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 021: Barbara McQuade
Barbara McQuade Legal Expert, On Leadership Barbara L. McQuade, a journalist and Federal Prosecutor-turned University of Michigan Law professor and...
Season 2 / Episode 020: David Maraniss
David Maraniss Lombardi’s Biographer Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss, whose bestsellers include biographies of Bill Clinton, Roberto...
Season 2 / Episode 019: Clark Bunting
Clark Bunting Shark Week Creator Launched in 1988, “Shark Week” is the world’s longest running cable TV programming event, broadcast in 72 countries. Its creator,...
Season 2 / Episode 018: Two Leadership Failures | Northwestern and the NFL
Two Leadership Failures Northwestern and the NFL Two current leadership failures, one shocking, one not. Pat Fitzgerald’s Northwestern football...
Season 2 / Episode 017: The Mark Divine Show
The Mark Divine Show Former Navy Seal’s Podcast “I explore what it means to be fearless through the lens of the most inspirational, compassionate, and...
Season 2 / Episode 016: Pat Hughes
Pat Hughes On Bowman, Gretzky, and the AAPD Some people are lucky enough to have one interesting career. Pat Hughes had two: playing in the NHL for nine...
Season 2 / Episode 015: Chris Fragner and Pete Heeringa
Chris Fragner and Pete Heeringa Inspiring people to care Chris Fragner and Pete Heeringa were captains of the Ann Arbor Huron Hockey team...
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...
Episode 028: Dr. Steve Papadopoulos
Episode Summary: Steve Papadopoulos Steve Papadopoulos and his family moved constantly when he was a kid while his dad, a Greek immigrant, pursued his...
Episode 027: Mike Henry and Steve Beltran
Episode Summary: Mike Henry and Steve Beltran If you read LET THEM LEAD: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School Hockey Team, you...
Episode 026: Vic Strecher
Episode Summary: Vic Strecher Vic Strecher is a professor of public health at the University of Michigan, where he started Health Media in 1998, a pioneering,...
Episode 025: Rosalie Tocco-Bradley
Episode Summary: Rosalie Tocco-Bradley Rosalie Tocco-Bradley Is the Chief Clinical Officer of Trinity Health Michigan, which includes eight hospitals,...
Episode 024: Tom Grilk
Episode Summary: Tom Grilk After 11 very eventful years as the Executive Director of the Boston Athletic Association, which conducts the Boston Marathon, Tom Grilk...
Episode 023: Casey Cowell
Episode Summary: Casey Cowell Casey Cowell, son of a Detroit plumber, played goalie with the sons of Gordie Howe, and won a national title. He took that...
Episode 022: Ken Fischer
Episode Summary: Ken Fischer Longtime president of Michigan’s famed University Musical Society, Ken Fischer explains how this small town attracts world-class...
Episode 021: Tom Miller
Episode Summary: Tom Miller Tom Miller turned down Penn’s prestigious Wharton School of Business to join his high school girlfriend at the University of Michigan....
Episode 020: Jordan Wertlieb
Episode Summary: Jordan Wertlieb Hearst Television named Jordan Wertlieb president in 2013, leading 33 stations in 26 U.S. markets, plus digital properties,...
Episode 019: Jim Barahal
Episode Summary: Jim Barahal Jim Barahal’s first career would have been enough. After graduating from medical school he moved to Hawaii, started making house...
Episode 018: Scott DeRue
Episode Summary: Scott Derue Scott DeRue became the dean of Michigan’s Ross School of Business at the ripe age of 38, and pumped up revenue, research, and...
Episode 017: Bill Martin
Episode Summary: Bill Martin Our guest today is Bill Martin, who has worn more leadership hats than most. After being told by a high school teacher that he...