The Lance Cibik Show

Lance Cibik
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The Lance Cibik Show is a podcast focused on helping professionals maximize every opportunity in life and business through practical, real-world conversations. Each episode features actionable insights on health, mindset, sales, leadership, executive presence, relationships, money, and purpose. Through solo episodes, walk-and-talks, and conversations with guests, I share authentic stories and strategies to help listeners take messy action, overcome adversity, and perform at their highest level in life and business.

  1. 1d ago

    CONFIDENCE, COMPETENCE & CUTTING THE ANCHORS | EPISODE 18

    You can have all the competence in the world—but that doesn't necessarily mean you have the confidence. In this episode, Lance reflects on two conversations from his performance coaching practice with financial advisors facing very different challenges. The first conversation focuses on connecting confidence to competence through repetition, role-play, and learning how to clearly communicate who you help, the problems you solve, and why you're uniquely positioned to help. The second conversation explores what happens when success in one season begins to hold you back in the next. Sometimes, moving forward requires making difficult decisions, letting go of what has served you in the past, and cutting the anchors that are preventing you from growing into your next season of life and business. Throughout the episode, Lance challenges you to reflect on your own confidence, your positioning, and the anchors you may need to release in order to maximize your opportunity. 🎙️ In This Episode 🎯 Why competence doesn't automatically create confidence ☕ Using role-play to build confidence in your personal and professional conversations 💬 How to clearly communicate who you help, the problems you solve, and why you're uniquely positioned to help 👥 Defining your ideal client profile and speaking directly to the people you serve best ⚓ Why some past successes can become the anchors holding you back 🚤 How cutting the right anchors creates space for your next season of growth 📈 Connecting confidence, competence, and experience to maximize your opportunity 💡 My Challenge to You Where do you need to connect your confidence to your competence? What conversations do you need to practice until they become natural? What anchors from your past are keeping you from moving forward? And what do you need to let go of so you can grow into your next season of life and business? ⭐ Key Takeaways ✔️ Competence doesn't automatically create confidence. ✔️ Confidence grows through repetition, experience, and putting yourself in uncomfortable situations. ✔️ Clearly communicate who you help, the problems you solve, and why you're uniquely positioned to help. ✔️ Define your ideal client profile instead of trying to serve everyone. ✔️ Sometimes the hardest part of growth is cutting the anchors that once served you well. ✔️ Just because something got you where you are today doesn't mean it needs to continue serving you in the future. ✔️ From the moment your feet hit the floor in the morning to the moment your head hits the pillow at night... ask yourself, "Am I maximizing my opportunity?" 🌐 Website: lancecibik.com 🌐 Connect With Lance Cibik 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcibik?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios 📧 Email: info@lancecibik.com 🎙️ Follow The Lance Cibik Show for practical conversations on maximizing your health, elevating your performance, reconnecting to your purpose, and using adversity as fuel for purpose, impact, and lasting success.

  2. Oct 23

    FIGHT BACK: MAXIMIZE YOUR HEALTH. LIVE IN ALIGNMENT | EPISODE 17

    Are you willing to fight back against the habits, culture, and choices that are creating an anxious generation? Coming to you live from an early morning walk and talk session, Lance reflects on his travel this week and observations from the airport and airplane. From what we eat and drink to how we spend our time on technology, Lance explores how small decisions and habits can compound over time and create misalignment in our health, our careers, and our lives. Through observations and coaching conversations with high performers, Lance challenges you to maximize your health first, fight back against the things that are holding you back, and show up as the best version of yourself. 🎙️ In This Episode ✈️ What Lance observed while traveling through airports and on airplanes 🥗 How daily diet and nutrition choices can become normal over time 📱 How technology and social media can slowly consume your precious seconds, minutes, and hours 🍷 The influence alcohol can have on our health, relationships, work, and lives 📈 How small decisions compound day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year 💪 Why maximizing your health should come first before anyone and anything else ⚡ How high performers are fighting back by improving sleep, nutrition, exercise, and daily habits 🎯 Why you need to get unstuck and create alignment with what you want to do and who you want to be 💡 My Challenge to You Is it time for you to fight back? Is it time to say: “No more. It stops with me, and it starts over for me.” Look honestly at: What you eat. What you drink. What you watch. How you spend your time. How much you move your body. Who you spend time with. Are your daily habits helping you maximize your opportunity—or slowly creating misalignment? ⭐ Key Takeaways ✔️ Small decisions become habits, and habits compound over time. ✔️ Maximize your health first before anyone and anything else. ✔️ Don't accept misalignment as normal. ✔️ Fight back against junk food, alcohol, excessive technology, and habits that rob you of your one life. ✔️ You deserve peace, contentment, joy, happiness, and purpose. ✔️ Your past and your current circumstances don't have to keep you stuck. ✔️ Show up as the best version of yourself so your family and your work benefit. ✔️ Stand out in the sea of sameness by making different choices. ✔️ Fight back. Don't become another statistic in the anxious generation. ✔️ Live in alignment with what you want to do and who you want to be. 🌐 Connect With Lance Cibik 🌐 Website: lancecibik.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcibik 📧 Email: info@lancecibik.com 🎙️ Follow The Lance Cibik Show for practical conversations on maximizing your health, elevating your performance, reconnecting to your purpose, and using adversity as fuel for purpose, impact, and lasting success.

