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Welcome to Followership with Ryan Leak, a podcast designed to help followers follow their leaders, and to help leaders understand their followers. While leadership is often a more popular discussion and billions are spent every year consuming leadership resources, most of us will spend most of our careers doing more following than leading and we need help to do it.
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- 2 days ago8 min
Stop Waiting To Feel Ready
“I’ll start when I’m ready” might be the biggest lie we tell ourselves. I’ll start the business when I’m ready. I’ll have the conversation when I’m ready. I’ll write the book when I’m ready. And then the thing you were preparing for passes you by while you were still getting prepared. Ryan breaks down the difference between preparing and hiding, and why “I’m not ready” is often just a dressed-up version of “I’m scared.”In this episode, Ryan shares his own journey of starting before he felt qualified and explains why confidence isn’t a prerequisite for action. It’s a byproduct of it. The perfect conditions you’re waiting for aren’t coming. But this morning is here. And sometimes the only thing standing between you and the life you want is the willingness to start messy.
- 1 weeks ago9 min
The Tax of Distraction
Nobody’s going to send you an invoice for being distracted. But research says it takes 23 minutes to fully refocus after a single interruption. Multiply that by a dozen times a day and you’re losing hours. Not minutes. Hours. We’re more connected than we’ve ever been and less focused than we’ve ever been. Ryan unpacks the hidden cost of the thing we’ve all normalized.In this episode, Ryan challenges you to do an honest audit of where your time is actually going, not where you think it’s going. Because distraction doesn’t just steal your productivity. It steals your presence. And the people you love deserve more than a distracted version of you.
- 2 weeks ago10 min
Helped, Heard, or Hugged
Someone you love comes to you with something heavy. And because you care, you immediately start solving it. You’ve got a plan, next steps, practically a spreadsheet. And you watch their face close. Because they didn’t come to you for a solution. They came to you to be felt. Ryan unpacks the mismatch that ruins more conversations than conflict ever will.In this episode, Ryan breaks down the three things people actually want when they share something vulnerable: to be helped, to be heard, or to be hugged. The problem? They rarely tell you which one. And we rarely ask. Whether you’re a fixer who needs to learn to listen or a sharer who needs to learn to name what you need, this episode gives both sides a job to do.
- 3 weeks ago11 min
I Don’t Know
There’s a word most people have never heard that describes something most people do every day. It’s called ultracrepidarianism, giving opinions on things you have no real knowledge about. Ryan unpacks why we feel pressure to have a “take” on everything, why ChatGPT access doesn’t equal a PhD, and why the smartest people he’s ever been around are the ones most comfortable saying, “I don’t know.”Here’s the irony: we all feel pressure to be a know-it-all, but nobody actually likes being around one. So we’re chasing the very thing we can’t stand in other people. In this episode, Ryan gives you permission to be a know-it-some, and explains why “I don’t have enough information to have a strong thought on that” might be the most powerful sentence you say this week.
- Jun 29, 202610 min
Trust Me
Only 34% of Americans believe most people can be trusted. The average person has about five people they’d truly lean on for anything. And yet Ryan has never met a single person who thought they themselves were untrustworthy. Nobody’s ever said, “Hey, whatever you’re about to tell me, I will absolutely use it against you in three months.” We all think we’re the vault. But almost nobody trusts the vaults around them. The math ain’t mathing.In this episode, Ryan unpacks the broken trust economy and challenges listeners with two questions: What does your side of the trust equation actually look like? And how much are you letting past hurt determine the quality of your current and future relationships? You’ve got plenty of reasons not to trust people. But you might also have plenty of reasons to try again.
- Jun 21, 20268 min
Keep Going
In 1989, a 23-year-old social worker started teaching classes and researching a topic nobody wanted to touch. For 21 years, almost nobody outside her department read her work. Then she gave a 20-minute talk, and it changed the conversation in boardrooms, classrooms, and living rooms across the world. Ryan unpacks her story and the timeline most people never see behind the breakthrough everyone celebrates.If you’re a teacher wondering if your students are listening, a parent who can’t tell if anything is landing, a pastor whose sermons feel like they’re falling on deaf ears, or a creative whose work gets 12 likes, this episode is for you. Sometimes you get to see the difference you made. Sometimes you just have to trust that it’s happening anyway.
- Jun 15, 20269 min
Brother Lawrence
Most people think God shows up in the big moments. The big stage, the big breakthrough, the big answered prayer. But one of the most influential voices in 400 years of Christian history never preached a sermon, never wrote a book, and never stood on a stage. He washed dishes in a monastery kitchen for decades. His name was Brother Lawrence, and he figured out something most of us are still missing.In this episode, Ryan unpacks Brother Lawrence’s simple but life-changing idea and shares how it’s shown up in his own life in the most unexpected ways. Whether you’re a person of faith or not, this one is about presence, awareness, and finding meaning in the moments most people skip over. Because significance doesn’t always announce itself. Sometimes it whispers. And you’ll only hear it if you’re listening.
- Jun 8, 202610 min
Are You Okay?
The most underrated form of care in any workplace or family is the courage to ask one more time, are you okay? And actually mean it.One in five adults in this country lives with a mental health condition in any given year. Which means, statistically, somebody you love is carrying something you can't see. And there's a real chance that somebody is you.In this episode, Ryan opens up about something he's been thinking about for a while. Not as an expert. As a friend. He talks to the people quietly fighting to get out of bed, to put the smile on, to walk into the building. He talks to the people on the other side, the spouses, coworkers, friends, and managers who want to help somebody they love but don't know how.You'll hear why asking for help is a sign of wisdom, not weakness. Why a text on a Tuesday is more powerful than any diagnosis. Why you shouldn't try to be the doctor. And why empathy stops being a concept the moment a person you love walks into your life carrying it.This one is short, honest, and a little tender. If you've been carrying something, you'll feel seen. If you love somebody who has, you'll walk away with something specific you can do for them this week.Bring it to one person. That might be the most important thing you do.
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Welcome to Followership with Ryan Leak, a podcast designed to help followers follow their leaders, and to help leaders understand their followers. While leadership is often a more popular discussion and billions are spent every year consuming leadership resources, most of us will spend most of our careers doing more following than leading and we need help to do it.
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