THE JEFFREY SCOTT STANTON PODCAST The Leadership Series

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The Jeffrey Scott Stanton Podcast: The Leadership Series is where leadership stops being theory and becomes a practical discipline. Designed for brokers, team leaders, sales managers, entrepreneurs, and high performers, each episode delivers real conversations and frameworks around the skills that create trust, accountability, influence, culture, performance, and long-term scale. This is not leadership as title. This is leadership as behavior. From coaching better people…to building resilient organizations…to making hard decisions under pressure…to creating cultures people want to stay in… The show serves as a leadership academy in podcast form, helping listeners grow from producer to multiplier. For anyone responsible for outcomes through other people, this is required listening.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    005: The Speed of Trust | Stephen Covey | You Lost Them Before They Left | Jeffrey Scott Stanton

    THE JEFFREY SCOTT STANTON PODCAST: THE LEADERSHIP SERIES EPISODE 5 Trust: You Lost Them Before They Left Inspired by: The Speed of Trust  |  Stephen M.R. Covey There is someone on your team who trusts you less than they used to. You may not know when it changed. But the person who used to bring you their real problems stopped bringing them. And they will not tell you. ABOUT THIS EPISODE:  Trust is not a soft leadership virtue. It is an economic force. When it is high, everything in your organization moves faster and costs less. When it is low, people stop bringing you the truth, commitment drops to compliance, and you lose people long before they ever hand in their notice. In this episode, Jeffrey Scott Stanton goes deep on the one leadership currency most leaders are spending without realizing it. You will learn what trust actually is at a neurological level, why the distinction between character trust and competence trust changes everything, how the trust bank account works, and what trust repair actually looks like in practice when the damage has already been done. This is not a motivational conversation about the importance of trust. It is a precise, applied examination of how trust builds, how it breaks, and what leaders at every stage can do about it. THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:  • Wise Agent | wiseagent.com/jsquared — The all-in-one CRM that helps real estate agents manage contacts, automate follow-up, and grow their business. • Subi | oksubi.com — Your AI transaction genie. From contract to close, your work is my command. • The CE Shop | j2.theceshop.com — Use discount code JSQUARED for an additional 35% off. IN THIS EPISODE:  • Why trust is not a feeling — it is a neurological state that changes how people think, collaborate, and commit • The difference between character trust and competence trust — and why most high performers have one without the other • Why compliance is what competence trust alone produces — and what it takes to earn commitment • The deposits and withdrawals framework — what builds the account and what draws it down • Why one trust withdrawal costs more than multiple deposits earn • The trust repair sequence — and why most leaders get the order completely wrong • Four specific things a new leader does in the first 30 days to build trust before competence has been demonstrated TIMESTAMPS:  00:00 - The Quiet Shift in Trust 01:25 - Welcome to the Leadership Series 02:38 - Trust as an Economic Force 03:32 - The Energy Shift: High Trust vs. Low Trust 04:45 - The Brain's Response to Social Threats 06:30 - The Trust Tax vs. The Trust Dividend 08:00 - The "Fine" Conversation: Identifying the Tax 09:14 - Two Foundations: Character and Competence 11:17 - Compliance vs. Commitment 11:37 - Case Study: David and the Inconsistency Trap 13:27 - The Trust Bank Account Framework 15:11 - Why Withdrawals Cost More Than Deposits 16:16 - Sponsor: The CE Shop 16:56 - Case Study: Renee and the Power of Consistency 19:18 - How Trust Actually Breaks 21:05 - Measuring by Intention vs. Experience 21:48 - Repairing Damaged Trust: Acknowledgement First 22:48 - Case Study: Marcus and the Sequence of Repair 25:29 - Building Trust as a New Leader 27:17 - Four Steps to Build Character Trust in 30 Days 30:50 - Final Thoughts: Leading with Trust 33:21 - Outro and Closing Credits BOOK AND RESOURCES:  Book referenced in this episode: • The Speed of Trust — Stephen M.R. Covey Research and concepts referenced: • Paul Zak — neuroscience of trust research • Negativity bias — research on how the brain weights negative experiences • Trust repair research — acknowledgment, explanation, behavior, time • Trust transference — how new leaders inherit relational history Note: This episode is inspired by Covey's framework, combined with behavioral research on trust and real-world leadership application. Not a book summary. CONNECT WITH JEFFREY:  Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a coach, consultant, advisor, and speaker who has spent his career helping leaders and organizations perform at their highest level under pressure. As the former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development for Douglas Elliman Real Estate, he built and led development programs at scale across one of the largest residential real estate companies in the country. • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyscottstanton/ • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffreyscottstanton • Website: https://jeffreyscottstanton.com/ • Network: J Squared Podcast Productions — https://www.jsquaredpodcast.com/ The Leadership Series is his masterclass on leadership delivered in podcast form — built for people who are currently leading, stepping into leadership, or building toward it. Each episode combines behavioral research, applied psychology, and real-world leadership experience into content that is as practical as it is substantive. ENJOYED THIS EPISODE? If this episode was valuable, please leave a review or share it with someone who needs it.

