Luci Gabel—On Leadership, Life, Health and Happiness

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of a school-related trauma and threat of violence.

After a traumatic school incident, mindset coach Kate McCauley realized the system she loved could no longer hold the kind of transformation she knew was possible.

In this episode, I sit down with Kate—speaker and founder of The Champion Within—to talk about leaving a beloved role, building from the ground up, and creating ...

Do you want to learn how to time your coffee for peak focus, better sleep, and long-lasting energy?

In this episode, I’m sharing how to do it smarter.

As someone who's taught nutrition at GWU’s School of Medicine and written the book Eat to Lead, I get asked a lot about coffee. Questions like:
– Should I switch to tea for antioxidants?
– How much is too much?
– Is coffee actually making me feel happier?

I’ll answer all of...

We’re in a season of deep transition.

Companies are tightening up. Teams are being restructured. People—at every level—are trying to find their footing amid shifting roles, uncertain futures, and tough calls.

This episode of Leadership, Life, Health & Happiness speaks directly to those moments.

I’m joined by Enrique Acosta Gonzalez—CEO of Triad Leadership Solutions, award-winning author, and podcast host—for a conversation about h...

In times filled with political and personal uncertainty, understanding subconscious motivations is vital not only for effective leadership but also for personal growth.

This episode reveals how instinctive brain responses shape our interactions both at work and at home.

Understanding these neuroscience concepts will empower you to navigate all kinds of challenges with greater insight and effectiveness. 

Tune in to leverage these ins...

Ever find yourself awake at night, plagued by restless thoughts, even when everything seems fine? You're not alone. Especially today.

In my latest episode, I dive into the neuroscience behind our need for certainty, and how it impacts our motivation and mental well-being.

Discover how uncertainty triggers our 'fight, flight, freeze' response, and learn practical tips to create a sense of certainty in your life and leade...

There are several primal, neurological systems in the brain that determine whether someone is going to be attracted to what you have to say, or put off by it, and it takes 1/5 of a second for that decision to be made.

If you ever want to influence someone, motivate someone, or help someone, heck, if you just want to have a good relationship with someone, it’s really good to know this information.

In this episode you'll hear how ...

Gary Chupik is internationally recognized as one of the top mental performance coaches in the world, who has worked with the likes of Seattle Seahawks, US figureskating, Crossfit Olympics, National Motorcross Association, Stanford University, Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, the FBI, police and fire people, and many more.

What's his message? You have to know how to lead yourself first before you can lead anyone else.

There are many techn...

How we perform best mentally is different from what most of us think—and the opposite of what our culture has been telling us and pushing us to do which is:

do as much as you can, all at once, all the time.



Research shows we can't focus on more than one thing at a time. Even if you think you are, what you're really doing is juggling thoughts—touching on one for a moment and then switching.



Studies have found that the mo...

Contrary to popular belief, consistent, high levels of stress aren't conducive to high-performance.

Science now shows that being able to lower your stress in-between stressful sprints, improves your mental and physical performance, enhances resilience, creativity, and problem solving skills, and improves your mental and physical health.

Reducing stress doesn't require you give up your job, or spend hours on meditation. He...

The ability to pause and question assumptions is a superpower.

It allows you to engage the executive functioning frontal lobe of your brain, rather than relying solely on the fight flight freeze response which will frequently lead you down the wrong road when it comes to making important, impactful decisions.

In this podcast I give you three steps to breaking free of assumptions and the fight, flight freeze response that causes the...

I stopped paying attention to how old I was after I learned a few things about age and aging that I think you'd be interested in knowing as well.

What I learned was so profound that I literally stopped counting the number of years I've been alive.

We used to think of age as a number that predicts illness or death. But we've found out that different people with different lifestyles do not have the same physiology at the same age.

Did you know hunger doesn't always present itself as that familiar "hunger feeling?"

Not eating, and specifically not eating the right kinds of food in the right timing, will interfere with your ability to be the kind of person you want to be. It can drastically reduce your ability to be the kind of leader you want to be, and the leader your people need you to be.

Come with me on a walk this episode where I share about how not ea...

How to start becoming who we want to be?

Whether it's to be a good leader or to be healthy or something else, it usually involves taking action in ways that are different from most people around us.

Sometimes everyone around us.

And that can be uncomfortable.

The uncomfortability is one of the great hindrances for people stepping up and becoming the person that they truly want to be, for leading the life they truly want to lead, bec...

Yes, you read the title right.

There are techniques you can take from the elite athlete's playbook to boost your own performance.

Of course, I talk about leadership in this podcast, but you can take a page from this playbook and it'll help you in so many areas of life.

Not striving to be an olympian? That's okay.

We all want to be our best, and at the top of our game when the time calls for it.

Here are some things they do—that you ...

Around 2022, after the pandemic, people started realizing that it wasn't worth giving up their life and their health for jobs that required a lot of energy, but weren't giving them much in return. Then came quiet quitting, next quiet vacationing, now there's coffee and badging.

All of these are phrases used by people who are not happy to follow a leader, to be part of a group, to be part of an organization, to come to the workplace...

The U. S. has been in a severe heat wave. For the last 10 days or so it was in northern California and the northwest, and now it's moving east.

I was traveling up the coast last week and much of my exercise is outdoors—especially cardio. Do you exercise outdoors in this heat?

Many of you want to keep working out because it's part of how you keep our optimal performance: it keeps your energy and your mood high; it regulates your sle...

There’s a trend these days for: setting boundaries; sticking up yourself; letting people know they’re crossing a line that’s not OK with you; telling people if they’re asking for something that’s over-the-top or too much.

This can be a good thing, because we need to make sure that we can take care of ourselves, both mentally physically and emotionally.

And if we’re constantly saying yes to everyone else it usually means were mostly ...

Here we have an incredible, motivational story about the power of the human mind, body and spirit. An example of moving from the biggest challenges and the lowest depths in life, to a place where you thrive. 

A champion in life and sport, Peter Twist coached medal-winners in the National Hockey League, became a worldwide fitness-industry legend, and continues to be a successful business owner and leader today. 

In our deeply moving &...