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How Leaders Lead with David Novak

3 More Questions (Dr. Michael Gervais) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: Do you agree with the idea that everything someone needs is already inside of them? How can leaders incorporate mental skills training into their day-to-day routine? What other methods or frameworks are helpful in building confidence as a leader? ——— GO DEEPER Scale up your leadership skills in 2 minutes a day with the How Leaders Lead app — ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download today in the App Store⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get coaching from David by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠signing up to receive his Weekly Leadership Plan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. It builds on each podcast episode by offering actionable steps you can take each week to incorporate the learnings from the episode into your leadership style. It only takes about 5 minutes and is a great way to start off your week! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the How Leaders Lead podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to ensure you never miss an episode!

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0:00.0

It's Monday morning, everybody, and that means we've got another episode of three more questions coming your way.

0:09.9

Welcome to How Leaders Lead. I'm Kula Callahan here with David Novak.

0:13.4

We're diving into this edition of three more questions.

0:16.8

David, we're debriefing the conversation you had with Dr. Michael Jervais.

0:20.3

He's a high-performance psychologist and founder of finding mastery.

0:24.8

And I loved this episode because it's so heady and it's so psychological and I just

0:29.6

freaking love this stuff.

0:30.8

I love it too.

0:32.1

You know, obviously Michael is one of the best in the world at really mastering performance and helping people

0:39.8

doing it on the mental side of the equations.

0:42.0

And, you know, one of the things that I think he really likes to do is build people up,

0:47.5

make them feel good about what they're capable of doing.

0:50.7

And so cool, I'm going to start by saying yesterday i was talking to somebody and he said you know

0:55.9

who's that lady that does your three more questions and i said well it's cool with callahan and

1:01.2

he said well she is really good she has such a nice style about her and you guys seem to have a good

1:06.5

rapport and i said well the rapport is there but it is because of her style. And it's also because

1:11.7

of her homework and the way how she thinks about what questions she ought to ask me. And so I just

1:17.2

thought I'd pass that on and give you a little pat on the back today. Thank you so much, David.

1:24.0

I really appreciate that. I'm feeling really pumped up and confident going into today's

1:28.6

questions, and you better get ready because we're going to be philosophizing in this edition of three

1:33.7

more questions. So I need you to dig deep. I need you to dig deep. All right. All right. I'm not very

1:38.7

good at philosophy. Yes, you are. Well, you're about to be if you aren't right now. So let's get going.

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