Forged with Pasha & Mick

Brendan Huff on Selection, Failure, and Refusing to Quit

pasha@pashapalanker.com (Pasha Palanker) — Wed, 7 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

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Brendan Huff gave assessment and selection everything he had and still came home without being selected. Then came another test: walking back into his unit, facing his teammates, and doing the job while carrying that disappointment.

In this episode of Forged with Pasha and Mick, Brendan joins Pasha to talk through the moments that tested his sense of worth as a soldier, teammate, husband, and father. He recalls the sergeant major who backed him after non-selection, a later Special Forces Assessment and Selection experience with a broken foot, and the decision to put his family's financial stability ahead of the qualification course, even after earning selection.

Brendan connects those experiences to cofounding Anomaly Six, working through business uncertainty one problem at a time, and taking ownership when things go wrong. He also gives a brief account of the medical ordeal that led to the loss of his left leg below the knee. The conversation comes back to trust, accountability, and the people who helped him through. For Brendan, giving back means making sure others in his community have support, too.

WHAT THIS EPISODE WILL FORGE IN YOU:

- Adaptability built through military life. Frequent moves in a military family taught Brendan how to make friends, adjust, and start again; working through college strengthened his work ethic.

- Returning to the unit after a non-selection. Brendan describes facing the same teammates, continuing to do the job, and rebuilding his confidence with support from leaders who knew him.

- A hard call after earning selection. He recounts a later selection experience with a broken foot, then choosing family stability over attending the qualification course during the 2008 financial crisis.

- Carrying lessons from service into business. At Anomaly Six, a trusted network helped open the door to an early pilot, while cash pressure required difficult conversations and daily problem solving.

- Owning your part in a setback. Brendan explains why honest self-assessment matters and how blame can turn disappointment into lasting negativity.

- Keeping your support network close. Mentors, teammates, friends, and family helped Brendan through setbacks and shaped his commitment to give back after service.

QUOTES THAT HIT LIKE A HAMMER:

“And loyalty means a lot to me. And trust means a lot.” — Brendan Huff

“It's not always about my personal needs at that point.” — Brendan Huff

“You will get through it. Slow it down.” — Brendan Huff

“And you have to take ownership in your portion of why you failed, regardless.” — Brendan Huff

“I try to give back as much as I can because I've had great, great mentors and leaders as well.” — Brendan Huff

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Cold open and the refusal to quit

00:40 Meet Brendan Huff

02:00 Military childhood and the roots of resilience

04:56 An unexpected route into the Army

07:49 Deployments and the path to special operations

13:05 Taking a shot at selection

16:13 The weight of coming home without selection

18:35 Returning to the unit and rebuilding trust

25:13 Perspective and taking the next small step

27:06 Another chance at selection

29:33 A failed fitness test and a same day retest

31:57 A broken foot and the long walk

34:24 Selected and choosing family stability

36:14 Founding Anomaly Six

39:24 Using failure to face business uncertainty

41:42 Taking ownership when things go wrong

43:18 A brief look at a life changing medical ordeal

46:49 Giving back and leaning on your community

QUESTIONS THIS EPISODE WILL ANSWER:

- How do you face your teammates and keep doing the job after a non-selection?

- What did a sergeant major do that helped Brendan rebuild after that setback?

- How do you weigh a hard-earned military opportunity against your family's financial stability?

- Which lessons from selection helped Brendan handle cash pressure and uncertainty as a business owner?

- How do you own your part in a failure without letting blame and resentment take over?

- Why do mentors, teammates, friends, and family still matter after service?

