Peter Murphy Lewis
Appearances
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
If you've ever wondered what it takes to shape an industry or how a lawyer became one of healthcare's most trusted voices, this episode is for you. Now, I have to be honest, and I said this before I set record, I'm a little bit nervous. I produce documentaries and help CEOs find clarity in their chaos, but today I'm a pupil, I'm a student.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
Scott didn't just build a business, he's built a platform that answers better questions. If I walk away a little smarter after storytelling, strategy, and legacy, we all have won listening today. This is full circle moment for me because Scott interviewed me back in December 2024, and now I get to turn the tables. So welcome to Takeover, Scott Becker.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
No, and you may have already answered this a little bit, but maybe not. I like how you talk about kind of leading indicators, listening closely in what's working and not. The M&Ms make sense to me. I think that I approach kind of growth in the same way. But I want to transition a little bit into kind of learnings from legal and then also into the media company.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
So I don't know many lawyers who end up interviewing presidents and shaping industries. You came from law, probably the most structured traditional paths out there. And obviously, you're here. You're leading conversations that reach millions now as a media company. That leap is a big one.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
I'd like to know what have you learned from the media company that serves you as an attorney and also what served you as an attorney that helped you grow into this media company?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
It's an honor to have you as a guest on your own podcast. Let's dive in.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
I want to take kind of that concept of teams, but also move into one of your super niches, which is healthcare and couple it with a question around leadership. So And forgive me if I paraphrase one of your quotes from a previous interview and get it wrong, but I think it's close to what the way that you approach. So my question is, why is leadership in healthcare so slow to change?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
Love it. I have to start off by asking a question about what AI told me. Is it possible, Scott, that you have done more than 7,000 interviews on podcasts?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
And the quote that I found from one of your interviews says, tech's moving at light speed, but some healthcare decisions still feel like they're written on a fax machine. So even with AI and predictive analytics and tech that's practically reading minds today, decisions still feel like it's 1995 sometimes in healthcare.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
Scott, what's breaking down in institutional healthcare leadership that keeps it from keeping up with the pace of real change that you and I see in other industries?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
Wonderful. Well, then let me prep this a little bit for the listeners. I want to start off with this. There's leadership, and then there's building something that changes the way an entire industry thinks. There are conversations that don't just inform, they rewire how we understand power, service, and scale. And today I'm talking to the man who's done that in healthcare conversation.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
Yeah. Scott, I wanna transition into content world outside of podcasts. You've published a number of books. Which book is the hardest and which was the most enjoyable and why?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
He helped define it. He didn't just build Becker's healthcare into a media juggernaut. He did it with a mindset that puts listening before talking, humility before hype, and mission before ego. Scott, we all want impact, but how do you build legacy without losing yourself in the noise?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
I had someone about 15 years ago ask me the question, what is the book that I've read the most? And then they followed up, which is the book that I've gifted the most? I'd like to know your answer to both of those.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
In terms of... Doing content over and over every single day is hard. It's hard to stay fresh. It's hard to stay fun. I've done television for 10 years and I'm doing three documentaries this year. My secret for staying fresh and having fun is doing little prep so I show up authentic. What does your routine look like, Scott, so that you still enjoy it every single day?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
In terms of how you've changed, you've been interviewing for a decade, two decades, three decades at this point. Maybe you've fine-tuned your craft over time. I know that I did that by spending a lot of time on Cal Fussman, a journalist from Brooklyn who went to University of Missouri. I just deep-dived on him. But I've changed my craft less over the last couple years than I did at the beginning.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
What have you done in the last couple years that you have done to improve your interviewing skills?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
Thank you. It took some time, but picking up that craft helps with my marriage and with my eight-year-old, so I appreciate that. The thing that I had to adjust after one or two years is I realized I had to quit paying attention to the camera. Since I'm on camera, 10,000 hours in front of a camera, that's not what matters. Me being authentic is what matters. The camera guy will do his job.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
He's great at that. I'm not great at camera. I should just try to be authentic and you put those two things together and then hopefully you can make the person you're interviewing the star.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
Well, it's been an honor to have this conversation with you today. For listeners, if this struck a chord with you, do us a favor. Hit subscribe, share with somebody who needs to hear this, and keep tuning in to the Becker's Healthcare Podcast. Scott, thank you for trusting me with your seat today.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
So based on that advice and the new things that you were thinking about starting, did you start and delegate or did you slow down and be like, he was right, I need to be involved and I don't have the time?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
That's why you do this for a living. How big is your team? You talk a lot about team, and I do as well. I find that I like to create culture. I'm a little bit of a doer. I love to delegate. I resonate with what you're saying. I'm wondering how big your team is today.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
What happens when the guy who's interviewed US presidents, Fortune 100 CEOs, and healthcare's biggest names becomes the one answering the questions? Don't leave the podcast. Hey everyone, I'm Peter Murphy Lewis, documentary filmmaker and creator of People Worth Caring About, a series shining a light on healthcare's unsung heroes. But today I've hijacked
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
But I want to transition a little bit into a conversation around your audience and a product. So I'm kind of teed up like this. Most founders scramble to launch a product and then they beg people to care about it and they're too late. Everyone's selling you something before
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
you've even seen them or they've seen you but you scott you're different you built the crowd before the curtain even lifted you flipped the model on its head you didn't start with the pitch you started with trust at least from from my observation point as someone who spends his days helping leaders find clarity in the chaos i had to stop and really think about that because what you've built this wasn't an audience you build a relationship and relationships are not rented they're earned
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
So most founders scramble to launch a product and then they beg people to care about it. Everyone's selling you before they've even seen. But you, Scott, you built the crowd before the curtain even lifted. You flipped that model on its head. You didn't start with the pitch. You started with trust, at least from my perspective.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
As someone who spends his days helping leaders find clarity in chaos, I had to stop and really think about what you're doing. Because what you built... that wasn't an audience, you've created a relationship and relationships are not rented, they're earned. So how do you actually build an audience that turns into a profitable strategic platform, aka product?
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Strategic Pete Takeover: Scott Becker on Legacy, Leadership, and Building Becker’s 5-1-25
Becker's Healthcare Podcast mic to flip the script in a big way. You know Scott Becker as the voice guiding conversations with presidents, pioneers, and industry giants, but today we're turning the mic around to uncover the architect himself, how he built a media empire, the bold ideas he's betting on, and the principles he lives by when no one's watching.