Hello, Pete here. As 2025 heads into the holidays and the end of year, we're taking a look back

at some of the all-time finest episodes of the year and representing them to make sure you don't

miss them because they were oh so good. And there's about 100 episodes to choose from, and so we're

servicing a few of the most excellent. Starting up, we got Adam Galinsky talking about three keys to being inspirational.

And I still think to this day frequently about his pro tip to make your language simple and visualizable.

So here we go.

The inspiring leader and the infiriting leader are really mirror images of each other.

And we exist on this enduring continuum that's made up of how are you behaving today?

We worked with a Swiss employment agency, and we did a little experiment.

15-minute intervention for half of these people.

Reflect on your values, why they matter, how you demonstrate them.

Two months later, they were twice as likely to have found a job.

In fact, the effect was so strong, we stopped the experiment and gave everybody the values intervention.

And so when we reflect on our values, it has two things that I think are incredibly important.

One is it helps us see the big picture what really matters.

But two is, I think it has this element of optimism.

It gives us that energy to go forward.

That's Adam Galinsky.

He's a celebrated social psychologist at Columbia Business School who's published over a thousand studies on leadership, decision-making, teams, and ethics.

His TED talk, How to Speak Up for Yourself, has over 7.5 million views.

And now, he's sharing some insights from his latest book, Inspire, the universal path for leading yourself and others. So you'll learn, one, the easiest way to uplift the people around you. Two, the 15-minute exercise that makes you visionary. And three, the quick trick to feeling more confident and powerful. And if you're just joining us in the new year, historically that tends to happen.

Welcome.

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