https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-game-changers--2268171Dale Dixon, a real world CEO, sits down with Jason and together they discuss the research findings for Jason’s books and then drill down and present ways to make the material actionable.]]>enBusinessCopyright Jason Jenningshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2175f3365606f0561e90a76160affd79.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-game-changers--2268171Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:18:26 +0000Jason JenningsJason Jenningsfeeds@spreaker.comCutting Edge Advice Designed to Give You and Your Business a Competitive Advantage Dale Dixon, a real world CEO, sits down with Jason and together they discuss the research findings for Jason’s books and then drill down and present ways to make the...Dale Dixon, a real world CEO, sits down with Jason and together they discuss the research findings for Jason’s books and then drill down and present ways to make the material actionable.]]>falseaacb9169-482a-5058-a4f4-eee4f1f64972episodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-you-get-nervous-when-you-know-the-material-cold--75113744Send us Fan MailYou know the material. You’ve done the work. You may even be the most knowledgeable person in the room.So why do you suddenly get nervous when the stakes go up?Sometimes it isn’t a preparation problem. It’s because you quietly took on a second job.The real job is to communicate clearly, answer the question and help the room make a good decision. The second job is managing what everyone thinks about you: Make sure I look smart. Don’t get caught without an answer. Don’t let them see me struggle.Dale calls that second job The Grade.In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale examines the psychology behind why capable leaders can become more anxious, defensive and self-conscious when they feel evaluated. You’ll learn why wanting to perform well is different from trying not to look bad, how self-evaluation steals attention from the room, and why a five-word answer like “I don’t know. I’ll find out” can become surprisingly difficult under pressure.Dale also examines two recent real-world examples, including Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley’s response to questions about misuse of the company’s license-plate-reader network and Georgia Tech head coach Brent Key’s response after a difficult loss, to show the difference between defending your reputation and defending the work.You’ll leave with three practical moves:

1. Name the second job before you enter the room.
2. Ride sweep by asking, “What does this room need from me in the next twenty minutes?”
3. Grade the work, not yourself after the meeting.

Plus, Dale gives you a simple test for your own high-pressure answers: What did that sentence defend, the mechanism, the recommendation, or me?Get the free two-page The Grade Field Guide at daledixonmedia.com/grade.Join The Presence Lab community at daledixonmedia.com/community.If this episode gives you language for something you’ve experienced, follow The Presence Lab and send it to someone who does high-stakes work.Support the show]]>Buzzsprout-19799614Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newYou know the material. You’ve done the work. You may even be the most knowledgeable person in the room.So why do you suddenly get nervous when the stakes go up?Sometimes it isn’t a preparation problem. It’s...Send us Fan MailYou know the material. You’ve done the work. You may even be the most knowledgeable person in the room.So why do you suddenly get nervous when the stakes go up?Sometimes it isn’t a preparation problem. It’s because you quietly took on a second job.The real job is to communicate clearly, answer the question and help the room make a good decision. The second job is managing what everyone thinks about you: Make sure I look smart. Don’t get caught without an answer. Don’t let them see me struggle.Dale calls that second job The Grade.In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale examines the psychology behind why capable leaders can become more anxious, defensive and self-conscious when they feel evaluated. You’ll learn why wanting to perform well is different from trying not to look bad, how self-evaluation steals attention from the room, and why a five-word answer like “I don’t know. I’ll find out” can become surprisingly difficult under pressure.Dale also examines two recent real-world examples, including Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley’s response to questions about misuse of the company’s license-plate-reader network and Georgia Tech head coach Brent Key’s response after a difficult loss, to show the difference between defending your reputation and defending the work.You’ll leave with three practical moves:

1. Name the second job before you enter the room.
2. Ride sweep by asking, “What does this room need from me in the next twenty minutes?”
3. Grade the work, not yourself after the meeting.

Plus, Dale gives you a simple test for your own high-pressure answers: What did that sentence defend, the mechanism, the recommendation, or me?Get the free two-page The Grade Field Guide at daledixonmedia.com/grade.Join The Presence Lab community at daledixonmedia.com/community.If this episode gives you language for something you’ve experienced, follow The Presence Lab and send it to someone who does high-stakes work.Support the show]]>1181board presentations,communication under pressure,executive communication,executive presence,high stakes communication,leadership communication,leadership confidence,performance anxiety,presentation anxiety,public speaking anxiety,workplace commufalse5298fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-read-how-to-tell-what-a-room-actually-means--75016740Send us Fan MailYou notice the folded arms. The silence. The lack of questions. The person looking down at the table.You read the room.Then you make the dangerous leap: you decide what all of it means.In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon shares a university classroom experience where he was paying close attention to the audience, adapting in real time, and still getting the read wrong.The problem wasn’t that he failed to notice the signals. The problem was the meaning he attached to them.That same mistake shows up in boardrooms, presentations, team meetings, sales conversations, and difficult one-on-ones. Experience gives leaders useful pattern recognition, but it can also cause us to complete the story before we have enough evidence.You’ll learn how to:

• separate observation from interpretation
• recognize when experience is autocompleting the room
• look for patterns instead of reacting to one person
• test your read before changing course
• stay curious when pressure starts pulling your attention inward

The three practical moves are Split the Sentence, Count to Three, and Test the Read.The goal isn’t to become better at guessing what everyone is thinking. It’s to become better at noticing when the room in front of you is different from the one in your head. That is the central distinction the final episode builds toward. Free Field Guide:
https://www.daledixonmedia.com/thereadJoin The Presence Lab community:
https://www.daledixonmedia.com/communitySupport the show]]>Buzzsprout-19776803Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newYou notice the folded arms. The silence. The lack of questions. The person looking down at the table.You read the room.Then you make the dangerous leap: you decide what all of it means.In this episode of...Send us Fan MailYou notice the folded arms. The silence. The lack of questions. The person looking down at the table.You read the room.Then you make the dangerous leap: you decide what all of it means.In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon shares a university classroom experience where he was paying close attention to the audience, adapting in real time, and still getting the read wrong.The problem wasn’t that he failed to notice the signals. The problem was the meaning he attached to them.That same mistake shows up in boardrooms, presentations, team meetings, sales conversations, and difficult one-on-ones. Experience gives leaders useful pattern recognition, but it can also cause us to complete the story before we have enough evidence.You’ll learn how to:

• separate observation from interpretation
• recognize when experience is autocompleting the room
• look for patterns instead of reacting to one person
• test your read before changing course
• stay curious when pressure starts pulling your attention inward

The three practical moves are Split the Sentence, Count to Three, and Test the Read.The goal isn’t to become better at guessing what everyone is thinking. It’s to become better at noticing when the room in front of you is different from the one in your head. That is the central distinction the final episode builds toward. Free Field Guide:
https://www.daledixonmedia.com/thereadJoin The Presence Lab community:
https://www.daledixonmedia.com/communitySupport the show]]>1564boardroom communication,body language,communication skills,dale dixon,executive communication,executive presence,how to read a room,leadership communication,leadership skills,nonverbal communication,reading the room,the presence labfalse5297fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-your-company-screws-up-own-it-fix-it-prevent-it--74765535Send us Fan MailHow does a bad decision survive the idea, production, internal review and final approval before somebody finally says, “We shouldn’t do this”?That’s the leadership question behind the Good Good Golf and Callaway controversy.A co-branded ad drew widespread backlash after depicting Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark shoving fellow creator Alexis Miestowski to the ground. Callaway later acknowledged that it had reviewed and approved the ad before it was posted.The consequences went well beyond social media criticism. Callaway ended its relationship with Good Good, retailers pulled merchandise, Golf Channel canceled the current season of Big Break x Good Good, and Good Good stepped away as title sponsor of the PGA Tour event in Austin. Those details reflect the updated reporting reviewed for this package. The more useful question for a leader is what happened before the public ever saw the mistake.In this episode of The Presence Lab, I use the Good Good and Callaway case, along with Meta’s proposed settlement of up to $18 billion over state claims concerning child safety on Facebook and Instagram, to examine what happens when organizational judgment fails.I’ll walk through the crisis framework I’ve taught for years:Own it. Get clear about what happened and take responsibility for what actually belongs to you.Fix it. Go beyond the apology and find the conditions that allowed the problem to happen.Prevent it. Build the judgment, systems and lived values that help people make better decisions before the next crisis arrives.The prevention piece is where this gets personal. I’ll share a values exercise my family worked through over several dinners and how five very simple values became something we could actually use when making decisions.That experience changed the way I think about corporate values.Values on a wall don't do much. Values that are identified, discussed, modeled and deliberately used in real decisions can become part of an organization's protection system.There’s a practical test you can run with your own leadership team: Take one difficult decision from the past 30 days and put your company values beside it. Which value actually influenced the decision? What did honoring it cost?Your answers may tell you whether you have values your organization lives by or simply values your organization publishes.In this episode:

• Why Callaway’s approval of the Good Good ad is the most interesting part of the story
• What effective ownership sounds like after an organization makes a mistake
• Why explaining intent too quickly can weaken a crisis response
• How to investigate the conditions that allowed a bad decision instead of simply adding more bureaucracy
• What the Meta settlement adds to the conversation about values, incentives and tradeoffs
• How lived values can improve judgment before a crisis
• A simple exercise for testing whether your corporate values actually influence decisions

Learn more about executive communication coaching and The Presence Lab at Dale Dixon Media. https://www.daledixonmedia.com/Join the free Presence Lab community https://www.daledixonmedia.com/communitySupport the show]]>Buzzsprout-19726479Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newHow does a bad decision survive the idea, production, internal review and final approval before somebody finally says, “We shouldn’t do this”?That’s the leadership question behind the Good Good Golf and...Send us Fan MailHow does a bad decision survive the idea, production, internal review and final approval before somebody finally says, “We shouldn’t do this”?That’s the leadership question behind the Good Good Golf and Callaway controversy.A co-branded ad drew widespread backlash after depicting Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark shoving fellow creator Alexis Miestowski to the ground. Callaway later acknowledged that it had reviewed and approved the ad before it was posted.The consequences went well beyond social media criticism. Callaway ended its relationship with Good Good, retailers pulled merchandise, Golf Channel canceled the current season of Big Break x Good Good, and Good Good stepped away as title sponsor of the PGA Tour event in Austin. Those details reflect the updated reporting reviewed for this package. The more useful question for a leader is what happened before the public ever saw the mistake.In this episode of The Presence Lab, I use the Good Good and Callaway case, along with Meta’s proposed settlement of up to $18 billion over state claims concerning child safety on Facebook and Instagram, to examine what happens when organizational judgment fails.I’ll walk through the crisis framework I’ve taught for years:Own it. Get clear about what happened and take responsibility for what actually belongs to you.Fix it. Go beyond the apology and find the conditions that allowed the problem to happen.Prevent it. Build the judgment, systems and lived values that help people make better decisions before the next crisis arrives.The prevention piece is where this gets personal. I’ll share a values exercise my family worked through over several dinners and how five very simple values became something we could actually use when making decisions.That experience changed the way I think about corporate values.Values on a wall don't do much. Values that are identified, discussed, modeled and deliberately used in real decisions can become part of an organization's protection system.There’s a practical test you can run with your own leadership team: Take one difficult decision from the past 30 days and put your company values beside it. Which value actually influenced the decision? What did honoring it cost?Your answers may tell you whether you have values your organization lives by or simply values your organization publishes.In this episode:

• Why Callaway’s approval of the Good Good ad is the most interesting part of the story
• What effective ownership sounds like after an organization makes a mistake
• Why explaining intent too quickly can weaken a crisis response
• How to investigate the conditions that allowed a bad decision instead of simply adding more bureaucracy
• What the Meta settlement adds to the conversation about values, incentives and tradeoffs
• How lived values can improve judgment before a crisis
• A simple exercise for testing whether your corporate values actually influence decisions

