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ENCOURAGING LEADERS

Episode 230: You Failed. Now What?
The Leadership Lessons After Failure

Every leader fails.

Sometimes it's a bad decision. A missed opportunity. A conversation that didn't go the way it should have.

Sometimes, the hardest part isn't what happened.

It's what we start believing about ourselves afterward.

What if the way you respond to failure matters more than the failure itself?

This week on The Today Counts Show, Jim Piper, Winston Harris, and Mason Moore explore what happens when leaders get it wrong and what it takes to move forward.

They unpack the tension between taking responsibility and getting stuck in shame, the challenge of rebuilding trust, and the difference between learning from a mistake and allowing it to define you.

There is a difference between saying, "I made a bad decision," and believing, "I'm a bad leader."

That difference can change everything.

What does it actually look like to lead again after you've lost confidence?

🎧 Tune into this week's episode of The Today Counts Show and join the conversation.

A FEW THINGS WE'RE THINKING ABOUT...

🔹 Failure is part of leadership. A bad decision, a missed opportunity, or a moment of poor judgment doesn't automatically make someone a bad leader. But how we respond to those moments matters.

🔹 We can spend a lot of time trying to move past failure without ever slowing down to understand what happened. Sometimes the growth we need begins with the thing we'd rather avoid.

🔹Taking responsibility for failure doesn't mean allowing shame to take over. We can own what went wrong without believing that something is wrong with who we are.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: What if the failure you're trying to move past is actually the very thing you need to learn from?

PERSONAL REFLECTION

Failure and disappointment are inevitable. What we do with them is where growth begins. When something goes wrong, it’s easy to focus on what we wish had happened differently or rush to move past it. A more valuable response is to slow down, pay attention, and ask what the experience has to teach us. What did it reveal? What would you do differently? What can you carry forward? The question isn't whether something went wrong. What are you going to learn from it? Click here to continue the conversation.​

QUICK WATCH

Asking for help can feel vulnerable, especially when we're used to being the one with the answers. What if letting people support you is actually part of building trust? In this short clip, Simon Sinek offers a simple reminder about what happens when we allow others to show up for us.

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