Leadership & Success with Coach BZ

S5:E197🎙️ LIVE with SGT Nia F. Luckey, USA (Vet.)🌟 LEADERSHIP, TRUST & RESILIENCE: FROM THE U.S. ARMY TO THE CYBERSECURITY FRONTLINES! 🇺🇸🫡🔐
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ | Season 5:Episode 197LIVE with Nia F. Luckey, U.S. Army Veteran, Cybersecurity Executive, Author, TEDx Speaker & Leadership Strategist!
📅 Friday, October 9, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 12:00 PM ET (Charlotte, NC)
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
🌟 MEET OUR GUEST: NIA F. LUCKEY!What happens when military discipline, cybersecurity expertise, personal adversity, and an unwavering commitment to service converge?You get a leader who understands that TRUST is not simply a leadership value—it is the foundation of organizational success!Nia is a cybersecurity executive, author, mentor, and U.S. Army veteran who served our nation for approximately 13 years before building an accomplished civilian career spanning Cisco, cybersecurity consulting, and AT&T.From leading soldiers to navigating complex cybersecurity challenges, Nia has built her leadership philosophy around a powerful principle passed down by her grandfather:“Impact over self.” ❤️She is the author of Trust Hacked: What Firewalls, Failures, and the Frontlines Taught Me about Trust and a special contributor to The CISO Playbook by Andres Andreu, a previous guest on our podcast!Nia's journey reminds us that leadership is not about titles, authority, or perfection. It is about character, courage, resilience, and the people we serve.
🎯 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN…✨ 🇺🇸 MILITARY LEADERSHIP: Lessons from 13 years of Army service and transitioning to civilian leadership.✨ 🔐 TRUST HACKED: Why trust is infrastructure—not merely a soft skill—and how leaders build, protect, and restore it.✨ 💪 RESILIENCE & ADVERSITY: Turning setbacks, failures, and difficult seasons into opportunities for growth.✨ 🤖 CYBERSECURITY & AI: Leading through emerging technologies, uncertainty, and evolving digital risks.✨ ❤️ MISSION FIRST, PEOPLE ALWAYS: Balancing mission accomplishment with compassion, accountability, and human connection.✨ 🌱 MENTORSHIP & LEGACY: Why investing in others creates an impact that outlasts any position or title.✨ 📚 LIFELONG LEARNING: How curiosity, relationships, and continuous development shape successful leaders.
💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION!🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Share your city, region, or country!🙏🏽 What is ONE thing you are grateful for today?💬 Have leadership, cybersecurity, trust, military transition, or networking questions for Nia? Post them below—we will answer them LIVE!⸻👇 YOUR TURN:➡️ What are your THREE biggest takeaways from this conversation?➡️ What is ONE leadership insight you will apply this week?➡️ Can a leader be successful without being trusted? Why or why not?➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, veteran, cybersecurity professional, or emerging leader who would benefit from this conversation! ❤️🙏🏾
Leadership is earned. Trust is built. Impact is lasting.Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS! 🇺🇸🫡#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #NiaFLuckey #TrustHacked #Leadership #Cybersecurity #Trust #Veterans #MilitaryLeadership #Resilience #Mentorship #WomenInCybersecurity #LifelongLearning

S5:E197🎙️ LIVE with SGT Nia F. Luckey, USA (Vet.)🌟 LEADERSHIP, TRUST & RESILIENCE: FROM THE U.S. ARMY TO THE CYBERSECURITY FRONTLINES! 🇺🇸🫡🔐
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ | Season 5:Episode 197LIVE with Nia F. Luckey, U.S. Army Veteran, Cybersecurity Executive, Author, TEDx Speaker & Leadership Strategist!
📅 Friday, October 9, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 12:00 PM ET (Charlotte, NC)
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
🌟 MEET OUR GUEST: NIA F. LUCKEY!What happens when military discipline, cybersecurity expertise, personal adversity, and an unwavering commitment to service converge?You get a leader who understands that TRUST is not simply a leadership value—it is the foundation of organizational success!Nia is a cybersecurity executive, author, mentor, and U.S. Army veteran who served our nation for approximately 13 years before building an accomplished civilian career spanning Cisco, cybersecurity consulting, and AT&T.From leading soldiers to navigating complex cybersecurity challenges, Nia has built her leadership philosophy around a powerful principle passed down by her grandfather:“Impact over self.” ❤️She is the author of Trust Hacked: What Firewalls, Failures, and the Frontlines Taught Me about Trust and a special contributor to The CISO Playbook by Andres Andreu, a previous guest on our podcast!Nia's journey reminds us that leadership is not about titles, authority, or perfection. It is about character, courage, resilience, and the people we serve.
🎯 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN…✨ 🇺🇸 MILITARY LEADERSHIP: Lessons from 13 years of Army service and transitioning to civilian leadership.✨ 🔐 TRUST HACKED: Why trust is infrastructure—not merely a soft skill—and how leaders build, protect, and restore it.✨ 💪 RESILIENCE & ADVERSITY: Turning setbacks, failures, and difficult seasons into opportunities for growth.✨ 🤖 CYBERSECURITY & AI: Leading through emerging technologies, uncertainty, and evolving digital risks.✨ ❤️ MISSION FIRST, PEOPLE ALWAYS: Balancing mission accomplishment with compassion, accountability, and human connection.✨ 🌱 MENTORSHIP & LEGACY: Why investing in others creates an impact that outlasts any position or title.✨ 📚 LIFELONG LEARNING: How curiosity, relationships, and continuous development shape successful leaders.
💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION!🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Share your city, region, or country!🙏🏽 What is ONE thing you are grateful for today?💬 Have leadership, cybersecurity, trust, military transition, or networking questions for Nia? Post them below—we will answer them LIVE!⸻👇 YOUR TURN:➡️ What are your THREE biggest takeaways from this conversation?➡️ What is ONE leadership insight you will apply this week?➡️ Can a leader be successful without being trusted? Why or why not?➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, veteran, cybersecurity professional, or emerging leader who would benefit from this conversation! ❤️🙏🏾
Leadership is earned. Trust is built. Impact is lasting.Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS! 🇺🇸🫡#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #NiaFLuckey #TrustHacked #Leadership #Cybersecurity #Trust #Veterans #MilitaryLeadership #Resilience #Mentorship #WomenInCybersecurity #LifelongLearning

