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Dr. Katharine Birbalsingh On School Discipline, The Reality Of High-Structure Education, And Why Structure Is Care

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Katharine Birbalsingh CBE is the founder and headmistress of Michaela Community School in Wembley, London. Widely known as "Britain's strictest headmistress," she champions a rigorous educational model centered on high behavioral standards, traditional discipline, and the philosophy that structure is a form of care. An Oxford graduate and former Chair of the UK government's Social Mobility Commission, she is a leading voice in education reform and the author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers.

Katharine Birbalsingh joined host Robert Glazer to talk on School Discipline, the Reality of High-Structure Education, and Why Structure is Care.

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Nov 3, 2026 1 hr 14 min

Weekend Conversations: Five Golden Rules of Networking

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On a this edition of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss key rules for networking professional business relationships. Robert shares the networking approach that has helped him build hundreds of valuable professional relationships and highlights five vital rules every networker needs to know.

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Oct 31, 2026 50 min

Elevate Classics: Dave Kerpen on How To Delegate

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Dave Kerpen is a serial entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Apprentice, which uses tailored social media campaigns to help companies reach a broader audience. He is also the New York Times Bestselling author of several books, including Likeable Social Media, The Art of People, and a new one on delegation, Get Over Yourself. Dave is also a world-renowned keynote speaker and has been featured in CNBC, NYT, and more.

Dave joined Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about the art of delegation, why leaders struggle to delegate, and how to overcome those challenges.

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Oct 29, 2026 44 min

Dr. Jean Twenge on 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World, Generational Shifts, and Navigating Smartphone Realities

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Dr. Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University and one of the country's leading researchers on generational differences and the impact of technology on kids. She has published more than 200 scientific articles and several bestselling books, including Generation Me, iGen, and Generations, Her 2017 Atlantic cover story, "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?", helped ignite the national conversation about smartphones and teen mental health. Her new book, 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World, is out now. She is also the mother of three teenage daughters.

Dr. Jean Twenge joined host Robert Glazer to talk about 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World, Generational Shifts, and Navigating Smartphone Realities.

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Oct 27, 2026 50 min

Weekend Conversations: Sharing Legos

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On a classic edition of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and co-host David Burkus discuss sharing Legos. They talk about why only a third of managers say they're good at delegating, the identity trap that makes leaders cling to work that's no longer theirs to do, the waterline concept for deciding what truly needs your hand on it, and why the goal of leadership is to make yourself replaceable, and why all of this makes you stand out.

Read the post referenced in this podcast:⁠ Sharing Legos (#558)⁠

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Oct 24, 2026 54 min

Bill Gallagher on Mastering the Art of High-Leverage Leadership

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Bill Gallagher is a veteran CEO coach who works with leaders and teams in more than 28 cities and 13 countries. He has over three decades of entrepreneurial and executive experience and has led four companies as CEO and owner. He's also the host of the Scaling Up Podcast, and on the side he's a surfer, sailor, skateboarder, pilot, scuba diver, and self-described recovering triathlete. His new book, Busy Is Broken, is now available wherever books are sold.

Bill joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss his entrepreneurial, executive experience and lessons learned from his journey working with leaders and teams

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Oct 22, 2026 51 min

Lenore Skenazy On Childhood Independence, How Fear Spreads, And Why Free-Range Is Not Neglect

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Lenore Skenazy⁠ is the president and co-founder of ⁠Let Grow⁠, the nonprofit she started with Jonathan Haidt, Peter Gray, and Daniel Shuchman to make childhood independence easy, normal, and legal again. In 2008, she let her 9-year-old son ride the New York City subway home alone, wrote a column about it, and was promptly dubbed "America's Worst Mom" by the national media. She turned that firestorm into Free-Range Kids, the book and blog that launched a movement. A former New York Daily News columnist whose writing has appeared everywhere from NPR to Mad Magazine, her 2025 TED talk, "Why You Should Spend Less Time with Your Kids," was named to TED's list of the ten essential talks of the year, and her work has helped pass childhood independence laws in more than a dozen states. The second edition of Free-Range Kids, subtitled How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow, is out now.

