Lead on Purpose

I'd like to ship you a free copy of my book, Habits of High Performers. If you come and join the 2026 goal setting workshop, I will ship you one of these today. The link is in the notes. Please come and join me to set up the very best 2026 you could imagine. If you've set up goals in the past or New Year's resolutions and they haven't substantiated, I'm here to help you across all the key pillars of your life nail your goals. I'll see you there. Welcome to Lead On Purpose. I'm James Laughlin, former seven time world champion musician and now executive coach to global leaders and high performers. In every episode, I bring you an inspiring leader or expert to help you lead your life and business on purpose. Thanks for taking the time to connect today and investing in yourself. Enjoy the show.

I just want to say a massive heartfelt thank you. And I mean you, you who are listening right now. I want to put my hand on my heart and say thank you. I launched Life on Purpose, the podcast, a year ago and 40 odd episodes later, it's been quite the journey of self discovery, of learning, of helping others, of empowering others, of hearing stories from you guys that are being impacted by the people that I bring on the show. So I just want to say thank you. It's been an incredible journey and wanted to give you a little update and some news as to where things are headed. So over the last year, you know, I've spent some time reflecting on the show and reflecting on where it's headed and I'm so excited about where it's headed, but I feel it needs a little 1% change in direction, just a tiny little adjustment going in a slightly different direction. And when I look back over the year, you know who I've had on the show. It's been an incredible collection of people. You know, we look at, say some of them like Sir John Key, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, David Meltzer, incredible leader in the sports entertainment arena. Rachel Hunter, model, actress and leader in the spiritual world. Evan Carmichael, arguably one of the top leaders on the planet in terms of leadership conversations and multi million followers on YouTube. Greg Creed, former Fortune 200 CEO with Yum Brands. Michelle Sharp, CEO of UNICEF New Zealand and the list goes on. So many incredible leaders in different fields. And the one thread that kept coming up throughout the year was personal leadership, personal ownership, personal growth, leading others by leading yourself.

And that's what I do day in, day out. For those of you who don't know me incredibly well. Maybe this is your first time listening to the podcast. I'm an executive coach, high performance leadership coach. I work with CEOs, startups, athletes, stay at home, parents, people who are committed to leading themselves before leading others. And so with that, I've reflected on this for about three or four months and sought some feedback and input from some of you guys around what you love the most about the show and leadership kept coming up, and that's what this world needs more of. You look at a country, you look at a company, organization, and the growth and the prosperity of that country or that organization, it's totally dependent on the leader's psychology, the leader's mindset, the leader's growth. So when we put a cap on the leader's development, we also put a cap on the prosperity and growth of that organization. Now, that organization could be your family, it could be your place of work, it could be your regional team, could be the country that you're running. Depending on who you are, where you're at in life, you are a leader. And leadership skills are just so valuable and the world needs more of it. So I'm super excited to let you know that the new name for the podcast is actually going to be Lead on Purpose. So pivoting slightly from life on Purpose to lead on purpose. And it's my mission to impact thousands of leaders this year and millions over the next decade or two. I want to help leaders on every country, every country on earth. I want to impact a leader or leaders in every single country to help them grow and to help them impact their people and help them grow more leaders. The world does not need lots more followers. We need leaders. We need independent thought, we need accountability.

And I want to lead from the front with that. And the pivot to changing the podcast to Lead on Purpose, that's getting really specific around who I'm going to be bringing on the show, what we're going to be talking about. So I want you to be excited, hopefully as excited as I am about the year ahead. I've got some incredible, and I mean incredible leaders lined up. I'm fizzing just thinking about the opportunity to sit and chat with them. So I want to ask you to do a few things. One, drop me a line. You can get me on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, you know, just search up James Laughlin, or you can send me an email. Jamesjlachlan.com myself or one of my team members will respond to you as soon as possible. But I'd like to hear from you around what you want to hear more of. I'd like to hear who you might want on the show and dream big. You know, there's always a way and an opportunity for me to get people on the show that are making a big difference in their countries, in their communities, in their companies. So I'm here to listen to you. Who would you love to hear me interview in the coming year? I just want to wish you an incredible year ahead and just remember you are in control of what the input is. What I mean by that is what you consume, what you input, whether it's positive or negative, it gets outputted at some point and that's through your actions and behaviors. So the more positive input you can get in there, the more there's going to come out for the people around you, for your professional life, your personal life. So I hope that you continue to develop yourself. Read the great books, listen to the great podcasts and challenge your own thinking. Take some time to reflect and journal and connect. You know, at any point, if you'd like to connect with me, please do. And there's the Purpose Club that I run every month where I do a live coaching session. If you'd like to find out more about that, just head over to my website, jjlochlund.com thepurposeclub you find out a little more. But for now I just want to say thank you for your amazing support. If you haven't already, please do subscribe if you're listening to this on Apple Podcasts and leave a rating and review and next level. If you really want to lead and impact others around you and influence them, please pick a show that you've enjoyed over the last year and share it with someone or some people that you admire that you care about that who you want to see grow and develop. So thank you so much. Looking forward to presenting Lead on Purpose for you from our next show onwards. Have the most amazing day ahead and get out there and lead your life on purpose.

Thanks for tuning in today and investing in your own personal leadership. Please hit that subscribe button and I'd love if you'd leave me a rating and review. I've got some amazing guests lined up for you in the coming weeks and leaders. It's that time to get out there and lead your life on purpose. Sam.