Curiosity #72 - Think in Decades, Not Days
🎤 Quotable quotes: “Selflessness is a form of compound interest"
— EJ Carrion
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🎧 This Week’s Guest: EJ Carrion
If you have ever seen EJ speak, you know this is not a sit back and nod conversation.
EJ is the co founder of Student Success Agency, a first generation college studen...
Feb 18, 2026
Curiosity #71 - What Curling Can Teach Us About Leadership
🎤 Quotable quotes: “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."
— Phil Jackson
Every four years it happens.
Millions of people who have never held a broom suddenly become curling experts.
We lean forward on our couches. We shout at the television...
Feb 11, 2026
Curiosity #70 - Because leadership is personal, not positional.
🎤 Quotable quotes: “Take a step back, think about what it means to be a good person, and do more of that."
— Dr. Doan Winkel
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🎧 This Week’s Guest: Dr. Doan Winkel
Dr. Doan Winkel is not your average professor.
He’s the Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship at John Carroll Universit...
Feb 04, 2026
Curiosity #69 - Permission to Call a Snow Day
🎤 Quotable quotes: “It is a happy talent to know how to play."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you live in a good chunk of the country, there’s a decent chance you recently woke up to one of the most magical sentences in adulthood:
“School is canceled.”
Meetings paused. Calendars cleared. Normal rules ...
Jan 28, 2026
Curiosity #68 - Signal. Listen. Adjust.
🎤 Quotable quotes: “Be curious, not judgmental."
— Ted Lasso (and others!)
Before we get into this, we’re hoping you’ll choose curiosity over judgment.
Because we’re about to talk about bats.
Not the baseball kind.The flying, nocturnal, slightly misunderstood kind.
If you have ever been to Austi...
Jan 21, 2026
Curiosity #67 - Leading the Leader Who Does Not Know They Are One
🎤 Quotable quotes: “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."
— Theodore Roosevelt
We were reminded of this recently during a podcast conversation. A host described a coaching scenario we have heard many times. There was one person in the room with enormous potentia...
Jan 14, 2026
Curiosity #66 - How to Lead Like a Heisman Winner
(Fernando Mendoza Edition)
Before Fernando Mendoza ever showed up at Indiana, he did something most people do not think to do until after they have already stumbled through a few awkward first impressions.
He asked for photos, names, and positions of every single player on the team.
Then he mem...
Jan 07, 2026
Curiosity #65 - Turning the Page
🎤 Quotable quotes: “It’s funny how things have to end so that something else can begin."
— Ted Lasso
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As 2025 winds down, a lot of us are doing the same thing. Looking back. Taking stock. Wondering what stays, what goes, and what comes next.
And as we look toward 2026, there’s one thing we’re ...
Dec 31, 2025
Curiosity #64 - The Art of Making People Feel Welcome
🎤 Quotable quotes: “To the family we're born with, and the family we make along the way. And, most importantly, to Richmond"
— Higgins
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If there were a patron saint of holiday gatherings in Ted Lasso, it would be Leslie Higgins.
In The Carol of the Bells, we see it clearly. Higgins opens his h...
Dec 24, 2025
Curiosity #63 - The Last Act of Leadership
🎤 Quotable quotes: “The best leaders know when to step aside."
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As we prepare for our final Ted Lasso Rewatch Podcast episode, we found ourselves watching the series finale with fresh eyes. Not as fans bingeing for fun, but as leaders paying attention to what the show chose to say last.
And one...
Dec 17, 2025
Curiosity #62 - Make Your Next Move a Game
🎤 Quotable quotes: “I'm curious who I can become next."
— Anthony Conta
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🎧 This Week’s Guest: Anthony Conta
Anthony Conta’s resume reads like the start of a very entertaining board game:
Started in law and economics
Taught chess to preschoolers
Created Funemployed (now ...
Dec 10, 2025
Curiosity #61 - The Precipice Problem
🎤 Quotable quotes: “If you win, you will be on the precipice of achieving everything you ever dreamed of."
— Keeley Jones
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In Season 3, Episode 11 (Mom City), Jamie Tartt is in a funk. The edge is gone. The cocky sparkle is missing. Roy tries to summon the “old Jamie” with some...
Dec 03, 2025
