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Send us a text “To Every Mother Whose Child Only Knows Half the Story.” New York Times bestselling author Attica Locke’s newest novel Guide Me Home is the final installment in the trilogy of books that have followed the life and career of our hero Darren Mathews. A black Texas Ranger committed to bringing the guilty to justice no matter how high they may sit, whose world is an entanglement defined by strong family traditions and an alcoholic mother who has sold him out to his enemies. With this story of unexpected turns, surprising unholy alliances, and a race to find a missing black girl who may already be dead, Attica shines a light on the mysteries and shrouded nature of motherhood. With the waning days of the Trump administration as its backdrop, Attica excavates where the secrets lie, what stories have been told and left untold between Darren and Bell, and asks a profound question – do our mothers deserve grace and maybe love even in the fractures of the unknown? As Attica herself says, this is a story that she could only have written now because of where she is in her own life today. In the in between place. Sending her own daughter off to college this year and all the emotions that come with this process. Also, having a deeper understanding and grace for her own mom – once seen through a glass darkly, now known. Attica’s final destination is suggested in the dedication of the book. For every mother whose child knows only half the story. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Quentin Vennie: Why Didn't God Intervene to Save My Son's Life? 40:29

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Send us a text The Forsaken. Quentin Vennie , Co-Founder of Equitea Co ., wrote a searing memoir, Strong in the Broken Places . A raw story of his life growing up in the inner city of Baltimore, MD where he faced food deserts, a complicated relationship with his father who was in and out of jail, and his own addiction and multiple suicide attempts. His unexpected path out of the darkness of his life through yoga, meditation, juicing and his mom's support is a blueprint for us all as we face the mountains and the valleys that are part of living. Since our first interview three years ago, Quentin has had to face any parent's worst nightmare - the death of his 17 year old son Christian from accidentally ingesting fentanyl. In real time, Quentin is facing questions about the changeable nature of grief, anger and forgiveness. And his biggest question - Why didn't God intervene to save his son's life? At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Yogi Aaron: Who are You Underneath it All? 45:53

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Send us a text Who are You Underneath it All? Yogi Aaron has lived the life of a disruptor and a warrior. From starting a nude yoga movement that was underground sensation in New York and Los angles, to surviving an accident on the Himalayan mountains that left him with a femur broken in two, to today challenging our firmly held beliefs about stretching and drawing our attention to the hazards he believes it can cause to our bodies (his own story around how stretching impacted his body is harrowing) – Aaron is constantly asking us to pause and question our beliefs about what we think we know. And to strip away the convenient stories we tell ourselves so that we can get to get to the heart of who we truly are. Controversial? Absolutely. Funny? He’s known for his laugh. Underneath it all is his ask that we learn to confront ourselves. Because when we can do that, we have to start dealing with the person we find once the layers are stripped away. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Seana Kofoed: When Someone Tells You “No,” Create Your Own “Yes.” 44:01

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Send us a text Love the Flaws and Uncertainties of Life. There is theme that quickly emerges from my conversation with Seana Kofoed . If you want something in your life, you can’t sit around waiting for someone to recognize your worth. Go out and create it for yourself. And in the pursuit of creating that something that can sometimes be elusive, you can’t be afraid of failure. Because the failure is the byproduct of actually doing the work; sometimes you fall. Now you start to understand why a little girl who wasn’t always encouraged to be an actor has starred in two Broadway shows alongside Matthew Broderick ( Night Must Fall ) and Jennifer Jason Leigh ( Proof ). Been nominated for the prestigious Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a play, starred in multiple television series - including her latest role as Commander Chase on NCIS Hawaii – and started her own production company Film Camp Productions, that has produced the two feature films 30 Miles From Nowhere and Clearmind . And if a thriving career wasn’t enough, Seana says that raising her two kids is the most important role she has. Looking at the broadness of her life today, Seana says “I’ve reached a point where I’ve learned to love the flaws and the uncertainties of life. I’ve been surprised by not needing to cling so tightly to what I thought I wanted for myself and my trajectory.” At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Kim Watson: The Homeless Want to be Seen and Heard. To Have Their Existence Matter. 44:46

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Send us a text Art is Beautiful Even When it Depicts Ugliness and Strife. Kim Watson is an artist, photographer and an author. He views his work as having the potential to be a catalyst for change. In his newly released book and forthcoming documentary Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love and Understanding , Kim gives us an intimate view of what life is like for the homeless people living on the streets of Los Angeles. The stories are sometimes brutal. People are not always rescued from their bleak circumstances. With his stunning photography and precise storytelling, Kim helps us see the full humanity of people we often want to turn away from on the streets of our cities. He tells us the story of a young girl who lives in a car with her parents as they move from that car to motels rooms and back to the car again. He tells the story of a once famous jazz musician who has found himself on the streets, but the music still burns within his soul. He tells the story of a disabled, wheelchair-bound young woman who does crystal meth to stay up at night so she will not be attacked when she sleeps. And she is pregnant. Somehow with his lens and his pen, he elevates these people in such a way that we can see our own humanity through their sufferings, their triumphs, their memories. Admittedly, with complication, Trespass is beautiful. And that is as Kim intended it to be. He says that one of the things about doing the book, is that he wanted it to be beautiful because he wanted us to see the beauty in the art. Because that leads us to see the beauty in the person. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Nick Prefontaine: Will I Walk Again? How I Rebuilt My Life one S.T.E.P. at a Time. 43:02

