How to Be a Relatable Leader
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The greatest way to identify with other people is to say, “I know what you’re going through.” In today’s episode, John C. Maxwell is sharing a lesson on how you can be a relatable leader for the people around you!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede sit down to have a conversation on what John has shared, as well as offer you practical leadership wisdom and application.
Key takeaways:
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Adversity makes you relatable to others.
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Success and failure are not opposites.
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Wisdom always comes out of crisis.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the How to Be a Relatable Leader Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Relatable and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Our podcast is committed to adding value to leaders who will multiply value to others. |
| 0:17.3 | My name is Mark Cole, and on this week's episode, John is going to be sharing a lesson on how |
| 0:23.4 | adversity makes you relatable to others. |
| 0:26.6 | We call it how to be a relatable leader. |
| 0:29.8 | What I can tell you is after 25 years of watching John Maxwell, redefine himself, reorient himself, |
| 0:36.7 | re-envision himself in our organizations, I can tell you that |
| 0:41.2 | John Maxwell, if he's anything, he's relatable to the people he leads, the people he communicates to, |
| 0:47.9 | and the people that want to make a difference because of the life and the model of John Maxwell. |
| 0:58.5 | So you're going to love this lesson, and after the lesson, I'll be back with my co-host, Chris Goody. |
| 0:59.5 | We're going to walk through what John has taught and help you apply what John is taught to both |
| 1:05.2 | your life and your leadership. |
| 1:07.2 | If you would like to download the free bonus resource or even watch this episode, |
| 1:14.0 | you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash relatable. I spent a little time this morning, |
| 1:21.1 | and I have to tell all of you that watch us on YouTube or watch us on your different viewers |
| 1:27.3 | or your different audio opportunities. |
| 1:31.1 | When you leave us a comment, it makes a difference. |
| 1:35.9 | Not even encouraging comments like I leave a lot of time here at the end of our show today, |
| 1:40.5 | but when you leave a comment about how to help us become better, we want you to know |
| 1:46.6 | we appreciate it. So perhaps this week, even before you listen to John, leave us a comment |
| 1:51.9 | or intend to leave us a comment because it will help us. Now, here we go. Thank you for |
| 1:56.5 | all of your comments. Here is John Maxwell. |
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