ABOUT PODCAST BOOKS SPEAKING LEADERSHIP CIRCLES Welcome to Mindful Monday! My new book, The Price of Becoming, is now available to pre-order. Please do that now. If you've already done so, thank you! Email us (me or Eli@LearningLeader.com), and we'll send you a digital copy of the book right now. If you want to see all the cool pre-order bonuses we've set up for you, CLICK HERE. Here are some things from this week... An incredible talk about living a novel life with Scott Galloway... Remember...
11 days ago • 2 min read
Introducing The Price of Becoming (Plus, how you can help) Today, I have an exciting announcement: After years of research and writing, my 4th full-length book will launch soon... It's called The Price of Becoming: The Compound Practices of High Performance. It will be published on July 21, 2026. I believe The Price of Becoming is the most comprehensive and practical guide on how you can understand the power of compounding habits and put them to use for your life (both professionally and...
11 days ago • 3 min read
ABOUT PODCAST BOOKS SPEAKING LEADERSHIP CIRCLES Welcome to Mindful Monday! Here are some things I found useful this week... An eye-opening conversation with one of my favorites, Kat Cole (round 3) A short story I wrote about why I love skiing with my family One of the best essays on parenting from Paul Graham A deeply personal story from Morgan Housel about risk and paying the ultimate price And some wise words from Seth Godin #679: Kat Cole - CEO of $500m Company Kat Cole is the CEO of AG1...
18 days ago • 1 min read
ABOUT PODCAST BOOKS SPEAKING LEADERSHIP CIRCLES Welcome to Mindful Monday! Here are some things I found useful this week... An honest and open conversation with the inventor of the Ring (sold to Amazon for $1.1B) Why we all should write more (hand-written) thank you notes An incredible essay from Derek Thompson on what it's like to be a dad A now viral essay from Lulu Cheng Meservy about leaders & communication And some wise words about good things happening for others being awesome #678:...
25 days ago • 2 min read
ABOUT PODCAST BOOKS SPEAKING LEADERSHIP CIRCLES Welcome to Mindful Monday! Here are some things I found useful this week... An entertaining and useful conversation with Erin McGoff (of "Advice with Erin" fame) A typewriter interview from Austin Kleon about rediscovering exuberance in your work A classic from Morgan Housel about respect and admiration An essay on the importance of your opening (I think this applies to a keynote speech, too) And wise words about the most impactful people from...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
ABOUT PODCAST BOOKS SPEAKING LEADERSHIP CIRCLES Welcome to Mindful Monday! Here are some things I found useful this week... I hung out with Jesse Cole in Savannah to watch his Bananas and the other teams in the league practice. And then we sat down for an hour to talk about all of it. So cool. One of the most useful essays ever written on the importance of leading yourself... Thinking for yourself... And the skill of being alone with your thoughts. Murakami's acceptance speech on values is...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
ABOUT PODCAST BOOKS SPEAKING LEADERSHIP CIRCLES Welcome to Mindful Monday! Here are some things I found useful this week... Talked down with Tom Hardin (Tipper X). Wild conversation about the largest insider trading investigation in history (and what that has to do with leadership) Kat Cole's essay on common truths in Leadership and Business A useful essay about the downside of the 80/20 rules Why Norway wins so much at the Olympics And some wise words from Clark Lea about belief... #675: Tom...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
ABOUT PODCAST BOOKS SPEAKING LEADERSHIP CIRCLES Welcome to Mindful Monday! Here are some things I found useful this week... Talked down with PJ Fleck for the podcast. We spent the first few minutes reliving one of the wildest games we played against each other in college. Graham Duncan's piece on hiring excellent people holds up on a second read. Edan Lepucki wrote something that made me laugh and think about my own kids. Paul Graham on why thinking for yourself is so hard. And Daniel...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
ABOUT PODCAST BOOKS SPEAKING LEADERSHIP CIRCLES Welcome to Mindful Monday! Check out the conversation I had with one of my literary heroes, Dan Coyle, in Cleveland. This is the best one we've ever recorded together. Parker Conrad shared a super interesting story about Kleiner Perkins on the brink of failure... There's a helpful essay from Brad Stulberg/Steve Magness about goals... A deep dive into Super Bowl commercials (and whether it's worth paying for a spot). And some wise words from...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read