S5:E196🎙️ LIVE with Nicole S. Palmer
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5 | Episode 196🔥 Playing the Game Without Losing Yourself: Power, Perception, Prejudice & Leadership
📅 Thursday, October 8, 2026⏰ 3 PM PT (San Francisco) | 6 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
I am honored to welcome Nicole S. Palmer—award-winning and Amazon #1 bestselling author, speaker, corporate strategist, editor, media entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Delnic Media, and creator of Black Womaning in Corporate America®—for an insightful leadership conversation about navigating the rules that nobody explains.
Nicole has spent nearly three decades navigating what she describes as “boardrooms, bias, and bureaucracy.” Today, she is transforming those experiences into strategies, stories, and platforms designed to help others navigate their careers with greater awareness, agency, and authenticity.
Her philosophy is powerfully simple:
“I write about the rules nobody explains.”
📚 THE BOOK
We will dedicate a special segment to Nicole’s award-winning, Amazon #1 bestselling book:
Playing the Game While Black Womaning in Corporate America™: Your Ultimate Playbook in Navigating Power, Perception, and Prejudice in the Workplace
This isn't simply a conversation about surviving corporate America. We are going deeper:
How do you understand the game, navigate the unwritten rules, advance your career—and still remain authentically YOU?
✨ WHAT YOU WILL LEARN…
✨ Why outstanding performance alone may not be enough to advance your career.
✨ How to recognize and navigate the unwritten rules of corporate America.
✨ How power, perception, and prejudice can influence careers, opportunities, and leadership.
✨ How to understand organizational politics without compromising your integrity.
✨ Why relationships, sponsorship, visibility, and social capital matter.
✨ How to navigate bias strategically without internalizing it.
✨ How to protect both your peace and your paycheck.
✨ How leaders can make the unwritten rules more transparent and create workplaces where talented people can truly thrive.
✨ How Nicole transformed decades of corporate lessons into an award-winning book, media platform, and entrepreneurial mission.
And one question I especially look forward to asking Nicole:
“How do we learn to play the game—and even win the game—without losing ourselves in the process?”
💬 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, career advancement, workplace politics, power, perception, prejudice, publishing, or entrepreneurship for Nicole? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
⸻
👇 YOUR TURN:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this conversation?
➡️ What is one leadership insight you will apply this week?
➡️ What is one unwritten rule of the workplace you wish someone had taught you earlier in your career?
➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, mentor, sponsor, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
🎙️ Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ🌍 Leadership lessons from Master Teachers around the world.
Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #NicoleSPalmer #BlackWomaningInCorporateAmerica #Leadership #PlayingTheGame #WomenInLeadership #BlackWomenInLeadership #CareerDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #ExecutiveLeadership #Power #Perception #AuthenticLeadership #DelnicMedia #Authors #Entrepreneurship #Mentorship #LeadershipDevelopment

S5:E196🎙️ LIVE with Nicole S. Palmer
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5 | Episode 196🔥 Playing the Game Without Losing Yourself: Power, Perception, Prejudice & Leadership
📅 Thursday, October 8, 2026⏰ 3 PM PT (San Francisco) | 6 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
I am honored to welcome Nicole S. Palmer—award-winning and Amazon #1 bestselling author, speaker, corporate strategist, editor, media entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Delnic Media, and creator of Black Womaning in Corporate America®—for an insightful leadership conversation about navigating the rules that nobody explains.
Nicole has spent nearly three decades navigating what she describes as “boardrooms, bias, and bureaucracy.” Today, she is transforming those experiences into strategies, stories, and platforms designed to help others navigate their careers with greater awareness, agency, and authenticity.
Her philosophy is powerfully simple:
“I write about the rules nobody explains.”
📚 THE BOOK
We will dedicate a special segment to Nicole’s award-winning, Amazon #1 bestselling book:
Playing the Game While Black Womaning in Corporate America™: Your Ultimate Playbook in Navigating Power, Perception, and Prejudice in the Workplace
This isn't simply a conversation about surviving corporate America. We are going deeper:
How do you understand the game, navigate the unwritten rules, advance your career—and still remain authentically YOU?
✨ WHAT YOU WILL LEARN…
✨ Why outstanding performance alone may not be enough to advance your career.
✨ How to recognize and navigate the unwritten rules of corporate America.
✨ How power, perception, and prejudice can influence careers, opportunities, and leadership.
✨ How to understand organizational politics without compromising your integrity.
✨ Why relationships, sponsorship, visibility, and social capital matter.
✨ How to navigate bias strategically without internalizing it.
✨ How to protect both your peace and your paycheck.
✨ How leaders can make the unwritten rules more transparent and create workplaces where talented people can truly thrive.
✨ How Nicole transformed decades of corporate lessons into an award-winning book, media platform, and entrepreneurial mission.
And one question I especially look forward to asking Nicole:
“How do we learn to play the game—and even win the game—without losing ourselves in the process?”
💬 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, career advancement, workplace politics, power, perception, prejudice, publishing, or entrepreneurship for Nicole? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!
⸻
👇 YOUR TURN:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this conversation?
➡️ What is one leadership insight you will apply this week?
➡️ What is one unwritten rule of the workplace you wish someone had taught you earlier in your career?
➡️ Tag a colleague, emerging leader, junior officer, mentor, sponsor, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
🎙️ Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ🌍 Leadership lessons from Master Teachers around the world.
Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #NicoleSPalmer #BlackWomaningInCorporateAmerica #Leadership #PlayingTheGame #WomenInLeadership #BlackWomenInLeadership #CareerDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #ExecutiveLeadership #Power #Perception #AuthenticLeadership #DelnicMedia #Authors #Entrepreneurship #Mentorship #LeadershipDevelopment

S5:E195🎙️ LIVE with SFC Roland Irions Jr., USA (Ret.)
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ – Season 5, Episode 195
From Soldier to AI Trainer: Leadership, Reinvention & the Courage to Change
🚨 Mark Your Calendars! 🚨
📅 Tuesday, October 6, 2026⏰ 2:00 PM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 5:00 PM ET (Richmond, VA)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
For 22 years, SFC Roland Irions Jr., USA (Ret.) dedicated his life to serving our Nation, leading Soldiers, and teaching others to master complex systems that transformed the U.S. Army.
As a logistics leader, instructor, and Senior Chief Instructor, Roland helped shape the next generation of military professionals before going on to train more than 150,000 Soldiers and Department of Defense civilians on enterprise systems including IPPS-A and GCSS-Army. After retiring from the Army, he founded Cajer LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, continuing his mission of helping organizations navigate change.
Then came another crossroads.
The technology landscape shifted, forcing Roland to reinvent his business—and himself. Rather than resisting change, he embraced it. Today, as an AI Training Specialist at Skilldora®, he helps business leaders, entrepreneurs, and veterans harness artificial intelligence to work smarter, lead better, and prepare for the future.
Roland's story reminds us that the greatest leaders are lifelong learners. His journey demonstrates that courage isn't just found on the battlefield—it is also found in the willingness to adapt, grow, and embrace the unknown.
Whether you're a military leader, executive, entrepreneur, educator, or someone wondering how AI will shape the future of work, you won't want to miss this inspiring conversation.
What You'll Learn…
✨ How an unexpected Army enlistment became a remarkable 22-year career of service and leadership
✨ Leadership lessons from training 150,000+ Soldiers and DoD civilians
✨ Why the best leaders are also the best lifelong learners
✨ How to successfully lead people through change—even when they don't want to change
✨ The mindset required to reinvent your career when your industry changes
✨ From AI skeptic to AI trainer: Roland's powerful transformation story
✨ Why "Train the Human. Deploy the AI." is the leadership philosophy organizations need today
✨ How AI can enhance—not replace—human leadership
✨ Practical advice for veterans transitioning into civilian careers and the future workforce
✨ Roland's wisdom on resilience, adaptability, servant leadership, and leaving a lasting legacy
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got leadership, military transition, AI, or networking questions for Roland? Post them below—we'll answer them LIVE during the show!
 
