Acknowledge Your Humanness
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Brené Brown said, "Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight." And in this week's episode, John Maxwell is showing how that's true — and how acknowledging your flaws frees you to become a high road leader.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow explore practical ways to develop self-compassion, laugh at yourself, and believe in your unique potential, so you can apply John's insights to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
- Confident humility allows you to believe in yourself while still questioning your strategies.
- If you don't show yourself kindness, you won't be able to extend it to anyone else.
- The world needs you to embrace your humanness and step fully into your unique leadership greatness.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Acknowledge Your Humanness Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Acknowledge and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the Maxwell Leadership podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | And by the way, if you're listening live, let me be the first to say, |
| 0:15.8 | Merry Christmas. |
| 0:17.2 | It's Merry Christmas Eve, Tracy. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm so honored to be here with you on Merry Christmas Eve. |
| 0:23.7 | Merry Christmas, Mark. Yeah. Isn't it great to kind of be able to kind of celebrate this time of the year with friends and family and people of faith and the significance of it? Merry Christmas to you and your family. |
| 0:39.8 | Yes, I am so excited. |
| 0:43.4 | I love it. And you know, it is really fun. And I know that you can appreciate this. |
| 0:51.4 | It was, it was really fun to be, you know, having young children for Christmas, but even more so with grandchildren and seeing it in that next generation and being older |
| 0:56.2 | and seeing the grandkids experience Christmas, it is just so deeply meaningful. |
| 1:00.9 | It's fun. |
| 1:01.5 | I cannot wait again for tomorrow morning and all that is getting ready to happen around the |
| 1:08.0 | Cole household. |
| 1:08.9 | It is going to be crazy. |
| 1:10.6 | And then two hours later, |
| 1:12.1 | they're going to be bored. That's just the way it works. I know. Isn't that so insane? Like the |
| 1:16.8 | lead up to it is all the shopping and the wrapping and the wrapping and the prep. And then literally |
| 1:22.2 | it is within an hour. It is all a disaster. And it's over. Hey, here at Baxville Leadership Podcast, we really are committed to adding value to you and then giving you something to go and give away to multiply value to others is how we say it. |
| 1:38.3 | We're in the middle for the last three weeks, if you haven't noticed, we're in the middle of really dissecting high road |
| 1:45.0 | leadership. This is a book. This is an audio book. This is a resource that John created about a year |
| 1:50.9 | ago, a little over a year ago now, on how to live and lead at a different level, at a level |
| 1:57.8 | that many don't understand. And so today, we're going to talk about how to |
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