Turn Up the Volume on Your Growth: The Best Business Lessons From the Latest CHANGE Podcast Episodes

Oct 1

5 min read

Growth rarely arrives as one dramatic breakthrough. More often, it comes through the conversations you choose, the routines you repeat, the setbacks you reinterpret, and the energy you protect.

That is the central message running through the latest episodes of Brad Young CHANGE 2025. Together, these episodes turn the CHANGE framework into a practical playbook for personal transformation, stronger leadership, and better business growth.

The six pillars of CHANGE are:

Communication
Habits
Attitude
Network
Goals
Education

And while the framework gives you the roadmap, podcasts provide something equally valuable: a regular reminder to keep moving. As the eighth pillar in the CHANGE Framework & Business Growth Rotation, podcasts help turn ideas into momentum.

Here are the biggest lessons from five recent episodes, and how to apply them today.

1. Say It Straight: Make Clarity a Competitive Advantage

The September 25 episode, “Say It Straight: Communication in the Age of Endless Notifications”, focuses on one of the most important parts of the CHANGE system: communication.

This is not just about public speaking or polished corporate messaging. It is about how you speak to your team, your customers, your family, and yourself. It is also about how you handle conflict, express truth, set boundaries, and stay present when distractions are competing for your attention.

Today, everyone is talking, but clarity is increasingly rare. Notifications, messages, alerts, and endless digital noise can make communication reactive and shallow. In business, that creates real costs: missed expectations, duplicated work, unresolved conflict, and decisions made without the full picture.

Put the lesson into action

Try a clarity check before your next important conversation:

What do I actually need to communicate?
What outcome am I hoping for?
What could be misunderstood?
What is the most direct, respectful way to say it?

Then practice one simple habit: replace vague language with clear language.

Instead of “Let’s circle back sometime,” say, “Let’s meet Thursday at 2 p.m. to decide the next step.”

Instead of “This may be a problem,” say, “The deadline is at risk because we are waiting on these two items.”

Straightforward communication is not harsh communication. When it is paired with respect, it builds trust. Clear leaders reduce confusion, protect time, and help people move with confidence.

Geometric illustration of a clear yellow speech bubble cutting through digital notification noise

2. Mindset Reset: Turn Setbacks Into Information

The September 20 episode, “Mindset Reset: Turning Setbacks Into Your Next Breakthrough”, addresses an unavoidable part of growth: things will not always go according to plan.

Projects stall. Opportunities disappear. People disappoint you. A strategy that looked promising may produce disappointing results. The setback itself is difficult, but the meaning you assign to it determines what happens next.

A setback can become a cage when you treat it as proof that you are incapable. It can become a catalyst when you treat it as information.

That shift is the practical heart of an attitude reset.

Put the lesson into action

When something goes wrong, avoid asking, “Why does this always happen to me?”

Ask these three questions instead:

What happened? Separate facts from assumptions.
What can I learn? Identify the skill, system, or decision that needs attention.
What will I do next? Choose one action that restores momentum.

For professionals, this might mean reviewing a lost sale, a failed launch, or a difficult meeting without turning the experience into a judgment about your entire career.

For individuals, it might mean looking at a missed goal and changing the system behind it rather than simply demanding more motivation.

A useful mindset reset does not pretend disappointment is positive. It recognizes the disappointment, extracts the lesson, and refuses to let one moment define the future.

3. Rewire Your Day: Stop Living in Reaction Mode

In “Rewire Your Day”, released September 15, the CHANGE framework moves from big ideas into daily execution.

Many people begin the day in reaction mode. They check notifications before deciding what matters. They allow other people’s urgency to replace their priorities. Their habits run on autopilot, their goals stay vague, and their attention gets divided before meaningful work begins.

The answer is not to create a perfect schedule. It is to design a day that supports the person you are trying to become.

Put the lesson into action

Create a six-part daily reset based on the CHANGE pillars:

Communication: Decide which conversations require your attention today.
Habits: Choose one routine that will make the day easier or healthier.
Attitude: Set an intention for how you will respond when pressure appears.
Network: Connect with one person who supports your growth.
Goals: Identify the single most important outcome for the day.
Education: Learn, read, listen, or practice something that improves your ability.

This can take less than ten minutes each morning.

The goal is not to control every event. The goal is to make intentional choices before the day starts making choices for you.

Modern geometric illustration of a calendar, habit loop, energy symbol, and connected framework nodes

4. The Energy You Allow: Protect What Powers Your Progress

The August 30 episode, “The Energy You Allow, What Gives You a Positive Life”, explores a resource that affects every part of growth: your energy.

You may have experienced it before. A short conversation leaves you discouraged. A negative relationship changes your mood for the rest of the day. Constant exposure to criticism, drama, or pessimism slowly lowers your ambition.

Protecting your energy is not about avoiding every difficult person or pretending problems do not exist. It is about becoming more intentional about what, and who, you allow to influence your thinking.

Put the lesson into action

Perform an energy audit this week. Write down the people, environments, media, and commitments that consistently leave you feeling:

Energized
Focused
Drained
Distracted
Discouraged

Then make one adjustment. Reduce time with a draining input, set a boundary, change your media routine, or spend more time around people who challenge and encourage you.

Your network shapes your standards. Your standards shape your decisions. Your decisions shape your future.

5. Rewriting Your Health Identity: Build a System You Can Own

The August 25 episode, “Rewriting Your Health Identity: The CHANGE Method”, applies the framework to health and wellness.

Its key message is simple: repeated attempts that fail do not necessarily mean you lack desire or discipline. Often, the system supporting your goal is incomplete.

A healthier identity is built through repeated evidence. Every walk, prepared meal, workout, bedtime, and better choice becomes proof that you are becoming someone who takes care of yourself.

Put the lesson into action

Choose one health behavior and connect it to all six pillars:

Communication: Tell someone what you are committing to.
Habits: Attach the behavior to an existing routine.
Attitude: Replace all-or-nothing thinking with steady progress.
Network: Spend more time with people who support healthy choices.
Goals: Make the target specific and measurable.
Education: Learn what helps your body and what undermines your progress.

Do not wait to feel motivated. Build a structure that makes the right action easier to repeat.

The Business Lesson Behind All Five Episodes

Although these episodes address communication, resilience, routines, energy, and health, they also contain a powerful business growth strategy:

Your results are shaped by the systems you practice consistently.

That is why the ideas in the book CHANGE apply across personal and professional life. Communication improves leadership. Habits improve execution. Attitude strengthens resilience. Network expands opportunity. Goals create direction. Education improves judgment.

The same principle connects with Brad Young’s #1 bestselling Business Decision Making book: better outcomes begin with better thinking, clearer processes, and more intentional choices.

Whether you are leading a company, advancing your career, rebuilding your health, or starting over in a new season, the work is not to become a completely different person overnight.

The work is to make the next better decision, and then create a life that helps you make that decision again tomorrow.