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Lead In 30 Podcast
Russ Hill hosts the Lead In 30 Podcast. Strengthen your ability to lead others in less than 30 minutes. Russ makes his living coaching and consulting senior executive teams of some of the world's biggest companies. He's one of three co-founders of the fastest-growing leadership training company in the world. Tap the follow or add button and get two new episodes every week of the Lead In 30 Podcast.
Episodes
399 episodes
Who You Spend Time With: Evaluating Your 1st and 2nd Connections
Careers don’t stall because people forget how to work hard; they stall because the room stops changing. We dig into a simple, disruptive idea: individuals matter more than institutions. When you choose who you spend time with as carefully as yo...
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The Annual State of Leadership Report: Three Realities for 2026
The ground keeps moving and the old playbook can’t keep up. We pulled back the curtain on our 2026 Leadership Reality Report and walked through the intel leaders are using to make faster, smarter decisions without perfect visibility—because wai...
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Commands vs Suggestions: My Two Terrible Experiences
We explore why directive language often backfires and how switching to suggestion-based phrasing can raise buy-in, speed adoption, and improve results. Here's what you get in this latest episode from Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill:
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The Transfer Portal Is Open - Leadership Lessons from College Football
Have you seen what's happening in college sports? We could learn a ton in business from what's going on in collegiate athletics right now! In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill dives into why he thinks the rise of the indivi...
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So Many of You Are Missing This Critical Step!
Ever wonder why some leaders seem to always be a step ahead while others keep relearning the same hard lessons? The quiet difference is a system: capture the experience, process it into something useful, and ship it so others move faster. We us...
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The 12 Day Performance Test: Lessons from College Football
You get only 12 days. That's it. We're going to evaluate whether you stay or get fired on how you perform in those 12 days. In this episode, Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill compares college football coaches to modern day m...
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Stop Surrendering to Obstacles, How to Keep Your Team Moving!
The moment a boulder lands on your path is the moment your leadership shows. Do you freeze and wait for clarity, or move and create it? We dig into the simple but potent idea that action produces information and explore how the best teams keep ...
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Three Ways to Communicate More Efficiently
Strong communicators make strong leaders. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co founder Russ Hill shares three tips for more efficiently communicating in meetings and in one-on-one chats.Meetings shouldn’t feel like a maze. We walk you...
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Your Mindset Is Limiting Your Capacity
If you’ve ever felt like you’ve hit your ceiling, this conversation is your nudge to test it. We connect three simple moments—a chaotic drive-thru, a standout service interaction, and a gym set that pushed our limits—to the deeper truth that te...
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Stop Breaking Glass - How Effective Leaders Stay Calm
Ever feel like your team is living inside a 24-hour breaking news cycle? We’ve been there—where every email, rumor, or policy tweak turns into a fire drill and the loudest voice sets the tone. Today we unpack a simple shift that changes everyth...
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Sundance Summit: Top Priorities for Developing Leaders
They develop hundreds of thousands of leaders. And they were all in one room at Sundance, Utah. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill takes you inside the executive summit for HR and L&D leaders.Some highlights:
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How We Must Adjust to Lead Through This Era of Deep Division
It’s never happened in our lifetime. The recent assassination of a major political figure highlights something troubling about our current environment - the increasing inability to peacefully coexist with those who hold different views. While o...
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Organizations Need Leaders Who Narrow The Focus
Trying to improve in too many areas simultaneously is the fastest path to nowhere. In this thought-provoking episode, Russ Hill tackles the widespread problem of focus dilution that plagues both organizations and individuals.Drawing fro...
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5 Ways to Use AI In Leading Your Team
Are you leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance your leadership, or are you getting left behind? The technology revolution isn't waiting for anyone, and leaders who resist adapting to these powerful new tools are choosing obsolescence.
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Critics And Coaches: Who You Listen To And How It Impacts You
Ever find yourself fixating on that one harsh critique while ignoring dozens of positive comments? You're not alone. This deeply human tendency to focus on criticism over praise affects leaders at every level—and it could be holding you back fr...
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Take A Stinkin' Position! Stop Being So Invisible!
Stop being invisible in meetings. Stop decreasing your value in the company. Have a take! Offer an opinion. Give some insight. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill takes a position! He claims the most valuable p...
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The Memphis Plant & The Leader Who Transformed It
Have we lost our sense of urgency? That's the uncomfortable question at the heart of this eye-opening episode featuring an exclusive preview from Lone Rock Leadership's upcoming book "Deliver."Step into the cracked pavement and broken w...
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What AI is Teaching Us About Leadership
If you're using AI apps then maybe you've already learned this lesson. Maybe you're discovering that what you get back from ChatGPT, Grok, or Claude is largely determined by the prompt you type in. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership's Russ Hi...
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How Do You Get Your Team's Emotional Buy-In?
True team buy-in requires both operational involvement (hands and feet) and emotional involvement (hearts and minds), with many managers struggling to achieve both simultaneously. The distinction matters because emotional investment drives inno...
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Discovering Your Personal Value In the Market
What's your unique value in the marketplace? What problem are you uniquely able to solve? In this episode of the Lead In 30 podcast we explore the critical importance of identifying your unique value proposition and leveraging it in today's mar...
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Why the Smartest Leaders Disappear Every Summer
Ready for a science-backed permission slip to disconnect this summer? Discover how Harvard's longest running happiness study proves that getting completely off the grid isn't just good for your wellbeing—it's critical for your leadership effect...
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The 10 Biggest Regrets in Leadership
The 10 things he wish he knew when he was younger. Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill shares a list of things he regrets not knowing when he was a younger manager. See what you think of the list and which ones you've unlocked through exp...
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Systems vs. Drifting: Stop Dreaming and Start Building Systems
Is your team drifting or in reactionary mode? Do you wish you were scaling faster? In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill dives into the value of systems. He defines the importance of setting identity and vision first and the...
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