I am Takis Athanassiou a business consultant and coach. You may know me from my books, or from my courses, or because you have attended any of my course or just because we have worked together. My focus is to help entrepreneurs, small business owners and freelancers to achieve their business goals without losing their lives. That's why I started the Leadership Execution podcast. I believe leadership is a crucial component of the new entrepreneur and self-leadership is must for anyone wants to have a balance between his/her life and work.
Are you tired of busy days that don’t move the needle on your long-term dreams? In this episode, we dive deep into the methodology of the Life Goals Planner, a tool designed to bridge the gap between your daily tasks and your ultimate vision.
We explore how this "Life Operating System" moves you from a proactive rather than reactive state by aligning your core values and mission statement with specific daily "baby-steps".
Whether you’re looking to master the 80/20 rule of productivity, establish non-negotiable habits and rituals, or reclaim your work-life balance, this overview provides the blueprint for an integrated and systematic approach to making things happen.
Tune in to learn how to design your next moves carefully and ensure you’re always heading toward the things that matter most.
Key Topics Covered:
Defining your Foundation: Vision, Mission, and non-negotiable Principles.
The Weekly Review: The critical checklist for course correction and accountability.
MITs (Most Important Things): How to prioritize daily actions for maximum output.
Moving from simple notebooks to an integrated life planner
28 Apr 2026
LE013: 13 Things You Can Do Today for a Balanced Life
In this episode of Leadership Initiative, host Takis Athanassiou explores The Lucky 13 — thirteen simple yet powerful things you can do today to create a more balanced, focused, and fulfilling life.
From improving your physical well-being and mental clarity to strengthening emotional resilience and personal growth, this episode delivers practical strategies you can immediately apply in your daily routine.
Whether you feel overwhelmed, stuck in constant hustle mode, or simply looking for a healthier way to live and lead, these actionable insights will help you reconnect with what truly matters.
🎯 In this episode, you’ll discover:
Daily habits that improve balance and productivity
Simple mindset shifts for reducing stress
Ways to improve emotional and mental well-being
Practical techniques for creating a more intentional life
Small actions that can lead to long-term transformation
Balance is not about perfection — it’s about making better choices, one day at a time.
🎙️ Leadership Initiative with Takis Athanassiou is your source for leadership, productivity, personal growth, and intentional living strategies designed for modern professionals, creators, and solopreneurs.
4 Nov 2021
LE012: A guide on how to get and stay motivated
In this episode I review some personal thoughts on how to get and stay motivated today. As Psychology today states (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/motivation): "Motivation is the desire to act in service of a goal".
YOUR motivation and your personal incentives are the prime forces for doing anything in life and business. And are certainly the driving factors for achieving your goals. That's why you need to learn more thing on how to motivate your self and the people around you.
I provide some useful motivation strategies in order you can learn how to motivate yourself and others.
Enjoy more free strategies, approaches and tools in the Leadership Execution Podcast (https://takisathanassiou.com/leadership-execution/)!
9 Dec 2019
LE011: Building Businesses with Tom Libelt
An Interview with Tom Libelt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomlibelt/), serial entrepreneur, podcaster and digital marketer.
Tom has focused on many things (https://smartbrandmarketing.com/tom-libelt/) perfecting his sales skills and competencies and developing various businesses on the process.
Today he helps other people to build online courses and market them.
In today's episode, we talk about business, sales, marketing and how to realize your goals in today's market.
8 Jan 2019
LE010: Infect With the Possibility Virus with Michael Bungay Stanier
An interview with Michael Bungay Stanier (Box of Crayons (https://boxofcrayons.com/)founder).
Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder of Box of Crayons (one of the leading companies in consulting, training and coaching areas), award-winning coach and top-notch author.
Michael has developed Box of Crayons as an organization to help other organizations do less good work and more great work.
He’s the author of several books, including the Do More Great Work (https://amzn.to/2IIuh2d)and the Get Unstuck & Get Going…on the stuff that matters (https://amzn.to/2IMtZHy). Michael has written for or been featured in numerous publications including Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, The Globe & Mail, and The Huffington Post.
