Stumbling Blocks: How Great Leaders Are Made

Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, fmr PEOPLE Mag DC Bureau Chief: The Price Of Saying "No"

In 2016, a former PEOPLE reporter named Natasha Stoynoff said Donald Trump attacked her during an interview at Mar-a-Lago. Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, the Washington Bureau

Tim Creasey, Chief Innovation Officer, Prosci: How To Lead Change

Tim Creasey: Chief Innovation Officer, Prosci: How to Lead Change Why do smart, well-run companies keep leading big changes that fail? Tim Creasey has spent 25 years at

Scott Stanzel, Chief Communications Officer, Truist: 9/11 at the White House

On 9/11/2001, Scott Stanzel was 28 years old, working his dream job at the White House when Secret Service agents came running down the halls, throwing open doors and sho

Jim Olson, Chief Communications Officer: How to Turn your Setback Story into your Comeback Legacy

Most crisis experts have never actually sat in the room when everything fell apart. Jim Olson has. He was head of communications at US Airways when Flight 1549 landed on

Kelli Arena, CEO, Nat'l Cryptologic Foundation: How I Went From CNN to CEO

Kelli Arena spent her career at CNN telling the public what powerful people would rather keep quiet. She covered the Justice Department, won an Emmy, and reported the Mou

Shalene Gupta, Editor, Fast Company: The Manager's AI Survival Guide

Shalene Gupta, staff editor for Fast Company's Work Life and Leadership section, interviewed 35 middle managers at some of the biggest companies in the world for her piec

Dana Perino, White House Press Sec. & Bestselling Author: "Purple State" & Crossing Party Lines

Dana Perino's new book is called Purple State. It's a political romance novel set in a gerrymandered Wisconsin district, about three young women who discover that love an

Outtakes: Sue Gordon Meets My Parents

My parents were visiting me the day I interviewed Sue Gordon, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence. So they joined me in the Treehouse Studio to say a quick he

Sue Gordon, Deputy Director of US Intelligence: What America Needs From Its Leaders

Sue Gordon once oversaw 100,000 women and men of the U.S. intelligence community as Deputy Director of National Intelligence, the number two role in American spycraft.

Outtakes: The President's Advice I Didn't Want

A few times during my two-part interview with Judge and Rebecca Gonzales, they turned the tables on me. They listened. And they drew three stories out of me that I've rar

Attorney General & Rebecca Gonzales, Pt 2: Leadership, Loss, and Love

Part 2 of this exclusive conversation with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his wife Rebecca. It is a conversation about love, political betrayal, faith, and what it

Outtakes: AG Gonzales on ICE ("unprecedented, dangerous") & Epstein ("A complete failure of DOJ")

Excerpts from Attorney General Gonzales and Rebecca Gonzales's interview with Stumbling Blocks on ICE Actions, Immigration, and the Epstein Files Excerpted Quotes from A

Attorney General & Rebecca Gonzales, Pt 1: 9/11, Leading The War On Terror, & Going Broke

EXCLUSIVE: This is a story two decades in the making. For the first time since leaving office 19 years ago, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his wife Rebecca Gonzale

Conor Grennan, CEO, AI Mindset: Why AI is a Change Management Problem

Conor Grennan is CEO of AI Mindset and until recently, Chief AI Architect at NYU Stern School of Business. He's trained teams at Google, NASA, Microsoft, JP Morgan, and m

Admiral Tim Ziemer, Chief, President's Malaria Initiative: How (and Why) I Saved 12 Million Lives

In this episode, I welcome Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer, the former chief of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and former CEO of World Relief. Admiral Ziemer explains

Steve Scherer, Bureau Chief, Reuters Canada: From Interviewing the Prime Minister to Driving an Uber

A conversation with former Reuters Canada Bureau Chief Steve Scherer on job displacement, the gig economy, and America’s identity crisis. Steve was once a high-level jou

Brent Beshore, CEO, Permanent Equity: How Winning Made me Lose

Brent Beshore made his first million at 28. Visited the White House. Got ranked 28th on the Inc. 500. Got everything he wanted. And realized he had summited the wrong mo

Linda Rutherford, CAO, Southwest Airlines: How a Proxy Fight Led to Assigned Seating (Pt 2)

In this episode, I sit down with Linda Rutherford, former Chief Administration Officer of Southwest Airlines for the second half of our conversation. Linda, described a

Linda Rutherford, CAO, Southwest Airlines: What Made Southwest So Successful?

In this episode, Linda Rutherford, the former Chief Administration Officer at Southwest Airlines, shares insights into the secret sauce that makes Southwest the 'LUV airl

Oscar Munoz, CEO, United: How I Broke a 5 Year Union Stalemate and Why I Hired my Successor (Pt 2)

When Oscar Munoz stepped in as CEO of United Airlines, he didn't head for the executive suite. He headed for a Houston hangar at 2:00 AM to jump on a picnic table and lis