The Leader's Mindset

LeDuc Leadership & Media Group
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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. Air Force officer and leadership strategist, the show blends powerful interviews with practical Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) you can apply immediately. If you’re responsible for results and developing the leaders behind you, this show equips you to lead with clarity and confidence.

  1. 2d ago

    The Hardest Thing a Tough Man Does — Bill McCamley on Team Leadership Skills

    The team leadership skills nobody trains you for: how to ask a man on your crew if he's okay.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Bill McCamley — former New Mexico Secretary of Labor, state representative and county commissioner, and author of "Right, My Dudes. Now What?" Bill ran a state's unemployment system through the pandemic, survived his own suicide attempt in the middle of it, and today teaches suicide prevention to union construction workers across New Mexico and Texas.What you'll learn:- Why authority always has to come with responsibility, and what happens when it doesn't- The reframe at the centre of the episode: tough guys do tough, hard things, and dealing with what is in your head is one of them- The leadership skills behind the direct question Bill makes every class practice out loud, because "you good, bro?" never gets an answer- The "bands" men wrap around themselves — any emotion means weak — and what they cost a team- Why he wants more men teaching and in therapy chairs, and his work with Richard Reeves' American Institute for Boys and Men- What mentoring looks like with an hour a month: leadership development that starts with one apprentice and one real conversationIf you or someone you lead is struggling: in the US and Canada you can call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 24/7.Bill McCamley:https://billmccamley.net/https://www.instagram.com/mccamleybillWork with Jason on team development and leadership skills:https://www.leducleadership.com/ 🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jldDisclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

    The Hardest Thing a Tough Man Does — Bill McCamley on Team Leadership Skills

  2. 4d ago

    What to Do When Your Best People Keep Quitting — Team Leadership Skills

    Team leadership is usually the real reason your best people keep quitting — not money, and not a better offer somewhere else. By the time a great employee is interviewing elsewhere, you already lost them; the notice is just the paperwork. SHRM found that toxic workplace culture drove an estimated $223 billion in turnover costs over five years, and that 58% of employees who quit over culture said their manager was the main reason. What you'll learn: - Why the stay interview beats the exit interview, and the two questions to ask - The leadership skills habit of guarding the standard — your best people leave when you let your worst behavior stay - Why people leave because they stopped growing far more often than for money - How recognition works as the cheapest retention tool you own - Why organizational culture problems are usually manager problems, not perk problems - The bonus move: make leaving loud, and actually change something after an exit Jason LeDuc is a leadership consultant and former U.S. Air Force leader teaching practical team leadership skills. Find his leadership development programs and book a discovery call at https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram 🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

    What to Do When Your Best People Keep Quitting — Team Leadership Skills

  3. Sep 24

    Succession Planning Starts on Day One — John Scott on Team Leadership Skills

    The team leadership skills that decide who replaces you get built years before you leave.Most succession planning happens far too late to be planning at all — and by then the market has usually made the decision for you.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc talks with John Scott — a CPA and tax partner at a nearly 500-person firm, where he also leads the virtual CFO practice for law firms — about why the average age of your leadership group predicts your company's future better than your revenue does.What you'll learn:- Why a partner group averaging in its 40s is healthy, and one drifting past 50 means you are about to be acquired- The leadership development mistake that cost one firm its independence: nobody trained the next generation- Why emerging leaders leave when they cannot see a path up, even when they like the work- The promotion exercise that ends the argument — "write the case for how you are already doing the next job"- Why the hardest part of a merger is two good cultures that simply are not the same- The leadership skills young professionals lose when AI does all the entry-level repsHow to reach John Scott:Firm website: anderscpa.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-c-scott-cpa/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johncscottcpa/Connect with Jason LeDuc at leducleadership.comStay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

    Succession Planning Starts on Day One — John Scott on Team Leadership Skills

  4. Sep 22

    What to Do When Your Team Has Quietly Checked Out — Team Leadership Skills

    Team leadership gets tested less when people are angry and more when they go quiet — and a checked-out team almost never complains. Nobody quits. Nobody pushes back. People are polite, on time, and doing exactly what's asked — and not one inch more. The spark is gone, and because no alarm is going off, most leaders miss it until output slips. Gallup found only 31% of U.S. employees were engaged at work in 2025, and attributes roughly 70% of the variance in team engagement to the manager. What you'll learn: - Why a coasting team is more dangerous than an angry one - The leadership skills move that reconnects the work to a why people can actually see - Why asking your team for input and then ignoring it is worse than never asking at all - How recognition and real decision ownership re-engage people faster than perks - The team development habit of killing one soul-sucking meeting, report, or rule - The bonus check most leaders skip: whether your own energy is setting the room's temperature Jason LeDuc is a leadership consultant and former U.S. Air Force leader teaching practical team leadership skills. Find his leadership development programs and book a discovery call at https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram 🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