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this conversation?
➡️ What is one leadership lesson you'll begin applying this week?
➡️ How are you preparing yourself—or your organization—for the age of AI?
➡️ Tag a veteran, leader, entrepreneur, educator, junior officer, NCO, or teammate who would benefit from this inspiring conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #Leadership #USArmy #Army #Veteran #MilitaryLeadership #NCO #Logistics #LeadershipDevelopment #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation #ChangeManagement #LifelongLearning #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Service #MissionFirstPeopleAlways #LeadershipMatters #Veterans #Podcast #LinkedInLive

S5:E195🎙️ LIVE with SFC Roland Irions Jr., USA (Ret.)
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ – Season 5, Episode 195
From Soldier to AI Trainer: Leadership, Reinvention & the Courage to Change
🚨 Mark Your Calendars! 🚨
📅 Tuesday, October 6, 2026⏰ 2:00 PM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 5:00 PM ET (Richmond, VA)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
 
For 22 years, SFC Roland Irions Jr., USA (Ret.) dedicated his life to serving our Nation, leading Soldiers, and teaching others to master complex systems that transformed the U.S. Army.
As a logistics leader, instructor, and Senior Chief Instructor, Roland helped shape the next generation of military professionals before going on to train more than 150,000 Soldiers and Department of Defense civilians on enterprise systems including IPPS-A and GCSS-Army. After retiring from the Army, he founded Cajer LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, continuing his mission of helping organizations navigate change.
Then came another crossroads.
The technology landscape shifted, forcing Roland to reinvent his business—and himself. Rather than resisting change, he embraced it. Today, as an AI Training Specialist at Skilldora®, he helps business leaders, entrepreneurs, and veterans harness artificial intelligence to work smarter, lead better, and prepare for the future.
Roland's story reminds us that the greatest leaders are lifelong learners. His journey demonstrates that courage isn't just found on the battlefield—it is also found in the willingness to adapt, grow, and embrace the unknown.
Whether you're a military leader, executive, entrepreneur, educator, or someone wondering how AI will shape the future of work, you won't want to miss this inspiring conversation.
What You'll Learn…
✨ How an unexpected Army enlistment became a remarkable 22-year career of service and leadership
✨ Leadership lessons from training 150,000+ Soldiers and DoD civilians
✨ Why the best leaders are also the best lifelong learners
✨ How to successfully lead people through change—even when they don't want to change
✨ The mindset required to reinvent your career when your industry changes
✨ From AI skeptic to AI trainer: Roland's powerful transformation story
✨ Why "Train the Human. Deploy the AI." is the leadership philosophy organizations need today
✨ How AI can enhance—not replace—human leadership
✨ Practical advice for veterans transitioning into civilian careers and the future workforce
✨ Roland's wisdom on resilience, adaptability, servant leadership, and leaving a lasting legacy
 
💬 Join the Conversation!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got leadership, military transition, AI, or networking questions for Roland? Post them below—we'll answer them LIVE during the show!
 
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this conversation?
➡️ What is one leadership lesson you'll begin applying this week?
➡️ How are you preparing yourself—or your organization—for the age of AI?
➡️ Tag a veteran, leader, entrepreneur, educator, junior officer, NCO, or teammate who would benefit from this inspiring conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #Leadership #USArmy #Army #Veteran #MilitaryLeadership #NCO #Logistics #LeadershipDevelopment #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation #ChangeManagement #LifelongLearning #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Service #MissionFirstPeopleAlways #LeadershipMatters #Veterans #Podcast #LinkedInLive

S5:E194🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic, DIT
Cybersecurity Audit, Agility, AI & the Discipline of Lifelong Learning
Mark your calendars!
The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — S5:E194 goes LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic—cybersecurity educator, author, audit and risk leader, and lifelong learner whose career spans more than three decades across technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk management, and education.
📅 Tuesday, September 29, 2026 ⏰ 6:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 9:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion!
🌟 Meet My Guest
Dr. Linda Kostic has built a remarkable career at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, audit, risk, governance, education, and now artificial intelligence.
Her leadership journey includes senior roles with Citi, T. Rowe Price, Transamerica, and E*TRADE Financial, where she helped organizations navigate cybersecurity and technology audit, enterprise and operational risk, regulatory compliance, third-party risk, and major transformation initiatives.
Today, Linda serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), teaching undergraduate and graduate students while bringing decades of real-world experience into the classroom.
But what I find particularly compelling about Linda's story is her commitment to lifelong learning.
Throughout her career, she has repeatedly accepted assignments in areas she had not yet mastered—and then learned, built, led, and ultimately helped others grow.
Learn. Build. Develop Others. Leave It Better.
That is leadership. ❤️🙏🏾
📘 Featured Conversation: Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
We will explore Linda's 2026 book, Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and an increasingly important question:
How can Agile practices and AI transform cybersecurity auditing while preserving the professional judgment, critical thinking, accountability, and human oversight that effective assurance requires?
We will discuss where AI can reduce administrative burden, improve audit efficiency, strengthen analysis and enable auditors to spend more time on what humans do best—asking difficult questions, exercising judgment, understanding risk, communicating insight, and helping organizations make better decisions.
🎓 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why lifelong learning is a discipline, not simply a slogan.
✨ How Linda went from accounting into technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk, and AI—and what leaders can learn from repeatedly stepping into unfamiliar territory.
✨ Why leaders don't need to know everything before accepting a difficult assignment—but they must know how to learn.
✨ How Agile methodologies and AI can reshape cybersecurity auditing.
✨ Where AI can augment auditors—and where human judgment and accountability must remain essential.
✨ How organizations can move from periodic, process-heavy auditing toward more agile, data-informed and continuous approaches to assurance.
✨ Why developing people, not merely processes and technology, is essential to sustainable transformation.
✨ What Linda has learned from three decades of leadership—and what today's cybersecurity and AI professionals should be learning now.
📚 Explore Linda's book: ⁠Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)⁠
💬 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 for Dr. Linda Kostic about leadership, cybersecurity audit, Agile, AI, risk, education, or lifelong learning? 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 who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

