The 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.

  1. 1d ago

    Leadership Skills Under Stress: Your Skin Is Data — Mireille Vega, Biotech PhD

    Leadership runs on a body you keep overriding. Your skin is data, not vanity — and it reports first.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Mireille "Dr. Mimi" Vega — a biotechnology PhD and skin-microbiome scientist who now runs her own skincare company — to argue that the skin is not a surface to treat but a daily feed on stress, sleep, and inflammation load. Mimi explains why cortisol shows up on your face before you consciously feel depleted, and why the discipline that fixes a skin problem is the same one that fixes a business problem: stop treating the symptom, go find the root function. It is a conversation about root-cause thinking as one of the least-taught leadership skills.What you'll learn:- What a breakout, an itchy patch, or dull skin is actually reporting about your stress load- Gut microbiome vs. skin microbiome — and why over-cleansing works against you- How cortisol and sleep debt compound into inflammation, and what that does to your decisions- The five-whys-plus-mind-map method Mimi uses to get from symptom to root cause- What she had to unlearn from big pharma when she started leading a tiny team of her own- Her advice to women aiming at the CEO seat: "You're right where you need to be."How to reach Mireille "Dr. Mimi" Vega:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mireillevega/Work with Jason LeDuc on your own leadership development: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.

    Leadership Skills Under Stress: Your Skin Is Data — Mireille Vega, Biotech PhD

  2. 3d ago

    What to Do When You're All Tactics and No Strategy — Leadership Skills for the Leader's Mindset

    Leadership is not the tactics you execute all day — it's the direction you protect time to set.Your team can be busy, hitting deadlines and clearing the inbox, while the business goes nowhere. From the inside that motion looks like momentum, right up until the quarter ends and nothing actually moved. Gallup found only 22% of employees strongly agree their organization's leadership has a clear direction — which means almost eight out of ten people are working hard with no idea where it's headed. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc gives you five tactics, plus a bonus, for leading with a real strategy instead of reacting all day.What you'll learn:- How to name the ONE outcome for the quarter and write it as a single measurable sentence- Why strategy is subtraction — and the rule of killing two things for every priority you add- How to protect a weekly strategy block you can move but never delete- Why one public metric beats a dashboard nobody reads- How briefing commander's intent stops you from being the bottleneckReady to build a strategy your whole team can follow? Start at https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram 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/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.

    What to Do When You're All Tactics and No Strategy — Leadership Skills for the Leader's Mindset

  3. Aug 27

    Leadership Skills That Rewire Your Daily Actions — John Mitchell, University of Texas, on the Leader's Mindset

    The leadership skills that decide your success are the ones you never consciously choose. Up to 95% of your daily actions run on autopilot — and those actions, not your intentions, determine how your career, your health, and your relationships turn out.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with John Mitchell, who teaches Advanced Leadership of Self at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business and is the mental coach to UT's 18 head coaches. John is the founder of Think It, Be It and the author of The Missing Secret of the legendary book Think and Grow Rich. He read the top success book in the world twenty times before he found what he says the author left out, built a 12-minute-a-day routine around it, and used it to change what his days actually looked like.What you'll learn:- Why up to 95% of your daily actions are unconscious, and why that quietly caps your results- The false belief almost every high performer holds about controlling their own behavior- Why the same book did nothing for him at 41 and changed everything at 50- "You don't rise to the level of your goals. You sink to the level of your systems."- Why more success is merely a preference for most people, and a necessity for a few- The bubble-up effect: how a morning template changes what you do at six o'clock that evening- How John uses AI as a thinking partner to get past the four corners of his own mindJohn's free nine-minute video explaining the full secret, plus the book:https://themissingsecret.orgReach John directly:john@thinkitbeit.comWork with Jason LeDuc on leadership development for you or your team: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.