Connect & Discover Brendan Huff:

LinkedIn: @brendanhuff

Website: anomalysix.com

FOLLOW FORGED:

Pasha Palanker

Website: pashapalanker.com

Instagram: @pashapalanker

Mick Hunt

Website: MickHuntOfficial.com

Instagram: @mickunplugged

LinkedIn: @mickhunt

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Purpose, Profit, and the Glass Balls You Can’t Drop with Waco Hoover

pasha@pashapalanker.com (Pasha Palanker) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Waco Hoover walked into Manhattan on August 16, 2001, fresh out of the Marine Corps, with a dorm room six blocks from the World Trade Center and a promise to his grandmother that he would finish school. Weeks later the towers fell, and the urge to go back in was huge. He kept the promise instead, and that choice set him on a path of building things. A former infantry Marine and combat water survival instructor from a multi-generational military family, Waco went on to earn three exits as a founder and invest in more than a dozen companies. Today he is the founder of IMPCT Group, an agency helping organizations align purpose and profit, and a founder and partner of MCON, the military conference celebrating service member and veteran culture. His big goal: unlock one billion dollars of economic opportunity for service members, veterans, and military families by 2035. In this conversation with Pasha and Mick, Waco breaks down why luck is really a choice to go find your mentors, how he protects the glass balls of family life while building businesses, and why his forging moment was not one explosion but a lifetime of showing up.

What This Episode Will Forge In You:

• Luck Is a Choice, Not a Circumstance: The right mentor rarely lands in your lap. Waco challenges you to stop waiting and go find one through industry associations, conferences, and programs like American Corporate Partners, because the right relationship can change the trajectory of a career.

• Protect the Glass Balls: Everyone is juggling. Some things can drop and bounce back, and some shatter. Know which is which, guard your family time like a meeting you cannot move, and treat your time as the most precious thing you own.

• Purpose and Profit Belong Together: Mission should not live in a single department. When you apply the same rigor to the causes you care about that you apply to your P&L, it drives real results for your business and the community you serve.

Quotes That Hit Like A Hammer:

“The word luck is something that you have to reframe. It’s not luck. It’s taking a risk, taking the time and effort and attention to go out and find that mentor.”

“There’s glass balls and there’s plastic balls. You can’t drop the glass balls, but the plastic ones, you don’t like to do it, but it’s okay.”

“Every single person who wore the uniform raised their hand to volunteer on behalf of something much greater than themselves.”

Questions This Episode Answers:

• How do you find a mentor if you don’t have one at work?

• What was it like leaving the Marine Corps and moving to New York City right before 9/11?

• How can veterans become entrepreneurs without industry experience?

• How do you know when it’s time to pivot a business?

• How do entrepreneurs balance building a business with being a present parent?

• What does glass balls vs. plastic balls mean for work-life balance?

• How can companies align purpose and profit without it feeling fake?

• Is philanthropy a good way to build business relationships?

• What are MCON and IMPCT Group?

• Can a forging moment happen over a lifetime instead of one single event?

Connect & Discover Waco:

LinkedIn: Waco Hoover

IMPCT Group: impctgroup.com

MCON: mcon.live

Organizations Mentioned:

American Corporate Partners: acp-usa.org

Robert Irvine Foundation: robertirvinefoundation.org

FOLLOW FORGED:

Pasha Palanker

Website: pashapalanker.com

Instagram: @pashapalanker

Mick Hunt

Website: MickHuntOfficial.com

Instagram: @mickunplugged

LinkedIn: @mickhunt

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You Start Becoming What You Believe with Ken Harvey

pasha@pashapalanker.com (Pasha Palanker) — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000

A high school coach told Ken Harvey he was a loser and would be a loser all his life. Ken had just dropped out. He was seventeen, labeled a quitter, with no grades, no money and no plan, and for a while he believed it. Then came the lowest point of his life, a moment on his knees, and two words he says he heard back: purpose and destiny. What followed reads like fiction. A junior college in Oakland he had to save up to reach, having never been on a plane. Then the University of California, Berkeley. Then the twelfth overall pick in the 1988 NFL Draft, six seasons with the Phoenix Cardinals, five in Washington, four straight Pro Bowls, 89 career sacks and a place in the Ring of Fame. But the part Ken wants to talk about is what came after, because when the uniform came off he ran again. In this conversation with Pasha and Mick, he is sixty-one, still asking what he is here for, and has stopped running away from things in order to run at them. This one is about labels, second acts, and the small moments that change somebody's life.

