Stop Selling, Start Serving: LeBrent Speed
“NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR COMPETENCY WITHOUT COMPASSION.”
Episode Description
In this episode of Leadership Matters, LeBrent Speed, speaker, entrepreneur, and relationship and revenue strategist, joins host Kaylee Thomsen for a deeply personal conversation on relationships, purpose, and what it truly means to lead with people at the center. LeBrent shares his journey from repeated failure in business and relationships to building B3, a community for Black entrepreneurs and authentic allies, and B3I, a youth entrepreneurship initiative changing lives in Minnesota. He reflects on how loss, hardship, and unexpected friendships shaped his worldview, why relationships are the foundation of everything, and what leaders are getting wrong right now. If you believe people are the key to everything, this one is for you.
Chapters
- 00:00 Intro: Meet LeBrent Speed
- 00:34 How Fear and Failure Shaped His Purpose
- 01:38 Realizing Relationships Were the Missing Key
- 03:44 What It Looks Like to Focus on People
- 04:33 The Books That Shifted His Thinking
- 07:12 Founding B3 for Black Entrepreneurs and Allies
- 09:34 Founding B3I for Youth Entrepreneurship
- 10:36 Choosing Purpose Over Success
- 11:35 "Minnesota Nice" and the Persistent Wealth Gap
- 13:15 Teaching Fishing Instead of Giving Fish
- 14:15 Why Relationships Make Judgment Harder
- 15:15 The Story of the Building and the Apology
- 19:01 What It Took to Stay in That Relationship
- 20:03 Being "Rich in Relationships"
- 22:40 How Relationships Change and Challenge Us
- 24:44 Serving Over Selling
- 25:45 Losing His Mother and a Stillborn Child in the Same Day
- 27:27 Turning Failure Into a Building Block
- 28:27 Why Kids Need to See Failure as Normal
- 29:39 Redefining What Real Networking Looks Like
- 31:51 Why Leadership Is Struggling Right Now
- 33:14 The Cost of a Bad Morning Routine
- 35:07 How Coaching Executives Has Changed Him
- 36:44 The Three Relationships Every Leader Needs
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