Why is leadership important? What makes a great leader? There might be as many ideas about this concept as there are people thinking about them, but this one is certainly worth your while. Dr. Tracye Jones is joined by the President of Diamond Wealth Advisors, author, and speaker, Jim DeGaetano who shares his unique insights on what makes a great leader and how you can identify them. Jim discusses how great leaders affect the world and how you can develop leadership skills. Jim also talks about financial independence, retirement and the value of integrity.

Setbacks are inevitable in life. How you deal with them is what sets you apart from the rest. Mike Ciorrocco, the founder of What Are You Made Of? has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to use setbacks as rocket fuel for their comeback. He joins host Dr. Tracey Jones to talk about how he paid the price of leadership and shared it with others, helping them out of the challenges they are facing and leading them to success. He talks about overcoming loneliness with the help of his family, holding people accountable, combatting weariness, honing the vision for your business, and more. Plus, Mike also shares why gratitude eliminates anything to complain about and how to see our unlimited potential.

When you step in to become a leader, you will always have to wear the hat of leadership, representing and embodying your organization. Sometimes, this could take a toll on you, leaving you feeling lonely at the top. Sharing his thoughts on the price of leadership that leaders have to pay, Dr. Tracey Jones invites Phil Puleo, the Superintendent of the Christian School Association of Greater Harrisburg. Phil shares his experiences and insights as a leader at the school, where loneliness becomes uncertainty, and how he overcomes that. He also talks about how he stays refreshed and replenished amidst dealing with parents and kids in the most important years of their lives, how he deals with critics, and more.

If there is one thing true leaders know about leadership, it is that being a leader is not all sunshine and butterflies. You have to pay the price to earn your position, and no, it is in no way monetary or power-related. Sharing her own share of struggles as a leader and how she rose above them all, Zarif Sahin, the founder of the American Dream Team at Keller Williams in Dulles, joins Dr. Tracey Jones in this episode. Together, they explore the many ways loneliness and abandonment can be felt in the leadership role and how one can get past them with communication, humility, clarity on vision, and more.

We all have our moments as leaders sometimes. However, without knowing it, we get into this Us versus Them mindset that we can’t help but create that self-imposed divide between us and the people around us. This is a different price to pay in leadership that we brought on ourselves. Providing a unique spin on the wisdom from the book, Price of Leadership, Peter Greer, the President and CEO of HOPE International, joins Dr. Tracey Jones in this episode. Here, he talks about self-imposed loneliness and weariness and what he does, not only in his professional life but in his personal as well, to help get past them. As the author of Mission Drift, Peter then gives us a peek into his book, sharing some wisdom on how we can avoid drifting away from our mission as our business goes to new levels and takes on new devils.