# personal development
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28:40Therapy, coaching, and investing in yourselfAl Elliott: So we've got North Star in place. You're investing in yourself. Just real quickly, tell us, how did you change as a person or as a leader before Highland and then after you? Leanne Elliott: I see a therapist EP 295 · 23 Apr 2026·interview· 28:40–35:360:00Introducing Patrick Fagan and his year of 52 new thingsAl Elliott: We want you to meet Patrick Fagan. He's a behavioural scientist, a bestselling author, and the guy who spent a year deliberately making himself really uncomfortable Patrick Fagan: I take the science of psychoEP 227 · 28 Aug 2025·intro· 0:00–4:2319:26Hot Take: Anna Reddy's READY MethodAl Elliott: Welcome back. As regular listeners will know, every week we have a workplace expert and we ask them for their hot take on the world of work. We want bold insights. It's a Surprising predictions and occasionalEP 172 · 18 Feb 2025·hot take· 19:26–33:2311:43Self-limiting beliefs — and the sound of your own voiceJames Fleming: So, so, so first of all, what stops most people from doing recordings or podcasts? The sound of their voice. That's a self-limiting belief. People don't give a shit. I mean, I remember when I first startedEP 165 · 23 Jan 2025·interview· 11:43–15:2238:43Workplace Surgery: can people really change?Leanne Elliott: Final question Al Elliott: Okay, Lee, so this is someone who is a business owner who's writing in. This is all I've got, and you'll see why in a second Leanne Elliott: OkayEP 122 · 19 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 38:43–45:220:33Dr. Covey's own confession about the habitsTodd Davis: Nice Al Elliott: Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses. Dr Todd Davis: Covey himself said often he never came close to perfecting himself in any of the habits, but that wEP 96 · 9 May 2024·interview· 0:33–1:0043:47Book recommendationsTodd Davis: Too many books come to mind. I'm a big fan of Seth Godin, and I was so honored he endorsed my book, Get Better. And that was, I think, a huge part of its success. But he wrote, he's written many books, but heEP 96 · 9 May 2024·interview· 43:47–45:016:41Building mental fitness — individual responsibility and habit formationAl Elliott: So now we know what mental fitness is, Let's just dive into a little bit more about how we can build our mental fitness levels Sean Tolram: There's a massive individual responsibility, and I think that's an aEP 70 · 21 Dec 2023·panel interview· 6:41–8:5139:21Clip 10 — Kevin Dahlstrom: the way you do anything is the way you do everythingAl Elliott: I'll cut that out. Keep that in. So my next choice is Kevin Dahlstrom. He was such an interesting guy. Um, it's another founder story. He founded a company called Swell, which is a fintech. I think I've read EP 52 · 17 Aug 2023·other· 39:21–44:55
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