What if happiness wasn't something you chase, but a skill you could deliberately build?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, dynamic leadership and happiness coach, and founder of The Dose of Happiness, Dr. Zippy Abla, joins Brady Wilson to explore the science of emotional regulation, resilience, and leading with grace when pressure hits hardest.

Dr. Zippy reveals how leaders can rewire their brains to shift from stress to flow in just 90 seconds. She introduces her DOSE framework (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphins) and shares practical tools like coherence breathing, reframing, and the "yellow car exercise" that help leaders maintain energy, clarity, and connection—even in high-stakes moments.

Together, Brady and Zippy dive into:

• Why happiness is a learnable skill, not a personality trait
• How the 90-second rule can transform emotional reactivity into intentional response
• The neuroscience behind coherence: aligning heart, brain, and breath for peak performance
• Why reframing isn't about toxic positivity—it's about expanding your brain's perspective
• How leaders can create psychological safety by modeling emotional regulation

If you're a leader who wants to show up with more energy, less reactivity, and genuine presence—this conversation will give you the neuroscience and practical tools to make it happen.

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How do leaders move from being socially defined by expectations… to becoming self-authored leaders who operate from clarity, purpose, and inner alignment?

In this powerful episode of the What Juices You Podcast, leadership coach, keynote speaker, and author Keith Lewis joins Brady Wilson to explore the deep inner work that fuels authentic, energized leadership.

Keith—whose career spans advertising, management consulting, world-class facilitation, and even a surprising chapter as a Division I and NBA mascot—shares how his unusual journey helped him understand one universal truth: identity is the engine of leadership. When leaders are unclear about who they are, no amount of values, skills, or techniques can create lasting change. But when identity is clarified and activated, everything else shifts.

Together, Brady and Keith dive into:

• Why identity sits at the center of effective leadership
• How blind spots operate (including what Keith learned from having literal blind spots inside a mascot suit)
• The transformative role of 360-degree feedback
• Why guiding principles must be activated, not just written
• How authenticity, valence, and intention shape every interaction
• Why leaders must evolve their identity over time—not freeze it in place

Keith shares stories about coaching executives through deep mindset shifts, navigating their hidden assumptions, and moving from “striving” identities to grounded, self-authored ones. He also reflects on fun, family, authenticity, and the power of leaders allowing themselves to be fully human.

If you’re a leader who wants to grow from the inside out—and help your teams do the same—this conversation with Keith Lewis will stay with you long after it ends.

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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 the single most powerful way to meet human needs, energize teams, and unlock performance wasn’t a system, a policy, or an initiative, but a conversation?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson and Kris MacQueen explore why conversation is the operating system beneath every energized relationship, every high-performing team, and every meaningful collaboration.

Brady and Kris unpack how conversation turns intention into impact, and why leaders often default to messaging, directives, or urgency—missing the far more powerful infrastructure of connection → possibility → shared value.

Through stories, research, and real examples, they explore:

✨ How conversations release energy
✨ Why unmet needs make people flounder or fight
✨ Why only real dialogue (not speed or control) creates trust
✨ How leaders can turn toward each other, especially in tension
✨ Why conversation (not expertise) is what meets the five driving needs

This episode offers a clear, practical roadmap for turning everyday interactions into fuel for energy, clarity, and partnership.

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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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Why does the driving need for belonging matter so much, and why is it so often overlooked by leaders?

In this episode, Brady Wilson and Kris MacQueen dive deep into one of the most misunderstood of the Five Driving Needs: Belonging. While leaders rarely resist the importance of security, freedom, significance, or meaning, belonging often gets treated as “nice to have”, despite being biologically urgent, emotionally stabilizing, and performance-boosting.

Drawing from research, lived facilitation experience, stories from inside organizations, and candid moments from their own relationship, Brady and Kris unpack why belonging is the last soldier standing when pressure, uncertainty, and complexity rise. They explore how belonging influences physical health, psychological resilience, team trust, intelligence, creativity, and the ability to sustain performance over time.

This episode helps leaders reframe belonging not as a soft skill, but as a strategic, immediate lever for energy—one that leaders have enormous agency over, regardless of circumstances.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

✨ Why belonging is more biologically urgent than diet, exercise, or even safety
✨ How exclusion affects the brain like physical pain—and why that matters at work
✨ Why belonging unlocks the other four driving needs (meaning, security, freedom, significance)
✨ The difference between quality connections and long-arc trusted relationships
✨ How belonging boosts cognitive capacity, problem-solving, and resilience under pressure
✨ Practical ways leaders can create micro-moments of connection that change everything
✨ Why being interested (not interesting) transforms team trust instantly
✨ How belonging fuels innovation, emotional truth, and team performance

At its core, this episode is a powerful reminder: belonging is the first thing we need, the last thing we lose, and the foundation for sustainable leadership.

