How much of your day gets consumed by something that already happened and can't be changed?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Neal Schore, Founder & CEO of The 25th Hour Group. After building and scaling Triton Digital into a global leader in podcast technology, Schore spent two decades coaching some of the most consequential executives, board members, and private equity leaders in the country on a pattern he calls the swirl: the replay loop that keeps leaders stuck in what already happened, or what hasn't happened yet. His debut book, The 25th Hour, launches August 11 and makes the case that leaders don't lose time to their workload, they lose it to their reactions.

Brady and Neal arrive at the same conclusion from entirely different careers, one spent developing leaders and unlocking the energy needed to drive performance, the other spent coaching senior business leaders, board members, and private equity executives. The leaders who reclaim the most time are the ones who learn to manage themselves, not the ones who manage everything around them. Their exchange also circles back to an idea at the heart of the 20th-anniversary edition of Brady's The Power of Conversation: that a single question asked before a conversation begins can change its entire trajectory.

In this conversation, you'll hear:

• Why a demanding workload can leave a leader sharper, while an unmanaged internal loop can quietly cut them down to a fraction of who they are
• How giving yourself credit, not waiting on someone else's recognition, is what actually breaks the pattern of chasing external approval
• Why a phrase like "that's way above my pay grade" trains the people around you to believe it, and what to say instead
• A simple math exercise that exposes how much energy gets spent defending against outcomes with less than a 1% chance of happening
• Why disrupting small, harmless routines can be the fastest way to loosen the grip of automatic thinking everywhere else

If you've ever replayed a meeting for days after it ended, this conversation gives you a way to name the loop, interrupt it, and get the hours back.

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