Two Are Gathered Leadership Podcast

About

Always lead with integrity. Never lead alone. This is the podcast for leaders and those who should be leading. It's a powerful gathering of people of influence in the areas of business, community and faith.

Episodes

• TAG 169 - The Cure For Worry 2026-04-17

  As leaders of organizations there are so many things we seem to be in short supply of and it can be a daily struggle for us to try to acquire them. Cash, reliable people, and predictable outcomes. We're in a world of constant flux, with ev…

• TAG 168 - Winning At The Margins 2026-02-06

  No one gets into business wanting to lose. Everyone wants to win. You want to win, because that means you can actually stay in business. You can keep your doors open. You need to be profitable to win. This isn't earth shattering news. Most…

• TAG 167 - Making Difficult Decisions 2025-12-17

  One of the key areas that separates those who lead and those who follow is the ability and willingness to make difficult decisions. Many times you don't learn this, until it's decision time...and you see all of the heads turning...and look…

• TAG 166 - Overcoming The Difficulty Of Getting Started 2025-11-04

  As an entrepreneur, there are always obstacles in the road, things holding us back, making us swerve and risk heading off into a ditch. Much about being competitive in today's business is having the ability to steer away, to avoid running…

• TAG 165 - How To Build A Business 2025-09-12

  There are few things more exhilarating and frightening than building a business from scratch. Starting a business, keeping your doors open, battling the storms, and defending yourself constantly from your own delusion...is not easy. In fac…

• TAG 164 - The Joy Of Mentorship 2025-05-23

  If you examine the backstory of any successful leader, you'll discover they have their own list of "Most Valuable People" of sorts, and that's influencers in their lives who were always in their corner, who cared about them, and invested i…

• TAG 163 - This Too Shall Pass 2025-04-16

  One of the greatest traits a leader can have is their ability...just like a prize fighter...to take a hit. Because if you're going to take a leadership role, you're getting into the ring...and your opponents aren't going to be taking it ea…

• TAG 162 - Battening Down The Hatches 2025-02-12

  As leaders and entrepreneurs...we are all about growth. In fact, some would say we are obsessed with growing. We like to captain our ways to new revenue records and to reach new levels of profitability. That's natural for entrepreneurs, an…

• TAG 161 - That Strange Feeling Something Bad Is About To Happen 2024-10-08

  "I've got a strange feeling something bad is about to happen." Have you said to this yourself before? If you've been in leadership for any length of time, you've probably experienced this feeling many times throughout the course of your ca…

• TAG 160 - Leading Those Who Don't Appreciate You 2024-05-08

  In a perfect world, the people we lead would be highly skilled individuals with extraordinary work ethics, and with a strong appreciation for the opportunity they have. Sometimes, however, those you lead have some of those characteristics,…

• TAG 159 - The Well-Planned Leader 2024-02-22

  There are so many different essential traits of a gifted leader. Few are more important than planning. No one wants to get lost in their business or with their careers. Everyone in the building is going to be judging the leader by the qual…

• TAG 158 - Building Business Relationships 2023-11-21

  When it comes to being successful in business and life, it's all about relationships. Most elite leaders will tell you that developing a circle of trusted friends, colleagues, and partners is as important as any other task before them. How…

• TAG 157 - When There Are Way More Tasks Than Time 2023-09-05

  Have you ever started off a day or week by saying to yourself, "There is no way we're going to get everything done that we need to do?" If you're like most business owners, this experience occurs with too much frequency, and over time can…

• TAG 156 - Outlasting The Competition 2023-07-13

  Can you imagine what it would be like if you had no competition in your business? None at all. Theoretically, our company's offerings would be in high demand and we could negotiate in our favor with all of the leverage. The phones would be…

• TAG 155 - How To Win The Game Of Entrepreneurship 2023-06-09

  Many people decide to start a business with the idea that it's going to change their lives in so many marvelous ways. It will change your life alright. They got that part spot on. The truth is this is a high risk journey...being a business…

• TAG 154 - Leading After Experiencing A Crisis 2023-05-12

  In this special episode of the Two Are Gathered Leadership podcast we hear from Co-Host Jim Johnson only six weeks after his recent open heart surgery. After more than 50 years of being a hard charger in the business world he shares what h…

