#88 Are You a Bubblicious Leader? Why Loud Leaders Get Promoted and Great Leaders Get Overlooked (And How to Fix It)

Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute · Jul 6, 2026 · 29m

When Dr. Linda was nine years old, she paid her brother a nickel per piece for his Bubblicious because the flavor in her own pack had already expired. She'd chewed Bubble Yum too. But Bubblicious had a stickier name. Which, as she points out, is more than you can say for the flavor.

That childhood memory became the entry point for one of the most honest leadership conversations on the Leader Fuel Podcast.

In Episode 88, Dr. Linda uses the real origin story of bubble gum, the 1977 launch of Bubblicious as a fast-following copycat with a better name and louder marketing, and Adam Grant's babble…