Mick Unplugged - Practice Makes Permanent: Transforming Leaders with Dr. Anthony Randall

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

Practice Makes Permanent: Transforming Leaders with Dr. Anthony RandallDr. Anthony Randall isn't just a leader; he's a seismic force in personal and organizational transformation. An international award-winning author, combat veteran, West Point graduate, and martial arts master with black belts in three disciplines, Dr. Randall redefines excellence. As the President and Founder of Vanguard XXI, he masterfully coaches leaders across Fortune 100/500 companies, U.S. military special operations, Major League Baseball, and more, inspiring them to align passion, purpose, and precision. He's a visionary dedicated to restoring civility, fostering anti-fragility, and championing a "more excellent way" of leading and living.Takeaways:Practice Makes Permanent, Not Perfect: Focus on practicing excellence to make quality habits and skills permanent, ensuring continuous growth and improvement across all aspects of life.Embrace Anti-Fragility Over Resilience: Instead of simply bouncing back from adversity, strive to become anti-fragile, meaning you improve and grow stronger through challenges, rather than just returning to your original state.The Golden Triangle of Liberty: Restoring civility and trusted leadership in the public square requires a balance of freedom, virtue, and faith, moving beyond self-interest to foster objective values and civil discourse.Sound Bytes:"Practice makes permanent not perfect. I think that kind of destroys one of those isms that people typically think is practice makes perfect. Practice makes permanent. Practice does not make perfect. So practice excellence.""Being anti-fragile is about not just responding, resisting and responding to the things in life, but getting better from each and every one of those sets and reps.""When you can coach organizations in depth how to think, you begin to create morally and ethically autonomous leaders that get stuff done."Connect & Discover Dr. Anthony:Website: vanguardxxi.comWebsite: anthonyrandall.orgBook: Practicing ExcellenceBook: Practice Makes PermanentLinkedIn: @anthonyvanguardxxi🔥 Ready to Unleash Your Inner Game-Changer? 🔥 Mick Hunt’s BEST SELLING book, How to Be a Good Leader When You’ve Never Had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, is here to light a fire under your ambition and arm you with the real-talk strategies that only Mick delivers. 👉 Grab your copy now and level up your life → Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million  FOLLOW MICK ON:Spotify: MickUnpluggedInstagram: @mickunplugged Facebook: @mickunpluggedYouTube:  @MickUnpluggedPodcast LinkedIn: @mickhunt Website:  MickHuntOfficial.comWebsite: howtobeagoodleader.comWebsite: Leadloudseries.comApple: MickUnpluggedSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of Mick Gumploid, and today we're joined by International Award-winning author, a force behind transforming leaders, and we are talking to a man who has more black belts than I do around my waist. He is the masterful, the transformative, the unforgettable Columbus George's own. My God, Dr. Anthony Randall. You're listening to Mick Unplugged, hosted by the one and only Mick Hunt. This is where purpose meets power and stories spark transformation. Mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning, helping you discover your because and becoming unstoppable.

I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, you're in the right place. Let's get unplugged. Dr. Anthony, how you doing today, brother? Good, Mick. How are you? Great to see you. Great to see you too, man. you know, just catching up a little bit. Talking to you for a while on social media, I don't think I realize how close we work to each other.

So that's a Mick error right there. But I'm honored to have my neighbor. I'm on the show. So I've been looking forward to this one for a while, bro. That sounds great. I've got probably more errors in life than you do. I'm just glad that Herb and Corey Thompson could connect us through Liberty Speaks, and it's great to be working together.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Shout out to Herb and Corey or Peaches and Herb. I like to call them when we're together. There you go. Dude, you know, I always start my shows off by asking my guest, what's your because, right? Like Simon Sennick, good friend of mine,

taught us to all start with our why. And I like to think that once you know your why, you're fueled by your because, that thing that keeps you going, that promise that you make. So if I ought to ask you today, Dr. Anthony, 26, what's your because? Why do you keep doing the things that you do? Yeah, well, I love the question. And I'm going to go a little counter to Simon. I've got his book on my bookshelf. But I always want to press like you do. I don't think it starts with why. It starts with who and it starts with what. And that's the because. And so my because is to help people live a more excellent way. And I believe that there's a way to live a more excellent way of life when we align our passion, your because, our purpose and our precision. And we can go in depth on that today.