Learn more about executive communication coaching and The Presence Lab at Dale Dixon Media. https://www.daledixonmedia.com/Join the free Presence Lab community https://www.daledixonmedia.com/communitySupport the show]]>1232accountability,callaway golf,company values,corporate values,crisis communication,crisis leadership,crisis management,executive communication,good good golf,leadership communication,leadership under,organizational culture,reputation managementfalse5296fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-scorecard-how-to-prove-your-communication-changed--74633232Send us Fan MailYou can work hard on your communication and still leave the people around you experiencing the same behavior.That’s the uncomfortable problem with self-awareness: knowing what you want to change doesn’t prove that you changed it.In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explores how senior leaders can tell whether communication improvement is actually showing up where it counts, especially when pressure makes old habits easier to reach.You’ll meet three practical tools: The Retell, The Replacement, and The Outside Score. Together, they create a better standard than good intentions, one successful meeting, or your own assessment of how you’re doing.The real question is simpler:Can the people who experience you see the difference?Get The Scorecard Field Guide and put the framework into practice at daledixonmedia.com/scorecard.#ExecutiveCommunication #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutivePresenceSupport the show]]>Buzzsprout-19688700Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newYou can work hard on your communication and still leave the people around you experiencing the same behavior.That’s the uncomfortable problem with self-awareness: knowing what you want to change doesn’t...Send us Fan MailYou can work hard on your communication and still leave the people around you experiencing the same behavior.That’s the uncomfortable problem with self-awareness: knowing what you want to change doesn’t prove that you changed it.In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explores how senior leaders can tell whether communication improvement is actually showing up where it counts, especially when pressure makes old habits easier to reach.You’ll meet three practical tools: The Retell, The Replacement, and The Outside Score. Together, they create a better standard than good intentions, one successful meeting, or your own assessment of how you’re doing.The real question is simpler:Can the people who experience you see the difference?Get The Scorecard Field Guide and put the framework into practice at daledixonmedia.com/scorecard.#ExecutiveCommunication #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutivePresenceSupport the show]]>1031360 feedback,behavior change,communication skills,communication under pressure,executive c,executive communication,executive presence,feedback,leadership behavior change,leadership communication,leadership development,self-awareness,teach-backfalse5295fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hedge-how-to-sound-confident-when-you-re-challenged--74218613Send us Fan MailYou didn't lose your point. You watched yourself soften it. One skeptical look, and "we should do this" turns into "I think maybe we could look at this." For executives, founders, and senior leaders who already know their material, that reflex quietly costs you the room.So how do you sound confident when someone challenges you? Not by faking certainty. You own what you know, and you hedge only the unknown. There's a hedge that protects the truth, and a hedge that only protects you. One is honest. The other is a leak. The line to carry into the next hard room: hedge the unknown, own what you know.Dale went looking for a CEO who got this wrong. Instead, on live TV under real pressure, a Target CEO did the opposite of what Dale expected, and became the clearest lesson in the episode.In this episode:
 • Why strong leaders weaken their best language the moment they're challenged
 • How to tell whether the uncertainty is real or just nerves
 • What to do when someone pushes back and nothing has actually changed
 • A free Field Guide built to drill it in a weekGrab the Field Guide and practice it live inside The Presence Lab community: daledixonmedia.com/communityIf this names something you've felt, follow the show, and send it to a leader who softens their best ideas the second they get pushback.Hosted by Dale Dixon: 15 years in broadcast news, two decades coaching leaders on camera, and author of Sweating Bullets.Sources: Brian Cornell, CNBC Evolve Global Summit, November 2, 2023. Research on hedging language and perceived credibility: Hosman (1989); Erickson, Lind, Johnson & O'Barr (1978). Full citations in the Field Guide.Support the show]]>Buzzsprout-19651621Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newYou didn't lose your point. You watched yourself soften it. One skeptical look, and "we should do this" turns into "I think maybe we could look at this." For executives, founders, and senior leaders who...Send us Fan MailYou didn't lose your point. You watched yourself soften it. One skeptical look, and "we should do this" turns into "I think maybe we could look at this." For executives, founders, and senior leaders who already know their material, that reflex quietly costs you the room.So how do you sound confident when someone challenges you? Not by faking certainty. You own what you know, and you hedge only the unknown. There's a hedge that protects the truth, and a hedge that only protects you. One is honest. The other is a leak. The line to carry into the next hard room: hedge the unknown, own what you know.Dale went looking for a CEO who got this wrong. Instead, on live TV under real pressure, a Target CEO did the opposite of what Dale expected, and became the clearest lesson in the episode.In this episode:
 • Why strong leaders weaken their best language the moment they're challenged
 • How to tell whether the uncertainty is real or just nerves
 • What to do when someone pushes back and nothing has actually changed
 • A free Field Guide built to drill it in a weekGrab the Field Guide and practice it live inside The Presence Lab community: daledixonmedia.com/communityIf this names something you've felt, follow the show, and send it to a leader who softens their best ideas the second they get pushback.Hosted by Dale Dixon: 15 years in broadcast news, two decades coaching leaders on camera, and author of Sweating Bullets.Sources: Brian Cornell, CNBC Evolve Global Summit, November 2, 2023. Research on hedging language and perceived credibility: Hosman (1989); Erickson, Lind, Johnson & O'Barr (1978). Full citations in the Field Guide.Support the show]]>1337communication under pressure,confidence under pressure,executive presence,filler words,hedging language,how to sound confident in meet,how to stop saying i think,leadership communication,sound confident when challenge,spe,weak words at workfalse5294fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-open-fix-the-first-30-seconds-of-your-next-talk--73727715Send us Fan MailThe opening of a talk isn't a scripting problem. It's a state problem. Here's what happens in the first thirty seconds, and three moves that keep your best material in reach when the pressure hits.Most speakers treat the opening of a talk as a writing problem. But you can have the perfect opening sitting on slide six and still walk on stage and reach for "I'm so excited to be here."

That's not a scripting problem. It's a state problem.

This episode breaks down what actually happens in the first thirty seconds of a high-stakes talk. Why your body peaks the moment you start. Why the room is already reading you before you feel settled. Why pressure quietly trades your most interesting self for your safest one. Then the three moves that keep your best material in reach:

1. Find the live wire - start where something turns, not with the background.
2. Know the first line cold - decide it calm, so stage-you just picks it up and goes.
3. Cross the threshold - the last few seconds before you speak, run the same way every time.

FREE FIELD GUIDE
The Open Field Guide: a self-audit, three drills, and a seven-day tracker to run before your next talk. Grab it free at https://daledixon.me/open

Support the show]]>Buzzsprout-19622328Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newThe opening of a talk isn't a scripting problem. It's a state problem. Here's what happens in the first thirty seconds, and three moves that keep your best material in reach when the pressure hits.Most...Send us Fan MailThe opening of a talk isn't a scripting problem. It's a state problem. Here's what happens in the first thirty seconds, and three moves that keep your best material in reach when the pressure hits.Most speakers treat the opening of a talk as a writing problem. But you can have the perfect opening sitting on slide six and still walk on stage and reach for "I'm so excited to be here."

That's not a scripting problem. It's a state problem.

This episode breaks down what actually happens in the first thirty seconds of a high-stakes talk. Why your body peaks the moment you start. Why the room is already reading you before you feel settled. Why pressure quietly trades your most interesting self for your safest one. Then the three moves that keep your best material in reach:

1. Find the live wire - start where something turns, not with the background.
2. Know the first line cold - decide it calm, so stage-you just picks it up and goes.
3. Cross the threshold - the last few seconds before you speak, run the same way every time.

FREE FIELD GUIDE
The Open Field Guide: a self-audit, three drills, and a seven-day tracker to run before your next talk. Grab it free at https://daledixon.me/open