  3. Oct 16

    HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS? | EPISODE 16

    How do you define success? What does that mean to you? Many high performers and high achievers are successful by title, income, assets, net worth, credentials, and everything that looks great on paper—yet still feel misaligned, unsettled, or like something is missing. In this episode, Lance talks about the constant, never-ending pursuit of more and what happens when our strengths as high performers can also become weaknesses. He shares how to define success for yourself, control your controllables, establish daily non-negotiables, get as close to alignment as possible, and learn to detach from the outcome. Because you can maximize your opportunity in life and business without it coming at the detriment of your peace, health, mindset, and relationships. 🎙️ In This Episode 🎯 The constant, never-ending pursuit of more 📋 What it means to control your controllables 🏆 How to establish your own standard of success ✅ Creating a list of daily non-negotiables 🌅 Terrific Tuesday versus Terrible Tuesday 🎯 Identifying what aligns with your zone of genius 🚫 What you need to minimize, delegate, or stop 🧘 Learning to detach from the outcome 🏃 Remembering that we are all running our own race ❤️ Maximizing opportunity without sacrificing peace, health, mindset, or relationships 💡 My Challenge to You How do you define success? What does that mean to you? Can you establish a Terrific Tuesday? Can you consider what a Terrible Tuesday looks like for you? Take a few moments to jot down your daily non-negotiables—a standard you can seek to aim for. And when you miss the mark, give yourself some grace and detach from the outcome. ⭐ Key Takeaways ✔️ Define what success means to you. ✔️ Control your controllables. ✔️ Establish daily non-negotiables and set a standard for yourself. ✔️ Get as close to alignment as possible. ✔️ Minimize, delegate, or stop the things that are misaligned, inefficient, ineffective, or energy-draining. ✔️ Detach from the outcome and remember that we are all running our own race. ✔️ Your strengths can also become weaknesses when they create restlessness, discontent, or an unhealthy pursuit of more. ✔️ Maximize your opportunity in life and business, but not to the detriment of your peace, health, mindset, or relationships. ✔️ Take the next right decision, put one foot in front of the other, and let go, let God. 🌐 Connect With Lance Cibik 🌐 Website: lancecibik.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcibik?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios 📧 Email: info@lancecibik.com 🎙️ Follow The Lance Cibik Show for practical conversations on maximizing your health, elevating your performance, reconnecting to your purpose, and using adversity as fuel for purpose, impact, and lasting success.

  4. Oct 9

    FROM THINKING TO DOING: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? | EPISODE 15