if you'd like to. But that's the bottom line. How do we live a more excellent way to a lot by aligning passion, purpose, and precision? And that's what I love to do. I love to see human beings flourish. Dude, and we're going to go there because as I've gotten to know you in your work, one, I realized we had a lot in common. And then two, I've learned a lot through you and your work. You know, you've mentioned numerous times that practice makes permanent. Yeah. Right. And that kind of became the foundation for your book practicing excellence, which is a great segue into what you're going and saying, you know, I've had this thing, everybody that's listened to the show or watch this show, you've heard me say this a thousand times.

Michael Jordan never took a shot he didn't practice. Steph Curry never takes a shot. He doesn't practice. Kobe Bryant never did a move. He didn't practice. And so when you saw those guys do things, it was because they made those skills permanent. But you never see Michael Jordan take a full court shot because he never practiced. practice those things, right? He never tried to master those things. So talk to us about

practice making permanent, both the mental, the physical, and the psychological aspects of that. Yeah. So practice makes permanent, not perfect. I think that kind of destroys one of those isms that people typically think is practice makes perfect. Practice makes permanent. Practice does not make perfect. So practice excellence. And that was kind of a smaller book that I wrote a few years ago leading to practicing excellence, focused around what you just talked about. And I truly believe that living a more excellent way is found in the joy of practice. The joy of everyday, you know, disciplined obedience. We can talk about that today, about training your trust, trust in your training, but the art of practice. And I think I learned that that art of practice in two different

places, at three different places in my life. I would say one of my faith, the second martial arts. and then the third one in the military, specifically having an opportunity to serve in, you know, the ranger and the special operations and special forces community as an army ranger and as an officer and as a chaplain. So those are the three places that I've learned that practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.

So make sure what you practice is excellent. Yeah, and, you know, just doubling down on what you just talked about. So, you know, you've got a diverse set of experience. like you just said, from martial arts to military service and a ministry, right? Like, that's a lot of profound insights and growth that you've gone through. How does that inform your approach to, like, what you do when you work with companies and individuals today from a leadership? Yeah, I think, you know, Miyamoto Masashi said that, you know,

every warrior should carry a pen and a sword, right? from my military days, you know, the guys that knew me before I became a chaplain, and they just remember the Ranger Randall, right? And I tell people all the time, it's, you can put the chaplain into the ranger, but it's hard to take the ranger out of the chaplain. And I used to think that was a tension or, you know, a disconnect. And what I found over life of practicing is that really it's holistic. And so what I try to bring to leaders to organizations and to the public square is how do you bring your fullness of your to the public square.

And how do we take that fullness to better understand others and to seek understanding and to have that intellectually rigorous dialogue and discourse that allows us to collaborate, allows us to accept our differences, find our unity, and get things done. And so for me, you know, when I do coaching, we do leader development, we just take a very holistic perspective to that. You know, I began learning that in the martial arts. and then my time in the special operations community, allowing my opportunities there to work on human performance

and then taking that into my time in professional college sports and then what we do today. So it's very much a holistic transformational process. Dude, and, you know, once I started following you, I saw something that you wrote and I stood up out of my chair and it was like my skin was on fire because I was like, Yes, I needed to hear that. A lot of times in leadership, in business, in entrepreneurship, in sports, we always talk about resiliency.

Right. And so resiliency went from a mindset, I think, to more like a trendy buzzword, right? Like if we were talking social media, it was a trendy hashtag for a while. And then I saw Dr. Anthony Randall say, where you really need to spend your time is understanding the concept of anti-examination. So I want to give you some moments to break this down for everybody that's watching or listening about being anti-fragile. Yeah, so the concept of anti-fragility comes from the scene Talib in his book, Anti-Fragile, which is a great read. You know, my time in the military, especially the chaplain and combat tours and all of these things, the military started working on a resiliency project. They spent a couple hundred million dollars on it, actually.

And when I was doing some graduate work several years ago, found that 52% of people, of soldiers that went through the resiliency training program actually had greater catastrophic thinking after the training than before. And my belief is that we need to go deeper. We need to go deeper than positive psychology. We need to go into this place of character formation, establishing virtue and faith and freedom as a triangle, a golden triangle that shapes who people are. are to give them a greater foundation to resist and respond to evil and to adversity in the things we face in this world. So the concept is pretty simple. You have people that are in a place of fragility, right?

