October 8, 2019

How do you change your critical life assumptions?

A critical life assumption is how you see the world and your place in it. You make decisions based on these assumptions—often without being aware that you hold them. But once you’ve discovered an unhealthy critical life assumption, how ...

October 3, 2019

A BoldIdea: Nothing is wasted in life

On the podcast: Matthew Thomas has traveled the world and taught across cultures and these are the questions his new book is hoping to share the answer to…

October 1, 2019

What critical life assumptions are holding you back?

We all carry critical life assumptions about how we see the world and our place in it. Yet healthy critical life assumptions hold us captive and profoundly influence the decisions we make about our future.

September 24, 2019

Truths from procrastination purgatory

Welcome to procrastination purgatory, where what you do next will determine where you end up. Here are 10 truths to get you out.

September 19, 2019

A BoldIdea: Have the Courage to Take Action

On the podcast: Sangram Vajre left a steady job for a complete unknown, and his wife told him he only had a year to make it work. Here’s how he made it happen...

September 17, 2019

The four skills I most respect in effective leaders

No one can possibly live up to the expectations expressed in over 15,000 books and countless articles written about leadership. But instead of tackling every skill, is it possible to focus on just a few, essential traits that would ...

September 10, 2019

A self-intervention guide for your mid-purpose crisis

Do you feel like you’re stuck in your career or a venture you once thought had so much promise? In my last post, I shared some of the key indicators I’ve noticed in myself when I’ve lost my sense ...

September 5, 2019

What 100 episodes have taught us about bold ideas

On the podcast: Armin & I released the 100th episode of the BoldIdea Podcast this week, a celebration of all we’ve learned thus far through our interviews with people with more wisdom than ourselves.

September 3, 2019

Are you in a mid-purpose crisis?

So you’ve started a new venture and your enthusiasm was off the charts. Everything was humming… until now. You’re discouraged. You’re questioning if this is what you should be doing with your life, let alone at just this moment. It ...

August 27, 2019

The Practices of a Non-Linear Leader

Most of us are linear thinkers. We think: first this, then that. In fact, the first big disruption most of us faced in our lives was when we graduated from school. Now what?

Leary Gates | Venture coach

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