Lead with Integrity. Ride with Confidence. Live Beyond Average.
🎙️Hosted by Lionel Murphy — Air Force veteran, law enforcement leader, ranch founder, and author — the Living Beyond Average Podcast dismantles leadership clichés with grit, clarity, and lived experience.
No fluff. Just real talk for real leaders.
Recent Episodes
July 28, 2025
The Leadership Paradox: Why Your "Yes" Might Be Failing Your Team
Send us a text The most powerful word in your leadership vocabulary might be one you rarely use: "no." We've all heard that saying yes makes you a valuable team player, but what happens when your yeses slowly become nos to yourself? Leadership requires more than availability—it demands boundaries. …
July 21, 2025
"Delayed Gratification"
Send us a text 🎙️ Episode 6: Delayed Gratification – Why Growth Requires Waiting Everyone wants growth… but not everyone wants to wait for it. In this episode, we dismantle the popular belief that if it doesn’t happen fast, it wasn’t meant to be — and uncover the truth about why leadership, healing…
July 14, 2025
Silent Wars: The Cost of Quiet Compliance
Send us a text Appeasement might temporarily calm the surface, but underneath, resentment builds, trust erodes, and relationships begin to rot from within. This episode examines the cost of "quiet compliance" and the war that men fight behind their silence.<br><br>• The phrase "happy wi…
June 30, 2025
"Your Perception Is Not Always Reality"
Send us a text 🔎 Description: In this episode of the Living Beyond Average podcast, we dismantle the comforting myth that “what you see is what you get.” Perception can feel like reality, but it’s often shaped by past experiences, unresolved trauma, and the lens through which we interpret the world…
June 22, 2025
"Discernment: Seeing What Others Miss"
Send us a text What if leadership wasn’t about knowing everything, but about knowing what matters most? In this episode of the Living Beyond Average Podcast, we unpack one of the most underrated leadership skills: Discernment. Discernment is the ability to recognize truth when opinions are loud… to…
June 15, 2025
The Myth of "Same Effort"
Send us a text 🎙️ Episode 2: The Myth of Same Effort They say, “You give your best at work — why not at home?” But leadership isn’t about giving the same effort in every room — it’s about offering the right presence for the audience that matters. In this episode, we dismantle the myth that equal ef…
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