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In this episode, Cal Walters sits down with executive coach, speaker, and author Randy Gravitt of @Lead_Every_Day to explore one of the most important leadership questions of our time:
How do you pursue excellence at work without sacrificing what matters most at home?
Randy shares powerful insights from decades of coaching leaders across Fortune 100 companies, professional sports teams, and nonprofits—along with lessons from his book Winning Begins at Home.
This conversation goes beyond clichés about work-life balance and gets practical about strategy, systems, presence, and love—and why winning at home actually makes you a better leader at work.
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00:00 – Welcome to 2026 & the Intentional Leader community
02:10 – Introducing Randy Gravitt & the tension leaders feel
03:40 – Strategic at work, sporadic at home
06:00 – Why family has quietly been diminished
07:45 – Being home but not really home
08:55 – Proximity does not equal intimacy
10:00 – The servant leadership tension
12:20 – Living in the center of the tension
13:45 – Begin with the end in mind
15:10 – You will never finish all the work
16:50 – Seasons turn into patterns
18:30 – The NFL Super Bowl story
21:00 – Leaving work at work
22:15 – Training presence like a discipline
23:30 – Rituals that help you be present
25:30 – Phone boundaries that actually work
27:40 – Winning the first hour of the day
29:40 – Why home life fuels work performance
32:10 – Choosing priorities on purpose
34:00 – The hidden cost of neglecting home
36:30 – "What kind of family do you want?"
38:40 – Family by design, not by default
41:00 – Marriage after the kids leave
43:00 – Don't go to bed angry
46:30 – Love first
49:50 – See a need, meet a need
54:00 – Final encouragement to leaders
59:00 – Key takeaways & closing challenge