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Send us a text Nick Prefontaine survived the unthinkable. A snowboarding accident at the age of 14 where he landed on his head, with only a pair of thick goggles protecting his skull as a he was flung down the mountain. In a coma for almost a month, even the doctors said the prognosis was grim. When he finally awoke, he had to learn to walk, talk, and even swallow again. How he survived and rebuilt his life one small step at a time, is miraculous. What he did with his life after that, is a testament to the power of the human spirit, and what a person can do with the support of his family, and the inner spirit and strength to overcome all the obstacles life puts on his path. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Kate Miller: I’m Ready to Put My Pain Down In My Life. 44:21

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Send us a text Never Let a Closed Door Keep You Out. Kate Miller has had a prolific career as an actress – from starring on Broadway with Carol Burnett in Moon Over Buffalo , to working the soap opera scene in New York on One Life to Live , to working opposite Tom Selleck in CBS’s Blue Bloods, to her latest role as Amanda Shaw in Hightown , Kate has done it all. Not bad for a woman I met in her 20’s playing a rambunctious Tatiana in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a theater company performing on the streets of New York City. In an industry that is known for discarding women after a certain age, Kate did the impossible and reinvented herself and her career in her 40s – in Los Angeles! Despite the doors being closed to her. As she says no one in Hollywood was interested in her when she showed up to begin her television career in Hollywood Land. But she persisted and those doors eventually opened to her. Today, Kate is sanguine about those times she was wandering in the wilderness of an industry that worships at the altar of youth. Kate used those hard times and the down times that she faced, as a catalyst for huge growth and personal changes that she says were necessary. She got married. She bought a house. Made a posthumous peace with a mother with whom she had a complex relationship. All the stuff that grown people hopefully do – settle into their life. Learn a few lessons. Live. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Robyn-Vie-Carpenter-Brisco: The Life You’re Experiencing is the Life You Decide You’re Experiencing. 45:34

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Send us a text Live the Life You Want to Have. Be the Person You Want to Be. Robyn Vie-Carpenter-Brisco has a big name and has built a big life of many different existences. Author. Crystals and semi-precious stones expert. President of the Board of the History Museum in Baton Rouge. Self-proclaimed Goddess of Joy . Today, she is the founder of The Confidence Conference . A nonprofit organization that she is building to address the decline in young girls' confidence and belief in themselves (the numbers are worrisome). She says that this advocacy and passion is the one that will be with her for the rest of her life. More poetically she states that in her work today she is “making space for women and girls to understand that they are magnificent.” Robyn has lived an expansive and unexpected life, and she has lived it on her terms, because as she views it the life you are experiencing is the life you've decided to experience. Hers has been a life defined by love, gratitude and joy. She reminds us that if you are getting the gift of another day, you have the opportunity to create something new. You have the opportunity to live the life you want and be the person that you want to be. You can decide to love yourself in a way that is meaningful. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Luuk Melisse: I had to Let Go of the Limiting Belief that I was not Good Enough. 36:08

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Send us a text The Future of Wellness is Ugly. With the founding of Sanctum , Luuk Melisse has started a sound, dance and movement phenomenon that is being called a Nomadic Movement. At the core of the Sanctum experience is Luuk’s mission to help his followers (and himself) face head on those things that hinder our fullest expression of who we are: limiting self-doubt, the need for perfectionism, always having to look cool and be in control, and not wanting to face the parts of ourselves that may be unpretty. As Luuk says with potentially some controversy “the future of wellness is ugly.” It’s messy. It isn’t about getting it “right.” In the Sanctum experience which Luuk conceived because of the profound loneliness that people were experiencing during the pandemic, there are tears, there is laughter, there are people maybe even looking silly. People are coming together. There is freedom! What isn’t there is competition. There is no electronic board posting how many calories you are burning or how you are performing against the other people in the class with you. Luuk creates a safe and nurturing atmosphere for people to break free by pushing their bodies to almost physical exhaustion through what Luuk describes as a “holistic movement sequence rooted in kundalini yoga, martial arts, animalistic flow, breath work and primal fitness.” They can no longer resist but give in to the letting go. Enriching this journey for Luuk, is the fact that he is building this global movement alongside Gabriel, the man he calls his partner in life, crime, and business. With a dark, candlit space and a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, Luuk, Gabriel and their vibing followers are bouncing to a beat underpinned by music from the electronic music scene in Amsterdam to give themselves the space to move through the physical discomfort of intense physical movement into what Luuk describes as more peace and more headspace. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Delia McLinden: It's Time to Get Engaged in Your Life. 48:15