    What to Do When Your Team Has Quietly Checked Out — Team Leadership Skills

  5. Sep 17

    The Conversation Your Team Is Avoiding — Croft Edwards on Leadership Skills

    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 put it this way: the root cause of all outcomes, positive and negative, are the conversations we have effectively, ineffectively, or fail to have. This conversation is about the third kind.What you'll learn:- What "cordial hypocrisy" is — a term popularized by Fernando Flores — and why being polite with someone you don't trust is the default state of most teams- The two kinds of missing conversation: the one you're dodging, and the one you don't even know exists- Why an organization is really a network of conversations, and what that changes about the leadership skills you need to run one- Why the most candid conversations happen at the front line, not in the boardroom — and what a platinum mine a mile underground taught Croft about trust- The "studs and duds" approach to change: spend your energy on the top and the bottom of the curve, not the middle- Why leadership is a practice, not a concept: you can't think your way into a hard conversation, you have to have it badly firstHow to reach Croft Edwards:https://croftandcompany.com/ https://liquidaccordion.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/croftedwards/More from Jason LeDuc, including the Be The Boss program and the Leadership Academy for Tech Managers:https://www.leducleadership.com/ 🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

    The Conversation Your Team Is Avoiding — Croft Edwards on Leadership Skills

  6. Sep 15

    What to Say When Two Teams Won't Work Together — Leadership Skills

    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 teams can't get along, you're not broken. But normal here is expensive.In this episode, Jason LeDuc gives you five tactics — plus a bonus — to get two departments pulling in the same direction, drawn from rooms where engineers, maintainers, and aircrew all saw the same mission differently and turf could get somebody hurt.What you'll learn:- Leadership skills for naming a shared enemy so both teams stop aiming at each other- How one shared metric ends the fight that two separate scoreboards started- The one After-Action Review rule that makes a joint debrief safe: attack the process, never the person- Why trading seats for a single day ends a turf war faster than any meeting- How to turn a fuzzy handoff into a written contract both teams can holdThe leadership move most managers miss: publicly catching one team helping the other. What gets recognized gets repeated.Ready to turn two warring teams into one? Find Jason's leadership programs and book a discovery call at https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram 🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

    What to Say When Two Teams Won't Work Together — Leadership Skills

  7. Sep 10

    Bootstrapped 8 Years, No Co-Founder — Rei Vardi on Leadership Skills

    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 unpack the equity decision that nearly cost him the business, and the team he built instead. What you'll learn: - Why a late co-founder is "like bringing in a father to raise your kid when the kid is 17 years old" - What giving away too much equity signals to the investors you're courting - The leadership skills that outrank titles: matching people to challenges at the edge of their capacity - Why cultural fit outweighs raw skill 60/40 on Rei's team - How bootstrapping protected margins and retention while funded competitors chased growth - Why leadership is downstream of competence — "great leaders aren't born, they get made" How to reach Rei Vardi: https://eonrides.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/reivardi/ More leadership conversations, programs and coaching with Jason LeDuc: https://www.leducleadership.com/ 🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

    Bootstrapped 8 Years, No Co-Founder — Rei Vardi on Leadership Skills

  8. Sep 8

    What to Do When You're the Bottleneck — Leadership Skills for a Leader's Mindset

    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. In this episode, Jason LeDuc gives you five tactics plus a bonus to get out of your own way. What you'll learn: - The only-me list: why roughly 70% of last week's tasks are already someone else's - Leadership skills for delegating the outcome and the deadline instead of the checklist - The one-page playbook that stops the same question from reaching you fifty times - Decision rules — the dollar line your team can act under without you - Why you schedule the handoff and then physically leave the room - The bonus: hand it over at 80% as well as you'd do it, and stop paying for the last 20% More leadership tactics, plus the Be The Boss program and the Corporate Leadership Academy, at leducleadership.com — or email info@leducleadership.com. Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.

    What to Do When You're the Bottleneck — Leadership Skills for a Leader's Mindset
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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. Air Force officer and leadership strategist, the show blends powerful interviews with practical Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) you can apply immediately. If you’re responsible for results and developing the leaders behind you, this show equips you to lead with clarity and confidence.

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  • Creator
    LeDuc Leadership & Media Group
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    278
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © LeDuc Leadership & Media Group
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    The Leader's Mindset