Michael’s most recent book, The Coaching Habit (https://takisathanassiou.com/the-coaching-habit/), has sold more than 500,000 copies and has been the #1 coaching book on Amazon since its release.
Michael is a Rhodes Scholar and was recently recognized as the #3 Global Coaching Guru and recently is focused his attention on performance management.
His dream is to “infect a billion people with the possibility virus” and help them focus on what matters most.
In today's episode we talk about business, consulting, creativity and how to make things happen.
8 Jan 2019
LE009: Do What You Love with Hamid Safaei
Coaching is not an easy task. Or discipline. It takes a lot of energy and time, while demands an increased amount of attention, focus, and empathy for the coach to understand and direct better his/her clients. Attributes and features you can find in abundance in the face of Hamid Safaei.
Hamid Safaei is the bestselling author of the “First-Class Leadership (https://amzn.to/2RAESDn)” a consultant and a certified coach helping leaders & entrepreneurs to multiply their results.
Hamid has a long course of professional activities in the areas of consulting and coaching. He has led successful business transformations for a number of Fortune Global 500 companies.
He has developed ImOcean Academy (https://www.imoceanacademy.com/), a unique institute where he applies first-class coaching tools and techniques combined with best practices.
He regularly publishes learnings on www.imoceanacademy. com (https://www.imoceanacademy.com/) and www.first-class-leadership.com (https://first-class-leadership.com/) on subjects such as leadership, realizing goals and dreams, target setting, and bringing potential to fruition.
Do you want to hear what he has to say?
8 Jan 2019
008: Learn From Your Clients with Josh Haynam
Every business today to succeed needs to pay attention to its clients. Everybody says it, but very few people and company actually do it. Specifically the successful ones.
There are many tools around to do and new innovative ways to approach your prospects.
Listen today Josh Haynam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhaynam/) (co-founder of Interact Quiz Builder (https://takisathanassiou.com/iqb)) talking about startups, Quizzes, sales, conversions and on how to learn from your clients better!
Interact Quiz Builder (https://takisathanassiou.com/iqb) (affiliate link) is my new favorite tool for interact with my audience and taking meaningful responses, can help me improve my blog and tweak my services in order to serve better my audience.
It is an integrated platform (https://takisathanassiou.com/interact-quiz-builder/) for services can help you develop quizzes, polls, and giveaways in a quick and easy way. It is, also, a tool especially useful for edupreneurs (https://takisathanassiou.com/edupreneurship/), consultants (https://takisathanassiou.com/build-your-personal-branding/), and content marketers (https://takisathanassiou.com/content-marketing/) because can initiate a meaningful interaction and collect information about the specifics of the audience you want to serve!
When I like something, usually I’d like to learn more things! For this reason, I tried to find more information about how this platform launched and my research has a wonderful result because I had the pleasure to discuss with one of the co-founders of the Interact Quiz Builder, Josh Haynam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhaynam/)!
The discussion with a person like Josh is always very interesting and provides many insights for many entrepreneurs and startup owners!
8 Jan 2019
LE007: Start a Business with Nick Timms and Eduarda Bardavid
Do you know how to start a business? Good ideas are not enough! You need much more to start a successful business!
You need a lot of learning, to decide to start changing what you were doing, to have a plan B, to seek help from experts and mentors, to have a plan and, most importantly, to know how to execute on your plan.
In this episode, I’d like to invite you to listen a wonderful interview of 2 young people with wonderful ideas: Nick Timms & Eduarda Bardavid who are the founders of Drag (http://takisathanassiou.com/drag/), a productivity application for Gmail!
Drag (http://takisathanassiou.com/drag/) is a new fresh application to help you organize your life and business in Gmail. It is designed to help you organize your inbox more effectively and convert your inbox to a project and task manager for all the things you have to do in your day!