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Send us a text Getting Engaged in Your Life. Delia McLinden (founder of the lifesaving Archangel Animal Network and Vice President of the global skincare and body care brand Farmhouse Fresh ) poses a profound question for us – “When you take away your coping mechanisms. What then?” Her answer – “You realize there are a whole lot of other things [you have] to address.” For Delia it was consciously changing her relationship to alcohol. As she describes it, drinking had become a thought consuming and physically impacting crutch for her. Though she seemed to have it all together from outward appearances (she has not one, but two thriving careers, has a husband whom she works with, and is parenting a teenage son who just started driving!), inside, she wasn't well. Something had to change. That something was her drinking. We talk about her process of how she broke the cycle of drinking, her perspective on AA and the labels she chooses to apply to herself. We also tackle the big idea that if there is something in your life, in your world, in your neighborhood that you think needs to be fixed or changed or done over, then get off your duff and take action! No matter how small, you must do something, because engagement is the price of admission to this thing called life. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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John Adams: Don’t Feel Guilty About Your Mistakes. Be Better Because of Them. 52:31

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Send us a text Mistakes. Triumphs. And Celebrations. I met John Adams in 1996 through one of my closest friends Toby Poser (Season 1, Episode 12 ATP) who would soon become his wife. John, at that time, was an ex-model, and a punk rocker fronting his band called Banana Fish that performed in bars around Manhattan with John sporting a white g-string (pun definitely intended) – talk about a man unafraid of risks! He was also a cancer survivor. Prior to his diagnosis, he was one of the chosen few men who sat at the apex of the modeling world working with geniuses like John Varvatos, Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani. Naomi, Linda, Christy and Cindy were “fun and great to work with” as he recalls today. But when that lump appeared on his neck, and the doctors had to cut it out of him to biopsy it, he had to wait from that Thursday to Monday to find out whether he had a chance to live, or whether he was going to die. Today, he describes that waiting game as the hardest part. As he says, “Those days from the day they cut your tumor out 'til they day they tell you what you got, those days are the most terrifying of all. That's where you really gotta dig deep down into your heart and get through every second.” John survived the diagnosis and the devastating lows of chemotherapy. It ended his career. More than the physical havoc cancer visited on his body, it made him realize he wanted more from his life. And more he would get. A wife. Two beautiful kids. A spiraling drug addiction that almost upended everything, and a rising from the ashes that will inspire your soul. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Belgin Aksoy: Wellness is a Human Right and Responsibility. 43:25

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Send us a text Find Your Voice, Own Your Joy, Live in Balance. Belgin Aksoy has started a global movement for the health and wellness of the world. As a way to show gratitude for her own health and recovery journey, she founded Global Wellness Day in 2012 after her diagnosis and treatment for thyroid cancer. Since that time of her healing and the launch of Global Wellness Day, over one billion people in 170 countries have participated in Global Wellness Day activities. Her premise is quite simple: wellness is a human right - no matter your financial status or where you live. And it is also a responsibility - you have to do the things that allow yourself to be well. Among them are drink more water, take time to eat a meal with your family (whoever that may be), get exercise and perform acts of service for other people, and get rest. Very few things in this world can bring one billion people together in peace and harmony, but from her cancer diagnosis to her expression of gratitude for her healing, Belgin is living proof that it can be so. We can all come together for the good, and we can change our lives and our world by searching for spiritual , mental and emotional balance, finding and owning our voices, and finding and owning our joy. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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LeRoy McCain: Grappling with My Biracial Identity Has Been a Journey. 28:16

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Send us a text Grappling with My Biracial Identity. In this two-part episode of “At the Podium,” I sit down with LeRoy McClain. An award-winning actor who has distinguished himself On and Off Broadway, and in television shows such as And Just Like That (in the role of Andre Rashad Wallace) and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (in the role of Shy Baldwin ) and the feature film Respect (in the role of Cecil Franklin). In Part II Grappling with My Biracial Identity we examine LeRoy’s origin story and the man beneath the success. LeRoy and I look back at his time at our shared alma mater Yale Drama School which he refers to as one of the roughest, yet most important times of his life. We learn how he had to navigate the complexities of growing up a biracial child in England and Hawaii. And how the murder of George Floyd brought into LeRoy’s family life the contentious dialogue about race, responsibility and representation that was being fought for out on the streets of America in 2020. These questions of race and racial identity were inevitable, because, As LeRoy says, growing up he didn’t get to choose despite having a white, English mother because “As society views me… I am a black man.” In the midst of it all, LeRoy is still able to acknowledge how lucky and blessed his life has been. He graciously gives flowers to the people in his life and career who not only believed in him along the way but gave him the opportunities to be who is and to work (gifts from God to any actor or artist). At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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LeRoy McClain: The Career that Almost Wasn’t. From Poli-Sci to the Soundstages of Hollywood. 41:48

