Leadership Huddle with Geoff Welch
Leadership Huddle is a resource for developmental leaders who value communicating clearly, helping others smash limiting beliefs, and drawing the best work from themselves and those they lead. Covering topics related to personal and developmental leadership, self-management, delegation, and healthy mindsets, Geoff Welch uses each episode to help leaders like you enrich their people and build winning teams.
Episodes
October 29, 2025 • 55 mins
This episode almost didn’t happen.Technology conspired against me, but the show must go on, so I pressed some buttons, turned some dials, and figured it out.Stephen J Kohler is the author of The Leadership Anthem and founder of Audira Labs, where he helps leaders unlock their potential through the lens of music. In our conversation, we explored how curiosity fuels both great bands and great organizations, why listening is the...
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October 26, 2025 • 12 mins
I don’t know why I didn’t see this sooner.I record my podcast using a Shure SM7B microphone.The Shure SM7B is an incredibly popular microphone for podcasters and I think most people use it because most people use it.It looks like a professional broadcast microphone, it sounds great, and, oh by the way, you’re going to see one (or more) in almost every video clip from a podcast.Most people aren’t going to do the homework to figure o...
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October 22, 2025 • 52 mins
What happens when a team of software engineers quit their jobs to start a business together without a clue they will have to pivot almost immediately?When Chris Rouw and his colleagues left stable jobs to launch Far Reach, they didn’t have a perfect business model. And within a few months of taking the leap into the world of entrepreneurship, they had to shift gears and take their business in an unexpected direction.In this convers...
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October 19, 2025 • 14 mins
No one told him to do it, but it was such a brilliant expression of leadership.One of my favorite things to see on a baseball field is not something you’d ever expect.If I gave you 162 guesses, I’m absolutely certain you’d never guess it.It’s not a grand slam. It’s not a triple. It’s not a bunt to an undefended part of the infield that results in a double.It’s not a triple play or a no hitter.It’s when one batter makes an out, but ...
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October 15, 2025 • 46 mins
I couldn’t believe I failed to ask him the most important question on my list.In this episode of Leadership Huddle, Scott McCrea, President and CEO of Explore Fairbanks, joins me to talk about humor, humility, and leading an organization that tells a community’s story, but I completely forgot to ask him about being a 3-time winner of the Chatanika Outhouse Races.Thankfully we covered a lot of other good ground. A lifelong Alaskan w...
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October 12, 2025 • 10 mins
I need to clear up some confusion.The goal is not to make more mistakes. That goal is to make more interesting mistakes.Because making the same mistakes over and over again is also known as “incompetence.”Making mistakes can be a valuable pathway to growth, but growth implies that those mistakes teach us something so that we can move on to the next, more interesting mistakes.An example:When running the bases in an important game, Y...
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October 8, 2025 • 60 mins
I was two minutes into this interview when I knew it had completely gone off the rails.I want to introduce you to Steve Pratt.Steve’s response to my opening question, “what makes you weird,” was so good that I basically scrapped the rest of my questions and just enjoyed the ride.From producing offbeat kids’ shows to co-founding Pacific Content—the world’s first branded podcast agency—Steve has made a life out of leaning into the un...
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October 5, 2025 • 13 mins
I was on the verge of a long night of peaceful sleep when this realization yanked me from my slumber and refused to let go of me.Every Major League Baseball player works on the fundamentals of baseball every day.They hit, they throw, and they catch. Before every single game.They are the best of the best. The top 1% of the top 1%.And every day they work on the basics.I find this fascinating because you would think the most elite pla...
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October 1, 2025 • 57 mins
This conversation is so full of leadership gold.You wouldn’t believe how much didn’t make it into the final cut.Today I’m joined by Meadow Riedel, External Affairs Manager for Kinross Alaska, whose 25+ year communications career has intersected with some of Alaska’s most vital industries. From leading crisis response during the 2018 Anchorage earthquake to fostering trust-based partnerships in mining, Meadow shares candid insi...
