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The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
The Stoic Inner Strategy – Leadership, Stoicism, and Decision-Making Under Pressure
The Stoic Inner Strategy is a daily leadership podcast for founders, CEOs, executives, and operators navigating high-stakes decisions.
Hosted by Scott Smith, Principal Advisor and founder of Akhada Consulting, this show blends Stoic philosophy with modern business strategy, executive decision-making, and leadership clarity. Each short episode explores topics like judgment under pressure, strategic thinking, emotional discipline, execution focus, authority, resilience, and founder psychology.
Drawing from Stoic thinkers such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus, Scott translates timeless philosophy into practical leadership frameworks for today’s business leaders.
This is not motivational content.
It is measured thinking for people responsible for outcomes.
If you lead a company, carry decision weight, or want sharper judgment in business and life, The Inner Strategy delivers a daily reset.
Stillness before strategy.
Strength without noise.
The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Ep 208 – Urgency Is an Impression
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Urgency feels real, but it’s often just an impression. Scott Smith explains how leaders lose authority by granting assent too quickly under pressure.
🎙️ Episode Summary
Urgency rarely arrives as a fact.
It arrives as a feeling.
In this episode, Scott Smith reframes urgency through a Stoic lens. Not as a command, but as an impression that enters the mind asking for agreement.
Leaders don’t lose control because urgency exists.
They lose it because they grant assent before reason has spoken.
This episode slows the moment, naming urgency as tension and examining how judgment determines whether pressure governs decisions or merely passes through awareness.
🧠 What You’ll Learn Today
• Why urgency is persuasive but not authoritative
• How tension compresses time and narrows judgment
• The Stoic idea of assent applied to leadership pressure
• Why most urgent decisions are permitted, not forced
• How inner authority is preserved through awareness
🔍 Tags:
Stoicism, Urgency, Assent, Leadership Judgment, Pressure, Decision-Making, Inner Authority
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The Stoic Inner Strategy is your daily shortform podcast—your blueprint for modern leadership rooted in timeless truths.
Hosted by Scott Smith, founder of Akhada Consulting, co-founder of ChatWorx, and host of The Outsourcing Blueprint podcast, this series blends ancient Stoic wisdom with real-world business strategy to help you lead with clarity, manage both your teams and yourself effectively, and move with purpose.
No fluff. Just focused, grounded insight you can apply right now.
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