Not everyone will support you on your journey towards success. Therefore, you should learn how to filter the people within your circles and only work with like-minded people. Exploring this complex topic with Dr. Tracey Jones is author and one of the top 1% attorneys in the nation, Rebecca Zung. They talk about the importance of aligning with the universe, as well as your core values and personal goals, instead of simply agreeing to what others think of you. Rebecca also underlines how you build the image of yourself for other people to see and why you should be responsible for your own reputation.

The best leaders understand that leadership, beyond the ego and pride associated with it, is a humbling experience. It asks you to see people where they are at so you can guide them better towards the overall goal of the business or organization. Taking this to heart is Amey Sgrignoli, the President and CEO of Belco Community Credit Union. With a career in financial services that spans 25 years, Amey has the wisdom and experience to tell us the price she had to pay for leadership. She shares all of those with Dr. Tracey Jones in this episode, letting us in on what she thinks about loneliness, weariness, abandonment, and vision. Amey then talks about the lessons she learned during this pandemic and how it reminds us of what truly matters, especially as leaders in business.

We all have a spark of greatness inside us. What do we need to do to ignite your greatness within? The host of Negotiate Your Best Life podcast, Rebecca Zung answers these questions with the help of Dr. Tracey Jones. Tracey discusses the power of positive thinking, gratitude and letting go, and talks about the importance of having the right people in your life. Listen in for more personal development tips and learn to ignite your spark.

Even the best leaders feel weary at times. After all, they’re only human and the demands of leadership can sometimes be very taxing physically, mentally and spiritually. In the past people would talk about balance, but it has become clear that balance is not so something that’s achievable or even desirable. What you should look for as a leader is integration – that sweet spot where your conditions of satisfaction are met and where you’re aligned with whatever your ultimate goals are. Dr. Tracey Jones brings in a unique guest to talk about this and other leadership concerns in this episode. Tricia Benn is the Chief Community Officer of the C-Suite Network and the General Manager of The Hero Club, an invitation-only membership organization for CEOs, founders, and investors.

Setbacks are inevitable in life. How you deal with them is what sets you apart from the rest. Mike Ciorrocco, the founder of What Are You Made Of? has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to use setbacks as rocket fuel for their comeback. He joins host Dr. Tracey Jones to talk about how he paid the price of leadership and shared it with others, helping them out of the challenges they are facing and leading them to success. He talks about overcoming loneliness with the help of his family, holding people accountable, combatting weariness, honing the vision for your business, and more. Plus, Mike also shares why gratitude eliminates anything to complain about and how to see our unlimited potential.

You can jump through many different career paths in your life and feel like you are not igniting the greatness within you. You've jumped so much, that the next job you take isn't going to be any different. Ask yourself, do you want to work for someone else or do you want to work for yourself? Dr. Tracey Jones joins David McGlennen of the In The Growth Space Podcast to talk about paving her own life after years of searching. She shares her story about her father and how she took up his business, Tremendous Leadership. Learn how to meld street-smart with book-smart. Discover how sitting back and doing nothing isn't the way to getting opportunities. You have to make those opportunities happen. You have to have the right connections and resources to make it work. Join in this episode to learn how to ignite your greatness and create your own momentum.

There is a fine line between dedicating yourself to running a business and letting yourself drown in extreme fatigue and weariness. To properly deal with burnout, taking a break and looking deep inside yourself is the first ideal step. Dr. Tracey Jones sits down with Ann Sieg to dissect the most challenging parts of her entrepreneurial career and how she addressed them, from facing the shame of making a bad decision and working for long hours without taking a day off. Ann looks back on some moments of her life that imparted important lessons she integrated into her business processes, particularly when her father got caught in a car accident.

Running a business is and will always be unpredictable, given the overall state and the changing trends of the market. With that in mind, a good entrepreneur must understand when to stay in the game and when letting go is the most profitable decision. Dr. Tracey Jones interviews William Moore to share how he read the writing on the wall when doing business in real estate and food delivery, allowing him to quit at just the right time and before everything gets worse. He talks about the challenges he had working with business partners and how his fraternity experience opened his eyes to the importance of self-care. William also gives a peek at the application he and his team are currently developing to bring out the full potential in everyone.

Sometimes, knowing which strategies work best for you is not enough to sustain your business. Instead, you have to think outside the box and be attentive to the external factors by having an investigator mindset. Dr. Tracey Jones sits down with Dan Goodwin to discuss how every leader must possess the qualities of an attentive investigator. Dan explains how to take advantage of interrogative-like questions and well-targeted time management regarding entrepreneurship and sales. They also discuss how to forge an effective ten-section business plan, putting a proper working pace to avoid weariness, and dealing with business divorces.

Leadership and legacy are two things that have been foremost in the life of Dr. Tracey Jones. As the daughter of beloved public speaker Charlie Jones, Tracey has forged her own path. In this episode, John Solleder sits down for a lively talk with Tracey as she looks back at her formative years. We get a look at how she blazed her own path as an armed forces veteran, author and keynote speaker. Tune in and learn more about how to shape your own path as a leader.