    34 min

  2. May 21

    004: Good to Great | Jim Collins | Your Best People Watching What You Let Go | Jeffrey Scott Stanton

    Episode 4 of The Leadership Series with Jeffrey Scott Stanton draws from Good to Great by Jim Collins, one of the most rigorous studies ever conducted on what separates organizations that make the leap to sustained excellence from those that stay trapped at merely good. Collins and his research team spent five years studying this question, and the answer they found was not strategy, charisma, or timing. It was discipline: disciplined people making disciplined choices in a consistent direction over time. Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a coach, consultant, advisor, and former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman Real Estate. In this episode, he takes the discipline framework from Good to Great and runs it through the most revealing test of any leader's standards: what happens when something should not have been allowed to continue, and was. This is the episode that answers the question Episode 3 ended with. Once you have had that conversation, what does it anchor to? The answer is the standard. And whether that standard is real or just a statement is the most important measurement in any organization. IN THIS EPISODE, JEFFREY COVERS: 1: Why every organization operates with two sets of standards simultaneously: the stated ones and the real ones, and why the real ones always govern behavior 2: Culture drift: how each small act of tolerance compounds into an organization that no longer reflects what the leader thought they were building 3: Status quo bias: the psychological pull toward inaction when standards are violated, and why the cost stays invisible until it is not 4: The performance exemption: why allowing high producers to operate under different rules destroys culture on three levels simultaneously 5: Why the person being exempted is often the first to leave when a better opportunity appears 6: The three things a standard needs to remain real: behavioral clarity, consistency, and recognition 7: Maya's story: a leader who managed around behavior for months and watched three of her strongest developing team members leave for an environment where expectations meant something equally for everyone 8:mThe flywheel from Good to Great applied to culture: how a standard-based culture gets built through consistent, often invisible moments compounded over time TIMESTAMPS:  [00:00] Cold open: the standard you have not enforced yet, and what every person in the room registered when you did not [02:00] Jeffrey's background and the book: what five years of research in Good to Great actually found [03:43] Two sets of standards in every organization: the stated ones and the real ones [05:36] The client response time scenario: how three top performers quietly renegotiate a standard for the entire team [07:05] Culture drift: what you tolerate becomes the standard, and it almost never feels dramatic when it is happening [08:14] Status quo bias: why the relief of avoidance is immediate and the cost is invisible until it is not [10:28] The performance exemption and what it does on three levels: to the person, to the team watching, and to future recruits [13:50] What high-character performers feel before you ever explain the culture to them [19:22] The three things a standard needs to stay real: behavioral clarity, consistency, and recognition [24:21] The hedgehog concept applied to standards: when enforcement stops feeling like friction and starts feeling like clarity [27:22] Maya's story: quiet conversations, a bending standard, and three developing team members who left [30:05] What happened after Maya finally held the line: the high performer adjusted, not left [32:11] The flywheel applied to culture: consistent effort in a consistent direction, compounded over time [34:32] Three closing diagnostic questions every leader should ask today [37:26] Preview of Episode 5: trust, accountability, and why accountability without trust creates compliance instead of commitment HOST Jeffrey Scott Stanton:  Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a leadership coach, consultant, and former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman. He is the host of The Leadership Series on J Squared Podcast Productions, where leadership principles are broken down and applied in real organizations, real teams, and real pressure. Connect with Jeffrey:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyscottstanton/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffreyscottstanton Network: J Squared Podcast Productions: https://www.jsquaredpodcast.com/ FOUNDING SPONSORS:  1: Wise Agent | https://wiseagent.com/jsquared - The all-in-one CRM that helps real estate agents manage contacts, automate follow-up, and grow their business. 2: Subi | https://www.oksubi.com/ - Your AI transaction genie. From contract to close, your work is my command. 3: The CE Shop | https://j2.theceshop.com/ Use the discount code jsquared for an additional 35% off