You have a place of resilience or a place of anti-fragility. And I think the illustration that I've seen, and I can't remember it came from, was using Greek mythology. If you're in a place of fragility, it's like Damocles, right? The guy laying on the couch with eating the grapes and the sorters. and above him with the horsehair. If you don't practice in each and every day and prepare each and every day

at how to overcome adversity, destroy self-limin beliefs, and learn how to show up and play up and finish every day, you're like Democles. The tension on that sword's eventually going to, that horsehair is going to snap and you're done. Resilience is the concept of the Phoenix, where you get hit, you get knocked down,

you bounce back up to the original place that you were. and being a martial artist and doing the things that I've done in my life, man, I've just never been satisfied with mediocrity. And I think truly being a resilient person is just being mediocre. You get knocked down, you get back up again, and you stay there. And so just like the Phoenix, it dissolves, you know, it can fire and it dissolves and it reconstitutes itself. But being anti-fragile is like the hydra, right?

If you remember the Greek mythological creature, the hydra. And you chop off a head, another one's coming back. And so being anti-fragile is about not just responding, resisting and responding to the things in life, but getting better from each and every one of those sets and reps. An obstacle in life shouldn't be something you're fearful of. It should be something that you embrace and say, okay, how do we go by with and through this thing? And so whether it's the trauma that I've seen in combat, whether it's being in high performance environments and sports or special operations or even doing martial arts, there is a stress that we need to put ourselves under every day emotionally, physically, psychologically, spiritually, mentally, physiologically, to help us get better every day. And I think some people have termed that post-traumatic growth, I just prefer the term being anti-fragile. I love that so much, brother.

For the person that's listening or watching right now, it's like, yeah, I like that. But I need to understand how to put that into practice for me or a couple of things that I could do to reverse that mindset or to embrace this new anti-fragility or anti-fragile mindset. Like, what are some things that people can do that's in their common day to day? Well, I've learned a lot of this practice from failure, right? And so I think just having the courage to get up every single day,

and to step out in the public square and getting the arena is one thing is being willing to just be willing to show up every day to play up when you have an opportunity to play up and then be committed to finishing. And so, you know, the first part of that, I think, goes back to practicing excellence. When we identify our passion or our because,

it helps us overcome adversity. Right? And then when we align that passion with purpose, the purposeful use of our gifts and our abilities and talents, When we focus on practicing our gifts and our abilities and talents and skills every single day, what that does is it prevents us from getting just consumed with the dilemmas and the distractions of self-limiting beliefs, the inner voice, the external voices, all of those things.

And instead, we're able to stay focused on purposeful practice of what we're good at. That requires what I call disciplined obedience, right? No one likes, I mean, I don't know what you, I've got three kids, right? Discipline and obedience aren't their two favorite words as they're growing up. But I've got two in college now and in a high school. And they sure appreciate some disciplined obedience now in what they're doing. So discipline is the art of just practicing well every single day. And obedience, you know, as a theologian in Hebrew, there's no word for obedience.

The word is actually Shama, which means to listen. So people that have disciplined obedience are people every day that are willing to get in the arena. to show up and play up and finish, and not only be disciplined in their practice, being willing to listen and learn and apply, being humble to be taught every day. And then the last thing is precision. When you align your passion and your purpose,

then that gives you precision to focus on exactly where your feet are at and be present in that moment and get after it, right? So I'll just, I'll stop there, but there's some more depth there that we can get into on practicing the excellence. Yeah, you know, I want to go as deep as you want to go in practicing excellence. And you and I've already talked about we're going to have a part two and maybe we'll do a master class for people. Because I totally believe everything that you just said.

And I think what I heard you say, and I'm going to repeat it my way for everybody, I think the first step is just acknowledging failure. I think a lot of times we hide from we made a mistake or we messed up or we didn't we didn't do as good. as we wanted to do or as someone else wanted us to do, it's okay to accept that as long as you're willing to correct and get better, right? I think a lot of times we take failure and we begin to stack failure. You know, like me and my background, I'm all about stacking wins, right? Well, in order to stack wins, every once in a while I have to not win so that I understand what I have to do to course correct. But the opposite is also true.