Lenore Skenazy joined host Robert Glazer to talk on Childhood Independence, How Fear Spreads, and Why Free-Range Is Not Neglect.

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Oct 20, 2026 1 hr 7 min

Weekend Conversations: Beautiful Ones

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On a classic edition of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and Joey Coleman discuss the beautiful ones. They talk about a 1968 mouse utopia experiment that collapsed despite having every need m:et, why removing every hardship also removes the reason to show up, and where comfort may have quietly replaced challenge in our own lives, and why all of this makes you stand out.

Read the post referenced in this podcast:Beautiful Ones (#556)

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Oct 17, 2026 59 min

Elevate Classics: Annie Duke On Thinking In Bets, Quitting, And More

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Annie Duke is an author, speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners. Annie’s is the bestselling author of multiple books, most notably Thinking In Bets and Quit. Annie was previously a championship winning poker player, having amassed over $4 million in tournament winnings, won a World Series of Poker Bracelet, and having won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. As if that wasn’t enough, Annie also completed her PhD in Cognitive Psychology at UPenn in 2023.

In this classic episode, Annie joined host Robert Glazer on ⁠⁠the Elevate Podcast⁠⁠ to discuss learnings from her poker career, how to think in bets, and the importance of knowing when to quit.

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Oct 15, 2026 1 hr 5 min

Molly Graham on Scaling Through Chaos, the Line Between Strong Culture and a Cult, and Why Delegation Is an Identity Problem

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Molly Graham⁠ has spent nearly two decades inside companies during their fastest and messiest years of growth. She started at the Council on Foreign Relations and as a wilderness instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School before moving into technology, where her team at Google went from 25 people to 125 in nine months. She then spent nearly five years at Facebook building the culture, compensation, and performance systems that carried it from 500 employees to 5,500, was COO of Quip, the productivity startup that sold to Salesforce for $750 million, and ran operations at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2015, she wrote "Give Away Your Legos" for First Round Review, which handed the technology industry its standard metaphor for scaling. Molly now runs Glue Club, writes the Substack Lessons, and in April took over as host of TED's WorkLife from Adam Grant.

Molly Graham joined host Robert Glazer to talk on Scaling Through Chaos, the Line Between Strong Culture and a Cult, and Why Delegation Is an Identity Problem.

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Oct 13, 2026 59 min

Weekend Conversations Classic: Responding To Hate with Empathy and Understanding

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On a classic episode of Weekend Conversations on ⁠⁠the Elevate Podcast⁠⁠, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss a unique approach to countering harmful and hateful beliefs, championed by educator and author Irshad Manji. Robert and Mick dig into why arguing with people we disagree with doesn't work, and why it's much more effective to seek understanding--even when it feels impossible.

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Oct 10, 2026 42 min

Elevate Classics: Mike Michalowicz Makes Business Simple

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Mike Michalowicz⁠⁠ was declared as one of the contenders for patron saint of entrepreneurs by Simon Sinek. He is a serial entrepreneur who started several multi-million-dollar companies and uses his businesses to test and perfect ideas other entrepreneurs can use to excel. He is the author of the bestselling Entrepreneurship Simplified book series, which includes hits like Profit First, Clockwork, Get Different, and his latest, ⁠⁠All In⁠⁠.

In this classic episode, Mike joined host Robert Glazer on ⁠⁠the Elevate Podcast⁠⁠ to talk about building high-performing, loyal teams, finding profitability, simplifying entrepreneurship, and much more.

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Oct 8, 2026 51 min

Dr. Aliza Pressman on The 5 Principles of Parenting, Emotional Regulation, and Why "Good Enough" is Good Enough

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Dr. Aliza Pressman, a developmental psychologist, Associate Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai, co-founding director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Dr. Pressman is also the host of the award-winning Raising Good Humans podcast, and author of the New York Times bestselling book The 5 Principles of Parenting.

Dr. Aliza Pressman joins host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss The 5 Principles of Parenting, Emotional Regulation, and Why "Good Enough" is Good Enough.