    39 min

  3. May 21

    003: Crucial Conversations | Kerry Patterson | The Leadership Talk You Keep Avoiding | Jeffrey Scott Stanton

    Episode 3 of The Leadership Series with Jeffrey Scott Stanton draws from Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, and applies it to the leadership situations where communication matters most: the conversations every leader has been putting off. Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a coach, consultant, advisor, and former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman Real Estate. His career has been built inside high-pressure sales environments where communication is the primary lever of performance. In this episode, he brings that experience to the hardest conversations in leadership: the ones that feel less urgent than they actually are. This is where vision from Episode 2 meets the test. Because vision only matters if you are willing to have the conversations required to protect it. IN THIS EPISODE, JEFFREY COVERS: 1: What a crucial conversation actually is and why these conditions make most people communicate defensively 2: Why the most dangerous conversations are the quiet, low-urgency ones that should have happened months ago 3: The Fool's Choice: the false binary leaders create before any hard conversation, choosing between honesty and the relationship 4: What accumulates on both sides while a leader waits: resentment building on one side, assumptions filling the silence on the other 5: The Why Trap: why most leaders get forced into hard conversations by a triggering event rather than choosing them proactively 6: How to create safety before delivering a hard message, and why a message cannot land when someone has already shut down 7: The second conversation: the internal narrative running in the other person's mind while you are talking 8: A practical four-point framework for preparing any difficult conversation before you walk in the room TIMESTAMPS:  [00:00] Cold open: the conversation you already know you need to have [02:00] How Episodes 1, 2, and 3 build on each other — and who this series is built for [04:00] The most dangerous conversations are the quiet, low-urgency ones leaders keep postponing [06:00] The Fool's Choice: the false binary between honesty and the relationship [08:00] What and thinking looks like in a real brokerage conversation [10:00] What accumulates while a leader waits, and how drift spreads across the team [12:00] The Why Trap: why reactive conversations are always more expensive than proactive ones [14:00] Safety versus comfort: what safety actually means before a difficult conversation [16:00] Two things that create safety: mutual purpose and mutual respect [18:00] The second conversation: addressing the internal narrative before it takes hold [20:00] The NLP principle: the meaning of communication is the response you get, not the response you intended [24:00] Real listening in high-stakes conversations: how to hear what is not being said [27:00] Unscheduled pressure moments and the two tools that work when preparation is not available [31:00] The four things to write down before any difficult conversation [33:00] Closing reflection: your conversations matter more than you ever know HOST Jeffrey Scott Stanton:  Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a leadership coach, consultant, and former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman. He is the host of The Leadership Series on J Squared Podcast Productions, where leadership principles are broken down and applied in real organizations, real teams, and real pressure. Connect with Jeffrey:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyscottstanton/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffreyscottstanton Network: J Squared Podcast Productions: https://www.jsquaredpodcast.com/ FOUNDING SPONSORS:  1: Wise Agent | https://wiseagent.com/jsquared - The all-in-one CRM that helps real estate agents manage contacts, automate follow-up, and grow their business. 2: Subi | https://www.oksubi.com/ - Your AI transaction genie. From contract to close, your work is my command. 3: The CE Shop | https://j2.theceshop.com/ Use the discount code jsquared for an additional 35% off