A lot of times people will get into the woe as me or, you know, I'm not good enough. And then they start stacking losses and they can't get themselves out of it. One of the things that I have always appreciated about you and you call it using your four vowels. And I put that into place not only with my team, but myself, right? And so I'd love for you to walk us through these vowels. using our vowels. And I love a person that has easy ways for me to remember things. So thank you for doing that. So everybody watching or listening, Dr. Anthony is going to teach us how to use our vowels. So you might have I share a story leading up to that? Okay. So we're starting with vowels

because you keep saying Dr. Anthony, that doctor took a lot of long, long hours, right? I mean, I never, I took the SAT three times, Mick. I never broke a thousand. I was the third alternate to get into West Point, right? My junior year in advanced English composition, my professor sat me down, took out an essay that I had written. There was more red ink on it of his handwriting than black ink that came out on my computer. And he said, he said, cadet Randall, he said, when was the last time you had a urine analysis and drug test? And I said, sir, he goes, are you on drugs? I said, no, sir, I'm not on drugs. He goes, you've got to be on something because this is the worst writing I've ever read at the United States Military Academy.

And then he failed me in advanced English composition, right? So it has been years of practice and a couple other opportunities and stories I share in my keynote of people speaking into me to overcome self-fulming beliefs to love to write. And today, we've written a couple books and I love to write. So we'll go back to the vowels now, but just know that this guy ain't no good at grammar. what I'm saying. So, you know, my seventh and eighth grade, you know, grammar teacher's like, son, you don't write no good, you know? And I said that once in a keynote, and I had a person honest go, you mean you don't write that well? And I'm like, if I got to explain the joke to you, then it's, you know, so anyways, the five vowels, right? So I think, I think for leadership,

you know, you break it down to these five vowels, acronyms are always a good thing. When you're walking into organization and you want to create a culture of excellence, you know, A is assessed. assess the situation. And I always try to assess the audience. Who's my influencers and who are my influential leaders? And I think we see that in society today. We have all sorts of people that are influencers. Way more followers and likes than I'll ever get on social media. But what are they influencing? What impact are they really heavy versus an influential leader that gets stuff done? They're committed to the process. And they lead by influence, not by power, or role or responsibility or title.

So that's A. The second one is enlist. Enlist, and a good friend of mine, Clint Hurdle, who I had the privilege to serve with with the Pittsburgh Pirates for eight years, Clint used always tell us to pick your Mount Rushmore. Who are those four or five people chiseled in stone that are always going to be there for you foundationally?

So A is assessed, E is enlist. Enlist your Mount Rushmore or the Knights of the Roundtable. Who is going to have your back? who captures your vision, builds your strategy, and drives your execution with passion, purpose and precision, by the way, right? Who demonstrates trust, adaptability, and execution? Who develops leaders of character as more unethical thinkers and high EQ? Right?

Enlist those people. And then who's also in that team willing to confront you and be candid? I mean, we've got an amazing team at Vanguard 21, and I've surrounded myself with a whole bunch people that are willing to just bludgeon me in the face if I need it because because I need those kind of leaders around me, right? So you've got to surround yourself enlist, enlists. I identify the people and I'll even go so far as they identify the terrorists because if you've ever been in an organization, you know there's always someone out there that's trying to destroy everything they're trying to put together. They're trying to destroy the organization.

and it's always about they're out for themselves or they've been wounded or hurt or they've always got some sort of motive, you know, hard, hardness, self-righteousness, whatever it is, that they'll do everything they can to destroy your organization. We talk talent management. I talk all the time about, you know, you can hire high character individuals and create a high culture organization or you can hire a bunch of characters and they're going to destroy your organization. So you've got to identify the people that are going to do everything they can to bring up. break that down. And frankly, HR people, we can talk about this on a more empathetic level, but you've got to identify them, you've got to isolate them. And then frankly, you just have to eliminate them. Do you want a championship culture or not? Do you want to be a transformational change agent in the public square or not? And quite frankly, some people just don't want to get on board

to the growth mindset and be a team player and win. And they need to go find someplace else. So that's the A, E, and the I. The O is observed. And I'm a big fan of emotional intelligence. We teach a lot of emotional intelligence in our leadership courses. We teach EQ. We facilitate EQ 360s. And so I think observe. Observe.

