures, power dynamics, and judgment under pressure. From political and military leaders to business, religious, and cultural authority, the show breaks down how leaders actually thought, why they made the choices they did, and what happened next.Rather than myths or motivational stories, this podcast dives into real historical leadership ...

How Leaders Fail (And Why) is a history and leadership podcast about the moments when leadership breaks down—and the hidden reasons behind it.Each episode explores real historical cases of leadership failure, bad decision-making, and misused power. Instead of focusing on outcomes alone, the show digs into why leaders failed: flawed incentives, overconfidence, fear, groupthink, bad information, moral shortcuts, and the pressure that distorts judgment at the top.From military disasters and political collapse to corporate implosions and cultural breakdowns, this podcast examines how leaders ...

Money Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday… Everyday is a personal finance and behavioral economics podcast about the money decisions you make every single day—and why they’re rarely as rational as you think.Money doesn’t only matter on payday or tax season. It shapes your choices, stress, habits, and future every day.This podcast explores personal finance through history, the psychology of money, and the hidden forces behind everyday financial behavior. From spending and saving to debt, investing, credit, inflation, and financial systems, each episode explains how money actually works—and why...

Go to Sleep is a sleep and insomnia podcast created to help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and stop struggling with your own mind at night.If you’re exhausted but wired… If your brain won’t shut off… If bedtime makes you anxious instead of sleepy… this podcast is for you.Each episode shares gentle, science-based tools for overcoming insomnia, drawn from CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), sleep psychology, and practical changes to your sleep habits, routines, and environment. You’ll learn how to calm a racing mind, reduce nighttime anxiety, fix a broken ...

Invitation to Sleep is a sleep and insomnia podcast created to gently guide your mind and body back into natural, restful sleep.This podcast is for anyone who is exhausted but wired… who dreads bedtime because their brain won’t shut off… or who feels pressure to sleep that only makes insomnia worse.Each episode offers a calm, compassionate invitation to rest using simple, science-based tools for overcoming insomnia, drawn from CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), sleep psychology, and practical changes to your sleep habits, routines, and environment. You’ll learn how to ...

Dream Prep is a sleep and insomnia podcast designed to help you prepare your mind and body for real, natural, restorative sleep.If your nights feel unpredictable… if your brain won’t shut off… or if you lie in bed wondering whether tonight will be another bad night… this podcast is for you.Each episode teaches simple, science-based tools for overcoming insomnia, drawn from CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), sleep psychology, and proven changes to your sleep habits, routines, and environment. You’ll learn how to calm a racing mind, reduce nighttime anxiety, reset your ...

Sleepy is a sleep and insomnia podcast designed to help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and stop dreading bedtime.If your mind won’t shut off at night… If you’re exhausted but wired… If you’re tired of Googling sleep tips at 2 a.m.… this podcast is for you.Each episode shares simple, science-based tools for overcoming insomnia, drawn from CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), sleep psychology, and proven changes to sleep habits, routines, and environment. You’ll learn how to calm a racing mind, reduce nighttime anxiety, fix a broken sleep schedule, and ...