Leadership Identity: Lead Yourself to Lead Others – Stedman Graham’s Plan for Success, an interview with Stedman Graham and Joe Polish – Genius Network Episode #144

Episode Summary

Are you losing yourself amidst the crisis? Learn how to reclaim your identity to get re-centered, refocused, and back on track in today’s episode of the Genius Network Podcast. In this episode, Stedman Graham, a businessman, educator, speaker and author who has dedicated his life to teaching Identity Leadership, discusses how to stand true to yourself when you feel terrified or out of control. Stedman and Joe will also talk with Andre Norman, an ex-prisoner turned international speaker and Harvard fellow about the best ways to maximize our “solitary confinement” in quarantine.

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Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Stedman and Joe in this episode: 

  • The key to becoming relevant in the 21st century (and the #1 value to have)
  • Questions to ask when a crisis makes you question your identity
  • How to escape the control of the outside world so you can grow and build yourself
  • Lessons Stedman learned working as a guard in the Chicago prison system
  • How Stedman uses his thinking to deal with emotional pain and angst
  • The biggest life mistake Stedman sees people make (and how to avoid it)
  • What to do when you feel scared, terrified, and/or out of control
  • The importance of having a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset
  • Crucial advice for becoming healthier and more successful during a crisis
  • A way to stop worrying, stop freaking out and take your life back
  • The top 3 priorities in Stedman’s life (PLUS: His most important relationship advice)
  • How to use a Community Model and technology to distribute your message
  • Stedman talks about why he admires and works with Andre Norman
  • Self-Mastery: What it means to lead yourself so you can lead others
  • How Stedman makes clear, confident decisions without the complexity
  • Surviving Solitary: Andre’s prison-tested COVID-19 quarantine advice
  • Overwhelmed? Afraid? Suicidal? Stedman shares his best advice…
  • How to use “Small Steps” to transform adversities into breakthroughs

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Show Notes

  • Stedman teaches people how to create a life around themselves so they can design their own future. 
  • He shares his upbringing; he grew up with low self-esteem, anger, and rage –  and with two special needs brothers. 
  • Basketball was his way out, then he started his journey to find himself. 
  • He realized that he needed to transform anger to love – the world is not designed to help us self-actualize our potential. 
  • Transform your life based on passion, purpose, skills, talents, and what you love – don’t let the outside world define you. 
  • The educational system is outdated – we need to learn how to apply information, not just be told what to do. 
  • Patience, empathy, and human behavior are what Stedman learned as a prison guard – he also learned a lot about himself. 
  • Love is the common denominator – he helps people find love in their life. 
  • Stedman deals with pain and angst by activating thought reversal towards love, humility, and gratitude. 
  • When you can control your thoughts and feelings, you can control your actions. 
  • You need to reprogram your conscious and unconscious thinking through awareness.
  • You need an identity and a vision of who you can be. 
  • Andre Norman transformed his life, started a business, and talks about who he was and who he is now. 
  • His book Identity Leadership: If you don’t know who you are and you don’t know your purpose, you can’t grow or expect others to follow you. 
  • Andre Norman is the founder of The Academy of Hope. 
  • When you’re clear on who you are, you can eliminate whatever isn’t relevant to get you where you need to go.
  • When you’re thrown out of your lane, you need to know what you’re willing to die for, work on, and do that will make you happy. 
  • Think, organize, develop, create, and build a system that is adaptable to the times. 
  • Use adversity to your advantage by eliminating limiting beliefs and seeing it as a positive.
  • Prepare for success – it’s all preparation. 
  • Write things down, create a schedule for everything, try the 9-word email, and try webinars. 
  • The process of success is the same for everyone – organize your life and make it relevant to what you love. 
  • People who don’t get where they want to go don’t have a clear purpose or identity. 
  • Stedman’s priorities: Improving himself, improving his relationship, and helping the family. 
  • The #1 reason for his successful relationship: He works on himself and his identity. 
  • If you let others define you, they will always define you as less than themselves.  
  • Break everything down to small, manageable steps to overcome fear and procrastination one day at a time. 
  • You need to stand for something that becomes who you are and your purpose. 
  • You can only have one feeling and one thought at a time – so make it love. 
  • Create action steps, make a process, and structure everything around you to make things possible. 
  • Community models are able to be repurposed and disseminated. 
  • Lead by example; you can’t change others, only they can choose to grow themselves.

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