    Leadership Skills That Rewire Your Daily Actions — John Mitchell, University of Texas, on the Leader's Mindset

  4. Aug 24

    What to Do When You're the Most Senior Leader in the Room — Leadership Skills and the Leader's Mindset at the Top

    Leadership at the top is lonely by design — the higher you go, the fewer people tell you the truth. When you're the most senior leader in the room, there's no boss above you to catch your mistakes and no safety net under you. Your job flips: you are no longer paid to have the answers, you are paid to build the people and systems that produce them without you. In DDI's Global Leadership Forecast, 77% of organizations said they don't have a strong bench of leaders ready to step up — so the biggest risk in most companies isn't the market, it's that the person at the top never built the layer beneath them. In this episode, Jason LeDuc gives you five tactics for leading well from the top, plus a bonus. What you'll learn: - Build the Bench — hand your top three people a real decision to own this quarter, not just a task - Hire Truth-Tellers — say out loud that bad news brought early will never be punished - Decide at 70% — waiting for perfect information is its own decision, and usually the wrong one - Set the Weather — your calm and your panic are both contagious, so walk in steady on the hard days - Zoom Out Weekly — block one hour to lift your head above the noise and ask where this whole thing is going - Bonus: Build Your Outside Circle — one honest conversation a month with people who owe you nothing but the truth Ready to lead well from the top? Find the programs and book a discovery call at https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram, or email info@leducleadership.com. Onward and Upward! 🗞️ 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 Most Senior Leader in the Room — Leadership Skills and the Leader's Mindset at the Top

  5. Aug 20

    Founder Syndrome: The Leadership Trap Nobody Warns You About

    Most founders don't get pushed out. They quietly become the bottleneck in the thing they built — and they're the last to see it.The hardest leadership move isn't scaling the organization. It's knowing when to take your hands off the wheel before you start doing damage to your team, your mission, and your own legacy.In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Luke Mickelson — founder of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, the largest bed-building charity in the world (400,000+ beds built by volunteers across ~400 chapters in four countries), a CNN Hero featured by Mike Rowe — to break down what almost no founder is warned about: "founder syndrome," the relevance wounds that come with stepping back, and how he went from running everything in his garage to naming a new role for himself as the organization's ambassador. Luke also gets honest about scaling from single digits to 125 chapters in a year without imploding, why the volunteer experience matters as much as the mission, and how radical transparency saved him when a quarter-million dollars landed in accounts nobody could access.💡 Who should watch this episodeLuke's perspective is great for:- Founders and CEOs who sense they may be holding their own organization back- Nonprofit and mission-driven leaders scaling faster than their structure- Operators who need to delegate but can't let go of control- Leaders trying to build a volunteer or team culture people actually show up for🤔 What you will learn:- What "founder syndrome" actually is — and the first sign it's time to step back- Why founders rarely see it coming until someone else makes the decision for them- How to "name your role" so stepping back is a promotion, not a loss (Luke's shift to ambassador)- Why the volunteer/team experience is as important as the mission itself (the Hank story)- How to scale fast without imploding — the transparency that carried him through the chaos- Why 90% of every dollar staying local forced a hard structural lesson about scalability🔑 Practical ideas you can use this week1) Ask your right-hand person one honest question: "Am I inhibiting or enhancing this organization right now?" — then actually listen.2) Name your role. Write down what you should OWN and what you should hand off, so the handoff is a defined job, not a vague retreat.3) Audit one volunteer or team touchpoint: does the person leave feeling they made a real difference, or that you did all the "important" work for them?💬 Question for you:Where in your organization might YOU be the bottleneck right now — and who would tell you the truth if you asked?Onward and Upward! 🚀 ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things:1) Like this video – It helps more people find these insights.2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week!3) Share this episode with a leader who needs to hear this!📌 Exclusive Leadership ProgramsWant to take your leadership development to the next level?Leadership Academy for Tech Managers: https://www.leducleadership.com/leadershipacademy📅 Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discoveryHow to reach Luke Mickelson:Website (Sleep in Heavenly Peace): https://shpbeds.orgEmail: luke.mickelson@shpbeds.orgLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shpluke/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shpbeds/How to reach Jason LeDuc:Email: info@leducleadership.comWebsite: https://www.leducleadership.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leducleadership 🗞️ 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.

