HeyJaredFollowership with Ryan Leak
Welcome to Followership with Ryan Leak, a podcast designed to help followers follow their leaders, and to help leaders understand their followers.
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Even If You Don't Feel Like It (opens the original)
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What if you stopped waiting to feel like it? The truth is, you get the same results from doing hard things when you don’t feel like it as you do when you do. The mile still counts. The rep still counts. The page still counts. The conversation still counts. In this episode, Ryan challenges the idea that motivation has to come before action. Sometimes you don’t feel your way into action. You act your way into a feeling. Your feelings matter, but they don’t get to be your boss. They get a vote. The
It's All Hard (opens the original)
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It’s all hard. Building a career is hard. Leading people is hard. Marriage is hard. Parenting is hard. Starting over is hard. Staying the course is hard. But some hard things get even harder the longer you avoid them. In this episode, Ryan talks about why avoiding a difficult decision doesn’t eliminate the consequences. It simply hands them to your future self, usually with interest. The conversation you don’t have today gets harder tomorrow. The boundary you refuse to set becomes more expensive
Keep It Moving (opens the original)
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Getting started takes bravery. Keeping going takes resilience. Life won’t always cooperate with your plans. Ideas flop. People disappoint you. Opportunities disappear. Doors close. And sometimes the hardest part isn’t what happened. It’s figuring out how to move forward after it happened. In this episode, Ryan talks about the difference between processing disappointment and parking in it, why you don’t always need closure to move forward, and what research on the “Progress Principle” teaches us
Stop Fighting the Wrong Competitor (opens the original)
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We spend a lot of energy trying to keep up with competitors who aren't even thinking about us. We scroll through someone's highlight reel and measure it against our behind-the-scenes. We compare our chapter 3 to their chapter 20. And every time we do it, we lose. Not because we're behind, but because we're running in the wrong race entirely. In this episode, Ryan shares the questions that actually measure progress. Are you stronger than you were last year? Wiser? More disciplined? Have your rela
Feedback is Data, Not a Verdict (opens the original)
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Someone says “your presentation could’ve been stronger” and your brain hears “you’re a failure.” Someone says “I think you could listen more” and your brain hears “you’re a bad spouse.” We don’t process feedback as information. We process it as judgment. And because it feels like a verdict, we defend ourselves against the very thing that could make us better. Ryan unpacks why defensiveness, not feedback, is the real enemy of growth. In this episode, Ryan talks about treating criticism as data in
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