What This Episode Will Forge In You:

You Become What You Believe: Ken is precise about how a label does its damage. People do not have to say it. You see it in how they look at you, you sit with it long enough that you start believing what you hear, and then you start becoming what you believe. His way out was not positive thinking, it was hearing that he had a purpose and a place, then humbling himself, going back, and putting a vision in front of the belief.
Learn to Run Toward Things Instead of Away From Them: Ken frames his own life through Moses: the prince, then forty years of wandering, then the assignment. He ran away from school as a kid, and the same instinct made him a linebacker who ran into people for eleven seasons. When football ended he ran again, this time in broad daylight, shaking hands and shutting doors at the same time. The skill never changed. Only the direction did, and he says that is usually all a lesson is.
The Small Thing You Barely Remember May Be the Thing That Lands: Ken took his dad to the 1989 Pro Bowl and quietly asked a player to go say hello to him. His father talked about it like a kid. That thirty-second favor became Ken's whole standard for how to treat people, and it is why he writes children's books for kids who have never seen themselves as the hero of one. You almost never learn which moment mattered, so the answer is to give it anyway.

Quotes That Hit Like A Hammer:

“You start believing what you hear and you start believing what you see around you, and then you start becoming what you believe.”

“I'm taking you back and trying to teach you how to run into stuff as opposed to away from stuff.”

“Sometimes lessons in life are just perspective. It can be the same thing, but it's the way you see it.”

Questions This Episode Answers:

Can one label from a teacher or a coach shape your entire life?
What makes a smart kid drop out of high school?
How do you come back from the lowest point of your life?
How does a high school dropout end up at UC Berkeley and in the NFL?
Why do so many athletes struggle with identity after they retire?
What does it mean to run toward something instead of away from it?
Is it ever too late to start something new?
How much difference can one small act of kindness actually make?
Why did an NFL linebacker start writing children's books?
What are the three things that make somebody great at what they do?

Connect & Discover Ken:

Touching Heart: touchingheart.com

LinkedIn: Ken Harvey

Books: owlpublishinghouse.com/books-by-ken-harvey

When Chocolate Milk Moved In: Order on Amazon

Come Find Me: Order on Amazon

If This Episode Hits Close to Home:

Ken speaks openly about the lowest point of his life. If you are struggling, you can reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 in the U.S., any hour of any day.

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988lifeline.org

FOLLOW FORGED:

Pasha Palanker

Website: pashapalanker.com

Instagram: @pashapalanker

Mick Hunt

Website: MickHuntOfficial.com

Instagram: @mickunplugged

LinkedIn: @mickhunt

Ken talked about wanting one book to plant one seed in one kid. Forged is putting 20 copies of each of his books behind that: comment or message the show and we will get one to you. If this episode moved you, share it with someone who needs it. Let's support humans doing great things.

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Behind the Badge, I’m the Same Person as You with Detective Torrance Jackson

pasha@pashapalanker.com (Pasha Palanker) — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Detective Torrance Jackson is the first family member Mick Hunt has ever interviewed, in more than three hundred episodes across two shows. Twenty years in, TJ is a Special Victims Unit detective, a SWAT operator and a negotiator, following a grandfather who was the first African American police officer in Liberty. He talks with Pasha and Mick about the calls he carries home, why the profession names post-traumatic stress but never post-traumatic growth, and the small circle and simpler mornings that finally let him set some of it down.

What This Episode Will Forge In You:

Post-Traumatic Growth Is the Conversation Nobody Has: First responders are trained to keep emotion off the scene. TJ names what the job gives back, not just what it takes.
Dedication Outlasts Confidence: He refuses the word confidence. Confidence moves. Dedication is a promise to people who are counting on you.
Have the Conversation: You do not fix policing without fixing society, and that starts with talking to someone who does not look like you.

Quotes That Hit Like A Hammer:

“We as law enforcement, we experience that post-traumatic stress, and nobody ever focused on our post-traumatic growth.”

“At the end of the day, behind that badge and uniform, I’m the same person as you.”

“I stopped looking at adversity as problematic and started looking at it as how I can grow.”

Questions This Episode Answers:

What is post-traumatic growth, and how is it different from PTSD?
Why don’t police officers and first responders talk about their mental health?
How does an officer come home after a call involving a child?
What’s it like to be a Black man choosing law enforcement in the South?
How do you actually rebuild trust between police and a community?
What legacy does a twenty-year detective want to leave behind?

