The Warrior Poet
**Get yourself unstuck and be a leader.** Andrew "Sri" Sridhar is a former Navy SEAL, Harvard MBA, Wall Street escapee, and technologist. He interviews top military leaders, academic thinkers, and business phenoms to up your game. The Warrior Poet is a tightly woven tapestry of leadership expertise, philosophical inquiry, and pop culture. It's a portmanteau of Brainpickings, Wait But Why, and (Sri only wishes) Seinfeld. Yes, Sri sometimes writes haikus.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
#75: Trust-Based Leadership with Mike Ettore
Sri interviews Mike Ettore. Mike is a career veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, accomplished Fortune-500 C-suite executive, and founder of Fidelis Leadership Group.
Mike is the author of Trust-Based L…
#74: Unbreakable Leadership with Thom Shea
Learn the "three simple things" that will help you lead yourself, your family, and your team from former Navy SEAL and BUD/S instructor Thom Shea.
Thom is the author of multiple books on leadership a…
#73: Finding the Best People with Kevin Seiff
Kevin Seiff is a former Navy SEAL and CEO of Flintlock Solutions, a recruiting firm that is changing the game for VC-backed biotech companies. Sri and Kevin discuss what to look for in candidates and…
#72: Amazon Tenets with Dave Glick, CTO of Flexe
How many people can say they had regular meetings with Jeff Bezos?
Dave Glick is the CTO of Flexe, just heralded as Seattle's newest unicorn. Dave is a 20-year Amazon veteran, where he and Sri overlap…
#71: Selling Out with Frank Cespedes, Harvard Business School Sales and Strategy Professor
Sri talks with author and professor Frank Cespedes about sales, strategy, and leadership.
Frank Cespedes is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He cu…
#70: Redefining Beauty with Katia Beauchamp, CEO of Birchbox
Sri talks with entrepreneur Katia Beauchamp about what she learned about leadership (and herself!) while upending the beauty industry. Katia is the cofounder of Birchbox, which raised $90 million in …
#69: Searching for Attributes with Navy SEAL Rich Diviney
Should you hire for skills or innate qualities? On this episode Sri interviews Rich Diviney, highly accomplished career SEAL officer and author of the book The Attributes. Rich makes the case that sk…
#68: Never Enough with Mike Hayes
Mike Hayes is the former commanding officer of SEAL Team TWO and the author of "Never Enough." He was a White House Fellow and subsequently Chief Operating Officer at Ray Dalio's hedge fund, Bridgewa…
#66: TWO KINDS OF BOREDOM (4MUW)
There are two kinds of boredom, but only one is good for you :)
Hat tip to Maria Popova at Brainpickings, who writes frequently about the benefits of boredom in general. Highly recommend her site!
Th…
#65: QUADROFRENETICA (4MUW)
70s rock giants The Who help Sri explain nervous energy in organizations.
This episode is part of the "4 Minutes Underwater" series (4MUW).
notes
- The rock opera Quadrophenia by the Who (Prime Video)
- …
#64: RESPONSIBILITY HANGOVER (4MUW)
Sri discusses how our decision-making models get outdated as we increase our experience in this second edition of our "4 Minutes Underwater" minisode series (4MUW).
notes
- The book Decisive by Chip an…
#63: 4 Minutes Underwater (ELON'S SHOWER)
In this new format, Sri offers 4 minutes of musings on stoicism, abundance, and pursuing unbound upside.
notes:
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
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#62: Find Your North Star
Sri and Edmund Hillary talk about the Japanese concept of Ikigai: how to figure out what to achieve & how to persevere in the face of adversity.
notes
Errata: Ugh, I think I said "Dorgay" instead of "…
#61: Getting Naked with Will Branum, Navy SEAL Entrepreneur
"Water boils at 212 degrees. I was at 210."
Will Branum is a former Navy SEAL who founded Naked Warrior Recovery based on his own struggles with anxiety. Sri talks with Will about veteran suicide (se…
#60: Work the Problem
A deep dive on some of the concepts from Sri's interview with Nat Thompson on episode #57. Namely, what it means to "cultivate appropriate levels of tribalism" on your team -- and examples of "work t…
#59: Nat Thompson on Growing New Leaders
Nat Thompson, Sri's longtime brother from the SEAL Teams, teaches us how to hire and develop new leaders. Plus, how to nurture a sense of team exceptionalism without becoming Colonel Kurtz.
Nat's expe…
UPDATE: Exciting Changes
Sri emerges from his cave and sees six early weeks of spring -- plus exciting changes coming to the podcast soon. Thanks for your patience!!!
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#58: Back to Basics: What is Leadership?
Sri distinguishes leadership from, well, other things.
notes
- Related episodes: #48: Leader as Therapist
Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ).
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#57: Purely Consensual
You can't compete if you don't have the best people. But interview processes are all the same these days. As a society we've converged on a method that is safe, supposedly rigorous, and predictable. …
#56: Great Mistakes
Listen before you make your 2021 resolutions! Oriah's 'The Invitation," tips to garden rare lettuces, and boot camp.
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