Leave the Pile Higher, Grow Your Legacy

About Leave the Pile Higher, Grow Your Legacy

"My job is to leave the pile higher for you and your sister." That was my father's philosophy long before I understood it—and decades before I ever thought about launching a podcast. He never used the word legacy. He simply lived it. In 1983, faced with financial sacrifices and difficult choices, my father made a decision that changed the trajectory of my life. Rather than take the easier path, he chose to invest in my future. At the time, I didn't fully appreciate what that sacrifice meant. It wasn't until after his passing in 2018 that I truly understood the depth of his commitment and the legacy he was building. On what would have been my father's 75th birthday, I launched Leave the Pile Higher as a way to honor his legacy and explore a question we all face: What are we leaving behind for those who come after us? Through honest conversations with guests from all walks of life, we explore leadership, faith, family, resilience, service, personal growth, and purpose. While this podcast often speaks directly to Black men navigating fatherhood, leadership, purpose, and life's responsibilities with intention, the lessons shared here are universal. Legacy belongs to all of us. Whether through guest interviews, Legacy Notes, or Legacy Blueprint panel discussions, every episode is designed to challenge, encourage, and inspire you to think differently about the impact you're making right now. Because legacy isn't something you leave someday. It's something you build every day. One decision. One sacrifice. One conversation. One rep at a time. Let's Build.

Publisher

Bryan T. Savage

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Nov 2022

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Starting Where I Finished

   Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you don’t recognize legacy while you’re building it. You see it when it starts showing up in the next generation. In this episode, I reflect on a journey that began when my nine-year-old son ended his indoor track season in a walking boot, with questions about what that injury might mean for the outdoor spring season ahead. A late start? Missing part of the season? Maybe more? Months later, we found ourselves in California at the USATF Junior Olympics—and somewhere ...

2. 

   8 Sept 2026

   The Record Book: What Will Outlive You?

   Send us Fan Mail Not everything that matters makes it into a record book. And just because something wasn’t written down doesn’t mean it didn’t happen—or that it doesn’t deserve to be remembered. In this episode, I’m looking back at a few football stories from my family—my father’s accomplishments preserved in old newspaper clippings, a high school record I didn’t even know I had set, and an unforgettable 72-yard interception return by my uncle at Harvard that somehow never made it into the r...

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   23 Jun 2026

   Legacy Blueprint | The Work We Do (Part II)

   Send us Fan Mail On January 1, 2026, I introduced Legacy Blueprint on Leave the Pile Higher with Part One: The Weight We Carry—a conversation about the pressures, expectations, responsibilities, and silent battles many of us face as Black men. The discussion was so honest, so powerful, and so necessary that there was no way we could fit it all into a single episode. In Part Two: The Work We Do, James Worthy, Khalid Scott, Ferris De, and I continue our conversation as we shift our focus from t...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

43

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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