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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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- Yesterday9 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.
- 1 weeks ago10 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.
- 2 weeks ago10 min
Invited to the Table or the Trial?
Most of us walk into hard conversations with the wrong goal. We're chasing agreement when we should be building connection. We're choosing accuracy when we should be choosing tone. And then we wonder why the conversation went sideways.In this episode, Ryan talks about the hard conversations almost everybody is sitting on right now. The one with your spouse. With your kid. With your boss. With the coworker who keeps dropping the ball. He walks through the internal shift that has to happen before the external one, why connection is the credit score of communication, and why John Gottman's research on the first three minutes of a conversation might change how you start the next one.You'll learn the difference between an accusatory tone and an inviting tone, why same content can land in two completely different rooms, and the one question to ask yourself before you say the hard thing.If you've been carrying a conversation around for weeks, this episode will give you the language to finally have it well.
- 3 weeks ago10 min
It’s Hard For Me to Say This
We’ve confused boundaries with rejection. With selfishness. With being difficult.But what if boundaries aren’t walls meant to keep people out… what if they’re doors with locks on them?In this episode, Ryan talks about why so many of us struggle to say no, how people are trained by what we tolerate, and why the most compassionate people are often the clearest people. From late night work texts to overloaded calendars to relationships that quietly drain us, this conversation is a reminder that every yes costs something.You’ll learn:• Why boundaries are instruction, not punishment• How resentment grows behind unspoken expectations• The sentence most people need to start using today• Why not everyone will like your boundary and why that’s okay• How saying no to the wrong thing creates space for the right thingsIf you’ve been exhausted from trying to be available to everyone, this episode is for you.The door has a lock.You hold the key.
- 4 weeks ago9 min
Just Kidding
Ever been in a professional meeting, a grown-up, serious, adult conversation, and somebody says one thing that hits you the wrong way, and suddenly you’re not a leader anymore? You’re seven. The playground version of you just hijacked the boardroom version of you, and now you’re saying things that the real you is going to regret by lunch. That’s age regression, and it happens to all of us.In this episode, I’ll get honest about what triggers the kid in me to make cameos at the worst possible times, and I’ll walk you through how to recognize it, interrupt it, and make sure the grown-up shows up to grown-up conversations. Because the most important person to bring to your next hard conversation isn’t a mediator or a therapist. It’s your adult self.
- May 11, 202615 min
Career Dysmorphia
You can be world-class at one thing and completely obsessed with another. I’ve got a friend who is the best speaker I know — the kind of communicator who stops rooms — but what he really wants to do is sing. He’s an okay singer. And that gap between what he sees in the mirror and what the world actually sees? That’s career dysmorphia. It’s the professional version of looking at your reflection and seeing something that doesn’t match reality.In this episode, I’ll unpack why so many of us chase the wrong gift while ignoring the right one, and I’ll walk you through five filters to help you find your sweet spot — where what you’re good at, what you love, what you’re called to, what the world needs, and what can sustain you all overlap. Because the world doesn’t need you to be good at everything. It just needs you to be great at your thing.
- May 4, 202611 min
Challengers and Champions
We all love having people who believe in us. Champions encourage us, remind us who we are, and push us toward the rooms we’re afraid to enter.But if encouragement is the only voice in your life, you can stop growing.In this episode, Ryan unpacks the surprising history behind the phrase “devil’s advocate” and why every person needs both a Champion and a Challenger. One builds you up. The other stress tests you. One says, “Go.” The other says, “Not yet.” And both are necessary if you want to become who you’re called to be.Because the greatest ideas don’t just survive applause. They survive scrutiny.
- Apr 27, 202611 min
The Willpower Muscle
What if willpower isn't something you're born with, but something you build? In this episode, Ryan breaks down the brain science behind self-discipline (meet your anterior cingulate cortex, aka your "willpower muscle") and shares the simple daily practice that helped him climb out of a season of coasting. You'll learn why most of us don't struggle because we don't know what to do. We struggle because we don't do what we know. Plus, a direct challenge to pick your hard thing and do it before your brain talks you out of it. If you've been waiting for motivation to show up, this is your sign to stop waiting and start training.
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