HeyJaredMy Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
My Favorite Mistake is a podcast about learning without blame in business and leadership.Hosted by Mark Graban, the show features honest conversations with leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers about a meaningful mistake they made—and what they learned after…
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- 12
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- Sep 21, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Leading People Who Know More Than You (opens the original)
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Stephanie Mitchell, an ICU nurse with no laboratory background, agreed to run a hospital lab temporarily while consultants came in to cut costs, and spent four months convinced she had made a mistake in saying yes. A case study in leading people who know more than you, cutting costs without cutting people, and why the leaders who never ask questions are the ones to worry about.
Why Good Work Doesn't Speak for Itself (opens the original)
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Dr. Jonathan Thorp, CEO of Quantum Connections and a former naval aviator, spent years building systems that made work better while avoiding any promotion of them, because promoting his own work felt like vanity. He explains why value is never self-evident, and why leaders who don’t translate what they changed watch the credit go to luck.
She Opened an Office Her Firm Couldn't Afford (opens the original)
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Susan von Seggern, a Los Angeles PR consultant, handed the finances to her business partner and stopped looking at them -- then decided to open a New York office without checking whether the agency could carry the lease and the payroll. A case study in the difference between delegating a function and delegating your attention to it.
Why a Pilot Stayed Silent in the Cockpit: Steve Montague (opens the original)
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Steve Montague, a retired American Airlines captain and former Navy fighter pilot, describes the descent into Albuquerque when he saw his captain flying 50 knots over the limit and deliberately said nothing, after a month of having every suggestion shut down. A case study in how a leader’s behavior can make silence feel satisfying, and what it takes to make speaking up the expectation rather than an act of courage.
What a Magician Learned About Recovering From Mistakes with Michael Chaleff (opens the original)
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Magician and former federal trial attorney Michael Chaleff walked into a year of restaurant magic knowing things would go wrong, without a plan for what to do when they did -- and in his first week, four words from a stranger left him unable to speak. A conversation about why the recovery, not the error, is what people actually judge you on.
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