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8:20The 'It'll Be Grand' Effect — why your brain prefers survival over successAl Elliott: I think when you look at it objectively, a belief like that, like I'm not a great leader, is It's a stupid thing to think because it's actually holding you back. But I read something in your book about how yoEP 323 · 30 Jul 2026·interview· 8:20–11:1257:53Biggest lessons and meaning of successLeanne Elliott: Yeah. What is the biggest lesson you've learned over the last 20 years? Al Elliott: Ooh, maybe it's just as simple as always do what you say you're gonna do. I think that's probably it because in almost aEP 304 · 26 May 2026·other· 57:53–64:0525:11Truth or Lie — Are morning people more successful?Leanne Elliott: So come back Al Elliott: I'll cut that out. Keep that in. Welcome back. This is Truth or Lie. As you know, the part of the show where we take a popular idea and I ask Leanne, Does the evidence actually baEP 284 · 17 Mar 2026·truth or lie· 25:11–39:3712:26The 10-year reunion and watching the chaos succeedAl Elliott: So you mentioned the reunion there. It sounds to me like they were not far— that now they're not far off the age you were when you were in there. So what was it like going back and seeing everyone? Tom LeNoblEP 281 · 5 Mar 2026·interview· 12:26–16:3740:22Success norms: the habits that shape usLouise Hill: I think for me, it is, as a leader, it's normalizing it. So, I think to the extent you feel able to, talking about how you feel about money, talking about the mistakes you've made, talking about the fact thaEP 272 · 3 Feb 2026·panel interview· 40:22–43:5524:13Truth or Lie: Can You Manifest Success?Al Elliott: Okay, welcome back. Time for Truth or Lie, our weekly myth-busting segment where we take a big psychological claim and ask, is it true or is it a lie? It's January. It's that weird time of the year. We're allEP 268 · 20 Jan 2026·truth or lie· 24:13–35:0121:40Truth or Lie: Are tall people really more successful?Al Elliott: It can Leanne Elliott: But come back Al Elliott: Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as thisEP 238 · 7 Oct 2025·truth or lie· 21:40–34:5246:01Top 3 takeawaysAl Elliott: And here's the proof that Tony's approach actually works. Adidas became known as the talent factory, with a conveyor belt of leaders going to senior roles across America, Amsterdam, Germany, and around the woEP 231 · 11 Sept 2025·interview· 46:01–46:4635:24High achievers and the goals trapCarolina Lasso: I think once again, we go back to discernment and discernment on why is it that I don't have a lot of goals? What's going on? Have I lost my North Star? Have I lost my motivation? Am I doing something thaEP 221 · 7 Aug 2025·interview· 35:24–39:4625:28Pushback: do you need it to be successful?Elina Teboul: No, absolutely not. And there are, there are examples both ways. I think certainly there are examples of profitable companies that have been built Without feminine intelligence. Now, I wonder whether the woEP 197 · 15 May 2025·interview· 25:28–30:2029:38Failure as a prerequisite for successJames Fleming: Failure is part of success. In order to be successful at anything in life, you've got to fail. You've got to get it wrong. I mean, the first 18 months of my business, I was almost bankrupt. I put my car upEP 165 · 23 Jan 2025·interview· 29:38–39:1045:50Workplace Surgery: Workplace jealousyLeanne Elliott: You know you shouldn't scale back what you've done. Why would you want to make yourself less successful to fit in? Don't let these people pull you down. Absolutely not. And also, I've— do you know what, tEP 146 · 19 Nov 2024·workplace surgery· 45:50–49:4226:05Why successful people like being around other successful peopleLeanne Elliott: One of the things that we don't necessarily think about is that successful people like being around other successful people. And as we learn, you don't need to be Beckham-level successful. If you've achieEP 133 · 3 Oct 2024·interview· 26:05–31:1636:28What it looks like when everything clicksAdrian Lomas: I like going into a senior leadership team where a visionary has heard of EOS and he goes in the next Monday and he says, team, we've got to, we've got to do this. So, and the team are like, oh my God, it'sEP 112 · 4 Jul 2024·interview· 36:28–44:3036:06Workplace Surgery: success - logic or manifestation?Leanne Elliott: So, this listener says, I've been learning about successful people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Ellison. They all seem to think and make decisions using logic and first principles. But on YouTubeEP 107 · 18 Jun 2024·workplace surgery· 36:06–41:3230:45Consistency over ambition: Ben's approach to successBen Branson-Gateley: We've always had technical people in the business. None of the co-founders were technical. So, yeah, we have a head of engineering today who's been with us a long time. We have a great engineering teEP 89 · 11 Apr 2024·interview· 30:45–34:5334:36What makes a great partnership?Joe Fier: I think what makes a great partnership is, is this whole open communication and again, getting real and checking in with each other. And that's something that Matt and I did a lot of. Every single day is like, EP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 34:36–35:4749:48What would it look like if we got this right?Al Elliott: So one of the questions we always ask anyone on a panel is, What would it look like if we got this right? Lord Bethell feels the employer has a very, very important part to play. What I would like to think isEP 58 · 28 Sept 2023·other· 49:48–53:4835:07Lesson 4: Don't Chase a Misguided Definition of SuccessAl Elliott: Now on to number 4. There is a misguided definition of success. When I started, when I started building businesses back when I was about 23, 24, I thought success was big house, big car, horses, yachts, helicEP 44 · 21 Jun 2023·other· 35:07–42:3168:28What happens when you get it right — shared mission unites cultureAl Elliott: All right, so we've talked about what happens if you get it wrong. Let's just take a moment to think about what it could look like if we get this right. I've been able to work with some of the, uh, really somEP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 68:28–71:0316:59The Midas touch myth — why success isn't luckAl Elliott: But I think this— people who say they're lucky, this, this, this is one of my trigger words. Oh, you're lucky, you are. The fact is that Has Stella bought 100 prints and has 99 of them turned out to be worth EP 33 · 5 Apr 2023·other· 16:59–22:4460:07What got you here won't get you thereStephen Shortt: There's another phrase that I use, and I use it a lot in keynotes and workshops, which is, what got you here is not going to get them there. And when you have a current generation that is risk-averse and EP 26 · 15 Feb 2023·panel interview· 60:07–64:2424:17Expansive intimacy — a different way of looking at successJim Young: I don't know if you were setting me up for this, but I would say it's expansive intimacy Al Elliott: Mm-hmm Jim Young: And that's what I wrote about. And it's really this different way of looking at success isEP 22 · 17 Jan 2023·interview· 24:17–27:5116:07Leanne's best day as a managerLeanne Elliott: My best moment knowing that what we were doing was really something cool and I'd orchestrated this situation was when— so I worked for a welfare-to-work company called Pinnacle People, and we— I ran a conEP 17 · 20 Dec 2022·other· 16:07–20:175:00What intelligence really meansLeanne Elliott: It does. And, and before we kind of dive into that period of your life, you, you said there that you were, you were not good looking, you're not particularly intelligent, you weren't popular. Where does tEP 16 · 13 Dec 2022·other· 5:00–11:4916:11Rapid success, media fame, and the 42 Under 42 listLeanne Elliott: And it was successful quite quickly, was it? Within a few months you were named in the 42 Under 42, is that right? Al Elliott: It was actually, yeah. It was— we were kind of— because I was only like, was EP 16 · 13 Dec 2022·other· 16:11–20:48
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