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Send us a text The Career that Almost Wasn’t. In this two-part episode of “At the Podium,” I sit down with LeRoy McClain . An award-winning actor who has distinguished himself On and Off Broadway, and in television shows such as the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That (in the role of Andre Rashad Wallace) and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (in the role of Shy Baldwin ) and the feature film Respect (in the role of Cecil Franklin). In Part I The Career that Almost Wasn’t we delve into the journey of his career and how he transitioned from his love of a life in the theater where he played such iconic roles as Hamlet in Hamlet , Cassius in The Public’s Othello with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jessica Chastain, and Walker Lee Jr. in A Raisin in the Sun to his burgeoning career in front of the camera. LeRoy also gives us a personal and touching view of his relationships with three major leading ladies in his career: Jennifer Hudson ( Respect ), Rachel Brosnahan ( The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ) and Karen Pittman ( And Just Like That ) – and what he learned from working with these three powerhouse artists. We also explore how the untimely death of his father made him consider giving up his acting career but was also the event in his life that freed him to experience some of the biggest successes in his career to date in television and film. And how one flippant comment impacted his view of himself and the trajectory of his career. During it all, LeRoy is still able to acknowledge how lucky and blessed his life has been. He graciously gives flowers to the people in his life and career who not only believed in him along the way but gave him the opportunities to be who is and to work (the real gift for any actor or artist). At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Charles Chen: You Can be in Your Greatest Challenge, and Still Cultivate Your Peace. 40:22

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Send us a text Charles Chen is a man on mission to bring wellness, healing, and clarity to the world. His platforms have been broad and far reaching – Dr. Oz Show and Good Morning America . His prayer is simple: “Use me. Use me wisely.” His life of service and transformation began with what he calls his surrender moment. When he was 15 years old and began to free himself from the mental and emotional prison of his childhood growing up as an immigrant in America. To face the shame of his emerging sexuality, and the unacknowledged and unreceived pain of the sexual trauma he experienced as a young boy, that lead him to becoming mute. To stop consuming mounds of junk food and French fries that led him to suffer from obesity. The surrender moment. When he hit rock bottom, and that pain became the catalyst that sparked change within him. When he moved from a life of numbness and standing stuck at closed doors – unaware of the opportunities to live that he simply could not see – to his life today where he can proclaim, “Don’t be scared. Live fully and be in the present.” Today, Charles boldly professes that we are all divine vessels, here to be used in service to other people by showing up as the highest versions of ourselves. Looking back, he does not regret his journey, because he says that for the divine to come through us and to use us, we must first be broken. Broken to be transformed. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Masha-Ann Donaldson: The Time is Now for Radical Transformation. 47:14

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Send us a text Marsha-Ann Donaldson is an advocate and mentor helping women find the courage to take up space in their lives and live with purpose and unspeakable joy. Her perspective, however, is not one shaped by a need for perfection. She says that we are all beautifully chipped and broken mosaic tiles, and those fractures are a part of life to be expected and indeed cherished. Through the fractures and brokenness, the muscles of our souls are strengthened and refined. It’s that brokenness and those fractures that spark the need for radical transformation in our lives. Not next week, not next month, not next year, but now! Today. Yet how do we take that leap of faith to begin the process of change? A lot of prayer and mindfulness. She says, “You have to reclaim your soul. You have to reclaim your life. It’s time to look internally and clean up the messes of our minds and our hearts.” And Marsha-Ann gives us resoundingly clear steps to start this spring cleaning of our beings. We have to take back the power of our voices that we have given away to other people and speak truth over our lives. We have to look at our lives through the lens of lessons learned and not regrets to be mourned over, because even the missteps are a part of the DNA of our lived experiences. And most importantly, if there are people, situations, behaviors in our lives that no longer serve us, we must let them go! How we accomplish these steps, and much more, is at the core of our conversation this week. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Kristy Whitford: Sometimes You Just Need to Ask the Hard Question. 47:14

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Send us a text Kristy Whitford has worked in spa and wellness for two decades, running some of the top spas in the world, including the Beverly Hills Hotel & Bungalows . Not bad for a woman who has faced homelessness, the lack of guidance from her parents in her life and had to fight for all she has achieved. In our conversation, Kristy (now the founder of the thriving hospitality and lifestyle brand The Hotel Club ) and I pull back the curtain to give you a peak into the financial complexities, the social power, and the reach of the modern spa industry. A multibillion-dollar industry that is driven by strong personal relationships, and the desire of those who work in this space to give each person coming through our doors a safe place to land. Along the way, Kristy reveals why she took a 1200-mile journey to Coeur d’Alene, ID, and how that car ride and the encounter she had there changed her life… forever. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Jakub Jozef Orlinski: Be Yourself and Believe in Your Journey. 39:50

