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The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
The Stoic Inner Strategy – Leadership, Stoicism, and Decision-Making Under PressureThe Stoic Inner Strategy is a daily leadership podcast for founders, CEOs, executives, and operators navigating high-stakes decisions.Hosted by Scott Smith, Principal Advisor and founder of Akhada Consulting, this show blends Stoic philosophy with modern business strategy, executive decision-making, and leadership clarity. Each short episode explores topics like judgment under pressure, strategic thinking…
Episodes
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Building Mental Resilience and Learn to Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor Frankl True leadership requires…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Simplicity in Strategy – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: The greatest wealth is to live content with little. — Seneca In this episode, Scott explores how great strategy doesn’t come from…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
The Courage to Be Wrong – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius Being wrong isn’t failure—it’s…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Learn to Sustain What Matters and Abstain from What Doesn't – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: All philosophy lies in two words: sustain and abstain. — Epictetus In this episode, Scott breaks down one of Epictetus’ most timeless…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Decide Who You Are. Daily. – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: The task of a philosopher is to be every day training himself to be free. — CleanthesScott discusses the daily discipline required to…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Your Ego Isn’t a Leader – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus Scott emphasizes humility as key to genuine leadership…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Confidence Without Certainty – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. — Marcus Aurelius Scott explores why true leadership confidence…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Purpose Over Preference – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: Those who have a ‘why’ to live can bear almost any ‘how’. — Viktor Frankl Scott reflects on the necessity of purpose in leadership…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Lead Like a Mother – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. — Epictetus Today’s episode…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Mother's Day: Honoring the Leaders We Call Mom – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryTRIGGER WARNING: Scott is a widower and has remarried. He talks about both of his wives in this episode, including the one who has passed…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Legacy Is Built in Ordinary Days – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing. — Zeno of Citium Legacy isn’t built in grand moments — it’s built…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Joy Is a Discipline, Not an Accident – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: It is not things that disturb us, but our opinions about them. — Epictetus Joy isn’t an accident—it’s an act of leadership. Scott…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
The Danger of 'Someday' Thinking – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: Delay not. The present moment is all thou hast. — Og Mandino ‘Someday’ is a dangerous myth. Scott explores why postponing dreams and…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Gratitude Is a Form of Strength – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — EpictetusGratitude isn’t…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
The Urgency of Now – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. — Marcus…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Lead Like It's Your Last Day – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. — Marcus AureliusToday’s episode centers on urgency…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Adversity Builds Identity – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: Difficulties show men what they are. — EpictetusAdversity doesn’t create weakness—it reveals strength. In this episode, Scott explains…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Strength Is Built in Silence, Not Applause – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—and your life…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Leadership Is About Lightness, Not Weight – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius Leadership isn’t about carrying all the…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Milestones Matter: My BYU Graduation – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryQuote: First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Epictetus Today’s episode is personal. Scott reflects on…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Live in Agreement with Nature – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” This podcast is your daily space for…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Freedom Through Self-Mastery – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.” This podcast is your…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
The Stoic Response to Misinformation – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.” This podcast is your…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Losing Your Tribe, Finding Yourself – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: "Custom reflection on corporate loss and identity rebuilding.” This podcast is your daily…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Control What You Can – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Don’t Mistake Motion for Progress – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“Nowhere you can go is more peaceful… more free… than within yourself.”This podcast is your…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Leading Through Service, Not Status – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“To help others is noble. To seek praise is vain.”This podcast is your daily space for…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Time Is Not Money. It's More – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”This podcast is…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Peace Is Found Within, Not After – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder from Seneca: “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
There Is No Strategy Without Character – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder from Panaetius of Rhodes:“What is right for a man to do, not only in private, but in his role…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Move with the Wind, Not Against It – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “Lead me, Zeus and Destiny, whithersoever I am appointed to go… I will follow without…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Discipline Is the Root of Leadership – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“If one has trained himself properly, he should be able to withstand the greatest hardships…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Time Is the One Thing We Waste Without Guilt – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”This podcast is…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Virtue Over Victory – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”This podcast is your…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Control Through Calm – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Memento Mori – Remember You Will Die – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
🎧 Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”This…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
Prepare for the Worst. Lead from the Best – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder:“He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.” This podcast is your daily…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
You Control the Inner, Not the Outer – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
Today’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “Some things are up to us, and some things are not.” This podcast is your daily space for reflection…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
The Obstacle Is the Way – A Daily Insight for Modern Leaders
Episode SummaryToday’s episode is rooted in a timeless reminder: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” This…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
You Could Leave Life Right Now – A Stoic Reflection for Today’s Leader
In today’s episode, we explore a timeless reminder from Marcus Aurelius:"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."This…
- The Stoic Inner Strategy – A Leadership & Strategy Podcast
The Inner Strategy: The Strategy Begins Within
In this launch episode, Scott shares the "why" behind The Inner Strategy. This daily shortform podcast is for leaders, builders, and entrepreneurs who are…