Let them Lead: Podcast
Season Two: 2023
After a strong Season One (thanks to our great guests and listeners!), we’re ready to launch Season Two of Let Them Lead: a podcast about the risks and rewards of leading today. We’ll have more great guests talking about their mentors, their hardest days, and their most satisfying triumphs leading in just about every endeavor imaginable, including sports, education, health care, business, law, politics – you name it. Some are famous and some are not, but all have done amazing work in their fields, and have lessons to teach us that we can apply to our work every day.
Season 2 / Episode 014: Doug Stanton
Doug Stanton The #1 Bestseller Defines Leadership After Tragedy NY Times #1 bestseller Doug Stanton talks In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of...
Season 2 / Episode 012: Jack Harbaugh
Episode Summary: Jack Harbaugh Mentors, Failures, and Championships Jack Harbaugh’s sons John and Jim are both highly successful coaches, but their father managed...
Season 2 / Episode 011: Kevin Dean
Episode Summary: Kevin Dean AP student, NHL Coach When they first met, Bacon was a 22-year old assistant coach and Kevin Dean was the 17-year...
Season 2 / Episode 011: AJ Harbinger and Johnny Dzubak
Episode Summary: AJ Harbinger and Johnny Dzubak The Art of Charm AJ Harbinger and Johnny Dzubak host the immensely popular Art of Charm podcast. Years...
Season 2 / Episode 010: Joe Battista
Episode Summary: Joe Battista Dream big, keep it real, and make a plan Joe Battista led Penn State hockey to 6 ACHA national titles, then helped...
Season 2 / Episode 009: Leading Ourselves
Episode Summary: Leading Ourselves Anyone Can Run a Marathon On LET THEM LEAD, we talk about leading others. But what about leading ourselves? In 2020,...
Season 2 / Episode 008: Mark Grisdale
Episode Summary: Mark Grisdale Creating a New High School A native of Cheboygan, MI, Mark Grisdale recalls his football coach, Irv Sigler,...
Season 2 / Episode 007: Christopher Taylor, Mayor of Ann Arbor
Episode Summary: Christopher Taylor Mayor of Ann Arbor The risks and rewards of leading a local...
Season 2 / Episode 006: James Tobin, FDR Biographer
Episode Summary: James Tobin FDR Biographer When Franklin Roosevelt contracted polio at 38, his career seemed over. 12 years later he was elected president --...
Season 2 / Episode 005: David Meltzer
Episode Summary: David Meltzer The Real Jerry Maguire If you’ve seen Jerry Maguire, you know David Meltzer’s story – or part of it. The inspiration for the...
Season 2 / Episode 004: Fred Crawford
Episode Summary: Fred Crawford Turnaround Specialist Fred Crawford played for the MSU basketball program in the mid ‘80s, but wisely decided to focus on school....
Season 2 / Episode 003: Mike Mauti and Mike Zordich
Episode Summary: Mike Mauti and Mike Zordich Saving Penn State Football - Part 3 In Part III, the final episode of this interview, Mauti and Zordich tell the story...
Episode 040: Joe Parker
Episode Summary: Mike Mauti and Mike Zordich Saving Penn State Football Before Penn State’s 2012 football season, Jerry Sandusky was arrested, Joe Paterno...
Episode 039: Paul Helber
Episode Summary: Paul Helber This week, with the Helber family’s approval, we’re presenting my eulogy of their husband, father, and grandfather, Paul...
Episode 038: Brenda Ryan
Episode Summary: Brenda Ryan Brenda Ryan grew up in Detroit in the late 1960s, and took a big chance to enroll at Michigan Tech, sight unseen. She started a...
Episode 037: Amanda Macaluso
Episode Summary: Amanda Macaluso Almost three decades ago, Amanda Macaluso, from Australia, decided to work at Hayo-Went-Ha for Girls just for a...
Episode 036: Brad Black
Episode Summary: Brad Black Brad Black grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where he met people from across the country passing through their train station. He rose up...
Episode 035: MTU Commencement
Episode Summary: MTU Commencement Today's podcast is the commencement address I gave for Michigan Tech this spring. In it, I discuss what I call "the myth of...
Episode 034: Al Gallup
Episode Summary: Al Gallup Al Gallup, a 96-year old veteran of World War II, still bikes every day. A former assistant principal at Ann Arbor Huron and Dean of...
Episode 032: Rick Koubek
Episode Summary: Rick Koubek Richard Koubek grew up in Illinois and attended community college, but eventually rose to become department chair at Penn State,...
Episode 032: Dave Deluca
Episode Summary: Dave Deluca Dave Deluca never went to camp as a kid, but got hooked on it when he became a camp counselor in college. Now he’s spent four...
Episode 031: Brian Lawlor
Episode Summary: Brian Lawlor Brian Lawlor has been the president of local media for Scripps TV for ten years, which has grown from 10 stations to 61 nationwide...
Episode 030: Ron Alvesteffer
Episode Summary: Ron Alvesteffer By his own admission, Ron Alvesteffer is no computer whiz, but after he took over ServiceExpress, which provides data center...
Episode 029: Author Talk Interview
Episode Summary: Author Talk Interview A fun and lively 25-minute conversation with Fred Nahhat, Senior Vice President of Detroit PBS and a...