Connect & Discover Torrance:

Instagram: @mrofficer156

FOLLOW FORGED:

Pasha Palanker

Website: pashapalanker.com

Instagram: @pashapalanker

Mick Hunt

Website: MickHuntOfficial.com

Instagram: @mickunplugged

LinkedIn: @mickhunt

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Anybody Can Get Up, But Not Everyone Stands Up with Colonel Greg Gadson

pasha@pashapalanker.com (Pasha Palanker) — Wed, 9 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Some people survive the worst day of their life. Colonel Greg Gadson (U.S. Army, Ret.) decided to keep living his. A West Point linebacker turned field artillery officer, Greg served this nation for more than 25 years and was commanding the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery in Baghdad in May 2007 when an IED took both of his legs above the knee and the normal use of his right arm and hand. He took 129 pints of blood. He died on the table six times. And then he went back to work, serving another seven-plus years in uniform, leading the Army Wounded Warrior Program, and retiring as Garrison Commander of Fort Belvoir. Along the way he became the spark behind the 2007 New York Giants’ improbable Super Bowl run (two rings, and Mick still hasn’t forgiven him), starred in a major motion picture, wrote Finding Waypoints, and became one of the most respected voices in the veteran community. In this conversation with Pasha and Mick, Greg gets underneath the highlight reel: the humbling of needing help to eat, the faith that lifted hate off his heart before he even knew he was healing, and why he says he is freer now than he ever was with two legs. This one will sit with you.

What This Episode Will Forge In You:

No Single Moment Defines You; Your Decision Does: Greg is clear that there is no magic in one bad day. Adversity always carries the potential to change you, but the direction is yours to choose. Victim or conqueror, quit or keep going, that’s a decision you own in every circumstance, and it gets easier to make when you’ve done the work and surrounded yourself with the right people.
It Takes Courage to Ask for Help: Going from battalion commander to needing help eating and getting to the bathroom was the most humbling stretch of Greg’s life. His challenge to the rest of us is blunt: if you’d gladly help someone else but refuse the same help yourself, look at why. Asking is the first and most significant step, and the idea that you’ve done any of this alone was never true to begin with.
Resilience Is Built Long Before You Need It: Resilience isn’t a switch you flip on the worst day, it’s character you deposit into daily by challenging yourself and holding yourself accountable. And part of that account is acceptance. Greg credits his faith for lifting hate off his heart, because holding on to “why me” drags an invisible anchor that bleeds the very resilience you’re trying to spend.

Quotes That Hit Like A Hammer:

“Sometimes you’re the victim or you’re the conqueror. You quit or you keep going on. Those are all decisions that we own in every circumstance.”

“It takes no courage not to ask for help. It takes courage to ask.”

“Our lives are not about what we accomplish or what we achieve, they’re about what we leave. And that is the definition of legacy.”

Questions This Episode Answers:

Does one moment really define who you become or is it what you decide afterward?
How do you keep an injury, a loss, or a setback from becoming your identity?
What’s the difference between getting up and standing up?
Why is asking for help harder than giving it, and where do you find the courage?
What do most people get wrong about resilience?
How do you let go of “why me” without ever getting an answer?
How does a wounded battalion commander end up sparking a Super Bowl run?
What should service members be doing before the uniform comes off?
What does legacy actually mean if it isn’t your list of accomplishments?
How do you stay present when your mind keeps dragging you backward or forward?

Connect & Discover Greg:

Book: Finding Waypoints: A Warrior’s Journey Toward Peace and Purpose

Publisher: schaffnerpress.com/books/finding-waypoints

Speaking: leadingauthorities.com/speakers/greg-gadson

Speaking: apbspeakers.com/speaker/colonel-greg-gadson

Organizations Greg Stands Behind:

These are the five Greg named on the episode organizations he says use every donation the right way.

