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Good Life Project

Discovering Your Identity | Stedman Graham

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve heard the name of my guest today, Stedman Graham, there’s a good chance it’s been offered in the same sentence with his long-time partner in life, Oprah Winfrey. What’s not as often told is Stedman’s own, deeply-compelling personal journey. His path from small-town kid to pursuing a degree in education while simultaneously serving in the Army, playing basketball in the European leagues, then returning home to enter the world of business and giving back along the way. Stedman eventually founded and now serves as chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, (https://www.stedmangraham.com/) a management and marketing consulting firm. He's also written 11 books, including two New York Times best-sellers, and his most recent, Identity Leadership (https://amzn.to/2JE1sH0)

Over the last two decades, Stedman Graham has become a noted expert in education and leadership development. He is fascinated by the exploration of identity, how we discover, validate then build our lives around our most essential selves, contribute to the world and become leaders from a place of deep personal alignment. In today’s conversation, we explore Stedman’s remarkable journey, his personal evolution and awakening and why he believes, with all his heart, that we need leaders more than ever, and why leadership is very much an inside game.

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0:00.0

So if you've heard the name of my guest today, Stedming Graham, there's a pretty decent

0:10.6

chance that it's been offered in the same sentence with his longtime life partner, Oprah

0:15.3

Winfrey.

0:16.5

What's not often told is Stedming's own deeply compelling personal story, his path from

0:22.4

small town kid to basketball phenomenon who actually played in the European leagues

0:28.0

to executive and eventually founder of his own consulting firm.

0:32.1

It really over the last two decades or so, Stedming has become deeply fascinated with the

0:37.3

exploration of identity, how we discover it, how we validate and then build our lives

0:43.4

around our identities and contribute to the world and become leaders from a place of

0:48.9

deep personal alignment with our most essential selves.

0:53.2

And he's developed his ideas over that window of time into a teachable framework that's

0:57.6

really pretty fascinating and that he shares in his latest book, Identity Leadership.

1:02.6

In today's conversation, we explore Stedming's remarkable journey, his personal evolution

1:07.6

and awakenings and why he believes with all of his heart that we are at a moment in time

1:13.8

now where we need leaders more than ever and why leadership is very much an inside game.

1:21.9

So excited to share this conversation with you.

1:24.4

I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.

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