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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Apr 4, 2026 • 48min
Weekend Conversations: Handling Your Fight or Flight Reflex
A surprising pickleball meltdown kicks off a conversation about the fight or flight reflex and emotional dysregulation. They explore physical clues, common triggers like hunger and fatigue, and quick reset tactics to regain composure. Practical tips cover when to pause, postpone heated talks, and protect reputation. There is a focus on how leaders and parents can avoid long-term damage by choosing deliberate responses.
8 snips
Apr 2, 2026 • 1h 11min
Elevate Classics: Angela Duckworth on Building Grit
Angela Duckworth, founder of Character Lab and Wharton professor known for her bestseller Grit. She talks about how her path from teaching led to studying grit. Short takes cover defining grit as passion plus perseverance. Parenting approaches that build resilience. How to choose hard commitments, when quitting makes sense, and aligning goals with intrinsic motivation.
Mar 31, 2026 • 54min
Elevate Classics: Brittany Hodak On Creating Superfans
Brittany Hodak, award-winning entrepreneur and author of Creating Superfans, helps brands turn customers into passionate fans. She shares stories from music and retail, explains why storytelling and emotional service beat apathy, and breaks down how post-purchase moments, employee mindset, and referral tracking build lasting loyalty.
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.