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Send us a text You Have to Know the Power and Emotionality of Your Own Voice. “You cannot please everyone. So you just have to be your own self and believe in your journey and learn about yourself the most. You have to be strong," says internationally acclaimed operatic countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski . His singing career is ascendant. His performances have been heralded at the great opera houses of the world – including The Metropolitan Opera in New York , The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London , and The Theatre Des Champs-Elysees in Paris . His recitals from Chile to Poland, Germany to the United States are sold out. And his lyrical and emotionally impactful alto voice has earned Jakub the praise of the public AND the critics who have called him “angelic,” and a singer who is making the opera relatable and sexy. Behind the applause, he is a committed artist who recounts initially being rejected by top music programs globally, rejected for summer internships, and losing first round in competitive vocal competitions. He recalls of his beginnings, “There was constantly a fight for a place. Constantly.” What got him through those rough times and sustains him today in the unrelenting scrutiny of fame and success is focusing on the quality of the art he is making, believing in his journey, and owning and knowing his voice. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Regina Bain: Is Your Life Worthy of Being Remembered? 46:39

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Send us a text As we launch this third season of At the Podium , I am humbled and excited to share with you our new theme: Legacy . Thank you for joining me as we explore the tangible and intangible impacts we make in the spaces we occupy- our lives, our careers, our relationships, our loves, and our dreams. The guests in this season are spectacular, dynamic humans, each facing the successes and struggles of their lives to find a space where their talents and passions can shine, where their impact can be felt. I am honored to share this journey with them, and I am sure you will find their words, laughter, and humanity as uplifting as I have. Among and between these storytellers, scribes and superheroes is a serendipitous weaving of narratives and lessons learned. Live without judgment, and only seek the lessons and the blessings of life. If you want more from your life, it is found in the discomfort of risk taking; comfortability is not part of the recipe of a life well lived. Ask the hard questions, because you can survive the hard answers. As you create a way for yourself, remember those upon whose broad shoulders you stand, and create a path for others to come along and beside you. Representation matters. Our faces must be seen. Our voices must be heard. You owe no one an explanation for the choices you make. When life breaks you, it is creating a space for the light to come through and for the healing to begin. Today, we launch this new season with Regina Bain . If you are new to At the Podium , it has become a tradition to start each season with her wise words and friendship. For the many of you who have been with me on this exploration of humanity from the beginning, Regina once again brings the fullness of herself and her experiences to the ATP microphone. She does not disappoint! Since we last met with Regina, her work as the Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum and its support of the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies Program have taken her to Bahrain and Germany. Globally, she is spreading the legacy of Armstrong and his music as a function of his genius artistry and activism, but also as a function of diplomacy and statecraft. She is also contemplating the spaces she wants to create where her own artistic life can re-flourish. As she has built buildings and concepts and held space for others’ artistic expressions, she will now build and hold space for herself. Regina comes to us today with contemplative wisdom derived from intentional living and soul exploration. And she comes with provocative questions that she is asking us and herself. Is your life worthy of being remembered? Is your story worth being told? Are you ready to feel the bumps of life, press up against them and learn from them? Are you ready to search, to ask the questions, to find the answers? For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Kristen McGuiness: Searching for My Dad in the Haze of Crime, Addiction & Lost Time. 42:29

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Send us a text Kristen McGuiness is a successful author of books such as her memoir 51/50: The Magical Adventures of the Single Life and her debut novel, Live Through This . She has also founded her own publishing company called Rise Books where her mission is to publish what she describes as “radical works of inspiration.” Kristen is also the daughter of Dan McGuiness – one of the largest and most consequential marijuana smugglers of the 1970s and 1980s. She describes him as “one of the architects of the modern drug trade.” His story and their relationship she detailed in an article for Rolling Stone Magazine called, Learjets, Mistresses, and Bales of Weed: My Dad’s Life as Drug Kingpin. While TV and films often glamourize this existence, Kristen’s life was one of missing a father who existed for her solely in weekend phone calls from the prisons that tried to keep him under lock and key for decades – Dan escaped three times – and the letters he would send home. Her relationship to his story and to his business and how it impacted her life is complex. There are no heroic apologies from Dan to Kristen. He expresses no real remorse for the lives that might have been negatively impacted by his drug smuggling. Kristen herself at times speaks poignantly about how much her dad had her deep love and devotion, and the other times, she labels him a sociopath. There exists a hard truth that comes through in our conversation and in her writings of what it was like to love her dad so much, even as he loved equally, if not more, the rush he got from being addicted to crime - "the juice" as she describes it. Her views of her life and who Dan McGuniess was are both heartbreaking and provocative; there is not the neat and easy good guy/bad guy trope that we usually expect from this type of story. Mostly, we find ourselves at the tip of the needle, dancing on a point that pricks our feet while we stay as upright as we can, clinging to dear life. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Dr. Darian Parker: To Say "I Don't Know" is a Powerful Tool. 40:44

