Five Words Every Leader Avoids
Mortality, loss, regret, identity, and perspective—and what changes when leaders stop treating them as someone else's problem.
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Podcast interviews · Independent conversations
Conversations about the things leaders usually avoid.
Mortality. Meaning. Loss. Power. Retirement. Compassion. Listen to Seth David Clark work through these questions in long-form conversations with independent hosts.
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The ET Project · May 11, 2026
One on One with Mista Yu · April 7, 2026
Inner Peace, Better Health · March 19, 2026
5AM Podcast · February 25, 2026
Healthy Mind, Healthy Life · February 25, 2026
Inspired Choice Podcast · February 23, 2026
Mind Over Masculinity · February 14, 2026
The Elisha Show · January 23, 2026
BizBlend · January 17, 2026
Spiritual Life and Leadership · May 13, 2025
Mortality-aware leadership in real conversation
Each link goes to the host's episode page or a major listening platform. The descriptions below identify the ground actually covered in the recorded conversation; they do not claim an endorsement.
What Does Love Demand of You Today?
Mortality and compassion in leadership, succession, values under pressure, and the practical demands of love.
Listen on Amazon Music →Remembering Life Is Finite
Mortality awareness, retirement, identity shifts, anxiety, and the difference between facing death and becoming consumed by it.
Listen on Amazon Music →How Mortality Awareness Gives Leaders Clarity
Finite time as a decision-making lens: ambition, the nonessential, present attention, and the work a leader still means to finish.
Listen on Apple Podcasts →How Death Awareness Clarifies Purpose and Leadership
Avoidance, long-term perspective, life's smaller endings, and the questions that can interrupt reactive leadership.
Listen on Apple Podcasts →Adversity, Retirement, and Meaning in Change
What retirement can take from a leader, what agency remains, and how mortality awareness changes the search for meaning.
Open the Episode →How Men Lead and Live with Deeper Courage
Mortality, masculinity, vulnerability, loss, and why courage does not require emotional silence.
Listen on Apple Podcasts →Why Befriending Death Clarifies Life
Mortality awareness, leadership, decision-making, legacy, grief, and the conversations people postpone.
Listen on Apple Podcasts →Values, Loss, and Long-Term Meaning
What success can cost, the distance between stated values and actual choices, and how loss exposes what leadership is building toward.
Listen on Apple Podcasts →Borderless Faith
Border Church, adaptation, and what leadership looks like when a congregation gathers at a wall.
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For event leaders
Hear how Seth handles a difficult room.
For a CHRO, leadership-development leader, event producer, or executive team, these interviews offer a useful test: not just what Seth says from a stage, but how he listens, follows a hard question, and makes difficult ideas usable without sanding off their edges.
Conversation territory
A wide wheelhouse with a clear center.
Leadership and meaning. Identity after success. Retirement and succession. Ethics and power. Grief, loss, and change. Compassion under pressure. Mortality is the lens that brings these questions into focus.
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