Episode 119: Dr. Benjamin Ritter & His Book, Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be
- Episode 119: Dr. Benjamin Ritter & His Book, Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be John M Jaramillo 1:08:19
Episode 119: Dr. Benjamin Ritter & His Book, Your
Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be
ABOUT BENJAMIN
Benjamin is the founder of LFY Consulting and author of Becoming Fearless is an international leadership and career coach, Sr. Talent Management Consultant, Top LinkedIn Voice, global speaker, and host of The Executive, and the Live Fearlessly Podcasts. He has over 12 years of experience working internally as a Talent and Leadership Development leader, and externally as a coach in the realms of career and leadership development. Ben has coached over 500 leaders with a strong focus on senior-level executives across multiple industries and geographic regions, including Amazon, Coursera, Doordash, Google, Fiserv, Northwestern, Pinterest, Yelp, and more.
CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS
- “I wrote the book because I don’t want people to deal with what I’ve dealt with.”
- Discussing the responsibility we all have to ourselves.
- How soccer contributed to Ben’s work today.
- Curiosity and Investing Time.
- The benefits and dangers of obsession.
- The power of tinkering and creativity.
- Ben’s super power: Looking at a situation and asking, “Now what?”
- Questions to ask yourself as a leader to create the right environment for others.
- “How does the leader then constantly represent or highlight the meaning of the individual to the broader organization and the impact that organization is having?”
- What becomes heart-wrenching in Ben’s work.
- “Every roadblock in life is there because you believe it’s there.”
- Your level of fearlessness across your various lives — professional, personal, other.
- “My mind was the worst or best part in my life…my friend or my enemy.”
- Life after suffering.
The MAIN QUESTION underlying my conversation with Benjamin is, Are you willing to sacrifice certain things and accept the no’s and the rejection along the way to create what you want in the world?
FIND BENJAMIN
- Website: liveforyourselfconsulting.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drbenjaminritter-leadershipdevelopment
LinkedIn – Full Podcast Article:
CHAPTERS
00:00 – The Book Leads Podcast – Dr. Benjamin Ritter
01:00 – Introduction & Bio
02:24 – Books that have impacted Ben.
03:51 – Who are you today? Can you provide more information about your work?
05:55 – What it feels like for Ben to help others work toward fearlessness.
08:08- How did your path into your career look like, and what did it look like up until now?
18:40 – How does the work you’re doing today reconcile to who you were as a child?
22:42 – How Ben decided to change his branding, and why.
25:29 – What does leadership mean to you?
28:23 – What do you consider your super power?
29:30 – What do you define leadership?
31:54 – Can you introduce us to the book we’re discussing?
33:35 – Ben speaks about his own fearlessness.
43:41 – Can you provide an overview of the book?
46:48 – Example of the an Exercise in each the professional and personal side of the book.
52:30 – Where Ben’s obsession for tracking performance came from.
58:24 – How did writing this book change you?
01:03:43 – What’s next for your writing?
01:04:50 – What are you up to these days? (A way for guests to share and market their projects and work.)
This series has become my Masterclass In Humanity. I’d love for you to join me and see what you take away from these conversations.
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