Leadership & Success with Coach BZ

S5:E176🎙️ LIVE with Coach Roy Castleman
 
Thinking Outside Your Brain: AI, Leadership & Building a Life You Actually Want 🤖🧠⏳🌍
 
Mark your calendars!
 
The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5, Episode 176 goes LIVE with entrepreneur, author, business transformation coach, and AI strategist Roy Castleman!
 
📅 Tuesday, August 25, 2026
⏰ 7:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 10:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.
⏰ 3:00 PM GMT — Great Denham, England, UK 🇬🇧
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
Roy Castleman has spent nearly three decades building businesses, working across more than 30 countries, and learning firsthand that business success and life success are not always the same thing.
After building multimillion-pound businesses, Roy found himself working approximately 90 hours a week, becoming the bottleneck in organizations he had originally built to create freedom. A period of extraordinary business and personal adversity ultimately forced him to rethink not only how he operated his companies—but how he wanted to live.
Today, Roy combines business operating systems, AI, leadership, and human performance to help entrepreneurs build companies that can succeed without consuming their lives.
He is the founder of All The Power, a certified BOS UP coach, Wim Hof Method Level 2 instructor, Oxygen Advantage instructor, record-setting skydiver with more than 2,500 jumps, freediver—and the author of the timely new book:
📘 Thinking Outside Your Brain with AI: How AI Can Help You Think Clearly, Reclaim Your Time, and Get Your Life Back
Explore Roy Castleman's new book
 
🧠 What You Will Learn…
✨ When success becomes a prison — How entrepreneurs and executives can become trapped by the very organizations they created to give themselves freedom.
✨ From 90 hours to 5 — How systems, delegation, and intentional leadership can help build businesses that don't depend on the founder for every decision.
✨ Why leaders must rebuild themselves first — What Roy learned about health, resilience, breathwork, relationships, and remaining calm under extreme pressure.
✨ How to “Think Outside Your Brain” — Why AI should become a partner that helps us think more clearly rather than a substitute for human thinking.
✨ Roy's EVOLVE Method — Empty your head, Voice the problem, Organize thinking partners, Listen critically, Verify the human, and Elevate your edge.
✨ Getting your life back — Perhaps the biggest question of the conversation: If AI and better systems give us our time back, what are we going to do with it?
💡 One Question I Can't Wait to Ask Roy…
“Roy, you once built businesses that gave you financial success but consumed almost every hour of your life. Today you're teaching people to use systems and AI to reclaim their time. So after everything you've experienced—what is time actually for?”
That question gets to the heart of our conversation.
Because this episode isn't simply about AI.
It's about human beings.
It's about leadership.
It's about freedom.
It's about deciding what success actually means.
And it's about using technology to create more room for human judgment, relationships, creativity, health, purpose—and LIFE. ❤️
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got leadership, entrepreneurship, AI, or business transformation questions for Roy? Post them below — we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ How are you using AI to augment your thinking without surrendering your judgment?
➡️ Tag a colleague, entrepreneur, junior officer, executive, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #RoyCastleman

S5:E176🎙️ LIVE with Coach Roy Castleman
 
Thinking Outside Your Brain: AI, Leadership & Building a Life You Actually Want 🤖🧠⏳🌍
 
Mark your calendars!
 
The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5, Episode 176 goes LIVE with entrepreneur, author, business transformation coach, and AI strategist Roy Castleman!
 
📅 Tuesday, August 25, 2026
⏰ 7:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 10:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.
⏰ 3:00 PM GMT — Great Denham, England, UK 🇬🇧
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
Roy Castleman has spent nearly three decades building businesses, working across more than 30 countries, and learning firsthand that business success and life success are not always the same thing.
After building multimillion-pound businesses, Roy found himself working approximately 90 hours a week, becoming the bottleneck in organizations he had originally built to create freedom. A period of extraordinary business and personal adversity ultimately forced him to rethink not only how he operated his companies—but how he wanted to live.
Today, Roy combines business operating systems, AI, leadership, and human performance to help entrepreneurs build companies that can succeed without consuming their lives.
He is the founder of All The Power, a certified BOS UP coach, Wim Hof Method Level 2 instructor, Oxygen Advantage instructor, record-setting skydiver with more than 2,500 jumps, freediver—and the author of the timely new book:
📘 Thinking Outside Your Brain with AI: How AI Can Help You Think Clearly, Reclaim Your Time, and Get Your Life Back
Explore Roy Castleman's new book
 
🧠 What You Will Learn…
✨ When success becomes a prison — How entrepreneurs and executives can become trapped by the very organizations they created to give themselves freedom.
✨ From 90 hours to 5 — How systems, delegation, and intentional leadership can help build businesses that don't depend on the founder for every decision.
✨ Why leaders must rebuild themselves first — What Roy learned about health, resilience, breathwork, relationships, and remaining calm under extreme pressure.
✨ How to “Think Outside Your Brain” — Why AI should become a partner that helps us think more clearly rather than a substitute for human thinking.
✨ Roy's EVOLVE Method — Empty your head, Voice the problem, Organize thinking partners, Listen critically, Verify the human, and Elevate your edge.
✨ Getting your life back — Perhaps the biggest question of the conversation: If AI and better systems give us our time back, what are we going to do with it?
💡 One Question I Can't Wait to Ask Roy…
“Roy, you once built businesses that gave you financial success but consumed almost every hour of your life. Today you're teaching people to use systems and AI to reclaim their time. So after everything you've experienced—what is time actually for?”
That question gets to the heart of our conversation.
Because this episode isn't simply about AI.
It's about human beings.
It's about leadership.
It's about freedom.
It's about deciding what success actually means.
And it's about using technology to create more room for human judgment, relationships, creativity, health, purpose—and LIFE. ❤️
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got leadership, entrepreneurship, AI, or business transformation questions for Roy? Post them below — we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ How are you using AI to augment your thinking without surrendering your judgment?
➡️ Tag a colleague, entrepreneur, junior officer, executive, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #RoyCastleman

S5:E175🎙️ ⚓ LIVE with LCDR Trina Martin, USN (Ret.)
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5:Episode 175
 
Beyond the Title: From Personal Transformation to Leadership That Changes Lives
 
Mark your calendars!
📅 Friday, August 21, 2026
⏰ 4:00 PM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM CT — Houston, TX
⏰ 7:00 PM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
I am excited to welcome my fellow Shipmate, LCDR Trina Martin, USN (Ret.), to the Leadership & Success Podcast! ⚓🇺🇸
Trina's journey is one of service, transformation, technology, resilience, and leadership beyond position or rank. After a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy, she has continued her mission as a technology and cybersecurity leader, entrepreneur, international speaker, executive coach, author, and host of the Trina Talk podcast.
What makes this conversation especially meaningful to me is the opportunity for two Shipmates to talk about what happens when leadership moves beyond the uniform and the title.
 
Trina has captured that journey through two books that provide a powerful framework for our conversation:
📘 From a Mess to Amazing: 7 Steps to Create the Life You Deserve — a journey through mindset, self-evaluation, goal setting, personal development, relationships, embracing imperfection, and ultimately committing to change.
📕 Beyond The Title: Redefining What It Means To Lead — an exploration of what leadership really means when we move beyond rank, position, authority, and organizational titles.
Together, the books raise a powerful question:
How do we first learn to lead ourselves—and then become the kind of leaders capable of transforming the lives of others?
 