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Send us a text The Mind of an Athlete. Show Up and Do the Grunt Work. Here we are in February. How are those New Year’s Resolutions going for you? Fortune.com tells us that by the second Friday of January, most people have already missed the mark on their resolutions. It even has a name – “Quitter’s Day.” Dr. Darian Parker , the 2023 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year Recipient , is a multihyphenate entrepreneur, athlete, and a man of faith. And he is breaking open myths. On what it takes to be a Division-1 Student Athlete competing at elite levels (he was a sprinter at James Madison University). On the interior work he has to do to be a good father (as he says, “I’m always working on the inner me, so that I can help develop a better inner person for another person.”). On the reality that life is lived at its best and realest without guarantees or known outcomes but is founded on authentic love for our fellow human beings (as a professed man of faith, he is looking to love people authentically). And a question that I have pondered often – do we have to love our jobs, or is something different going on in respect to what we do versus who we are in our souls? Through his work with clients over the last two decades, Darian has learned that all we can rely on is our ability to build true relationships with one another and to make a commitment to show up every day even when the outcomes are unknown or don’t go our way. In his work as a personal trainer, he won’t promise his clients that they will get that long sought after six-pack or hit that number they are looking for on the scale. Oftentimes, those type of results are based on circumstances that only the client can control – the quality of their sleep, what they are actually eating, how are their personal relationships impacting their lives? Darian will guarantee that he will show up every day and be ready to face the challenge of working out alongside them. The bigger factor in the equation is will they show up for themselves. In a time when so many seek quick results and instant fame, IG likes and the social media viral moments, Darian believes that one’s life doesn’t bloom under the bright lights of fame, accolades, or ego. Instead, it is a nuanced dance performed in the powerful spaces of the admission “I don’t know.” It is facing, even removing what he calls the Friction Points in our lives. For Dr. Parker, the real champions show up daily and do the monotonous grunt work that is a major and essential part of what we call living. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Patrick Huey: Speaking the Truth Can Heal the Broken Places. Season Two Review. 38:06

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Send us a text In season two of At the Podium, the power of speaking and owning your truth came up in all the interviews of the show. As I asked each remarkable guest about their journeys to finding their own voices and what they wanted to say with the immense platforms they had, they all expressed the need to use their voices to help others, but also to speak truth over their own lives and lived experiences. Perhaps because we live in a time when the truth, when facts, when basic humanity are under threat, the ability to speak and own your truth becomes the ultimate commodity. What a privilege it is for us to speak our truths as a function of our humanity. It is a gift more precious than gold, because for so many of my guests, speaking the truth was the light that led the way to healing the broken places of their lives. And as they spoke their truths, the chains of shame, guilt, regrets fell away. When those stumbling blocks fall, reconciliation can begin. Acceptance can begin. Grace and forgiveness find a home. What a humbling and affirming experience it was for me to sit in fellowship with the incredible people who honored me, honored us with their time, their hearts, and their wisdom. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Chef Nina Curtis: Breaking Bread Together. A Vegan Chef's Journey to the White House. 49:48

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Send us a text Breaking Bread Together, Building Human Connections & Honoring the Ancestors. Nina Curtis is a world-renowned Vegan Chef. Her dishes have been savored on the palates of presidents and prime ministers, foreign dignitaries and political powerbrokers, and first grade students. Most recently she made history by becoming the first chef to prepare and serve an all plant-based meal at the White House’s State Dinner for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi . When we talk about what led her to a life and a career built on veganism, her somewhat improbable journeys merged on the Venice Beach bodybuilding scene. Where eating a plant-based diet helped her performance and recovery in competitions. But the seeds for her love of food, ingredients and the process of curating and preparing a meal were planted within her by her parents. Her father is a technically trained French Chef, and her mom (whom Nina describes as the best cook she knows), is a formidable cook in her own right. Chef Curtis’ ethos today in the kitchen isn’t ego-driven or based upon her celebrity chef status. Instead, her guiding forces are the examples of her father and her mother. And her ancestors. Those black men and women who came before her who did not have the platform, the access nor the reach that she enjoys today, but who took the worst of ingredients they had to make tremendous food for their survival. And more importantly, they used the ingredients of life and food to build a culture. It’s the ever-present voices of her parents and the legacies of her ancestors of whom she says, “I’m always working to be quiet enough to hear their whispers and their guidance.” And their whispers tell her to humbly do your work, keep your head down and use food to build ally-hood and brotherhood and sisterhood among people, among governments, among nations. And to remember that the seeds she plants today, will have reverberations for centuries to come. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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George M. Johnson: Black Boys Painting with All the Colors of the Rainbow. 50:18