    34 min

  4. May 21

    002: Start With Why | Simon Sinek | Vision as Leadership Responsibility | Jeffrey Scott Stanton

    Episode 2 of The Leadership Series with Jeffrey Scott Stanton draws from Simon Sinek's "Start With Why" and applies it to one of the most common and costly leadership failures in real estate: the absence of clear, consistent, believable vision. Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a coach, consultant, advisor, and former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman Real Estate. His work spans behavioral strategy, leadership development, and performance enablement in high-paced sales environments. In this episode, he brings those experiences directly into the conversation around vision because this is something he has watched organizations lose people over, and something he has seen transform culture when done with intention. Most leaders understand that vision matters. Few understand what it actually requires to sustain one. This episode closes that gap. IN THIS EPISODE, JEFFREY COVERS: 1: Why vision is a daily leadership responsibility, not an annual kickoff speech 2: The difference between busyness and momentum, and how active organizations can be completely directionless 3: Why independent contractors need clarity and credibility, not authority and control 4: The hidden cost of drift: how organizations fragment slowly, without a single dramatic event 5: The brokerage that lost three of its strongest agents in three weeks, over confusion, not compensation 6: How vision functions as a daily decision-making filter in meetings, recognition, and recruiting 7: Why repetition is the mechanism through which vision moves from something said to something believed 8: The four questions every leader should ask regularly: Is my vision clear? Is it repeated? Is it rewarded? Is it believable? TIMESTAMPS:  [00:00] Cold open: vision, confusion, and what leaders lose when clarity is absent [02:00] Vision is not a slogan, not a speech, and not motivation [04:00] Jeffrey's background and how The Leadership Series is designed [06:00] Why leading independent contractors requires trust and clarity over authority [08:00] The fastest test for whether vision is actually present in your organization [10:00] The hidden cost of drift: how organizations fragment slowly without a single dramatic event [12:00] The brokerage that lost three top agents in three weeks, over confusion, not compensation [14:00] Criticism without clarity destroys credibility — the reactive leadership trap [16:00] Mid-roll spotlight: [18:00] Why top producers stay for momentum, not splits — and what happens when they believe in the vision [20:00] Where leaders unintentionally fail: stating vision without translating it into behavior [22:00] How to communicate vision consistently without sounding repetitive [24:00] The four questions: clear, repeated, rewarded, believable [27:00] Vision without standards is fantasy: what you reward defines what you actually believe [30:00] Closing reflection and preview of Episode 3 HOST Jeffrey Scott Stanton:  Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a leadership coach, consultant, and former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman. He is the host of The Leadership Series on J Squared Podcast Productions, where leadership principles are broken down and applied in real organizations, real teams, and real pressure. Connect with Jeffrey:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyscottstanton/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffreyscottstanton Network: J Squared Podcast Productions: https://www.jsquaredpodcast.com/ FOUNDING SPONSORS:  1: Wise Agent | https://wiseagent.com/jsquared - The all-in-one CRM that helps real estate agents manage contacts, automate follow-up, and grow their business. 2: Subi | https://www.oksubi.com/ - Your AI transaction genie. From contract to close, your work is my command. 3: The CE Shop | https://j2.theceshop.com/ Use the discount code jsquared for an additional 35% off

    32 min

  5. May 20

    001: On Becoming a Leader | Warren Bennis | The Foundation of Intentional Leadership | Jeffrey Scott Stanton

