Welcome to How Leaders Lead, where every week you get to listen in while I interview some of the very best leaders in the world.

I break down the key learning so that by the end of the episode, you'll have something simple that you can apply as you develop into a better leader.

That's what this podcast is all about.

Today's guest is Juliet Funt, the CEO of the Juliette Fund group, where she's a tough love advisor to Fortune 500 companies like Google, Costco, Nike, and Spotify.

She's also an author, and we're going to talk about her book, A Minute to Think, Throughout the Conversation.

Now, when was the last time you actually had a minute to think? Because if you're like a lot of leaders, your calendars

are just jam-packed and when you're not in meetings, you can hardly keep up with constant

emails and a task list that seems to have no end. So what are we supposed to do about the kind of work where we

need to stop and think before we respond? Or when we need to strategize about a crisis that's imminent.

Or we just simply need to have that quiet time where we really understand where we need to take

the business. There just doesn't seem to be time,

and it's costing us in more ways than we can ever imagine. Juliet is about to teach us how we can

get rid of some of that busyness that shows up in all of us and help us become a better leader.

There's so many practical takeaways in this episode,

and I can't wait for you to listen in.

Here's my conversation with my new friend

and soon to be yours, Juliet Funt.

You know, I heard you do this once, and I want to ask you to do it for us.

I'm about to turn on Flight of the Bumblebee.

And I want you to describe for me the work environment most of us are living in these days.

Okay.

All right.

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