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September 28, 2025 • 15 mins
“You’re the first person to say ‘please’ today.”It was after 6PM and the guy behind the meat counter at my local grocery store hadn’t heard the word “please” yet during his nearly completed shift.“That’s a rough streak,” I replied.“I mean, I can’t say ‘no’ if they don’t say ‘please’, but, you know…”I translated his incomplete sentence to mean, “it’s still nice to hear, even if it is my job to provide a service.”We exchanged a few p...
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September 24, 2025 • 49 mins
Amanda Langhorst didn’t just find her career. She built a career around helping others find theirs.In this conversation, I talk with Amanda Langhorst, Program Director of the Applied Management program and Instructor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Business and Security Management. We talk about the power of self-advocacy, why listening is the most underrated management skill, and how purpose and impact can tr...
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September 21, 2025 • 15 mins
What she said was so backwards.And yet I couldn’t believe I had never heard it before.I was walking through Costco on a particularly rainy Saturday morning when I heard a worker conclude an interaction with a customer by saying, “enjoy the rain!”The person was being wholly genuine and my attention was immediately captured because I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use that phrase before.The idea that a rainy day is something to b...
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September 17, 2025 • 52 mins
When Nicole Welch first began her career in HR, she never imagined she’d one day be representing healthcare before legislators, leading in an organization with nearly 2,000 employees, or serving as Chief Human Resources Officer of Foundation Health Partners, an independent health system that didn’t yet exist.In this conversation, Nicole – who also happens to be my wife – opens up about her journey from “accidental leader” to execut...
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September 14, 2025 • 15 mins
I was at an event recently and ran into a former leadership student I hadn’t seen in ages.I was really excited to cross paths and I asked them how they were doing after all this time.They laughed, told me they were well, and said they feel like they “see me” all the time because they get these messages.It’s a worthy reminder that the people around you are paying attention, even if you don’t realize it.They know what you say and the...
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September 10, 2025 • 51 mins
These eleven words stopped me in my tracks:“If fitness isn’t in your top three priorities, it won’t happen.”When Caleb Whittle left the CMO chair for the weight room, he had no idea he was about to reshape how high performers think about fitness. Caleb now helps executives and leaders cut through the noise—ditching fad diets and overcomplicated routines—in favor of simple, sustainable habits that actually work.In this conversa...
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September 7, 2025 • 14 mins
You’ve been lied to.For years you’ve been fed a message suggesting that the ideal relationship between your work life and your personal life is one of balance. An implied 1:1 ratio.This ratio is not only generally impossible, but it completely betrays your own preferred mix.I’ve talked to so many people who feel a strong sense of tension about this relationship. Not because they hate how much they are working, but because...
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September 3, 2025 • 52 mins
When Mark Oldmixon first stepped into the Alaskan outdoors, he had no idea it would shape two decades of his life—and countless others. As Director of Nanook Recreation at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Mark has spent nearly 20 years helping students and community members stretch their comfort zones through rock climbing, rafting, ice climbing, and other adventures. In this episode, we talk about his journey from sub...
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August 31, 2025 • 16 mins
I’m going to get plenty of hate in the comments, but here’s my take:Clarity is the most powerful lever leaders have to influence the success of their team.Ensuring your people have complete clarity about the desired outcome, their role in the work ahead, the timeline, and how their work interrelates to the work others are doing is the single most important thing a leader can do to help them win.And the best test for whether this cl...
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August 27, 2025 • 50 mins
When a COO admits she hates flying but plans the next trip before the wheels touch down, you know you’re in for a candid conversation. In this episode, I sit down with Amber Zins, Chief Operating Officer at Northrim Bank, to talk about building leaders by growing your own, setting clear guardrails, and giving people runway. Amber traces her path from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, south to KPMG in Anchorage, and onto...
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August 24, 2025 • 19 mins
I didn’t mean to eavesdrop. I really didn’t. But I just couldn’t help myself.On a recent camper trip, Nicole and I found ourselves across the path from a pair of couples with tents.On the morning of their departure it was fascinating to watch both couples go about dismantling their tents to pack everything into a pair of Jeep Wranglers.One couple was orderly and rehearsed. They had what appeared to be a checklist and were methodica...
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