
Elevate with Robert Glazer
Discover the keys to unlocking your full potential with the Elevate Podcast. Hosted by Robert Glazer, award-winning entrepreneur, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and creator of the Friday Forward, the Elevate Podcast features interviews with world-renowned business leaders, New York Times bestselling authors, and leading experts who share their insights, best practices, and advice on how to elevate your life, your leadership, and your business. Whether you're seeking to cultivate better habits, reach new leadership heights, or simply learn from those who share your passion for growth and improvement, the Elevate Podcast offers practical steps for making impactful changes and reaching your full potential.
Latest episodes

Apr 22, 2025 • 46min
The Giftology Group's Sara Hardwick On Building World Class Relationships
This episode celebrates the game-changing relationship-building strategy former Elevate Podcast guest John Ruhlin and his Giftology team pioneered. Representing Giftology in this episode is Sara Hardwick. Sara is the Community Relationship Strategist at Giftology. She also leads the RICH Relationship Society, and educational membership designed to revolutionize referral-based business practices. Sara’s experience building relationship-driven communities began in college, where she built the internet’s largest gifting community as a student at UNC.Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 20, 2025 • 52min
Weekend Conversations: Leaders Are Always on Stage
On a new episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss how leaders tend to have a massive impact on other people in small moments--treating someone with respect in an interaction, showing humility, and modeling values. Robert and Mick dig into how leaders should prioritize staying humble as they raise their status and why you should always treat people with authenticity and respect, no matter what your status.Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 18, 2025 • 48min
Elevate Classics: Dr. Caroline Leaf on Resilience, Leadership and Parenting
Dr. Caroline Leaf is a neurobiologist specializing in the mind-brain-body connection. From a young age, she had a passion for the mind and brain, initially aiming to become a neurosurgeon. Dr. Leaf has conducted groundbreaking neuroplasticity research in the late 80s and early 90s, demonstrating that by managing the mind, individuals can alter the functioning of the brain and body, leading to significant changes in life. She is a bestselling author of multiple books, including Clean Up Your Mental Mess and a new release, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess, which is available today wherever books are sold.Dr. Leaf joined Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to delve into the fascinating world of mind management, neuroplasticity, and the complex relationship between the mind, brain, and body. The insights from Dr. Caroline Leaf will challenge your preconceptions, inspire personal growth, and equip you with the tools to elevate your own mental health.Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 17, 2025 • 1h 4min
Thinking Thursdays: The Tariff Rollout is a Leadership Disaster
For two weeks, one story has completely dominated the business and leadership landscape: the tariffs the Trump administration levied against every trading partner to the US, and the ensuing trade war. The rollout of the new trade policy has lessons for every leader. Likewise, every business leader needs to be preparing for a deeply uncertain new economic reality.Elevate Podcast host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan dig through the tariff news and discuss key takeaways for leaders. Topics include the seeming lack of strategy of the tariffs, the problems that arise when leaders create and exacerbate chaos, how leaders can navigate the turbulent moment, and much more. Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 15, 2025 • 1h 10min
Essentialism Author Greg McKeown Returns
Greg McKeown changed the way so many leaders think about life with his New York Times Bestselling book, Essentialism. He is the founder and CEO of McKeown Inc, an organization that helps leading companies like Apple, Google, Pixar and more reach the next level of growth. In addition to Essentialism, Greg is also New York Times bestselling author of Effortless and The Essentialism Planner, a world-renowned keynote speaker, and the host of the Greg McKeown Podcast. Greg joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about how he prioritizes the essentials in his own life, living a life by design, seeking and implementing feedback, and much more.Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 12, 2025 • 45min
Weekend Conversations: Don't Bet on Exceptional Outcomes
On a new episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss how to make repeated decisions in an organization and bearing in mind the difference between rules and exceptions. Robert and Mick delve into why leaders are too willing to follow their instincts and bet against the odds, why that's a flawed strategy, and how to think of risk and reward in decision making overall.Read the post referenced in this episode: Friday Forward - Exceptional Outcomes (#479)Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 10, 2025 • 38min
Elevate Classics: Allan Dib on Simplifying Your Way To Growth
Allan Dib has helped several entrepreneurs add rocket fuel to their businesses through intelligent marketing. He is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, scaled and exited multiple companies, and a self-described rebellious marketer. He is the founder of Successwise and the #1 bestselling author of the book The 1-Page Marketing Plan.On this classic episode, Allan joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to share what so many companies get wrong about marketing, and how to get great results with efficiency and simplicity.Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 8, 2025 • 54min
Mike Michalowicz On Wisdom For Entrepreneurs And Making Business Simple
Mike Michalowicz was declared as one of the contenders for patron saint of entrepreneurs by Simon Sinek. He is a serial entrepreneur who started several multi-million-dollar companies and uses his businesses to test and perfect ideas other entrepreneurs can use to excel. He is the author of the bestselling Entrepreneurship Simplified book series, which includes hits like Profit First, Clockwork, Get Different, and his latest, All In. Mike joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about building high-performing, loyal teams, finding profitability, simplifying entrepreneurship, and much more.Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 5, 2025 • 52min
Weekend Conversations: Navigating The New World of Propaganda
On a new episode of Weekend Conversations, Elevate Podcast host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss the history and modern applications of propaganda, which has created a confusing and divisive media environment today. Robert and Mick talk about how propaganda spreads, and how everyone can get better at sifting through misinformation and outright deception on social media.Read the post discussed in this episode: Modern Propaganda (#477)Special Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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Apr 3, 2025 • 59min
Thinking Thursdays: Is This The Worst Job In America?
Imagine trying to lead an organization under extreme pressure from employees, customers, funders and even the federal government. That is the unenviable position facing the next president of Columbia University--and a case study that leaders in all types of organizations can learn from.On a new Elevate Podcast series, Thinking Thursdays, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan delve into the past two leaders of Columbia: Minouche Shafik, who stepped down after a year filled with campus unrest, and her successor, Interim President Katrina Armstrong, who resigned six months later after a very public faceoff with the Trump Administration. Robert and Mick dig into the shortcomings of both Shafik and Armstrong and the extremely challenging circumstances both leaders faced. Then, they try to answer one of the toughest questions any organization faces today: what direction should Columbia go in for their next president?Watch This Episode on YouTubeSubscribe on YouTube for more Elevate Podcast episodesSpecial Thanks to the Sponsors of the Elevate Podcast
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