High-performing teams start with clear roles. Clinical psychologist turned executive leadership coach Guy Legare joins Tim Staton to explain how the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds inspired a practical framework for building team trust, clarity, and accountability—including the ‘within one inch’ standard for knowing what each person owns. Guy spent decades as a clinical psychologist helping people through serious mental illness and complex challenges. One patient taught him a lesson that still shapes how he coaches executives today: you can't know you're actually helping someone until you ask them. Today Guy is executive leadership coach at Inperium and executive director of Person Driven Clinical Solutions. After watching Netflix's Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds, he and Inperium's leadership team turned the Thunderbirds' leadership system into a practical framework for their own team.

Every CEO thinks they're "the one." Ryan Dewey Smith built a network of 40 nonprofit CEOs who agreed to become "one of," and it let them scale without losing their missions. Ryan is the Founding Executive Chairman and CEO of Inperium, the nonprofit partnership network he started from a firehouse office in Reading, Pennsylvania. Today Inperium's partners employ about 8,000 people and touch 30,000 people a day across 20 states, many of them children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health needs, or histories of homelessness. His new book, Sustaining the Mission, is out now from Forbes Books.

Feeling stuck in your career, even though you're good at your job? Jennifer Doty joins Tim Staton to explore career change, identity beyond your job title, and how to get clearer about your next move. Jennifer is a former Fortune 100 vice president and author of Just Lead and Find the Right Now Role. She shares how losing her role forced her to rethink success, why people-pleasing pulled her away from her own priorities, and how she now approaches work, family, and a portfolio career.

None of it matters if you get the people part wrong." That's the blunt truth Scott Long has built a 26-year automotive career on — and it's the whole idea behind his book, It's All People. Scott went from a small-town Iowa service department in 1999 to overseeing 9 dealerships, then rebuilt his career again in Florida as General Manager at Honda of Port Richey. In this episode, he breaks down why relationships — not technology, process, or capital — are the only thing that actually scales a business, and tells the story of the one hire nobody else believed in that became a two-time "Salesperson of the Year."

In How to Earn Your Team's Respect (Before You Say a Word), Tim Staton sits down with Dr. Fay Niewiadomski to talk about what it takes to be a truly human leader in a world obsessed with speed and “survival” mode. We break down why most leadership advice is outdated, how to stop playing the victim, and why your ability to listen is your greatest professional asset. Stop being a cog in a machine and start taking control of your personal odyssey.