    What would happen if you stopped waiting for the perfect plan and simply took the next step? On this early morning walk and talk episode, Lance reflects on two moments that changed when he stopped thinking about what he wanted to do and started taking the next step. From his first real professional speaking engagement in October 2024 to building the muscle through earlier opportunities, he shares what happened when he was willing to get experience before knowing exactly where it would lead. Then he looks at The Lance Cibik Show, something he thought about for one to two years before finally speaking into a microphone and shipping the first episode. Ninety days later, the podcast has more than 1,000 downloads between Spotify and Apple Podcasts, along with messages and conversations from listeners who have been impacted by the show. So what have you been thinking about, waiting on, or telling yourself you need to figure out first? Lance challenges you to consider what you might regret not trying and what could happen if you simply took the next step?🎙️ In This Episode 💭 Lance's two points of reflection from October 2026 and how they may relate to your own life and journey 🎤 The story behind his first real professional speaking engagement in October 2024 ✈️ What it felt like to get on an airplane, stay at a paid hotel, and speak to a corporate audience full of financial advisors 💰 Being paid thousands of dollars to deliver a motivational, inspirational closing-day keynote 😬 The uncertainty of being a rookie, newbie, and first-timer 🧠 The lesson from one of Lance's mentors: “The only way to get experience is to get experience.” 💪 How Lance was building the muscle and getting the repetitions before the bigger opportunity arrived 🌱 Why the work happening in the unseen can prepare you for opportunities you cannot yet see 📈 How one speaking engagement led to great reviews, testimonials, additional speaking opportunities, partnerships, coaching opportunities, and referrals 📖 Why Lance wasn't an author when he delivered that October 2024 keynote—and how Adversity Fuels Purpose came later 🎙️ Why Lance spent one to two years thinking about starting a podcast ❓ The questions that kept coming up: What would I call it? Who would listen? Who would care? 🎧 Why Lance finally decided to speak into the microphone during his early morning walks 📊 What happened during the first 90 days of The Lance Cibik Show 🔥 More than 1,000 downloads between Spotify and Apple Podcasts 💬 The emails, LinkedIn messages, texts, and conversations from listeners 🔮 Why Lance thinks about minimizing future regret 🚀 Why you don't need to know the entire path before taking the next step 💡 My Challenge to You What have you been thinking about but haven't taken action on yet? What are you waiting to figure out before you begin? What might you regret not trying a year, three years, or five years from now? What is one next step you can take before the end of 2026? You don't need to have it perfectly figured out—you just need to be willing to try. ⭐ Key Takeaways ✔️ You don't have to have everything figured out before you begin. ✔️ “The only way to get experience is to get experience.” ✔️ The repetitions you get today can prepare you for opportunities you cannot yet see. ✔️ The work in the unseen matters, even when you don't know where it will lead. ✔️ You may be a rookie, newbie, or first-timer and that's okay. ✔️ Consider what the future version of you may regret not trying. ✔️ You don't need certainty to take the next step. Your adversity doesn't have to keep you stuck; it can fuel your purpose. 🌐 Connect With Lance Cibik 🌐 Website: lancecibik.com 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lcibik 📧 Email: info@lancecibik.com 🎙️ Follow The Lance Cibik Show for conversations on maximizing your health, elevating your performance, reconnecting to your purpose, and using adversity as fuel for purpose, impact, and lasting success.

  5. Oct 1

    SOBER OCTOBER: WHY ARE YOU STILL DRINKING? | EPISODE 14

    What if Sober October could be more than just 31 days without alcohol? On this early morning walk and talk session, Lance reflects on Sober October and the opportunity it creates to step back and consider our relationship with alcohol. Lance shares his own story of being seven years alcohol free, including the morning he woke up after a client dinner, slept poorly, missed his morning workout, had a less productive day, and drove four hours home feeling tired and agitated. He realized that alcohol was getting in the way of being the man, husband, dad, and performer he wanted to be. Lance also reflects on conversations with performance coaching clients who are currently minimizing or eliminating alcohol from their lives—and the physical, mental, emotional, professional, and relationship benefits they are already noticing. Sober October may be an opportunity to eliminate a toxin for 30 days. But Lance challenges you to slow down long enough to ask: Why are you drinking alcohol in the first place? And why are you still drinking today? 🎙️ In This Episode 🍷 What Sober October is and why it got Lance thinking about our relationship with alcohol 💭 Lance’s personal story of becoming seven years alcohol free ⚡ The moment Lance realized alcohol was keeping him from maximizing his opportunity and potential 🧠 How alcohol can affect sleep, focus, productivity, health, and the way you show up for your family 💪 What Lance is seeing in coaching clients who are minimizing or eliminating alcohol 📈 One client’s transformation after becoming alcohol free for more than 90 days 🔄 How alcohol can become our new normal, our standard, and our default 🎯 Why going sober for October can create an opportunity to consider going beyond one month 🚫 The behaviors and mindset tricks we can use to toggle back and forth with alcohol 🔥 Why Lance believes you can fight back 💡 My Challenge to You If you're considering Sober October, Lance encourages you to slow down long enough to consider: Why did you start drinking in the first place? Why are you still drinking today? Is there any level of misalignment between what you want to be doing and who you want to be at this stage of your life and career? If alcohol feels like a thorn in your side, keeping you from maximizing your opportunity, it might be time for a reinvention. It might be time for a reset. It might be time to establish a new identity. ⭐ Key Takeaways ✔️ Sober October can be an opportunity to eliminate a toxin from your body for 30 days. ✔️ Alcohol can become our new normal, our standard, and our default. ✔️ Lance realized alcohol was keeping him from being the man, husband, dad, and performer he wanted to be. ✔️ Eliminating or minimizing alcohol can affect how you sleep, feel, focus, work, and show up for your family. ✔️ You don't have to continue doing something simply because you've always done it. ✔️ You can reinvent yourself and establish a new identity. ✔️ If you make the decision to go sober, keep going one day at a time and make the next right decision. ✔️ Your adversity can be the place that fuels your purpose and inspires the impact you want to make in the world. ✔️ You deserve to maximize your opportunity—and in this case, your health. 🌐 Connect With Lance Cibik 🌐 Website: lancecibik.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcibik 📧 Email: info@lancecibik.com 🎙️ Follow The Lance Cibik Show for conversations on maximizing your health, elevating your performance, reconnecting to your purpose, and using adversity as fuel for purpose, impact, and lasting success.