Have some social awareness. Understand empathy and compassion, but also understand cultural values. Understand the written rules and the unwritten rules. I know you're an athlete. You and I spent some time in some locker rooms, right? I mean, how many just know that there's written rules and there's unwritten rules, right? And there's always the clubhouse boss, right? that runs the clubhouse, that runs the locker room,

and you either follow those rules or not. And so observe when you come in as a leader. Observe what the written and the unwritten rules are, right? Legacy is a great book about the all-black Kiwis and the all-blacks, the Kiwi, the New Zealand rugby team. They have some written rules. They have some written principles that make them great. I guarantee you there's probably also some unwritten rules in there, too.

Yeah. So observe. And then the last one, you is utilize. So assess, enlist, identify, observe, and then utilize. Utilize a coaching language in a coaching culture. We're finding just study after study today that when you implement a coaching language in a coaching culture, when you bring in leadership and a development, executive coaching, when you build an internal executive coaching bench,

when you teach your leaders in depth to spend more time coaching and less time directing, you begin to empower people and draw the full potential out of people, rather than enabling people to keep asking you for the answer. And that's one of the hugest things that's in our marketplace today, in our society today. That's why we've got so much instability in the public square is we're overwhelmed with information and misinformation and people today are just comfortable being told what to think. But high performing organizations, high performing cultures, high character leaders, they coach people how to think.

And when you can coach organizations in depth how to think, you begin to create morally and ethically autonomous leaders that get stuff done and you flatten out organizations and you begin to move much faster and that's how you win. Bro, I couldn't have said it any better. Again, we have so much in common. We have a lot of principles and theories and teachings in common because I say the same thing. It's not about titles.

It's not even about roles, assignments, it's, have you done enough so that this person can lead on their own so that you can trust them to walk away and the job is done? And when you're able to do that and there's trust two ways, right? Not just one way, but when there's two way trust, that's the secret sauce to scaling. I don't care what business it is. I don't care. It could be a sports team. If you want to know the way to win and to always win, there's got to be two way trust because everything that I believe starts with trust, right? And when I trust you, and I know that you trust me,

together we're unbeatable. Together we're unbeatable. So you talked about Vanguard-21. I want to give you the floor to talk about some of the amazing initiatives and endeavors that you all are working on, what you plan for in the future, and then obviously, you know, anything that you just want to talk about in general

before we wrap up. Sure. Well, you know, very blessed to lead this amazing company, Vanguard 21. We launched it full time when I retired from the military five years ago. You know, leadership development, coaching space. We built it to a seven-figured company in less than 36 months. And we built it around a team of people. That's why I didn't name it after myself, right?

So we've got 19 amazing people on the team, coaches, facilitators, leaders across the marketplace. And we have a, here's the bottom line. We have a lot of fun. We transform leaders. and we coach excellence and we win. I mean, if you're looking to have leadership, transformation in your organization, if you're learning to see how excellent coaching

can impact your organization and you like to win, hey, you know, maybe we can talk some time and share some common values and ideas. So that's what we do, and we have a lot of fun with it. Right now, you know, we've been across the marketplace, Mick, we work in Fortune 100, 500 companies, pro-college sports, you know, small, medium-sized companies, the couple fractals that we're really passionate about right now and having some opportunities,

actually where I'm traveling to this week to do some work, is in private equity and in public education. Because transformational leadership transforms the marketplace, right? I mean, you go from private equity to public education, right? So what we're finding with PE firms and with portfolio companies is that if we can get involved upstream with a portfolio company and help, And typically, you know, a P comes in, grabs a port co. Typically, they keep the leadership in place, but they've got to figure out how to make change. Or they take the entire leadership out and put new leaders in with, you know, fractal or, you know, different kinds of C suites in there, fractional. Or they keep some of the C suite and they replace some of them.

The bottom line is if you want a 3x or 5X in organization, start with leadership development. Start with building that culture of trust. And so what we're doing is we're looking right now. and working with some different private equity folks and some portfolio companies that they're identifying, hey, we want you to partner with us upstream. And from the time we take a portfolio company and get them into the marketplace, we're going to have you do leadership development and coaching in depth through that 18, 24, 36 months. And you see the ROI on that, right?