• TAG 153 - Leading When Things Are Out Of Your Control 2023-03-10

  There are few things leaders and entrepreneurs enjoy more than being in control. The truth is we never really are in control. It's one of the great leadership delusions. There are so many things well, well beyond our scope of control...suc…

• TAG 152 - Shining The Light On Stubbornness 2023-02-20

  If we're in leadership. If we're entrepreneurs. There is an excellent chance we're heard this phrase throughout our lifetimes: You are SO stubborn. What's interesting about the word stubbornness is that it's used both positively and pejora…

• TAG 151 - The Power Of Pruning In Leadership And Life 2023-01-26

  One thing virtually every leader and entrepreneur wants to do...is to grow. They want to experience interpersonal growth...intellectual growth...they want to grow their skillsets and those of their teams...they want to grow their network,…

• TAG 150 - How Future Proof Is Your Business 2022-12-17

  How future proof is your business? How well prepared are you for all of the things that could go wrong? This is one of the least enjoyable parts of being an entrepreneur. Going through all of the "What if's?" and having a strong response i…

• TAG 149 - The Leadership Health Check 2022-11-04

  When you get into a leadership role one of the first great challenges you'll have to face is realizing that things are much different than they are advertised. Yes...those dreams of leadership and entrepreneurship. That you'll be the capta…

• TAG 148 - The Less Glamorous Side Of Winning At Business 2022-10-17

  What is one of the most common questions a young entrepreneur will ask a much more experienced business owner? It's this: "When does all of this get easier? When does running a business get easy?" In many ways business does get easier when…

• TAG 147 - Driving Through The Leadership Fog 2022-09-15

  One thing about leaders and visionaries...we love to see what's far ahead and plan for the brightest of futures. It's about planning. It's about growth. It's about vision. Unfortunately, there are those times in the leader's voyage when th…

• TAG 146 - Keeping A Good Business From Going Bad 2022-08-04

  You have your favorite restaurant. One you've enjoyed for years. But...then something has changed. It's just not as good as it used to be. It happens with vendors we work with. You engage with them because of their amazing service and fair…

• TAG 145 - The Things We Shouldnt Say 2022-07-14

  As leaders, in order for us to be successful, we must be excellent communicators. This is something we need to grow in each and every day. And interestingly enough...as we develop our capabilities as a communicator...one of the things we n…

• TAG 144 - Advance Networking Techniques 2022-06-21

  When you hear the word "networking" it conjures up an image of a toothy salesperson in a suit, walking through a large gathering of prospects, reaching out a well groomed hand to offer a shake....while the other hand is slipping people bus…

• TAG 143 - The Seldom Celebrated Benefits Of Being A Business Owner 2022-05-18
• TAG 142 - The Virtues Of Patience 2022-04-21

  How many times have we heard this phrase: Patience is a virtue? Often it seems like we hear this every day. But, what does this phrase...this colloquialism...really mean when it comes to business? On one hand, you're hearing that in order…

• TAG 141 - Landing The Bigger Fish 2022-04-04

  There is a big difference between winning the lottery and winning in business. Yet, many entrepreneurs sometimes get these confused. So many want to hit the big time with their business, but many times in this pursuit they themselves get h…

• TAG 140 - Battling The Business Owner Blues 2022-03-03

  One of the dark secrets of entrepreneurism is that it's not all that it's made out to be. You're told that if you quit your job and start your own business, that you'll be able to choose your hours, be your own boss and the money will flow…

• TAG 139 - The Thin Line Between High Performance And Being Overwhelmed 2022-02-11

  Who goes into business wanting to be a so-so leader? No...as leaders and entrepreneurs...we want to be high performance! We want to go absolutely pedal to the metal, accelerating through the curves...the wind blowing through our hair and w…

• TAG 138 - Alls Well That Ends Well 2022-01-28

  As leaders of organizations, as entrepreneurs, as wild-eyed inventors...we as a people...love getting things started. The start of a new project. Winning a new client. Making new goals. We love great beginnings. This is exciting. Sadly...t…

• TAG 137 - The Value Of Business Friendships 2021-12-30

  We all need friends. We all need friendships with others. The question is...do we need business friendships? Or should business be all about business? If you consider that as an entrepreneur, you'll spend somewhere in the range of 50-70% o…

• TAG 136 - When Your Project Runs Out Of Money 2021-11-30

  Is your project or business running out of money? You're not alone. This is an ongoing challenge for entrepreneurs. So many start off with a fabulous concept. Then, against the odds, they develop it out to its full fruition. Now, they are…