🌟 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why leadership begins with self-leadership. Before we can effectively lead others, we must be willing to examine ourselves, change our mindset, grow, and take responsibility for the person we are becoming.
✨ How to move “From a Mess to Amazing.” We'll explore Trina's seven-step transformation framework and why adversity, imperfection, relationships, personal development, and commitment can become catalysts for extraordinary growth.
✨ Why leadership must go “Beyond the Title.” Rank may give us authority and a corporate title may give us positional power—but neither automatically gives us influence, trust, credibility, or respect.
✨ Leadership lessons forged in the U.S. Navy. We'll discuss what military service taught Trina about mission, people, accountability, resilience, and the responsibility leaders have to those they serve.
✨ How leaders create legacy. Titles eventually disappear. Rank eventually comes off the collar. What remains is the impact we made on the people entrusted to our leadership.
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a leadership, resilience, career-transition, cybersecurity, or personal-development question for Trina? Post it below—we may answer it LIVE!
And here's a question to consider before we begin:
If tomorrow every rank, title, credential, award, and position disappeared from your résumé—what would remain that proves you are a leader?
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Tag a Shipmate, colleague, junior officer, emerging leader, veteran, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
Join me and my Shipmate LCDR Trina Martin, USN (Ret.) for what I expect will be a powerful conversation about moving from adversity to transformation, from position to influence, and from holding a title to building a legacy.
Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS. ⚓❤️
 
🔗 Connect with LCDR Trina Martin on LinkedIn
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #Leadership

S5:E175🎙️ ⚓ LIVE with LCDR Trina Martin, USN (Ret.)
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5:Episode 175
 
Beyond the Title: From Personal Transformation to Leadership That Changes Lives
 
Mark your calendars!
📅 Friday, August 21, 2026
⏰ 4:00 PM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM CT — Houston, TX
⏰ 7:00 PM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
I am excited to welcome my fellow Shipmate, LCDR Trina Martin, USN (Ret.), to the Leadership & Success Podcast! ⚓🇺🇸
Trina's journey is one of service, transformation, technology, resilience, and leadership beyond position or rank. After a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy, she has continued her mission as a technology and cybersecurity leader, entrepreneur, international speaker, executive coach, author, and host of the Trina Talk podcast.
What makes this conversation especially meaningful to me is the opportunity for two Shipmates to talk about what happens when leadership moves beyond the uniform and the title.
 
Trina has captured that journey through two books that provide a powerful framework for our conversation:
📘 From a Mess to Amazing: 7 Steps to Create the Life You Deserve — a journey through mindset, self-evaluation, goal setting, personal development, relationships, embracing imperfection, and ultimately committing to change.
📕 Beyond The Title: Redefining What It Means To Lead — an exploration of what leadership really means when we move beyond rank, position, authority, and organizational titles.
Together, the books raise a powerful question:
How do we first learn to lead ourselves—and then become the kind of leaders capable of transforming the lives of others?
 
🌟 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why leadership begins with self-leadership. Before we can effectively lead others, we must be willing to examine ourselves, change our mindset, grow, and take responsibility for the person we are becoming.
✨ How to move “From a Mess to Amazing.” We'll explore Trina's seven-step transformation framework and why adversity, imperfection, relationships, personal development, and commitment can become catalysts for extraordinary growth.
✨ Why leadership must go “Beyond the Title.” Rank may give us authority and a corporate title may give us positional power—but neither automatically gives us influence, trust, credibility, or respect.
✨ Leadership lessons forged in the U.S. Navy. We'll discuss what military service taught Trina about mission, people, accountability, resilience, and the responsibility leaders have to those they serve.
✨ How leaders create legacy. Titles eventually disappear. Rank eventually comes off the collar. What remains is the impact we made on the people entrusted to our leadership.
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a leadership, resilience, career-transition, cybersecurity, or personal-development question for Trina? Post it below—we may answer it LIVE!
And here's a question to consider before we begin:
If tomorrow every rank, title, credential, award, and position disappeared from your résumé—what would remain that proves you are a leader?
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Tag a Shipmate, colleague, junior officer, emerging leader, veteran, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
Join me and my Shipmate LCDR Trina Martin, USN (Ret.) for what I expect will be a powerful conversation about moving from adversity to transformation, from position to influence, and from holding a title to building a legacy.
Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS. ⚓❤️
 
🔗 Connect with LCDR Trina Martin on LinkedIn
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #Leadership

S5:E174🎙️ LIVE with CDR (SEL) Anthony R. Murphy, U.S. Navy
From Seaman Recruit to Commander: Leadership, Service & Unwrapping the Present ⚓️🇺🇸🫡
 
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5, Episode 174
 
 
Mark your calendars!
 
📅 Friday, August 21, 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 3:00 PM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
 
Some leadership stories are told loudly.
 
Others are lived quietly.
 
CDR (SEL) Anthony R. Murphy, U.S. Navy, is my friend, my mentee, and one of those quiet leaders whose journey deserves to be told.
 
And today, I am one PROUD mentor! ❤️⚓️
 
Anthony's Navy journey began in 1999 as a Seaman Recruit (E-1). He started in Deck Department, struck Information Systems Technician (IT), served approximately nine years enlisted, and later earned his commission through the Direct Commission Officer program.
 
Today—27 years after entering the Navy—he has been selected for Commander (O-5).
 
E-1 ➡️ O-5 (SEL). 🔥
 
Like me, Anthony is a prior-enlisted Sailor who became a Navy Information Professional Officer and qualified Information Warfare Officer. His journey has included operational and joint assignments, deployments supporting missions including Afghanistan and Djibouti, major exercises, NATO and joint experiences, and service across the Navy's information warfare enterprise.
 
His civilian career has included work supporting the U.S. Army, Microsoft, and the U.S. Navy civilian workforce, while his commitment to service extends far beyond the uniform. Anthony serves through ministry, coaches football, and is working to launch a home-care business designed to serve senior veterans and citizens with special needs.
 
But titles and accomplishments tell only part of Anthony's story.
 
He is also a husband, father, mentor, coach, man of faith, and servant leader who believes in a simple but powerful philosophy:
 
🎁 “Unwrap the present.”
 
Live your life and your vision with enthusiasm—fueled by hope and purpose.
 
That philosophy will be at the heart of our conversation.
 
🎯 What You Will Learn…
 
✨ What a 27-year journey from Seaman Recruit to Commander teaches us about perseverance and leadership
 
✨ Why Anthony's prior-enlisted experience continues to shape the officer and leader he is today
 
✨ How leaders can stay connected to the deckplates as their rank and responsibilities increase
 
✨ What failure, adversity, discouragement, and self-doubt can teach us about resilience
 
✨ How faith, family, mentorship, education, and service helped sustain Anthony through his journey
 
✨ And perhaps most importantly: what today's young Sailor can learn from someone who once wore E-1 and is now preparing to wear the rank of Commander
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
 
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
 
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
 
💬 Got a question about leadership, mentorship, military service, Information Warfare, resilience, or the journey from enlisted Sailor to commissioned officer? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
 
⸻
 
👇 Your Turn:
 
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
 
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
 
➡️ Tag a Sailor, junior officer, veteran, colleague, mentee, or teammate who could benefit from Anthony's story. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Somewhere in our Navy today is another young Seaman Recruit who cannot yet imagine where the journey might lead.
 
Anthony's story is a reminder:
 
Your starting point does not determine your destination.
 
Keep learning.
 
Keep serving.
 
Keep growing.
 
Keep believing.
 