  6. Sep 25

    PERFORMANCE, PRESSURE & THE PURSUIT OF PEACE | EPISODE 13

    Performance can lead to pressure. And when pressure shows up, it can lead to stress, anxiety, burnout, and misalignment. In this early morning walk and talk episode, Lance reflects on conversations with high achievers and high performers who have spent years in the never-ending pursuit of more. Through real coaching client examples, Lance explores what happens when performance becomes pressure, how the never-ending pursuit of more can impact your health, family, and overall alignment, and why defining how much is enough can help create more peace. The question is not whether growth and performance are bad. Lance believes they can be powerful. The question is: Are you willing to pause long enough to define what success means to you? 🎙️ In This Episode 📈 How performance can lead to pressure and the never-ending pursuit of more 🎯 Why high achievers and high performers can struggle with anxiety, stress, burnout, and misalignment 💰 Why you need to define what it means to be successful and determine how much is enough 💪 How physical health, nutrition, exercise, alcohol, and sleep can be sacrificed in the pursuit of performance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Why time with your kids and family can become part of how you define success ⚓ Why high performers sometimes need to cut anchors that are keeping them stuck 🔄 How to create a new performance standard for a new season and phase of life or business 🎯 What a “terrific Thursday” versus a “terrible Thursday” can reveal about your priorities 🕊️ Why so many high performers are ultimately seeking another P: peace 💡 My Challenge to You Find yourself somewhere in these stories. Ask yourself: Where is performance showing up as pressure in my life and in my business? How much is enough? How do I define success? What would my terrific Thursday look like from the moment my feet hit the floor in the morning to the moment my head hits the pillow at night? What do I eat? What do I drink? What do I read? What do I listen to? What do I watch? Who are the people that I spend time with? Do they bring me joy? What am I doing at work that's efficient and effective? If you can get closer to that ideal day, that terrific Thursday, can you also get closer to peace? ⭐ Key Takeaways ✔️ Performance and growth are not bad, but they can become unhealthy if they create toxic pressure. ✔️ Define what it means to be successful for you and determine how much is enough. ✔️ Don't sacrifice your physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual health at the expense of performance. ✔️ Sometimes you have to cut anchors so you can pivot and move forward in a new direction. ✔️ What served you well in the past may not necessarily be serving you today. ✔️ Create a new performance standard that aligns with your current season and phase of life and business. ✔️ Think about your “terrific Thursday” and how it aligns with the life you want to live. ✔️ Many high performers are not looking for more performance—they desperately want peace. ✔️ Slow down long enough to consider an ideal day and what success really means to you. ✔️ Your adversity can fuel your purpose if you choose it. ✔️ You can maximize your opportunity in life and in business without living at the expense of your health, family, and peace.🌐 Connect With Lance Cibik 🌐 Website: lancecibik.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcibik 📧 Email: info@lancecibik.com 🎙️ Follow The Lance Cibik Show for conversations around maximizing your health, elevating your performance, reconnecting to your purpose, and using adversity as fuel for purpose, impact, and success. Talk to you soon.

