S5:E183🎙️ LIVE with Coach Tarek Taha

S5:E183🎙️ LIVE with Coach Tarek Taha

🏔️ Choose Your Mountain: From Success to Significance

 

Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5, Episode 183

 

What happens when you’ve climbed the ladder, earned the title, achieved the success…and begin wondering whether you’ve been climbing the right mountain?

Join me LIVE for a powerful leadership conversation with fellow Maxwell Leadership Certified Coach Coach Tarek Taha.

 

📅 Wednesday, September 2, 2026

⏰ 6:30 AM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 8:30 AM CT (Greater Fayetteville, AR) | 9:30 AM ET (Washington, D.C.)

📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion

 

🌟 Meet My Guest

Tarek spent 31 years climbing the corporate ladder, including more than two decades at J.B. Hunt, where he ultimately served as Senior Director of Engineering & Technology. Along the way, he led teams, solved complex problems, and helped approximately 130 engineers launch and develop their careers.

Then, in 2018, everything changed.

An infection affecting his brain led to emergency brain surgery and a confrontation with mortality that no promotion, title, or résumé could answer.

That experience forced Tarek to wrestle with a deeper question:

Who am I underneath the title?

He didn't immediately walk away from corporate America. Instead, he began a deliberate journey of faith, growth, leadership, and purpose. At the end of 2025, he stepped away from his Fortune 500 career and into his next chapter as a full-time leadership coach. Today, he helps high achievers build a runway toward what's next—without gambling everything they've spent decades building.

 

🏔️ What You Will Learn…

Tarek uses a brilliant metaphor:

“You were handed a ladder at 22 and told to climb. Nobody asked which mountain was yours.”

During our conversation, we'll explore:

✨ How to move from success to significance

✨ Why your title is not your identity

✨ What 31 years in corporate leadership taught Tarek about people, influence, and purpose

✨ How his 2018 near-death experience transformed the way he thinks about faith, time, health, leadership, and legacy

✨ Why successful leaders can become trapped by the very success they worked so hard to achieve

✨ How to recognize when you've outgrown your current chapter

✨ Why asking better questions may be one of a leader's greatest superpowers

✨ What fellow Maxwell Leadership coaches have learned about adding value to people and living a life of significance

🎓 SPECIAL SEGMENT: “DON’T QUIT YOUR JOB (YET)”

We'll also unpack Tarek's masterclass, “Don't Quit Your Job (Yet)”—created for accomplished professionals caught between:

“I can't leave…”

and

“I can't keep doing this.”

This isn't about recklessly quitting your job.

It's about refusing to let fear make the decision for you.

We'll explore Tarek's four-part journey:

✨ The Pack: Is it really about the money?

✨ The Ladder: Who are you without the title?

✨ The Rope: Who's on your rope?

✨ The Mountain: What were you made for?

Perhaps the most important question isn't:

“How high can I climb?”

Maybe it's:

“Am I climbing the mountain that is actually mine?”

 

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🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a leadership, purpose, career transition, or networking question for Tarek? Post it below—we'll answer as many as we can LIVE!

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👇 Your Turn:

➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

➡️ Are you climbing the ladder—or have you chosen your mountain? 🏔️

➡️ Tag a colleague, leader, junior officer, or teammate who needs this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ

🎙️ S5:E183 — “Choose Your Mountain: From Success to Significance”

 

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