Support the show]]>1055dale dixon,executive presence,first impressions,how to start a presentation,keynote opening,leadership communication,presentation skills,public speaking,public speaking anxiety,speaking under pressure,the presence labfalse5293fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-leaders-go-blank-under-pressure-and-how-to-recover--73379358Send us Fan MailYou know the material. Then someone asks a difficult question, the room turns toward you, and your mind goes completely blank.Why does your mind go blank under pressure? More importantly, how do you recover without bluffing, rambling, or filling the silence with an answer you immediately regret?In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon tells the story of freezing during a live television report on his first day at an NBC affiliate. The experience revealed an important distinction: knowing the answer, accessing the answer, and producing it quickly are three different skills.You’ll learn why stress and social evaluation can crowd working memory, why the room sees far less panic than you feel, and how preparation creates the retrieval paths that make strong live answers possible.Dale shares three practical tools:Own the Gap
Use silence without treating the pause as a loss of credibility.Build the Handle
Paraphrase the question, remove the emotional clutter, and give your mind a clean retrieval cue.Build the Index
War-game difficult questions, organize your key messages, and build a story library before the pressure arrives.You’ll also learn how to say “I don’t know” without weakening your authority, how to answer hostile questions without getting pulled into a private argument, and why thinking on your feet rarely begins on your feet.This episode is for executives, emerging leaders, public speakers, spokespersons, and anyone who needs to think clearly and answer questions under pressure.Download The Blank Field Guide, including the three recovery tools, a question war-game, a Message Map prompt, and a story-index template:https://daledixon.me/blankJoin the free Sphere Presence Lab for early episode access, Field Guides, live Q&A, and practical training for communicating under pressure:https://daledixon.me/communitySupport The Presence Lab Podcast:https://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/supportYou don’t lose your intelligence when the room gets hard. You lose access. Build the index, and the words find their way home.Support the show]]>Buzzsprout-19588829Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newYou know the material. Then someone asks a difficult question, the room turns toward you, and your mind goes completely blank.Why does your mind go blank under pressure? More importantly, how do you recover...Send us Fan MailYou know the material. Then someone asks a difficult question, the room turns toward you, and your mind goes completely blank.Why does your mind go blank under pressure? More importantly, how do you recover without bluffing, rambling, or filling the silence with an answer you immediately regret?In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon tells the story of freezing during a live television report on his first day at an NBC affiliate. The experience revealed an important distinction: knowing the answer, accessing the answer, and producing it quickly are three different skills.You’ll learn why stress and social evaluation can crowd working memory, why the room sees far less panic than you feel, and how preparation creates the retrieval paths that make strong live answers possible.Dale shares three practical tools:Own the Gap
Use silence without treating the pause as a loss of credibility.Build the Handle
Paraphrase the question, remove the emotional clutter, and give your mind a clean retrieval cue.Build the Index
War-game difficult questions, organize your key messages, and build a story library before the pressure arrives.You’ll also learn how to say “I don’t know” without weakening your authority, how to answer hostile questions without getting pulled into a private argument, and why thinking on your feet rarely begins on your feet.This episode is for executives, emerging leaders, public speakers, spokespersons, and anyone who needs to think clearly and answer questions under pressure.Download The Blank Field Guide, including the three recovery tools, a question war-game, a Message Map prompt, and a story-index template:https://daledixon.me/blankJoin the free Sphere Presence Lab for early episode access, Field Guides, live Q&A, and practical training for communicating under pressure:https://daledixon.me/communitySupport The Presence Lab Podcast:https://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/supportYou don’t lose your intelligence when the room gets hard. You lose access. Build the index, and the words find their way home.Support the show]]>1448answering difficult questions,communication under pressure,executive presence,handl,leadership communication,live q&a,mind goes blank in meetings,mind goes blank under pressure,public speaking anxiety,think on your feet,working memory and stressfalse5292fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-grip-why-letting-go-is-the-skill-leaders-never-train--73190745Send us Fan MailEvery leader believes the same thing under pressure: prepare hard enough, control enough of it, and you will finally be safe. It is exactly backwards. The tighter you grip the plan, the less you can do the moment the plan gets taken - and it always gets taken.This episode takes apart the belief that you can control your way to safety. It opens on a stage in front of a thousand kids, a building-sized screen, and a computer that dies on slide two. From there it looks at why the elite operators trained to control every variable are the ones who struggle most at the toughest survival school in the world, while an unassuming middle school principal quietly crushes it. Underneath the story is the actual science of it, why a rigid, control-based strategy works beautifully right up until control disappears, and what the research calls the flexible capacity that takes over when it does. You will leave with three tools: fix the goal and flex the route, name the problem and move on, and build one simple floor so you can let go of everything else.Dale Dixon has spent nearly 40 years in and around broadcast news and more than two decades coaching leaders through the moments that decide how they are remembered. He is the author of Sweating Bullets and the host of The Presence Lab, where the work starts with the nervous system, because the steadiest presence in the room is a trained one, not a lucky one.The Grip Field Guide holds all three tools plus the training drill, in one page you can keep on your desk. It is free at daledixon.me/gripThe conversation keeps going inside The Presence Lab community, where Dale actually hangs out. It is free to join at daledixon.me/communityIf this episode put a name to something you have felt on a stage, in a boardroom, or in the moment the plan fell apart, follow the show and share it with the leader you know who is white-knuckling a plan right now.SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
 Michael Easter, "Why Elite Soldiers Fail at Survival School," Two Percent (twopct.com). The Boulder Outdoor Survival School observations in this episode come from decades of instructor experience and, as Easter notes, are field observations rather than a formal study.
 Steven C. Hayes on psychological inflexibility: Hayes, Luoma, Bond, Masuda, and Lillis, Behaviour Research and Therapy (2006).
 Richard M. Sorrentino on certainty and uncertainty orientation: Sorrentino and Roney, The Uncertain Mind (2000).
 U.S. Army psychological flexibility training trial at Fort Cavazos, STRONG STAR Consortium, Frontiers in Psychiatry (2024). This randomized trial is ongoing and has not published outcomes. The episode references only its published design, including the day-two module titled "Rigidity as the Problem."
 Tony Robbins, Six Human Needs. Referenced as Robbins' coaching framework, not as scientific research.
 John Maxwell, "a leader must give up to go up," the Law of Sacrifice, from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (1998), applied here as an extension beyond Maxwell's original meaning.
 Dale Dixon, Sweating Bullets.Field Guide: daledixon.me/grip
 Community: daledixon.me/community
 More from Dale: daledixon.meSupport the show]]>Buzzsprout-19546646Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newEvery leader believes the same thing under pressure: prepare hard enough, control enough of it, and you will finally be safe. It is exactly backwards. The tighter you grip the plan, the less you can do the...Send us Fan MailEvery leader believes the same thing under pressure: prepare hard enough, control enough of it, and you will finally be safe. It is exactly backwards. The tighter you grip the plan, the less you can do the moment the plan gets taken - and it always gets taken.This episode takes apart the belief that you can control your way to safety. It opens on a stage in front of a thousand kids, a building-sized screen, and a computer that dies on slide two. From there it looks at why the elite operators trained to control every variable are the ones who struggle most at the toughest survival school in the world, while an unassuming middle school principal quietly crushes it. Underneath the story is the actual science of it, why a rigid, control-based strategy works beautifully right up until control disappears, and what the research calls the flexible capacity that takes over when it does. You will leave with three tools: fix the goal and flex the route, name the problem and move on, and build one simple floor so you can let go of everything else.Dale Dixon has spent nearly 40 years in and around broadcast news and more than two decades coaching leaders through the moments that decide how they are remembered. He is the author of Sweating Bullets and the host of The Presence Lab, where the work starts with the nervous system, because the steadiest presence in the room is a trained one, not a lucky one.The Grip Field Guide holds all three tools plus the training drill, in one page you can keep on your desk. It is free at daledixon.me/gripThe conversation keeps going inside The Presence Lab community, where Dale actually hangs out. It is free to join at daledixon.me/communityIf this episode put a name to something you have felt on a stage, in a boardroom, or in the moment the plan fell apart, follow the show and share it with the leader you know who is white-knuckling a plan right now.SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
 Michael Easter, "Why Elite Soldiers Fail at Survival School," Two Percent (twopct.com). The Boulder Outdoor Survival School observations in this episode come from decades of instructor experience and, as Easter notes, are field observations rather than a formal study.
 Steven C. Hayes on psychological inflexibility: Hayes, Luoma, Bond, Masuda, and Lillis, Behaviour Research and Therapy (2006).
 Richard M. Sorrentino on certainty and uncertainty orientation: Sorrentino and Roney, The Uncertain Mind (2000).
 U.S. Army psychological flexibility training trial at Fort Cavazos, STRONG STAR Consortium, Frontiers in Psychiatry (2024). This randomized trial is ongoing and has not published outcomes. The episode references only its published design, including the day-two module titled "Rigidity as the Problem."
 Tony Robbins, Six Human Needs. Referenced as Robbins' coaching framework, not as scientific research.
 John Maxwell, "a leader must give up to go up," the Law of Sacrifice, from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (1998), applied here as an extension beyond Maxwell's original meaning.
 Dale Dixon, Sweating Bullets.Field Guide: daledixon.me/grip
 Community: daledixon.me/community
 More from Dale: daledixon.meSupport the show]]>1202communication under pressure,dale dixon,executive presence,leadership,leadership communication,letting go of control,michael easter,nervous system regulation,psychological flexibility,public speaking,steven hayes,the presence lab,tony robbinsfalse5291fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dial-how-strong-leaders-turn-nerves-into-fuel--73066427Send us Fan MailEveryone tells you to calm down before the big moment. The research says that's the wrong instruction, and it's quietly costing you the edge you need.

In the spring of 2017, Dale Dixon was pinned under a motorcycle on a mountain in Idaho, no cell service, his seventeen-year-old son the only other person on the trail. Those twenty minutes taught him more about performing under pressure than fifteen years in broadcast news and two decades of coaching combined. This episode is the instrument that got him down the hill. He calls it the Dial.

In this episode:
- Why reaching for calm backfires under real pressure
- What's actually happening in your body before a high-stakes moment
- The three moves: the Relabel (for the first spike), the Turn (aim the energy up to meet a room or down to steady a person), and the Rep (the quiet practice that installs your default before you need it)
- The two words Dale's son gave him years later that turned out to be the whole lesson

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All three moves, a sixty-second pre-room sequence, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/dial

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The conversation keeps going after the episode. The Presence Lab has a free community with live Q&A, and it's where Dale actually hangs out. Join free: https://daledixon.me/communitySOURCES
- Jamieson, Nock & Mendes (2012); Jamieson, Mendes, Blackstock & Schmader (2010): reappraising arousal as functional improves stress responses and real-world performance.
- Brooks (2014): reappraising nerves as excitement outperforms trying to calm down.
- Crum, Akinola, Martin & Fath (2017): a stress-is-enhancing mindset raises growth and recovery hormones under both challenge and threat.
- Keller et al. (2012): believing stress harms you is associated with higher mortality risk (association, not proven cause).
- Morgan et al. (2004): DHEA-to-cortisol ratio and performance under extreme stress.
- Dale Dixon, Sweating Bullets: the Bosu ball co-regulation scene.

More at https://daledixon.me

Support the show]]>Buzzsprout-19513584Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newEveryone tells you to calm down before the big moment. The research says that's the wrong instruction, and it's quietly costing you the edge you need. In the spring of 2017, Dale Dixon was pinned under a...Send us Fan MailEveryone tells you to calm down before the big moment. The research says that's the wrong instruction, and it's quietly costing you the edge you need.

In the spring of 2017, Dale Dixon was pinned under a motorcycle on a mountain in Idaho, no cell service, his seventeen-year-old son the only other person on the trail. Those twenty minutes taught him more about performing under pressure than fifteen years in broadcast news and two decades of coaching combined. This episode is the instrument that got him down the hill. He calls it the Dial.

In this episode:
- Why reaching for calm backfires under real pressure
- What's actually happening in your body before a high-stakes moment
- The three moves: the Relabel (for the first spike), the Turn (aim the energy up to meet a room or down to steady a person), and the Rep (the quiet practice that installs your default before you need it)
- The two words Dale's son gave him years later that turned out to be the whole lesson

FREE FIELD GUIDE
All three moves, a sixty-second pre-room sequence, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/dial

JOIN THE FREE COMMUNITY
The conversation keeps going after the episode. The Presence Lab has a free community with live Q&A, and it's where Dale actually hangs out. Join free: https://daledixon.me/communitySOURCES
- Jamieson, Nock & Mendes (2012); Jamieson, Mendes, Blackstock & Schmader (2010): reappraising arousal as functional improves stress responses and real-world performance.
- Brooks (2014): reappraising nerves as excitement outperforms trying to calm down.
- Crum, Akinola, Martin & Fath (2017): a stress-is-enhancing mindset raises growth and recovery hormones under both challenge and threat.
- Keller et al. (2012): believing stress harms you is associated with higher mortality risk (association, not proven cause).
- Morgan et al. (2004): DHEA-to-cortisol ratio and performance under extreme stress.
- Dale Dixon, Sweating Bullets: the Bosu ball co-regulation scene.

More at https://daledixon.me

Support the show]]>1025dale dixon,executive presence,high-stakes communication,leadership communication,managing nerves,nervous system regulation,performance anxiety,presence under pressure,public speaking nerves,reappraisal,stay calm under pressure,stress mindset,tfalse5290fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pause-how-three-seconds-of-silence-builds-authority--72948147Send us Fan MailGet The Pause Field Guide, a free two-page companion with all three pauses, the training wheels line, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/pause Someone asks you a hard question and you start answering before they finish asking it. You make your salary ask, then keep talking until you've discounted it. You ask your team a question, the room goes quiet for four seconds, and you answer it yourself. The fill-the-air reflex runs the room, and it runs most of us.

After thirty years in broadcasting, where three seconds of dead air means the transmitter went down, Dale built that reflex into muscle memory, and this episode is about unwiring it. The belief that silence is awkward and weak got tested head-on by MIT researchers, and it lost: pauses of three seconds or more shifted negotiators into deliberate thinking and produced better outcomes for both sides of the table. The pause was never a trap you set for the other person. It's what a regulated nervous system can do that an unregulated one can't.

In this episode:

Why the "silence trap" genre of advice teaches a real tool for the wrong job
The mechanism: filling the air is flight behavior in a business casual outfit
The Set Pause: one breath before the sentence that matters most, hard news or the best news
The Catch Pause: the beat that replaces "great question" and every other stall in a trench coat
The Land Pause: the silence after your ask that lets the sentence finish its work
The daily three-second drill, trained to the exact number in the data

Get The Pause Field Guide, a free two-page companion with all three pauses, the training wheels line, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/pause

If you know a leader who answers questions before they're finished being asked, send them this episode. You might be giving them the three seconds that change how they lead.

Dale Dixon is an executive communication coach, veteran broadcaster, and author of Sweating Bullets.Support the show]]>Buzzsprout-19483440Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newGet The Pause Field Guide, a free two-page companion with all three pauses, the training wheels line, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/pause Someone asks you a hard question and you start...Send us Fan MailGet The Pause Field Guide, a free two-page companion with all three pauses, the training wheels line, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/pause Someone asks you a hard question and you start answering before they finish asking it. You make your salary ask, then keep talking until you've discounted it. You ask your team a question, the room goes quiet for four seconds, and you answer it yourself. The fill-the-air reflex runs the room, and it runs most of us.

After thirty years in broadcasting, where three seconds of dead air means the transmitter went down, Dale built that reflex into muscle memory, and this episode is about unwiring it. The belief that silence is awkward and weak got tested head-on by MIT researchers, and it lost: pauses of three seconds or more shifted negotiators into deliberate thinking and produced better outcomes for both sides of the table. The pause was never a trap you set for the other person. It's what a regulated nervous system can do that an unregulated one can't.

