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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

What Great Leaders Do When No One Is Watching (with Zac Bauermaster)

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Are you on the right seat on the right bus? Take the FREE Should I Quit My Job Quiz. 👉 https://ter.li/281ipo In this episode, Ken sits down with educator and school principal Zac Bauermaster. Learn how to build healthy rhythms that protect your energy, why slowing down makes you a stronger, more trusted leader, and how to prevent burnout by valuing people over processes.   Next Steps: 🪑 Join the Front Row Seat live audience!  📝 Take the Get Clear Career Assessment. Connect With Our Sponsors:   Head to Avocado Green Mattress today for $50 off adult mattresses with code FRONTROWSEAT. Get 20% off when you join DeleteMe. Try Quo for free, plus get 20% off your first six months. Quo: no missed calls, no missed customers. Explore More From Ramsey Network:  🎙️ The Ramsey Show  📈 EntreLeadership 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show 💰 George Kamel   Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ten years ago, I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep.

0:08.0

And I was leading a seventh grade team meeting and a panic attack hit.

0:11.0

And it caused me to pass out.

0:13.0

I thought I was dying.

0:14.0

And here, I was battling anxiety.

0:16.0

And I was a seventh grade teacher at the time.

0:18.0

And I was keeping it all to myself.

0:19.0

But I told my principal, and he said, Zach, at all the people people in the world you're the last person I would expect to be going through

0:24.2

something like this can I ask you what was the source of that through God's grace I was in the

0:28.1

word I was in prayer but there's one piece that I was missing

0:31.6

Zach Bowermaster built a platform by being an educator who cared as a principal

0:36.7

his people-first approach

0:37.9

earned national attention. Now he's helping leaders everywhere create healthier

0:41.4

cultures by focusing less on systems and more on people. A true mark of leadership

0:45.9

is how things run when you're gone. You can lose trust early on and struggle to get it

0:49.9

back the entire time. Recent survey found that 70% of teachers have thought about quitting since the 2020 pandemic.

0:56.9

Sometimes we often forget ourselves.

0:58.9

And what I think is so important.

1:04.0

Okay, you have seen the show before.

1:06.1

This is your moment.

1:07.4

In the envelope is a person from your past.

1:10.2

I want you to tell us who they are but most importantly

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