Episode notes
What happens when your identity is built on achievement, and then everything you’ve achieved disappears?
In this episode of the Deep Leadership podcast, I talk with Steve “Moby” Leitch, Amazon bestselling author, endurance athlete, leadership coach, and one of only a small number of people to complete the Ocean Seven. Steve shares his remarkable journey from success to losing his business, marriage, health, and sense of identity, and how he rebuilt his life through faith, discipline, purpose, and self-leadership.
We discuss why leadership starts long before you lead anyone else, the danger of tying your identity to your job or accomplishments, and why the work you do on yourself ultimately determines the kind of leader you become.
Steve also shares the daily disciplines he uses to strengthen his spiritual, physical, relational, and professional life, and what swimming some of the world’s most difficult open-water channels has taught him about resilience, perseverance, and purpose.
If you want to become a stronger, more resilient leader, this conversation is a powerful reminder: lead yourself first.
What You’ll Learn:
• Why leadership begins with self-leadership
• The danger of building your identity around achievement
• How failure can expose what needs to change
• Why discipline matters more than motivation
• How to strengthen the areas of your life people don’t see
• What extreme endurance teaches us about resilience
• Why purpose can keep you moving when you want to quit
Connect with Steve “Moby” Leitch:
Against the Current Book: https://amzn.to/4izuNCP
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevemobyleitch/?hl=en
Website: https://stevemobyleitch.net/