If you’re leading through change, uncertainty, or intensity, this conversation will give you practical, human, research-backed ways to build the kind of culture where people can show up, think clearly, and perform at their best.

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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 the key to sustaining energy wasn’t based on your personality, motivation or will power, but on your ability to understand and skillfully meet five universal driving needs?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson and Kris MacQueen sit down together to unpack the origins, evolution, and real-world impact of the Five Driving Needs: Belonging, Security, Freedom, Significance, and Meaning.

This conversation explores how these needs moved from early emotional indicators (“I fit,” “I’m clear,” “I’m supported,” “I’m valued”) into deeper, enduring states of being that more accurately predict energy, performance, and engagement.

Brady and Kris bring candid stories, research, and lived leadership experience to life—revealing why unmet needs create depletion, reactivity, and unproductive effort… and why cultivating these needs generates energy that is sustainable, intentional, and deeply human.

This episode sets the stage for a five-part series, offering you a clear, practical lens for understanding what truly fuels people—and what drains them.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

✨ Why emotions are fleeting—but driving needs are enduring fuel sources
✨ How unmet needs create “energy leaks” that pull leaders into over-efforting, floundering, or cynicism
✨ Why mono-focusing on one need (like Meaning) leads to burnout and “leached soil” cultures
✨ How the five needs work together like an ecosystem—not a hierarchy
✨ Why understanding your own driving needs increases empathy, resilience, and clarity
✨ How misinterpretations, small moments of threat, or missing recognition derail performance
✨ Why identifying needs earlier prevents conflict, depletion, and disengagement
✨ How the “Three Sisters” metaphor (corn, beans, squash) illustrates why needs must be grown together

Whether you lead teams, coach others, or want to understand what energizes your own work, this episode gives you a practical, human framework for generating energy—not by pushing harder, but by cultivating what people need most.

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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 happens when authenticity and accountability become the battery posts of your life and leadership?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Tim Windsor—provocative keynote speaker, coach, facilitator, author, and host of The Uncommodified Podcast—sits down with his longtime friend, our own Kris MacQueen, to explore what fuels him.

For Tim, real energy doesn’t come from external validation—it comes from bringing his authentic self into every moment, holding himself fully accountable for his actions and impact, and channeling that energy into intentional action that leaves others better than he found them.

Through powerful stories—from childhood lessons in resilience, to the profound value of having trusted partners who are willing to look you in the eye and tell you what you need to hear, to acts of radical generosity—Tim reveals how leaders can harness tension, convert energy with intention, and write new narratives for themselves and their teams.

If you’re a leader who values honesty, accountability, and impact that lasts long after the meeting is over, this conversation will both challenge and inspire you.

Key points from this episode:

• Why authenticity without accountability drains energy—and vice versa
• How leaders can hold tension and direct energy toward meaningful action
• The role of generosity and intention in energizing others
• Why “stabbing people in the front” can be the most loving leadership act

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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 keeps an entrepreneur energized after building—and selling—a successful tech company?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Ryan Shantz—entrepreneur, investor, and former CEO of SumoQuote—reflects on how creativity, strategy, and authentic relationships continue to fuel him long after financial success.

Drawing from his journey from roofing and construction to SaaS technology, Ryan shares how his deep industry roots shaped a product philosophy focused on clarity, quality, and connection—not just price. Under his leadership, SumoQuote grew from an internal tool at Epic Group of Companies into one of North America’s leading contractor platforms, powering over $1 billion in signed contracts per year before being acquired by JobNimbus in 2024.

Ryan and host Brady Wilson explore how empathy, purpose, and a value he calls grace—accountability with heart—became the cornerstones of his leadership and culture-building approach.

🎧 You’ll hear:

• How focusing on the customer’s lived experience sparked SumoQuote’s innovation
• Why grace can balance compassion and accountability in leadership
• What it means to stay grounded and energized—long after you’ve “made it”

If you’ve ever wondered how to blend entrepreneurial drive with humility, or how to build cultures that last beyond the product, this episode will leave you re-energized and inspired.

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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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How do you lead transformation without losing sight of people?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Tanja Fratangeli, Chief People Officer at IKEA Canada, joins host Brady Wilson to explore what it really takes to lead through large-scale change with both head and heart.

From early experiences managing her first outsourcing project to guiding 7,900 co-workers through pandemic uncertainty, Tanja shares hard-won lessons on staying grounded, balancing logic with empathy, and building trust through transparency.

She introduces her concept of “conscientious leadership”, a balance between empathy and accountability, and reflects on why authentic listening, emotional awareness, and clear principles matter more than having all the answers.

If you’ve ever wrestled with how to drive transformation while keeping people energized and engaged, this conversation is for you.

What you’ll learn from Tanja:

• How to lead transformation by balancing logic, emotion, and humility
• Why chunking change into small, celebratory milestones builds energy and trust
• The difference between empathetic and conscientious leadership
• How transparency, inclusion, and listening turn resistance into commitment

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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
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