Listen if you’ve ever wondered why you perform best under pressure, struggle with consistency, or feel like your focus doesn’t always match your ambition.

In this episode, Dex explores a common but often unspoken pattern among high-performing leaders — traits associated with ADHD — and how they show up in leadership, performance, and burnout.

This is not about diagnosis. It’s about recognising a leadership operating style, understanding its strengths, and learning how to work with it more effectively.

Dex walks through:

• Why this pattern shows up in high achievers
• The strengths that often drive success
• The hidden costs that can lead to inconsistency and burnout
• Practical adjustments to improve performance and sustainability
• How to protect recovery and build a leadership style that works with your mind, not against it

Key takeaway:
Energy management is leadership performance. Precision matters more than intensity.

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Content Warning
This episode includes discussion of depression and suicidal ideation. If you are currently in distress, please seek support from your local crisis services before listening.

Dr Tim Strauman outlines an exciting new approach to tackling teen depression. We dive into how schools, hospitals, and social services can work together to prevent suffering before it escalates, empower teens to understand their own emotional patterns, and build real-world skills to support mental well-being.

Dr Strauman shares how innovative technologies and programs can help teens:

• Recognize early signs and patterns of depression
• Develop skills to manage emotional challenges
• Normalize conversations about mental health among peers
• Boost agency and self-confidence
• Track progress and measure outcomes
• Access coordinated support from schools, health services, and social networks

If you’re interested in how science, technology, and community can intersect to change the trajectory of teen mental health, this episode is packed with insights and actionable ideas.

Self-System Therapy - to understand how you're evaluating yourself, ask:
What do I want?
What am I doing to try to get it?
What's going wrong?
What can I do differently?

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Contact Dr Tim Strauman: tjstraum@duke.edu

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What will leadership actually look like in 2026?

Technology is accelerating everything, but the leaders who win won’t simply be the most technical or the fastest decision-makers. They’ll be the ones who know how to lead people well in an environment of constant change.

In this episode, Dex Randall breaks down five leadership traits that separate high-performing leaders from the rest: human-centred performance, AI fluency, disciplined focus, decisiveness under pressure, and the ability to create purpose and meaning for teams.

Because while AI may scale systems, great leadership still scales people—and trust can’t be automated.

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