A New Direction

When was the last time you sat down and actually decided what your life should look like, instead of just letting it happen? This week on A New Direction with Coach Jay, I sat down with Rich Harris, author of Life Plan: Living by Design, Not Default. Rich is a former commercial real estate executive from right here in Chapel Hill, and he has written a 100+ page life plan every single year since 1999. That’s not a theory. That’s a lifetime of testing. Here are four life plan lessons from our con

“Is AI going to take my job?” It’s the question I hear most from executives, business owners, and parents. Kari Zeller, author of Re-Placed: Answering the Call of Leadership in the Age of AI, says it’s the wrong question. She asks a harder one: Is work our buffalo? For the Crow Nation, the buffalo was more than food. It was identity, daily rhythm, belonging, and meaning. When it disappeared, a whole way of life disappeared with it. For many of us, work plays that same role. It’s where we matter

Time Management Is a Myth: 5 Rules to Own Your Focus Here’s the truth nobody selling planners wants you to hear: time management doesn’t work, because you can’t manage time. Time is outside of you. It doesn’t care whether you run a company, lead a sales team, coach athletes, or are trying to get your kids to practice on time. Everyone gets the same 1,440 minutes a day. Nobody gets more, and nobody owns them. On this episode of A New Direction with Coach Jay Izso, I sat down with Ron Lieback,

Inside Episode 400: What A New Direction with Coach Jay Uncovered About My Life, Values, and Purpose Four hundred conversations in, A New Direction with Coach Jay finally turned the microphone around on its own host. For episode 400, Steve Riddle — founder of CoachStation and author of Falling Into Leadership, and a two-time guest on the show — sat across from me and asked the questions I usually ask everyone else. Not softball ones, either. Steve went after my life, the challenges that shaped

6 Pillars of Leadership Most Bosses Get Backwards You can’t cheat the harvest. Not in farming, not in funeral service, and not in leadership. That’s the line I kept coming back to after tonight’s conversation with Jay Jacobson, author of Lead by Legendary Example — a book forged inside a profession with zero room to fake competence: funeral service. Forty years of leading people through the worst day of their lives taught Jacobson something most executive coaches never pick up in a classroom. L

Mastering the $250,000 Interview: 4 Lessons From Our Conversation With Craig A. Fleming What actually separates the candidate who walks away with a $250,000 offer from the one who walks away with “we’ll be in touch”? That’s the question we sat down with on this episode of A New Direction, talking with Craig A. Fleming, author of Mastering the $250,000 Interview. You can catch the full episode now on your favorite podcast platform. But whether you’ve already listened or you’re catching up now, h