In this episode:

Why the "silence trap" genre of advice teaches a real tool for the wrong job
The mechanism: filling the air is flight behavior in a business casual outfit
The Set Pause: one breath before the sentence that matters most, hard news or the best news
The Catch Pause: the beat that replaces "great question" and every other stall in a trench coat
The Land Pause: the silence after your ask that lets the sentence finish its work
The daily three-second drill, trained to the exact number in the data

Get The Pause Field Guide, a free two-page companion with all three pauses, the training wheels line, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/pause

If you know a leader who answers questions before they're finished being asked, send them this episode. You might be giving them the three seconds that change how they lead.

Dale Dixon is an executive communication coach, veteran broadcaster, and author of Sweating Bullets.Support the show]]>1654communication skills,executive coaching,executive communication,high stakes communication,leadership podcast,leadership presence,negotiation silence,nervous system regulation,pause in speaking,power of silence,presen,sweating bullets dale dixonfalse5289fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-flinch-why-leaders-soften-bad-news-and-lose-trust-anyway--72837076Send us Fan MailEvery leader knows the moment. The reorg announcement, the roadmap cut, the budget town hall. And right before the hard sentence lands, something in us reaches for a sweetener. "But nobody's job is at risk." "It's really an opportunity." We soften the cost so we don't have to watch someone's face fall.That half-second move is the flinch. And it costs more than the bad news ever would.This episode started with a text from my friend Brice Sloan: the hardest thing for leaders to communicate is a strategy trade-off. The nervous system says highlight the positive. Reality demands something much more. So we go inside that gap, starting with a confession from my own shop involving a golf simulator, a launch monitor, and a purchase I didn't tell my wife about.In this episode:The real reason smart leaders sweeten hard news (it isn't a messaging problem, it's a nervous system problem)Why the body reads someone else's disappointment as a threat, and how that reading can flip mid-conversationWhat the yips teach us about pressure hijacking a skill we know coldThree tools you can use this week: Name the Cost First, Let the Air Leave the Room, and Go FirstWhy the best hospital teams reported MORE errors, not fewer, and what a 90-second surgical checklist reveals about whether truth travels in your organizationThe one cue to carry with you: the next time you reach for the easy part before the true part, pay attention. That's the flinch.FREE FIELD GUIDEGet The Flinch Field Guide: a one-page self-audit, all three drills, and a 7-day tracker. Free at https://daledixon.me/flinch
GO DEEPERMentioned in this episode: The Switch (the full breakdown of the stress response), and my book Sweating Bullets.Research referenced on air and worth your time:Jim Blascovich's challenge and threat model (the biopsychosocial model of arousal)Amy Edmondson's psychological safety research on hospital teams (Edmondson, 1999)Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, and the WHO Safe Surgery checklist study (Haynes et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 2009)Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine research on the yipsRelated reading: the reluctance to deliver bad news is documented as the MUM effect (Rosen and Tesser, 1970); on catching each other's emotions, see Hatfield, Cacioppo, and Rapson's work on emotional contagionIf this episode helped you, a five-star review is the single biggest way you help another leader find it. And if someone in your world is carrying a hard conversation this week, send them this episode. Not for me. For them.More at https://daledixon.meSupport the show]]>Buzzsprout-19446236Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newEvery leader knows the moment. The reorg announcement, the roadmap cut, the budget town hall. And right before the hard sentence lands, something in us reaches for a sweetener. "But nobody's job is at...Send us Fan MailEvery leader knows the moment. The reorg announcement, the roadmap cut, the budget town hall. And right before the hard sentence lands, something in us reaches for a sweetener. "But nobody's job is at risk." "It's really an opportunity." We soften the cost so we don't have to watch someone's face fall.That half-second move is the flinch. And it costs more than the bad news ever would.This episode started with a text from my friend Brice Sloan: the hardest thing for leaders to communicate is a strategy trade-off. The nervous system says highlight the positive. Reality demands something much more. So we go inside that gap, starting with a confession from my own shop involving a golf simulator, a launch monitor, and a purchase I didn't tell my wife about.In this episode:The real reason smart leaders sweeten hard news (it isn't a messaging problem, it's a nervous system problem)Why the body reads someone else's disappointment as a threat, and how that reading can flip mid-conversationWhat the yips teach us about pressure hijacking a skill we know coldThree tools you can use this week: Name the Cost First, Let the Air Leave the Room, and Go FirstWhy the best hospital teams reported MORE errors, not fewer, and what a 90-second surgical checklist reveals about whether truth travels in your organizationThe one cue to carry with you: the next time you reach for the easy part before the true part, pay attention. That's the flinch.FREE FIELD GUIDEGet The Flinch Field Guide: a one-page self-audit, all three drills, and a 7-day tracker. Free at https://daledixon.me/flinch
GO DEEPERMentioned in this episode: The Switch (the full breakdown of the stress response), and my book Sweating Bullets.Research referenced on air and worth your time:Jim Blascovich's challenge and threat model (the biopsychosocial model of arousal)Amy Edmondson's psychological safety research on hospital teams (Edmondson, 1999)Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, and the WHO Safe Surgery checklist study (Haynes et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 2009)Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine research on the yipsRelated reading: the reluctance to deliver bad news is documented as the MUM effect (Rosen and Tesser, 1970); on catching each other's emotions, see Hatfield, Cacioppo, and Rapson's work on emotional contagionIf this episode helped you, a five-star review is the single biggest way you help another leader find it. And if someone in your world is carrying a hard conversation this week, send them this episode. Not for me. For them.More at https://daledixon.meSupport the show]]>1238amy edmondson,checklist manifesto,communi,delivering bad news,difficult conversations,executive presence,hard conversations at work,leadership communication,nervous system regulation,psychological safety,strategy trade-offs,trust and leadershipfalse5288fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-communication-mistake-confident-leaders-don-t-know-they-re-making--72733974Send us Fan MailDownload the field guide: https://www.daledixon.me/gapExperienced leaders rarely have a clarity problem they can feel. They have one they can't. Learn why your message stops landing once you leave the room, the body language that kills honest feedback, and three drills that turn confidence into evidence.You explained it clearly. People nodded. A few said "makes sense." And four months later, they are asking you a question you already answered.That is not incompetence. It is the gap: the quiet distance between what you think you communicated and what people actually understood. It hides in capable, experienced, confident leaders, and the people most likely to have a wide one are the least likely to go looking for it.In this episode, Dale Dixon breaks down why fluency fools experienced leaders, why your nervous system decides how open you are before your conscious mind gets a vote, and how to make your confidence produce evidence instead of just feeling like proof.You will learn:

• Why "I said it" and "they understood it" are not the same thing
• The four-word tell that quietly gives an unprepared leader away
• The body language that trains your team to stop telling you the truth
• Three drills you can run this week: the Reverse Brief, the Disconfirming Question, and the Feedback Posture Audit

Get the free field guide for this episode, with the self-audit, all three drills, and a 7-day tracker: daledixon.me/gapIf a specific leader came to mind while you listened, send this to them. That is how the right people find this show.Subscribe for a new episode every week. The Presence Lab is where we work on the skill underneath the skill.Sources mentioned: Rozenblit and Keil on the illusion of explanatory depth; Galinsky and colleagues on power and perspective-taking; Marcus Aurelius, Meditations; Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy.#ExecutivePresence #LeadershipCommunication #ThePresenceLabSupport the show]]>Buzzsprout-19415531Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newDownload the field guide: https://www.daledixon.me/gapExperienced leaders rarely have a clarity problem they can feel. They have one they can't. Learn why your message stops landing once you leave the room,...Send us Fan MailDownload the field guide: https://www.daledixon.me/gapExperienced leaders rarely have a clarity problem they can feel. They have one they can't. Learn why your message stops landing once you leave the room, the body language that kills honest feedback, and three drills that turn confidence into evidence.You explained it clearly. People nodded. A few said "makes sense." And four months later, they are asking you a question you already answered.That is not incompetence. It is the gap: the quiet distance between what you think you communicated and what people actually understood. It hides in capable, experienced, confident leaders, and the people most likely to have a wide one are the least likely to go looking for it.In this episode, Dale Dixon breaks down why fluency fools experienced leaders, why your nervous system decides how open you are before your conscious mind gets a vote, and how to make your confidence produce evidence instead of just feeling like proof.You will learn:

• Why "I said it" and "they understood it" are not the same thing
• The four-word tell that quietly gives an unprepared leader away
• The body language that trains your team to stop telling you the truth
• Three drills you can run this week: the Reverse Brief, the Disconfirming Question, and the Feedback Posture Audit

