Start With A Win

Dreaming gets practical here.

This episode explains how pruning away clutter and excess in your life can lead to more time, organization, and happiness.

This episode emphasizes the importance of respecting others' time as a key to building stronger relationships and achieving success.

Strategy needs a written filter.

This episode argues that emotional intelligence is a crucial superpower for leaders, enabling them to build trust, foster collaboration, and drive business success by understanding and caring about their own and their team's emotions.

This episode explains how emotional intelligence, defined as awareness of self, others, and business needs, is the key skill for career advancement and promotion.

Awkwardness is not the villain.

This episode explores servant leadership, where leaders empower their teams by listening, supporting, and providing tools for growth, contrasting it with traditional command-based hierarchy.

This episode emphasizes the importance of employee recognition as a daily habit for business growth.

Adam Kantos interviews Rome Madison about leading fearlessly, overcoming self-doubt, and turning challenges into fuel for business success.

This episode emphasizes that clarity drives action and provides a quick win for leaders to align their team's tasks with clear, measurable goals.

This episode emphasizes that failure is a stepping stone to success and that learning from mistakes leads to extraordinary results.

Career scars are not dead weight.

This episode provides a quick tip on fostering rapid execution and agile methodologies to improve organizational productivity.

This episode teaches the 3-2-1 rule for efficient decision-making in organizations to reduce delays and empower team members.

An interview with empathy expert Maria Ross discussing how compassionate leadership drives high performance and financial success.

The host outlines five leadership principles for 2025 and 2026, starting with using AI as a weapon to boost productivity and decision-making.

Adam Kontos interviews entrepreneur Jason Yarusi about his journey in business and real estate, emphasizing the importance of incremental improvement and mindset.

This episode features an interview with Cindy Waddell, founder of Desire2Inspire, discussing how she transformed a personal act of kindness into a mission-driven business focused on connection and healing through words.

Host Adam Kantos interviews cosmetic dentist Dr.

This episode features an interview with Steve Cadigan, LinkedIn's first chief HR officer, discussing the future of work, talent retention challenges, and insights from his book 'Workquake'.

Adam Kantos interviews executive coach Adrian Kaler about the no-bullshit truth of leadership coaching and the importance of difficult conversations.

Adam Kontos interviews Jonathan Bennett about leaving a successful consulting firm to become an executive coach for purpose-driven leaders.

This episode discusses the importance of prioritizing critical tasks over meaningless ones to achieve higher impact and productivity.

The host emphasizes the importance of setting clear, actionable goals and planning your day to avoid regret and achieve success.

Adam Kantos interviews Harvard Business School professors Anne Morris and Frances Fry about their book 'Move Fast and Fix Things' and effective leadership strategies.

This episode teaches how to prioritize critical tasks to achieve higher impact and avoid busywork.

Culture makes the work easier, until leaders make it harder.

Executive presence starts before anyone speaks.

Interview with Ken Schmidt, former head of communications at Harley-Davidson, discussing how the company transformed from near bankruptcy to global dominance by focusing on human behavior and loyalty.

Adam Kantos interviews Dr.

This episode discusses how shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset drives business growth through incremental improvements in leadership and people development.

Adam Kantos interviews Kandi Valentino about her journey from poverty to business success, discussing money habits and strategies for building a better business.

Stress is a choice.

"Don't be afraid to show vulnerability." Tony joins Adam Kontos for a warm, practical talk about trust, emotional intelligence, and what happens when leaders stop hiding all the human parts.