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The Leader’s Mindset is a leadership strategy podcast for executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to think clearly, act decisively, and build high-performing teams. Hosted by Jason LeDuc, a former U.S.
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The Conversation Your Team Is Avoiding — Croft Edwards on Leadership Skills (opens the original)
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The leadership conversation your team is avoiding is the one deciding your results.Your last meeting was pleasant. Everyone nodded. Nobody argued. And the thing that actually matters never got said.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Croft Edwards — a Master Certified Coach and U.S. Army veteran (five years active duty, another twenty in the National Guard and Reserve), now president of Croft & Company and author of The Liquid Accordion. Croft's teacher Bob Dunham
What to Say When Two Teams Won't Work Together — Leadership Skills (opens the original)
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Leadership is what turns two warring teams into one. When Sales blames Ops and Ops blames Sales, you don't have a people problem — you have a scoreboard problem.Two teams playing two different games will call each other the enemy, and the harder each one works, the deeper the trench gets. Meanwhile the customer is the one paying for it. Harvard Business Review found that 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional — missing on budget, schedule, spec, or what the customer expected. So if your
Bootstrapped 8 Years, No Co-Founder — Rei Vardi on Leadership Skills (opens the original)
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The loudest default in startup leadership is that you need a co-founder. Rei Vardi never had one. Eight years in, Eon is bootstrapped, profitable, and running in roughly 40 states — and the closest Rei came to a co-founder was a partner who waited until a term sheet was on the table, then demanded half the company. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Rei Vardi — an EV mobility platform founder who started Eon with one car in a Boston University dorm room — to unpa
What to Do When You're the Bottleneck — Leadership Skills for a Leader's Mindset (opens the original)
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Leadership stops scaling the moment everything has to run through you. That's a bottleneck, not a bench. Nothing moves in your business unless it moves through you — every decision, every approval, every "hey, quick question." The better you are at doing everything, the worse it gets, because your team learns to bring you all of it. Gallup studied Inc. 500 CEOs and found the high delegators generated 33% more revenue than the ones who held on. Not because they worked harder. Because they let go.
Leadership Skills Under Stress: Your Skin Is Data — Mireille Vega, Biotech PhD (opens the original)
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Leadership runs on a body you keep overriding. Your skin is data, not vanity — and it reports first.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Mireille "Dr. Mimi" Vega — a biotechnology PhD and skin-microbiome scientist who now runs her own skincare company — to argue that the skin is not a surface to treat but a daily feed on stress, sleep, and inflammation load. Mimi explains why cortisol shows up on your face before you consciously feel depleted, and why the disciplin
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