Most leaders expect failure to be hard — but no one warns us how disorienting success can be. In today’s episode, Alan Briggs takes us inside a live leadership session and unpacks the real, often hidden challenges that come with growth: fulfillment gaps, maturity barriers, identity drift, disorientation, burnout, and the pressure of everyone wanting a piece of your time.

But this conversation isn’t about fear. It’s about forming the kind of roots that can sustain real fruit.

Alan shares practical insights on:

• Why success often feels emptier than we expect

• The surprising truth that what got you here won’t get you there

• How success multiplies options, noise, and expectations

• Why leaders lose honest feedback when they gain influence

• The difference between external fruit and internal roots

• The identity dreams every healthy leader should define

• How to build a life that matches the person you’re becoming

• What it takes to grow without losing yourself, your family, or your soul

If you’re leading a team, building a company, or navigating a season of rapid growth, this episode gives you a framework to name what’s happening beneath the surface — and an invitation to design a healthier, more intentional way to live and lead.

Key Takeaways

• Success reveals weaknesses success created.

• Leaders need pre-made filters to protect their time and energy.

• Roots = identity, health, and formation. Fruits = visible impact.

• Without strong roots, success will topple you like a pine tree in a storm.

• Identity dreams > traditional goals.

• Investment always feels like loss before it feels like growth.

• Healthy leaders design their lives on purpose — not in reaction.

Resources

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• Learn more about H2 Coaching: https://www.h2leadership.com

• Get Alan’s book “Anti-Burnout”: https://a.co/d/9Xzn5mJ

• Follow the H2 Leadership Podcast: https://www.h2leadershippodcast.com

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Great leaders don’t just give answers. They ask better questions. J.R. Briggs joins Alan to unpack how curiosity, coaching questions, and practical reflection rhythms build trust, unlock growth, and transform teams.

Episode Summary:
If you’ve ever left a conversation wishing you’d asked a better question, this episode is for you. J.R. Briggs shares the mindsets and mechanics behind powerful questions at work, at home, in faith, and why leaders who cultivate curiosity build healthier, higher-impact teams. We explore obstacles like expertise traps, speed, and “question deserts,” then get tactical with preparation prompts, in-the-moment practices, and post-conversation reflection.

You’ll Learn:
• The difference between clarity questions and connection questions
• Practical coaching prompts: trade-offs, the capital-C Challenge, and “what do you really want?”
• How one courageous question (Darryl Davis) can disarm hostility
• A repeatable rhythm to prepare, participate, and reflect after conversations
• How asking better questions reduces decision fatigue and builds trust

Key Quote:
“Questions are pre-made decisions that make the moment simple.”

Giveaway:
Ask J.R. your question and enter to win his new book. Email hello@h2leadership.com with subject line “Question for JR.”

Links:

• H2 Leadership: h2leadership.com
• Email your question: hello@h2leadership.com
• The Art of Asking Better Questions

Most leaders don’t fail because of a lack of ideas... they fail because those ideas never leave their heads.

In this episode, Alan Briggs helps leaders make the crucial shift from intuitive to intentional, showing how to build systems and filters that multiply impact and prevent burnout. If your team constantly depends on you for decisions, it’s time to get what’s in your head into theirs — so your organization can grow beyond your personal capacity.

Alan unpacks insights from the middle of his book, Anti-Burnout: A Lighter Way to Live and Lead in a Heavy World, and breaks down a practical process that will help you lead more effectively without carrying it all alone.

What You’ll Learn

• Why your best ideas and decisions shouldn’t stay in your head

• The three essentials for moving from intuitive to intentional: process, courage, and trust

• How to clarify your vision, mission, and values so your team can act without hesitation

• The four H filters every leader needs (humble, hungry, honest, high-capacity)

• How to reduce decision fatigue and build simple, repeatable decision-making filters

• Why slowing down, documenting, and delegating is an investment, not a setback

• How releasing control can actually expand your influence and create new space for creativity

Key Quote

“Filters are pre-made decisions that make decision-making in the moment simple.”

