UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders

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Every leader has an UH-OH moment. The great ones know how to turn those moments into momentum.In UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with industry experts for candid, high-stakes confessions regarding their most crucial leadership mistakes. We peel back the curtain on the errors that cost time, money, and trust, and more importantly, we map out the exact steps taken to fix them.Designed for emerging leaders and seasoned executives alike, this podcast is your weekly guide to building emotional resilience, fostering cohesive teams, and leading with a strong, ethical backbone. Stop fearing the UH-OH and start mastering the recovery.

  1. Simplifying Your Workload to Amplify Your Leadership

    2일 전

    Simplifying Your Workload to Amplify Your Leadership

    What happens when your greatest strength becomes your biggest liability? In today's episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Jimmy Burroughes, founder of JBL High Performance and author of Simplified to Amplify. Jimmy shares a vulnerable look into his spectacular 2017 burnout. Two and a half years of 18-hour workdays, intense global travel, and a relentless "achiever" mindset culminated in nearly costing him his life. Jimmy breaks down the dangerous "I'll just..." habits that pull high-performing leaders into an inescapable whirlpool of overwork, and introduces his game-changing PVC Framework (Purpose, Value, Capacity). Learn how to stop treating your leadership value like a $5-an-hour task, how to successfully negotiate your capacity with your boss, and why career advancement requires shifting your energy from being "busy down" to "busy up." If you are a driven professional running on empty, this episode is the flashing highway sign you need to stop swimming against the current and start leading with impact. Key Takeaways from This Episode: The "I'll Just" Trap: How minor compromises on your boundaries accumulate into severe physical and mental exhaustion.The PVC Framework: A simple tool to evaluate your project's Purpose, your time's true Value ($5 tasks vs. $500 tasks), and your actual Capacity.Stop, Swap, or Slow Down: How to have proactive, risk-based boundary conversations with upper management without looking like you can't handle the workload.Busy Down vs. Busy Up: Why being indispensable at task delivery keeps you from getting promoted, and how focusing on strategic thinking scales your influence.Connect with Our Guest: LinkedIn: Jimmy BurroughesWebsite: JBL High PerformanceFree AI Coaching Resource: Aiden CoachCheck this out: https://www.thecohesiveleader.com/Community Support the show

    36분
  2. What To Do When the Playbook Fails

    6월 30일

    What To Do When the Playbook Fails

    When you spend 15 years winning, it's easy to become overconfident in your playbook. In today's episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with Jason Peach, President and CEO of West Community Credit Union.  Jason opens up about a historic shift in the economic landscape that caught his hyper-growth strategy exposed, and the crucial leadership lesson he learned when he initially tried to deflect the blame. Tune in to hear how Jason reclaimed his social capital with his board, shifted from deflection to extreme ownership, and rallied his entire organization around a transparent, hyper-focused three-year recovery plan.  Check this out: https://www.thecohesiveleader.com/Community Support the show

    38분
  3. Why Leaders Must Advocate for Their Teams

    6월 23일

    Why Leaders Must Advocate for Their Teams

    What does it mean to be a competent leader? In this sobering and deeply vulnerable episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with M.K. Palmore, a former US Marine Corps officer, retired FBI Special Agent, and current tech executive. M.K. shares a personal UH-OH from his early days in federal law enforcement: a moment when he allowed a rigid, mission-first institutional culture to silence his own intuition, failing to aggressively advocate for a colleague in distress. Tune in as M.K. discusses his pivot from strict compliance to becoming a shield for his team, how he learned to balance a get stuff done mentality with deep empathy, and how he now structurally builds grace and human-centric metrics into high-performing organizations. This is an essential listen for any leader operating in a high-pressure, high-stakes environment. Check this out: https://www.thecohesiveleader.com/Community Support the show

    35분
  4. Why You are Not as Important as You Think

    6월 16일

    Why You are Not as Important as You Think

    What happens when your $700 million real estate empire collapses in a high-stakes hostile takeover? In this episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with entrepreneur, former public company CEO, and actor turned performance coach Boaz Gilad. Boaz shares the unfiltered story of the exact moment he realized his New York development company was in the danger zone, the grueling sleepless nights that followed, and the incredible freedom he found after walking away from it all. From a therapeutic solo bicycle journey through the East Coast to founding the Zenith Clubhouse, Boaz opens up about the fine line between hunger and greed, the myth of inspiration, and how developing self-compassion is the ultimate key to a powerhouse rebound.  Check this out: https://www.thecohesiveleader.com/Community Support the show

