134: Randy Gravitt — Winning at Home Without Losing at Work, Leading With Presence, and Why Hope Is Not a Strategy

➡️ Get my free weekly newsletter (The Intentional Letter): https://courses.calwalters.me/signup Get Randy's book: https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Begins-Home-Strategy-Leadership/dp/B0CTYGNXCG Learn about Lead Every Day: https://leadeveryday.com/ In this episode, Cal Walters sits down with executive coach, speaker, and author Randy Gravitt of  ⁨@Lead_Every_Day⁩  to explore one of the most important leadership questions of our time: How do you pursue excellence at work without sacrificing what matters most at home? Randy shares powerful insights from decades of coaching leaders across Fortune 100 companies, professional sports teams, and nonprofits—along with lessons from his book Winning Begins at Home. This conversation goes beyond clichés about work-life balance and gets practical about strategy, systems, presence, and love—and why winning at home actually makes you a better leader at work. Please visit my website to get more information: https://calwalters.me/ 00:00 – Welcome to 2026 & the Intentional Leader community 02:10 – Introducing Randy Gravitt & the tension leaders feel 03:40 – Strategic at work, sporadic at home 06:00 – Why family has quietly been diminished 07:45 – Being home but not really home 08:55 – Proximity does not equal intimacy 10:00 – The servant leadership tension 12:20 – Living in the center of the tension 13:45 – Begin with the end in mind 15:10 – You will never finish all the work 16:50 – Seasons turn into patterns 18:30 – The NFL Super Bowl story 21:00 – Leaving work at work 22:15 – Training presence like a discipline 23:30 – Rituals that help you be present 25:30 – Phone boundaries that actually work 27:40 – Winning the first hour of the day 29:40 – Why home life fuels work performance 32:10 – Choosing priorities on purpose 34:00 – The hidden cost of neglecting home 36:30 – "What kind of family do you want?" 38:40 – Family by design, not by default 41:00 – Marriage after the kids leave 43:00 – Don't go to bed angry 46:30 – Love first 49:50 – See a need, meet a need 54:00 – Final encouragement to leaders 59:00 – Key takeaways & closing challenge