S5:E194🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic, DIT
Cybersecurity Audit, Agility, AI & the Discipline of Lifelong Learning
Mark your calendars!
The Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — S5:E194 goes LIVE with Dr. Linda Kostic—cybersecurity educator, author, audit and risk leader, and lifelong learner whose career spans more than three decades across technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk management, and education.
📅 Tuesday, September 29, 2026 ⏰ 6:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 9:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion!
🌟 Meet My Guest
Dr. Linda Kostic has built a remarkable career at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, audit, risk, governance, education, and now artificial intelligence.
Her leadership journey includes senior roles with Citi, T. Rowe Price, Transamerica, and E*TRADE Financial, where she helped organizations navigate cybersecurity and technology audit, enterprise and operational risk, regulatory compliance, third-party risk, and major transformation initiatives.
Today, Linda serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), teaching undergraduate and graduate students while bringing decades of real-world experience into the classroom.
But what I find particularly compelling about Linda's story is her commitment to lifelong learning.
Throughout her career, she has repeatedly accepted assignments in areas she had not yet mastered—and then learned, built, led, and ultimately helped others grow.
Learn. Build. Develop Others. Leave It Better.
That is leadership. ❤️🙏🏾
📘 Featured Conversation: Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
We will explore Linda's 2026 book, Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and an increasingly important question:
How can Agile practices and AI transform cybersecurity auditing while preserving the professional judgment, critical thinking, accountability, and human oversight that effective assurance requires?
We will discuss where AI can reduce administrative burden, improve audit efficiency, strengthen analysis and enable auditors to spend more time on what humans do best—asking difficult questions, exercising judgment, understanding risk, communicating insight, and helping organizations make better decisions.
🎓 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why lifelong learning is a discipline, not simply a slogan.
✨ How Linda went from accounting into technology, cybersecurity, audit, risk, and AI—and what leaders can learn from repeatedly stepping into unfamiliar territory.
✨ Why leaders don't need to know everything before accepting a difficult assignment—but they must know how to learn.
✨ How Agile methodologies and AI can reshape cybersecurity auditing.
✨ Where AI can augment auditors—and where human judgment and accountability must remain essential.
✨ How organizations can move from periodic, process-heavy auditing toward more agile, data-informed and continuous approaches to assurance.
✨ Why developing people, not merely processes and technology, is essential to sustainable transformation.
✨ What Linda has learned from three decades of leadership—and what today's cybersecurity and AI professionals should be learning now.
📚 Explore Linda's book: ⁠Transforming Cybersecurity Audit Practices with Agility and Artificial Intelligence (AI)⁠
💬 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 for Dr. Linda Kostic about leadership, cybersecurity audit, Agile, AI, risk, education, or lifelong learning? 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 who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

S5:E193🎙️ LIVE with LTG David Wilson, U.S. Army (Ret.) 🇺🇸
NEXT UP: Season 5:Episode 193 — “At the Speed of War: Leadership, Logistics & Legacy”
Mark your calendars for another powerful conversation on the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!
📅 Monday, September 28, 2026⏰ 8:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 11:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion
🌟 MEET OUR GUEST
LTG David Wilson, U.S. Army (Ret.), represents nearly four decades of leadership, logistics, readiness, and service at the highest levels of the United States Army.
A 1991 graduate of The Citadel, Wilson rose from his early Army service to become a three-star general, serving around the world and leading some of the Army's most consequential sustainment organizations. His assignments included Commanding General of Army Sustainment Command, Commanding General of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, senior logistics leadership with U.S. Forces Korea, and the Army's 40th Chief of Ordnance.
His career also made history.
✨ Wilson became the first African American active-duty alumnus of The Citadel to attain general officer rank when he received his first star.
✨ He subsequently became the first African American Citadel graduate to attain the rank of Major General.
✨ In 2024, he was promoted to Lieutenant General, becoming the first African American Citadel graduate to reach three-star rank.
But this conversation is about far more than stars on a uniform.
LTG Wilson's story encompasses adversity, resilience, mentorship, contested logistics, organizational transformation, developing people, breaking barriers, and preparing organizations before the crisis arrives.
One of the leadership principles that will frame our conversation:
“Logistics can't be the afterthought. It has to be the forethought.”
And that leads directly to our episode title:
🎙️ “AT THE SPEED OF WAR: LEADERSHIP, LOGISTICS & LEGACY”
💡 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why readiness must be built before the crisis arrives—and what it means to deliver capability at the “speed of war” rather than the “speed of bureaucracy.”
✨ Why logistics isn't merely a supporting function—it can determine operational reach, endurance, tempo, and ultimately mission success.
✨ What commanding global sustainment organizations taught LTG Wilson about translating strategy into execution.
✨ How leaders prepare for contested logistics, disrupted supply chains, degraded communications, and the extraordinary distances of the Indo-Pacific.
✨ How AI, data, predictive analytics, autonomous systems, and emerging technologies may transform logistics—and why human judgment still matters.
✨ What LTG Wilson learned about leadership through adversity, including confronting challenges that no rank or position could solve.
✨ What it means to become a historic “first”—and the responsibility leaders have to ensure they are not the last.
✨ How mentors, NCOs, Soldiers, peers, family, and experiences across decades of service helped shape his leadership philosophy.
✨ Why the best leaders build people, systems, and organizations capable of succeeding without them.
✨ And perhaps most importantly: after nearly four decades of service, what does LTG David Wilson want the next generation of leaders to understand about leadership, success, service, and legacy?
💬 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 for LTG David Wilson about leadership, logistics, readiness, resilience, mentorship, or preparing for the next fight? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
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👇 YOUR TURN:
➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this conversation?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Tag a colleague, Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, Guardian, junior officer, NCO, high-tech leader, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 