Robert Irvine Foundation: robertirvinefoundation.org

Hope For The Warriors: hopeforthewarriors.org

Gary Sinise Foundation: garysinisefoundation.org

Vail Veterans Program: vailveteransprogram.org

Semper Fi & America’s Fund: thefund.org

FOLLOW FORGED:

Pasha Palanker

Website: pashapalanker.com

Instagram: @pashapalanker

Mick Hunt

Website: MickHuntOfficial.com

Instagram: @mickunplugged

LinkedIn: @mickhunt

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From Rock Bottom to Purpose with Pasha Palanker

pasha@pashapalanker.com (Pasha Palanker) — Wed, 2 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000

In episode two of Forged, Mick Hunt turns the mic on his co-host and digs into the origin story of Pasha Palanker. A Soviet-born immigrant who chased strength through the U.S. Army and special operations, Pasha came home from combat decorated as a hero and quietly carrying wounds no one could see. This conversation goes to the places most people never talk about: the suicide bomber two feet from his vehicle, the years of neglected PTSD, the breakdown that landed him in a psychiatric ward during the isolation of 2020, and the single decision to get in his car that changed the trajectory of his life. Pasha shares how he rebuilt himself through running, journaling, vulnerability, and a hard-won belief that the most important person to show up for you is you. This is a raw, honest look at how the darkest moments can forge the strongest version of who you are meant to become.

Forging Moments:

0:00 Welcome to Forged and Why Pressure Forges Character

0:37 Setting Up Pasha's Origin Story

1:54 Who Were You Before the World Knew Your Name

3:04 What Shaped Pasha Growing Up

5:25 Chasing Acceptance and the Urge to Serve

7:44 Learning What Manhood Looks Like Without a Dad

8:50 Into the Forging Moment

10:10 Face to Face With a Suicide Bomber

11:50 The Imprint Combat Left Behind

12:51 Hitting Rock Bottom

15:25 The Shift Before Driving to Walter Reed

16:10 His Kids, Flawed Logic, and Nothing to Lose

18:31 Inside the Psychiatric Ward

20:40 The Puzzle That Settled His Mind

23:10 Naming the Real Rock Bottom

25:00 From Forging to Rebuilding

25:58 The Forrest Gump Run That Became a Lifeline

27:26 The LinkedIn Post That Reached Half a Million

30:18 Why the Most Important Person Is You

33:17 Legacy, Impact, and What He Fights For

35:20 Changing the Perception of Hard Moments

38:33 The Scar He Is Most Proud Of

41:42 Closing Words and the Scotland Yomp

45:19 The Fire May Be the Forging Thing You Need

What This Episode Will Forge In You:

• Real strength is built inward, not in combat: Pasha chased toughness through the Army and special operations, but discovered that the strength he was looking for was only forged when he was forced to face himself. That inner journey is available to everyone, no uniform required.

• One small decision can change everything: Between believing his family was better off without him and choosing to drive himself to the hospital, something shifted. The lesson is that you do not have to solve everything at once, you just have to take the next small step.

• The most important person to show up for is you: Pasha credits a circle of people who stood beside him, but insists the foundation was learning to show up for himself, even through gestures as small as a daily walk. Self-belief is what makes the rest possible.

Quotes That Hit Like a Hammer:

“Pressure doesn't just reveal character. It forges it.”

“All the things that I was searching for in joining the army and becoming a man, that's where they were born. It was in that struggle.”

“It's amazing how a small decision to get in my car changed the trajectory of my life.”

“The most important person to be there for you is you.”

“The scar I'm most proud of is invisible.”

Questions This Episode Answers:

• Who was Pasha Palanker before he became a special operations veteran and speaker?

• What did Pasha learn about real strength that combat never taught him?

• How does years of neglected PTSD lead to a breakdown, and what are the warning signs?

• What shifted in Pasha's mind in the moment before he drove himself to get help?

• What actually happens inside a psychiatric ward, and how did a puzzle help him heal?

• How do you begin rebuilding yourself after hitting rock bottom?

• Why does Pasha say the most important person to show up for is you?

• How can the hardest moments of your life become the thing that forges your purpose?

• Why is Pasha so committed to talking openly about mental health and veteran suicide?

