Successful but still miserable? Lee Benson talks with disruption expert Whitney Johnson on this Show Your Value episode about why we're wired to grow. They unpack personal disruption, the S-curve, embracing struggle, and how leaders create value, overcome fear, and build cultures of growth. A must-listen on leadership, fulfillment, and disrupting yourself at any age.

Discover how to thrive in an AI-driven world.

In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson talks with TIGER 21 CEO Tim Daniels about wealth management, high-net-worth leadership, resilience, philanthropy, family legacy, peer advisory groups, and value creation. They explore the challenges of sudden wealth, the five types of wealth, raising resilient kids, and how entrepreneurs can build a lasting legacy beyond a financial exit.

In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson talks with David Burkus about high-performing teams, team culture, psychological safety, accountability, leadership, employee performance, communication, and business growth. They explore how to scale culture, why incentives often backfire, and what leaders can do to build stronger, healthier, more effective teams.

In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson talks with Klue CEO Jason Smith about AI-first business strategy, leadership, competitive intelligence, business growth, human connection, and value creation. They explore how AI is changing work, why leaders must adapt quickly, and how purpose, discomfort, and authentic relationships still drive long-term success.

A clear business model helps leadership teams make better decisions around pricing, expenses, profit, and growth. For manufacturing leaders, understanding break-even points, fixed and variable costs, and how profit scales with revenue creates stronger alignment across operations, sales, finance, and HR. Business model clarity improves strategy, supports profitable growth, and helps teams identify opportunities to improve performance over time.

In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson talks with Soapbox CEO David Simnick about entrepreneurship, mission-driven business, brand building, consumer products, social impact, leadership, company culture, and business growth. They explore how Soapbox scaled to nearly $100 million in revenue, why product quality must come before mission messaging, and how grit, value creation, and strong leadership drive long-term success.

Lee Benson talks with entrepreneur Adam Callinan about building a lean business, understanding profit drivers, making hard leadership decisions, and creating value without unnecessary complexity. They also explore resilience, discomfort, authentic marketing, and why founder-led content matters more in an AI-driven world.

Lee Benson interviews futurist Doug Stephens on why most companies are becoming irrelevant. Learn how brand clarity, customer experience, trust, and innovation determine survival, plus Doug’s “SUPER” experience framework and why AI winners will be defined by critical thinking, communication, ethics, and creativity.

New leaders don’t fail from lack of effort. They fail from lack of practical training. In this Show Your Value episode, former UPS executive Noel Massie shares why “there are no casual moments in leadership,” how to influence without coercion, and how role-playing builds calm, capable, value-based leaders.

Giorgos shares how a personal health struggle led him to create a globally recognized wellness company by focusing on purpose, not profits. They discuss what it means to build long-term value, why short-term thinking hurts founders, and how real leadership means serving every stakeholder. Giorgos explains why stepping down as CEO was the right move and how to build something that lasts!

This episode brings together women leaders who have spent years building, deciding, and delivering inside real organizations. It’s an honest look at how power shapes perspective, how culture actually works, and where real value gets created. If you want a clearer picture of leadership beyond titles and optics, this conversation is worth your time.

Unpack the real growth cycle: change → struggle → growth → success (then change again). We hit his Morning Five routine, why hiring for character beats experience, how habits stick in ~67 days, and why AI is a power-up, not a threat. If you’re scaling a business or leveling up leadership, this episode gives practical frameworks you can use today. Listen to Glenn Lundy on Show Your Value.

Harley-Davidson alum Ken Schmidt shows how leaders saved a fading brand by putting people first. Stop relying on features. Get in front of customers. Decide what you want them to remember and repeat, then earn it through real experiences. Put executives on the front lines, break silos by serving internal customers, and make enthusiasm contagious. Emotional loyalty beats product specs every time.

Charlie Garcia shares how purpose starts within and how using your gifts to serve family, community, and the world leads to real happiness. From Panama to USAF intel to the White House at 27, he unpacks leading in complex systems, improving education with clear metrics, and building R360 to scale impact. We cover habits for accountability, the power of writing your own eulogy, and why mentorship and steady experimentation beat complacency.

Running a successful company can be harder than a turnaround. John Rossman shares how to stay on offense: build a portfolio of calculated bets, derisk with fast experiments, and design antifragile systems. We cover the Vitality Index to reward new revenue, what good strategy is (diagnosis, guiding philosophy, coherent actions), and tools like Three Futures memos, commander’s intent, and metrics as a verb, plus big bet killers and a preflight checklist.

Leadership that builds trust starts with you. Tom Willis argues integrity is where your word and action meet, and culture only changes when leaders model it, on time, on promise. He breaks down the flow: lead with a clear future, manage by making clean agreements, then coach the gaps. Ditch vague values; create role clarity and purpose people can live. Struggle is the gym, use it to build capability and character while creating real value for others.

Entrepreneur John St. Pierre grew a company to $55M, then lost it. He shares the hard lessons behind patient ambition, why unchecked growth creates hidden vulnerabilities, and the seven principles he used later to scale another business from $5M to $100M the right way. We cover strategic capital planning, protecting equity and control, building an owner-mindset culture without cap-table chaos, and why money doesn’t change people, it exposes them.

Struggle isn’t the enemy, it’s the engine. In this solo episode, Lee shows how to turn frustration into progress with his organize & develop mantra, use value-creation funnels to find bottlenecks, and lean into live resistance where real value is created. He covers when to let go of people and projects, why fulfillment beats happiness, and how to apply the material–emotional–spiritual framework at home and at work to create more value, faster.