Unpacked with Ron Harvey

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People Always Matter. Join Ron as he unpacks leadership with his guests.

  1. 2d ago

    Stop Being Nice And Start Leading with Justin Ricklefs

    What if caring for your people wasn't the thing that slows results down, but the very thing that drives them? On this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, Justin Ricklefs — founder and CEO of Guild Collective, a human-first brand agency in Kansas City — joins the show to unpack the ideas behind his book, Give a Damn: The Catalyst for Caring Companies. Ron and Justin dig into why care and commerce can coexist, and why the leaders who genuinely give a damn tend to build healthier, more loyal, and higher-performing teams. In this episode: Why caring and results are not opposites, and how leaders quietly lose their best people when they treat them as either/orThe critical difference between being nice and being kind, and why avoidance dressed up as care is really self-protectionJustin's framework of core leadership characteristics — curiosity, compassion, and clarity — and why clarity means telling the truth and giving honest feedbackWhat publicly tearing a team apart does to trust, and why trust, once broken, shatters like a coffee mug dropped on a tile floorHow to lead through high-pressure moments by moving toward curiosity instead of projecting false certaintyWhy "pressure is a privilege," a lesson shaped by Justin's years working in the Kansas City Chiefs front officeThe simple five-minute daily habit — handwritten notes and naming gratitude — that any leader can start todayJustin Ricklefs is the founder and CEO of Guild Collective and the author of Give a Damn: The Catalyst for Caring Companies, available now on Amazon. Connect with Justin on LinkedIn, where he writes almost daily about leadership, care, and building human-first brands. Unpacked with Ron Harvey is hosted by Ron Harvey, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Global Core Strategies and Consulting in Columbia, South Carolina, where the guiding belief is simple: people always matter. Connect with Ron Just Make A Difference: Leading Under Pressure by Ron Harvey “If you don’t have something to measure your growth, you won’t be self-aware or intentional about your growth.” Learn more about Global Core Strategies . . . . . Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or entity. The information provided in this podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Listeners should consult with their own professional advisors before implementing any suggestions or recommendations made in this podcast. The speakers and guests are not responsible for any actions taken by listeners based on the information presented in this podcast. The podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or services. The speakers and guests make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this podc...

  2. Aug 10

    Confidence Is Action: Tricia Conyers on Building Real Self-Trust

    Confidence is not the same thing as competence, and chasing more credentials will never close the gap on its own. In this episode of Unpack with Ron Harvey, coach and author Tricia Conyers joins Ron for an honest, vulnerable conversation about why so many accomplished, high-performing women still struggle to see themselves as capable as everyone around them already does, and what actually builds the kind of self-trust that lasts. Based in Trinidad and Tobago, Tricia Conyers is a professional and personal coach who works with women standing at a crossroads between the life they are living now and the brighter, braver, bolder version of themselves they know they are capable of becoming. Her first book, Confidence Is Action, releases in September on Amazon. In this conversation, Ron and Tricia unpack: Why competence is only one ingredient of confidence, and what the missing pieces really areThe "negative sum game" women play by dismissing their wins and magnifying their mistakesA simple daily practice: naming one thing that went well, then why it was about youHow reflection, scheduled every 90 days like a meeting, compounds into higher performanceThe wedding-party moment that stripped away Tricia's confidence, and the lesson underneath itWhy self-trust, not outside validation, sits at the very heart of real confidenceThe "waiting to feel ready" trap, and why confidence only arrives after you take actionHow confidence works like a muscle that anyone can build through repetition and repsWhether you lead a team, are building something of your own, or keep waiting to feel ready before you begin, this episode delivers practical, day-by-day tools to stop waiting and start acting, plus a leadership lens on how to build confidence in the people you manage and help them step into bigger opportunities. Connect with Tricia Conyers:  LinkedIn: Tricia Conyers  Instagram: inspireher (Trinidad and Tobago)  Website: triciaconyers.com  Book: Confidence Is Action (Amazon, September) Connect with Ron Just Make A Difference: Leading Under Pressure by Ron Harvey “If you don’t have something to measure your growth, you won’t be self-aware or intentional about your growth.” Learn more about Global Core Strategies . . . . . Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or entity. The information provided in this podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Listeners should consult with their own professional advisors before implementing any suggestions or recommendations made in this podcast. The speakers and guests are not responsible for any actions taken by listeners based on the information presented in this podcast. The podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or services. The speakers and guests make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this podc...

