One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins

He started out splicing cable under the streets of Manhattan for $90 a week and was told ordinary people don't start television networks. Larry Namer started one anyway, and today E! reaches 142 countries and is valued at over $10 billion. In this episode, Stephen sits down with Larry Namer, co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, the man who helped launch Howard Stern, Ryan Seacrest, and the Kardashians, and author of Two Minute Television, to unpack how building with less, leading through change, and serving the audience beats waiting for permission. Larry shares why there are more Gossip Girl fans in China than members of the Communist Party, how one of his sitcoms helped ban shark's fin soup in cities across China, and why "follow your passion" is the worst advice he hears. It's the Lion and Lamb methodology in action: the strength to build what everyone says can't be done, paired with the humility to serve the audience instead of your ego. 🧠 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: ✅ Why the leaders who win watch where things are going, not where they've been ✅ How respecting another culture's "rules of the house" built rare trust in China ✅ Why being an outsider who doesn't know the rules can be your biggest advantage ✅ How E! launched with 11 employees, 31 interns, and $2.5M when everyone said it took $60–100M ✅ Why AI is a tool to reclaim your most valuable asset: your time ✅ Why vertical, two-minute storytelling will dominate video by 2030 ✅ Why waiting until you're 100% sure means you'll never start ✅ Chapters: (00:00) Intro & Welcome (02:10) Meet Larry Namer: Coney Island Roots (04:44) Looking Where Media Is Going, Not Where It's Been (10:10) Gossip Girl, Shark's Fin Soup & Winning Over China (18:24) Vertical Video, AI & Reclaiming Your Time (27:13) Launching E! With 11 Employees, 31 Interns & $2.5M (36:14) No Fear of Failure: Writing China's Funniest Comedy (40:46) Two Minute Television & Finding Your Authentic Voice (55:05) Robots, AI Guardrails & Raising Better Parents (1:07:21) What's Next & Advice for Finding Your Purpose (1:10:49) Rapid Fire Round If this episode hit home, follow the show and leave a quick rating and review. It's the single best way to help other leaders find these conversations. New episodes EVERY WEDNESDAY! 📺 Watch the full episode on YouTube: @LionLambWithStephen 📍 Follow Stephen Scoggins: Website → https://stephenscoggins.com Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/stephen_scoggins TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@stephen_scoggins Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/stephenscoggins LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenscoggins Connect With Larry Namer: Two Minute Television: https://twominutetelevision.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/larrynamertv/

In this episode, Stephen sits down with Dr. Jason Snibbe, orthopedic surgeon trusted by celebrities, pro athletes, and hardworking moms and dads alike, to unpack how staying calm under pressure and treating people as whole human beings builds a practice, a team, and a life that lasts. Dr. Snibbe opens up about why he's building a physician-owned hospital that blends "hospital and hospitality," the leadership mistake that defined his first decade in practice, and the question that silenced a room of 300 surgeons. It's the Lion and Lamb methodology in action: the strength to stay steady when the whole room is looking at you, paired with the humility to see every patient, and every team member, as a person. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: • Why staying calm under pressure is the difference between a good surgeon (and a good leader) and a great one • The Five Constraints, and why most bad decisions are made in a moment of dysregulation • How to design every touchpoint of a customer's experience, from the first 20 steps through the door • The "never say no" rule that turns a single phone call into a lifelong patient and referral source • The leadership blind spot of assuming everyone on your team thinks like you • The 300-surgeon question: when did you last have dinner with your partners? • Simple habits (strength, mobility, walking, even gardening) that keep you off the operating table EPISODE CHAPTERS: (00:00) Episode preview (01:25) Welcome & meet Dr. Jason Snibbe (03:32) Where his heart to serve every patient came from (07:21) Combining "hospital and hospitality" (13:49) A Hawaiian riptide and staying calm when the room looks to you (17:34) The Five Constraints and leading from regulation (21:22) Teaching calm and connection to your team (28:23) Why doctors need to learn the business side (35:03) "I never say no to anybody": building raving fans (40:22) Strength, mobility & avoiding joint replacement (48:01) His biggest leadership mistake: assuming everyone thinks like him (58:59) Connectivity, and the question that silenced 300 surgeons (1:04:39) His upcoming book & where to find him (1:06:55) Rapid fire round If this episode hit home, follow the show and leave a quick rating and review. It's the single best way to help other leaders find these conversations. New episodes every Wednesday. FREE LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT: What's really holding your business back? In 8–12 minutes, the Integrated Leader Index reveals your primary constraint, your weakest business driver, and your Leadership Clarity Score. Take it free: https://stephenscoggins.com/leader-clarity-assessment-engine/ Watch the full episode on YouTube: @LionLambWithStephen Follow Stephen Scoggins: Website: https://stephenscoggins.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephen_scoggins TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stephen_scoggins Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephenscoggins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenscoggins Connect with Dr. Jason Snibbe: Website: https://www.drjasonsnibbe.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjasonsnibbe/  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@UCkFIMJhG1clreb8-K4XNxxQ 