Being a lifelong learner is one character every successful leader must possess. By understanding the lessons of your past, applying them in the present, and having the motivation to learn more in the future, nothing can stop you from growing and improving. Dr. Tracey Jones talks about how leaders can adopt this mindset with entrepreneur, author, and horse enthusiast, Gerry Savage. Together, they share tips on how to learn constantly from your past mistakes and experiences. Gerry also discusses the importance of setting work boundaries to avoid weariness, valuing connections with your team when making decisions, and how a 1000-pound animal can drive home a message of motivation.

Top-down hierarchies are the business structure for the longest time, and though it is already tried and tested, such a model may cause unhealthy employee competition and untargeted work. Because of this, Rod Collins believes that leaders must start applying a network structure within their teams. The Chief Innovation Facilitator at Salt Flats sits down with Dr. Tracey Jones to discuss how this specific business model gives room for deeper collaborative work, better employee relationships, and streamlined tasking. With such an efficient strategy, leaders can expect better results and higher productivity.

Leadership can be a lonely place on top, but it need not be. It is a place of personal power, but also of tremendous personal responsibility. Today, we take a closer look at leadership from a leader’s perspective as Dr. Tracey Jones interviews Dan Silberberg, a true visionary who has been engaged in personal transformation and development for more than 40 years. Together, they unpack loneliness, weariness, abandonment, vision and other concepts that leaders wrestle with on a daily basis from their place at the top. At the end of the day, leaders are humans too and there is a price that they have to pay to be called true, authentic leaders. Dan also emphasizes the need for leaders to create their own narrative that sets them up for success. Listen intently and watch out for value bombs – they’re everywhere.

Even though you have all of your business plans and goals nicely laid out in front of you, going off the road is still a factor you cannot remove from your equation. Without surrendering to God, the chances of that happening are way higher. Dr. Tracey Jones talks to Joseph Warren, the host of The Broken Catholic Podcast, about how letting go of the wheel and letting God work through you is an attitude every leader must have to gain a better vision in life. He explains how a one-hour meditation helps a lot in listening to God's voice and why eliminating our nagging ways can unlock better relationships. At our most vulnerable, God makes the most out of us.

Motivation is a powerful force that pushes us closer to our goals, but there are times when it is not enough. To solve this, one must unlock their full potential to discover what they are really good at and where they should put their efforts into. Dr. Tracey Jones talks about how to do this with Bill Guertin, going deep on why imposter syndrome is something every leader must eliminate, the importance of getting support from your loved ones, the right time to delegate work, and why you must filter your consumption of too much information. Bill also presents two of his projects focused on bettering oneself: Stadium Gorilla and The 7 Voices In Your Head.

As we strive to achieve the life of our dreams, we sometimes have to make sacrifices along the way. But what if you can still create the life you want without having to give up some of the things you love? Dr. Tracey Jones’ guest for this episode, Laura DiBenedetto, teaches people how to do that. Laura is the number one bestselling author of The Six Habits, a TEDx speaker, a Life Mastery Coach, and Founder of an award-winning marketing company called Vision Advertising. In today’s show, she shares with us the price she has to pay for leadership and how she overcame them one by one. Laura also tells us her next radical journey of self-discovery, research, testing, and determination to find energy and lasting fulfillment and happiness in all areas of life. She shares the six factors that can help us in this conversation.

What does leadership in uniform look like? What kind of price do these leaders have to pay for leadership? Former Rear Admiral Paul Becker joins Dr. Tracey Jones to share with us what he has to say about that. Paul is a leadership expert and motivational speaker who has been working to help teams in crisis combat management. He tells us the things he learned from being a Naval Intelligence Rear Admiral and how he overcame loneliness, weariness, and abandonment that comes with the job. Paul then shares with us the tenets of leadership learned in uniform—Teamwork, Tone, and Tenacity—and how they improve performance, productivity, and profit in the private sector.

As more and more businesses utilize digital tools to build their online presence, you can just imagine how tough it can be for a leader leading in that space. Carol Kaemmerer, an internationally recognized executive branding expert, speaker, and author of the award-winning book, LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive, joins host Dr. Tracey Jones to share what she has to say about paying the price of leadership. She taps into the cure for loneliness, weariness, and feelings of abandonment and shares what she does to stay focused and gain clarity for the next great thing. Join Carol in this episode, where she shares more timeless insights and truths that will surely provide comfort to those struggling with being a leader and more.

When you step in to become a leader, you will always have to wear the hat of leadership, representing and embodying your organization. Sometimes, this could take a toll on you, leaving you feeling lonely at the top. Sharing his thoughts on the price of leadership that leaders have to pay, Dr. Tracey Jones invites Phil Puleo, the Superintendent of the Christian School Association of Greater Harrisburg. Phil shares his experiences and insights as a leader at the school, where loneliness becomes uncertainty, and how he overcomes that. He also talks about how he stays refreshed and replenished amidst dealing with parents and kids in the most important years of their lives, how he deals with critics, and more.

The most important leaders are usually the people down in the trenches. On today’s podcast, Dr. Tracey Jones sits down with educator, speaker, and author Dr. Danny Brassell to talk about our century's greatest leaders. Having served as an educational advisor to students ranging from preschoolers to rocket scientists, Dr. Brassell says some of his best mentors have taught and influenced him through the wisdom of their books – these range from the Bible to Think and Grow Rich and The Success Principles. This is a great conversation about leadership. You don't want to miss this episode as Dr. Brassell dishes out on what it takes to pay the price of leadership.