S5:E193🎙️ LIVE with LTG David Wilson, U.S. Army (Ret.) 🇺🇸
NEXT UP: Season 5:Episode 193 — “At the Speed of War: Leadership, Logistics & Legacy”
Mark your calendars for another powerful conversation on the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!
📅 Monday, September 28, 2026⏰ 8:00 AM PT (San Francisco) | 11:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion
🌟 MEET OUR GUEST
LTG David Wilson, U.S. Army (Ret.), represents nearly four decades of leadership, logistics, readiness, and service at the highest levels of the United States Army.
A 1991 graduate of The Citadel, Wilson rose from his early Army service to become a three-star general, serving around the world and leading some of the Army's most consequential sustainment organizations. His assignments included Commanding General of Army Sustainment Command, Commanding General of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, senior logistics leadership with U.S. Forces Korea, and the Army's 40th Chief of Ordnance.
His career also made history.
✨ Wilson became the first African American active-duty alumnus of The Citadel to attain general officer rank when he received his first star.
✨ He subsequently became the first African American Citadel graduate to attain the rank of Major General.
✨ In 2024, he was promoted to Lieutenant General, becoming the first African American Citadel graduate to reach three-star rank.
But this conversation is about far more than stars on a uniform.
LTG Wilson's story encompasses adversity, resilience, mentorship, contested logistics, organizational transformation, developing people, breaking barriers, and preparing organizations before the crisis arrives.
One of the leadership principles that will frame our conversation:
“Logistics can't be the afterthought. It has to be the forethought.”
And that leads directly to our episode title:
🎙️ “AT THE SPEED OF WAR: LEADERSHIP, LOGISTICS & LEGACY”
💡 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why readiness must be built before the crisis arrives—and what it means to deliver capability at the “speed of war” rather than the “speed of bureaucracy.”
✨ Why logistics isn't merely a supporting function—it can determine operational reach, endurance, tempo, and ultimately mission success.
✨ What commanding global sustainment organizations taught LTG Wilson about translating strategy into execution.
✨ How leaders prepare for contested logistics, disrupted supply chains, degraded communications, and the extraordinary distances of the Indo-Pacific.
✨ How AI, data, predictive analytics, autonomous systems, and emerging technologies may transform logistics—and why human judgment still matters.
✨ What LTG Wilson learned about leadership through adversity, including confronting challenges that no rank or position could solve.
✨ What it means to become a historic “first”—and the responsibility leaders have to ensure they are not the last.
✨ How mentors, NCOs, Soldiers, peers, family, and experiences across decades of service helped shape his leadership philosophy.
✨ Why the best leaders build people, systems, and organizations capable of succeeding without them.
✨ And perhaps most importantly: after nearly four decades of service, what does LTG David Wilson want the next generation of leaders to understand about leadership, success, service, and legacy?
💬 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 for LTG David Wilson about leadership, logistics, readiness, resilience, mentorship, or preparing for the next fight? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
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👇 YOUR TURN:
➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this conversation?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Tag a colleague, Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, Guardian, junior officer, NCO, high-tech leader, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
 

S5:E192🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Tasliym Morales, DBA
NEXT on Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!
Season 5:Episode 192 — “Beyond the Title: People, Governance & the Power of Opportunity”
📅 Sunday, September 27, 2026⏰ 11 AM PT (San Francisco) | 2 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion
I am excited to welcome Dr. Tasliym Morales, DBA, to the Leadership & Success Podcast for a conversation that goes beyond the title to explore what leadership looks like when people, governance, accountability, opportunity, and service come together.
Dr. Morales is a human resources executive, governance strategist, public servant, scholar, and Founder & Principal Advisor of C5 Organizational Consulting. With more than two decades of progressive leadership experience, she has helped organizations navigate transformation, workforce development, mergers and acquisitions, organizational change, talent strategy, executive leadership, and culture. Beyond corporate leadership, she serves as an elected School Board Director and Treasurer, chairs a Legislative Committee, and serves as an elected advisor to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
Her leadership journey is also deeply personal. The daughter of a late United States Marine, Dr. Morales credits her father with helping instill the values of discipline, integrity, accountability, and service that continue to shape how she leads today.
💡 What You Will Learn
✨ Why people strategy is business strategy—and why HR belongs at the strategic leadership table.
✨ What effective governance looks like and why accountability matters in corporations, nonprofits, schools, and public institutions.
✨ How leaders can build organizational cultures where people and performance thrive together.
✨ Why Dr. Morales believes exposure and opportunity can fundamentally alter the trajectory of a person's life.
✨ Her groundbreaking concept of “Intellectual Poverty”—the inability to make effective, life-enriching decisions because of insufficient exposure to positive cultural, intellectual, developmental, and growth-producing influences. Biography
✨ What more than 20 years of leadership and organizational transformation have taught her about people, culture, change, and accountability. Biography
✨ What today's leaders can learn from her scholarship on Black leadership during the Reconstruction Era and the importance of understanding history to lead the future. Biography
✨ Why leadership ultimately isn't about the title we hold—but what our leadership makes possible for someone else.
💬 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, governance, organizational culture, education, or people-strategy question for Dr. Morales? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
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👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this conversation?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, executive, HR leader, educator, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
Leadership goes beyond the title. The real question is: What becomes possible for others because you had the opportunity to lead?
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #BeyondTheTitle #Leadership #ExecutiveLeadership #ServantLeadership #Governance #PeopleAndCulture #HumanResources #PeopleStrategy #OrganizationalLeadership #EducationLeadership #PublicService #IntellectualPoverty #WorkforceDevelopment #LeadershipDevelopment #LifelongLearning

S5:E192🎙️ LIVE with Dr. Tasliym Morales, DBA
NEXT on Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!
Season 5:Episode 192 — “Beyond the Title: People, Governance & the Power of Opportunity”
📅 Sunday, September 27, 2026⏰ 11 AM PT (San Francisco) | 2 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion
I am excited to welcome Dr. Tasliym Morales, DBA, to the Leadership & Success Podcast for a conversation that goes beyond the title to explore what leadership looks like when people, governance, accountability, opportunity, and service come together.
Dr. Morales is a human resources executive, governance strategist, public servant, scholar, and Founder & Principal Advisor of C5 Organizational Consulting. With more than two decades of progressive leadership experience, she has helped organizations navigate transformation, workforce development, mergers and acquisitions, organizational change, talent strategy, executive leadership, and culture. Beyond corporate leadership, she serves as an elected School Board Director and Treasurer, chairs a Legislative Committee, and serves as an elected advisor to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
Her leadership journey is also deeply personal. The daughter of a late United States Marine, Dr. Morales credits her father with helping instill the values of discipline, integrity, accountability, and service that continue to shape how she leads today.
💡 What You Will Learn
✨ Why people strategy is business strategy—and why HR belongs at the strategic leadership table.
✨ What effective governance looks like and why accountability matters in corporations, nonprofits, schools, and public institutions.
✨ How leaders can build organizational cultures where people and performance thrive together.
✨ Why Dr. Morales believes exposure and opportunity can fundamentally alter the trajectory of a person's life.
✨ Her groundbreaking concept of “Intellectual Poverty”—the inability to make effective, life-enriching decisions because of insufficient exposure to positive cultural, intellectual, developmental, and growth-producing influences. Biography
✨ What more than 20 years of leadership and organizational transformation have taught her about people, culture, change, and accountability. Biography
✨ What today's leaders can learn from her scholarship on Black leadership during the Reconstruction Era and the importance of understanding history to lead the future. Biography
✨ Why leadership ultimately isn't about the title we hold—but what our leadership makes possible for someone else.
💬 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, governance, organizational culture, education, or people-strategy question for Dr. Morales? Post it below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this conversation?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, executive, HR leader, educator, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾
Leadership goes beyond the title. The real question is: What becomes possible for others because you had the opportunity to lead?
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #BeyondTheTitle #Leadership #ExecutiveLeadership #ServantLeadership #Governance #PeopleAndCulture #HumanResources #PeopleStrategy #OrganizationalLeadership #EducationLeadership #PublicService #IntellectualPoverty #WorkforceDevelopment #LeadershipDevelopment #LifelongLearning