Get the free field guide for this episode, with the self-audit, all three drills, and a 7-day tracker: daledixon.me/gapIf a specific leader came to mind while you listened, send this to them. That is how the right people find this show.Subscribe for a new episode every week. The Presence Lab is where we work on the skill underneath the skill.Sources mentioned: Rozenblit and Keil on the illusion of explanatory depth; Galinsky and colleagues on power and perspective-taking; Marcus Aurelius, Meditations; Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy.#ExecutivePresence #LeadershipCommunication #ThePresenceLabSupport the show]]>1649asking for feedback,communicating change to your t,communicating under pressure,communication blind spot,executive communication,executive presence,illusion of competence,illusion of explanatory depth,leadership communication,psychological saffalse5287fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mirror-why-your-body-language-undermines-your-leadership--72629894Send us Fan MailThere is a version of you that walks into the room, and a version of you that everyone else actually experiences. The gap between them is usually something small. A sigh you didn't know you let out. An eye roll that fired off while you were thinking about a call you forgot to return. A glance at your phone the second someone junior starts talking. You almost never mean any of it. But people read it as dismissive, disrespectful, already decided. And it quietly costs you trust you don't even know you're losing.Here's the hard part. You can't see your own tells, the same way you can't watch your own golf swing. I learned that one literally, on a driving range, when a friend filmed mine in slow motion and the swing I felt and the swing on the screen turned out to be two different events. The fix was simple and humbling. I had to say yes, show me the tape.Most leaders never get that tape. And it gets worse the higher you climb, because the more authority you gain, the fewer people are willing to hand you the truth, right when you need it most.In this episode we get into:The research that explains why "just be more self-aware" is almost useless advice. Where these tells actually come from, which is your nervous system, not your character. And three concrete moves to invite honest feedback, choose the right people to give it, and reset your state before you walk into the room.This one is personal. I share the work I'm still doing on my own feedback, including the 360 I commissioned and why people hesitate to tell me the truth even after I've asked for it.📄 Free Field Guide: Grab The Mirror, the two-page companion for this episode. It includes a non-verbal self-audit, the three-move drill with the exact words to say, and a 7-day tracker. Get it at daledixon.me/mirrorKnow a leader with a tell they can't see? Send them this episode, and offer to be their loving critic. It's the one angle they'll never get on their own.I'm Dale Dixon, host of The Presence Lab and author of Sweating Bullets. Every week I help serious leaders perform when the room gets harder. Body first. Message second.Sources and further readingTasha Eurich, Insight (2017), and "What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)," Harvard Business Review (2018). Her research finds that about 95 percent of people believe they are self-aware while only 10 to 15 percent actually are, and that self-awareness tends to get less accurate as leaders gain experience and power.Jim Collins, Good to Great (2001). On Level 5 leadership, creating a climate where the truth is heard, confronting the brutal facts, and how a strong personality can lead people to filter the hard truths away from you.Kim Scott, Radical Candor (2017). On caring personally while challenging directly, the trap of Ruinous Empathy, and soliciting feedback before you give it.Ron Price and Randy Lisk, The Complete Leader (2014). On letting others be your mirror, the blame-defend-deny reflex, and being measured by impact rather than intention.On the physiological sigh: researchers in the labs of Jack Feldman (UCLA) and Mark Krasnow (Stanford) identified the brainstem circuit that triggers sighing (Nature, 2016). On cyclic sighing and mood: Balban and colleagues, with Andrew Huberman and David Spiegel, in Cell Reports Medicine (2023).Dale Dixon, Sweating Bullets, on state-first communication under pressure.LinksField Guide: daledixon.me/mirror
More from Dale: daledixon.me]]>Buzzsprout-19379277Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newThere is a version of you that walks into the room, and a version of you that everyone else actually experiences. The gap between them is usually something small. A sigh you didn't know you let out. An eye...Send us Fan MailThere is a version of you that walks into the room, and a version of you that everyone else actually experiences. The gap between them is usually something small. A sigh you didn't know you let out. An eye roll that fired off while you were thinking about a call you forgot to return. A glance at your phone the second someone junior starts talking. You almost never mean any of it. But people read it as dismissive, disrespectful, already decided. And it quietly costs you trust you don't even know you're losing.Here's the hard part. You can't see your own tells, the same way you can't watch your own golf swing. I learned that one literally, on a driving range, when a friend filmed mine in slow motion and the swing I felt and the swing on the screen turned out to be two different events. The fix was simple and humbling. I had to say yes, show me the tape.Most leaders never get that tape. And it gets worse the higher you climb, because the more authority you gain, the fewer people are willing to hand you the truth, right when you need it most.In this episode we get into:The research that explains why "just be more self-aware" is almost useless advice. Where these tells actually come from, which is your nervous system, not your character. And three concrete moves to invite honest feedback, choose the right people to give it, and reset your state before you walk into the room.This one is personal. I share the work I'm still doing on my own feedback, including the 360 I commissioned and why people hesitate to tell me the truth even after I've asked for it.📄 Free Field Guide: Grab The Mirror, the two-page companion for this episode. It includes a non-verbal self-audit, the three-move drill with the exact words to say, and a 7-day tracker. Get it at daledixon.me/mirrorKnow a leader with a tell they can't see? Send them this episode, and offer to be their loving critic. It's the one angle they'll never get on their own.I'm Dale Dixon, host of The Presence Lab and author of Sweating Bullets. Every week I help serious leaders perform when the room gets harder. Body first. Message second.Sources and further readingTasha Eurich, Insight (2017), and "What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)," Harvard Business Review (2018). Her research finds that about 95 percent of people believe they are self-aware while only 10 to 15 percent actually are, and that self-awareness tends to get less accurate as leaders gain experience and power.Jim Collins, Good to Great (2001). On Level 5 leadership, creating a climate where the truth is heard, confronting the brutal facts, and how a strong personality can lead people to filter the hard truths away from you.Kim Scott, Radical Candor (2017). On caring personally while challenging directly, the trap of Ruinous Empathy, and soliciting feedback before you give it.Ron Price and Randy Lisk, The Complete Leader (2014). On letting others be your mirror, the blame-defend-deny reflex, and being measured by impact rather than intention.On the physiological sigh: researchers in the labs of Jack Feldman (UCLA) and Mark Krasnow (Stanford) identified the brainstem circuit that triggers sighing (Nature, 2016). On cyclic sighing and mood: Balban and colleagues, with Andrew Huberman and David Spiegel, in Cell Reports Medicine (2023).Dale Dixon, Sweating Bullets, on state-first communication under pressure.LinksField Guide: daledixon.me/mirror
More from Dale: daledixon.me]]>1407asking for feedback,blind spots,body language,communication skills,dale dixon,executive presence,feedback,leadership,leadership communication,nonverbal communication,radical candor,receiving feedback,ruinous e,self-awareness,the presence labfalse5286fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-change-your-stress-response-under-pressure--72532608Send us Fan MailYou don't have six personalities under pressure. You have one switch, challenge or threat, and your body flips it before you get a vote.

In this episode, Dale opens with the assessment that told him a truth he'd been outrunning for years, and uses it to hand you something far more useful than a personality type: the ability to choose who you are in the room the moment the stakes spike. Drawing on a current Harvard Business Review framework and the science of how the body actually reads pressure, this is a state-first guide to staying yourself when it counts. You'll leave with three moves you can run in your next hard conversation, and the surprising research on why "calm down" is some of the worst advice you've ever been handed.

IN THIS EPISODE
- Why your stress response is a default, not your character, and why that is very good news
- The lab finding that belongs on every conference room wall: the same racing heart can mean two opposite things
- Why telling yourself to calm down backfires, and the three words that work better
- The three-move switch you can run in fifteen seconds, in a real room
- What three of Dale's own assessments, across sixteen years, reveal about real growth, including the part that is still unfinished

THE THREE MOVES
1. Name it to tame it. Put the feeling into plain words so the thinking part of your brain comes back online.
2. Regulate to a 7. One long exhale, slower than the breath in, to unclamp the body before you speak.
3. Relabel, don't relax. Re-point the same energy from threat to challenge.

GET THE FREE FIELD GUIDE
"Throw the Switch" is a one-page worktool to find your own default and run the three moves when the pressure is on. Grab it at daledixon.me/switch

KNOW SOMEONE THIS WOULD HELP?
If a leader came to mind who turns into someone they don't love the second the pressure hits, send them this episode. You might be the one person willing to hand them the switch.

RESEARCH AND FURTHER READING
- Jon Miller and Drew Keller, "6 Ways Leaders Harness Stress," Harvard Business Review (July/August 2026). The six stress-response types referenced in this episode. You can find your own default through their Center for Stress Intelligence at stressintelligence.org/test.
- Jim Blascovich and Joe Tomaka, "The Biopsychosocial Model of Arousal Regulation," in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 28 (1996), pp. 1 to 51. The challenge-versus-threat research behind "same racing heart, two opposite states." For a readable overview, see Mark D. Seery, "The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat: Using the Heart to Measure the Mind," Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2013). For the performance link, see Blascovich, Seery, Mugridge, Norris, and Weisbuch, "Predicting Athletic Performance from Cardiovascular Indexes of Challenge and Threat," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 40 (2004), pp. 683 to 688.
- Alison Wood Brooks, "Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 143, No. 3 (2014), pp. 1144 to 1158. The "I am excited" studies on singing, speaking, and math under pressure.
- Matthew D. Lieberman, Naomi I. Eisenberger, Molly J. Crockett, Sabrina M. Tom, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, and Baldwin M. Way, "Putting Feelings Into Words: Affect Labeling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli," Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 5 (2007), pp. 421 to 428. The neuroscience under "name it to tame it." The phrase itself comes from Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson, "The Whole-Brain Child" (2011).
- Dale's personal arc draws on his TTI Success Insights Emotional Quotient and TriMetrix HD assessments, administered through Price Associates.

ABOUT THE PRESENCE LAB
The Presence Lab is a podcast about the skill underneath the skill: regulating your nervous system so you can be fully yourself under pressure. Hosted by Dale Dixon, executive communication coach and author of "Sweating Bullets."

Listen to more episodes and subscribe at daledixon.me/podcast]]>Buzzsprout-19335549Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newYou don't have six personalities under pressure. You have one switch, challenge or threat, and your body flips it before you get a vote. In this episode, Dale opens with the assessment that told him a...Send us Fan MailYou don't have six personalities under pressure. You have one switch, challenge or threat, and your body flips it before you get a vote.

In this episode, Dale opens with the assessment that told him a truth he'd been outrunning for years, and uses it to hand you something far more useful than a personality type: the ability to choose who you are in the room the moment the stakes spike. Drawing on a current Harvard Business Review framework and the science of how the body actually reads pressure, this is a state-first guide to staying yourself when it counts. You'll leave with three moves you can run in your next hard conversation, and the surprising research on why "calm down" is some of the worst advice you've ever been handed.

IN THIS EPISODE
- Why your stress response is a default, not your character, and why that is very good news
- The lab finding that belongs on every conference room wall: the same racing heart can mean two opposite things
- Why telling yourself to calm down backfires, and the three words that work better
- The three-move switch you can run in fifteen seconds, in a real room
- What three of Dale's own assessments, across sixteen years, reveal about real growth, including the part that is still unfinished

THE THREE MOVES
1. Name it to tame it. Put the feeling into plain words so the thinking part of your brain comes back online.
2. Regulate to a 7. One long exhale, slower than the breath in, to unclamp the body before you speak.
3. Relabel, don't relax. Re-point the same energy from threat to challenge.

GET THE FREE FIELD GUIDE
"Throw the Switch" is a one-page worktool to find your own default and run the three moves when the pressure is on. Grab it at daledixon.me/switch

KNOW SOMEONE THIS WOULD HELP?
If a leader came to mind who turns into someone they don't love the second the pressure hits, send them this episode. You might be the one person willing to hand them the switch.

RESEARCH AND FURTHER READING
- Jon Miller and Drew Keller, "6 Ways Leaders Harness Stress," Harvard Business Review (July/August 2026). The six stress-response types referenced in this episode. You can find your own default through their Center for Stress Intelligence at stressintelligence.org/test.
- Jim Blascovich and Joe Tomaka, "The Biopsychosocial Model of Arousal Regulation," in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 28 (1996), pp. 1 to 51. The challenge-versus-threat research behind "same racing heart, two opposite states." For a readable overview, see Mark D. Seery, "The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat: Using the Heart to Measure the Mind," Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2013). For the performance link, see Blascovich, Seery, Mugridge, Norris, and Weisbuch, "Predicting Athletic Performance from Cardiovascular Indexes of Challenge and Threat," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 40 (2004), pp. 683 to 688.
- Alison Wood Brooks, "Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 143, No. 3 (2014), pp. 1144 to 1158. The "I am excited" studies on singing, speaking, and math under pressure.
- Matthew D. Lieberman, Naomi I. Eisenberger, Molly J. Crockett, Sabrina M. Tom, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, and Baldwin M. Way, "Putting Feelings Into Words: Affect Labeling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli," Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 5 (2007), pp. 421 to 428. The neuroscience under "name it to tame it." The phrase itself comes from Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson, "The Whole-Brain Child" (2011).
- Dale's personal arc draws on his TTI Success Insights Emotional Quotient and TriMetrix HD assessments, administered through Price...]]>1428communication under pressure,emotional intelligence,execu,executive presence,high stakes communication,leadership communication,leadership development,nervous system regulation,presentation skills,public speaking,self regulation,stress responsefalse5285fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-expert-s-curse-why-smart-leaders-lose-the-room--72402412Send us Fan MailThe smartest person in the room is often the one most likely to lose it.Not because they lack expertise. Because they have so much knowledge in their head that they forget the audience cannot hear the full song playing in their mind. They only hear the taps on the table.In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon breaks down what he calls “the expert’s curse,” the communication trap that causes smart leaders, founders, doctors, engineers, executives, and specialists to overwhelm the very people they are trying to reach.Using the story of a developer facing a skeptical city council, Dale explains why technical precision can become a form of armor under pressure, and why the nervous system often pulls experts toward more detail at the exact moment the room needs more clarity.You’ll learn:Why “dumbing it down” is the wrong goalHow expertise makes it harder to remember what beginners needWhy pressure drives smart people toward jargon, numbers, and over-explainingHow Elizabeth Newton’s “tapper and listener” experiment explains why audiences get lostThree practical tools to help your message land: Coach the One, Word Pictures, and the Regulated PauseThis episode is for leaders who need to communicate complex ideas clearly in board meetings, public hearings, sales conversations, media interviews, investor pitches, team meetings, and high-stakes presentations.The goal is not to know less. The goal is to build the door your audience can walk through.Download the free one-page field guide, The Translation Test, at daledixon.me/podcast.]]>Buzzsprout-19307079Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newThe smartest person in the room is often the one most likely to lose it.Not because they lack expertise. Because they have so much knowledge in their head that they forget the audience cannot hear the full...Send us Fan MailThe smartest person in the room is often the one most likely to lose it.Not because they lack expertise. Because they have so much knowledge in their head that they forget the audience cannot hear the full song playing in their mind. They only hear the taps on the table.In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon breaks down what he calls “the expert’s curse,” the communication trap that causes smart leaders, founders, doctors, engineers, executives, and specialists to overwhelm the very people they are trying to reach.Using the story of a developer facing a skeptical city council, Dale explains why technical precision can become a form of armor under pressure, and why the nervous system often pulls experts toward more detail at the exact moment the room needs more clarity.You’ll learn:Why “dumbing it down” is the wrong goalHow expertise makes it harder to remember what beginners needWhy pressure drives smart people toward jargon, numbers, and over-explainingHow Elizabeth Newton’s “tapper and listener” experiment explains why audiences get lostThree practical tools to help your message land: Coach the One, Word Pictures, and the Regulated PauseThis episode is for leaders who need to communicate complex ideas clearly in board meetings, public hearings, sales conversations, media interviews, investor pitches, team meetings, and high-stakes presentations.The goal is not to know less. The goal is to build the door your audience can walk through.Download the free one-page field guide, The Translation Test, at daledixon.me/podcast.]]>1253false5284fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-borrowed-voice--72266796Send us Fan MailDownload the free resource guide: https://www.daledixon.me/podcastI tell the story of the night my “authoritative” anchor voice turned into a Peter Jennings impression and made a normal studio feel like a cliff. Then I break down the research and the practical moves that help leaders stop performing, read the room honestly, and speak with more power using less effort. 