And never become so senior that you forget the deckplates you came from.
 
Congratulations again, CDR (SEL) Anthony R. Murphy!
 
From E-1 to O-5—and the mission continues.
 
BRAVO ZULU, Shipmate! ⚓️🇺🇸🫡
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ

S5:E174🎙️ LIVE with CDR (SEL) Anthony R. Murphy, U.S. Navy
From Seaman Recruit to Commander: Leadership, Service & Unwrapping the Present ⚓️🇺🇸🫡
 
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5, Episode 174
 
 
Mark your calendars!
 
📅 Friday, August 21, 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 3:00 PM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
 
Some leadership stories are told loudly.
 
Others are lived quietly.
 
CDR (SEL) Anthony R. Murphy, U.S. Navy, is my friend, my mentee, and one of those quiet leaders whose journey deserves to be told.
 
And today, I am one PROUD mentor! ❤️⚓️
 
Anthony's Navy journey began in 1999 as a Seaman Recruit (E-1). He started in Deck Department, struck Information Systems Technician (IT), served approximately nine years enlisted, and later earned his commission through the Direct Commission Officer program.
 
Today—27 years after entering the Navy—he has been selected for Commander (O-5).
 
E-1 ➡️ O-5 (SEL). 🔥
 
Like me, Anthony is a prior-enlisted Sailor who became a Navy Information Professional Officer and qualified Information Warfare Officer. His journey has included operational and joint assignments, deployments supporting missions including Afghanistan and Djibouti, major exercises, NATO and joint experiences, and service across the Navy's information warfare enterprise.
 
His civilian career has included work supporting the U.S. Army, Microsoft, and the U.S. Navy civilian workforce, while his commitment to service extends far beyond the uniform. Anthony serves through ministry, coaches football, and is working to launch a home-care business designed to serve senior veterans and citizens with special needs.
 
But titles and accomplishments tell only part of Anthony's story.
 
He is also a husband, father, mentor, coach, man of faith, and servant leader who believes in a simple but powerful philosophy:
 
🎁 “Unwrap the present.”
 
Live your life and your vision with enthusiasm—fueled by hope and purpose.
 
That philosophy will be at the heart of our conversation.
 
🎯 What You Will Learn…
 
✨ What a 27-year journey from Seaman Recruit to Commander teaches us about perseverance and leadership
 
✨ Why Anthony's prior-enlisted experience continues to shape the officer and leader he is today
 
✨ How leaders can stay connected to the deckplates as their rank and responsibilities increase
 
✨ What failure, adversity, discouragement, and self-doubt can teach us about resilience
 
✨ How faith, family, mentorship, education, and service helped sustain Anthony through his journey
 
✨ And perhaps most importantly: what today's young Sailor can learn from someone who once wore E-1 and is now preparing to wear the rank of Commander
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
 
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
 
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
 
💬 Got a question about leadership, mentorship, military service, Information Warfare, resilience, or the journey from enlisted Sailor to commissioned officer? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
 
⸻
 
👇 Your Turn:
 
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
 
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
 
➡️ Tag a Sailor, junior officer, veteran, colleague, mentee, or teammate who could benefit from Anthony's story. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Somewhere in our Navy today is another young Seaman Recruit who cannot yet imagine where the journey might lead.
 
Anthony's story is a reminder:
 
Your starting point does not determine your destination.
 
Keep learning.
 
Keep serving.
 
Keep growing.
 
Keep believing.
 
And never become so senior that you forget the deckplates you came from.
 
Congratulations again, CDR (SEL) Anthony R. Murphy!
 
From E-1 to O-5—and the mission continues.
 
BRAVO ZULU, Shipmate! ⚓️🇺🇸🫡
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ

S5:E173🎙️ LIVE with COL Chris Hossfeld, USA (Ret.) 🥃🪖
“Barrel Strength Leadership: Forging Leaders When the Stakes Are High”
 
Mark your calendars!
📅 Friday, August 21, 2026
⏰ 8:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 10:00 AM CT — Austin, TX
⏰ 11:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
I’m honored to welcome my friend COL Chris Hossfeld, USA (Ret.) to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ for a conversation about what leadership looks like when the stakes are high, information is incomplete, and people are depending on you.
Chris is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, combat veteran, former infantry battalion commander, strategist, educator, mentor, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of leadership.
 
During more than 27 years of Army service, Chris completed four combat deployments and led organizations ranging from small staffs to large multinational formations. His career included battalion command with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), developing commanders as a senior Observer/Controller/Trainer, serving as Chief of Staff for First Army Division East, and educating senior military and civilian leaders at the U.S. Army War College.
After retiring from the Army, Chris continued serving the national-security community at The University of Texas at Austin, helping connect innovative university research with Department of Defense challenges.
 
Today, Chris is Director of Programs at Argon Mechatronics and Founder & CEO of Barrel Strength Leadership—an organization built around a powerful idea:
🥃 Leadership should not be watered down.
 
Through mentorship, reflection, leadership development, and immersive battlefield staff rides at historic locations such as Gettysburg, Chris helps leaders move beyond theory and confront the realities of decision-making, risk, accountability, trust, adaptability, and leadership under pressure.
 
🔗 Connect with Chris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-hossfeld-635a80105/
 
🧭 What You Will Learn…
✨ Leadership When the Stakes Are High: What four combat deployments and decades of military leadership taught Chris about making difficult decisions with incomplete information.
✨ Lessons from “No Slack”: What commanding an Air Assault Infantry Battalion and multinational forces taught him about trust, mission, accountability, and taking care of people.
✨ From Service to Significance: What Chris learned transitioning from nearly three decades in uniform to entrepreneurship, mentorship, national security, technology, and developing the next generation.
 
🥃 THE FINAL POUR
Near the end of our conversation, I’ll ask Chris one question that captures the heart of this episode:
After nearly three decades of service, four combat deployments, battalion command, developing commanders, teaching strategy, studying history, and now developing civilian leaders—if you could pour everything you’ve learned about leadership into ONE lesson for the next generation, what would it be?
 
You won't want to miss his answer.
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
✨ 💬 Got a leadership question for COL Chris Hossfeld? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
 
👇 Your Turn
✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
✨ ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?
✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, veteran, emerging leader, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Leadership is easy to discuss when everything is going according to plan.
The real test comes when the plan breaks, uncertainty rises, and people look to you for direction.
 
Join us as we explore leadership at barrel strength—undiluted, forged through experience, and ready when the stakes are high. 🥃🪖🔥
Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS. 🇺🇸🫡
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ

S5:E173🎙️ LIVE with COL Chris Hossfeld, USA (Ret.) 🥃🪖
“Barrel Strength Leadership: Forging Leaders When the Stakes Are High”
 
Mark your calendars!
📅 Friday, August 21, 2026
⏰ 8:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 10:00 AM CT — Austin, TX
⏰ 11:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
I’m honored to welcome my friend COL Chris Hossfeld, USA (Ret.) to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ for a conversation about what leadership looks like when the stakes are high, information is incomplete, and people are depending on you.
Chris is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, combat veteran, former infantry battalion commander, strategist, educator, mentor, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of leadership.
 
During more than 27 years of Army service, Chris completed four combat deployments and led organizations ranging from small staffs to large multinational formations. His career included battalion command with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), developing commanders as a senior Observer/Controller/Trainer, serving as Chief of Staff for First Army Division East, and educating senior military and civilian leaders at the U.S. Army War College.
After retiring from the Army, Chris continued serving the national-security community at The University of Texas at Austin, helping connect innovative university research with Department of Defense challenges.
 