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Send us a text Black Boys Painting with All the Colors of the Rainbow. The New York Times called George M. Johnson’s memoir and manifesto All Boys Aren’t Blue “An exuberant, unapologetic memoir infused with a deep but clear-eyed love for its subjects. Johnson lays bare the darkest moments of his life with wit and unflinching vulnerability.” It’s also a book that has been banned in 8 states and 29 school districts for being what its vocal critics call sexually explicit, pornographic and inappropriate for kids. It is a shocking story in many ways. George doesn’t shy away from the rough and unimaginable moments of their life: being molested by a family member at 12 years old and how that colored their views of trust and intimacy throughout their life. What it felt like to get their two front teeth knocked out in a street fight coming home from school and how that thwarted their ability to want to smile growing up. And what it was like to have their first consensual sexual encounters without the knowledge or preparation for what that meant physically and emotionally. So, the book is uncomfortable and unexpected for the reader at times. Does it cross over into pornography and inappropriateness? Definitely not. If people are so disturbed by the account of George’s life, imagine what George felt living through it. The book is a beautiful and a necessary story, because as George says in our conversation, “All boys aren’t blue because we’re not a monolith. None of us have the same spirit. We all have different struggles we will go through. We all have a different journey. We all have a different path. And trying to force us to all be the same, trying to force us to be blue impedes the path and impedes the purpose of a person’s life.” George paints different, nuanced possibilities for black boys, pulling us from the obscurity of self-erasure into a declarative existence. What does it look like if you get to define for yourself who you are? What if you have a family unit that values love for you above all else? What if you find love and brotherhood and companionship with other black men, as opposed to just fearing one another? What if you get to paint with all the colors of the rainbow, not just blue? At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Nora Zelevansky: Boys Will be Boys. The Sexual Assault of Jane Doe. 54:44

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Send us a text Author Nora Zelevansky and I have a nuanced conversation about Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland . A book that she and Nancy Schwartzman wrote based on Schwartzman’s documentary film about a tragic rape that happened in 2012 in Steubenville, OH. The crime gained national attention because it was the first assault broadcast on social media and changed our understanding of what going viral meant in the age of the internet 2.0. It blew the lid off what has been the country’s inability to grapple with our own complicity in creating a culture where young men casually assume the role of predator, and many young women are left to fend for themselves in harms’ way as friends, institutions and supposed trusted systems fail them. Nora and I delve into the intricate circumstances of the case: the concept of the perfect victim not being the perfect victim, how rigid gender roles contributed to the crime, and the phenomenon of slut-shaming. We ask the question is there a role for restorative justice in these cases and determined that if anyone’s child is to be safe, all children must be safe. And lastly, how do we break open the destructive “boys will be boys” mentality in our society that oftentimes rewards or excuses the idea that real manhood is rooted in dominating other people. It wasn’t an easy conversation, but a necessary one where we sought answers and understanding, not blame. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Zak Sandler: My Mental Condition is My Superpower. 49:54

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Send us a text Zak Sandler and I have a deeply personal and contemplative conversation about the struggles he has faced with his mental health and how he has managed to organize his life with a brain that functions in a different way. From his original diagnosis as bipolar while an undergraduate student at Yale University, to becoming a highly creative Broadway pianist for such shows as Wicked and The Color Purple, Zak has traveled the road from despair to acceptance and now to allowing his creativity to guide his response to his diagnosis. Zak will tell you that he does not have a mental illness or a disorder. For him that language implies there’s something about him that needs to be fixed. He chooses the phrase mental condition, because it indicates that his bipolar diagnosis is simply part of who he is. At core he is not broken. This distinction is how we move from shame to understanding and hopefully acceptance. That our differences, no matter how acute, are simply that - differences not deficiencies. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Adam "Smiley" Poswolsky: The Future of Work is Human Connection. 50:55

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Send us a text Work. Where Church and State Collide. “Should we attempt to foster meaningful, human connections and engagement in the workplace?” This is the core question of my conversation with author, keynote speaker and workplace belonging expert Smiley Poswolsky . Whatever our individual thoughts are on this question, the facts that Smiley lays out in his latest book Friendship in the Age of Loneliness and his Harvard Business Review article Gen Z Employees are Feeling Disconnected. Here’s How Employers Can Help. are quite startling and convincing. Our church and state views of work and home may not serve the emotional needs of not only the emerging workforce, but also those of us like myself, who have been a laborer for now three decades. Simply put - no one (or rather very few) are satisfied in the workplace. If you drill down into the numbers, 70% of workers are disengaged at work. And if they aren’t resigning and job hopping (the great resignation), they just show up and do as little as possible to get a paycheck (quiet quitting). The number I found even more alarming was that 20% of those who are disengaged at work are actively working to sabotage the business from within. The negative financial impacts of the state of the modern worker range into the multiples of billions on the modern economy. If you throw in the epidemic rates of loneliness that all generations are experiencing (61% of all adults in the US according to CIGNA), we have created the perfect storm for human burnout and emotional distress. The reality is that we spend a third of our lives at work and that is on the conservative side. As one moves up the corporate ladder, that percentage only increases. As the lines continue to blur between work and life, the dramas of our lives will continue to impact how we behave and what we do at work, and what we expect work to provide for us. The other unique feature of the modern workplace is that work is one of the few places where we still regularly interact with people who may not share our beliefs or values. We can thank technology, social media, and our highly separated and individualized social and political spheres for this phenomenon. If we aren’t making work a place where meaningful connections between people can happen, it does not bode well for the future of sharing within the great arena and marketplace of ideas outside of work. My conversation with Smiley in many ways isn’t about work, or the devastating financial implications of the epidemic disengagement of the workforce today. At core, our conversation is about what type of world do we want to live in; do we want a world of connection and engagement, or do we not? It’s a binary choice and it is that simple. Your perspective and views on this question impact everything in our society, from work to play, from church to school, from whom we choose to value to whom we choose to forget. It is the animating question of our time and our ongoing question about what good citizenship is. What good humanity is. The answers will either bring us closer together or further stoke the flames of division and misunderstanding. On a basic, fundamental level it comes back to the "house divided" principle: we stand together, or we fall together. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Taking A New Look at Jackie Bouvier Kennedy. 52:54

