Interview with Joshua Spodek
Josh Spodek is a leader in action! His action motivated me into doing a challenging exercise - 10 burpees every day for 66 days.
In this interview, learn how doing burpees has helped Josh as a leader, how taking action changes behavior and helps you learn, and why the most impactful leaders honor the people they’re leading through understanding their emotions.
Josh is committed to doing transformative work by helping leaders on his award-winning podcast, Leadership and the Environment, create an environmental legacy. He challenges accomplished leaders to follow-through on acts for the environment and follows up with them in a subsequent episode to share what they learned.
Key Takeaways:
Leadership is “helping someone do what they haven’t yet figured out what to do.”
Shifting from following instructions to taking initiative
Personal leadership and developing skills to become a leader
How Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA) helps with leadership development
How taking action changes behavior and helps with learning
Josh’s transparent experience preparing for TEDx
How feedforward, instead of feedback, can change your life
How a leader honors the people they’re leading through understanding emotions and motivation
Stories, images, beliefs, listening, and questioning are more powerful in leadership than argument and debate