August 13, 2026 • The BACK40 Leadership Podcast
Episode 127 · The Road Not Taken, Human Life, Why You Should Write
Mel, Joel, and Michael discuss Global Leadership Summit, comparing their favorite speakers. Next they talk about how contentment is a leadership superpower most of us overlook. They separate contentment from mere satisfaction, revisit the roads they didn’t take, and ask what a $136 million fighter jet — deliberately destroyed to save a single pilot — reveals about the worth God places on a human life. They close on an abstract idea that, in the age of AI, careful writing may become the most influential medium a person can practice.
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