S5:E191🎙️ LIVE | 🇺🇸 AMERICA 250: Leadership Through Adversity
What America’s Most Marginalized Leaders Teach Us About Resilience, Courage, Character & Hope
Mark your calendars for the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5, Episode 191!
This episode is based on my latest LEAD article:
🇺🇸 AMERICA 250: Leadership Through AdversityWhat America’s Most Marginalized Leaders Teach Us About Resilience, Courage, Character & Hope
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-through-adversity-bob-fabien-bz-zinga--kkcff
📅 Monday, September 21, 2026⏰ 3:30 PM PT (San Francisco) | 6:30 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
💡 What You Will Learn
America’s history reminds us that extraordinary leadership is rarely forged in comfort.
Across generations, leaders have encountered barriers they did not create, circumstances they could not control, and institutions that did not always recognize their full potential. Yet many chose to respond with resilience, courage, character, excellence, service, and hope.
In this episode, we will explore:
⚓ Why adversity can reveal and develop leadership character.
🌱 How resilient leaders transform hardship into purpose rather than bitterness.
💪🏾 Why perseverance is not simply enduring difficulty, but continuing to serve, grow, and lead through it.
🚪 Why being the “first” matters—but ensuring you are not the last may matter even more.
🤝 How mentorship, sponsorship, and service can turn one leader’s breakthrough into opportunities for generations.
🧭 Why character matters most when circumstances are hardest and our values become most expensive to uphold.
🕯️ Why hope is not denial of reality—it is the disciplined courage to keep moving forward while working to make reality better.
And perhaps most importantly, we will ask:
What will the people coming behind us inherit because of how we choose to lead today?
Leadership through adversity is not simply about surviving difficult seasons.
It is about allowing those seasons to strengthen our character without surrendering our humanity, our purpose, or our hope.
🗺️ 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 Coach BZ? Type it below—I will answer LIVE during the show!
❤️🙏🏾 Tag someone who might benefit from this conversation.
And after the episode, share your three biggest takeaways. What did you learn—or rediscover—that you will put into practice this week?
Please share your insights below so someone else can learn from you.
Adversity may shape the circumstances of our leadership.Character determines what we do with them.
This too shall pass. I believe in you. Keep the faith. ❤️🙏🏾🇺🇸
#America250 #LeadershipThroughAdversity #LEAD #Leadership #ResilientLeadership #Resilience #Courage #Character #Hope #Mentorship #ServantLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #MilitaryLeadership #Legacy #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ

S5:E191🎙️ LIVE | 🇺🇸 AMERICA 250: Leadership Through Adversity
What America’s Most Marginalized Leaders Teach Us About Resilience, Courage, Character & Hope
Mark your calendars for the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, Season 5, Episode 191!
This episode is based on my latest LEAD article:
🇺🇸 AMERICA 250: Leadership Through AdversityWhat America’s Most Marginalized Leaders Teach Us About Resilience, Courage, Character & Hope
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-through-adversity-bob-fabien-bz-zinga--kkcff
📅 Monday, September 21, 2026⏰ 3:30 PM PT (San Francisco) | 6:30 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]
💡 What You Will Learn
America’s history reminds us that extraordinary leadership is rarely forged in comfort.
Across generations, leaders have encountered barriers they did not create, circumstances they could not control, and institutions that did not always recognize their full potential. Yet many chose to respond with resilience, courage, character, excellence, service, and hope.
In this episode, we will explore:
⚓ Why adversity can reveal and develop leadership character.
🌱 How resilient leaders transform hardship into purpose rather than bitterness.
💪🏾 Why perseverance is not simply enduring difficulty, but continuing to serve, grow, and lead through it.
🚪 Why being the “first” matters—but ensuring you are not the last may matter even more.
🤝 How mentorship, sponsorship, and service can turn one leader’s breakthrough into opportunities for generations.
🧭 Why character matters most when circumstances are hardest and our values become most expensive to uphold.
🕯️ Why hope is not denial of reality—it is the disciplined courage to keep moving forward while working to make reality better.
And perhaps most importantly, we will ask:
What will the people coming behind us inherit because of how we choose to lead today?
Leadership through adversity is not simply about surviving difficult seasons.
It is about allowing those seasons to strengthen our character without surrendering our humanity, our purpose, or our hope.
🗺️ 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 Coach BZ? Type it below—I will answer LIVE during the show!
❤️🙏🏾 Tag someone who might benefit from this conversation.
And after the episode, share your three biggest takeaways. What did you learn—or rediscover—that you will put into practice this week?
Please share your insights below so someone else can learn from you.
Adversity may shape the circumstances of our leadership.Character determines what we do with them.
This too shall pass. I believe in you. Keep the faith. ❤️🙏🏾🇺🇸
#America250 #LeadershipThroughAdversity #LEAD #Leadership #ResilientLeadership #Resilience #Courage #Character #Hope #Mentorship #ServantLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #MilitaryLeadership #Legacy #LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ

S5:E190🎙️ LIVE | Leadership Lessons from the Life & Legacy of Doris Miller
🎙️ NEXT EPISODE — LIVE TODAY! 🇺🇸⚓🫡
📣 Mark your calendars!
Join me for Season 5, Episode 190 of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, as we explore the extraordinary life, courage, service, and leadership legacy of Doris “Dorie” Miller, USN.
📅 Monday, September 21, 2026⏰ 2:30 PM PT (San Francisco) | 5:30 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn — RSVP & join the discussion!
This episode is based on my LEAD article:
MAN THE GUN: Leadership Lessons from the Life and Legacy of American Hero Doris Miller 🇺🇸⚓Leadership Is Not the Position You Are Given. It Is the Responsibility You Are Willing to Accept.
Read the LEAD article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lead-man-gun-leadership-lessons-from-life-legacy-hero-mjqpc
🎯 WHAT WILL WE LEARN?
On December 7, 1941, Miller was not an officer or ship's captain. He was serving aboard USS West Virginia in a segregated Navy that severely restricted opportunities available to Black Sailors.
But when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the moment exceeded his assignment—and his character determined his response.
We will explore timeless leadership lessons from his example:
⚓ Leadership begins before permission arrives. You don't need the title to lead.
❤️ Take care of your people. Before Miller manned the gun, he helped his mortally wounded commanding officer. Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.
🔥 MAN THE GUN. When the mission requires responsible action, don't hide behind “That's not my job.” Bring excellence wherever it is needed.
🫡 Courage requires action before certainty. Leadership often means moving toward the problem when others are moving away.
💡 Never confuse rank with leadership. Titles provide authority; character, competence, initiative, and service build influence.
🚪 Great leaders recognize potential others overlook. Who are we failing to see because of their rank, title, background, education, or current assignment?
🌱 Leadership creates possibilities for people you may never meet. Our greatest legacy may be the doors we open for those who come after us.
And ultimately:
Take care of your people.Move toward the problem.MAN THE GUN.LEAD. 🇺🇸⚓
🗺️ 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 Coach BZ? Type it below, and I will answer it LIVE during the show.
❤️ Tag someone who might benefit from this conversation.
After the episode, share your three biggest takeaways. What did you learn—or what were you reminded of—that you will actually put into practice this week?
See you LIVE! 🎙️🇺🇸⚓🫡
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #DorisMiller #DorieMiller #Leadership #MilitaryLeadership #NavyLeadership #USNavy #PearlHarbor #NavyCross #MissionFirstPeopleAlways #Courage #Character #Initiative #ServantLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #LeadFromWhereYouAre #BlackMilitaryHistory #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #AmericanHero #LEAD

