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Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellovledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode six ninety eight Today. I want to take
Speaker 2: you somewhere. Most leadership books never go. Not to a battlefield,
Speaker 2: not to a boardroom, not to a famous CEO story
Speaker 2: you've already heard one hundred times. I want to take
Speaker 2: you into the hidden history of leadership. Because the truth is,
Speaker 2: the leadership lessons that shape your career are not written
Speaker 2: in textbooks. They are not taught in seminars, and they
Speaker 2: are rarely talked about out out loud. They are buried
Speaker 2: in moments, quiet ones, unnoticed ones, the kind that never
Speaker 2: make it into a case study. Let me explain that
Speaker 2: history remembers the victory speech. It forgets the quiet conversation
Speaker 2: the night before where doubt almost one. History remembers the
Speaker 2: big decision, It forgets the hundred small decisions that made
Speaker 2: that moment possible. History remembers the leader who stood on
Speaker 2: the stage. It forgets the leader who stood in the
Speaker 2: hallway and chose not to walk away. That is where
Speaker 2: leadership is actually built, the hidden history. And here is
Speaker 2: what makes this so powerful for you. You are writing
Speaker 2: your hidden history every single day right now, Not when
Speaker 2: you get promoted, not when things are going great, not
Speaker 2: when people are watching, but right now. It's being written
Speaker 2: and how you respond when nobody follows up with you.
Speaker 2: It's being written in how you treat the person who
Speaker 2: cannot do anything for your career. It's being written in
Speaker 2: the moments where you could cut a corner and nobody
Speaker 2: would ever know. That is your real leadership record. And
Speaker 2: nobody talks about this enough. Let me give you a
Speaker 2: different way to think about this. In aviation, there's something
Speaker 2: every pilot understands. You do not become a safe pilot
Speaker 2: because of one perfect flight. You become a safe pilot
Speaker 2: because of thousands of small decisions that nobody ever sees.
Speaker 2: Every checklist you take seriously, every weather report that you
Speaker 2: double check, every time you say no, not today, conditions
Speaker 2: are not right. Those decisions never make headlines, but they
Speaker 2: determine whether you ever get to land the plane again.
Speaker 2: Leadership works the same way. The hidden history is what
Speaker 2: determines your future outcomes. Now Here's where this gets uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: because a lot of leaders are building the wrong hidden history.
Speaker 2: They think leadership is about what people see, the speech,
Speaker 2: the title, the meeting, the announcement. But behind the scenes
Speaker 2: they're inconsistent. They avoid tough conversations, They let small problems
Speaker 2: sit too long. They tolerate behavior they know is wrong.
Speaker 2: So when things fall apart later, they act surprised, but
Speaker 2: it was already written. Their hidden history told the whole story.
Speaker 2: You do not get surprised by failure. You earn it
Speaker 2: quietly over time. The same goes for success. The best
Speaker 2: leaders that I have ever seen did not become great overnight.
Speaker 2: They built a hidden history of discipline. They followed through
Speaker 2: when it was inconvenient. They addressed issues early, They held
Speaker 2: the line when it would have been easier to step back.
Speaker 2: They showed up prepared when nobody expected them to. So
Speaker 2: when the big moment came, it looked easy, it looked natural.
Speaker 2: People said, Wow, that leader handled that perfectly. What they
Speaker 2: did not see was the years of unseen reps that
Speaker 2: made that moment possible. That is the hidden history. Now
Speaker 2: here's where I want to challenge you. If someone followed
Speaker 2: you around for the next thirty days, not in meetings,
Speaker 2: not in big moments, but in the small ones. What
Speaker 2: story would they see? Would they see consistency? Would they
Speaker 2: see discipline? Would they see someone who lives the standards
Speaker 2: they talk about? Or would they see gaps? Would they
Speaker 2: see shortcuts? Would they see a leader who performs when
Speaker 2: watched but drifts when they're not. Because the gap right there,
Speaker 2: that is where leadership either grows or collapses. And here's
Speaker 2: the part that nobody tells you. Your team already knows
Speaker 2: your hidden history. They may not say it out loud,
Speaker 2: but they see it. They see how you react under pressure.
Speaker 2: They see what you tolerate, they see what you ignore,
Speaker 2: They see when you're locked in and when you are
Speaker 2: checked out. You're not hiding anything. You're being studied and
Speaker 2: your credibility is being built or broken in those moments.
Speaker 2: So what do you do with this? It's simple. You
Speaker 2: start treating the small moments like they matter, because they do.
Speaker 2: You stop waiting for the big stage to show up,
Speaker 2: because leadership is not performed, it is practiced. You tighten
Speaker 2: up the details, You follow through on the things you
Speaker 2: said that you would do. You address the issue today
Speaker 2: instead of next week. You prepare when nobody expects you to.
Speaker 2: You hold your own standard even when nobody is checking it.
Speaker 2: That's how you rewrite you're hidden history. Seven minutes a day.
Speaker 2: That's all it takes to start shifting this. Seven minutes
Speaker 2: of intentional leadership. Seven minutes of asking yourself, where did
Speaker 2: I show up strong today? And where did I drift?
Speaker 2: Seven minutes of tightening the gaps. Because over time, those
Speaker 2: seven minutes stack and one day, when the moment comes,
Speaker 2: and it will come, you will step into it ready,
Speaker 2: not because of luck, not because of talent, because of
Speaker 2: the history you built when nobody was paying attention. So
Speaker 2: here's your takeaway today. Your leadership is not defined by
Speaker 2: your biggest moment. It is defined by your unseen moments.
Speaker 2: Start treating them like they count, because they do and
Speaker 2: they always have. And if you want more free leadership resources,
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