Most high performers have built their identity around contribution. Always showing up, never asking for help, pushing through. But what happens when that identity becomes the thing depleting you?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Ginny Priem, master coach, TEDx presenter, keynote speaker, and author of Unsubscribe: Why Letting Go Is the Secret to Getting Ahead. With more than 20 years of corporate leadership experience, Ginny helps high-achievers make intentional change without losing momentum through a four-pillar framework she calls UNSUBSCRIBE™.

Ginny explains how the patterns that drive high performance, perfectionism, over-functioning, and people-pleasing, are often fear-based behaviors that quietly drain the energy needed to lead well. Her framework gives leaders four practical tools for releasing what no longer serves them: Block, Mute, Swap, and Manage. Unlike approaches that treat letting go as weakness, Unsubscribe is designed to be accountable, actionable, and applied in real time.

Together, Brady and Ginny explore how leaders can make better, faster decisions by developing the discipline to release what's draining them and create space for what actually matters.

In this conversation, you'll hear:

• Why perfectionism is fear-based and the simple swap that makes it workable
• How the four pillars of Unsubscribe apply across relationships, leadership, and everyday work
• What a 1980s study on baboon troops reveals about what happens when you remove toxicity from a system
• Why over-functioning leaders often miss the signals their body is already sending them
• How shared language makes it easier for teams to navigate friction without it feeling like a threat

If you're a leader who has built your identity around high performance and wants a practical framework for letting go of what's holding you back, this episode offers a clear, actionable approach to reclaiming your energy and leading with greater intention.

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What does success look like when ambition, leadership, and family all compete for the same limited energy?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Kevin Rice, founder, investor, and leadership thinker. Kevin shares the story of co-founding Hathway straight out of college and growing it from a garage-stage startup into a 200+ person digital consultancy before its acquisition by Bounteous in 2021.

Drawing from both his entrepreneurial journey and his experience as a full-time single father during a period of intense professional growth, Kevin reflects on the tension many leaders feel between building ambitious careers and staying present for the people who matter most. The conversation explores the habits, routines, and leadership mindset that helped him navigate pressure, build community, and rethink what success really means.

Today, Kevin invests in and advises growth-stage companies through Theorem One Capital and hosts the CEOs & ABCs podcast, where leaders discuss the realities of leadership, parenthood, and redefining success beyond the boardroom.

In this conversation, you’ll hear:

• Kevin’s journey scaling Hathway from a startup to a 200+ person organization
• The realities of leading through intense growth while raising a family
• How daily routines, accountability, and community support leadership resilience
• Why many leaders are rethinking traditional definitions of success and ambition
• How honest conversations about leadership and life can reshape how leaders show up at work and at home

If you're a leader looking to pursue ambitious goals while staying grounded in what matters most, this episode offers a thoughtful conversation about leadership, resilience, and redefining success.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

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Most organizations are built and managed as if they were machines—optimized for efficiency, control, and predictable outputs. But what if that metaphor is fundamentally flawed?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Norm Wolfe, Founder and CEO of Quantum Leaders and author of The Living Organization. With decades of experience spanning Fortune 500 companies, startups, and executive advisory work, Norm shares why the traditional mechanical view of organizations limits performance—and why leaders must begin thinking about organizations as living systems.

Norm explains how thriving organizations behave more like living organisms than machines: they evolve, adapt, mature, and align around a shared purpose. Through this lens, leaders can better understand how strategy, culture, and execution interact—and why many organizations struggle with flawless execution even when their strategies look sound on paper.

Together, Brady and Norm explore how leaders can rethink organizational design, decision-making, and leadership to create environments where people, strategy, and execution operate in alignment.

In this conversation, you’ll hear:

• Why the traditional “organization as a machine” metaphor often leads leaders astray
• What it means to think about companies as living systems that evolve and mature
• How purpose, structure, and leadership alignment shape an organization’s ability to execute
• Why many organizations struggle with execution even when the strategy is clear
• How leaders can design organizations that adapt, grow, and sustain performance over time

If you're a leader looking to better understand how strategy, culture, and execution truly work together, this episode offers a powerful framework for thinking about organizations as living systems capable of extraordinary results.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

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What if leaders could practice the toughest moments of leadership before they happen?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with John Kolm, CEO of Team Results, former intelligence officer, and co-author of the international bestseller Crocodile Charlie and the Holy Grail. Drawing on decades of experience in intelligence training and leadership development, John shares how simulation-based learning helps leaders and teams build the capability to perform under pressure.

Together, Brady and John explore why traditional training often struggles to prepare leaders for real-world complexity. Through well-designed simulations, teams experience the dynamics that truly shape performance — decision-making under uncertainty, coordination across roles, communication breakdowns, and the human reactions that emerge when the stakes rise.

The conversation bridges lessons from aviation and intelligence training with the realities leaders face inside modern organizations, offering a fresh perspective on how teams learn, adapt, and improve their ability to lead together.

