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Execution Insights™: The Podcast Exploring the Inner Life of a Leader Leadership is harder than ever. Goals are clear, but execution slips. Pressure is constant, and too often the joy of leading gets lost. The Execution Insights™: The Podcast brings you practical wisdom and heartfelt encouragement for leaders who want to execute with clarity and lead with impact. Each episode delivers: A powerful idea you can apply immediately. Stories drawn from decades of coaching executives and teams worldwide. Honest conversations about the challenges and victories every leader faces. Hosted by Jim Huling—CEO, best-selling author of The 4 Disciplines of Execution, and executive coach to leaders across five continents—this podcast is your weekly source of clarity, courage, and practical tools to help you and your team thrive. If you’re ready to strengthen your purpose, sharpen your execution, and lead with greater impact, you’re in the right place.

Recent Episodes

What You Were Made For

What if the things you’re best at aren’t necessarily the things you were made for? In the last episode of Execution Insights™, The Gift of Choosing Again, I explored the realization that no matter how far we’ve traveled down one path, we still have the ability to choose again. But that leaves a much harder question: If I choose again…how do I know what to choose? Years ago, at one of the lowest points of my professional life, I stopped trying to imagine the answer and went looking for evidenc...

25 MIN

The Gift of Choosing Again

What if realizing “This is not the life I want” isn’t a failure? What if it’s a gift? Jim Huling has faced that realization twice in his life, nearly twenty years apart. Both times, he was succeeding. Both times, life looked good from the outside. And both times, he found himself confronting the same unexpected question: Then what is the life you want? In this deeply personal episode of Execution Insights™, Jim shares what those two moments taught him about ambition, success, vision—and the e...

17 MIN

Not Finished - Finding the Will to Rise Again

What happens when life knocks you down—and returning to who you were is no longer possible? After a serious illness, I returned to a hill I had run many times before. That day, I made it only 40 yards. But the real struggle wasn’t physical. It was facing what those 40 yards seemed to say about the person I had become. In this deeply personal episode, I explore the hidden connection between adversity and identity—and why rising again doesn’t always mean getting back to where we were. Sometimes...

20 MIN

The Through Line of Your Life: Discovering the Work You Were Meant to Do

The Through Line of Your Life What if the most important pattern in your life is something you can only see when you look backward? In architecture, a through line is the structural path that carries the weight of a building from top to bottom. If it’s broken—even slightly—the structure weakens. When it’s intact, the building stands strong. Jim Huling explores how the same principle applies to a life. Through a personal story and four powerful reflection questions, Jim invites leaders to step...

12 MIN

What do I really want? A Moment of True Clarity

At some point in life, a quiet question finds us: What do I really want? Almost two decades ago, I was given a moment of true clarity—one that came without warning and felt like a dress rehearsal for the end of life. In that moment, I wasn’t reviewing achievements or tallying successes. I was simply seeing my life as it was. Not perfect. Not free from mistakes. But lived with intention, love, and presence. In this episode, I share that experience and the perspective it gave me—one...

7 MIN