• Borrowing an “authoritative” voice and feeling the room distort in real time 
• Pushing harder on a false self and making performance worse 
• The hill-perception research: the same slope looks steeper with fewer resources 
• Why sleep, hunger, stress, and over-prep inflate meetings 
• Social support as a measurable resource: “finding your mom in the audience” 
• Challenge vs threat states and why “just calm down” fails 
• Breaking news as the moment the mask drops and clarity returns 
• Four moves: name the hill, identify the pack, lower the cost, prime the first move 

If you want all four on one page with the audit and a seven-day tracker, grab the hill card. It’s at Dale Dixon.me slash podcast. One page, one URL, it’s free. 
If this episode resonated, the most useful thing you can do is send it to one leader who needs it. Just find the right person and forward it. 
And I am incredibly grateful if you will give it a five star rating in your podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode. 


]]>Buzzsprout-19269206Sun, 31 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newDownload the free resource guide: https://www.daledixon.me/podcastI tell the story of the night my “authoritative” anchor voice turned into a Peter Jennings impression and made a normal studio feel like a...Send us Fan MailDownload the free resource guide: https://www.daledixon.me/podcastI tell the story of the night my “authoritative” anchor voice turned into a Peter Jennings impression and made a normal studio feel like a cliff. Then I break down the research and the practical moves that help leaders stop performing, read the room honestly, and speak with more power using less effort. 

• Borrowing an “authoritative” voice and feeling the room distort in real time 
• Pushing harder on a false self and making performance worse 
• The hill-perception research: the same slope looks steeper with fewer resources 
• Why sleep, hunger, stress, and over-prep inflate meetings 
• Social support as a measurable resource: “finding your mom in the audience” 
• Challenge vs threat states and why “just calm down” fails 
• Breaking news as the moment the mask drops and clarity returns 
• Four moves: name the hill, identify the pack, lower the cost, prime the first move 

If you want all four on one page with the audit and a seven-day tracker, grab the hill card. It’s at Dale Dixon.me slash podcast. One page, one URL, it’s free. 
If this episode resonated, the most useful thing you can do is send it to one leader who needs it. Just find the right person and forward it. 
And I am incredibly grateful if you will give it a five star rating in your podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode. 


]]>1447false5283fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-leaders-speak-too-fast-under-pressure--72145609Send us Fan MailDownload the free companion guide at: https://presencelab.sphereapp.com/login/Find the free The moment a meeting gets tense, a strange thing happens to a lot of smart leaders: our pace speeds up, our breathing climbs into our chest, and we start trying to win the moment by outrunning it. It can sound like confidence for a few seconds, then it turns into something else entirely: defensiveness, a data spill, or a listener quietly thinking, “I’m working too hard to follow this.” 

We unpack why fast talking is often not a speaking skill problem but a nervous system regulation attempt. When we feel socially evaluated, challenged, or at risk of looking incompetent, the body treats it like a threat. Heart rate rises, attention narrows, and executive functions like working memory and deliberate language get crowded. Then the familiar pattern takes over: talk faster, explain more, fill the silence. Add in the breathing feedback loop, and rushed speech becomes a self-reinforcing cycle that drains trust before anyone can name why. 

Then we get practical with three tools you can use immediately in real conversations: the period drill to end sentences and breathe, the quiet exhale before answering hard questions to avoid reacting, and the 70% rule to stop emptying the warehouse and start guiding the room with one headline and three supports. If you want more control, more executive presence, and fewer interruptions, this is your playbook. 

Subscribe, share this with a leader who needs it, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What’s the situation where you notice your pace spike the most?]]>Buzzsprout-19230469Sun, 24 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newDownload the free companion guide at: https://presencelab.sphereapp.com/login/Find the free The moment a meeting gets tense, a strange thing happens to a lot of smart leaders: our pace speeds up, our...Send us Fan MailDownload the free companion guide at: https://presencelab.sphereapp.com/login/Find the free The moment a meeting gets tense, a strange thing happens to a lot of smart leaders: our pace speeds up, our breathing climbs into our chest, and we start trying to win the moment by outrunning it. It can sound like confidence for a few seconds, then it turns into something else entirely: defensiveness, a data spill, or a listener quietly thinking, “I’m working too hard to follow this.” 

We unpack why fast talking is often not a speaking skill problem but a nervous system regulation attempt. When we feel socially evaluated, challenged, or at risk of looking incompetent, the body treats it like a threat. Heart rate rises, attention narrows, and executive functions like working memory and deliberate language get crowded. Then the familiar pattern takes over: talk faster, explain more, fill the silence. Add in the breathing feedback loop, and rushed speech becomes a self-reinforcing cycle that drains trust before anyone can name why. 

Then we get practical with three tools you can use immediately in real conversations: the period drill to end sentences and breathe, the quiet exhale before answering hard questions to avoid reacting, and the 70% rule to stop emptying the warehouse and start guiding the room with one headline and three supports. If you want more control, more executive presence, and fewer interruptions, this is your playbook. 

Subscribe, share this with a leader who needs it, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What’s the situation where you notice your pace spike the most?]]>1255false5282fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-smart-leaders-lose-the-room--72046751Send us Fan MailDownload the free Audience Load Map with a free membership to The Presence Lab: https://www.sphereapp.com/join-sphere-step-1/cd314a97-a2da-4c58-b124-4c75538e6951/In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explains a common mistake among capable leaders: preparing to prove what they know instead of preparing for what the audience is already carrying. He describes the idea of audience load as emotional, cognitive, and decision pressure, and says communication can fail when leaders add weight instead of reducing it. 
He introduces the Audience Load Map, built around three questions: what the audience is probably carrying, what they need to understand first, and what they need to leave ready to do. Dale applies the framework to board presentations, leadership meetings, team changes, client conversations, media interviews, and difficult one-on-ones, and emphasizes that audience first means making the truth easier to receive, not avoiding it.Smart leaders often over-explain under pressure. Learn how to use the Audience Load Map to reduce emotional, cognitive, and decision load so your message is easier to receive, remember, and act on.Chapters0:06  Audience First Mistake5:02  Losing the Room11:50  Three Audience Loads17:07  The Decision Question19:07  Better Openings23:32  Try the Three Prompts26:31  The Clarity TestLong SummaryIn this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon focuses on a mistake he sees smart leaders make: preparing to prove what they know instead of preparing for what the audience is already carrying.

He explains that audiences often enter a room with emotional, cognitive, and decision load. They may be carrying pressure, skepticism, fatigue, questions, concerns about risk, cost, workload, or reputation. If a leader adds more weight instead of reducing it, the room can disengage quietly even when people seem polite.

Dale introduces the Audience Load Map, a tool built around three questions: What are they probably carrying? What do they need to understand first? What do they need to leave ready to do? He applies it to board presentations, leadership meetings, team changes, client conversations, media interviews, and difficult one-on-ones.

He gives examples of how this changes openings. Instead of starting with background, analysis, and process, a leader can name the concern, clarify the decision or action, and make the ask clear. He says audience first does not mean avoiding hard truths; it means making the truth receivable.

The episode closes with a practical test: before speaking, ask whether a tired, skeptical, reasonably intelligent person could understand the message the first time. Dale’s point is that the goal of communication is not to display expertise, but to make the important thing easier to receive and act on.]]>Buzzsprout-19191723Sun, 17 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newDownload the free Audience Load Map with a free membership to The Presence Lab: https://www.sphereapp.com/join-sphere-step-1/cd314a97-a2da-4c58-b124-4c75538e6951/In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale...Send us Fan MailDownload the free Audience Load Map with a free membership to The Presence Lab: https://www.sphereapp.com/join-sphere-step-1/cd314a97-a2da-4c58-b124-4c75538e6951/In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explains a common mistake among capable leaders: preparing to prove what they know instead of preparing for what the audience is already carrying. He describes the idea of audience load as emotional, cognitive, and decision pressure, and says communication can fail when leaders add weight instead of reducing it. 
He introduces the Audience Load Map, built around three questions: what the audience is probably carrying, what they need to understand first, and what they need to leave ready to do. Dale applies the framework to board presentations, leadership meetings, team changes, client conversations, media interviews, and difficult one-on-ones, and emphasizes that audience first means making the truth easier to receive, not avoiding it.Smart leaders often over-explain under pressure. Learn how to use the Audience Load Map to reduce emotional, cognitive, and decision load so your message is easier to receive, remember, and act on.Chapters0:06  Audience First Mistake5:02  Losing the Room11:50  Three Audience Loads17:07  The Decision Question19:07  Better Openings23:32  Try the Three Prompts26:31  The Clarity TestLong SummaryIn this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon focuses on a mistake he sees smart leaders make: preparing to prove what they know instead of preparing for what the audience is already carrying.

He explains that audiences often enter a room with emotional, cognitive, and decision load. They may be carrying pressure, skepticism, fatigue, questions, concerns about risk, cost, workload, or reputation. If a leader adds more weight instead of reducing it, the room can disengage quietly even when people seem polite.

Dale introduces the Audience Load Map, a tool built around three questions: What are they probably carrying? What do they need to understand first? What do they need to leave ready to do? He applies it to board presentations, leadership meetings, team changes, client conversations, media interviews, and difficult one-on-ones.

He gives examples of how this changes openings. Instead of starting with background, analysis, and process, a leader can name the concern, clarify the decision or action, and make the ask clear. He says audience first does not mean avoiding hard truths; it means making the truth receivable.