  3. Aug 3

    The Trust Recession: Why Buyers Stopped Believing You

    Scott Proposki went from shooting events at the White House under President Obama to building a multimillion-dollar photography business, then losing all of it during COVID. In this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, Scott walks through the three years he spent in the wreckage, the one question from his coach that pulled him out, and the method he now uses to help business owners find the small changes that move an entire year of revenue. Ron and Scott get into why trust has become the scarcest asset in business, why most owners keep restarting instead of building momentum, and what it really takes to earn a yes in a market full of noise. In this episode: The trust recession: why buyers have stopped believing claims, and how to earn belief back one step at a timeSelling the destination instead of the seat on the plane, and what that shift does to your pricingBase camp: why climbing the same hill over and over stalls growth, and how to rebuild with the right team firstThe only two reasons people do not buy, and how to solve bothMoving from victim thinking to ownership after a setback you did not causeWhy small businesses lose deals on follow-up, not on priceBeing of service instead of selling, and why service closes what pressure cannotThe unconventional path that got Scott into the White House, and what it teaches about being foundWhy it is not how, it is who, and how to staff around your weaknessesScott Proposki is a former National Geographic and White House event photographer, author of Camera Focus, and creator of the Business Focus Method. He works with businesses from six figures to nine figures to identify the one to three percent changes that compound. Connect with Scott: businessfocusmethod.com | scott@businessfocusmethod.com Ron is covering the cost of Camera Focus for the first five listeners who email Scott after hearing this episode. Hosted by Ron Harvey, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Global Core Strategies and Consulting, a leadership development firm helping executives stay closer to their people. Connect with Ron Just Make A Difference: Leading Under Pressure by Ron Harvey “If you don’t have something to measure your growth, you won’t be self-aware or intentional about your growth.” Learn more about Global Core Strategies . . . . . Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or entity. The information provided in this podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Listeners should consult with their own professional advisors before implementing any suggestions or recommendations made in this podcast. The speakers and guests are not responsible for any actions taken by listeners based on the information presented in this podcast. The podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or services. The speakers and guests make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this podc...

  4. Jul 27

    Erin Treacy on Burnout, Bottlenecks, and People-First Leadership

    Erin Treacy spent years working 80- and 90-hour weeks, telling herself she would slow down next week. Her body ended the argument for her. Standing on the cook line of one of her 1950s-style diners, her right leg went numb. The diagnosis was a slipped disc and compressed discs in her lower back, and she could no longer stand on a concrete floor for twenty minutes, let alone a twelve-hour shift. In this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, Erin Treacy, a leadership and business coach in West Virginia, unpacks what burnout actually cost her, why closing the business was the smartest decision available, and how she rebuilt a people-first leadership model that includes the leader. What Ron and Erin cover: Why servant leadership falls apart when the leader is left out of "people first"The signs her husband and kids named for years before her body forced the issueHow leaders make themselves the bottleneck while believing they have empowered the teamThe Post-it note challenge that exposes how often you say "I'll just do it myself"Why two minutes of teaching today saves roughly ten hours of work next weekWhat it takes to close a business when you are wired to compete and hate to loseThe adult version of a timeout, and why walks, art, and a phone left at home are not indulgencesThe eye of the hurricane problem: staying calm for everyone else while the storm runs inside youWhy a lesson often has to land hundreds of times before it sticksRon's Daytona pit stop analogy and the military policy that made leave mandatoryThe line that changed how Erin leads: your opinion of me is none of my businessThis one is for the leader who has become the answer to every question and the entrepreneur who keeps moving the goalpost. Burnout does not announce itself. It sends warnings, and most high performers are moving too fast to read them. Connect with Erin Treacy: ErinTreacyCoaching.com, and Coach Erin Treacy on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. She answers every message personally. Connect with Ron Harvey: LinkedIn, or the Global Core Strategies and Consulting website. Connect with Ron Just Make A Difference: Leading Under Pressure by Ron Harvey “If you don’t have something to measure your growth, you won’t be self-aware or intentional about your growth.” Learn more about Global Core Strategies . . . . . Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or entity. The information provided in this podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Listeners should consult with their own professional advisors before implementing any suggestions or recommendations made in this podcast. The speakers and guests are not responsible for any actions taken by listeners based on the information presented in this podcast. The podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or services. The speakers and guests make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this podc...

