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Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
Leader Fuel with Dr. Linda Travelute is your go-to podcast that keeps you going and growing as a leader. Each episode is packed with actionable leadership strategies, growth development tips, and insights grounded in cutting-edge psychology and John Maxwell’s proven leadership principles. Whether you’re leading a team, managing a business, or honing your personal leadership skills, Leader Fuel equips you with the tools and mindset to thrive, not just survive. Tune in for expert advice…
Episodes
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#105 The Leadership Costume: Why Your Default Leadership Style Isn’t Really Yours
Is your leadership style really yours? Dr. Linda reveals the Batman Effect and how to choose the leader you become on purpose. Under pressure, most leaders…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#104 The Leadership Wake: Why Good Leaders Accidentally Make Their Team's Day Harder
Good leaders make their team's day harder without meaning to. Dr. Linda reveals the leadership wake you leave behind and how to fix it in ten seconds. You…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#103 Every Team Has Words That Tell People What It's Safe To Say
Your team's favorite phrases are teaching people what's safe to say. Dr. Linda Travelute shows how leadership language quietly shapes culture. Somebody pitches…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#102 Why Your Leadership Problems Start With You (and How to Fix Them)
A CEO slides a legal pad across the table and says three words: "Fix my people." On this episode of the Leader Fuel Podcast, Dr. Linda Travelute, leadership…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#101 Three Questions Every Leader Should Ask Before Making Changes
Before he rolled out his turnaround plan, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone asked every top leader three questions. The second one is the question almost every leader…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#100 Project Unicorn: What Law of Victory Actually Looks Like
In 2019, e.l.f. Beauty's stock had crashed to $6.71. The board was in scandal. Activist investors were demanding a sale. And CEO Tarang Amin named his recovery…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#99 Why Your Team Doesn't Understand You (And Why It's on You)
Why your team doesn't understand you, even after you've explained it three times, and why fixing it is your job. Dr. Linda Travelute shows what a young chef in…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#98 When You're the Wolf in the Room: What Happens When You Don't Prepare for Power (REPLAY)
We’re bringing this conversation back because the leadership lesson at the heart of it is one that never seems to get old—and it may be especially relevant if…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#97 Your Most Difficult Employee Is Surprisingly Your Most Engaged
Most leaders measure engagement by looking at a dashboard. Survey scores went up two points, participation held steady, the consultant seems pleased. In this…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#96 Why Being a Nice Boss Is Not the Same as Being a Good Leader
There's a small store in San Francisco that's being run entirely by an artificial intelligence. It approves every request that comes its way, it has never once…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#95 How Credit Gets Misassigned on High Performing Teams
When Mozart wrote variations on an old French melody, he named the original song in the title rather than himself, and the world credited him anyway. In this…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#94 Why Leaders Stall Before They Ever Start
In July of 2005, a man in Montreal picked up a red paperclip and decided he wanted a house. Fourteen trades later, he had one. Everybody talks about the house…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#93 Why Leaders Trust Their Gut Over the Data
In 1975, a Kodak engineer showed his bosses the future. They dismissed it in one sentence, then spent the next thirty seven years finding out how wrong they…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#92 Why Your Best Skill Might Be Your Team's Biggest Risk (Law of Empowerment)
You know that thing only you can do? The thing that makes you the hero every single time? It's not your superpower. It's your ceiling. In the late 1700s, a…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#91 The Leadership Compound Effect Nobody Warned You About. It Takes Two Weeks to Make a Jelly Bean
A candy company and a U.S. president just taught Dr. Linda the real secret to building leadership that lasts. It has nothing to do with talent, and everything…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#90 Why Your Family Business Produces Unmotivated Leaders | The Glass Ceiling Made of Blood
Your best employee is updating her LinkedIn tonight, and you have no idea. This morning, the corner office went to the owner's son: twenty-six, untested, and…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#89 The Conversation You Keep Not Having
You already know what you need to say. You have known for weeks. So why can you not make yourself walk into that office and say it? In this episode, Dr. Linda…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#88 Are You a Bubblicious Leader? Why Loud Leaders Get Promoted and Great Leaders Get Overlooked (And How to Fix It)
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…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#87 If It's So Good, Why the Secrecy?
