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Welcome to the Lighthouse Leadership Podcast, where host Evan Hickok unpacks the simple yet powerful frameworks that help managers become exceptional leaders and guide their teams to success. Drawing from real-world experiences, hard-learned lessons, and proven strategies, this podcast explores the hidden factors that cause team underperformance — misalignment, broken processes, psychological danger, and lack of cohesion — and offers actionable solutions to fix them.
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Why Feeling Like a Fraud Means You’re Growing as a Leader
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Host Evan Hickok explores the “valley of despair,” the grim dip on the Dunning–Kruger curve where confidence plummets just as competence begins to climb. Drawing on stories from Natalie Portman, Albert Einstein, Tom Hanks, and his own career pivots, Evan shows new managers how that anxious “I don’t belong” feeling signals real growth. He maps the r…
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Why So Many Projects and Managers Fail — And How to Fix It
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Welcome to the first episode of the Lighthouse Leadership Podcast! In this powerful kickoff, Evan Hickok shares the personal journey that inspired the creation of this podcast—a failed team turnaround that left him wondering: What makes some teams thrive while others fall apart? Diving into eye-opening statistics, Evan highlights the staggering fai…
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Turning Hidden Problems into Visible Solutions: Avoiding Costly Mistakes
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In this episode of the Lighthouse Leadership Podcast, Evan Hickok shares a cautionary tale from early in his career, highlighting how a seemingly insignificant $1 oversight escalated into a costly $90,000 issue. Evan unpacks critical lessons on the importance of effective issue tracking, clear alignment within teams, and the shift from individual e…
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