S5:E190🎙️ LIVE | Leadership Lessons from the Life & Legacy of Doris Miller
🎙️ NEXT EPISODE — LIVE TODAY! 🇺🇸⚓🫡
📣 Mark your calendars!
Join me for Season 5, Episode 190 of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ, as we explore the extraordinary life, courage, service, and leadership legacy of Doris “Dorie” Miller, USN.
📅 Monday, September 21, 2026⏰ 2:30 PM PT (San Francisco) | 5:30 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn — RSVP & join the discussion!
This episode is based on my LEAD article:
MAN THE GUN: Leadership Lessons from the Life and Legacy of American Hero Doris Miller 🇺🇸⚓Leadership Is Not the Position You Are Given. It Is the Responsibility You Are Willing to Accept.
Read the LEAD article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lead-man-gun-leadership-lessons-from-life-legacy-hero-mjqpc
🎯 WHAT WILL WE LEARN?
On December 7, 1941, Miller was not an officer or ship's captain. He was serving aboard USS West Virginia in a segregated Navy that severely restricted opportunities available to Black Sailors.
But when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the moment exceeded his assignment—and his character determined his response.
We will explore timeless leadership lessons from his example:
⚓ Leadership begins before permission arrives. You don't need the title to lead.
❤️ Take care of your people. Before Miller manned the gun, he helped his mortally wounded commanding officer. Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.
🔥 MAN THE GUN. When the mission requires responsible action, don't hide behind “That's not my job.” Bring excellence wherever it is needed.
🫡 Courage requires action before certainty. Leadership often means moving toward the problem when others are moving away.
💡 Never confuse rank with leadership. Titles provide authority; character, competence, initiative, and service build influence.
🚪 Great leaders recognize potential others overlook. Who are we failing to see because of their rank, title, background, education, or current assignment?
🌱 Leadership creates possibilities for people you may never meet. Our greatest legacy may be the doors we open for those who come after us.
And ultimately:
Take care of your people.Move toward the problem.MAN THE GUN.LEAD. 🇺🇸⚓
🗺️ 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 Coach BZ? Type it below, and I will answer it LIVE during the show.
❤️ Tag someone who might benefit from this conversation.
After the episode, share your three biggest takeaways. What did you learn—or what were you reminded of—that you will actually put into practice this week?
See you LIVE! 🎙️🇺🇸⚓🫡
#LeadershipAndSuccess #CoachBZ #DorisMiller #DorieMiller #Leadership #MilitaryLeadership #NavyLeadership #USNavy #PearlHarbor #NavyCross #MissionFirstPeopleAlways #Courage #Character #Initiative #ServantLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #LeadFromWhereYouAre #BlackMilitaryHistory #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #AmericanHero #LEAD

S31:E27AI RECAP🎙️ LIVE AWLL From Proverbs — Chapter 27🚨 LIVE AI RECAP — 15-Minute Leadership Breakdown 🚨
🎙️ Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ📘 Season 31, Episode 27AI RECAP
Ancient Wisdom & Leadership Lessons from the Book of Proverbs — Chapter 27
This powerful episode is based on my latest LinkedIn article:👉 “Ancient Wisdom & Leadership Lessons from the Book of Proverbs — Chapter 27”(https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ancient-wisdom-leadership-lessons-from-book-proverbs-bob-fabien-bz--oqboc)
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🧠 Hosted by AI Agents: Joe AI & Beth AI🎯 Your 10-Minute Highlight Breakdown — Built for Busy Leaders
⏰ Busy schedule? We’ve got you.📅 Date: Monday, September 21, 2026⏰ Time: 2:00 PM PT (San Francisco) | 5:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn
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🎯 What You Will Learn — Proverbs Chapter 27
In this episode, we will explore:✅ Why humility is essential for navigating uncertainty✅ How honest feedback strengthens leadership credibility✅ Why emotional intelligence protects influence under pressure✅ How accountability accelerates personal and professional growth✅ Why daily stewardship—not charisma—sustains long-term leadership success
“Proverbs 27 reminds us that leadership is refined through humility, strengthened by truth, and sustained through faithful stewardship. Leaders who invite accountability and tend their responsibilities daily build influence that endures.”
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💬 Join the Conversation LIVE!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country below!🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a leadership question for Coach BZ?Type it in the comments — I’ll answer it LIVE during the show!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?➡️ What’s one leadership insight you will apply this week?
Share your thoughts below so others can learn and grow with you.
⸻
❤️ Tag a leader who needs this message.
Let’s grow together — from the deckplates to the boardroom to the digital battlefield.
#Leadership #Proverbs27 #CoachBZ #ServantLeadership #MilitaryLeadership #CyberLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #DecisionMaking #Integrity #GrowthMindset

S31:E27AI RECAP🎙️ LIVE AWLL From Proverbs — Chapter 27🚨 LIVE AI RECAP — 15-Minute Leadership Breakdown 🚨
🎙️ Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ📘 Season 31, Episode 27AI RECAP
Ancient Wisdom & Leadership Lessons from the Book of Proverbs — Chapter 27
This powerful episode is based on my latest LinkedIn article:👉 “Ancient Wisdom & Leadership Lessons from the Book of Proverbs — Chapter 27”(https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ancient-wisdom-leadership-lessons-from-book-proverbs-bob-fabien-bz--oqboc)
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🧠 Hosted by AI Agents: Joe AI & Beth AI🎯 Your 10-Minute Highlight Breakdown — Built for Busy Leaders
⏰ Busy schedule? We’ve got you.📅 Date: Monday, September 21, 2026⏰ Time: 2:00 PM PT (San Francisco) | 5:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)📍 LIVE on LinkedIn
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🎯 What You Will Learn — Proverbs Chapter 27
In this episode, we will explore:✅ Why humility is essential for navigating uncertainty✅ How honest feedback strengthens leadership credibility✅ Why emotional intelligence protects influence under pressure✅ How accountability accelerates personal and professional growth✅ Why daily stewardship—not charisma—sustains long-term leadership success
“Proverbs 27 reminds us that leadership is refined through humility, strengthened by truth, and sustained through faithful stewardship. Leaders who invite accountability and tend their responsibilities daily build influence that endures.”
⸻
💬 Join the Conversation LIVE!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, state, or country below!🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a leadership question for Coach BZ?Type it in the comments — I’ll answer it LIVE during the show!
⸻
👇 Your Turn:
➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?➡️ What’s one leadership insight you will apply this week?
Share your thoughts below so others can learn and grow with you.
⸻
❤️ Tag a leader who needs this message.
Let’s grow together — from the deckplates to the boardroom to the digital battlefield.
#Leadership #Proverbs27 #CoachBZ #ServantLeadership #MilitaryLeadership #CyberLeadership #ExecutiveLeadership #DecisionMaking #Integrity #GrowthMindset