    32분
  5. Why Activity Does Not Equal Accomplishment

    6월 9일

    Why Activity Does Not Equal Accomplishment

    What happens when a 28-year-old Navy nuclear engineer steps in to run a power plant and tries to tell a 40-year veteran how to do his job? In today's episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with David Petrash, veteran, business leader, pastor, and author of "Ripple of Faith". David shares an early-career UH-OH where his personal pride almost cost him the respect of his entire team. Tune in to hear how a moment of deep humility transformed his leadership style, birthed his famous Four-Month Rule, and taught him how to leverage employee clarity, competency, and desire to build a winning workplace culture. Check this out: https://www.thecohesiveleader.com/Community Support the show

    29분
  6. Standing in Your Natural Authority as a Cohesive Leader

    6월 2일

    Standing in Your Natural Authority as a Cohesive Leader

    In this episode of the UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders podcast, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with international guest Natalie Bouchard, a self-described cohesion architect from Calgary, Canada. Natalie opens up about a massive, multi-front collapse where she lost her waterfront home, her relationship, hundreds of thousands of dollars to a business scam, and faced a major health scare all within a single year.  Natalie shares how this devastating UH-OH moment forced her to realize she had spent her life living fragmented and relying on borrowed authority from mentors and frameworks. Listen in as Natalie explains how she used this ultimate life bump to return to her center, reclaim her personal agency, and shift from surviving chaos to authentically leading her life.  Check this out: https://www.thecohesiveleader.com/Community Support the show

    36분
  7. When Your Scaling Numbers Just Do Not Add Up

    5월 26일

    When Your Scaling Numbers Just Do Not Add Up

    In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with John Lowe, the former long-time CEO of Jeni's Ice Creams and current co-founder of Amuck Consumer. John shares his fascinating career trajectory from practicing law and working as general counsel at GE during a global financial crisis to leading a hyper-growth creative ice cream brand. The heart of the conversation dives into a massive UH-OH moment: waking up to realize that after rapidly scaling into a new production facility, the company's cost accounting and ERP system were completely out of whack with the actual cash coming in. John opens up about the sleepless nights, the vulnerability of calling his private equity investors for help on day one, and why being transparent is always a leader's best asset. Tune in to learn why you do not have to be a lone wolf to be a great leader, how to manage the transition from corporate to creative spaces, and why raising a red flag early can actually save your career. Check this out: https://www.thecohesiveleader.com/Community Support the show

    34분
  8. Why Volume Doesn’t Equal Value

    5월 19일

    Why Volume Doesn’t Equal Value

    What happens when your natural, high-performing, Type-A personality accidentally creates a culture of exclusion? In this episode of UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with author, professor, and founder of Coaching for Clarity, Matt Dickerson. Matt vulnerably shares an UH-OH moment from his corporate days: being blindsided by a formal HR complaint that forced him to confront how his hard-driving, extroverted style, and his tendency to favor similar voices, was completely silencing the introverted and deliberate members of his sales team. Tune in as we unpack the heavy professional and personal costs of equating "value to volume" (the Babel Effect). Matt shares his long, transformative journey toward repairing trust, the profound impact of Susan Cain’s book "Quiet", and the highly practical physical and relational feedback loops he uses today to ensure every voice truly belongs in the room. Check this out: https://www.thecohesiveleader.com/Community Support the show

    38분
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Every leader has an UH-OH moment. The great ones know how to turn those moments into momentum.In UH-OH Conversations with Cohesive Leaders, Dr. Troy Hall and Ben-Jamin Toy chat with industry experts for candid, high-stakes confessions regarding their most crucial leadership mistakes. We peel back the curtain on the errors that cost time, money, and trust, and more importantly, we map out the exact steps taken to fix them.Designed for emerging leaders and seasoned executives alike, this podcast is your weekly guide to building emotional resilience, fostering cohesive teams, and leading with a strong, ethical backbone. Stop fearing the UH-OH and start mastering the recovery.

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    Cohesion Culture
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    2025년 - 2026년
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