    The Leadership Series with Jeffrey Scott Stanton launches with Episode 1, grounded in the foundational ideas of Warren Bennis's landmark work, On Becoming a Leader. This is not a book summary. Jeffrey takes Bennis's core premise, that leadership is not a title but a discipline built through daily practice, and runs it through the lens of real organizations, real teams, and real pressure.Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a coach, consultant, advisor, and former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman. He has spent his career building leaders in high-paced, high-stress sales environments, and in this episode, he brings that experience directly to you.This episode sets the foundation for the entire series: what leadership actually is, how it differs from production, why most leaders struggle not from lack of knowledge but from lack of consistency, and what it means to lead with intention rather than react from habit. IN THIS EPISODE, JEFFREY COVERS: 1: What leadership actually is, and why it has nothing to do with production volume or tenure 2: The critical difference between a boss and a true leader, and why that distinction matters more in real estate than almost any other industry 3: Why leading independent contractors requires credibility and trust over authority and control 4: How self-leadership, specifically emotional discipline and calendar intentionality, determines your effectiveness before you ever lead anyone else 5: The consistency gap: why most leaders are clearer in their own minds than they are to their teams 6: Why tolerating behavior that undermines your standards quietly becomes the standard itself 7: The over-involvement trap, and how rescuing people from problems actually limits their growth and yours 8: What it means to shift from being the solution to building the conditions where solutions happen without you 9: How misalignment between stated values and daily behavior erodes trust slowly, and how to close that gap 10: The identity shift that has to happen when leadership scale demands you stop being the hero and start being the architect TIMESTAMPS:  [00:00] Cold open: what leadership really requires (key quotes) [00:57] Show intro: The Leadership Series and what this podcast is built for [01:28] What this show is and what it is not: leadership as discipline, not tactics [02:33] The foundational text: On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis [04:05] Jeffrey's background: from producer to leader, and what that transition taught him [05:06] Defining leadership: influence over direction, behavior, and standards [05:59] The difference between a boss and a true leader [06:48] Why leading independent contractors changes everything [07:38] How leadership shows up in small moments, not big ones [09:45] Leadership lives in daily behavior, not vision statements [10:49] Self-leadership: emotional discipline and calendar as leadership documents [11:57] Emotional regulation vs. emotional suppression as a leader [12:41] The consistency gap and why confusion always gets interpreted as permission [13:37] Avoidance and the long-term cost of sidestepping difficult conversations [14:01] The over-involvement trap: when helping becomes limiting [15:29] Building capability vs. creating dependency [17:07] When effort stops being the answer: the shift to alignment [18:58] Vision without systems: why people fail when they're guessing, not lacking effort [19:44] Personal story: becoming the bottleneck in your own organization [20:07] Being needed vs. being effective: the hardest leadership realization [22:05] Predictability and consistency as performance drivers [23:19] Leadership at scale: centering alignment over self [25:34] Making space for leadership instead of squeezing it into margins [28:36] Clarity as the goal: not control, not constant direction [29:21] Identity shift: from hero to architect [30:01] Leadership as service [30:26] Your assignment before the next episode [31:09] What is coming next: vision as a leadership responsibility HOST Jeffrey Scott Stanton:  Jeffrey Scott Stanton is a leadership coach, consultant, and former Executive Vice President of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman. He is the host of The Leadership Series on J Squared Podcast Productions, where leadership principles are broken down and applied in real organizations, real teams, and real pressure. Connect with Jeffrey:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyscottstanton/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffreyscottstanton Network: J Squared Podcast Productions: https://www.jsquaredpodcast.com/ FOUNDING SPONSORS:  1: Wise Agent | https://wiseagent.com/jsquared - The all-in-one CRM that helps real estate agents manage contacts, automate follow-up, and grow their business. 2: Subi | https://www.oksubi.com/ - Your AI transaction genie. From contract to close, your work is my command. 3: The CE Shop | https://j2.theceshop.com/ Use the discount code jsquared for an additional 35% off

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The Jeffrey Scott Stanton Podcast: The Leadership Series is where leadership stops being theory and becomes a practical discipline. Designed for brokers, team leaders, sales managers, entrepreneurs, and high performers, each episode delivers real conversations and frameworks around the skills that create trust, accountability, influence, culture, performance, and long-term scale. This is not leadership as title. This is leadership as behavior. From coaching better people…to building resilient organizations…to making hard decisions under pressure…to creating cultures people want to stay in… The show serves as a leadership academy in podcast form, helping listeners grow from producer to multiplier. For anyone responsible for outcomes through other people, this is required listening.

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