Today, Chris is Director of Programs at Argon Mechatronics and Founder & CEO of Barrel Strength Leadership—an organization built around a powerful idea:
🥃 Leadership should not be watered down.
 
Through mentorship, reflection, leadership development, and immersive battlefield staff rides at historic locations such as Gettysburg, Chris helps leaders move beyond theory and confront the realities of decision-making, risk, accountability, trust, adaptability, and leadership under pressure.
 
🔗 Connect with Chris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-hossfeld-635a80105/
 
🧭 What You Will Learn…
✨ Leadership When the Stakes Are High: What four combat deployments and decades of military leadership taught Chris about making difficult decisions with incomplete information.
✨ Lessons from “No Slack”: What commanding an Air Assault Infantry Battalion and multinational forces taught him about trust, mission, accountability, and taking care of people.
✨ From Service to Significance: What Chris learned transitioning from nearly three decades in uniform to entrepreneurship, mentorship, national security, technology, and developing the next generation.
 
🥃 THE FINAL POUR
Near the end of our conversation, I’ll ask Chris one question that captures the heart of this episode:
After nearly three decades of service, four combat deployments, battalion command, developing commanders, teaching strategy, studying history, and now developing civilian leaders—if you could pour everything you’ve learned about leadership into ONE lesson for the next generation, what would it be?
 
You won't want to miss his answer.
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
✨ 💬 Got a leadership question for COL Chris Hossfeld? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
 
👇 Your Turn
✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
✨ ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?
✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, veteran, emerging leader, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Leadership is easy to discuss when everything is going according to plan.
The real test comes when the plan breaks, uncertainty rises, and people look to you for direction.
 
Join us as we explore leadership at barrel strength—undiluted, forged through experience, and ready when the stakes are high. 🥃🪖🔥
Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS. 🇺🇸🫡
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ

S5:E172🎙️LIVE with Ms. Tam Lawrence
Reclaiming the Screen: Leadership, Media Ownership & the Courage to Build 📺📰🎙️🚀
Leadership & Success Podcast, Season 5, Episode 172
 
Mark your calendars!
📅 Wednesday, August 19, 2026
⏰ 6:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 8:00 AM CT — Madison, WI
⏰ 9:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
I’m excited to welcome Ms. Tam Lawrence to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5: Episode 172 for a conversation about what it means to stop waiting for permission—and start building.
 
Tam is a publicist, journalist, publisher, brand architect, strategic communications executive, author, broadcaster, entrepreneur, playwright, and civic-media innovator whose career spans more than two decades.
 
She is the Founder and CEO of PIQSTAR INC., PBC, a Wisconsin Public Benefit Corporation focused on civic-media infrastructure, and the force behind Exposure Plus TV. Her journey has crossed the stage, newsroom, statehouse, public relations, publishing, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and media ownership.
 
But what makes Tam's story especially compelling to me is the evolution behind those accomplishments:
She learned how to tell stories.
She helped others tell their stories.
She published stories.
She built platforms to distribute stories.
And now she's working to help communities and journalists own the infrastructure that carries their stories forward.
That is leadership. 💯
 
📚 What You Will Learn…
✨ The Courage to Build: Why leaders must sometimes stop asking, “Where can I find an opportunity?” and start asking, “What can I build?”
✨ Betting on Yourself: What decades of entrepreneurship have taught Tam about reinvention, resilience, asking for help, and moving forward when success is anything but guaranteed.
✨ Turning Pain into Purpose: How adversity can inform leadership, advocacy, service, and purpose without becoming the entirety of your identity.
✨ Reclaiming the Screen: Why Tam believes independent journalists and communities need more than social-media accounts—they need greater ownership of their platforms, audiences, intellectual property, archives, and stories.
✨ The Future of Civic Journalism: How PIQSTAR's vision for branded newsrooms and community-centered journalism could help address local “Media Black Outs” and create new pathways for independent journalists.
✨ Leadership in the AI Era: What happens to trust, authenticity, journalism, and human storytelling as AI transforms how information is produced and distributed.
📚 TWO BOOKS. TWO DECADES OF PR EXPERIENCE.
We'll also explore lessons from Tam's two books.
📘 A Strategic Guide for Business Owners in Public Relations Campaigns: The Pouring Out of Two Decades of Experience Public & Media Relations
📕 Mastering the Art of News: Creating Newsworthy Stories for Entrepreneurs: Make Reporters Yearn for an Exclusive
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
✨ 💬 Got questions about leadership, entrepreneurship, public relations, media ownership, journalism, storytelling, resilience, or building your own platform? Post them below—we'll answer them LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
✨ ➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, entrepreneur, journalist, creator, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #TamLawrence

S5:E172🎙️LIVE with Ms. Tam Lawrence
Reclaiming the Screen: Leadership, Media Ownership & the Courage to Build 📺📰🎙️🚀
Leadership & Success Podcast, Season 5, Episode 172
 
Mark your calendars!
📅 Wednesday, August 19, 2026
⏰ 6:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 8:00 AM CT — Madison, WI
⏰ 9:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
I’m excited to welcome Ms. Tam Lawrence to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5: Episode 172 for a conversation about what it means to stop waiting for permission—and start building.
 
Tam is a publicist, journalist, publisher, brand architect, strategic communications executive, author, broadcaster, entrepreneur, playwright, and civic-media innovator whose career spans more than two decades.
 
She is the Founder and CEO of PIQSTAR INC., PBC, a Wisconsin Public Benefit Corporation focused on civic-media infrastructure, and the force behind Exposure Plus TV. Her journey has crossed the stage, newsroom, statehouse, public relations, publishing, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and media ownership.
 
But what makes Tam's story especially compelling to me is the evolution behind those accomplishments:
She learned how to tell stories.
She helped others tell their stories.
She published stories.
She built platforms to distribute stories.
And now she's working to help communities and journalists own the infrastructure that carries their stories forward.
That is leadership. 💯
 
📚 What You Will Learn…
✨ The Courage to Build: Why leaders must sometimes stop asking, “Where can I find an opportunity?” and start asking, “What can I build?”
✨ Betting on Yourself: What decades of entrepreneurship have taught Tam about reinvention, resilience, asking for help, and moving forward when success is anything but guaranteed.
✨ Turning Pain into Purpose: How adversity can inform leadership, advocacy, service, and purpose without becoming the entirety of your identity.
✨ Reclaiming the Screen: Why Tam believes independent journalists and communities need more than social-media accounts—they need greater ownership of their platforms, audiences, intellectual property, archives, and stories.
✨ The Future of Civic Journalism: How PIQSTAR's vision for branded newsrooms and community-centered journalism could help address local “Media Black Outs” and create new pathways for independent journalists.
✨ Leadership in the AI Era: What happens to trust, authenticity, journalism, and human storytelling as AI transforms how information is produced and distributed.
📚 TWO BOOKS. TWO DECADES OF PR EXPERIENCE.
We'll also explore lessons from Tam's two books.
📘 A Strategic Guide for Business Owners in Public Relations Campaigns: The Pouring Out of Two Decades of Experience Public & Media Relations
📕 Mastering the Art of News: Creating Newsworthy Stories for Entrepreneurs: Make Reporters Yearn for an Exclusive
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
✨ 💬 Got questions about leadership, entrepreneurship, public relations, media ownership, journalism, storytelling, resilience, or building your own platform? Post them below—we'll answer them LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
✨ ➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, entrepreneur, journalist, creator, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #TamLawrence