    Founder Syndrome: The Leadership Trap Nobody Warns You About

  6. Aug 18

    What to Do When You're Managing People for the First Time – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures

    Getting promoted is not the same as knowing how to lead. The exact skills that made you the best performer are not the skills that make you a good manager. And if nobody tells you that, you'll spend your first year doing everyone's job except your own. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down what to do in your first weeks as a new manager — how to stop out-working your team and start leading them. 💡 This episode is for leaders who want to lead well their very first time in charge — especially: - New managers promoted from top performer to boss overnight - First-time supervisors who never got a manual for the job - Team leads still doing everyone's work themselves - Entrepreneurs building and leading their first team 🤔 What you will learn: - Why the skills that got you promoted are not the skills that make you a good manager - The Multiplier Shift: how to stop being the bottleneck and multiply your team's output - The three questions that make a great first one-on-one - How to set the standard out loud so everyone knows what "good" looks like - Why you praise in public and correct in private - How to delegate the outcome, not every step (commander's intent) - How to guard your calendar before the day eats it alive 🔑 Practical ideas you can use this week 1) Name one task you're doing yourself only because you're faster — and teach it instead. 2) Run a first one-on-one with each person: What's going well? What's getting in your way? How do you like to be recognized? 3) Say out loud exactly what "good" looks like on your next deliverable — the standard and the deadline. 4) Block 30 minutes every morning for your own priorities before the team wakes up. 💬 Question for you: What's the one task you're going to hand off this week instead of doing yourself? If you got value from this episode, subscribe for more Leadership TTP content every week — practical tactics, techniques, and procedures you can use immediately. Onward and Upward! 🚀 ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things: 1) Like this video – It helps more leaders find these ideas. 2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week! 3) Share this episode with a new manager who could really use it. 📌 Exclusive Leadership Programs 📖 Take charge of your own leadership development with our online program: https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram Corporate Leadership Academy for Tech Managers: https://www.leducleadership.com/leadershipacademy 📅 Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery About Jason LeDuc: Jason LeDuc is a seasoned leader and esteemed leadership consultant, drawing from his extensive experience in the U.S. Air Force and beyond. With a passion for empowering individuals to unleash their full potential, Jason is committed to fostering a new generation of visionary leaders. Connect with Jason and embark on a journey of leadership enlightenment today! How to reach Jason LeDuc: Email: info@leducleadership.com Website: https://www.leducleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/ 🗞️ 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 Managing People for the First Time – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures

  7. Aug 13

    Build a Culture People Don't Leave — Michelle Edwards on Leadership, Employee Retention, & Workplace Culture

    Most leaders think a great culture comes from a program, a committee, or a one-day training. It doesn't. Culture is built by leaders who pour into their people — and it shows up (or quietly disappears) in your retention numbers. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Michelle Edwards — award-winning leadership advisor, speaker, and author of DEI Died. Leadership Lives — to break down how she built one of the most diverse, most-awarded, and highest-retention cultures in healthcare without chasing programs. Michelle explains why leadership has always been the real work, why diversity and retention are outcomes of good leadership rather than the goal, and the framework she uses to make sure no one falls through the cracks — the GAS Strategy. 💡 Who should watch this episode Michelle's perspective in this episode is great for: - Senior leaders trying to lower turnover and protect their best people - Managers who want a practical way to develop and support their teams - HR and people leaders building a culture that actually retains talent - Founders and emerging leaders who want to lead well before they have the title 🤔 What you will learn: - Why "leadership has always been the work" — and how culture and retention become outcomes of it - What equity really means at work: "giving people what they need to succeed" without lowering the bar - The business case for pouring into people — and what you "pay for it in" when you don't (turnover, mediocre work, lost innovation) - The "scalability lie" — why empathy and good leadership scale the same way toxicity does: through your managers - The GAS Strategy and its four pillars: go deeper, take a stand, lead with love, and be the one - Why "fire leaders who refuse to lead" is Michelle's most important commandment - What real accountability looks like (ownership, not punishment) — and the "manager manifesto" behind it - The covert-contract trap: how unspoken expectations quietly sink your leaders 🔑 Practical ideas you can use this week 1) Learn to speak your CFO's language — tie your people investments to retention and turnover numbers before you make the case. 2) Go one level deeper: when someone misses the mark, ask what's really behind the behavior instead of labeling it. 3) Write a one-page "manager manifesto" — a few clear sentences every manager is held to — and give them the tools to live it. 4) Say the expectation out loud. If it isn't spoken, no one can meet it. 💬 Question for you: Where is your culture actually built or broken — in your programs, or in how your frontline managers lead every day? Onward and Upward! 🚀 ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things: 1) Like this video – It helps more people find these insights. 2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week! 3) Share this episode with a leader who needs to hear this! 📌 Exclusive Leadership Programs Want to take your leadership development to the next level? 📅 Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery How to reach Michelle Edwards: Website: https://michelleedwardsspeaks.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellekedwards Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelleedwardsspeaks/ Book — DEI Died. Leadership Lives: available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Ingram Sparks How to reach Jason LeDuc: Email: info@leducleadership.com Website: https://www.leducleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leducleadership 🗞️ 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.

