In the Seat is a leadership podcast built from raw thinking.
Each episode centers on a real trade space leaders face - speed versus deliberation, clarity versus empathy, control versus trust - and walks through the tension without pretending it resolves cleanly.
This isn’t instruction. It’s structured reflection.
Everybody carries a load.
Work. Family. Decisions. Problems. Expectations. Things that need attention.
This episode uses the idea of a bag to explore leadership capacity — how much we can carry, how well we organize it, and what happens when things start falling out.
It also wrestles with a harder question: how much grace should we give someone for what we cannot see, and at what point does managing their capacity become part of the responsibility they accepted?
Because other people do not see what is inside your bag.
They only see what falls out.
Practical lens:
What is falling out of your bag right now — and who else is having to deal with it?
8 Oct 2026
Careful
I’ve never thought of myself as a particularly empathetic person.
I don’t naturally lead through emotion. I tend to process problems logically, make utilitarian decisions, and focus on outcomes.
But that description gets complicated when I look at how I actually lead people.
I still think about dignity. I still soften the edges of hard feedback. I still weigh someone’s personal circumstances against the mission. I still try to understand what a decision will mean for the person receiving it.
So maybe the better question isn’t:
Am I empathetic?
Maybe it’s:
Do people experience care in the way I lead them?
This episode explores the difference between feeling someone else’s emotions and deliberately accounting for their humanity—and whether the path matters as much as the outcome.
Practical lens:
When you make a difficult decision involving someone else, can they tell that you considered them as a person?
26 Sept 2026
The Talks: Another Hill
Setting a goal is usually the easy part.
The harder part is discovering that the path toward it is rarely as simple as it looked from the beginning.
This Talk uses my pursuit of a perfect fitness score as the backdrop for a broader discussion about difficult goals: failed attempts, changing plans, frustration, and discovering new problems only after solving the old ones.
The goal stayed the same. My understanding of what it required kept changing.
Progress and failure can happen at the same time. A setback can show how far you've come while also exposing what you still need to solve.
And persistence shouldn't mean blindly continuing because you've already invested the time. The question is whether, knowing what you know now, the goal is still worth pursuing.
If it is, keep adjusting.
Practical lens:
When you crest one hill and discover another behind it, is the goal still worth the climb?
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