That's one. The second one is public education. I'm a publicly educated dude, right? Like I grew up in Colorado, to Pomona High School. shout out to the Panthers, right? You know, so I believe in public education, and I believe that it can get better. And I believe that we can transform that space. And what we've seen now is that public education has seen the impact of coaching.

And so right now we're working with a couple different school districts and hopefully with a potential state department of education where we're coming in and certifying principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors, and key faculty as I see. of professional coaches so that they can begin coaching within their schools and within their districts and then taking their teachers and their faculty through our two and a half day leadership transformational leadership course that introses them to coaching and create a coaching culture with this gen z generation that's hungry to be coached they're hungry to get potential drawn out of them and it's also going to increase cultures of trust within your administration

and your faculty with your with your staff and faculty principals students teachers the whole bit. So those are two fractals we're really excited about right now. I love it, man. I love it. I appreciate the hard work that you and your team do because being in the leadership development space, especially when you're talking with adults, everybody's agreeable day one until you start doing the hard things, right? And then it's like, oh, wait a second, I need to change. Something needs to change. So I get it, man. Like, What do you personally have coming up or recently released or anything that you want to discuss? Well, you know, you and I partner with Liberty Speaks, Corey and Herb Thompson.

So they represent us as keynote speakers. And so I just did a keynote for a national sales conference a few weeks ago for a, you know, global, global security company. Beat the blizzard into Indianapolis. And they had a great culture. This is an amazing company. And I think 90% of their folks can. to the conference despite the weather. So it was just being, it was great being around a high performing culture like that. And so just keynoting a lot this year, practicing excellence. So I have three

keynotes. I do practicing excellence. I do leader as coach, how you create a high culture, coaching environment. And then I do another one for law enforcement and for military on how you prepare the warrior's soul and how do you prepare, practice, protect and persevere the warrior's soul. So those are kind of three keynotes that I do. But I'm really passionate, Nick, about practicing excellence because that book is all about how to restore civility with faith and trusted leadership in the public square. And that's one of my passions in life. We have lost the civility in our public square.

And I just really believe that, you know, if we take this golden triangle philosophy of freedom, virtue, and faith, and tie those together, that we can create a public square. We can have civil discourse. we can have dialogue and we can we can figure out that we're not always going to see eye to eye but when our end state is human flourishing when our end state is creating a space where people can flourish and we seek to draw that potential out you and i may have a different way to get after that but can we find some likeness in doing that and just to close on that one of my one of my favorite put on my my chaplain hat one of my favorite sermons is by dr king and and he had a sermon called

transformed nonconformist. It's out of Romans 12, 1, and 2. And he preached it probably half dozen or dozen times in the 50s and 60s. It is still 127% relevant today. And one part of that sermon that he gives, he talks about that, you know, transformation or purpose doesn't come from being a nonconformist. Matter of fact, being a nonconformist can actually lead to exhibitionism. That's Dr. King's words, right? But that transformation is internal. When we're willing to willing to have a growth mindset, a white belt mentality, when we're willing to allow that transformation to occur internally through a transcendent God, through a faith, through whatever that would be a case, then the transformation that's internal will truly help

us be more transformational as nonconformists in a society that's conforming to things that's probably a better way. There's probably a better way for us to live a more excellent way. Right. And so that's my passion is how do we restore civilian the public square and that includes your company your organization your school your team your community so that's what i really love to speak on is people realizing oh man there's more we have more in common than we do um you know difference and and how do we bring that together and i've always had a passion to do that i've always had a passion to bring people together so that's what i'm really passionate about and love to do it man absolutely so before i get you out of here with my

Rapid 5, where can people find and follow Dr. Anthony Randall? Yeah, so mostly on LinkedIn. I'm 52, not a big Instagram guy trying, but stuff to ask my kids how to use it, right? So you can mostly follow me on LinkedIn, Vanguard 21, VanguardXXI. You can follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook. We do some stuff on Instagram and X, but mostly LinkedIn and Facebook. And then if you want to go to our website for leader development and coaching, that's www. vanguardxxxI.com.

