Stumbling Blocks: How Great Leaders Are Made
Episodes
Exclusive, Pt 2: Attorney General & Becky Gonzales: The Wilderness, Disappearing Friends, & Hope
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of this exclusive conversation with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his wife Becky. It is a conversation about love, political betrayal, ...
Excerpts: Attorney General Gonzales and Becky Gonzales on ICE, Immigration, and the Epstein Files
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Excerpts from Attorney General Gonzales and Becky Gonzales's interview with Stumbling Blocks on ICE Actions, Immigration, and the Epstein FilesExcerpt...
Attorney General Gonzales & Becky Gonzales: Love, Country, & Going Broke
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
EXCLUSIVE: This is a story two decades in the making. For the first time since leaving office 19 years ago, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his ...
Conor Grennan, CEO, AI Mindset: The Dalai Lama, Parenting, & Why AI is a Change Management Problem.
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Conor Grennan is CEO of AI Mindset and until recently, Chief AI Architect at NYU Stern School of Business. He's trained teams at Google, NASA, Microso...
Conor Grennan: Trafficked Children, The Dalai Lama, and Why AI Is a Change Management Problem
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Conor Grennan is CEO of AI Mindset and until recently, Chief AI Architect at NYU Stern School of Business. He's trained teams at Google, NASA, Microso...
Admiral Tim Ziemer, Chief, President's Malaria Initiative: How I Saved 12 Million Lives
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I welcome Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer, the former chief of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and former CEO of World Relief. Adm...
Steve Scherer, Reuters Canada Bureau Chief: From Interviewing the Prime Minister to Driving an Uber
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with former Reuters Canada Bureau Chief Steve Scherer on job displacement, the gig economy, and America’s identity crisis.Steve was o...
Brent Beshore, CEO, Permanent Equity: How Winning Made me Lose
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brent Beshore made his first million at 28. Visited the White House. Got ranked 28th on the Inc. 500. Got everything he wanted.And realized he had sum...
Linda Rutherford: How We kept SWA's Soul during the Meltdown and a Hostile Takeover Attempt (Pt 2)
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Linda Rutherford, former Chief Administration Officer of Southwest Airlines for the second half of our conversation. ...
Linda Rutherford, Southwest Airlines CAO: What's the Secret to Southwest's Success?
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Linda Rutherford, the former Chief Administration Officer at Southwest Airlines, shares insights into the secret sauce that makes Sou...
Oscar Munoz, United Airlines CEO: Why I Jumped on a Picnic Table at 2 AM + What Starts on Day 1
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Oscar Munoz stepped in as CEO of United Airlines, he didn't head for the executive suite. He headed for a Houston hangar at 2:00 AM to jump on a ...
Oscar Munoz, United Airlines CEO: Why I Threw Away the PR Script in a Crisis
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The viral video that changed aviation—and the CEO who broke the rules to fix it.On April 9, 2017, United Airlines faced the world’s first truly gl...
Doug Conant: How I Turned a "Swamp Water" Culture into Champagne
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If your team is disengaged, cynical, or burnt out—Doug Conant calls that "Swamp Water." And he knows exactly how to fix it, because he walked into a...
Pete Proimos Part 2: The CEO who Sold to Warren Buffett on finding "what broke his heart"
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 2 of a 2-part conversation with Pete Proimos. In this conversation, Pete shares what he did after finding what broke his heart, and what ...
Pete Proimos: Find the thing that breaks your heart and refuse to look away
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with Pete Proimos. In this conversation, Pete shares his remarkable journey from being a child diagnosed with ...
Sandra Sucher: Author of "The Power of Trust" on how to Apologize
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Sandra Sucher, a professor at Harvard Business School and expert on trust, shares her unique journey from growing up in Detroit ...
Mark Farkas: Producer of the first-ever HD White House Documentary
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all seen the White House from the outside. But what's it really like on the inside? Especially the East Wing?Mark Farkas knows. As the produce...
Vice Admiral Mark Harnitchek (US Navy, Ret.): Leading When the World is Falling Apart
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to lead when the stumbling block is a Category 5 hurricane, a massive earthquake, or two global wars?Welcome to a masterclass in cri...
Charles Green: Creator of The Trust Equation on how Selfishness is the Ultimate Stumbling Block
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the one thing that will destroy a team, a company, or a career faster than anything else?According to Charlie Green, creator of the Trust Equat...