S5:E189🎙️ LIVE with MAJ Christopher M. Boss, U.S. Army Green Beret
GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP: From Green Beret to an Outstanding Life 🟢🇺🇸
Mark your calendars! Join me LIVE for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ as I welcome MAJ Christopher M. Boss, U.S. Army Green Beret—Special Forces officer, philosopher, educator, strategist, leadership developer, founder of American Leader, husband, father, and forthcoming author.
⁠Connect with MAJ Christopher Boss on LinkedIn⁠
📅 Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10 AM PT (San Francisco/Los Angeles, CA) | 1 PM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion!
🟢 GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP: From Green Beret to an Outstanding Life
Chris has spent more than 15 years serving in the U.S. Army, progressing from Infantry Platoon Leader and Executive Officer to Special Forces Detachment Commander, instructor for the Army Special Operations Forces Captains Career Course, and Multi-Domain Special Operations Company Commander. Today, he serves as an Exercise Control Officer supporting Special Operations Forces training at the National Training Center. 
But Chris brings something particularly fascinating to leadership: before leading Green Berets, he studied and taught philosophy. His journey brings together philosophy, Stoicism, Special Forces, high-consequence leadership, fatherhood, self-mastery, and the responsibility to develop others.
And his leadership philosophy can be captured in three powerful words:
GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP.
🌱 GROW yourself. 🫡 LEAD others. 🌳 DEVELOP a legacy.
Chris believes leadership begins with an inward audit: “You cannot give what you do not have.” Leadership then turns that discipline outward in service of others, while development ensures that leadership continues by building people who go on to build others. 
📚 A Book That Began as a “Death Letter”
One of the most powerful parts of our conversation will explore the deeply personal origin of Chris's forthcoming book, GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP: A Green Beret’s Framework for an Outstanding Life, arriving March 2027.
⁠Learn about GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP⁠
Before his 2013 deployment to the Horn of Africa, Chris began writing a letter for his two sons in case he did not return home. He did not simply want to leave them advice. He wanted to leave them a framework for living.
That “death letter” eventually became something much bigger—a philosophy for how Chris leads Soldiers, shows up as a husband and father, and thinks about what an outstanding life actually requires. 
💡 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why Chris believes the difference between being good, excellent, and outstanding is found in deliberate daily decisions.
✨ What becoming a Green Beret taught him about leadership, trust, uncertainty, and decision-making under pressure.
✨ Why he defines leadership as “freedom, not control.”
✨ What Stoic philosophy can teach today's military, business, technology, and organizational leaders about self-mastery—and where Chris believes Stoicism must go further.
✨ Why leaders must continually close the “say-do gap” between the values they profess and their behavior under pressure. 
✨ Why GROW begins with the question: Who are you becoming?
✨ Why LEAD challenges us to ask: Do people become better because they are led by you?
✨ Why DEVELOP ultimately asks: Who is becoming a leader because of you?
✨ Why Chris believes “A purpose that dies with you was never fully alive.”
✨ What fatherhood has taught a Green Beret about humility, presence, love, and perhaps his most important leadership assignment.
And we will explore one of Chris's quotes that has already stuck with me:
“Either I show up. Or I show up. Or I show up. There is no other option.” — Christopher Boss 
That will preach! 🔥
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S5:E189🎙️ LIVE with MAJ Christopher M. Boss, U.S. Army Green Beret
GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP: From Green Beret to an Outstanding Life 🟢🇺🇸
Mark your calendars! Join me LIVE for the next episode of the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ as I welcome MAJ Christopher M. Boss, U.S. Army Green Beret—Special Forces officer, philosopher, educator, strategist, leadership developer, founder of American Leader, husband, father, and forthcoming author.
⁠Connect with MAJ Christopher Boss on LinkedIn⁠
📅 Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10 AM PT (San Francisco/Los Angeles, CA) | 1 PM ET (Washington, D.C.) 📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion!
🟢 GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP: From Green Beret to an Outstanding Life
Chris has spent more than 15 years serving in the U.S. Army, progressing from Infantry Platoon Leader and Executive Officer to Special Forces Detachment Commander, instructor for the Army Special Operations Forces Captains Career Course, and Multi-Domain Special Operations Company Commander. Today, he serves as an Exercise Control Officer supporting Special Operations Forces training at the National Training Center. 
But Chris brings something particularly fascinating to leadership: before leading Green Berets, he studied and taught philosophy. His journey brings together philosophy, Stoicism, Special Forces, high-consequence leadership, fatherhood, self-mastery, and the responsibility to develop others.
And his leadership philosophy can be captured in three powerful words:
GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP.
🌱 GROW yourself. 🫡 LEAD others. 🌳 DEVELOP a legacy.
Chris believes leadership begins with an inward audit: “You cannot give what you do not have.” Leadership then turns that discipline outward in service of others, while development ensures that leadership continues by building people who go on to build others. 
📚 A Book That Began as a “Death Letter”
One of the most powerful parts of our conversation will explore the deeply personal origin of Chris's forthcoming book, GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP: A Green Beret’s Framework for an Outstanding Life, arriving March 2027.
⁠Learn about GROW | LEAD | DEVELOP⁠
Before his 2013 deployment to the Horn of Africa, Chris began writing a letter for his two sons in case he did not return home. He did not simply want to leave them advice. He wanted to leave them a framework for living.
That “death letter” eventually became something much bigger—a philosophy for how Chris leads Soldiers, shows up as a husband and father, and thinks about what an outstanding life actually requires. 
💡 What You Will Learn…
✨ Why Chris believes the difference between being good, excellent, and outstanding is found in deliberate daily decisions.
✨ What becoming a Green Beret taught him about leadership, trust, uncertainty, and decision-making under pressure.
✨ Why he defines leadership as “freedom, not control.”
✨ What Stoic philosophy can teach today's military, business, technology, and organizational leaders about self-mastery—and where Chris believes Stoicism must go further.
✨ Why leaders must continually close the “say-do gap” between the values they profess and their behavior under pressure. 
✨ Why GROW begins with the question: Who are you becoming?
✨ Why LEAD challenges us to ask: Do people become better because they are led by you?
✨ Why DEVELOP ultimately asks: Who is becoming a leader because of you?
✨ Why Chris believes “A purpose that dies with you was never fully alive.”
✨ What fatherhood has taught a Green Beret about humility, presence, love, and perhaps his most important leadership assignment.
And we will explore one of Chris's quotes that has already stuck with me:
“Either I show up. Or I show up. Or I show up. There is no other option.” — Christopher Boss 
That will preach! 🔥
💬 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?