So whether you're looking for leadership development and coaching in the marketplace, whether you want to become an ICF professional coach, we have five different ICF professional courses, level one, two, and level three courses that you can come and get your professional certification. And then if you're looking for individual executive coaching, off-sites, retreats, those kind of things, boom, VanguardXXXX.com. And the second place you can find me is at www.

Anthony Randall.org. And that's my Anthony Randall speaks keynote speaking website. And so if you're looking for a keynote, looking for more than a keynote. And that's why I always try to share. I don't do keynotes. I do a keynote experience.

So I will invest in your folks, your people, your industry for a couple of days, come in, do a keynote, do some breakout sessions, some panels, and truly just spend time and be present with your folks as they align their passion, purpose, and precision to practice excellence.

I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Dude, I appreciate you more than you know. I'm going to get you out of here with my rapid fire quick five. Yeah, let's do it. All right. Number one, as a keynote speaker, what's your pump-up song that you're listening to right before you walk out of the stairs?

My walk-up song, man. What's that? What's that? What's that? What's that? I'm a little bit steady. There we go. Rolling Stone.

I'm a little holy water. I'm still a little bit of a burning man, right? Because I'm still in that process, right? So that's my walk-up song. Dirk Bentley, Bentley, Burning Man. I love it. I love it. Number two, if you could have a martial arts match with any historic figure, who would it be?

What? I would probably love to train with Sensei Jagar Okano. So, Sensei Kano was the father of modern-day martial arts and took judo out of Japanese jiu-jitsu and the practice of the samurai. And that's where Brazilian jiu-jitsu and all that comes from today. So I would say, Sensei Kano. Okay. I dig it.

What's one leadership lesson you wish you had learned sooner? Coaching. Too many people call themselves coaches on LinkedIn. The number one thing that people tell us after day one of our professional coaching courses is that typically look at the floor and they drop their shoulders like, yeah, I wasn't coaching. I've been telling people I'm a coach, but I'm not coaching, right? So I wish I would have learned the art and science of how to coach a lot, a lot sooner than I did. because it's been transformational. Bro, we have the same thing in common.

Like, I tell people all the time, like, give me your qualifications and certifications to tell me you're a coach versus somebody who's done one thing kind of good. And now you're trying to show other people how to do that one thing worse than you do. We have a lot of clients that we get. They're like, yeah, the coach I was coaching with that. This is coaching. Like, that was not coaching.

Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Beyond your books, what's your favorite book that you always recommend? Ooh, well, scripture's always a good one. It's diving that every day. My favorite books, I think for leadership, man, I love Good to Great by Jim Collins. It's one of my favorites. I love stories about people. So right now I'm reading Henry Kissinger's book, Leadership. And a great deep dive on just some incredible leaders from around the world from Margaret Thatcher to Anwar Sadat. You know, I mean, just really great read. So I'm reading Kissinger's leadership right now. Good to Great is a great one.

And then probably on the EQ side, Daniel Goldman's primal leadership. If you want to better understand emotional intelligence and how to lead with EQ, just not the science behind it, I think that's a go-to, primal leadership for sure. It was probably top through without me geeking out on philosophy and ethics. I love it, brother. I love it. Last one. As the book and the story of Anthony Randall continues to be written, what's one word you wanted that book to define and describe you? Legacy. I think that my greatest joy in life is, and my greatest prayer in life is that my children figured out better than I did. And so, yeah.

when that when that final day happens, I hope I can look back and just see my kids being transformational leaders in the public square, transforming people's lives, and making an impact in this world to allow people to flourish. And yeah, that's probably my biggest thing. I love it, bro. Completely, completely love it.

Ladies and gentlemen, this has been Dr. Anthony Randall, bro. I appreciate you more than you know. This was an amazing conversation. We will definitely do another part in person. We're going to get to see each other several times this year. So we'll make sure that we record in person too because we have a lot to really talk about it and show. I love it, man. Absolutely love it.

Look forward to seeing you a few weeks and thank you again. And just to your folks, listen, man, just be encouraged. And everybody shout out some gratitude and some thanks to Mick Hunt for his podcast because they're phenomenal. I enjoy listening to him as well. Man, you're phenomenal, bro. You're phenomenal. To all the viewers and listeners, as always, remember your because is your superpower. Go unleash it.

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