Resources Mentioned

• Book: Anti-Burnout: A Lighter Way to Live and Lead in a Heavy World by Alan Briggs

• Learn more about H2 Leadership: www.h2leadership.com

• Schedule a Breakthrough Coaching Session: h2leadership.com/#breakthrough

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Every leader has that project...The one that’s been sitting on your list for months (or years) because you don’t know where to start. In today’s episode, Alan breaks down a simple but powerful 3-step framework to help you get unstuck and finally take action on the work that matters most.

Whether you’re writing a book, launching a new initiative, creating a new offering, or trying to push a big idea across the finish line, this episode gives you a proven path forward rooted in clarity, momentum, and healthy leadership practices.

This teaching comes directly from the H2 coaching process and aligns with the principles in Alan’s book Anti-Burnout: A Lighter Way to Live and Lead in a Heavy World.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why feeling stuck is not a leadership flaw—it’s a signal

• The first mindset shift required to create movement

• The exact 3 questions you must ask to break through resistance

• How healthy leaders use who and how to move faster—with less stress

• A practical way to break down overwhelming projects into actionable next steps

Three Questions to Get You Unstuck

1. Who can help me?

2. How can I do this more lightly (not harder)?

3. What smaller chunks can I break this into?

Resources Mentioned

• Anti-Burnout: A Lighter Way to Live and Lead in a Heavy World by Alan Briggs

• Coaching with H2 Leadership – Learn more at H2Leadership.com

Subscribe & Review

If this episode helped you get clarity, share it with a leader who needs momentum. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review—it helps more leaders discover tools for health and high impact.

Chapters / Timestamps

• 00:00 – Why every leader gets stuck

• 02:40 – The difference between feeling stuck and being stuck

• 04:15 – Step 1: Naming the project

• 05:30 – Question #1: Who can help me?

• 07:45 – Question #2: How can I do this more lightly?

• 09:50 – Question #3: Break it into chunks

• 12:00 – Final leadership challenge & call to action

Legacy isn’t what you leave—it’s what you set in motion.
In this conversation, David Green (Founder & CEO of Hobby Lobby) and Bill High (CEO of Legacy Stone) share insights from their new book, Legacy Life: Leading Your Family to Make a Difference for Eternity.

Together they unpack how to think beyond success and retirement to build something that outlives you—faith, family, and purpose that multiplies through generations.

What You’ll Learn

• What inspired Legacy Life and why legacy is a system, not a season

• The key difference between legacy and generosity

• Why retirement isn’t the finish line for leaders of faith

• How to clarify your identity, calling, and assignment

• The practical process to write your family vision, mission, and values

• Why storytelling is vital for passing down faith and wisdom

• A simple model for repairing conflict and celebrating progress

• The mindset of a 100-year leader and how to start now

Episode Chapters

01:06 – The story behind Legacy Life
03:34 – Rethinking retirement: calling never expires
07:36 – Legacy vs. generosity: why generosity is a symptom
10:21 – Inheritance vs. legacy: passing on what truly lasts
12:15 – Creating family vision, mission, and values
17:27 – Setting legacy in motion (not leaving it behind)
22:09 – Simple steps to start your family legacy plan
26:22 – Why storytelling keeps generations connected
29:58 – Repairing the past and celebrating progress
32:26 – The 100-year family mindset
36:20 – Final takeaways: eternal impact through intentional living

Guests

David Green — Founder & CEO, Hobby Lobby
Bill High — CEO, Legacy Stone; co-author of Legacy Life: Leading Your Family to Make a Difference for Eternity

Resources & Links

• 📘 Legacy Life — [https://a.co/d/1vS943R]

• Legacy Stone — https://www.legacystone.com/about

• Hobby Lobby — [hobbylobby.com]

• Learn more at [h2leadership.com]

If this episode challenged or encouraged you, share it with one person you respect—and take 20 minutes this week to write down your family’s top five values. Legacy begins there.

Misalignment sneaks up slowly—and it’s expensive. When your life, work, or team drifts out of alignment, you start feeling it: fatigue, frustration, disconnection, and eventually burnout. In this episode, Alan unpacks how to spot misalignment early and realign your wiring, your purpose, and your team before things break down.

