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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Chris Widener: “Leaders are Initiators; They Make Things Happen.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Business

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Chris Widener explores three vital character traits every leader must cultivate: relationships, integrity, and wholeness. He explains why leadership is always about people — not systems — and challenges us to repair broken relationships, lead with authenticity, and align our lives so others can trust us completely. With practical advice and vivid stories, this talk is a roadmap to becoming a leader worth following.


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0:00.0

And integrity is the idea of being whole.

0:03.0

It means you don't lead half your life this way and half your life this way.

0:08.0

You don't lead a third of your life this way and a third of your life this way and a third of your life this way.

0:13.0

It means when somebody looks at you, they see a whole person.

0:17.0

They know that when you speak, you are telling the truth because you are a person who tells the truth. They know that when you speak, you are telling the truth because you are a person who tells the truth.

0:23.5

They know that when you say you are going to do something, you're going to do it. Why? Because

0:27.3

you're a person who does what they say they're going to do. Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

0:47.2

I'm your host Sean Croxton at Sean Croxton.

0:50.0

We got Chris Weiner back on the show today.

0:52.9

He's going to talk about two character issues

0:55.3

that you can immediately improve, like instantly. If you are beefing with somebody at work,

1:02.8

if there's that person that you absolutely cannot stand, you're going to learn a way that you

1:08.1

can start to heal that relationship starting today. He's also going to talk about

1:14.3

what it means to be a person of integrity. Chris Weiner is coming up. Now, we've talked about the

1:23.1

skills. Let's move into the character issues. And I got three specific character issues that I'd like to share with you in the last few moments here.

1:30.5

The first one is relationships.

1:33.9

Now if you're like most people, you probably say, wait a minute, relationships sounds more like a skill.

1:38.4

There are relational skills.

1:40.9

But I would say that the underlying thing about relationships is more an issue of character.

1:47.2

It's more an issue of values.

1:49.3

It's more an issue of what you believe about other people.

1:54.3

See, it's easy to go into a place of employment and to bump up against other people for eight hours a day.

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