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Oct 6, 2026 50 min

Weekend Conversations: Be Bored

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On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and co-host Joey Coleman discuss being bored. They talk about why we reach for distraction over discomfort, what System 1 and System 2 thinking have to do with your phone habit, and why your best ideas show up when you let yourself be bored, and why all of this makes you stand out.

Read the post referenced in this podcast: ⁠⁠⁠Friday Forward – Be Bored (546)

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Oct 3, 2026 1 hr 8 min

Taki Moore on Escaping the Time-for-Money Trap and Scaling Your Coaching Business

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Taki Moore is the author of Million Dollar Coach and the creator and is the brains behind some of the largest coaches and coaching organizations in the world. Since 2004, he's on a mission to eliminate cold-calling, ambulance-chasing, and high-pressure selling from the coaching industry, and elevate coaches who actually want to help people get better.

Taki Moore joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss his journey on transforming the coaching industry, lessons learned form scaling coaching businesses and the stages of building a million-dollar practice.

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Oct 1, 2026 51 min

Jill Schulman on The Bravery Effect

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Jill Schulman is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer turned leadership development expert, and the founder and CEO of Breakthrough Leadership Group. After five years on active duty as a combat engineer officer and a decade in sales leadership, she earned her Master's from the University of Pennsylvania and turned her career toward studying the science of bravery, resilience, and peak performance. She works with Fortune 500 leadership teams, is the co-founder of IGnITE Innovation, and is the author of The Bravery Effect: A Parable Teaching the Science of Conquering Fear, Achieving More, and Living Life to the Fullest.

Jill joined Robert to talk about her military leadership career, The Bravery Effect, and much more

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Sep 29, 2026 1 hr 7 min

Weekend Conversations: Closing Doors

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On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and co-host Brittany Hodak discuss closing doors. They talk about the two ways doors close (on you, or by your choice), why the hardest door to close is the one that still works, how to tell whether you're staying out of persistence or out of fear, and how endings make room for what comes next, and why all of this makes you stand out.

Read the post referenced in this podcast: ⁠⁠Friday Forward – Closing Doors (#548)⁠

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Sep 26, 2026 1 hr 1 min

Elevate Classics: Charles Duhigg on Habit Formation, Communication, and more

Episode 722

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Charles Duhigg⁠⁠ is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the bestselling author of three books: The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and his latest, Supercommunicators, which was published this year. Charles is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards, and he currently writes for The New Yorker and several other publications.

On this classic episode, Charles joined host Robert Glazer on ⁠⁠the Elevate Podcast⁠⁠ to talk about habit formation, how to become an excellent communicator, and much more.

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Sep 24, 2026 43 min

Jess Ekstrom on Finding Passion and Intrinsic Motivation

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Jess Ekstrom is a social entrepreneur, Forbes Top-Rated Speaker, and bestselling author. She is the founder of Headbands for Hope company that has now donated millions of headbands to kids facing serious illnesses, partnered with the NBA and WNBA, and is sold nationally at Kohl's. She's also the founder of Mic Drop Workshop, which helps more women become paid public speakers and authors, and she's delivered keynotes for organizations including Netflix, Canva, Zappos, Edward Jones, and Chick-fil-A. She’s also the bestselling author of Chasing the Bright Side, and a new book, Making It Without Losing It, which is out now.

Jess joined host Robert Glazer to talk about her entrepreneurial career, positivity, intrinsic motivation and more.

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Sep 22, 2026 59 min

Weekend Conversations: Beyond Reproach

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On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer joins David Burkus, organizational psychologist, Columbia University professor, and bestselling author of five books on business and leadership, who has worked with leaders at organizations like PepsiCo, Fidelity, Adobe, and NASA.

They dig into the fall of Jason Arday, the celebrated Cambridge professor whose story unraveled under fabrication allegations, and what it reveals about what happens when someone becomes "beyond reproach."

Read the post referenced in this podcast: ⁠ Friday Forward – Beyond Reproach (#549)

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Sep 19, 2026 1 hr 8 min

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