The episode closes with a practical test: before speaking, ask whether a tired, skeptical, reasonably intelligent person could understand the message the first time. Dale’s point is that the goal of communication is not to display expertise, but to make the important thing easier to receive and act on.]]>1778audience first,audience load,audience load map,board presentations,capable leaders,client,cognitive,communication,conversations,d,dale dixon,decision,emotional pressure,interviews,leadership,media,meetings,presence lab,pressurefalse5281fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-rehearsal-makes-some-leaders-worse--71955466Send us Fan MailMost public speaking advice focuses on content, rehearsal, and confidence. That helps, but it misses the real problem many senior leaders face in high-stakes moments: the nervous system gets first vote.In this episode of The Presence Lab Podcast, Dale Dixon explains why smart, prepared leaders can still lose clarity, rush their delivery, or feel like a lesser version of themselves when the pressure rises. You’ll learn why the issue often is not your message, but the system delivering it.This episode breaks down a practical framework for high-stakes communication, executive presence, and nervous system regulation so you can speak with more clarity, steadiness, and trust when the room matters most.If you lead presentations, board meetings, investor conversations, media interviews, or difficult internal conversations, this episode is for you.In this episode:

• Why traditional public speaking advice often fails under pressure
• What your nervous system is doing before you speak
• The difference between a speaking problem and a regulation problem
• A simple three-part framework: Regulate. Relate. Reason.
• A practical drill to use before your next high-stakes moment

Follow The Presence Lab Podcast for weekly episodes on executive communication, public speaking, media presence, and performing under pressure.Learn more about The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon’s training for leaders who need to communicate clearly when the stakes are high.]]>Buzzsprout-19154449Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000Jason Jenningshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/11786/fan_mail/newMost public speaking advice focuses on content, rehearsal, and confidence. That helps, but it misses the real problem many senior leaders face in high-stakes moments: the nervous system gets first vote.In...Send us Fan MailMost public speaking advice focuses on content, rehearsal, and confidence. That helps, but it misses the real problem many senior leaders face in high-stakes moments: the nervous system gets first vote.In this episode of The Presence Lab Podcast, Dale Dixon explains why smart, prepared leaders can still lose clarity, rush their delivery, or feel like a lesser version of themselves when the pressure rises. You’ll learn why the issue often is not your message, but the system delivering it.This episode breaks down a practical framework for high-stakes communication, executive presence, and nervous system regulation so you can speak with more clarity, steadiness, and trust when the room matters most.If you lead presentations, board meetings, investor conversations, media interviews, or difficult internal conversations, this episode is for you.In this episode:

• Why traditional public speaking advice often fails under pressure
• What your nervous system is doing before you speak
• The difference between a speaking problem and a regulation problem
• A simple three-part framework: Regulate. Relate. Reason.
• A practical drill to use before your next high-stakes moment

Follow The Presence Lab Podcast for weekly episodes on executive communication, public speaking, media presence, and performing under pressure.Learn more about The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon’s training for leaders who need to communicate clearly when the stakes are high.]]>1173false5280fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-communicate-under-pressure-why-the-game-changers-became-the-presence-lab--71840378Regulate your body, reduce your message to one clear point, and start with a clean first sentence.If you lead people, speak often, or need to show up strong when the stakes are high, this episode will help you do it better.]]>Buzzsprout-19115545Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn this first episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explains why The Game Changers is evolving into a podcast focused on executive presence, leadership communication, and what really happens when pressure hits.This episode is about more than a new...Regulate your body, reduce your message to one clear point, and start with a clean first sentence.If you lead people, speak often, or need to show up strong when the stakes are high, this episode will help you do it better.]]>1091false5279fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sweating-bullets-from-ai--62137316this sample podcast, which was generated from a simple article, it will blow your mind. Those are not real humans. NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and writing assistant that works best with the sources you upload."
I didn't listen to the sample. I wanted to see it in action for myself. I uploaded the .pdf of my book, Sweating Bullets, A Story About Overcoming The Fear of Public Speaking. 
Listen for yourself. I didn't type a prompt. I clicked the button to create a 10-minute conversation between two people, and this is the result. Let me know what you think in the comments. 
If you'd like to see the study guide created by NotebookLM, send me an email. I'm happy to share. ]]>Buzzsprout-15830488Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsMy mind is a bit blown. I read about Google's newly released NotebookLM in Tim Ferriss' 5-Bullet Friday. Tim pitched it this way: "I know everyone is sick of hearing about AI, but if you haven’t heard...this sample podcast, which was generated from a simple article, it will blow your mind. Those are not real humans. NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and writing assistant that works best with the sources you upload."
I didn't listen to the sample. I wanted to see it in action for myself. I uploaded the .pdf of my book, Sweating Bullets, A Story About Overcoming The Fear of Public Speaking. 
Listen for yourself. I didn't type a prompt. I clicked the button to create a 10-minute conversation between two people, and this is the result. Let me know what you think in the comments. 
If you'd like to see the study guide created by NotebookLM, send me an email. I'm happy to share. ]]>606false4278fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mastering-the-game-of-life-strategic-personal-planning--57905586
Learn more about Eric at https://thegamechangersinc.com/
Learn more about Dale at https://www.daledixon.me/

Episode highlights:
00:00 Success through consistency and strategic personal planning.04:29 Reflect on past year before planning ahead.08:53 Focus on significant goals for greater impact.09:51 Clear focus on goals eliminates resource conflicts.15:04 Identify fear of failure, take actionable steps.18:28 State goals as if they've already happened.20:03 Refine goals by asking specific questions.23:06 Affirming small actions lead to reaching goals.26:33 Visualizing better behavior leads to increased sensitivity.30:04 Personal gain plan ensures purpose and direction.32:50 Explore book "Moving to Great" by Eric Bowles.]]>Buzzsprout-14082575Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsWe unpack the power of having a Personal Game Plan. Discover the transformational impact of pinpointing your 'lead domino' goal to ignite momentum across all areas of your life. Let Eric's insights motivate you to streamline your focus, conquer...
Learn more about Eric at https://thegamechangersinc.com/
Learn more about Dale at https://www.daledixon.me/

Episode highlights:
00:00 Success through consistency and strategic personal planning.04:29 Reflect on past year before planning ahead.08:53 Focus on significant goals for greater impact.09:51 Clear focus on goals eliminates resource conflicts.15:04 Identify fear of failure, take actionable steps.18:28 State goals as if they've already happened.20:03 Refine goals by asking specific questions.23:06 Affirming small actions lead to reaching goals.26:33 Visualizing better behavior leads to increased sensitivity.30:04 Personal gain plan ensures purpose and direction.32:50 Explore book "Moving to Great" by Eric Bowles.]]>2099false3277fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unleash-your-best-strategies-to-increase-employee-engagement-and-boost-workplace-satisfaction--57856341Takeaways

• Employee engagement is a critical issue in the workplace, with the majority of employees being angry, stressed, and disengaged.
• Leaders need to provide clarity in their communication and set clear goals to engage their team members.
• Recognition and approachable leadership are essential for creating a positive work environment.
• Strong guidance and clear expectations help employees understand their role and contribute to the organization's success.

Chapters

00:00
Introduction00:36
Employee Engagement Statistics03:32
The Importance of Clarity in Leadership08:50
Recognition and Approachable Leadership14:41
Clear Goals and Strong Guidance23:55
Conclusion]]>Buzzsprout-14060727Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn this episode, Dale and Eric discuss the Gallup 2023 workplace report on employee engagement. They highlight the concerning statistics that show a majority of employees are angry, stressed, and disengaged. They emphasize the importance of clarity in...Takeaways

• Employee engagement is a critical issue in the workplace, with the majority of employees being angry, stressed, and disengaged.
• Leaders need to provide clarity in their communication and set clear goals to engage their team members.
• Recognition and approachable leadership are essential for creating a positive work environment.
• Strong guidance and clear expectations help employees understand their role and contribute to the organization's success.

