What Juices You Podcast

What Juices You is a podcast about energy—the kind that fuels high performance, deepens engagement, and brings out the best in people. Hosted by Juice Inc. co-founder Brady Wilson, this interview-style series invites leaders and changemakers to explore what truly energizes them—at work, at home, and in life. Through unscripted, human conversations, each episode uncovers the personal stories, hard-won insights, and daily practices that help individuals manage their energy and lead with impact. Guests reflect on moments of transformation, resilience, connection, and clarity—shedding light on how energy isn’t just a feeling, but a vital resource leaders can learn to cultivate and share. Whether it’s creating psychological safety, finding clarity in chaos, unlocking potential through coaching, or leading with ruthless compassion, you’ll hear what fuels real performance and lasting change. If you’re a leader looking to ener

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  What Juices You with John Todor | Why Modern Life Drains the Brain It Demands

  Aug 17, 20261h 3m

  Why does pushing harder under pressure often leave you with less capacity to solve the problem, not more? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with John Todor, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist who spent decades helping leaders and organizations navigate disruptive change, including years of consulting work for Hewlett-Packard. Todor built his Resilient Brain Program and his Everyday Ways to Vitality practice around a discovery from that work: the leaders who got stuck weren't lacking information or opportunity, they were lacking vitality, the fuel the brain needs to see new possibilities. Todor and Brady trace a straight line between the neuroscience of an overloaded brain and the organizational cost of a depleted team , arguing that the capacity to adapt has to be restored before it can be demanded. In this conversation, you'll hear: The specific eye and posture shift that can interrupt catastrophizing and rumination in seconds, without touching your thoughts directly Why touching a doorframe, or another small physical cue, on the way out of a meeting keeps unresolved issues from quietly draining you all day What actually happens in the brain when you grind on a problem, and why it makes you see fewer solutions, not more How partnering with your team on a messy, unresolved issue produces better outcomes than handing them a tightly structured agenda A simple daily habit, like cooking without a recipe or seeking out small novelty, that builds the brain's capacity for genuine innovation over time If you're a leader who keeps trying to think your way out of pressure, this episode offers a set of small, physical practices that restore the vitality your brain needs to find the answer that grinding never will. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice ’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

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  What Juices You with Neal Schore | Why the Swirl Costs You More Time Than Any Task

  Aug 3, 20261h 15m

  How much of your day gets consumed by something that already happened and can't be changed? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Neal Schore, Founder & CEO of The 25th Hour Group. After building and scaling Triton Digital into a global leader in podcast technology, Schore spent two decades coaching some of the most consequential executives, board members, and private equity leaders in the country on a pattern he calls the swirl: the replay loop that keeps leaders stuck in what already happened, or what hasn't happened yet. His debut book, The 25th Hour , launches August 11 and makes the case that leaders don't lose time to their workload, they lose it to their reactions. Brady and Neal arrive at the same conclusion from entirely different careers, one spent developing leaders and unlocking the energy needed to drive performance, the other spent coaching senior business leaders, board members, and private equity executives. The leaders who reclaim the most time are the ones who learn to manage themselves, not the ones who manage everything around them. Their exchange also circles back to an idea at the heart of the 20th-anniversary edition of Brady's The Power of Conversation : that a single question asked before a conversation begins can change its entire trajectory. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why a demanding workload can leave a leader sharper, while an unmanaged internal loop can quietly cut them down to a fraction of who they are How giving yourself credit, not waiting on someone else's recognition, is what actually breaks the pattern of chasing external approval Why a phrase like "that's way above my pay grade" trains the people around you to believe it, and what to say instead A simple math exercise that exposes how much energy gets spent defending against outcomes with less than a 1% chance of happening Why disrupting small, harmless routines can be the fastest way to loosen the grip of automatic thinking everywhere else If you've ever replayed a meeting for days after it ended, this conversation gives you a way to name the loop, interrupt it, and get the hours back. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice ’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

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  What Juices You with Jennifer Paylor | Why You Can Never Fully Predict a Human Being

