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Leadership lessons for work, health, and life.
Becoming Your Best pairs steady host guidance with long-form guest stories about leadership, performance, health, and personal change. The tone is encouraging and practical, with each conversation circling back to habits, relationships, and better decisions.
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Becoming Your Best is a practical leadership and personal-growth interview show with a wide definition of performance. Business matters here, but so do health, family relationships, emotional steadiness, and the way people treat one another in ordinary interactions. The format is steady and conversational. A host introduces a guest, gives the topic a clear runway, and then lets the guest explain the method, origin story, or example in detail. Recent conversations show the range. Robyn Bolton talks about innovation, resource choices, and the leadership discipline needed to keep new ideas alive inside companies. Jamila Musayeva connects etiquette to consideration, cultural awareness, meetings, travel, and the golden rule in business. Ruth Chiles frames performance through openness, confidence, calm parenting, and the early experiences that shape how people relate to themselves. Meir Schneider offers exercises around peripheral vision and body awareness. Dr. Shai Efrati discusses regenerative and enhanced medicine, hyperbaric chambers, and the need for time rather than a magic-pill expectation. Dr. David Tate brings in light therapy and smart light. Lee Holden introduces Qigong as a practice for a stressed world. The show’s style is earnest and accessible. It favors stories, practical examples, and clear takeaways over sharp debate or academic framing. Some episodes lean strongly into wellness and alternative or emerging health practices, while others sit firmly in leadership coaching and organizational behavior. The through-line is improvement: better habits, better teams, better relationships, better use of knowledge. For listeners who like long guest explanations and gentle host steering, it offers a broad catalogue of ideas to test in work and life.
Made for: For leaders, parents, coaches, entrepreneurs, and self-improvement listeners who prefer warm interviews with practical takeaways. It especially suits people interested in performance beyond the office.
What sets it apart: The show blends classic leadership coaching with unusually broad wellness and relationship topics, from etiquette and innovation to Qigong, light therapy, and vision exercises. Its strength is letting guests explain their frameworks at length while the host keeps pulling the conversation back to application.
How do you feel about your personal and professional life? Many people feel like they or their teams are stuck in a mediocrity trap. The question is how do you take where you are today and make it better and overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to your success? Not only that, but how can you inspire your children or employees to do the same and become their best? In the Becoming Your Best podcast, Steve and Rob Shallenberger will help you uncover the principles of highly successful leaders. This podcast will give you the tools and processes to help you become the person, parent, partner, or leader that you’ve dreamed of becoming. This podcast also gives leaders and their teams the too…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical guest conversations connect leadership principles with the everyday behavior that shapes workplace trust, judgment and performance.
Steve and Rob Shallenberger treat leadership as a set of choices that reaches beyond the office. Their guest interviews connect management to cultural awareness, emotional regulation, accountability, family relationships and personal health.
From leadership ego to paper-on-the-nose eye exercises, your self-improvement curiosity gets a wide berth.
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A practical, hands-on review of peripheral vision, blinking, and small eye exercises.
This PlayNext review takes the conversation on vision as a practical, body-level episode rather than a motivational one. The guest makes the case that the eyes need more than central focus, then grounds that idea in simple demonstrations: placing paper on the bridge of the nose…
A warm, measured conversation about performance, staying centered, and the experiences that shape how people show up.
Performance is reframed here as the capacity to stay centered, calm, and responsive when someone else's emotions are running high. Ruth Childs makes that idea concrete through parenting: a child may need limits and boundaries, or may simply need to feel understood.
A steady look at enhanced medicine, treatment structure, hyperbaric chambers, and clinic reach.
Enhanced medicine gets a measured, grounded introduction as Dr. Shai Efrati discusses Beyond Normal and the clinical work around it. The episode uses a headache as a simple entry point, then widens into the HAST approach, regenerative medicine, and the role of hyperbaric…
A practical look at protecting uncertain innovation when current incentives favor the safer bet.
Innovation often slows inside established companies for understandable reasons, and this episode frames that problem through leaders trying to protect uncertain bets while the business rewards this year's results.
A warm, practical case for cultural knowledge and consideration as tools for stronger business relationships.
Etiquette lands here as a practical business skill, not a polish applied after the real work is done. Jamila, a certified etiquette consultant, author, and content creator, links consideration to cultural awareness, communication habits, better meetings, and the Golden Rule in…
A grounded conversation about recognizing attachment patterns and taking practical steps toward change.
Attachment styles give the episode a clear path into a wider conversation about how people recognize patterns in themselves and adjust the way they relate to others.
An ego management expert connects ego awareness with accountability, control, and the everyday impact leaders have on employees and customers.
Leadership advice here turns on a useful discomfort: ego is not just a personal quirk, but something that can quietly steer a business when it goes unexamined.
Business leaders, market lessons, real operating stories.
Leadership thinking under real pressure.
Calmer leadership, clearer teams, stronger trust.
Steve Schallenberger interviews Florence Ann Romano, a former nanny and author of 'Build Your Village.' They discuss how the proverb 'it takes a village' can be limiting for people without children.
Steve Schallenberger interviews Christie Garcia, an ego management expert and founder of Mindful Choice Leadership Academy.
This episode features an interview with a marriage and family therapist discussing how to overcome barriers to lead a passionate and purposeful life.
Host Steve Shallenberger interviews Lee Holden about the life-changing practice of Qigong, explaining its benefits for health and well-being.
The focus stays practical and physical.
Performance starts with being steady inside.
Becoming Your Best episode 445 centers on Dr.
Becoming Your Best Episode 444 features Steve Schallenberger and Robin Bolton discussing why innovation in large companies depends on leadership decisions more than idea generation.
["Becoming Your Best interviews Jamila Musayeva, a certified etiquette consultant, author of three etiquette books, and creator with more than 1 million YouTube subscribers.", "She traces her interest in etiquette to growing up in Azerbaijan around different languages, religions, and traditions, then studying in the United States, Belgium, and London.", "The interview focuses on direct versus indirect communication, with concrete examples from the United States, Japan, China, India, the Middle East, France, and the U.S.
Host Steve Shallenberger introduces an episode featuring Emmy Award-winning Vahan Yep Premium and Shelly Lefkoe discussing their expertise.
An interview with Dr.
Host Steve Shallenberger introduces a guest expert on Qigong, a practice that combines movement, meditation, and breathing to enhance health and well-being.
An interview with Dr.
This episode features a couple married for 67 years sharing their insights on leadership and success.
This episode features an interview with a decorated natural bodybuilder, exploring principles of success and personal growth.