S5:E171🎙️ LIVE with Coach Jen Brown
Be the Ripple: Lead Yourself, Lead Others & Lead the Mission 🌊✨
From Autopilot to Intentional Leadership: Building Trust, Capacity & a Life of Purpose
 
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ
🎙️ Season 5, Episode 171
 
Mark your calendars! 📅
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026
⏰ 3:00 PM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM ET — Wilmington, NC
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest: Coach Jen Brown
What happens when 23 years of American diplomacy, global leadership, crisis management, coaching, faith, and service converge into one powerful leadership philosophy?
Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Mission. 🧭
 
I’m excited to welcome my friend Coach Jen Brown to the Leadership & Success Podcast!
Jen is the founder of Journey of Grace Coaching, a leadership coach, speaker, trainer, author, podcast co-host, and former U.S. Foreign Service Officer who spent 23 years serving our nation around the world. 🇺🇸🌎
 
Her diplomatic career included assignments in Ecuador, Honduras, Venezuela, Turkmenistan, Colombia, and Washington, D.C. She led multicultural teams, managed complex programs, advised senior leaders, and led through real-world crises—including operations following Ecuador’s devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
 
Today, Jen helps leaders move from reactive autopilot to intentional leadership—developing the self-awareness, communication, trust, decision-making, and leadership capacity necessary to build stronger people, teams, and organizations.
 
She also co-hosts the Ripple Effect Leadership Podcast with retired U.S. Ambassador Hugo F. Rodriguez Jr., exploring a principle at the heart of Tuesday’s conversation:
🌊 Leadership creates ripples.
And we’re going deeper.
 
Jen is the author of Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey and its Companion Journal, which bring together scripture, reflection, coaching, faith, intentionality, and the courage to do the inner work that makes outward leadership possible.
Her mantra captures it beautifully:
“Live and lead out loud to be the ripple.” 🌊✨
 
 
🎯 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why leadership starts with YOU. Before we can effectively lead others or accomplish the mission, we must first learn to lead ourselves.
✨ Why stillness, reflection, faith, grace, and self-awareness aren't separate from leadership—they can help make better leadership possible.
 
📚 SPECIAL BOOK SEGMENT: Coming Home to Me
We’ll also explore Jen’s deeply personal:
📘 Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey
and
📓 Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey Companion Journal
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
✨ 💬 Got a leadership, coaching, transition, or networking question for Jen? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
✨ 🌊 Who created a positive ripple in your leadership journey? Tag them and tell us how they influenced you.
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
✨ ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?
✨ ➡️ Are you leading on autopilot or intentionally right now?
✨ ➡️ What ripple are you creating through the people you lead?
✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, leader, coach, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Leadership doesn't stop with us.
The way we lead ourselves affects how we lead others.
The way we lead others affects how they lead.
And those choices ripple outward into our teams, organizations, families, communities, and missions.
 
🌊 Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Mission.
🌊 BE THE RIPPLE!
See you LIVE! 🎙️❤️🙏🏾
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #JenBrown

S5:E171🎙️ LIVE with Coach Jen Brown
Be the Ripple: Lead Yourself, Lead Others & Lead the Mission 🌊✨
From Autopilot to Intentional Leadership: Building Trust, Capacity & a Life of Purpose
 
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ
🎙️ Season 5, Episode 171
 
Mark your calendars! 📅
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026
⏰ 3:00 PM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM ET — Wilmington, NC
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest: Coach Jen Brown
What happens when 23 years of American diplomacy, global leadership, crisis management, coaching, faith, and service converge into one powerful leadership philosophy?
Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Mission. 🧭
 
I’m excited to welcome my friend Coach Jen Brown to the Leadership & Success Podcast!
Jen is the founder of Journey of Grace Coaching, a leadership coach, speaker, trainer, author, podcast co-host, and former U.S. Foreign Service Officer who spent 23 years serving our nation around the world. 🇺🇸🌎
 
Her diplomatic career included assignments in Ecuador, Honduras, Venezuela, Turkmenistan, Colombia, and Washington, D.C. She led multicultural teams, managed complex programs, advised senior leaders, and led through real-world crises—including operations following Ecuador’s devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
 
Today, Jen helps leaders move from reactive autopilot to intentional leadership—developing the self-awareness, communication, trust, decision-making, and leadership capacity necessary to build stronger people, teams, and organizations.
 
She also co-hosts the Ripple Effect Leadership Podcast with retired U.S. Ambassador Hugo F. Rodriguez Jr., exploring a principle at the heart of Tuesday’s conversation:
🌊 Leadership creates ripples.
And we’re going deeper.
 
Jen is the author of Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey and its Companion Journal, which bring together scripture, reflection, coaching, faith, intentionality, and the courage to do the inner work that makes outward leadership possible.
Her mantra captures it beautifully:
“Live and lead out loud to be the ripple.” 🌊✨
 
 
🎯 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why leadership starts with YOU. Before we can effectively lead others or accomplish the mission, we must first learn to lead ourselves.
✨ Why stillness, reflection, faith, grace, and self-awareness aren't separate from leadership—they can help make better leadership possible.
 
📚 SPECIAL BOOK SEGMENT: Coming Home to Me
We’ll also explore Jen’s deeply personal:
📘 Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey
and
📓 Coming Home to Me: A Devotional Journey Companion Journal
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
✨ 💬 Got a leadership, coaching, transition, or networking question for Jen? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
✨ 🌊 Who created a positive ripple in your leadership journey? Tag them and tell us how they influenced you.
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
✨ ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?
✨ ➡️ Are you leading on autopilot or intentionally right now?
✨ ➡️ What ripple are you creating through the people you lead?
✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, leader, coach, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Leadership doesn't stop with us.
The way we lead ourselves affects how we lead others.
The way we lead others affects how they lead.
And those choices ripple outward into our teams, organizations, families, communities, and missions.
 
🌊 Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Mission.
🌊 BE THE RIPPLE!
See you LIVE! 🎙️❤️🙏🏾
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #JenBrown

S5:E170🎙️ LIVE with Kathy Eastwood
The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance
Express. Engage. Execute. ❤️
 
What separates leaders with good intentions from leaders who consistently create trust, engagement, and high performance?
Join me for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, S5:E170 🎙️ LIVE with leadership strategist, executive advisor, keynote speaker, CEO, and bestselling author Kathy Eastwood!
 
📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ 12:30 PM PT — Silicon Valley / San Francisco, CA
⏰ 3:30 PM ET — Wall Street / New York, NY
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
🎙️ The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance — Express, Engage & Execute with Kathy Eastwood
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
Kathy Eastwood has spent decades experiencing leadership from nearly every angle—as an executive, strategist, technologist, Chief of Staff, people leader, entrepreneur, executive advisor, coach, and board member.
Her career has included leadership roles across organizations including Ernst & Young, Reuters, Mercury Interactive, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and high-growth companies. Today, as CEO of E Equals Why, Kathy helps executives and organizations strengthen leadership, build trust, improve execution, and create environments where people and performance thrive together.
She is also the author of the bestselling book The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance—a practical framework for closing one of leadership's most persistent gaps:
The gap between what leaders intend and what their people actually experience.
Her message strongly resonates with my own leadership philosophy:
❤️ Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.
Because sustainable results are achieved through our people—not at their expense.
 