  Jul 20, 202652 min

  Why do the leaders who try hardest to control people so often get the least out of them? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Jennifer Paylor, executive coach and former Head of Learning & Development, Talent, and Culture for Capgemini in North America , whose career has been built on a refusal to treat people like resources. Jennifer built and scaled one of the largest internal coaching practices in the world at IBM, reaching tens of thousands of employees across dozens of countries, on a simple premise: you cannot fully predict a human being, and building for that unpredictability is where the real gains show up. She's since taken that philosophy into her own coaching practice, working across industries from technology to law. Together, Brady and Jennifer explore what happens when organizations try to engineer uncertainty out of the people , and why the leaders who make room for what they can't predict tend to get the most from the people around them. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why Jennifer refuses to call people "resources," and what that word quietly does to how leaders treat their teams How a coaching program built around dopamine, not compliance, reached tens of thousands of employees inside IBM Why freedom, in Jennifer's world, means releasing people into who they're already wired to be The blunt question Jennifer asks executive teams the moment a conversation narrows down to just the numbers Why the same skill that makes someone a great coach, asking questions that create real tension, is what separates a useful AI conversation from a hollow one If you're a leader who has ever tried to control an outcome by controlling a person, this episode will change how you think about what leadership is actually for. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice ’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

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  What Juices You with Matthew James | You Can't Build a Unified Culture Without Hard Conversations

  Jul 6, 202639 min

  What if the empathy you're showing your team is actually the thing holding them back? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Matthew James, President and CEO of Purity Life Health Products , Canada's leading full-service distributor of natural health, wellness, and grocery products. Over the past decade, Matthew has led Purity Life through sustained growth and a major acquisition — bringing three distinct businesses, cultures, and teams under one roof and building toward a single, unified organization. What Matthew keeps finding at the center of every integration challenge is not a technology problem or a strategy problem. It is a conversation problem. The leaders who stall the integration are almost always the ones who have been protecting people from the truth rather than partnering with them through it. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why the employee rated excellent in every annual review ends up fired without warning — and what that pattern reveals about the cost of avoiding difficult conversations How Matthew parlays the physical discomfort of early-morning CrossFit workouts into the mental readiness to have the leadership conversations he is dreading What "One Purity Life" actually requires from leaders — and why alignment across different cultures cannot be achieved through control How Purity Life is using AI not to replace people but to remove the drudgery that drains engagement, and what that shift is doing to the energy of the organization What the difference between ruinous empathy and genuine candor looks like in practice — and why Brady argues that withholding hard feedback is an act of self-betrayal If you are leading a team through change and have ever wondered whether your instinct to protect people is actually serving them , Matthew James offers a candid, grounded perspective from the middle of the work. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice ’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

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  What Juices You with Jim Brown | Real Leadership Starts When You Stop Pretending

  Jun 22, 20261h 21m

  What if the most powerful thing a leader could do is stop pretending to have all the answers? Most leaders are afraid that showing their imperfection will cost them credibility. Jim Brown's observation after thirty years of working with CEOs: everyone already knows. In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with J im Brown, founder of OrgHealth and USA Today bestselling author of The Imperfect CEO . Jim has spent decades advising CEOs, boards, and executive teams across North America, and what he keeps finding is the same pattern: leaders performing a version of themselves they think the organization needs, while the organization quietly waits for the real person to show up. Together, Brady and Jim make the case that organizational health is not a byproduct of strong leadership — it is the condition that makes strong leadership possible. And the leader who stops pretending to have all the answers is the one who finally frees everyone else to bring theirs. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why the leader who is terrified of being exposed as imperfect is already exposed — and what changes when they stop performing perfection How profit is a byproduct of a well-led organization, and why chasing it directly is what produces the dysfunction leaders are trying to avoid What Brady openly admits about Juice Inc. — and why that moment of vulnerability is one of the most powerful in the episode Why caring for people and holding them accountable are not in tension, and what leaders who confuse the two are actually doing to their teams How the Ascent Model — collaborative culture, leadership accountability, strategic momentum, and talent magnetism — maps the climb to organizational health in a way leaders can observe and act on If you lead an organization or a team and have ever felt the weight of having to appear more certain than you are, Jim Brown will give you both permission and a practical path forward. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice ’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance. Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

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