The idea of making Gmail a more organized place and a central place to manage your projects and to-dos is not new. What is new though is the idea to use a well-proven paradigm for today’s startup companies (https://takisathanassiou.com/business-startup-company/) (the Kanban approach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development))) into your e-mail sphere.
That’s the Drag created! And the idea came from two young people, the Nick Timms and the Eduarda Bardavid who conceived the original idea and execute upon it developing a company with more than 22,000 people following its lead.
Nick and Eduarda “start business” having a good idea, a solid plan, and help from experts and mentors who help them to refine their plan and execute it.
8 Jan 2019
LE006: What Makes You Special?
I was thinking this question when I was aiming at meeting an old friend! Not that my friend has nothing to do with the content of the question. Not at all.
He was a very special and gifted person, lovable to all and with a lot of distinctions in his professional field! But meeting him made me think some things!
Things I'd like to share with you!
I made this podcast with the ideas I have developed in this article (https://takisathanassiou.com/what-makes-you-special/)!
My main argument is that action does not suffice to bring the results you want.
It needs to combine together thought and action in order to achieve your objectives in life and business.
8 Jan 2019
LE005: Focus On Accountability with Takis Athanassiou
Accountability has a pivotal role in our culture and society.
Today, in our modern and complex life, it is important for you to realize that you and only you, you are accountable for your actions or omissions.
Moreover, you have to realize that you are responsible for the sum of all your actions (small or large, intended or unintended) in your course of life.
It is an attitude in life that is not easily implemented. But worth the effort for its acquirement!
This podcast has been developed around this article (https://takisathanassiou.com/on-accountability/) and follows its main argumentation. Its focus is on the important the responsibility has for the modern business and what you can do about it (or why even should you care).
8 Jan 2019
LE004: How To Better Leverage Your Assets with Takis Athanassiou
It is a difficult period to live in and it becomes even more demanding, by day! This is the reason you need a way to Better Leverage Your Assets!
This podcast has been based on this article (https://takisathanassiou.com/leverage-your-assets/) trying to establish a better understanding of what your assets are and how to use them more effectively.
8 Jan 2019
LE003: A Line Of Trust with Takis Athanassiou
A line of trust it is a very difficult asset to establish in e-Learning projects. But it is a necessary step! Check here why and how to establish it!
This podcast has based heavily on remarks has been featured in the past on this article (https://takisathanassiou.com/a-line-of-trust/) and express my ideas and thoughts on how you can employ win-win strategies to deliver the best possible results for your and your clients.
To do so there is only one way. To cultivate strong relationship ties and develop a mutual trust in every business interaction with your clients.
It is argued, that one common problem in business projects is to establish a common “language” with the client. This part is not usually referred to the business literature as a problem, but my experience says that it is!
It is more a matter of mindset, rather than a real problem needs a solution.
8 Jan 2019
LE002: Liam Martin Interview @ Leadership Execution Podcast (17/03/2017)
Liam Martin Interview for the Leadership Execution Podcast.
Liam Martin is the co-founder of two companies (TimeDoctor (https://www.timedoctor.com/) and Staff.com (https://staff.com/)) and he is a really clever guy.
Liam’s main interest is marketing and process design for remote teams while he focuses on online tutoring, business development, data analysis, outsourcing, remote work, and staffing.
This podcast is a discussion of Takis Athanassiou with Liam Martin about entrepreneurship, business, and remote working.
6 Jan 2019
LE001: What Has Timothy Carroll To Say On Leadership?
An interview with Timothy Carroll on Leadership, personal growth and how to become a better person!
Timothy Carroll is an international consultant on personal and professional development sector, lead athlete and author (https://takisathanassiou.com/books/the-evolutionary-leader/) of an excellent book on leadership with the title The Evolutionary Leader: 5 Steps to Dramatically Develop People and Performance (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01GF3UHT4/takiathaleadi-20).
His insights and consultancy have helped many corporate clients all over the world to evaluate their human capital and enhance its performance while his coaching skills assisted many private clients to find their way toward achieving their goals.
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