https://wabcradio.com/podcast/the-leadership-thread-with-dr-peggy-pelonis/ The Leadership Thread with host Dr.Pelonis, is a video-podcast that take a backward glimpse at the early experiences that shape today’s most influential leaders. Each episode explores the childhood moments, challenges, and motivations that quietly formed a guest’s character long before their career began. While titles, achievements, or professional training crystallize the approach to leadership, Dr.Peggy Pelonis looks deeper, into the formative stories that taught each leader how to cope, connect, and find their place in the world. These early lessons become their inner compass, influencing how they make decisions, build trust, inspire others, and respond under pressure. Some guests grew up driven to prove themselves; others learned early to hold things together. Some followed a vision sparked in childhood. By following the thread to childhood and uncovering these origins, The Leadership Thread reveals not only how leaders rise, but why they lead the way they do. This is a journey into the heart of leadership, honest, human, and rooted in the stories that shaped a life. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAoe0xBhQ-7i6QS4NNRZeY_OIqOy0mq-P The Leadership Thread with host Dr.Pelonis, is a video-podcast that take a backward glimpse at the early experiences that shape today’s most influential leaders. Each episode explores the childhood moments, challenges, and motivations that quietly formed a guest’s character long before their career began. While titles, achievements, or professional training crystallize the approach to leadership, Dr.Peggy Pelonis looks deeper, into the formative stories that taught each leader how to cope, connect, and find their place in the world. These early lessons become their inner compass, influencing how they make decisions, build trust, inspire others, and respond under pressure. Some guests grew up driven to prove themselves; others learned early to hold things together. Some followed a vision sparked in childhood. By following the thread to childhood and uncovering these origins, The Leadership Thread reveals not only how leaders rise, but why they lead the way they do. This is a journey into the heart of leadership, honest, human, and rooted in the stories that shaped a life. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAoe0xBhQ-7i6QS4NNRZeY_OIqOy0mq-P en-US hourly 1 2025 Red Apple Media Red Apple Podcast Network Red Apple Podcast Network The Leadership Thread with host Dr.Pelonis, is a video-podcast that take a backward glimpse at the early experiences that shape today’s most influential leaders. Each episode explores the childhood moments, challenges, and motivations that quietly formed a guest’s character long before their career began. While titles, achievements, or professional training crystallize the approach to leadership, Dr.Peggy Pelonis looks deeper, into the formative stories that taught each leader how to cope, connect, and find their place in the world. These early lessons become their inner compass, influencing how they make decisions, build trust, inspire others, and respond under pressure. Some guests grew up driven to prove themselves; others learned early to hold things together. Some followed a vision sparked in childhood. By following the thread to childhood and uncovering these origins, The Leadership Thread reveals not only how leaders rise, but why they lead the way they do. 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From a childhood roote 00:30:32 https://wabcradio.com/episode/episode-5-brand-leader-dimitri-hatzigiorgiou-discusses-resilience-mental-health-and-courage-to-get-through-stressful-situations/ https://wabcradio.com/episode/episode-5-brand-leader-dimitri-hatzigiorgiou-discusses-resilience-mental-health-and-courage-to-get-through-stressful-situations/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://wabcradio.com/episode/episode-5-brand-leader-dimitri-hatzigiorgiou-discusses-resilience-mental-health-and-courage-to-get-through-stressful-situations/ 0 7cf573f56cfd013dbd3e6e715338f640860548 77 WABC 77 WABC full From global brands to personal reinvention, this episode of The Leadership Thread follows the extraordinary journey of Dimitri Hatzigiorgiou, whose leadership path spans Starbucks, Chipotle, Apple, and community-driven ventures in both the United States 00:29:35 https://wabcradio.com/episode/episode-4-adela-j-gondek-ph-d-lecturer-columbia-university-climate-school-earth-institute/ https://wabcradio.com/episode/episode-4-adela-j-gondek-ph-d-lecturer-columbia-university-climate-school-earth-institute/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://wabcradio.com/episode/episode-4-adela-j-gondek-ph-d-lecturer-columbia-university-climate-school-earth-institute/ 0 7cf573f56cfd013dbd3e6e715338f640860548 77 WABC 77 WABC full On The Leadership Thread with Dr. Peggy Pelonis, this episode features Dr. Adela Gondek, a Columbia University lecturer in public and environmental sustainability ethics and a political theorist by training. 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