The Lead Up Podcast

You are looking for quick answers and shortcuts. You want better results as a leader. All leaders desire better performance out of themselves and their teams, but you don't have time to waste. The Lead Up Podcast is your place for quick, actionable leadership lessons to get on the express lane of leading others. Great leaders know the way, show the way, and go the way. The best leaders step up to lead, they don't wait on others, they never stop working to make themselves better. They understand that everything rises and falls on leadership. The Lead Up Podcast exists to share ideas we have learned along the way and best practices in our interviews of thoughts leaders from around the globe.

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  Episode 500 - 500 Never Quit Moments: The Behavior Behind the Breakthrough

  Aug 27, 202630 minS0

  <p>In this milestone 500th episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour reflects on the lessons, conversations, and never-quit moments that have shaped the show since its beginning in 2019.</p> <p>But this episode isn't simply a celebration of reaching 500.</p> <p>It's about the behavior behind the breakthrough.</p> <p>We tend to see the milestone, the achievement, or the breakthrough. What we don't always see are the small decisions, habits, preparation, discipline, doubt, recommitment, and repeated choices that made that moment possible.</p> <p>Drawing lessons from 500 episodes and the remarkable CEOs, healthcare executives, authors, founders...

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  Episode 499 The Leadership Strategy Behind Top 10% Patient Satisfaction with Tracey Carson

  Aug 20, 202645 minS0

  <p>Great hospital results rarely come from a single initiative. They come from leaders who get clear about what matters, align their teams around those priorities, and then have the discipline to follow through consistently.</p> <p>In this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike Harbour sits down with Tracey Carson, CNO at UNC Health Johnston, for a practical conversation about the leadership practices behind strong patient experience, employee retention, accountability, and organizational performance.</p> <p>Tracey and her team have moved patient satisfaction into the top 10th percentile nationally, earned Leapfrog A ratings at both hospitals, achieved a...

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  Episode 498 8 Leadership Mistakes Costing You Great People

  Aug 13, 202620 minS0

  <p>In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour challenges the familiar idea that people quit jobs and argues that, more often than we realize, they’re responding to the leadership environment around them.</p> <p>Turnover may be the number that eventually gets an executive’s attention, but it’s often a lagging indicator. The conditions that lead a good employee to disengage, lose trust, or eventually leave can begin months—or even years—before a resignation ever hits your desk.</p> <p>Drawing from more than 30 years of his work with healthcare leaders, Mike shares eight crit...

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  Episode 497 Elite Leader Series with Marcy Doderer

  Aug 6, 202649 minS0

  <p>Healthcare doesn't need leaders who are simply prepared for today's challenges.</p> <p>It needs leaders who are willing to rethink tomorrow.</p> <p>In this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike Harbour sits down with Marcy Doderer, President and CEO of Arkansas Children's and Chair of the Children's Hospital Association, for a conversation about the future of healthcare leadership, innovation, and organizational transformation.</p> <p>Throughout the discussion, Marcy shares the mindset that has guided her leadership through more than a decade of change. From developing leaders for jobs that don't yet exist to reimagining how healthcare...

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  Episode 496 WIN TODAY with Joshua Lifrak

  Jul 30, 202634 minS0

  <p>Pressure doesn't create leaders. It reveals them.</p> <p>Every day, healthcare leaders face situations they didn't choose—staffing shortages, difficult conversations, unexpected setbacks, and decisions that impact patients, employees, and entire organizations.</p> <p>The event isn't always within your control. Your response is.</p> <p>In this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike Harbour sits down with Joshua Lifrak, mental performance coach, leadership consultant, and author of Win Today. Joshua also served as part of the leadership team that helped develop the championship mindset behind the Chicago Cubs' historic World Series victory.</p> <p>Drawing from hi...

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