  7. Sep 18

    NOBODY CARES? WHY YOUR MESSAGE NEEDS TO REPEL TO ATTRACT | EPISODE 12

    Stop Letting Other People's Opinions Keep You Stuck One negative comment can either become a limiting belief—or a powerful reminder that you're speaking to the wrong audience. In this episode, Lance shares the story behind a LinkedIn comment that simply said: "Nobody cares. LinkedIn is a career app." Just one day after bicep surgery, Lance posted about his recovery, performance coaching, and the mindset required to overcome adversity. What followed wasn't discouragement—it became a lesson in conviction, confidence, and why you should never let one person's opinion silence your purpose. If you're building a business, growing your career, creating content, or putting yourself out there, this episode will challenge you to stop seeking everyone's approval and start speaking boldly to the people you're uniquely positioned to serve. 🎙️ In This Episode 💬 The LinkedIn comment that inspired this conversation 💪 Why Lance refused to let a bicep injury define his future 🧠 How limiting beliefs often begin with one negative opinion 🎯 Why trying to please everyone is one of the biggest mistakes in marketing 🔥 The difference between attracting your ideal audience and blending into the crowd 💼 Why LinkedIn has become the foundation of Lance's keynote speaking and performance coaching business ⚡ How criticism can actually be a sign that your message is reaching the right people 🚀 Why adversity can become the very thing that fuels your purpose and success 💡 My Challenge to You Ask yourself: ❓ Whose opinion am I allowing to hold me back? ❓ Am I speaking with conviction, or am I trying to avoid criticism? ❓ What limiting belief do I need to let go of today? Remember... You don't need everyone to believe in your message. You only need the people you're called to serve. ⭐ Key Takeaways ✔️ Don't let one negative comment outweigh hundreds of positive ones. ✔️ Be intentional about whose opinions you choose to believe. ✔️ Limiting beliefs often begin with a single experience or conversation. ✔️ Sometimes criticism says more about the other person than it does about you. ✔️ The strongest personal brands aren't built by pleasing everyone—they're built through conviction and authenticity. ✔️ The more clearly you communicate your beliefs, the more you'll attract the right people. ✔️ Your adversity can become your greatest opportunity to inspire others. 🌐 Connect With Lance Cibik Website: www.lancecibik.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcibik?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios Email: info@lancecibik.com 🎧 Follow The Lance Cibik Show for practical conversations on maximizing your health, elevating your performance, reconnecting to your purpose, and using adversity to fuel lasting impact, success, and significance.

  8. Sep 11

    NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION AWARENESS MONTH | EPISODE 11

    How do we take our adversity and use it to fuel our purpose? September 2026 is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In this early morning walk-and-talk session, Lance openly discusses a topic that most people don’t really want to talk about: suicide. Lance shares his personal experience of losing his mom to suicide four days before his first birthday and reflects on how he has chosen to use that loss to increase his empathy, genuine care and interest in others, and ultimately fuel his purpose. He challenges us to look beyond what we see on the outside. Someone may look successful on paper—title, income, assets, net worth, family, career—but that doesn't mean they aren't struggling inside. This conversation is about creating awareness, building community and connection, leading with empathy, and paying attention to the things that are within our control. In This Conversation 💙 Why Lance believes suicide is a topic we need to talk about openly 💔 Losing his mom to suicide four days before his first birthday 🔥 How adversity can fuel our purpose 🤝 Leading with empathy, genuine care, and interest in others 🧠 Why we need to pay attention to our mental, emotional, and spiritual health 👥 Why we weren’t meant to isolate and do life alone 🍷 The impact of alcohol and other addictions 📱 What you read, watch, listen to, and consume ❤️ How to create a safe place for someone to say, “Hey, I’m struggling. I need help.” The Challenge Slow down long enough to consider: How are you doing?How are you feeling?How are you thinking?What’s working?What’s not working?What are you challenged by? Take care of yourself.Take care of your family.Take care of your friends. Lead with empathy, genuine care, and interest in others. Key Takeaways ✔️ Maximize yourself first before anyone and anything else. ✔️ Use adversity to fuel your purpose. ✔️ Look beyond how someone appears on paper. ✔️ Be constantly curious about other people. ✔️ We weren’t meant to isolate and do life alone. ✔️ Pay attention to what you eat, drink, read, watch, and listen to. ✔️ Create awareness and a safe place for people to come forward. ✔️ Take care of yourself, your family, and your friends. Connect With Lance Cibik 🌐 Website: lancecibik.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcibik 📧 Email: info@lancecibik.com 🎙️ Follow The Lance Cibik Show for conversations about maximizing your opportunity in your life and in your work, your health, performance, purpose, and how adversity can fuel purpose and impact.

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The Lance Cibik Show is a podcast focused on helping professionals maximize every opportunity in life and business through practical, real-world conversations. Each episode features actionable insights on health, mindset, sales, leadership, executive presence, relationships, money, and purpose. Through solo episodes, walk-and-talks, and conversations with guests, I share authentic stories and strategies to help listeners take messy action, overcome adversity, and perform at their highest level in life and business.

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  • Creator
    Lance Cibik
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Lance Cibik
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