    Build a Culture People Don't Leave — Michelle Edwards on Leadership, Employee Retention, & Workplace Culture

  8. Aug 11

    What to Do When Your Team Training Never Sticks – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures

    Training that doesn't stick is not a bad-training problem. It is a follow-through problem. The money isn't wasted in the training room — it's wasted in the days after, when nobody reinforces what people learned. In this Leadership TTP episode, Jason LeDuc breaks down how to make team training actually stick — the debrief that turns a workshop into changed behavior. 💡 This episode is for leaders who want their team's training to actually change behavior — especially: - Leaders tired of watching training money evaporate by Monday - Managers whose teams forget new skills within days - Business owners investing in corporate training that never sticks - Team leads who want new habits to actually take hold 🤔 What you will learn: - Why people forget up to 70% of new training within 24 hours — and what to do about it - The One-Behavior Rule: pick one change, not ten - The 48-Hour Rep: how to beat the forgetting curve with one real use - Teach-Back: why explaining it once beats hearing it five times - The Manager Follow-Up Loop: the single question that makes training real - How to make the behavior visible so it doesn't stay optional - Why you reward the behavior, not the attendance 🔑 Practical ideas you can use this week 1) After your next training, name the ONE behavior you expect to see different on Monday. 2) Have every person use the new skill once, on a real task, within 48 hours. 3) In your next one-on-one, ask: "Where did you use the new approach this week?" 4) Call out the person who used the training and got a result — by name. 💬 Question for you: What's the one behavior you want different after your team's next training? If you got value from this episode, subscribe for more Leadership TTP content every week — practical tactics, techniques, and procedures you can use immediately. Onward and Upward! 🚀 ✅ If you got value from this episode, do these 3 things: 1) Like this video – It helps more leaders find these ideas. 2) Subscribe – New leadership content every week! 3) Share this episode with a leader who's tired of watching training money evaporate. 📌 Exclusive Leadership Programs 📖 Take charge of your own leadership development with our online program: https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram Corporate Leadership Academy for Tech Managers: https://www.leducleadership.com/leadershipacademy 📅 Book a discovery call: https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery About Jason LeDuc: Jason LeDuc is a seasoned leader and esteemed leadership consultant, drawing from his extensive experience in the U.S. Air Force and beyond. With a passion for empowering individuals to unleash their full potential, Jason is committed to fostering a new generation of visionary leaders. Connect with Jason and embark on a journey of leadership enlightenment today! How to reach Jason LeDuc: Email: info@leducleadership.com Website: https://www.leducleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-leduc-3469823/ 🗞️ 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 Training Never Sticks – Leadership Tactics Techniques and Procedures
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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
    270
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    © LeDuc Leadership & Media Group
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