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Welcome to The Ryan Leak Podcast. Ryan Leak is a dynamic speaker, executive coach, and best-selling author known for his engaging and transformative approach to leadership, personal growth, and professional development. He is highly sought after by Fortune 100 companies, professional sports teams, and organizations worldwide for his insights on leadership, communication, faith, resilience, and collaboration. This podcast is designed to drop nuggets of inspiration to help you get the most out of your life.
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Who Luck
What if the biggest opportunities in your life weren't just the result of hard work, but the people who opened doors for you? John Maxwell calls it Who Luck. In this episode, Ryan shares the remarkable chain of relationships that took him f
The Doom and Gloom Trap
Negativity is everywhere. In your office, your group chats, your social media feed, and sometimes even your own thoughts. But just because the world has problems doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In this episode, Ryan challenges you to
The Willpower Muscle
What if the hard thing you've been avoiding is actually the thing that's making you stronger? In this episode, Ryan explores the science behind willpower and why discipline isn't something you're born with. It's something you build. From di
The Perfect Plan Myth
What if the thing holding you back isn’t a lack of planning, but too much of it? We tell ourselves we’ll start when the plan is perfect, when we have more clarity, when we’ve done enough research, or when we know exactly how everything will
Even If You Don't Feel Like It
What if you stopped waiting to feel like it? The truth is, you get the same results from doing hard things when you don’t feel like it as you do when you do. The mile still counts. The rep still counts. The page still counts. The conversati
It's All Hard
It’s all hard. Building a career is hard. Leading people is hard. Marriage is hard. Parenting is hard. Starting over is hard. Staying the course is hard. But some hard things get even harder the longer you avoid them. In this episode, Ryan
Keep It Moving
Getting started takes bravery. Keeping going takes resilience. Life won’t always cooperate with your plans. Ideas flop. People disappoint you. Opportunities disappear. Doors close. And sometimes the hardest part isn’t what happened. It’s fi
Stop Fighting the Wrong Competitor
We spend a lot of energy trying to keep up with competitors who aren't even thinking about us. We scroll through someone's highlight reel and measure it against our behind-the-scenes. We compare our chapter 3 to their chapter 20. And every
Feedback is Data, Not a Verdict
Someone says “your presentation could’ve been stronger” and your brain hears “you’re a failure.” Someone says “I think you could listen more” and your brain hears “you’re a bad spouse.” We don’t process feedback as information. We process i
The Other Side of Me
There’s a gap between who we think we are and how people actually experience us. And that gap is where most of our relational problems live. Ryan asks the question he uses in every coaching session and keynote: what’s it like to be on the o
Thank God It’s Monday
We’ve built an entire culture around surviving the week just to get to the weekend. TGIF. We countdown the days. We post the memes. But if you dread five out of seven days of your life, that’s not just a bad job. That’s a bad life. You’re s
The Cost of Always Being Right
Would you rather be right or would you rather be connected? Ryan has met a lot of people who are always right. And he’s noticed something about them. They’re often alone. Not because they’re wrong, but because it’s exhausting to interact wi
What If They Aren’t Against You?
Your boss gives you tough feedback and you spend the whole weekend convinced they’re trying to push you out. Then Monday comes and they tell you they’re recommending you for a promotion. A friend doesn’t text back for days and you build a w
Stop Waiting To Feel Ready
“I’ll start when I’m ready” might be the biggest lie we tell ourselves. I’ll start the business when I’m ready. I’ll have the conversation when I’m ready. I’ll write the book when I’m ready. And then the thing you were preparing for passes
The Tax of Distraction
Nobody’s going to send you an invoice for being distracted. But research says it takes 23 minutes to fully refocus after a single interruption. Multiply that by a dozen times a day and you’re losing hours. Not minutes. Hours. We’re more con
Helped, Heard, or Hugged
Someone you love comes to you with something heavy. And because you care, you immediately start solving it. You’ve got a plan, next steps, practically a spreadsheet. And you watch their face close. Because they didn’t come to you for a solu
I Don’t Know
There’s a word most people have never heard that describes something most people do every day. It’s called ultracrepidarianism, giving opinions on things you have no real knowledge about. Ryan unpacks why we feel pressure to have a “take” o
Trust Me
Only 34% of Americans believe most people can be trusted. The average person has about five people they’d truly lean on for anything. And yet Ryan has never met a single person who thought they themselves were untrustworthy. Nobody’s ever s
Keep Going
In 1989, a 23-year-old social worker started teaching classes and researching a topic nobody wanted to touch. For 21 years, almost nobody outside her department read her work. Then she gave a 20-minute talk, and it changed the conversation
Brother Lawrence
Most people think God shows up in the big moments. The big stage, the big breakthrough, the big answered prayer. But one of the most influential voices in 400 years of Christian history never preached a sermon, never wrote a book, and never
Are You Okay?
The most underrated form of care in any workplace or family is the courage to ask one more time, are you okay? And actually mean it. One in five adults in this country lives with a mental health condition in any given year. Which means, sta
Invited to the Table or the Trial?
Most of us walk into hard conversations with the wrong goal. We're chasing agreement when we should be building connection. We're choosing accuracy when we should be choosing tone. And then we wonder why the conversation went sideways. In t
It’s Hard For Me to Say This
We’ve confused boundaries with rejection. With selfishness. With being difficult. But what if boundaries aren’t walls meant to keep people out… what if they’re doors with locks on them? In this episode, Ryan talks about why so many of us st
Just Kidding
Ever been in a professional meeting, a grown-up, serious, adult conversation, and somebody says one thing that hits you the wrong way, and suddenly you’re not a leader anymore? You’re seven. The playground version of you just hijacked the b
Career Dysmorphia
You can be world-class at one thing and completely obsessed with another. I’ve got a friend who is the best speaker I know — the kind of communicator who stops rooms — but what he really wants to do is sing. He’s an okay singer. And that ga
Challengers and Champions
We all love having people who believe in us. Champions encourage us, remind us who we are, and push us toward the rooms we’re afraid to enter. But if encouragement is the only voice in your life, you can stop growing. In this episode, Ryan
The Willpower Muscle
What if willpower isn't something you're born with, but something you build? In this episode, Ryan breaks down the brain science behind self-discipline (meet your anterior cingulate cortex, aka your "willpower muscle") and shares the simple
Right On Time
Most of us think we need more time. More margin. More space in the calendar. But what if the issue isn’t how much time you have… it’s what you’re missing inside the time you already have? In this episode, Ryan unpacks the powerful concept o
Procastination Proof
We all say it. “I’ll start next week.” But next week has a funny way of turning into next month… or next year. In this episode, Ryan tackles one of the most universal struggles we all face: procrastination. Not as a time management issue, b
Break The Ice
Most people think “break the ice” is about small talk. It’s not. It’s about leadership. In this episode, Ryan unpacks the surprising origin of the phrase and what it teaches us about navigating difficult conversations. Every room has tensio