In this conversation, you’ll hear:

• Why simulation-based learning can accelerate leadership development more effectively than traditional training
• How lessons from intelligence operations and aviation simulators translate to leadership teams in business
• The difference between team development and traditional “team-building” activities
• What simulations reveal about decision-making, communication, and trust under pressure
• How practicing leadership in realistic environments helps teams perform when the stakes are real

If you're a leader looking to strengthen how your team navigates pressure, complexity, and critical moments, this episode offers a powerful perspective on how practicing leadership can transform real-world performance.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

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What energizes a leader who has spent decades building systems, teams, and businesses that last?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, host Kris MacQueen sits down with Paul Ansloos, Founder Emeritus of ExpensePoint, for a deeply human conversation about restoring value—both in organizations and in people.

Paul reflects on his 24-year journey building ExpensePoint into a global SaaS platform , but what emerges most clearly is not a story about software. It’s a story about attention. About seeing “good bones” where others see wear and tear. About choosing to restore rather than replace.

From identifying friction in expense management processes to revitalizing historic buildings to reigniting confidence in team members who feel depleted, Paul shares the throughline that has fueled him: unlocking potential that already exists.

In this conversation, Kris and Paul explore:

• Why restoring value—rather than starting from scratch—creates deeper, more sustainable impact
• How disciplined discernment protects teams from burnout while preserving creative energy
• The leadership power of full attention in a distracted world
• Why sustaining energy in uncertain times requires tuning out noise and investing in what truly matters

Paul’s wish for leaders is simple and grounding: be intentional about what you focus on, surround yourself with people who elevate you, and bring steady, generous energy into every room you enter.

If you’re a leader who believes culture is built through care, discernment, and meaningful connection, this conversation with Paul Ansloos will invite you to slow down, look closer, and lead with presence.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

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What changes when “care” stops meaning comfort and starts meaning courage?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Brian Henry, Chief People Officer at Bird Construction, to explore what it takes to lead people-first in a high-performance environment without losing your edge or your humanity. Brian shares how authenticity and values-based leadership became his compass, and why the leaders people trust most are often the ones willing to tell the truth with respect, clarity, and heart.

Brian reflects on lessons shaped by his journey, his career in HR leadership, and the responsibility of building cultures where people feel both challenged and supported. This is a conversation about leading with humility and steel: caring deeply while holding the bar high.

In this conversation, you’ll hear:

• Why leading with heart is not being a pushover and how truth-telling builds trust
• The cost of choosing “likable” over authentic and what it looks like to lead without self-betrayal
• How to deliver direct feedback in a way people can actually receive and use
• What it means to protect both the employee experience and the enterprise
• Why people may forget what you said, but never forget how you made them feel

If you’re navigating performance pressures, culture shifts, or the everyday tension between empathy and accountability, Brian’s perspective offers a grounded, practical model for leading with care that has spine.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

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Performance is a lagging indicator of how a person feels. In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson talks with Zach Mercurio, PhD, about why mattering is a measurable mechanism for results.

Zach makes the link clear: the degree to which people add value is correlatational to the degree to which they feel valued. When leaders help people feel seen, heard, and essential, they unlock the energy and ownership that performance-driven cultures are built on. Brady and Zach explore how Zach’s research gives leaders “permission” to focus on the human work—because it is the fastest path to better outcomes.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• The Primal Need: Why mattering is a survival instinct and how "anti-mattering" creates defensive, low-performance environments.
• The Skill of Significance: Using the world’s oldest technology—conversation—to rebuild the social repetitions required for trust.
• The Tanya Effect: A powerful story of a leader who treats relationships as the primary job, and quality as the natural byproduct.
• Leading vs. Lagging Indicators: Why mattering is the performance lever leaders miss—and how it drives commitment over compliance.
• Scaling Significance: Practical habits and incentive structures that make mattering a consistent organizational practice, not just an intuition.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

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What does it take to modernize a beloved cultural institution—while protecting what makes it meaningful?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Kelly Harper, VP of Visitor Experience at ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), to unpack what it means to build a truly visitor-centred organization. Kelly shares how ROM is navigating a major shift in expectations: more competition for people’s time and attention, an evolving visitor base, and increasing pressure to grow self-generated revenue—without losing the magic that keeps people coming back.

A central theme in the conversation is the connection between culture and design. Kelly describes how visitor experience isn’t just about the front line—it’s a whole-system effort that includes everything from the environment people enter through, to the language teams use, to the behind-the-scenes decisions that shape how easy (or hard) it is to deliver a great day for a visitor. From rethinking “transactional” interactions to creating more welcoming moments of connection, Kelly explains how small shifts in narrative and systems can unlock big changes in behaviour.

Together, Brady and Kelly explore what leaders can do when transformation is the mandate: clarify the “why,” reduce friction for teams, and build systems that make the right behaviours easier to repeat. The conversation also highlights Kelly’s view of employee experience as a “two-sided coin”—supporting people to do their work well, while also shaping how they feel about the organization they work for.

In this conversation, you’ll learn:

• How ROM is responding to shifting visitor expectations and the “attention economy”
• Why visitor experience is a whole-organization responsibility—not just a front-line function
• How language and narrative shape behaviour (and how small design choices create culture)
• What it looks like to move from transactional service to more meaningful visitor connection
• Why employee experience requires both enablement and belonging to sustain performance

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

• Leadership Training Programs
• Learning Experiences
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