HeyJaredCrafted Clarity: Whiskey Lessons on Leadership, Purpose & the Path From Success to Significance
Crafted Clarity Podcast explores the space between what you’ve built and what you were built for - distilling the tension one episode at a time.
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When Everyone Wants Clarity But You Don't Have It | When “I Don’t Know Yet” Is Leadership (opens the original)
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Experienced leaders are expected to provide clarity. Set the strategy. Make the decision. Tell everyone where they're going. But what happens when the answer isn't clear yet? In this episode of Crafted Clarity, Steve Muscato explores leadership clarity, leading through uncertainty, decision-making and organizational change through the lens of The Work of the Distiller. When conditions are changing, the pressure to provide an answer can move faster than the work required to understand what's actu
What If the Evidence of What's Next Is Already There? | A Year in the Barrel (opens the original)
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What if the evidence of what's next is already there but you haven't noticed it yet? Experienced leaders sometimes find themselves carrying a tension they can't quite explain. Something that used to matter doesn't pull the same way. A question keeps coming back. An opportunity gets your attention. The work may still be successful, but something about your relationship to it has changed. You may not know what any of it means yet. That's where the barrel matters. A lot can happen during a season o
Why Successful Leaders Start Wondering What's Next | When Nothing's Wrong Meets What If? (opens the original)
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What is really happening when a successful leader starts to wonder what's next? Successful leaders don't only start wondering what's next when something goes wrong. They can start to wonder even if things are going great. In fact, you may even be doing some of the best work of your career and you may still catch yourself wondering about something different. So why now? Does that feeling mean something needs to change? Is it restlessness? A midlife crisis? Or is there something in your experience
What If Everything You’ve Built Doesn’t Belong in What’s Next? | Moving From Success to Significance (opens the original)
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What if some of what you've spent decades building doesn't belong in your next season of leadership? For successful leaders, it's natural to look back at everything you've built when you're trying to determine what's next. Your experience, expertise, accomplishments, relationships, reputation and even the role people know you for all seem like evidence of where you should go next. But if you only look at what you've built, what's next can easily become another step on the same staircase. In Epis
Why Your Past Is Showing Up Again Now | Outrunning Your Story (opens the original)
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Why do old stories and past experiences start showing up again when you're trying to figure out what's next? For successful leaders in the second half of their careers, figuring out what's next isn't always about finding a new job or building something bigger. Questions about purpose, leadership, identity, legacy, and what to do next after success begin to surface. And sometimes, those questions unexpectedly lead us back to experiences, decisions, and parts of our story we thought we'd left behi
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