505. Transformational Leadership Principles Hidden in Dr. Becky’s Parenting Book (Part 1)

The ONE Thing

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This episode started as a parenting read and turned into a masterclass in leadership. After picking up Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy, Jay found himself repeatedly thinking, "This is leadership." In the first of a two-part series, he explores the surprising—and incredibly useful—ways that parenting advice maps directly onto leadership. If you're mission-driven, leading a team, or simply trying to show up better in your relationships, these four lessons will stick with you: Two Things Can Be True, Know Your Job, Behavior Is a Window, and Connection Before Correction. Jay shares practical tools and reflective questions to help you take each of these ideas into your work life. And yes, if you're a parent too, you’ll walk away with some insights there as well. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: Why “two things can be true” might be the most powerful mindset for handling conflict How knowing your job (and your people knowing theirs) clears the fog in the workplace Why behavior is a window, and what curiosity can teach you about your team Links & Tools from This Episode: Read: Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email [email protected] or send us an audio note at Speakpipe.com/the1thing. Produced by NOVA

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0:00.0	Maybe a year or so ago, my assistant, chief of staff, Carly, gave me her favorite parenting book.
0:05.6	It's called Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy. My kids are mostly grown. They're basically adult
0:10.8	kids at this point, but I'm still super curious to learn more about maybe how it could have done it
0:16.2	better, and maybe I'll be coaching my kids when they're parents down the line. So I picked it up to get a
0:22.0	little closer to this parenting wisdom, and I just kept saying every few pages, leadership is just
0:27.2	like this. All of the frustrations of parenting often parallel the frustrations of leadership,
0:32.7	especially if you're in it as a mission-driven leader, someone who truly wants to serve. And the parallels were just uncanny. You know, those weeks where as a leader, you're in it as a mission-driven leader, someone who truly wants to serve. And the parallels
0:38.1	were just uncanny. You know, those weeks where as a leader, you're just incredibly frustrated.
0:43.3	You feel like you're not getting anything right, and that you're also just getting lots of
0:47.9	challenges and criticism from everyone around you. It feels thankless at times, even if it is a
0:52.5	higher calling. And Dr. Becky's advice to parents,
0:56.0	just change the word parent to leader, change the word kid to employee or people, and it almost
1:01.2	always lines up. So because this ended up being so robust, I got so excited, we ended up having
1:07.6	the chop this episode into two parts. Today, we're going to go through
1:11.3	lessons one through four, leadership lessons from a parenting expert, and then on Wednesday,
1:16.5	we'll do the second half, and that'll be lessons five through seven. I hope you take away as
1:21.2	much as I did from this parenting book on leadership, and frankly, even if you're not a leader,
1:26.2	you're a parent, a parent to be, a leader, a leader to be.
1:29.0	There's lots of lessons here on how we manage the relationships in our lives.
1:33.4	How do we lead ourselves better and lead the people we love and care about better?
1:37.3	That's what these two episodes are about.
1:39.1	I hope you enjoy.
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