📘 What You Will Learn…
Kathy's E3 Leadership Code provides a memorable leadership rhythm:
✨ EXPRESS — Create clarity around vision, purpose, priorities, and the WHY.
✨ ENGAGE — Build trust, connection, shared accountability, and stakeholder buy-in.
✨ EXECUTE — Turn strategy into action through discipline, ownership, rhythm, accountability, and follow-through.
✨ EMOTIONAL QUALITIES — Lead with awareness, authenticity, courage, curiosity, empathy, vulnerability, and humanity.
 
We'll explore why even experienced leaders can “drift” under pressure, how to recognize when our impact no longer matches our intentions, and why self-awareness becomes even more important when deadlines, uncertainty, and competing priorities intensify.
We'll also unpack Kathy's ABCs of Leadership: Awareness, Balance, Connection, Disciplines, Experience, and Followership—and discuss why leadership isn't simply something we know.
Leadership is something we practice.
 
🤖 And we'll look toward the future: As AI and automation make execution faster and increasingly powerful, will distinctly human leadership become even MORE valuable?
I believe the answer is YES!
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a question about leadership, trust, emotional intelligence, high-performing teams, organizational culture, or the E3 Leadership Code for Kathy? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, executive, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Great leadership isn't simply about getting results. It is about creating the clarity, trust, connection, and discipline that enable people to achieve extraordinary results together.
EXPRESS the vision. ENGAGE the people. EXECUTE with discipline. Lead with HEART. ❤️
See you LIVE! 🎙️🔥
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #KathyEastwood #E3LeadershipCode #Leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveLeadership #HighPerformance

S5:E170🎙️ LIVE with Kathy Eastwood
The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance
Express. Engage. Execute. ❤️
 
What separates leaders with good intentions from leaders who consistently create trust, engagement, and high performance?
Join me for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, S5:E170 🎙️ LIVE with leadership strategist, executive advisor, keynote speaker, CEO, and bestselling author Kathy Eastwood!
 
📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ 12:30 PM PT — Silicon Valley / San Francisco, CA
⏰ 3:30 PM ET — Wall Street / New York, NY
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
🎙️ The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance — Express, Engage & Execute with Kathy Eastwood
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
Kathy Eastwood has spent decades experiencing leadership from nearly every angle—as an executive, strategist, technologist, Chief of Staff, people leader, entrepreneur, executive advisor, coach, and board member.
Her career has included leadership roles across organizations including Ernst & Young, Reuters, Mercury Interactive, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and high-growth companies. Today, as CEO of E Equals Why, Kathy helps executives and organizations strengthen leadership, build trust, improve execution, and create environments where people and performance thrive together.
She is also the author of the bestselling book The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance—a practical framework for closing one of leadership's most persistent gaps:
The gap between what leaders intend and what their people actually experience.
Her message strongly resonates with my own leadership philosophy:
❤️ Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.
Because sustainable results are achieved through our people—not at their expense.
 
📘 What You Will Learn…
Kathy's E3 Leadership Code provides a memorable leadership rhythm:
✨ EXPRESS — Create clarity around vision, purpose, priorities, and the WHY.
✨ ENGAGE — Build trust, connection, shared accountability, and stakeholder buy-in.
✨ EXECUTE — Turn strategy into action through discipline, ownership, rhythm, accountability, and follow-through.
✨ EMOTIONAL QUALITIES — Lead with awareness, authenticity, courage, curiosity, empathy, vulnerability, and humanity.
 
We'll explore why even experienced leaders can “drift” under pressure, how to recognize when our impact no longer matches our intentions, and why self-awareness becomes even more important when deadlines, uncertainty, and competing priorities intensify.
We'll also unpack Kathy's ABCs of Leadership: Awareness, Balance, Connection, Disciplines, Experience, and Followership—and discuss why leadership isn't simply something we know.
Leadership is something we practice.
 
🤖 And we'll look toward the future: As AI and automation make execution faster and increasingly powerful, will distinctly human leadership become even MORE valuable?
I believe the answer is YES!
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a question about leadership, trust, emotional intelligence, high-performing teams, organizational culture, or the E3 Leadership Code for Kathy? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, executive, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Great leadership isn't simply about getting results. It is about creating the clarity, trust, connection, and discipline that enable people to achieve extraordinary results together.
EXPRESS the vision. ENGAGE the people. EXECUTE with discipline. Lead with HEART. ❤️
See you LIVE! 🎙️🔥
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #KathyEastwood #E3LeadershipCode #Leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveLeadership #HighPerformance

S5:E169🎙️ LIVE with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC 🇺🇸🦅⚔️
Ethics Wins Wars: Leadership, Trust & Adaptation in the Information Age
 
What happens to our values when everything becomes hard?
And what if ethics isn't simply about doing the right thing—but is actually a source of trust, speed, cohesion, and operational effectiveness?
 
Join me for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ for a fascinating conversation with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC—Marine officer, combat veteran, commander, strategist, educator, author, and leading advocate for treating ethics as an essential component of warfighting.
 
📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ 8:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 11:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
Colonel Katolin has served our nation for more than two decades, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and leadership assignments spanning communications, cyber, information operations, education, planning, and command.
He commanded Marine Wing Communications Squadron 28, where his Marines developed the Marine Corps' first Information Maneuver SOP. He also helped initiate and co-author MCDP 8, Information, and his career has taken him from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines to the Deputy Commandant for Information, MARFORCYBER, Marine Corps Information Command, and back to the 1st Marine Division.
 
Dennis is also a third-degree black belt instructor trainer in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program and an accomplished scholar. He holds a PhD from Virginia Tech and graduate degrees from the National War College, Marine Corps University, and National University.
 
His newest book, Strategic Culture, Military Adaptation, and the Information Environment: A Comparative Study, examines how the United States, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom have adapted to an information environment increasingly blurring the boundaries among military operations, political authority, technology, and society.
 
But perhaps his most provocative argument is captured in three words:
ETHICS WINS WARS.
Dennis argues that ethics isn't separate from combat effectiveness.
Ethics → Reliability → Trust → Cooperation → Cohesion → Combat Power.
When trust increases, friction decreases. Leaders can delegate. Teams can exercise initiative. Decisions accelerate. Organizations become more resilient.
That principle applies on the battlefield—and in the boardroom.
 
🎯 What You Will Learn
✨ Why ethics can be an operational advantage, not merely a constraint on behavior.
✨ How trust and cohesion create speed and enable decentralized leadership.
✨ What Dennis calls “moral culmination”—and why leaders should prepare people for physical, mental, AND moral pressure.
✨ Why America's military needs more than values statements and ethics classes—and Dennis's case for an actual ethics doctrine.
✨ What combat in Iraq and Afghanistan taught him about leadership, character, loss, and moral preparation.
✨ Why human judgment, character, trust, and ethical leadership may become even MORE important in the age of artificial intelligence.
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a question about leadership, ethics, trust, AI, strategic culture, information warfare, or the future of conflict for COL Katolin? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
✨ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
✨ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
✨ Does your organization have an ethical decision-making framework—or simply a values statement on the wall?
✨ Tag a colleague, junior officer, emerging leader, veteran, cybersecurity professional, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS.
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #EthicsWinsWars

S5:E169🎙️ LIVE with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC 🇺🇸🦅⚔️
Ethics Wins Wars: Leadership, Trust & Adaptation in the Information Age
 
What happens to our values when everything becomes hard?
And what if ethics isn't simply about doing the right thing—but is actually a source of trust, speed, cohesion, and operational effectiveness?
 