  5. Jul 20

    Founder Syndrome: How to Let Go and Grow Your Company

    In this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, host Ron Harvey sits down with Luke Mickelson, the Idaho farm kid who turned a single homemade bunk bed into Sleep in Heavenly Peace, now the largest bed-building charity in the world. What began in Luke's garage in 2012 has grown into a national movement fighting child bedlessness, and along the way Luke discovered a challenge that quietly derails many founders and leaders: founder syndrome. Together, Ron and Luke unpack what happens when your identity fuses with the thing you built, why the hardest part of leadership is often letting go, and how leaders can empower their people to take real ownership. Whether you run a company, lead a nonprofit, manage a project, or are raising a family, this conversation offers a framework for growing beyond yourself without losing yourself. In this episode: The garage project that became a global charity, and the moment that sparked it allWhat founder syndrome really is, and its stages: identity fusion, relevance wounds, and the monsterWhy "pause before you protect" is the discipline every leader needs when they feel cut outHow to give employees genuine ownership so passion, not just a paycheck, drives their workWhy the sweatiest, dustiest volunteer is the happiest, and what that teaches about engagementThe freedom in asking for help and letting go of "fake it till you make it"Ron's reframe for the stories we tell ourselves: "based on what?"How letting go, like Bezos with Amazon, lets a vision grow far beyond what control ever couldLuke Mickelson is the founder of Sleep in Heavenly Peace (shpbeds.org) and creator of the Founder Syndrome Survival Course. Learn more and take his founder syndrome assessment at LukeMickelson.com, or email Luke@LukeMickelson.com. Find him on social media as Luke Mickelson or SHP Luke. Host Ron Harvey is Vice President and COO of Global Core Strategies and Consulting, where he helps organizations develop leaders who take care of their people. Connect with Ron Just Make A Difference: Leading Under Pressure by Ron Harvey “If you don’t have something to measure your growth, you won’t be self-aware or intentional about your growth.” Learn more about Global Core Strategies . . . . . Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or entity. The information provided in this podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Listeners should consult with their own professional advisors before implementing any suggestions or recommendations made in this podcast. The speakers and guests are not responsible for any actions taken by listeners based on the information presented in this podcast. The podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or services. The speakers and guests make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this podc...

  6. Jul 13

    Selling Confidence, Not Clothes; Building Taelor.ai with Anya Cheng

    In this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, host Ron Harvey sits down with Anya Cheng, founder and CEO of Taelor AI, the AI-powered styling and clothing rental service that helps busy men look sharp without shopping, laundry, or guesswork. Before launching Taelor, Anya led product at Meta building Facebook and Instagram shopping, served as head of product at eBay, was a senior director at McDonald's building its global food delivery business, and helped Target build its Silicon Valley tech office. A Northwestern University marketing graduate and University of Chicago alum originally from Taiwan, she is also a two-time TED speaker. Anya shares the hard-won lessons behind building a startup and the mindset shifts that carried her from immigrant job seeker with no network to Silicon Valley CEO. Her story is a candid look at failure, resilience, and figuring out what customers are really buying. In this conversation, you will hear: Why she bet on herself and left corporate life to solve a problem she lived every dayThe $100,000 pitch competition she lost, and why memorizing answers cost her the winHow leaning on your existing strengths keeps you going when you want to give upWhy Taelor sells confidence and peace of mind, not clothesHow agile thinking and real customer feedback beat guessing what people wantThe sustainability crisis in fashion and how rental data reshapes what brands produceWhy your proprietary data and know-how are your real advantage in the age of AIWhether you are an entrepreneur, a leader, or someone rethinking your next chapter, this episode is packed with practical wisdom on confidence, customer focus, and building a business that solves a problem people actually have. Connect with Ron Just Make A Difference: Leading Under Pressure by Ron Harvey “If you don’t have something to measure your growth, you won’t be self-aware or intentional about your growth.” Learn more about Global Core Strategies . . . . . Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or entity. The information provided in this podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Listeners should consult with their own professional advisors before implementing any suggestions or recommendations made in this podcast. The speakers and guests are not responsible for any actions taken by listeners based on the information presented in this podcast. The podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or services. The speakers and guests make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this podc...