Chapters

00:00
Introduction00:36
Employee Engagement Statistics03:32
The Importance of Clarity in Leadership08:50
Recognition and Approachable Leadership14:41
Clear Goals and Strong Guidance23:55
Conclusion]]>1771false3276fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reflection-and-growth-self-evaluation-practices-to-unlock-your-leadership-potential--57727792Buzzsprout-14001508Mon, 20 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsAs leaders, we are constantly evaluating our teams, performance, and the external factors that affect our organizations. But how often do we take the time to evaluate ourselves? In this episode, we dive into the importance of self-evaluation for...1551false3275fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/winning-the-game-the-importance-of-starting-strong--57531292
[00:01:59] Attention burns calories; jet lag is tough. Afternoons are challenging, but wife helps. Sleep matters, even napping aids recovery. Good information is crucial for valuable assistance.[00:06:23] Prayer, meditation, reading, journaling, planning ensure successful day.[00:09:29] Retain clients, invest in employee retention.[00:12:05] Relying on energy for engaging speeches.[00:14:40] Repeated scripted plays breed offensive team confidence.[00:17:39] Align plan, action, and reporting for success.[00:22:09] Focus, not competency, determines success. Game changer.[00:23:28] Strategic planning leads to desired results.]]>Buzzsprout-13915379Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsEric and Dale explore the importance of starting strong in order to finish well in any endeavor. Eric shares his insights on what it means to truly start strong, emphasizing the value of being fully present and attentive in the moment. Using the...
[00:01:59] Attention burns calories; jet lag is tough. Afternoons are challenging, but wife helps. Sleep matters, even napping aids recovery. Good information is crucial for valuable assistance.[00:06:23] Prayer, meditation, reading, journaling, planning ensure successful day.[00:09:29] Retain clients, invest in employee retention.[00:12:05] Relying on energy for engaging speeches.[00:14:40] Repeated scripted plays breed offensive team confidence.[00:17:39] Align plan, action, and reporting for success.[00:22:09] Focus, not competency, determines success. Game changer.[00:23:28] Strategic planning leads to desired results.]]>1537false3274fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unleashing-strategic-thinking-allow-the-future-to-influence-the-present--57456636Buzzsprout-13878118Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn this episode, we dive deep into the topic of strategic thinking. We explore the concept of allowing the future to have a bigger influence on the present and how this mindset can lead to greater success. Eric shares his expertise on how to cultivate...1678false3273fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/embracing-ai-disruption-the-power-of-change-management-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence--57365768Buzzsprout-13833722Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn this episode, we explore the disruptive forces shaping our world and how leaders can navigate them. Eric Boles and Dale Dixon unpack the key principles of change management and the role of AI in transforming businesses. From embracing transparency...1818false2272fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/your-circle-of-control--57269521
 [00:02:28] Focus on problems within our control.  [00:04:50] Contributing factors not determining. Powerful question influence, ignore obstacles.  [00:08:35] Identify trust obstacles, behaviors blocking goal.  [00:12:04] Focus on areas of control, increase empowerment.  [00:17:11] Discipline, date nights, vacations: Control your involvement.  [00:20:17] Focus on what you can control.  [00:22:14] Focus on what you can control.  [00:26:25] Control, leverage, focus, question, debate, factor, determine.  [00:29:23] Focus on what you can control. ]]>Buzzsprout-13791937Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsWelcome to another episode of Game Changers, where we explore the strategies, mindsets, and actions that can truly transform our lives. In this episode, Dale and Eric Boles dive deep into the concept of focusing on what we can control to achieve our...
 [00:02:28] Focus on problems within our control.  [00:04:50] Contributing factors not determining. Powerful question influence, ignore obstacles.  [00:08:35] Identify trust obstacles, behaviors blocking goal.  [00:12:04] Focus on areas of control, increase empowerment.  [00:17:11] Discipline, date nights, vacations: Control your involvement.  [00:20:17] Focus on what you can control.  [00:22:14] Focus on what you can control.  [00:26:25] Control, leverage, focus, question, debate, factor, determine.  [00:29:23] Focus on what you can control. ]]>1970false2271fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finish-strong--57165674
]]>Buzzsprout-13740432Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsWe dive into the concept of maximizing your potential in those critical moments when the game is on the line. Eric shares an unconventional perspective on finishing strong, urging us to focus on the smaller details rather than solely relying on...
]]>1628false2271fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/staying-calm-cool-collected-under-pressure--56840592Buzzsprout-13610204Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn a captivating episode of "The Game Changers Podcast," Dale Dixon and Eric Boles explore the profound facets of sports psychology and its applications beyond just sports. The discussion underscores the importance of implementing psychological...2467false2270fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-importance-of-fitness-to-unleash-your-best--56761927Buzzsprout-13567179Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsThe Game Changers Podcast with Eric Boles and Dale Dixon  returns after a hiatus, and in this latest episode, they delve into the topic of fitness. Eric Boles, who coaches leaders to unlock their potential, shares his personal fitness routine,...1837false2269fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/three-questions-every-leader-must-ask--56319601Buzzsprout-13319048Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsExplore three fundamental questions every leader must ask.  Discover how to overcome internal biases, challenge yourself to grow, and learn to create a winning environment in this thought-provoking and inspiring podcast. Subscribe, rate, review, and...1778false2268fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/possibility-and-probability--56198390Buzzsprout-13275336Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn this episode, learn how embracing possibilities and turning them into probabilities can propel you to achieve greatness. From the inspiring journey of Arnold Schwarzenegger to the vital importance of daily reps and small actions, this podcast will...1906false2267fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/feedback-the-right-words-at-the-right-time--56049093Buzzsprout-13191206Mon, 10 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsUnleash your best in life and work with the Game Changers Podcast! Join Eric Boles and  Dale Dixon as they explore the power of feedback and the importance of timing. Discover how the right words at the right time can transform your leadership and...1536false2266fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/seeing-is-believing--55098989Buzzsprout-13106557Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn the latest episode, Eric Boles and Dale Dixon explore the transformative concept of "seeing is believing," and how it impacts our attitudes and actions. Through an engaging anecdote about a flight experience, they highlight the importance of...1958false2265fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-power-of-rest--54550251Buzzsprout-13070313Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsRest is a game-changer in life and work. In this episode of The Game Changers podcast  featuring Eric Boles and Dale Dixon,  Eric discusses the challenges of practicing rest and the importance of recovery. The conversation highlights how busyness can...2151false2264fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mindset-reset--54287218Buzzsprout-13021123Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsA mindset reset means getting into the weeds of how we define growth. Everything outside of us is pushing us to go faster, to move quicker. Slowing down and taking the time to actually think is how to start the reset. Eric and Dale dive into the details. 1778false2263fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-courage-to-fight-for-clarity--53876720Buzzsprout-12853642Mon, 15 May 2023 19:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIf you've ever caught yourself saying, "I thought we talked about this and all agreed...," when working through a misunderstanding, this episode is for you. Eric and Dale real-world examples of how the lack of clarity is impacting so many...1851false2262fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hard-work--53629108Buzzsprout-12707388Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsThis episode may rock your thinking about what hard work really is ... and isn't. Eric Boles and Dale Dixon talk through the concept that hard work is not long hours... it's about impact and getting things done. 2066false2261fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/be-ready--53491397Buzzsprout-12618800Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsBe ready, so you don't have to get ready. How do we prepare to grab opportunities when presented. You can't be preparing for the opportunity when it arrives. Anticipate movement. Anticipate. Be quick, but not in a hurry. Eric Boles lays out a game...1618false2260fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/human-becoming--53262041Buzzsprout-12461430Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsHow does productivity and true teamwork get better in light of buzzwords and the good intentions of diversity and inclusivity? In this game changing approach, Eric Boles and Dale Dixon dive into the courage to show up, understanding we're all...1938false2259fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/connecting-head-and-heart-for-high-performance--53182131Buzzsprout-12421199Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsThe higher the esteem level, the higher performing the team.  In this episode, Eric and Dale detail five ways a leader can inspire those around them to higher levels of success by building esteem.1983false2258fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-most-powerful-psychological-tool--52894665Buzzsprout-12330308Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsHave you noticed the ability to be objective and critically think through topics and issues is rapidly disappearing from society, especially in the U.S.?  Screaming heads on TV. All or nothing politics. The work being done to trigger emotion, segment...1860false2257fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/get-stuff-done--52894659Buzzsprout-12283210Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn this episode of "The Game Changers" podcast,  Eric Boles and Dale Dixon dive deep into the topic of productivity and getting things done. As successful business leaders, Eric and Dale have learned the power of productivity and how it can transform...1623false2256fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/run-through-the-doorway-of-fear--52894728Buzzsprout-12239553Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsFear is a doorway you walk through, not a house you live in. How do you break through the doorway to get past the fears of failure and rejection? The answer is in this podcast through a powerful story of a mentor, key questions and the courage to take...1971false2255fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/do-hard-things--52895245Buzzsprout-12187559Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsDoes seeking the convenient and easy keep us from true success?  In this episode, Eric and Dale lay out a game plan for embracing seeking out and embracing challenges to build resiliency and create a game changing life.1586false2254fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/requires-no-talent--52895298Buzzsprout-12140438Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsSupercharge your team with an approach that requires no talent. Clarity is the powerful tool to create success in your leadership. Clarity takes no talent. But, it takes tremendous skill. In this episode, learn how to develop the clarity skill with a...1580false2253fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/build-trust--52894539Buzzsprout-12098271Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsA game changing strategy to build trust with your team. Decisions are made faster and more is accomplished when team members trust one another. Leaders can build trust by living the game changing ideas presented in this week's episode.1641false2252fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/define-your-win--52894820Buzzsprout-12053055Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIf you're setting a goal, that goal is leading to a "win." How do you define that win? In this episode, Eric and Dale discuss a unique way to approach goal setting by clearly defining the win.1393false2251fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coach-yourself--52894762Buzzsprout-12005512Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsWe all have room for improvement. A question as we start 2023: Are you coachable? A great coach makes all the difference. What if that coach is inside of you? In this episode, Eric and Dale discuss how to unleash the coach within to propel you to the...1167false2250fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/measure-what-matters--52894774Buzzsprout-11888659Sat, 17 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsFinding clarity around what and how to measure for success in your business. Identifying specific areas of your life and work where you want to see success is an important first step in the process. Then, put the right measurement tools in place. In...1671false2249fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/focus-on-success--52894720Eric Boles shares what he learned about focus on the NFL field that translates to the leadership and business worlds. Learn the tactics to create laser-like focus to be your best in life and work.]]>Buzzsprout-11847614Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn a world of distraction, getting the job done successfully can be hard. It's time to create focus. Eric Boles shares what he learned about focus on the NFL field that translates to the leadership and business worlds. Learn the tactics to create...Eric Boles shares what he learned about focus on the NFL field that translates to the leadership and business worlds. Learn the tactics to create laser-like focus to be your best in life and work.]]>1735false2248fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/staying-ahead--52894782Buzzsprout-11806189Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIs your skillset keeping pace as your business grows and evolves? Making sure the business doesn't outgrow you is an opportunity for continual growth and development. Keeping pace with the business needs to be done the right way. Eric and Dale share...1730false2247fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-life-well-lived--52894532Eric recently lost his brother. In this inspiring and heart-felt episode, he shares the life lessons and stories of a life well-lived.]]>Buzzsprout-11763807Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsLegacy and making a difference Eric recently lost his brother. In this inspiring and heart-felt episode, he shares the life lessons and stories of a life well-lived.Eric recently lost his brother. In this inspiring and heart-felt episode, he shares the life lessons and stories of a life well-lived.]]>1491false2246fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/moving-at-pace--52894740Buzzsprout-11656041Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsEstablishing a sense of urgency instead of panic in adapting to a fast-paced business world is crucial. In this episode, Eric Boles shares how a leader can bring her or his team along in the rapidly evolving environment. Learn how to develop and share...1904false2245fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bringing-clarity-to-leadership--52894813Buzzsprout-11551445Sun, 23 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsLeading requires clarity of purpose. How do you handle the present to prepare for the future? Eric shares the principles he's learned to lead with clarity.1849false2244fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/intentional-coaching--52895119Buzzsprout-11462293Sat, 08 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsOne size does not fit all when helping the people you lead achieve their greatest potential. However it's easy for leaders to fall into the trap of doing what's comfortable. Eric provides an actionable approach to tuning into each individual on your...1600coaching,developing,lead,leadership,leading,o3,oneonone,peoplefalse2243fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/setting-the-priority--52894739Buzzsprout-11443409Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000Jason Jennings"In order for choice to live, options must die." In this episode Eric shares how leaders can remove the noise of, "everything is important," to focus on and set the priority. 2286false2242fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-be-present-vulnerable-and-courageous--52895255Buzzsprout-11282966Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsOur lives are found in the present moment.  When we are not present, we are not living. Being present starts with a small step. Learn it and put it into action to fully alive. 2060false2240fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/be-a-problem-solver--52894766Buzzsprout-11283008Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsYour level influence depends on the problems you solve. More importantly, are you building problem-solving capacity in those you lead? Eric breaks down problem-solving as a leadership requirement: how to do it and how do it better.2230false2241fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-new-chapter-and-a-new-name--50911886Buzzsprout-11134572Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsAfter two years, the Game Changers is back. This is an incredible story of a chance meeting leading to a way forward after tragic loss. 1693falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-238-finding-growth-in-discomfort--33208163Buzzsprout-4207157Wed, 17 Jun 2020 04:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsHow will you get uncomfortable to live life to the fullest?1341growth,mental,suffering,toughness,uncomfortablefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-237-the-most-underrated-innovation-strategy--30111907Buzzsprout-4043696Sun, 07 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsThe most underrated innovation strategy1213falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-236-celebrate-jason-jennings-birthday-with-game-changing-stories-and-life-lessons--30111908Buzzsprout-3977258Sat, 30 May 2020 17:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsCelebrate Jason Jennings' birthday with Game Changing stories and life lessons.2141advise,business,careers,game changer,growth,innovation,jason jennings,leadership,lessons,management,news,podcast,podcasts,productivity,reinvention,speed,the game changersfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-235-grief-and-planting-a-seed-remembering-jason-jennings--28338013Buzzsprout-3883844Sat, 23 May 2020 14:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsGrief and planting a seed: Remembering Jason Jennings2995best seller author,business advice,business leader,business strategies,business tips,game changer,jason jennings,motivational speakerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-234-here-are-some-truths-about-layoffs-every-leader-should-know--27072849Buzzsprout-3592687Sat, 02 May 2020 17:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsHere are some truths about layoffs every leader should know1638best seller author,business advice,business leader,business strategies,business tips,game changer,jason jennings,motivational speakerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-233-how-to-soar-like-an-eagle-in-frightening-times--26118567Buzzsprout-3418324Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsHow to Soar Like an EAGLE in Frightening Times1548best seller author,business advice,business leader,business strategies,business tips,game changer,jason jennings,motivational speakerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-231-how-to-stop-worrying-about-things-you-can-t-control--25276903Buzzsprout-3236245Sat, 04 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsHow to Stop Worrying About Things You Can’t Control1307best seller author,business advice,business leader,business strategies,business tips,game changer,jason jennings,motivational speakerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-229-the-importance-of-certainty-and-how-to-create-certainty--24414882Buzzsprout-3079141Sun, 22 Mar 2020 01:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsThe Importance of Certainty and How to Create Certainty1341best seller author,business advice,business leader,business strategies,business tips,game changer,jason jennings,motivational speakerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-227-7-safety-steps-to-protect-you-and-your-family-from-the-virus--23779807Buzzsprout-2944834Sat, 07 Mar 2020 23:00:00 +0000Jason Jennings7 Safety Steps To Protect You and Your Family From The Virus1470best seller author,business advice,business leader,business strategies,business tips,game changer,jason jennings,motivational speakerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-225-the-8-rules-for-working-on-your-business--23199988Buzzsprout-2804680Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsThe 8 Rules for Working On Your Business1543best seller author,business advice,business leader,business strategies,business tips,game changer,jason jennings,motivational speakerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-224-how-risk-adverse-are-you-jason-reveals-his-score--22645530Buzzsprout-2631982Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000Jason JenningsIn one chapter in his NYT bestselling book, The Reinventors, Jason writes about the inability of most companies to let go of the old and embrace the new. In one chapter titled, Letting Go, he writes about the fact that most successful companies become...1381best seller author,business advice,business leader,business strategies,business tips,game changer,jason jennings,motivational speakerfalsefull