Join me for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ for a fascinating conversation with COL Dennis Katolin, PhD, USMC—Marine officer, combat veteran, commander, strategist, educator, author, and leading advocate for treating ethics as an essential component of warfighting.
 
📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ 8:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA
⏰ 11:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet My Guest
Colonel Katolin has served our nation for more than two decades, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and leadership assignments spanning communications, cyber, information operations, education, planning, and command.
He commanded Marine Wing Communications Squadron 28, where his Marines developed the Marine Corps' first Information Maneuver SOP. He also helped initiate and co-author MCDP 8, Information, and his career has taken him from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines to the Deputy Commandant for Information, MARFORCYBER, Marine Corps Information Command, and back to the 1st Marine Division.
 
Dennis is also a third-degree black belt instructor trainer in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program and an accomplished scholar. He holds a PhD from Virginia Tech and graduate degrees from the National War College, Marine Corps University, and National University.
 
His newest book, Strategic Culture, Military Adaptation, and the Information Environment: A Comparative Study, examines how the United States, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom have adapted to an information environment increasingly blurring the boundaries among military operations, political authority, technology, and society.
 
But perhaps his most provocative argument is captured in three words:
ETHICS WINS WARS.
Dennis argues that ethics isn't separate from combat effectiveness.
Ethics → Reliability → Trust → Cooperation → Cohesion → Combat Power.
When trust increases, friction decreases. Leaders can delegate. Teams can exercise initiative. Decisions accelerate. Organizations become more resilient.
That principle applies on the battlefield—and in the boardroom.
 
🎯 What You Will Learn
✨ Why ethics can be an operational advantage, not merely a constraint on behavior.
✨ How trust and cohesion create speed and enable decentralized leadership.
✨ What Dennis calls “moral culmination”—and why leaders should prepare people for physical, mental, AND moral pressure.
✨ Why America's military needs more than values statements and ethics classes—and Dennis's case for an actual ethics doctrine.
✨ What combat in Iraq and Afghanistan taught him about leadership, character, loss, and moral preparation.
✨ Why human judgment, character, trust, and ethical leadership may become even MORE important in the age of artificial intelligence.
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a question about leadership, ethics, trust, AI, strategic culture, information warfare, or the future of conflict for COL Katolin? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
✨ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
✨ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
✨ Does your organization have an ethical decision-making framework—or simply a values statement on the wall?
✨ Tag a colleague, junior officer, emerging leader, veteran, cybersecurity professional, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS.
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #EthicsWinsWars

S5:E168🎙️ LIVE with Uberto BarbiniLeadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ Season 5:Episode 168
Process Over Magic: Leadership, AI, and the Future of Software Engineering** 🤖💻🌎
Mark your calendars!📅 **Wednesday, August 12, 2026**⏰ **4:30 PM PT** — San Francisco, CA  ⏰ **7:30 PM ET** — Washington, D.C.  ⏰ **8:30 AM JST, Thursday, August 13** — Fukuoka, Japan 🇯🇵
📍 **LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]**
🌟 **Meet My Guest**
Uberto Barbini is a Senior Software Engineer at Kraken, technical author, international speaker, Google Developer Expert, open-source contributor, and longtime advocate for Test-Driven Development, Extreme Programming, Functional Programming, and Domain-Driven Design.
With decades of experience building and modernizing software across telecommunications, publishing, global banking, financial services, and technology, Uberto has worked with organizations including Vodafone, Standard Chartered, Citi, Springer Nature, and Kraken.
He is also a true polyglot programmer whose journey has taken him through Java, Kotlin, Python, Scala, Haskell, C#, Clojure, and more.
But our conversation will be about something bigger than programming:
**How should we LEAD when AI can increasingly do the work?**
📚 Uberto is the author of the newly released **_Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding_**, a timely exploration of how professionals can harness AI assistants without surrendering critical thinking, engineering discipline, accountability, or control.
His message is one every leader should hear:
**AI is powerful—but it isn't magic. Process matters. Judgment matters. Humans still matter.**
🤖 **What You Will Learn…**
✨ What “vibe coding” actually means—and when it becomes dangerous.
✨ Why AI should accelerate human capability without replacing human accountability.
✨ Why Uberto believes developers must **“keep the edge”** and remain in control as AI increases speed.
✨ How rules, testing, guardrails, and disciplined processes can make AI-assisted work safer and more reliable.
✨ How AI can help developers understand and modernize massive legacy systems.
✨ Why AI may make architecture, domain expertise, cybersecurity, communication, critical thinking, and judgment **MORE valuable—not less**.
✨ How organizations can introduce AI without sacrificing quality, security, trust, or engineering craftsmanship.
✨ Why AI can become an extraordinary **teacher and thinking partner**, not merely a machine for generating work.
✨ What young engineers should learn today to remain valuable in an AI-powered future.
✨ What leadership looks like when humans and increasingly capable AI agents work side by side.
One question will sit at the center of our conversation:
**When AI can generate the work, who is responsible for understanding it, challenging it, verifying it, and ultimately owning the outcome?**
My answer begins with leadership.
**We can delegate tasks. We can automate work. But we cannot automate accountability.**
💬 **Join the Conversation!**
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got questions about **leadership, AI, vibe coding, software engineering, responsible AI, or the future of work** for Uberto? Post them below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
👇 **Your Turn:**
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?
➡️ Tag a colleague, developer, technology leader, student, junior officer, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
**Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.**
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #UbertoBarbini #ProcessOverMagic #BeyondVibeCoding #VibeCoding #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #FutureOfWork #TechnologyLeadership #Cybersecurity #ContinuousLearning #HumanLeadership

S5:E168🎙️ LIVE with Uberto BarbiniLeadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ Season 5:Episode 168
Process Over Magic: Leadership, AI, and the Future of Software Engineering** 🤖💻🌎
Mark your calendars!📅 **Wednesday, August 12, 2026**⏰ **4:30 PM PT** — San Francisco, CA  ⏰ **7:30 PM ET** — Washington, D.C.  ⏰ **8:30 AM JST, Thursday, August 13** — Fukuoka, Japan 🇯🇵
📍 **LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]**
🌟 **Meet My Guest**
Uberto Barbini is a Senior Software Engineer at Kraken, technical author, international speaker, Google Developer Expert, open-source contributor, and longtime advocate for Test-Driven Development, Extreme Programming, Functional Programming, and Domain-Driven Design.
With decades of experience building and modernizing software across telecommunications, publishing, global banking, financial services, and technology, Uberto has worked with organizations including Vodafone, Standard Chartered, Citi, Springer Nature, and Kraken.
He is also a true polyglot programmer whose journey has taken him through Java, Kotlin, Python, Scala, Haskell, C#, Clojure, and more.
But our conversation will be about something bigger than programming:
**How should we LEAD when AI can increasingly do the work?**
📚 Uberto is the author of the newly released **_Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding_**, a timely exploration of how professionals can harness AI assistants without surrendering critical thinking, engineering discipline, accountability, or control.
His message is one every leader should hear:
**AI is powerful—but it isn't magic. Process matters. Judgment matters. Humans still matter.**
🤖 **What You Will Learn…**
✨ What “vibe coding” actually means—and when it becomes dangerous.
✨ Why AI should accelerate human capability without replacing human accountability.
✨ Why Uberto believes developers must **“keep the edge”** and remain in control as AI increases speed.
✨ How rules, testing, guardrails, and disciplined processes can make AI-assisted work safer and more reliable.
✨ How AI can help developers understand and modernize massive legacy systems.
✨ Why AI may make architecture, domain expertise, cybersecurity, communication, critical thinking, and judgment **MORE valuable—not less**.
✨ How organizations can introduce AI without sacrificing quality, security, trust, or engineering craftsmanship.
✨ Why AI can become an extraordinary **teacher and thinking partner**, not merely a machine for generating work.
✨ What young engineers should learn today to remain valuable in an AI-powered future.
✨ What leadership looks like when humans and increasingly capable AI agents work side by side.
One question will sit at the center of our conversation:
**When AI can generate the work, who is responsible for understanding it, challenging it, verifying it, and ultimately owning the outcome?**
My answer begins with leadership.
**We can delegate tasks. We can automate work. But we cannot automate accountability.**
💬 **Join the Conversation!**
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got questions about **leadership, AI, vibe coding, software engineering, responsible AI, or the future of work** for Uberto? Post them below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
👇 **Your Turn:**
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?
➡️ Tag a colleague, developer, technology leader, student, junior officer, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
**Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.**
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #UbertoBarbini #ProcessOverMagic #BeyondVibeCoding #VibeCoding #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #FutureOfWork #TechnologyLeadership #Cybersecurity #ContinuousLearning #HumanLeadership

