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 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...
Season 2 / Episode 002: 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...
Season 2 / Episode 001: Mike Mauti and Mike Zordich
Episode Summary: Mike Mauti and Mike Zordich Saving Penn State Football Before Penn State’s 2012 football season, Jerry Sandusky was arrested, Joe...
Episode 016: 2021 Review
Episode Summary: 2021 Review This week I take a few minutes to look back at the Let Them Lead Podcast's first year: the idea behind the podcast, some of the...
Episode 015: Howdy and Howard Holmes
Episode Summary: Howdy and Howard Holmes Started in 1887 in Chelsea, Michigan, just outside of Ann Arbor, Chelsea Milling was pretty run-of-the-mill...
Episode 014: Bev Plocki
Episode Summary: Bev Plocki Bev Plocki, born and raised in Pennsylvania steel country, earned All-American status in gymnastics at Alabama and West Virginia,...
Episode 013: The Next Big Idea Book Club Book Bite
Episode Summary On this weeks episode we have a special treat. A few months ago, the people who created and run The Next Big Idea book...
Episode 012: Ron Warhurst
Episode Summary Ron Warhurst Ron Warhurst won two NCAA titles as a member of the Western Michigan cross-country team in the 1960s. He graduated in 1966,...
Episode 011: Steve Schram, Part 2
Episode Summary Steve Schram, Radio Leader Since 2006 Steve Schram has served as the Executive Director and General Manager of Michigan...
Episode 010: Steve Schram
Episode Summary Steve Schram, Radio Leader Our guest today is Steve Schram, the executive director and general manager of Michigan Radio, which has one million...
Episode 009: Greg Meyer
Episode Summary Greg Meyer, 1983 Boston Marathon champion; 5-time state champion coach In 1983, Greg Meyer won the world’s most famous race at the peak of the...
Episode 008: Red Berenson
Episode Summary Red Berenson, former NHL and University of Michigan player and coach At the ripe age of 18, Berenson had the courage to turn down the Montreal...
Episode 007: Anne Curzan
Episode Summary Anne Curzan Anne Curzan, the granddaughter of legendary Michigan State University president John Hannah, attended Yale, where she participated in...
Episode 006: Carol Hutchins
Episode Summary Carol Hutchins Entering her 38th season at the University of Michigan, Carol Hutchins is just six wins away from winning more games than any...
Episode 005: Tim Williams
Episode Summary Tim Williams To get to his current post, as Vice-President of a 250-store chain, Tim Williams beat the odds repeatedly. Born and raised in...