Be A Great Leader: Put Growth Above Comfort

Be A Great Leader: Put Growth Above Comfort

Published: July 23, 2026

Duration: 45:29

Great leadership often requires doing what feels uncomfortable—especially when someone’s growth, performance, or future is at stake.
In this episode of The Expert Method, Ian Gatzke sits down with Josh to explore what leadership looks like when you stop treating it as positional authority and start treating it as a responsibility to develop people.

Josh shares what he learned after being named president of his family business at 29 years old, why many of his biggest leadership mistakes “had names,” and how avoiding hard conversations creates resentment, weakens culture, and allows poor performance to spread.