  7. Jul 6

    Great Leaders Teach Their Teams How to Think | Curtis Sprouse

    On this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, behavioral scientist and serial entrepreneur Curtis Sprouse joins Ron for a candid conversation about why most leadership development fails and what it actually takes to build teams that perform without burning out. Drawing on a behavioral data set of more than 4,500 people and decades inside the biopharma, device, and healthcare industries, Curtis unpacks the difference between teams that hit their numbers and teams that can sustain success over time. Curtis is the founder of a behavioral science practice, leads the nonprofit Institute for Biomedical Entrepreneurship, and has had a hand in founding dozens of companies. In this discussion, he and Ron explore what separates high-performing teams from high-functioning ones, and why teaching people how to think beats managing them every time. In this episode, you will learn: Why we don't actually train leaders, and the hidden cost of promoting people and hoping they figure it outThe real difference between high-performing and high-functioning teams, and why only one is sustainableHow trust is built and rebuilt, using Ron's subway-and-wallet test you won't forgetA simple framework for human connection in an AI-driven world: experiential exchanges and engagementWhy critical thinking is the most valuable skill in a five-generation workforceThe behavioral mechanisms of action that explain why colleagues struggle to work togetherCurtis's "Rs" of leadership: responsibility, reality, relationships, relevance, and doing the right thingWhy the best-performing teams are often the ones who most need outside eyesWhether you are a first-time leader or a seasoned executive, this conversation will challenge how you think about trust, talent, and the human side of building a business. Connect with Ron Just Make A Difference: Leading Under Pressure by Ron Harvey “If you don’t have something to measure your growth, you won’t be self-aware or intentional about your growth.” Learn more about Global Core Strategies . . . . . Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or entity. The information provided in this podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Listeners should consult with their own professional advisors before implementing any suggestions or recommendations made in this podcast. The speakers and guests are not responsible for any actions taken by listeners based on the information presented in this podcast. The podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or services. The speakers and guests make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this podc...

  8. Jun 29

    Leading Through Crisis with Keith Erwood

    When disaster strikes, what separates the leaders who rise from the ones who freeze? In this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, crisis management expert Keith Erwood draws on decades on the front lines of emergencies, from his years as a New York City EMT to advising organizations on business continuity and disaster recovery. Keith makes a sharp case that the plan itself is never the real test of leadership under pressure. The decisions a leader makes in the moment are. He and Ron unpack how any organization can build that capability long before a crisis ever arrives, and why waiting for perfect information is often the costliest mistake of all. In this conversation, you will learn: Why the people who rise in a crisis often are not the ones you would expectThe trait Keith consistently sees in leaders who stay clear and calm under pressureHow crisis leadership can actually be trained through scenarios, tabletop exercises, and muscle memoryA real pandemic-era example showing how one delayed decision triggered a cascade of new problemsWhy your business continuity plan is a "toolbox" and your strategies are the tools inside itWhat should happen in the first sixty minutes of any crisis, from activating the team to mitigating damageThe role trust, clear communication, and the courage to course-correct play when everything is on the lineA simple habit any team can adopt to stay crisis-ready in just a few minutes a weekWhether you lead a large enterprise or a small team, this episode is a practical, no-nonsense guide to making better decisions when time is your biggest enemy and the information in front of you is incomplete. Connect with Ron Just Make A Difference: Leading Under Pressure by Ron Harvey “If you don’t have something to measure your growth, you won’t be self-aware or intentional about your growth.” Learn more about Global Core Strategies . . . . . Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or entity. The information provided in this podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Listeners should consult with their own professional advisors before implementing any suggestions or recommendations made in this podcast. The speakers and guests are not responsible for any actions taken by listeners based on the information presented in this podcast. The podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or services. The speakers and guests make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this podc...

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  • Creator
    Ron Harvey
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
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