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Go First With Jaime Taets

by Jaime Taets, Owner, President & Founder

Hosted by CEO, leadership expert, keynote speaker and author Jaime Taets, Go First explores what happens when successful people stop waiting for certainty and start moving before they feel ready. Through honest conversations with CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs, athletes and high-performing leaders — along with Jaime's solo insights — the show goes behind the highlight reel to explore the decisions, fears, failures and transformations that shape successful people. Episodes explore leadership development, personal growth, resilience, burnout, decision-making, vulnerability, organizational change, energy, purpose and what it takes to create meaningful change in your work and life. Because clarity doesn't always come before action. Sometimes you have to Go First. If you're navigating a career transition, leading through change, questioning what success means now, facing a difficult decision or simply know there's another version of yourself waiting on the other side of action, this podcast is for you. Go First with Jaime Taets gives leaders practical insights, honest stories and the courage to take the next meaningful step. Why leaders keep hitting play:1. It names the fear you're not supposed to admit. Waiting to feel ready is often just waiting. If you're a leader stuck at the edge of a decision, hoping for more certainty before you move, this show gives you permission and a push to go first anyway. 2. It's tactical, not just inspirational. Every episode delivers frameworks you can use immediately - how to separate the fear you should listen to from the fear that's just noise, how to make a decision without full information, how to build the kind of energy management that makes moving first sustainable instead of reckless. 3. The guests have actually gone first. This isn't theory from consultants who've never made the call under pressure. Listeners have heard from a crisis-communications founder who rebuilt her career and her family through her son's cancer diagnosis, a Super Bowl champion who had to find purpose beyond the game that defined him, and CEOs who scaled companies while unlearning the need to have all the answers before they acted. 4. It reframes hesitation as a leadership signal, not a character flaw. Instead of glorifying certainty, Go First treats the instinct to wait as data, a signal about what you're actually afraid of losing, and what needs to change so you can move anyway. 5. It's built for the leader standing at the edge of their next decision. Whetheryou're weighing a career pivot, a business bet, a hard conversation, or a change you already know you need to make, this show offers a way to move, not just a reason to keep thinking about it. Who should listen to Go First: Executives, founders, entrepreneurs, coaches, and high-performing professionals who know what they should do next but are stuck waiting to feel ready. If you Google "how to make decisions without all the information," "overcoming fear of failure as a leader," "how to take action despite uncertainty," or "podcast for leaders who feel stuck," this is the show built for exactly that search.What you'll actually learn: How to make high-stakes decisions before you have full information. How to tell the difference between the fear that protects you and the fear that stalls you. Practical energy management for leaders operating without a guarantee. Why the leaders who move first aren't fearless, they've just built a different relationship with fear. How clarity is a result of action, not a precondition for it.www.jaimetaets.com

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The World Needs Your Wisdom: Jaime Taets on Turning Experience Into Impact & Going First

What do you do with everything you have lived through? The wins. The failures. The years that knocked you sideways. Most of us file it away and treat it like it is privat

Oct 13
11 min

The Currency of Kindness: Kim Snow on Leading Franklin Center, Neurodiversity & the Courage to Go First

What happens when you leave a successful corporate career to lead a nonprofit you know as a parent, but not as a leader? Kim Snow knows this journey intimately. She spen

Oct 6
42 min

Your Body Knows Before Your Brain Does: Jaime Taets on The Fizzies, Intuition & Following What Feels Alive

You know that feeling when something just clicks? When your body tells you yes before your brain can explain why? Jaime Taets calls it the fizzies, and she believes it is

Sep 29
13 min

Your Title Is Not Your Identity: Chris Heim on People-First Leadership, CEO Identity & Reclaiming Who You Are

What happens when you've achieved everything you set out to accomplish, but you wake up one day and realize you've lost yourself in the process? Chris Heim, a

Sep 22
34 min

Stop Seeking External Validation to Feel Worthy: A Solo Episode on the Addiction to Validation

