Episode 425 — Season 6 Finale: The Non-Negotiables of Elite Brands and People
The difference between those who scale and those who stall isn’t talent. It’s the willingness to act when every instinct says quit.
In the Season 6 finale of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill revisits the most powerful conversations from 2025. From David Kolbe’s insights on understanding your instinctive strengths to James Amaro’s blueprint for building accountability culture, James Lawrence’s discipline in mastering discomfort, Verne Harnish’s framework for scaling past plateaus, and Kat Cole’s philosophy of relentless self-improvement, this episode distills the season’s most actionable wisdom into one comprehensive guide for growth.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why understanding your conative strengths can prevent years of burnout and misalignment in your career and your team
- How deliberate discomfort and daily disciplines train your mind to refuse quitting when adversity hits
- What it takes to build an accountability culture that drives KPIs without sacrificing team morale or losing top talent
The leaders who dominate 2026 will be the ones who stopped waiting and started executing on what they already know they should be doing.
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Show Notes:
Misalignment isn’t a mystery when you understand how your brain is inherently wired. “If you don’t know this about yourself, you can go through your life and find yourself in a role where you’re just stressed out and exhausted all the time and not know why.” — David Kolbe
Core standards are non-negotiable. “Put your egos aside and concentrate on the mission for our clients to get results.” — James Amaro
Mental toughness isn’t genetic. It’s trained through discomfort. “There’s not a single genetic marker in there. And then I went and had my epigenetic test, just see if I was like, okay, do I have a gene that allows me to recover faster, less susceptible to certain addictions, or what allows me to manage my mind and my thought processes better than others? And there really wasn’t anything in there.” — James Lawrence
Ambitious goals drive energy. “The research was done at Harvard that attainable goals are low energy. Ridiculous goals are low energy. But setting an ambitious goal, and your job is to be the Chief Energy Officer, that’s the first thing to do.” — Verne Harnish
Better is always different. “If better is always possible, then if you ask, well, what’s required for that? Better by definition is different. And so if different is required, what is one thing I could do differently to be better tomorrow?” — Kat Cole
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