S5:E167🎙️ LIVE with Jack “J.C.” McKissen
The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5:Episode 167
Finding Your Voice — Leadership, Courage & the Power of Being Human
 
Mark your calendars!
LIVE with my friend, Jack “J.C.” McKissen, communications leader, writer, strategist, three-time LinkedIn Top Voice, and one of the most authentic voices in my LinkedIn network.
 
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 11:00 AM MT (Salt Lake City) | 1:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet Jack “J.C.” McKissen
JC's story is a powerful reminder that where we begin does not determine where we finish.
He was the first person in his family to earn a bachelor's degree, beginning an unconventional educational journey after barely graduating high school. His career started serving veterans experiencing homelessness through AmeriCorps and U.S.VETS before taking him into public service, nonprofit and association leadership, communications, entrepreneurship, and writing.
Then, in 2014, something extraordinary happened: JC found his voice on LinkedIn.
A post he wrote went viral, helping transform his career and eventually grow his community to more than 100,000 followers. Today, he is a three-time LinkedIn Top Voice whose writing has reached millions of readers. He has written for and contributed to major publications and has served as a writer and editor for LinkedIn, an Inc. columnist, and a Voice of the Governing Institute.
But this conversation isn't really about followers.
It's about finding your voice—and having the courage to use it for something that matters.
 
💡 What You Will Learn…
✨ How JC transformed adversity and an unconventional beginning into purpose, leadership, and impact.
✨ Why he believes, “To be a thought leader, you've got to have thoughts that lead people.”
✨ How to find your authentic voice—and why leaders sometimes need the courage to lose followers rather than lose their principles.
✨ How JC reinvented his career through writing and what his journey teaches us about overcoming fear and impostor syndrome.
✨ Why LinkedIn should be about relationships, generosity, and adding value, not simply collecting connections.
✨ Why JC encourages people to talk to strangers and how one genuine relationship can change the trajectory of a career.
✨ What leaders are getting wrong about AI, jobs, economic disruption, and the future of work—and why human dignity must remain part of the conversation.
✨ Why authentic human voices may become more valuable, not less valuable, in the age of AI.
✨ What serving veterans experiencing homelessness taught JC about resilience, dignity, empathy, and leadership.
✨ How fatherhood, family, faith, and becoming the first college graduate in his family shaped his understanding of legacy.
✨ And the powerful philosophy behind JC's words:
“If you receive a miracle, you owe one.”
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
✨ 💬 Got questions about leadership, networking, LinkedIn, thought leadership, career reinvention, communications, AI, or finding your voice? Post them below—we'll answer as many as we can LIVE!
 
👇 Your Turn:
✨ ➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode?
✨ ➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
✨ ➡️ What does authentic thought leadership mean to you?
✨ ➡️ Are you using your voice simply to build an audience—or to make a difference?
✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, teammate, or friend who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Your voice matters. Find it. Have the courage to use it. And use it to serve someone besides yourself.
See you LIVE Wednesday! 🎙️🔥
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #JackMcKissen #FindingYourVoice #Leadership #Courage #ThoughtLeadership #LinkedIn #Networking #PersonalBranding #Communication

S5:E167🎙️ LIVE with Jack “J.C.” McKissen
The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5:Episode 167
Finding Your Voice — Leadership, Courage & the Power of Being Human
 
Mark your calendars!
LIVE with my friend, Jack “J.C.” McKissen, communications leader, writer, strategist, three-time LinkedIn Top Voice, and one of the most authentic voices in my LinkedIn network.
 
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 11:00 AM MT (Salt Lake City) | 1:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
🌟 Meet Jack “J.C.” McKissen
JC's story is a powerful reminder that where we begin does not determine where we finish.
He was the first person in his family to earn a bachelor's degree, beginning an unconventional educational journey after barely graduating high school. His career started serving veterans experiencing homelessness through AmeriCorps and U.S.VETS before taking him into public service, nonprofit and association leadership, communications, entrepreneurship, and writing.
Then, in 2014, something extraordinary happened: JC found his voice on LinkedIn.
A post he wrote went viral, helping transform his career and eventually grow his community to more than 100,000 followers. Today, he is a three-time LinkedIn Top Voice whose writing has reached millions of readers. He has written for and contributed to major publications and has served as a writer and editor for LinkedIn, an Inc. columnist, and a Voice of the Governing Institute.
But this conversation isn't really about followers.
It's about finding your voice—and having the courage to use it for something that matters.
 
💡 What You Will Learn…
✨ How JC transformed adversity and an unconventional beginning into purpose, leadership, and impact.
✨ Why he believes, “To be a thought leader, you've got to have thoughts that lead people.”
✨ How to find your authentic voice—and why leaders sometimes need the courage to lose followers rather than lose their principles.
✨ How JC reinvented his career through writing and what his journey teaches us about overcoming fear and impostor syndrome.
✨ Why LinkedIn should be about relationships, generosity, and adding value, not simply collecting connections.
✨ Why JC encourages people to talk to strangers and how one genuine relationship can change the trajectory of a career.
✨ What leaders are getting wrong about AI, jobs, economic disruption, and the future of work—and why human dignity must remain part of the conversation.
✨ Why authentic human voices may become more valuable, not less valuable, in the age of AI.
✨ What serving veterans experiencing homelessness taught JC about resilience, dignity, empathy, and leadership.
✨ How fatherhood, family, faith, and becoming the first college graduate in his family shaped his understanding of legacy.
✨ And the powerful philosophy behind JC's words:
“If you receive a miracle, you owe one.”
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
✨ 💬 Got questions about leadership, networking, LinkedIn, thought leadership, career reinvention, communications, AI, or finding your voice? Post them below—we'll answer as many as we can LIVE!
 
👇 Your Turn:
✨ ➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode?
✨ ➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
✨ ➡️ What does authentic thought leadership mean to you?
✨ ➡️ Are you using your voice simply to build an audience—or to make a difference?
✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, teammate, or friend who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 
Your voice matters. Find it. Have the courage to use it. And use it to serve someone besides yourself.
See you LIVE Wednesday! 🎙️🔥
 
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #JackMcKissen #FindingYourVoice #Leadership #Courage #ThoughtLeadership #LinkedIn #Networking #PersonalBranding #Communication