Welcome to Franklin Covey on Leadership.

I'm Will Hodling, Franklin Covey's head of product, and in this podcast, we'll walk through

the mistakes, methods, and mindsets that built many of the world's most credible leaders.

We hope that their hard-earned insights help accelerate you on your journey.

Today's guest is Jerry Colonna, business builder, investor, an expert executive coach.

Jerry was one of the founders of Flatiron Partners, one of New York City's premier venture

capital firms, and led tech investing at J.P. Morgan's private equity arm.

Today, Jerry is the CEO of Reboot.io, a leading executive coaching and leadership development company. And he's also the best

selling author of two great books, Reboot and Reunion. Jerry Colonna, welcome to On Leadership.

Thank you so much for joining us. Well, thanks for having me. It's a delight to be here with you.

Lovely. I'm very excited about today's conversation. I've been a long time listener and reader of your work.

And I think also your ethos of the importance of radical self-inquiry really overlaps with Frank and Covey's focus on leadership development happening inside out. So in your work, you talk about the importance of radical self-inquiry,

how we should investigate our childhood memories, our earliest experiences,

because they consciously and subconsciously drive our values, our motivations.

And so I would like to start today with a little bit of your origin story,

learning more about kind of how you grew up and how that experience shaped the person you came to be.

In particular, I've heard before a story from your grandpa about the lemon drops and the tin.

And so that's a great one to start with and we'd love to, yeah yeah, if you could tell us a little bit your background, that'd be great.

Sure.

And that's a good way to understand this.

And before I go into the story, I think the simplest way

to understand the phrase radical self-inquiry is with a question,

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