This episode discusses mental health, PTSD, and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, you can call or text the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (dial 988) in the US for free, confidential support, available 24/7. Veterans can press 1 after dialing to reach the Veterans Crisis Line.

Connect & Discover Pasha:

Website:pashapalanker.com

Instagram:@pashapalanker

LinkedIn:Pasha Palanker

FOLLOW MICK ON:

Spotify:MickUnplugged

Instagram:@mickunplugged

Facebook:@mickunplugged

YouTube:@MickUnpluggedPodcast

LinkedIn:@mickhunt

Website:MickHuntOfficial.com

Website:howtobeagoodleader.com

Website:Leadloudseries.com

Apple:MickUnplugged

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The Promise That Forged a Leader with Mick Hunt

pasha@pashapalanker.com (Pasha Palanker) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000

In the very first episode of Forged, Pasha Palanker turns the mic on his co-host and asks the question everyone wonders but rarely gets answered: who was Mick Hunt before the world knew his name? What follows is raw, unscripted, and real. Mick walks back to the moment at ten years old when he watched his mother almost give up, and the promise he made that day that would shape every decision since. From becoming the quietest, most observant kid in the room to nearly losing a team of 500 employees as a CEO who got leadership wrong, Mick lays out the two forging moments that built him. This is a conversation about responsibility, presence, emotional intelligence, and the kind of leadership that only comes from looking in the mirror and choosing to change. If you are in a hard moment right now, this one is for you.

Forging Moments (Chapters):

0:00 Welcome to Forged: Why Pasha and Mick Built This

1:12 The Format and the First Episode Twist

1:40 Who Were You Before the World Knew Your Name

1:58 The Promise at Ten Years Old

3:10 Where a Kid Finds That Kind of Strength

4:13 Becoming Observant and Understanding Emotions

5:22 Taking Responsibility Before You Know How

7:08 Was It Innate or Learned

7:59 Advice for Anyone Forging Through It Today

10:40 Did You Ever Think It Would Break You

12:52 Carrying It Alone at Ten

15:48 The Habits That Started Then and Still Hold

18:11 How Pasha and Mick Met in Philadelphia

21:18 From Self to Family to Millions, On Legacy

24:08 The Scar He Is Most Proud Of

24:35 The CEO Who Almost Lost 500 People

26:17 The Resignation That Changed Everything

27:33 Three Questions in the Mirror

29:06 One Night to Become a New Leader

33:03 Why the Childhood Awareness Did Not Translate

35:30 Fixed on Paper, Worsened the Culture

36:35 Advice for Anyone in a Forging Moment Now

37:23 Why You Should Journal

38:50 Progress Over Perfection

40:24 What Forged Is Really About, And It Is About You

What This Episode Will Forge In You:

• Responsibility forges you before you know how to carry it: Mick made a promise at ten without a roadmap. The lesson is that taking ownership of a hard situation comes first, and the how reveals itself through action over time.

• Presence and emotional intelligence are built in the hard moments: Reading a room, sensing intent, and being truly present for people are skills Mick developed out of necessity as a kid. They became the superpowers he leads with today.

• Getting results is not the same as leading people: Mick turned a company around in 60 days and nearly lost his whole team doing it. Real leadership meant apologizing to 500 people and rebuilding himself around empathy, not just metrics.

Quotes That Hit Like a Hammer:

“Everything for me started when I saw my mom almost give up.”

“It wasn't about me, so it couldn't break me.”

“I had one freaking night to come back a totally different leader that they could see, that they could feel, and that they would want to show up for every day.”

“Things that fix on paper always don't fix culturally.”

“Make a promise, remember the promise, deliver on the promise.”

Questions This Episode Answers:

• Who was Mick Hunt before he became the voice of modern leadership?

• What promise did Mick make at ten years old, and who was it for?

• How do you take responsibility for a situation when you have no idea how to fix it?

• Can hard moments actually break you, and what makes the difference?

• What habits from childhood adversity carry into adult success?

• How does a results-driven CEO almost lose a team of 500, and how do you come back from it?

• What three questions should every leader ask themselves in the mirror?

• Why does fixing something on paper sometimes destroy the culture?

• What is the one piece of advice for anyone in a forging moment right now?