Practice Makes Permanent: Transforming Leaders with Dr. Anthony Randall
Mick Unplugged
Realm
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Practice Makes Permanent: Transforming Leaders with Dr. Anthony Randall
Dr. Anthony Randall isn't just a leader; he's a seismic force in personal and organizational transformation. An international award-winning author, combat veteran, West Point graduate, and martial arts master with black belts in three disciplines, Dr. Randall redefines excellence. As the President and Founder of Vanguard XXI, he masterfully coaches leaders across Fortune 100/500 companies, U.S. military special operations, Major League Baseball, and more, inspiring them to align passion, purpose, and precision. He's a visionary dedicated to restoring civility, fostering anti-fragility, and championing a "more excellent way" of leading and living.
Takeaways:
- Practice Makes Permanent, Not Perfect: Focus on practicing excellence to make quality habits and skills permanent, ensuring continuous growth and improvement across all aspects of life.
- Embrace Anti-Fragility Over Resilience: Instead of simply bouncing back from adversity, strive to become anti-fragile, meaning you improve and grow stronger through challenges, rather than just returning to your original state.
- The Golden Triangle of Liberty: Restoring civility and trusted leadership in the public square requires a balance of freedom, virtue, and faith, moving beyond self-interest to foster objective values and civil discourse.
Sound Bytes:
"Practice makes permanent not perfect. I think that kind of destroys one of those isms that people typically think is practice makes perfect. Practice makes permanent. Practice does not make perfect. So practice excellence."
"Being anti-fragile is about not just responding, resisting and responding to the things in life, but getting better from each and every one of those sets and reps."
"When you can coach organizations in depth how to think, you begin to create morally and ethically autonomous leaders that get stuff done."
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Website: vanguardxxi.com
Website: anthonyrandall.org
Book: Practicing Excellence
Book: Practice Makes Permanent
LinkedIn: @anthonyvanguardxxi
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| 0:29.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged, and today |
| 0:34.8 | we're joined by an international award-winning author, a force behind |
| 0:40.3 | transforming leaders, and we are talking to a man who has more black belts than I do around |
| 0:47.1 | my waist. He is the masterful, the transformative, the unforgettable Columbus, Georgia's own. |
| 0:54.8 | My God. |
| 0:56.0 | Dr. Anthony Randall. |
| 0:59.2 | You're listening to Mick Unplugged, hosted by the one and only Mick Hunt. |
| 1:04.1 | This is where purpose meets power, and stories spark transformation. |
| 1:08.4 | Mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning, helping you discover |
| 1:12.2 | your because and becoming unstoppable. I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, you're in the right place. |
| 1:18.8 | Let's get unplugged. Dr. Anthony, how you doing today, brother? Good, Mick. How are you? Great to see you. |
| 1:27.4 | Great to see you too, man. You know, just catching up a little bit. Talking to you for a while on social media, I don't think I realize how close we were to each other. So that's a Mick error right there. But I'm honored to have my neighbor. I'm on the show. So I've been looking forward to this one for a while, bro. |
| 1:47.9 | That sounds great. I've got probably more errors in life than you do. I'm just glad that Herb and Corey Thompson could connect us through Liberty Speaks, and it's great to be working |
| 1:52.4 | together. Absolutely. Absolutely. Shout out to Herb and Corey, or Peaches and Herb, as I like to call |
| 1:59.3 | them when we're together. |
| 2:01.2 | There you go. |
| 2:02.0 | Dude, you know, I always start my shows off by asking my guest, what's your because, right? |
| 2:08.1 | Like Simon Sennick, good friend of mine, taught us to all start with our why. |
| 2:12.0 | And I like to think that once you know your why, you're fueled by your because, that thing that keeps you going, that promise |
| 2:19.4 | that you make. So if I would ask you today, Dr. Anthony, 26, what's your because? Why do you |
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