Success Secrets and Stories

About Success Secrets and Stories

Intro - Podcast Purpose: To share management leadership concepts that actually work. You are responsible for your development as a leader. Don't expect the boss to invest the training budget in your career. Consider this podcast as an investment of time in your career, with a bit of management humor added at the same time.

Publisher

Host and author, John Wandolowski and Co-Host Greg Powell

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jul 2023

Latest episode

6 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

157 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Nov 2026

   Building/Retaining A Balanced Team

   Send us Fan Mail Stacking a team with “rock stars” sounds like the fastest path to high performance, until you’re the leader dealing with power struggles, burnout, half-finished initiatives, or a pile of reviews that stop decisions cold. We take on that myth head-on and explain why a truly high-performing team is a balanced system, especially when you inherit a team instead of building one from scratch. We walk through five practical profiles that show up in real workplaces: leaders, workers...

2. 

   30 Oct 2026

   Life Mentors - Teachers Of Leadership

   Send us Fan Mail Leadership doesn’t show up fully formed the day you get a title. It gets built by the people who raised you, the bosses you watched up close, the mentors who pulled you aside for a hard conversation, and the moments at work that forced you to grow. John Wandolowski and Greg Powell take that idea seriously and ask a question most of us avoid: Who really taught you how to earn a living and how to lead when pressure hits? We share the “life teachers” that shaped our...

3. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Good Enough Should Be A Decision Not A Default

   Send us Fan Mail “It’s good enough” sounds harmless until you realize how many teams slowly bleed time, trust, and momentum through tiny compromises that nobody owns. We unpack the leadership difference between making a smart, resource-based trade-off and simply settling because a hard conversation feels inconvenient, awkward, or risky. If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “We’ll come back to it later,” this one is for you. We walk through a story from our work around Management by Respo...

Who has been a guest on Success Secrets and Stories

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Greg Jones
• Kurt Cignetti
• Dr John Smith
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Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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