My name is Nathan King and I'm obsessed with the moment when leaders decide not to play it safe. This is what this podcast is all about.
My name is Nathan King and I’m obsessed with the moment when leaders decide not to play it safe. I’ve been studying these pivotal decisions my entire career— the focus bet that killed three products to save one, the strategy bet that everyone said would never work, the personal decision to leave behind a corporate career and launch a new company.
During that time, I’ve been asking questions like:
Exploring these questions and helping you answer what more courage looks like in your own life is what this podcast is all about.
On each episode, I’ll take you behind the scenes with leaders who made one non-obvious bet. We will dig into the resistance they faced, how they operationalized their choice, and the real results. We will unpack the messy, uncertain moments when they decided to act with courage.
You and I can learn together from their successes and failures to plan our own bold moves.
[00:00] Nathan King: My name is Nathan King and I’m obsessed with the moment when leaders decide not to play it safe. I’ve been studying these pivotal decisions my entire career— the focus bet that killed three products to save one, the strategy bet that everyone said would never work, the personal decision to leave behind a corporate career and launch a new company.
[00:20] During that time, I’ve been asking questions like: “What made them believe when no one else did?” “How do you execute courage when the playbook doesn’t exist?” “What can we learn from both their wins and their instructive failures?”
[00:35] Exploring these questions and helping you answer what more courage looks like in your own life is what this podcast is all about.
[00:42] On each episode, I’ll take you behind the scenes with leaders who made one non-obvious bet. We will dig into the resistance they faced, how they operationalized their choice, and the real results. We will unpack the messy, uncertain moments when they decided to act with courage.
[00:58] You and I can learn together from their successes and failures to plan our own bold moves.