Practical leadership, tested against real life.
Elevate with Robert Glazer is a measured leadership show built around interviews and reflective weekend conversations. It favors concrete stories, from sleep deprivation and AI disruption to servant leadership and grit, then draws out usable principles for work and life.
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Elevate with Robert Glazer is a business and leadership show built around the question of how people build capacity over time. It is practical first. The show uses interviews, classic replays, and Weekend Conversations to connect career stories with the daily mechanics of better judgment. A conversation about sleep becomes a critique of workaholism and the limits of extreme schedules. A discussion of AI turns toward historical disruption, agentic tools, and the risk of waiting too long to adapt. An interview with Tony D’Urso uses his path from early family responsibility to media entrepreneurship as a way into vision, purpose, and execution. Grant Williams brings a finance-world lens to high-stakes leadership, uncertainty, and curiosity. Angela Duckworth’s appearance circles grit, quitting, values, and the difference between enduring for a reason and staying from fear or inertia. The show is not trying to sound edgy or revolutionary. Its strength is steadier than that. It takes familiar leadership language and keeps asking what it means when a person is tired, stressed, ambitious, defensive, or unsure. Weekend Conversations with Mick Sloan add a useful second voice, especially when the topic needs a little skepticism or historical perspective. The pacing is measured, but the questions are direct. Episodes often start with context before moving into a sharper prompt, giving guests room to explain how their ideas actually work. The recurring concern is alignment: between values and behavior, vision and action, stress and response, ambition and health. That makes the show especially useful for business listeners and self-directed professionals who already believe in growth but want a more durable way to practice it. It is leadership media for people who want principles they can test in a meeting, a career decision, or a hard week.
Made for: For business listeners and growth-minded professionals who want leadership advice grounded in stories, habits, and decision-making. It also fits listeners who like business interviews with a reflective, psychology-aware edge.
What sets it apart: The show connects high-performance business conversations to everyday capacity: sleep, stress, values, grit, AI adaptation, and hard career choices. Its Weekend Conversations format gives the feed a steadier, more practical counterweight to standard guest interviews.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects promotion, customer advocacy and emotional regulation to the concrete choices leaders make at work.
Elevate with Robert Glazer turns leadership ideas into decisions about work, responsibility and growth. Robert Glazer moves between guest interviews and Weekend Conversations with producer Mick Sloan, repeatedly pressing broad principles toward practical questions: when…
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A long finance career becomes a practical lens on leadership and judgment.
Robert Glaser presents Grant Williams as a figure whose career traces the pressures and lessons of global finance, from Japan's late-1980s bubble and collapse through co-founding Real Vision and the long run of The Things That Make You Go, Hmm.
A grounded conversation about noticing dysregulation before it shapes the response.
Weekend Conversations: Handling Your Fight or Flight Reflex turns the Friday Forward theme "Losing It" into a plainspoken look at what happens when stress pushes someone toward fight-or-flight.
Grit, values, and the hard difference between burnout and the wrong road.
Angela Duckworth and Robert Glaser center the conversation on grit, but the more interesting line runs through the gap between what people say they value and what they actually do.
Customer loyalty is framed as advocacy, not just retention.
Brittany Hodak and Robert Glazer keep the focus on a simple but useful question: what turns a buyer into an advocate? The episode treats the move from retention to advocacy as a meaningful business shift, and it gives that idea weight through referrals, both from customers and…
A family history question becomes a measured challenge to calling the present unprecedented.
The episode uses a family conversation about World War I to question the reflexive claim that turbulent periods are unprecedented. Robert Glaser recalls being asked by his son to review a paper on free speech suppression and government overreach, and the editing process pulls…
A grounded look at how honesty shifts when relationships, expectations, and emotional reactions are part of the decision.
The episode frames honesty as a matter of judgment, not a simple rule about saying everything as soon as it is known. Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan work through the gray area where withholding information can start to look like a white lie, using test results, family…
A grounded conversation about useful work, better questions, evidence, and career momentum.
Promotion here is treated less as a mystery of office politics than as the visible result of useful work. Ethan Evans ties career progress to delivering value, especially work that helps a company make money, and frames that against the standards executives are judged by.
Business leaders, market lessons, real operating stories.
Leadership thinking under real pressure.
Calmer leadership, clearer teams, stronger trust.
Truth gets messy before anyone flat-out lies.
Career success starts with value.
This episode discusses sleep deprivation and work-life balance through the example of former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's extreme work habits.
This episode features an interview with Davis Smith discussing how he built Cotopaxi and his approach to servant leadership.
This episode features an interview with Tony D'Urso about his Vision Methodology for building success in business and life through an eight-step vision map.
This episode explores historical parallels to AI development and disruption, featuring a conversation with history expert Mick Sloan about how thinking on AI technology has evolved recently.
This episode features an interview with Marshall Goldsmith, a top leadership expert, discussing how to build capacity and achieve greater heights in leadership, business, and life.
Grant Williams comes in through leadership, not market chatter.
Regulation is the useful thread here.
Robert Glaser opens by asking whether people’s values and actions are truly aligned.
Robert Glaser opens with a quote about storytelling.
["On The Elevate Podcast, Robert Glaser and his producer argue that \"unprecedented\" gets overused when people describe World War I, Iran, AI layoffs, and COVID.", "Glaser uses Woodrow Wilson's World War I propaganda, the Strait of Hormuz, and the 1917-1918 pandemic-war overlap to show that many shocks have clear historical analogs.", "He cites Morgan Housel's Same as Ever and examples from the Great Recession, the Great Depression, and factory automation to argue that history can still guide action.", "The practical message is blunt: draw down credit lines, protect relationships, and look for precedent instead of using novelty as an excuse to freeze."]
This episode features an interview with Ethan Evans, a retired Amazon vice president, discussing leadership lessons from his 15-year tenure at Amazon and strategies for getting promoted to executive roles.
This episode features an interview with financial expert Mark Matson discussing how to transform one's relationship with money and achieve abundance through practical strategies and mindset shifts.
Host Robert Glazer interviews Jay Papasan about his journey from a book-loving translator to a writer and performer, exploring how to find purpose and build capacity in leadership, business, and life.
Host Robert Glaser interviews Henry Abbott, founder of TrueHoop and former ESPN NBA digital lead, about his career in sports media and insights on injury-free athletic performance from his new book.
The host and producer discuss a CEO's ambivalence about changing a business process, exploring idea resistance and how to find great solutions.