You’ll hear:

• The story of a coaching client who ignored the “alignment rumble” too long

• Why wiring, purpose, and team are the three biggest alignment zones

• How to use the Working Genius Assessment to clarify your design

• The Drains & Fills exercise to reclaim energy and focus

• A simple Pacing Check to make sure your speed matches your team’s capacity

• Two reflection questions to realign your work this week

“You will hit potholes. You will need realignment. It’s not if—it’s when.”

Reflection Questions

1. How can you align your work more closely to your wiring?

2. What change can you make to align more closely with your team?

Tools Mentioned

• Working Genius Assessment

• Drains & Fills list (simple two-column reflection exercise)

• Pacing Check (compare your pace to your team’s perception)

• visit www.h2leadership.com for more tools and resources.

Chapters

00:00 – What is an H2 Leader? Health and high impact in harmony
02:15 – The need for new brakes and better alignment
03:30 – What misalignment looks and feels like
05:00 – The story of “Tim”: when wiring, purpose, and team fall out of sync
07:00 – The cost of misalignment in leadership and culture
09:20 – The great disengagement: how misalignment kills engagement
10:00 – Tools for realignment: Working Genius, Drains & Fills, Pacing Check
11:45 – Reflection questions and next steps

Subscribe and follow the H2 Leadership Podcast for more episodes. Share this episode with another leader who might be feeling “out of alignment.”

We said goodbye to Stay Forth—and hello to H2 Leadership.
Same mission, sharper clarity. This episode is our official announcement and a roadmap for where we’re heading: helping leaders become healthy and high impact (H2).

From a beach pop-up studio in Delray Beach, we unpack:

• Why the name change (clarity over clever): people loved our work but didn’t always “get” the name.

• What H2 Leadership means: health (heart, soul, mind, body, relationships) + sustainable impact.

• Energy > time: lead by ROE—Return on Energy, not just calendars and hustle.

• The core shift: moving from reactive to proactive leadership.

• Priorities → elimination: clarity creates riverbanks; a to-don’t list protects what matters.

• Who we serve: business, nonprofit, and ministry leaders—any catalyst who wants to lead well.

You’ll learn

• A simple way to audit the 5 domains of health

• How to tune tension (like a guitar string) between health and impact

• Practical steps to reclaim focus and build momentum with your team

• What’s changing (brand, clarity, systems) and what’s not (our mission + coaching)

Chapters
00:00 Welcome & context
01:05 Why we’re rebranding
04:10 What “healthy + high impact” looks like
06:20 The five domains of health
09:20 What’s changing vs. what stays
11:25 ROE: Return on Energy
12:15 From reactive to proactive
13:55 Priorities, riverbanks & elimination
17:40 Who we serve (catalysts)
20:05 What’s next + how to connect

Links

• Start here: https://www.h2leadership.com

• The H2 Leadership Podcast hub: https://www.h2leadership.com/podcast

Stay connected

• YouTube: @H2Leadership

• Instagram: @h2leaders

• LinkedIn: H2 Leadership

Call to Action
If this helped, follow the show and share it with a leader you care about. Want personal coaching or team support? Tap the link above and let’s begin your H2 journey.

Ineffective leaders create dysfunction around them, but grounded, effective leaders create life, clarity, and vitality. Work is meant to bring dignity and meaning—not constant stress and confusion.

In this episode, Jonathan and Alan unpack why grounded leaders are desperately needed right now and how they shape healthier, more focused, and high-impact teams. You’ll hear:

• The difference between being efficient with tasks and being effective with people

• Why grounded leaders produce both internal fulfillment and external impact

• Practical ways to shift from scattered to grounded leadership

• The markers of a healthy, focused team versus a stressed, reactive one

• How to stop doing in the name of efficiency and start doing in the name of effectiveness

If you’re feeling the weight of distraction, burnout, or constant urgency, this episode will help you re-center on what matters most and lead in a way that protects both your health and your team’s impact.

👉 Don’t miss the other episodes in this leadership series:

• The Leadership Shift You Need Right Now

• Activity Is Not the Same as Action: The Value of Well-Crafted Work