Elevate with Robert Glazer
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Discover the keys to unlocking your full potential with the Elevate Podcast. Hosted by Robert Glazer, award-winning entrepreneur, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and creator of the Friday Forward, the Elevate Podcast features interviews with world-renowned business leaders, New York Times bestselling authors, and leading experts who share their insights, best practices, and advice on how to elevate your life, your leadership, and your business. Whether you're seeking to cultivate better habits, reach new leadership heights, or simply learn from those who share your passion for growth and improvement, the Elevate Podcast offers practical steps for making impactful changes and reaching your full potential.
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Mar 28, 2026 • 45min
Weekend Conversations: Nothing Is Unprecedented
A lively chat about why calling things "unprecedented" is often misleading and how history offers useful parallels. They explore historical examples from wartime propaganda to economic crises and show how past playbooks can guide leaders today. Conversation covers technological revolutions, career cycles, and practical ways to use precedent for smarter planning.
27 snips
Mar 26, 2026 • 58min
Elevate Classics: General Stanley McChrystal On Character In Leadership
General Stanley McChrystal, retired four-star general, founder of the McChrystal Group, and leadership author. He discusses preparing organizations for uncertainty. He talks about leading calmly under pressure. He explores values-based choices, empowering teams with clear intent, and the moral challenges of AI, disinformation, and trust.
18 snips
Mar 24, 2026 • 1h 4min
Ethan Evans on Leadership Lessons from Amazon and How To Get Promoted
Ethan Evans, a former Amazon VP who scaled Prime Video, Twitch Commerce and Prime Gaming, now helps leaders get promoted. He discusses startup lessons, Amazon’s two-pizza teams and narrative memo culture. He covers executive presence, trade-offs in prioritization, invisible promotion standards, building trust quickly, and the value of glue work.
Mar 21, 2026 • 50min
Weekend Conversations: You Don't Own Other People's Emotions
A lively conversation about the mantra "all feelings are welcome, but not all behaviors are." They explore why validating emotions matters while still holding people accountable. Topics include leadership parallels with parenting, where to draw the line on unacceptable behavior, social media’s role in outrage, and practical tools like cool-off periods and consistent enforcement.
5 snips
Mar 19, 2026 • 57min
Elevate Classics: Jeff Hoffman's Extraordinary Legacy of Giving
Jeff Hoffman, award-winning entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Priceline/Booking.com, shares big-life stories. He recounts early hustles, door-to-door sales lessons, a goal to explore cultures through 50 dinners, and the shift from success to using a platform to help others. He also talks values-based partnerships, a simple study-solve-become-valuable formula, and creating programs that lift people up.
Mar 17, 2026 • 54min
Jenna Free On ADHD, Self-Regulation And Resilience
Jenna Free, a therapist with lived ADHD experience and author of The Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation, shares a regulation-focused framework. She talks about childhood masking and late diagnosis, how dysregulation and the nervous system affect focus, in-the-moment calming tools, hyperfocus and all-or-nothing cycles, and why productivity hacks fail without regulation.
Mar 14, 2026 • 52min
Weekend Conversations: Bad Choices Make Great Lessons
Funny college misadventures and why youthful mistakes forge strong bonds and resilience. A look at how smartphones and helicopter parenting shrank rites of passage. Discussion of risk-taking, entrepreneurship and when rule-breaking fuels innovation. A waterline framework separates recoverable slip-ups from catastrophic errors leaders must prevent. Practical scenarios on letting people learn without ruining trust.
9 snips
Mar 12, 2026 • 52min
Thinking Thursdays: How Should Leaders Use and Limit AI?
Mick Sloan, producer and on-air analyst who breaks down culture and AI, joins the conversation. They unpack the Anthropic–Pentagon standoff and what it signals for leaders. Short takes cover accountability for AI failures, whether labs can or should limit downstream uses, and the strategic trade-offs of partnering with the military.
Mar 10, 2026 • 1h 2min
Seth Levine On The New Builders, Growing Startups and Sustainable Growth
Seth Levine, longtime venture capitalist and co-founder at Foundry and GoodBread, shares his journey from early hustles to building a regional-focused VC firm. He highlights overlooked entrepreneurs, unit economics and sustainable growth, small-business lending gaps, and the practical limits of AI in startups. Short, candid stories and sharp takes on resilience and capital’s future.
Mar 7, 2026 • 54min
Weekend Conversations: Can Flip-Flopping Be A Good Thing?
A candid chat about when changing your mind can be smart rather than shameful. They contrast political flip-flops with business pivots and show how data or values should drive shifts. Social media’s role in magnifying reversals gets unpacked. Practical tips on owning a change through transparent, principled communication round out the conversation.
