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A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

By: John Rouda: technical leader author speaker educator
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The ultimate podcast for aspiring leaders in the creative or technology fields. John Rouda discusses leadership topics, interviews some of the greatest minds today and teaches you practical leadership tips, techniques, tricks and hacks to improve motivation, negotiation, and other much needed skills for leaders today. Career Success Economics Management Management & Leadership
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  • AGL 447: Bogdan Micov

    AGL 447: Bogdan Micov
    Dec 12 2025
    About Bogdan

    Bogdan Micov is the go-to transformation expert for elite entrepreneurs, sales professionals, and leaders who want one thing: permanent emotional freedom – Fast. With deep mastery across NLP, Hypnosis, Timeline Paradigm techniques, Quantum Linguistics, and Polarity Integration, Bogdan created The BeRelentless Method™ – a surgical approach that deletes years of emotional baggage, identity friction, and subconscious sabotage in a single day. The Psychology of Calm Power: Why Cortisol Is Killing Your Performance From Overthinking to Overpowering: Deleting Your Emotional Brakes Stop Coping — Start Deleting: The End of Self-Help as You Know It Burnout Isn’t a Strategy Problem — It’s a System Glitch The Identity Reboot: Remembering Who You Were Before the Fear Set In After surviving a stroke at 33 and walking away from $50M+ in high-ticket sales, Bogdan rebuilt his life around one core truth: you don’t need more mindset work – you need deletion. Helped 300+ high-performers permanently eliminate internal blocks and friction Clients have collectively generated $25M+ in revenue post-transformation Survived a stroke and rebuilt his nervous system and performance from the ground up Creator of The BeRelentless Method™ and The Finger Snap Method™ His work is trusted by 300+ top performers across industries who were tired of managing their triggers, battling burnout, or hiding behind productivity hacks and finally wanting to feel clear, calm, and powerful from the inside out. This isn’t coaching. This is system re-coding

    Today We Talked About
    • Emotions
    • Brain Chemicals
    • Freedom
    • Stroke
    • Ownership of your emotions
    • Results
    • Emotions coming from our Thinking…. Our meaning making process
    • Conditioning – learning from past experiences
    • Cause and Effect
    • Emporement.. get out of that victim’s mindset
    • Perspective
    • Lenses – Deleting, Distorting, Generalizing
    • What are your limiting beliefs? limiting decisions?
      • Challenge the fruitfulness of your thoughts
      • Weaken the belief
      • Question how it serves you
      • After it is removed, how would you feel
      • Give examples
    • Karate
    Connect with Bogdan
    • LinkedIn
    • Instagram – DM Bogda “Podcast”
    • YouTube
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    53 mins
  • AGL 446: Tamara Laine

    AGL 446: Tamara Laine
    Dec 5 2025
    About Tamara

    Tamara Laine is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, fintech founder, and business growth strategist. As the founder and CEO of MPWR, she is transforming how credit and capital are accessed by gig workers, women, and underserved communities through AI and alternative data. A former gig worker herself, Tamara brings lived experience to her mission of building a more inclusive financial system. She has launched and scaled eight-figure tech ventures, advised banks on equitable capital access, and is a recognized expert in financial inclusion, ethical tech, and economic innovation. Tamara also co-hosts What the Frac?, a podcast on startup growth.

    Today We Talked About
    • Ethical AI
    • Innovative Leadership
    • Journalism vs. Entrepreneurship
    • Leadership
    • Start with Why?
    • Emotional Leadership
    • Grounded in a good foundation
    • Product first, then Vision
    • Executive Coaching
    • Empathy as a leader
    • Empathy takes Time
    • Being a Mentor
    • Your network, and how you treat your community
    • What the Fract show
    Connect With Tamara
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Podacst – What the Frac?
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    39 mins
  • AGL 445: Len Ward

    AGL 445: Len Ward
    Nov 28 2025
    About Len Len, a former Wall Street VP on the institutional equity trading desk, transitioned from the high-stakes world of finance to become a digital marketing expert—and now leads the AI revolution at Commexis, an AI consulting and product development firm. His career began at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse during the dot-com boom, where he saw how emerging technologies transform industries. That experience sparked his shift into entrepreneurship, launching an e-commerce business and self-teaching SEO, paid media, and digital growth. With a rare blend of financial insight, entrepreneurial experience, and AI expertise, Len brings practical, forward-thinking guidance to today's business leaders. He's a sought-after voice for business leaders ready to understand how AI is changing marketing, operations, and growth—and what it takes to stay ahead. Today We Talked About Len's bcakground Build custom GPTs Run reports for you AI for Marketing The Power of AI AI Chatbot Analytics AI leadership What is Commexis? Connect With Len LinkedIn Website Leave me a tip $ Click here to Donate to the show I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word. Thanks again!
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    36 mins
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