We’ve been talking about goal-setting for a while now, but we wanted to talk about it from a different perspective.

You’re going to hear a conversation between four powerful women about how this annual ritual has brought value to them and how their husbands have been brought in to support them.

These are the hosts of Empire Building — Seychelle Van Poole, Vija Williams, Sarah Reynolds, and Wendy Papasan — a sister podcast to The ONE Thing. They are amazing wives, amazing mothers, and wildly successful business owners—and they are uncompromising that they can succeed at each.

As leaders, It’s easy to get stuck in the idea that we always have to have the answers—that we always have to be prepared with the perfect response to deliver wisdom to our teams. But the thing about true leadership is that what you don’t say is just as important as what you do. 

How you listen to your people is critical to keeping them engaged; valuing their ideas and their contributions and developing them into leaders themselves.

Abe Shreve is the CEO of MAPS Business Coaching, the company that provides coaching around The ONE Thing. He shares what it means to lead like a coach.

We are entering the time of year where we start to set our goals for the upcoming year.

The mistake people often make is that they commit to things that look attractive in the short run without understanding if it’s a distraction from where you want to go in the long run. How do we put a plan in place that honors both our short term commitments and long term goals?

In this conversation, you’ll hear how Deirdre Wheatley-Liss reached out to our team because she needed some help. She discovered The ONE Thing a little over a year ago, and she started updating her 411 every week and having 411s with her team. As a result, she saw extraordinary growth in the midst of this wild and crazy year. But now she realizes that if she continues to go down the same path, she’s going to burn out. You’ll hear how she gets clarity on where she wants to be someday, and how that brings focus on what her goal needs to be for the next year.

Every year people set their goals and, without realizing it, they struggle to have a relationship with them.

Gary Keller says that the purpose of a goal is not to achieve a result but to appropriate being in the moment; it’s a compass to help you identify how you have to behave today so that you’re in alignment with where you want to go. But before we can find alignment, we have to have clarity on our core values.

Cathryn Lavery is the co-found of BestSelf Co., and she joined us at our goal-setting retreat last year with her fiance Emily Colman. By attending, not only did they figure out what their vision for their lives looked like together but they figured out what their core values were. And as it turned out, these values transformed their alignment in an unprecedented year.

If we want to look at the quality of our relationships, we have to look no further than the quality of the conversations that we have.

Here’s the problem: The everyday conversations with the people we care about are either strengthening our relationships or undermining them—and we’re not always aware of which because we’re failing so slowly we think we’re succeeding. When it comes to marriages, it can be catastrophic. With children it can lead to relationships full of regret. And with business it can lead to millions of dollars lost that could have been realized. So how do we fix it? How do we get clear on how we communicate with the people who matter most so that we build amazing relationships and build extraordinary lives?

Susan Scott of “Fierce Conversations” has been on the show before, and she’s going to help us answer those questions.

How do you succeed in health, your relationships, and with your money when there is so much uncertainty in the world?

With all that’s going on, a lot of us have been facing challenges. Our health routines have been disrupted, our relationships have been strained, and a lot of our financial worlds have been rocked.

Today, you’re going to hear stories from two groups of The ONE Thing members. One is a husband and wife couple who have gone on a journey of transforming their health, their wealth, and their relationship. The other is a corporate attorney who has leveraged The ONE Thing’s goal setting principles to not only maintain a thriving career this year but make sure she’s showing up as a wife and as a mother first.