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WHY YOU STILL DON’T HAVE WHAT YOU WANT
Founders and leaders stall on goals they sincerely want when a hidden competing commitment guards against an outcome they fear, and their behavior follows that commitment instead of the stated goal. This issue of The Grip Mastery Playbook shows how to spot closure to receiving through body tension, practice receiving every day, and use three written questions to name what a stall protects. Once the commitment is visible, the leader decides whether it stays.
BRING ON THE NEGATIVITY!
Founders can win every external metric, the raise, the valuation, the exit, and still build a life that doesn’t work anywhere else. This issue breaks down why achievement and personal values operate on different reward timelines, using Clayton Christensen’s own test for measuring a life well-lived. It closes with a quarterly practice for closing the gap before drift becomes permanent.
CHASE THE METRICS, LOST THE LIFE
Founders can win every external metric, the raise, the valuation, the exit, and still build a life that doesn’t work anywhere else. This issue breaks down why achievement and personal values operate on different reward timelines, using Clayton Christensen’s own test for measuring a life well-lived. It closes with a quarterly practice for closing the gap before drift becomes permanent.
BE A STAND, NOT A JUDGE
This issue of The Grip shows founders how to respond when a team member breaks an agreement, using curiosity instead of correction to build trust rather than fear. It offers a practical alternative to the common leadership trap of either punishing mistakes or ignoring them, and shows how that single moment of response actually shapes company culture. Readers leave with a concrete way to turn a broken agreement into a moment that strengthens trust.
YOUR SERVICE IS WORLD-CLASS
Founders often give clients a level of care, preparation, and attention they never give themselves. This issue of The Grip Mastery Playbook uses a real coaching conversation to reveal the belief behind that double standard, then offers six questions to help leaders start treating themselves like their own best client.
WHO’S STANDING FOR YOUR GREATNESS?
The people most willing to tell you a hard truth are often the most valuable relationships in your life, and the ones founders most often distance themselves from. This issue of The Grip explores the strategic importance of truth-tellers: how to recognize them, why most high-achieving leaders lose access to them at scale, and what it looks like to stand for someone else's greatness when it counts.
BROKE YOUR WORD? DO THIS.
This issue of The Grip Mastery Playbook addresses the integrity gap between a founder's declared values and their team's lived experience. Becky Henderson introduces the distinction between keeping your word and honoring it: a leadership practice that goes beyond compliance to full restoration of trust when commitments are broken. Leaders who master this move build cultures where trust compounds instead of erodes.
IF IT WERE SIMPLE, YOU’D ACT
Many founders don’t drown in work, they drown in self-made complexity. This issue exposes “complexity as a costume,” why simplicity can feel threatening, and how choosing simplicity as a discipline restores momentum, integrity, and execution that compounds.
COMMITTED & NOT ATTACHED
This issue of The Grip shows mission-driven founders how to turn “being wrong” into an advantage. Instead of defending Plan A, you learn to read market feedback as signal, run smaller experiments, and pivot with integrity. The result is clearer decisions, sharper execution, and faster momentum toward the mission.
TPL YEAR IN REVIEW
This issue of The Grip is a guided Year-In-Review for mission-driven founders and leaders. Using the seven disciplines of The Plenteous Life, it helps you examine language, identity, integrity, and nervous system capacity so you stop repeating the same results. You’ll leave with concrete decisions that align who you are with the outcomes you want in 2026.
YOUR RELATIONSHIPS AREN’T RANDOM—YOU BUILT THIS
This issue of The Grip shows how your relationships are not random. They are built every day by who you are being inside them. You will see how shifting your stance from “managing people” to intentionally creating relationships transforms trust, performance, and the reach of your mission.
INTEGRITY’S SECRET MISSION
This issue of The Grip reframes integrity as a structure, not a slogan. You’ll see how a simple daily practice grows self-trust—the quiet driver of faster decisions, cleaner delivery, and lasting impact. Learn the small shifts that turn inner steadiness into outer results.
BUILD:
This issue of The Grip shows mission-driven founders how to move from consuming to creating across seven daily domains. Learn the shifts that turn inner mastery into outer outcomes—so ideas become products, people served, and lasting impact. Build what outlives you.
SURVIVAL IS SELFISH…WHEN YOU’RE MADE TO MULTIPLY
Leaders aren’t meant to scrape by—they’re meant to multiply. This issue of The Grip reveals how to move from survival mode to intentional overflow that sustains your mission and empowers others to thrive.
WHEN POWER KNEELS
This issue of The Grip reveals how service-driven leaders flip the org chart to multiply authority, unlock trust, and unleash team capacity. Learn the counterintuitive path to more impact, freedom, and growth.
FULLY COMMITTED:
Commitment turns wishes into reality and moves leaders from stagnation to powerful action.
When visionary leaders choose total commitment, they shift identity, focus energy, and turn bold vision into scaled impact.
LEADERS DON’T BREAK HABITS THEY BREAK IDENTITY TRAPS
Break the cycle of disempowered habits by shedding the identity that created them. Discover how visionary leaders change their behavior by first redefining-reinventing-recreating who they are.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE…THAT IS THE DRIVER
If you’re doing everything right but still not getting the results you want, it’s time to look beyond strategy. This issue of The Grip reveals how your way of Being—not your tactics—is the true driver of results in leadership, business, and life.
SAY GOODBYE TO MR. NICE GUY
Most leaders mistake niceness for kindness—thinking it’s virtuous when it’s actually self-protective. This issue of The Grip reveals why real leadership demands courageous kindness, not comfort-seeking politeness, and how embodying the difference drives trust, growth, and impact.
RESPONSE ABILITY
Learn how radical responsibility empowers leaders to transform breakdowns into bold moves. This issue of The Grip reveals how to replace blame with ownership, fueling momentum, freedom, and sustainable leadership growth.