He fired six people from the same seat in 13 months. The real problem? Forty-five minutes a day of training nobody ever did. In this episode, Stephen sits down with Rick Jordan, founder and CEO of Frequency Holdings, Inc., cybersecurity expert, and the CEO who took his company public without private equity money, to unpack why the people and decisions that build a company are rarely the ones that scale it. Rick and Stephen get brutally honest about a $1.7M betrayal by a decade-long team, a bad acquisition that quietly bled clients out the back door, and the employee who cost a company $3M because letting him go took two years. It's the Lion and Lamb methodology in action: the strength to make the hard call, paired with the surrender to own your part in the problem. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: Why most business "failures" are really symptoms of the leader's decisions The Five Constraints that quietly cap growth: arrogance, ignorance, impatience, fear, and insecurity Why the team that gets you to $1M rarely gets you to $10M, let alone $100M A Navy SEAL's leadership principle: put people in place whose job is to "live in the dark place" for you The hidden ego trap of needing to be needed, and why "father energy" doesn't belong at work How tying every role to one "Most Important Number" on the P&L creates clarity and accountability Why waiting too long to make hard cuts is often the most expensive decision a founder makes EPISODE CHAPTERS: (00:00) Episode preview (01:07) Welcome & meet Rick Jordan (06:11) A $1.7M betrayal and the team that walked out (11:55) What your team will never understand about founder pressure (16:52) The Five Constraints: why business problems are really symptoms (21:14) The bad acquisition and waiting too long to cut (25:59) A Navy SEAL on people who "live in the dark place" for you (51:09) The $3M cost of firing too slowly (1:02:26) Leadership self-sabotage: needing to be needed (1:14:22) Six hires fired in 13 months, and the 45-minute fix (1:26:16) Rapid fire round If this episode hit home, follow the show and leave a quick rating and review. It's the single best way to help other leaders find these conversations. New episodes every Wednesday. FREE LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT: What's really holding your business back? In 8–12 minutes, the Integrated Leader Index reveals your primary constraint, your weakest business driver, and your Leadership Clarity Score. Take it free: https://stephenscoggins.com/leader-clarity-assessment-engine/ Watch the full episode on YouTube: @LionLambWithStephen Follow Stephen Scoggins: Website: https://stephenscoggins.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephen_scoggins TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stephen_scoggins Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephenscoggins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenscoggins Connect with Rick Jordan: Website: https://www.rickjordan.tv/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrrickjordan/  Situational Ethics (book): https://www.amazon.com/Situational-Ethics-What-Would-You/dp/0692152407?ref_=ast_author_mpb 

You can have the house, the car, the trophies and the stage, and still be stuck asking, "And then what?" Performance coach Tanya C. Oliver hit that question at rock bottom, and her answer wasn't to rebuild her old life. It was to build something completely new. Tanya is a performance coach for Kingdom entrepreneurs with more than 20 years teaching high achievers emotional intelligence, high-performance habits and leadership. She's also the author of Building the New. In this conversation, she and Stephen get honest about why successful people keep repeating the same patterns, how to stop making decisions from dysregulation, and what it takes to build an identity rooted in Christ instead of outcomes. In this episode, you'll learn: - Why rebuilding your old life keeps you stuck, and how to build new from ground zero - The 3-part framework for transforming any area of your life: be honest, get curious, seek solutions - The difference between a goal and a vision, and why clarity only comes when you move - A 4-part framework for regulating your emotions before you execute - Why procrastination isn't laziness, and what's really driving it - How your values and standards act as bodyguards against counterfeits in business and relationships Chapters: (00:00) Intro & Welcome (04:13) Building the New: Rock Bottom & Going All In (09:44) Honest Inventory: The 3-Part Framework (15:49) Success for Who? Life Before Going All In (21:23) Goals vs. Visions (25:44) Procrastination, Pressure & Refinement (31:27) Regulation Before Execution: The 4-Part Framework (37:46) Fear vs. Love: Healing the Root (49:13) Inner Child Work & Forgiving Yourself (1:01:02) "A Daughter of the King" & Stewarding Self (1:15:06) Your Standards Are Your Bodyguards (1:22:08) Rapid Fire Connect with Tanya C. Oliver: Building the New: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1966152574?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tanyacoliver/ Take the Aligned Leader Index: https://stephenscoggins.com/leader-clarity-assessment-engine/ Connect with Stephen Scoggins: Website: https://stephenscoggins.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephen_scoggins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenscoggins Watch on YouTube: @LionLambWithStephen If this episode helped you, follow the show and leave a rating or review. It's the best way to help another leader find this conversation.

Remy Davenport has generated 850 million views for his clients, and he still turns founders away. His reason: a platform only amplifies what's already inside you, and he won't put a megaphone on dysfunction. Stephen Scoggins sits down with Remy, a content strategist who builds platforms for faith-led founders, to explore one of the hardest questions in leadership: when are you ready to be seen, and when is God still building you in the hidden season? Remy opens up about shutting down two businesses at the same time with no income, no savings, and a baby on the way. He also shares the co-founder fallout that taught him what dysfunction really costs. Stephen reveals the one line that redefined his entire message: you can't scale dysfunction. In this episode: - Why your platform will only amplify what's already inside you - The Gandhi sugar story and what real credibility looks like - Why imposter syndrome can mean you're teaching what you haven't lived - How Remy's clients create 36 pieces of content in 3 hours - How the algorithm actually works now, and how to reach your real followers - Why "who you're becoming" matters more to God than what you're building This is the Lion and Lamb methodology in action: the boldness to build a platform, paired with the humility to let God build you first. Chapters: 00:00 Intro & Welcome 03:46 The Power of a Voice 08:06 The Parable of the Talents & Stewardship 17:53 Credibility & Imposter Syndrome 26:41 You Can't Scale Dysfunction 32:46 Who You're Becoming 36:28 Shutting Down Two Businesses 49:59 Smart Sessions 55:03 How the Algorithm Works Now 1:01:03 Alignment Before Acceleration 1:14:32 Lion or Lamb: Remy's Biggest Struggle If this episode spoke to you, follow the show and leave a 5-star rating and review. Every few weeks we pick a reviewer to bless. Share it with a leader who needs to hear it. Connect with Stephen: Website: https://stephenscoggins.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephen_scoggins YouTube: @LionLambWithStephen Connect with Remy Davenport: Instagram Coaching Program Waitlist