The L3 Leadership Podcast with Doug Smith
The L3 Leadership Podcast is focused on leadership development and personal growth. We are obsessed with helping you grow to your maximum potential and maximizing the impact of your leadership. We release a new episode every week to help you grow and develop as a leader. You will hear a mix of personal lessons from our Founder, Doug Smith, and conversations Doug has with world-class leaders from around the world. Doug interviews leaders like Pittsburgh Steelers Coach, Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Penguins Coach, Mike Sullivan, Tony Horton, Liz Wiseman, Brian Tome, John Mark Comer, Mark Batterson, Ryan Hawk, Nona Jones, Claude Silver, Ken Coleman, Christy Wright, Rachel Cruze, Mark Cole, and many more. Our hope is that you will not only learn great leadership lessons but that you will catch great leadership from the lives of the leaders that we expose you to.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 438
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
How to Conduct a Year-End Review with Doug Smith
A year-end review is a process where you spend a few days going through your journals, calendars, photos, and more from the year, extracting all of the lessons and memories that you can…
Brett Hagler on Ending Homelessness and Scaling Your Non-Profit Organization
Brett Hagler is the CEO and Co-Founder of New Story, an innovative nonprofit founded in 2015 to pioneer solutions to end global homelessness. Brett is a Y Combinator Alumnus, a 2016 For…
Lisa Scales on Leadership Lessons from Over 25 Years at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Lisa Scales has been President and CEO of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank since 2012. She holds a JD degree from Boston University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree…
Brian Tome on Failure, Leadership, and Focusing on Your Unique Calling
Brian Tome is the founding and senior pastor of Crossroads Church, 2017’s fastest-growing church in America. He has authored four books, including the bestselling The Five Marks of a Ma…
My Story: How Ordinary People Doing Ordinary Things Made an Extraordinary Difference
It's Thanksgiving week, and a lot of people are spending time thinking about what they're grateful for. As I reflect on my life, I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the people who have m…
Leah Lizarondo's Lessons Learned from Starting and Scaling 412 Food Rescue
Leah Lizarondo is the co-founder and CEO of 412 Food Rescue and the CEO of Food Rescue Hero, a technology platform that food rescue organizations like 412 use to facilitate food recover…
Pete Scazzero on How to Become an Emotionally Healthy Leader
After leading New Life Fellowship Church for 26 years, Pete Scazzero co-founded Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, a groundbreaking ministry that moves the church forward by slowing it d…
Dr. John Wallace on Transforming Neighborhoods, Racial Conciliation, and Diversity and Inclusion
Dr. John Wallace is a kid from Homewood, the pastor at Bible Center Church, a professor and provost at the University of Pittsburgh, a husband, and a father of four. His mission is to h…
Greg McKeown on Effortless Work: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most with
Greg McKeown is the host of the What’s Essential podcast and author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and, more recently, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Mo…
A Leader's Legacy: What do you want to be Remembered for?
If you've listened to the past two episodes, you've heard my republished conversations with two great leaders who both passed recently: Tunch Ilkin and Jay Passavant. These interviews h…
A Life Lived Well: Jay Passavant on Life and Leadership
Jay Passavant was the founder of North Way Christian Community in Pittsburgh. The impact of his obedience to God’s call in his life to plant that church cannot be understated. He transf…
A Life Lived Well: Tunch Ilkin's Story
Tunch Ilkin played football for the Pittsburgh Steelers for many seasons before becoming a broadcaster for the team for the rest of his career. He spent 35 years serving homeless men, w…
What Your Life Could Look Like After Joining A Mastermind Group
Like many leaders, you may think that you can get along fine without being part of a mastermind group. But the truth is, on your own, you’ll only last for so long. In this episode, I ta…
Phil and Diane Comer on Raising Passionate Jesus Followers
Phil and Diane Comer are the parents of John Mark Comer, author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. Together, they wrote Raising Passionate Jesus Followers, in which they share the pr…
Kim Scott on Just Work: How to Create a Just Workplace
Kim Scott is the author of several books including Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair. She has held management posi…
Why Health and Fitness Need to Matter to You in Your Leadership Journey
We live in a culture where people spend their health trying to make money, and then they spend all their money that they earned trying to buy back their health - and it’s not working. I…
Why You Should be Asking Who and Not How with Benjamin Hardy
Benjamin Hardy lives in Orlando with his wife and six kids, three of whom are adopted. He is an organizational psychologist with a Ph.D. in the subject from Clemson University. Benjamin…
How to Overcome the Wounds in Your Leadership Journey
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Have you ever been wounded in your leadership journey? Did it hold you back from what you should have been goin…
Ryan Hawk on Becoming a Learning Leader
In the latest episode of the L3 Leadership podcast, Doug Smith speaks with Ryan Hawk about his advice in the corporate world, experience in football, his recent book, Welcome To Managem…
Life Lessons I am Learning at 36
In this episode of the L3 Leadership podcast, you’ll hear Doug share a lesson entitled, “Life at 36.” Each year, around his birthday, Doug spends some time reflecting on where he is and…