Erin Brockovich just put out a simple ask: tell me what's happening in your community. She got flooded with responses, and one word kept showing up more than…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#86 The Leader Nobody Appointed
Long before Duncan Hines' name appeared on a box of cake mix, he was just a traveling salesman with a notebook, checking restaurant kitchens for cleanliness…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#85 How Campbell's Leaked Audio Became a Leadership Lesson in the Power of Private Behavior
A company vice president was caught on a leaked recording mocking workers and dismissing customers. Campbell's confirmed the audio and removed him immediately…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#84 When Leaders Say People First but Act Image First: How the Values Gap Destroys Trust
In this episode of the Leader Fuel Podcast, Dr. Linda Travelute exposes the leadership problem most teams feel long before leaders admit it: the "values gap."…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#83 When the People You Trained Stop Needing You
There's a flinch most leaders feel and never talk about. It hits when someone you trained, someone you mentored, someone you poured years into, walks into a…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#82 Mispackaged: Why Talented Leaders Get Overlooked (and What To Do About It)
Bubble Wrap was a failed wallpaper before it became revolutionary. If you feel overlooked or underutilized, this leadership reframe will change how you see…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#81 You Got the Promotion. So Why Do You Feel Like You're Falling Apart?
You worked for it. You earned it. And then you got promoted — and something felt completely off. If you've ever stepped into a new leadership role and secretly…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#80 The Accountability Conversation You Keep Avoiding: And the Exact Words to Have It
If you've been avoiding a hard conversation with an underperformer, this episode is for you. Dr. Linda Travelute breaks down the difference between…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#79 You're Leading the Wrong Way for the Environment You're In — Here's How to Fix It
You're leading the wrong way for the environment you're in — and your team is exhausted because of it. Is your leadership style draining your team instead of…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#78 Are You the Problem? How "Leadership Propaganda" is Sabotaging Your Success and Team Trust
Are you exhausted from managing a team that just won't step up? Here’s the brutal truth: you might be the problem. In this episode of the Leader Fuel Podcast…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#77 The Fragile Leader Syndrome: How to Get a Return on Failure
Are you leading like you’re made of glass? After a major setback, smart leaders often build walls, avoid feedback, and stop taking risks. It’s called the…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#76 The 5 Signs of Foolish Leadership (Part 2)
You already know the obvious signs of foolish leadership. Or do you? In Part 2 of this series on the Leader Fuel Podcast, Linda Travelute challenges five…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#75 Your Leadership Strengths Are Making You a Fool (Part 1)
The original April Fools were people who didn’t adapt when the world changed around them. Sound like any leaders you know? In Part One of this two-part series…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#74 Stop Motivating Your Team (It’s Not Working)
You’re not a bad leader. You just accidentally became your team’s entire source of energy—and now nothing moves without you. In this episode of the Leader Fuel…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#73 Why Convenience Is Making You a Weaker Leader
EPS: 73 of the Leader Fuel Podcast, “Why Convenience Is Making You a Weaker Leader,” helps leaders spot how overhelping, micromanagement, poor delegation…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#72 Why Smart Leaders Still Self-Destruct (The Intelligence Illusion in Leadership)
In EPS: 72 of the Leader Fuel Podcast, Dr. Linda Travelute exposes why intelligence alone won’t protect leaders from failure. Using the story of Marie Curie…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#71 Stop Blaming Remote Work: The Leadership Accountability Crisis Nobody’s Talking About
Return-to-office policies are back, but the real problem isn’t remote work. It’s leadership accountability. In EPS: 71 of the Leader Fuel Podcast, Dr. Linda…
- Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute
#70 The Torch Can’t Depend on One Runner: Build Your Leadership Bench 3-Deep
In this episode of the Leader Fuel Podcast, Dr. Linda Travelute uses the Olympic torch relay to teach leaders how to build a leadership bench 3-deep. Learn why…