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Send us a text Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Renowned historian and author Carl Sferrazza Anthony has done the impossible. In his new book Camera Girl, The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy , he has told the usually forgotten and misunderstood origin story of a woman, who accurately described herself as the art director of the 20th Century. Indeed, much of the latter half of the 1900s saw a world obsessed with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, and intrigued by her as she became Jackie Onassis. Even 60 years after she left the White House as a widow, when I walked the Hapsburg’s Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, her name still hung in the air – like communion wine on the lips of the faithful. There, in the grand, baroque receiving room at the center of what was once one of Europe’s greatest palaces built to rival Versailles, the guide mentioned that we gawking tourists were standing in the same room where the Austrian government officials once received Mrs. Kennedy. But beyond the mythic images of her blood-stained pink suit from that day in Dallas in 1963, or the dark sunglasses that would become her signature look in the 1970s, was a woman who grew up and was fashioned the ultimate outside insider. A nation, and a world hung their dreams on a woman that did not exist. At least not in total. As Sferrazza Anthony uncovers in his latest work on this iconoclastic figure, she was the survivor of an abusive mother and an emotionally needy father. She was an eccentric soul who dreamed of writing bylines and headlines, not grabbing them for herself. She had a relentless, almost pathological drive to be her authentic self – individualistic. Though from the very beginning of her life, others tried corseting her into roles that she found sometimes useful, but hardly determinative or even all that interesting. In his latest book, Sferrazza Anthony dramatically captures her subversiveness, her incisive and self-deprecating wit, and her passion for the power of language and words that was sparked by her time studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and traveling throughout Europe. More than John Kennedy’s widow or being Jackie O., Sferrazza Anthony paints a portrait of woman who, like we the reader, was a multidimensional chameleon, and an ever-evolving human being. At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Jimmy T. Martin: On the Other Side of Pain is Growth, If You Let it Happen. 52:29

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Send us a text At the Edges of Jimmy’s Heart Jimmy T. Martin lost his first wife Linmarie to cancer. She was only 29 when she died, leaving him heartbroken, lost and his childhood faith and belief in God in shambles. What did remain was his commitment to the dream of a business called Brrrn . She said of his entrepreneurial endeavor as it was unfolding in the last months of her life that it was the proudest thing that he created that she wouldn’t live to see. And not soon after that statement, she was gone. It was with the help of his family, his friends, therapy, and his wry sense of humor, that Jimmy was slowly able to rebuild a life for himself, and with his business partner Johnny Adammic find a way to bring Brrrn to life, not once, but twice. As Covid-19 gripped the world, Jimmy and Johnny had to shutter their Brrrn Fitness Studio located in the Flatiron District in Manhattan. Another death for Jimmy to endure. This story, however, does have a happy ending. He finds new love with Rachel – his and Linmarie’s friend from their college years who eventually becomes his wife. He and Johnny transform their once in person studio into a thriving online fitness offering with the Brrrn Slide Board at its core. And there is even a son. Miles. A living, breathing embodiment of a life and a love that had to travel many distances to be found. Even his lost faith has been re-found as a belief in a higher power that calls him and Rachel to serve other people and believe in themselves. But there, at the edges of Jimmy’s heart, is also the wisdom of experience and loss that filters through his life that you cannot help but see, hear, and feel. It is there when he remembers Linmarie. It is there at the mention of the 23,000 people who will no longer walk through the doors of his and Johnny’s fitness studio. More than giving up and feeling sorry for himself, Jimmy leaves us with a compelling question that underpins our conversation and his life: What happens when you show up and start living your truth and navigate all that life is? Jimmy’s answers are quite profound. When you show up in truth you choose to be made better by the painful experiences, not to be consumed by them. When you navigate all that life is and will be, “You really find out who you are by the obstacles that you’re facing.” At the Podium Website At the Podium on IG Patrick on IG For more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com…

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Hugh Huffaker: Failure is Part of Success. So Keep Going. 38:15

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