LED: Leadership w/ Ed
Leadership with Ed is a podcast about developing the skills required to be an effective and successful leader. Hosted by Ed McGill, a former college quarterback and financial services professional with 3 decades of experience in the business.
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LED: Leadership W/ Ed Episode 042: Chris Ash: Easy to Follow. Hard to Please. (opens the original)
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Chris Ash, defensive coordinator at Notre Dame, brings one of the most layered leadership journeys yet to LED. From winning a national championship at Ohio State under Urban Meyer to a head coaching stint at Rutgers to four years in the NFL, Chris has been tested at every level. The conversation covers what elite culture feels like the moment you walk in the building, why the best leaders are easy to follow but hard to please, and what resilience really looks like when the scoreboard does not go
LED: Leadership W/ Ed Episode 041: Chris Mashburn: From Badge to Boardroom (opens the original)
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Chris Mashburn, COO of Jorie AI, brings one of the most unconventional leadership journeys yet to LED. From fifteen years on the Texas Highway Patrol and running security detail for President George W. Bush, to founding tech companies, to now transforming healthcare revenue cycles with AI, Chris has operated in environments where bad decisions carry real consequences. The conversation covers how law enforcement shaped his decision making, why chain of command and innovation are not mutually excl
LED: Leadership W/ Ed Ep. 40: Cody Barbo's Journey from Crypto to Estate Planning (opens the original)
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Cody Barbo, co-founder and CEO of Trust & Will, built a company solving a problem most people avoid until it is too late. What started as a coffee conversation about crypto and estate planning in 2017 now serves over 1.3 million families. Cody opens up about the messy realities of scaling a startup, from getting pushed out of his previous company to building a co-founder relationship that has lasted eight and a half years. The conversation covers brand building in an uncomfortable category, know
LED: Leadership w/Ed Episode 39: Telling The Truth On Time, Leadership Insights from Leo Tucker (opens the original)
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Leo Tucker, Managing Partner at Northwestern Mutual's Washington DC network office, brings thirty-five plus years of hard-earned leadership wisdom to one of the most candid and human conversations yet on what it means to truly lead. Leo never set out to be a leader. He was simply being a great contributor when opportunity found him. From there he built a philosophy rooted in culture, courageous truth-telling, and genuine care for the people under his stewardship. He opens up about his own uncons
The One Thing Every Enduring Organization Gets Right LED: Leadership W/ Ed Episode 38: Mark Abbott (opens the original)
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Mark Abbott, Founder of ninety.io and Creator of the EOS Framework brings four decades of pattern recognition across more than a hundred companies, thirty plus boards, and hundreds of coaching engagements to one of the most direct conversations yet on what separates businesses that scale from those that stall. He breaks down why the leader of leaders is the single greatest variable in any organization's success or failure, and why most companies get stuck under ten million in revenue for one rea
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