A Better You: An Honest You
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What's going on, my friends? Welcome back to the Ryan League Podcast, where we love to keep things short and sweet for you each and every week. We have kicked off 2026 with this idea of what it looks like to be a better you and me. Week one, we talked about what it would look like for us to be a focused person in 2026. Your life would be drastically different if over the next 365 days, you really locked in. Then last week, we looked at this idea of a better you and you being a courageous person. What does a courageous you really look like?
What does it mean to be a better and more honest you?
Today, I want to dive into what it potentially looks like for you and I to be an honest us. A better you is an honest you. And It's interesting. As I was thinking about this episode, I was thinking to myself, you know, I don't know that I've ever met anybody in my life who was 100% honest, like 100%. And if you're sitting there thinking on your treadmill or commute or in your kitchen doing laundry, wherever you are listening to this podcast, if you're sitting there thinking, well, I'm 100% honest all the time, Well, I would absolutely love to interview your spouse, your coworkers, your kids. I would love to interview your in-laws. I would love to interview everybody in your life to see if that's actually true.
Because let's just be honest about honesty, okay? Now, most of us, I wouldn't say we're liars because I think that's a stretch. But I would say we're not all exactly authentic, okay? Like we tell the truth. Selectively, right? Like we edit, we round up, we round down, we leave details out. We say I'm fine when we're anything but fine. And look, I've met a few people who pride themselves on quote unquote, keeping it real, right? OK, and, you know, these kinds of people, OK, they they say, I'm just being honest right after they say something wildly unnecessary. OK, I don't think that that's honesty. I think that's just a lack of filters and a long history of. of uncomfortable family dinners. Now, keeping it 100 does not mean you are keeping it 100% negative all the time.
Because sometimes honesty without wisdom is just noise. But the real question that I want to ask us as we are at the very beginning of a year, is what if a better you in 2026 is a truly more genuine, a more honest you? Not louder, not harsher, not more opinionated, just more real, just more genuine. I was working with a hospital system in the Midwest at the end of last year. Very large organization, complex challenges, real pressure. And the CEO had just been in her role for about, I don't know, six months to a year. And before I went on stage, I was talking with one of their board members who actually had been in the room during her interview process. And as we were watching the CEO speak to her team, I leaned over to this board member.
I said, she's a remarkable leader. Just everything she was saying on stage just really stood out to me just from a leadership standpoint. And the board member, while we were in the back, she smiled and she looked over at me and she goes, do you want to know what got her the job? And I was like, well, of course I want to know. And she told me about the first moment of her interview. Not her resume, not her strategy, not her vision deck, her first words. She walked into the room. She looked around and she said, hi, I'm really nervous because I really want you all to like me. Hi, I'm really nervous because I really want you all to like me. That was it. That was the moment. That was the moment that the board knew something that they weren't just getting a capable leader.
Why is complete honesty rare among people?
No, they knew something was up. They knew that in that moment, they were getting a human. And in that moment, in that organization's history, That's exactly what they needed. They did not need a superhero. They did not need a performer. They did not need a perfectly polished executive who pretended to have it all together. No, no, no. They needed someone who was willing to tell the truth about how she felt. And if she could be honest about that moment, she could be honest about a whole bunch of other moments where it really matters.
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