• TAG 135 - The Superpower Of Responsibility 2021-11-05

  We're the leader. The entrepreneur. We're the boss. We can choose our own path. Don't we have a right to be...irresponsible at times? Yes. But, if we actually want to design a pathway leading to success...we will want it paved with respons…

• TAG 134 - The Hardest Part About Being An Entrepreneur 2021-10-17

  Most of our listeners are entrepreneurs, are working with entrepreneurs or are thinking someday about possibly being entrepreneurs. Here is what you need to know. It's hard. Really hard being an entrepreneur! Why do so many become entrepre…

• TAG 133 - Learning To Listen 2021-10-03

  As entrepreneurs we are uniquely designed to go against the grain, to stop listening to how everyone says things should be done...and to go out and do it our own way. This is both our blessing and our curse. It's one of the great challenge…

• TAG 132 - Regaining Your Traction When Youre Starting To Slip 2021-09-01

  One of the most treasured elements of leadership is also one of the most elusive. Just when you think you've got it...it starts slipping away. It's traction. That wonderful feeling of, "Hey, this plan might actually work!" It's the exhilar…

• TAG 131 - Maximizing The Talent Around You 2021-07-30

  One of the greatest joys of being a leader is when you get to assemble talent around you. Then again...it's one thing to assemble the talent. It's quite another to get them all to play their best music...and to be in tune and timing with o…

• TAG 130 - The Easy Way Or The Hard Way 2021-07-16

  If you were to take all of the leadership books ever written on the topic of running an organization or a business, you could sum them up into one simple question. That question? "Are you going to do this the EASY WAY...or the HARD WAY?" I…

• TAG 129 - Counting Your Blessings 2021-07-05

  How do leaders and entrepreneurs keep their heads up when their world is crumbling around them? Simply, by counting their blessings. Of course, this is hardly a simple task. After all, being an entrepreneur can be a tremendous challenge. I…

• TAG 128 - The Hidden Treasure Of Leadership And Life 2021-06-26

  The pursuit of leadership glory comes with many twists and bends in the road. Sadly, so many arrive at the destination and say, "Is this it?" Much of this disappointment is due to the fact they realize they were seeking out the wrong treas…

• TAG 127 - When Your Day Needs A Miracle 2021-05-31

  There are those challenging times as an entrepreneur when you wake up knowing there is only one way you're going to get through your day without it ending up a total disaster. It's going to take a miracle. Yet, as crazy as it may seem, the…

• TAG 126 - Stepping Through The Doors Of Opportunity 2021-05-18

  So often, you hear entrepreneurs saying they are waiting for their "big break" or they are hoping for their "ship to come in". Sadly. That could be a very long wait. In fact, there is a good chance that ship might never make it to shore to…

• TAG 125 - The Impact Of Just Showing Up 2021-05-05

  Leaders and entrepreneurs are among the busiest, most stressed out and exhausted people there are. So should we excuse you when you decide not to show up to an event you were expected to attend? Not if we're going to hold you up to the hig…

• TAG 124 - Jumping Into The Deep End Of The Pool 2021-04-21

  Entrepreneurs often start off their journeys with unrealistic expectations. They want to leave their job, launch a new business and start their new life...without any risk of failure. Many new business owners are oftentimes hoping for the…

• TAG 123 - Should We Fake It Until We Make It? 2021-04-06

  Many leaders and business owners as they are getting started...or even midway through their company's development...experience what's known as Imposter Syndrome. Even the most seasoned entrepreneurs will admit they still suffer from bouts…

• TAG 122 - Its All About Relationships 2021-03-24

  If your business is struggling...99% of the time it will come down to this...you've got a people problem. DISCONNECTED. OUT OF TOUCH. You started a business to fill your needs...rather than the needs of the people you're supposed to be ser…

• TAG 121 - Plausible Denialability 2021-03-17

  Plausible denialability? What's that? Well...it's a who new entrepreneurial term created and explained here in the Two Are Gathered Leadership Podcast. What does it mean? First...to be a successful entrepreneur you need to be able to funct…

• TAG 120 - Dealing With Frustration 2021-03-09

  The experience of being an entrepreneur who created something out of nothing and then ultimately climbed the highest mountain of their dreams...it's such a great feeling. But...it's also...SO FRUSTRATING. And, having to manage all of this…