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The 3 Cs That Motivate Your Team Without Micromanaging (with Dr. Scott Geller)

2026-10-0634:39

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Scott Geller, Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and founder of the Actively Caring for People (AC4P) Foundation, has spent 56 years studying what moves people to act. His answer for leaders is research-based and practical. To motivate your team without micromanaging, build the 3 Cs of self-motivation: choice, competence, and community. In this conversation with Dr. William Attaway, Dr. Geller explains humanistic behaviorism, the difference between leading pe...

Why You Have to Lead From a Place of Healing (with Beth Jones)

2026-09-2931:52

Send us Fan Mail Beth Jones spent more than 30 years as a forensic accountant and fraud investigator before a hypnotherapy session became the turning point of her own healing journey. She is a Leadership Performance Strategist, creator of The HEAL Framework™ (Hope, Evolve, Love), and author of "Becoming an Empowered Survivor: You, Too, Can Heal From Trauma and Abuse." In this conversation with Dr. William Attaway, Beth explains why unresolved pain accumulates gradually and silently for years...

The AI Negligence Insurance Gap No One's Covering (with Vinnie Fisher)

2026-09-2230:58

Send us Fan Mail Vinnie Fisher, Founder and CEO of SiteTrust, returns to the Catalytic Leadership Podcast to unpack the AI negligence insurance gap costing business owners thousands of dollars they didn't know they were exposed to. Vinnie explains why most website consent trackers don't work, why wiretapping-statute lawsuits are climbing into the thousands, and why standard insurance won't cover AI mistakes made without human oversight. He connects it back to the deepfake problem that led h...

Why Working Less Grew This Firm 492%: The 3.3 Rule (with John Briggs)

2026-09-1529:54

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Catalytic Leadership Podcast, Dr. William Attaway sits down with John Briggs, CPA, founder and CEO of Incite Tax & Accounting and author of Take Breaks, Work Better. John shares the 2 a.m. moment that forced him to confront hustle culture head-on, the research behind human focus cycles, and the framework he now calls the 3.3 rule: work up to three hours, then take a 30 percent recovery break. Since implementing it, his firm has grown 492 percent whi...

Why Collaboration Over Competition Multiplies Growth (with Chad T. Jenkins)

2026-09-0831:09

Send us Fan Mail Chad T. Jenkins launched more than fifty businesses before he decided to stop launching companies altogether. What he found was that the fastest growth never came from building alone. Chad, owner and CEO of SEEDSPARK and founder of SEEDSPARK CoLAB, joins William to make the case for collaboration over competition, and to show how the assets already sitting in your business become leverage the moment you combine them with someone else's. He walks through the VCR formula he lea...

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