Elevate with Robert Glazer
Discover the keys to unlocking your full potential with the Elevate Podcast. Hosted by Robert Glazer, award-winning entrepreneur, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and creator of the Friday Forward, the Elevate Podcast features interviews with world-renowned business leaders, New York Times bestselling authors, and leading experts who share their insights, best practices, and advice on how to elevate your life, your leadership, and your business. Whether you're seeking to cultivate better habits, reach new leadership heights, or simply learn from those who share your passion for growth and improvement, the Elevate Podcast offers practical steps for making impactful changes and reaching your full potential. For ad inquiries, please reach out to: Network+ERG@yapmedia.com
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October 22, 2026 • 51 mins
Bill Gallagher is a veteran CEO coach who works with leaders and teams in more than 28 cities and 13 countries. He has over three decades of entrepreneurial and executive experience and has led four companies as CEO and owner. He's also the host of the Scaling Up Podcast, and on the side he's a surfer, sailor, skateboarder, pilot, scuba diver, and self-described recovering triathlete. His new book, Busy Is Broken, is now available ...
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October 20, 2026 • 67 mins
Lenore Skenazy is the president and co-founder of Let Grow, the nonprofit she started with Jonathan Haidt, Peter Gray, and Daniel Shuchman to make childhood independence easy, normal, and legal again. In 2008, she let her 9-year-old son ride the New York City subway home alone, wrote a column about it, and was promptly dubbed "America's Worst Mom" by the national media. She turned that firestorm into Free-Range Kids, the book and b...
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October 17, 2026 • 58 mins
On a classic edition of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and Joey Coleman discuss the beautiful ones. They talk about a 1968 mouse utopia experiment that collapsed despite having every need m:et, why removing every hardship also removes the reason to show up, and where comfort may have quietly replaced challenge in our own lives, and why all of this makes you stand out.
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October 15, 2026 • 65 mins
Annie Duke is an author, speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners. Annie’s is the bestselling author of multiple books, most notably Thinking In Bets and Quit. Annie was previously a championship winning poker player, having amassed over $4 million in tournament winnings, won a World Series of Poker Bracelet, and having won the...
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Molly Graham has spent nearly two decades inside companies during their fastest and messiest years of growth. She started at the Council on Foreign Relations and as a wilderness instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School before moving into technology, where her team at Google went from 25 people to 125 in nine months. She then spent nearly five years at Facebook building the culture, compensation, and performance systems...
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October 10, 2026 • 41 mins
On a classic episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss a unique approach to countering harmful and hateful beliefs, championed by educator and author Irshad Manji. Robert and Mick dig into why arguing with people we disagree with doesn't work, and why it's much more effective to seek understanding--even when it feels impossible.
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October 8, 2026 • 51 mins
Mike Michalowicz was declared as one of the contenders for patron saint of entrepreneurs by Simon Sinek. He is a serial entrepreneur who started several multi-million-dollar companies and uses his businesses to test and perfect ideas other entrepreneurs can use to excel. He is the author of the bestselling Entrepreneurship Simplified book series, which includes hits like Profit First, Clockwork, Get Different, and his latest,&...
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Dr. Aliza Pressman, a developmental psychologist, Associate Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai, co-founding director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Dr. Pressman is also the host of the award-winning Raising Good Humans podcast, and author of the New York Times bestselling book The 5 Principles of Parenting.
Dr. Aliza Pressman joins host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss The 5 Principles of Parenting, Emotional...
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October 3, 2026 • 67 mins
On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and co-host Joey Coleman discuss being bored. They talk about why we reach for distraction over discomfort, what System 1 and System 2 thinking have to do with your phone habit, and why your best ideas show up when you let yourself be bored, and why all of this makes you stand out.
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October 1, 2026 • 50 mins
Taki Moore is the author of Million Dollar Coach and the creator and is the brains behind some of the largest coaches and coaching organizations in the world. Since 2004, he's on a mission to eliminate cold-calling, ambulance-chasing, and high-pressure selling from the coaching industry, and elevate coaches who actually want to help people get better.
Taki Moore joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss his journ...
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September 29, 2026 • 66 mins
Jill Schulman is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer turned leadership development expert, and the founder and CEO of Breakthrough Leadership Group. After five years on active duty as a combat engineer officer and a decade in sales leadership, she earned her Master's from the University of Pennsylvania and turned her career toward studying the science of bravery, resilience, and peak performance. She works with Fortune 500...
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September 26, 2026 • 60 mins
On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and co-host Brittany Hodak discuss closing doors. They talk about the two ways doors close (on you, or by your choice), why the hardest door to close is the one that still works, how to tell whether you're staying out of persistence or out of fear, and how endings make room for what comes next, and why all of this makes you stand out.
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September 24, 2026 • 42 mins
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the bestselling author of three books: The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and his latest, Supercommunicators, which was published this year. Charles is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards, and he currently writes for The New Yorker and several other publications.
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September 22, 2026 • 59 mins
Jess Ekstrom is a social entrepreneur, Forbes Top-Rated Speaker, and bestselling author. She is the founder of Headbands for Hope company that has now donated millions of headbands to kids facing serious illnesses, partnered with the NBA and WNBA, and is sold nationally at Kohl's. She's also the founder of Mic Drop Workshop, which helps more women become paid public speakers and authors, and she's delivered keynotes for organizatio...
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September 19, 2026 • 67 mins
On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer joins David Burkus, organizational psychologist, Columbia University professor, and bestselling author of five books on business and leadership, who has worked with leaders at organizations like PepsiCo, Fidelity, Adobe, and NASA.
They dig into the fall of Jason Arday, the celebrated Cambridge professor whose story unraveled under fabrication alle...
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September 17, 2026 • 55 mins
David Gelles is an award-winning New York Times reporter and bestselling author. He has extensive experience as a business reporter in particular and has reported extensively on, among other topics, Boeing’s safety issues, Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme, and the life and leadership of GE CEO Jack Welch. He’s the bestselling author of three books, including The Man Who Broke Capitalism, about Welch, and a n...
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September 15, 2026 • 67 mins
Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College. A Columbia-educated researcher with a PhD in biological sciences from Rockefeller University, he has published widely across developmental psychology, anthropology, and education, and authored a college introductory psychology textbook now in its eighth edition. He is the co-founder of Let Grow, the nonprofit he started with Lenore Skenazy and...
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September 12, 2026 • 63 mins
On today's episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and Joey Coleman discuss building rapport, using Robert's experience trying to retrieve a delayed laptop delivery from a UPS distribution center as the jumping-off point. They talk about the difference between showing up as a complaint versus showing up as a person, why leading with kindness often opens doors that policy alone won't, and why you ...
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September 10, 2026 • 54 mins
Dr. Klaus Kleinfeld is one of the only leaders in history to have served as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies on different continents: Siemens in Germany and Alcoa in the United States. Today, Klaus is the founder of K2Elevation, where he invests in tech and biotech firms, and he has served on boards ranging from advanced industrial startups to global cultural initiatives. He’s also the author of the n...
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Dr. Caroline Webb, a behavioral scientist, former McKinsey partner, and author of Leadership Intelligence. Drawing from her background at the Bank of England and McKinsey, she specializes in translating behavioral science into practical tools for working life. Her new book, Leadership Intelligence, is out now.
Dr. Caroline Webb joined host Robert Glazer to talk about Leadership Intelligence, Behavioral Science in Business, and A...
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