by Zack Hudson | Aug 24, 2022 | Leadership, Life Lessons
Burnout can have a profound impact on your personal and professional life. When I begin to feel burnout, it shows in the things I love most. Projects and passions take a lot more effort and I find myself spinning my wheels instead of using my time to be fully... 
by Zack Hudson | Aug 17, 2022 | Leadership, Life Lessons
Burnout is real and can get the best of all of us. No leader is immune to burnout in either the professional or personal life. Years of collectively battling a pandemic have only made this important issue more prevalent and harder to combat. We’ve all spent a... 
by Zack Hudson | Aug 10, 2022 | Leadership, Life Lessons
As an adult, you spend the majority of your productive hours of the week working with and alongside other people. In order for you to be the most productive and carry a good sense of belonging, you need to have great working relationships with those that you interact... 
by Zack Hudson | Jul 27, 2022 | Leadership, Life Lessons
We have enough challenges out and about in our daily work and personal lives to sabotage ourselves with negative self-talk. Last week we looked at negative self-talk, the 4 main types of talk, and shared some real-world examples that these may play out in. Today... 
by Zack Hudson | Jul 20, 2022 | Leadership, Life Lessons
I’ve coached hundreds of leaders through deep dives on their teams to understand each person’s individual development needs. One of the common themes that come up in these sessions is this idea of a leader being too hard on themselves.We found that these... 
by Zack Hudson | Jul 6, 2022 | Leadership, Life Lessons
“Sorry, I got swamped with some other stuff.” “I thought Scott was going to take care of it.” We’ve all had to deal with excuses and we’ve all given excuses to others in both our personal and professional lives. Life happens.... 
by Zack Hudson | Jun 29, 2022 | Leadership
Whether it’s a larger promotion in leadership, or your first time leading others, jumping into a new role can be exciting and rewarding long term. Despite all of your goals, dreams, and ambitions, you can flounder in your new role, if you approach it the wrong way.... 
by Zack Hudson | Jun 1, 2022 | Leadership
One of the guarantees in your work life is that you are going to be a part of new teams as you go on your career journey. Whether you are jumping on a team as a leader or a follower, it’s important to begin building that trust with them as early as possible. While the... 
by Zack Hudson | May 4, 2022 | Be Series, Leadership
While most of the kids in my elementary school wanted to be sports stars growing up, I wanted to be a Jedi. I ran through the woods around our country home training to be a Jedi. During the summer, I would burn a whole day watching all three of the original movies... 
by Zack Hudson | Apr 27, 2022 | Be Series, Leadership
I love willow trees. It stems from my early childhood when we didn’t have much, but we did have a huge (to me) willow tree that grew in our backyard. They are found all over the world, but the one in our backyard was the only one I saw as a child. It was unique,...