Why do so many leaders feel empty despite achieving everything they set out to accomplish? The answer might surprise you. It's not about insecurity or weakness. It&a

Sep 15
12 min

Redefining Success After the Title Is Gone: Dr. Linda Schubring on Identity, Control & Healing

What happens when the mountain you finally climbed disappears beneath your feet? Dr. Linda Schubring faced that exact moment and learned that losing a job doesn't me

Sep 8
46 min

Leadership Burnout: The Real Cause and What Leaders Get Wrong with Jaime Taets

What happens when you're a high-performing leader who loves the work, but you're exhausted in a way that a vacation won't fix? Jaime Taets gets honest abou

Aug 18
10 min

From Problem Solver to Coach: Matt Ropchak on Imposter Syndrome, Leadership Development & Redefining Success

Leadership development doesn't happen where you're comfortable. Matt Ropchak shares why the biggest breakthroughs begin the moment you stop keeping both feet in

Aug 7
39 min

Leadership Burnout: Alignment Is Not a Soft Skill with Erin Newkirk

Leadership burnout isn't always about working too hard—it can be a signal that something is out of alignment. Erin Newkirk shares why leaders need to pause, ground t

Aug 3
38 min

Trust With Yourself Before You Chase More Success with Ashley Hawks

Trust with yourself is the foundation of sustainable success. Ashley Hawks shares what happened when the success she built no longer made her happy and how she rebuilt he

Aug 3
49 min

The Point Is Not to Have All the Answers with Hillary Spreizer

The point is not to have all the answers. Hillary Spreizer shares why leadership success is not about being the smartest person in the room. Hillary Spreizer, CEO and ow

Aug 3
44 min

Leadership Burnout: You Don't Get Extra Credit for Exhaustion with Josh Helgeson

Leadership burnout does not always happen when everything falls apart. Sometimes it happens when everything is going right, but the pace, pressure, and responsibility are

Aug 3
29 min

Find Joy, Even in the Hard Times with Kelli Williams

Redefining success through joy means learning that resilience is not always about pushing harder. It is knowing when to pause, heal, and find joy in the storm. Kelli Wil

Aug 3
39 min

Find the Consistency through the Peaks and Valleys with Ben Utecht

Leadership through adversity is not about avoiding the valley. It is about building a foundation strong enough to keep you moving through it. Ben Utecht, former NFL tigh

Aug 3
37 min

Filter the Voices Holding You Back with Giselle Ugarte

You control more than you think. Giselle Ugarte shares why you're more powerful than you realize and how to stop giving your power away to other people's opinio

Aug 3
37 min

The Fear You Choose: Kristi Piehl on Resilience, Hard Things & Choosing Fear Before It Chooses You

Resilience isn't built only when life gets hard. Kristi Piehl explains why choosing difficult things when you can may prepare you for the fear you can't choose.

Aug 3
30 min

You Have the Right to Dream and Change: Andrea Sullivan on Identity, Success & Doing the Damn Thing

What happens when you finally achieve everything you thought you wanted, only to realize it doesn't feel like enough? Andrea Sullivan shares why your next chapter ma

Aug 3
35 min

You Have the Right to Dream: Lindsay Holden on Odele Beauty, Entrepreneurship & Leading With Intuition

You don't need to have everything figured out before taking the next step. Lindsay Holden shares why trusting your instincts, embracing progress over perfection, and

Aug 3
36 min

Succeed More Than You Fail

 | Erin Newkirk is the Chief Brand and Marketing Officer at Caribou Coffee.  Her career journey has been anything but typical and in this episode Erin shares her perspect

Feb 19 2025
34 min

Authenticity as a Leadership SuperPower

 | Tami Enfield, a Brand Strategist and the founder of Brand Yourself, a consultancy launched in 2011. Not only does she LOVE marketing strategy, it’s also her passion. S

Feb 6 2025
33 min

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