Access Your Leadership with Hakim Lakhdar
Access Your Leadership is a podcast that examines what it means to be a leader in the world today and how to maximize your own leadership potential. In this weekly show, Hakim Lakhdar, Florida's #1 Transformational Leadership Coach, gives you access to world-class guests who are willing to share their inspiring leadership journeys, revealing all the valuable hurdles and triumphs along the way. Through this podcast’s interviews and topic-based episodes, you’ll explore leadership skill development, tackle common dilemmas, and discover what it means to lead yourself and others, both professionally and personally.
Episodes
34 episodes
From Morocco to the American Dream: Special Education, Leadership and Family
Dr. Sidi M. Lakhdar (aka “Lakhdar,” “Papa” and “Grand-pere”) is a retired Professor of Special Education. Before retiring in 2019, he spent 44 years of his career developing and designing programs, as well as teaching and training teachers of s...
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Episode 33
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47:12
The Power of Your Brand: Strategy, Design and Leadership for Business Growth
Laura Sauter is a speaker, fractional CMO and the Owner and Senior Brand Strategist with Agency Bel, a boutique agency that develops identities and visual elements for print and digital communications focused on conscientious organization with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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47:45
Community, Connection and Leadership in the Craft Beer Industry
Andrew Coplon is the Founder of Craft Beer Professionals, a national network dedicated to the growth and betterment of the Craft Beer industry and Founder of Secret Hopper, a mystery shopping and consulting company for craft beer businesses. An...
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Episode 31
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53:11
The Winning Formula: Corporate and Sports Leadership Coaching
Kathleen E.R. Murphy, an Executive Sports Coach and CEO of her company Market Me Too out of Boston, Massachusetts, joins Access Your Leadership to talk about her transition from corporate to coaching. Kathy shares how throughout her career she ...
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Episode 30
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52:51
Life and Leadership Through Collaboration
Dr. Heidi K. Gardner, an old friend and Harvard colleague, joins Access Your Leadership to share her incredible journey around the world, leading her to being an expert in the area of collaboration. Dr. Gardner is a Distinguished Fellow and Lec...
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Episode 29
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51:41
Thriving Beyond Cancer: A Realtor's Inspiring Leadership Journey
Rhonda Kohn, a Real Estate Advisor with Keller Williams Realty, joins Access Your Leadership to share her inspiring story about life after cancer and serving her clients. Rhonda helps buyers and sellers in both the Florida and California market...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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37:00
Realizing Your Leadership Potential: Embracing Choice and Transformation, Part 2 (The Journey)
Al Kenny, an internationally respected coach, joins Access Your Leadership again for Part Two of his story of transformation that he shared back in March 2024. As you may recall, Al works to help people achieve their goals and dreams without st...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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34:20
Permission to Evolve: Supporting Business Success Through Leadership
Russ Katzman, a Strategist, Coach, Mentor, Author and International Speaker and the Founder and CEO of Progeny Coaching and Consulting LLC, joins Access Your Leadership to talk about how purpose and evolution are two key ingredients for success...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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48:11
5 Minute Guided Meditation for Inspiring Leaders
In this special Mental Health Awareness Month episode of Access Your Leadership, Hakim guides you through a brief 5-minute medidation dedicated to creating peace, power and passion in who you are as a leader. Hakim wants ever leader to ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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4:24
Leadership and the Family Business: Putting Relationships First
Angel Gonzalez, the CEO of Millennium Benefits, joins Access Your Leadership to share his journey learning about and then ultimately leading his family insurance practice. Starting in the business in 1996, Angel worked closely with his mother a...
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Episode 24
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36:16
Bald Really IS Beautiful: Leadership, Advocacy and Authencity
Deirdre Nero, an immigration attorney and owner of Nero Immigration Law, P.L., joins Access Your Leadership to share her incredibly inspiring story about her life and career after being diagnosed with alopecia at the young age of twenty-one. In...
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Episode 23
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53:57
Corporate Exec. to Franchise Owner/Consultant: Caring About People as a Common Thread
Jim McEleney, a franchise consultant with FranNet who helps people look at their options for business ownership in the franchise model, joins Access Your Leadership to share some of his amazing stories and les...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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50:19
From Sales to Coaching: 25 Years of Elevating Lawyers and their Business
Phyllis Sisenwine, aka The Lawyers Coach, joins Access Your Leadership to share how she got into coaching over 25 years ago and how she has successfully led herself and her clients during that time. Phyllis is a Certified Master Coach, a speake...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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40:20
Mastering Self-Leadership: Quieting Your Inner Critic
In this solo episode, Hakim shares some food for thought pertaining to the harsh voice that sometimes shows up in all of our heads - our inner critic! In our younger years, our inner voice was much less critical and there to truly keep us safe....
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Episode 20
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7:32
The Power Within: Self-Awareness, Leadership and Law Enforcement
Dan Truex is a military veteran, a Lexington, KY law enforcement officer and the CEO of GuardLogic, a security company that provides top-notch security by pairing great people with real analytics to build out a custom program that focuses on co...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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38:21
The Leadership Blueprint for a Thriving Law Firm: People, Culture, and Values
Jeff Bast, a well-respected bankruptcy lawyer and cofounder of Bast Amron, joins Access Your Leadership to share his story and the leadership insights that allow him, his partner and their employees to thrive! Since launching the firm in 2008, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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43:21
Realizing Your Leadership Potential: Embracing Choice and Transformation, Part 1
Al Kenny, an internationally known coach, joins Access Your Leadership to share his story and insights that he incorporates into his work with clients to help people achieve their goals and dreams without stress and pressure. Last year, Hakim h...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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52:32
Unlocking Your Inner Leader: Embracing Self-Love and Compassion
In this short solo episode, Hakim reflects on his own start to 2024, the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday and how both of those relate to self-love or self-compassion. In this episode, he talks broadly about how the challenging start to the yea...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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5:30
The Power of Desire: Finding Harmony in Motherhood, Business, and Leadership
Kim Auker, a Transformational Coach for revolutionary mothers, joins Access Your Leadership to share how deeply connected she is to supporting women (and men) who are juggling the roles of powerful parent and ambitious entrepreneur. In this epi...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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29:02
Finding Your Path of Purpose Through A Strong Sense of Self
Nicole Miller is the Founder & CEO of WERRK Creative Brand Strategy, a strategic branding and marketing agency supporting businesses in brand awareness resulting in significant sales growth. Nicole joins Access Your Leadership to share her ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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26:07
Heart-Driven Leadership: Elevating Legal Recruiting to New Heights
Aida C. Rodriguez, CEDS, the CEO and Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer of Ascension Global Staffing and Executive Search, joins Access Your Leadership to share her amazing style of leadership that has allowed her to build a world-...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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36:35
Unleashing Courage: The Key to Exceptional Leadership (and Self-Leadership)
In this episode, Hakim briefly shares what courage has meant to him in the context of leading himself, his family and his business. He shares the difference between bravery and courage and discusses the various ways harnessing our courage withi...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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9:30
The Legacy of Mr. Rogers: Love and Leadership for the New Year
In this episode, Hakim carves out some time on NYE 2023 to share a deeply moving and powerful quote from Mr. Rogers’ that has always made such a big impression on him. He talks about the impact of such a quote on the way in which we lead oursel...
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Episode 11
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9:07
CEO to Chief Everything Officer: Lessons from 20 Years of Business Leadership
Kevin “The Title King” Tacher, CEO & Founder of Independence Title, Inc., joins Access Your Leadership to share his amazing comeback story and he has secured his success 20 years into running his business. In this episode, Kevin talks about...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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30:25
The Santa Effect: How Believing Can Enhance Your Leadership Abilities
In this episode, Hakim reflects on the spirit of the holidays, specifically what it means to believe in Santa and how believing in Santa may unlock a powerful approach to leadership and self-development. He examines and explains approaches he’s...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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9:47