The belief I carried the longest wasn’t mine.

“Jesse can’t write.”
Wild how a 3rd-grade comment can follow you into adulthood.

Rewrite your life by rewriting the voice in your head.

#leadership #selfgrowth #founderslive

Leadership is a lifelong practice.

The Five Ps keep me aligned:
Patience
Purpose
People
Presence
Persistence

If you want sustainable growth, begin with these.

Remember:
Falling is how you learned to walk.

Leaders rise because they choose to stand up again.

We need you.
You matter.
Get back up.

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Real talk:

If you're burning yourself out to be seen, you're erasing yourself to stay visible.

Nobody remembers the company when you're gone.

Rest isn’t selfish. It’s leadership.
##LeadershipUnlocked #HealingLeadership #PutTheMaskOnFirst

Rest is not the enemy of ambition.
It’s the ally of longevity.

“I’ll rest when I’m dead” is a fast track to burnout.

Reclaim your joy.
Fill your tank.
You’ve got life to live between now and then.

🎥 From Leadership Unlocked

His name was Aaron.

He got kicked out. I got to stay.

Years later, he lost his life.

That moment is why I lead. Why I mentor.
Why I believe in second chances.

I show up for the next Aaron. Every single day.

🎥 From Leadership Unlocked

If your body was a car, you’d never skip refueling.

But as leaders and high performers, we ignore rest until we crash.

Rest isn’t the opposite of success - it’s the strategy that sustains it.

Leadership isn’t always loud.

Sometimes it’s a quiet thought:
“Why isn’t anyone saying this?”

That thought is a spark.
Say the thing.
Share the truth.

Influence starts with one voice. Yours.

🎥 Leadership Unlocked | Jesse Rhodes Jr.

A web doesn’t collapse when one thread breaks.

It gets rebuilt.

That’s community. That’s leadership.
That’s what healing together looks like.

Ever finish a workday, exhausted, and wonder:
“What did I actually accomplish?”

Start with this:
🧠 What’s your intention?
🎯 What’s the outcome?
📌 What’s worth your focus?

Productivity starts with purpose.

What if I told you to “move the cup” but never told you how, where, or why?

You’d probably move it—and I’d still say you were wrong.

That’s how most leaders accidentally break trust.

Clarity isn’t a bonus. It’s a responsibility.

https://bit.ly/4iUk4Aj

A year ago we celebrated Strength in Stories.

Artists unveiled new work.
Black Stax lit the stage.
Stephanie Ball led us in healing.

I read from my book.
My editor, Chris Vega, read from theirs.

We showed up. We saw each other. We healed.

The story continues next week in Unlocked Magazine.

I didn’t expect recording my audiobook to hit that hard.

But when I said my story out loud…

The weight lifted.
The masks came off.
The past didn’t disappear—but it stopped defining me.

We think our pain makes us broken.
But how we evolve through it?
That’s our power.

You’re not being forgotten because you're unimportant.
You're being forgotten because people are overwhelmed.

Take action within 48 hours after meeting someone—and they’ll remember.
Bonus: Approach them with something YOU can do for THEM.
##LeadershipUnlocked #Networking

You say you love yourself.

But are you setting boundaries?
Facing your fear?
Forgiving yourself?

If not… is it really love, or just survival?

One foundation can’t fix everything.

And it was never meant to.

You don’t need to be the only one.
You just need to be clear on your lane—and do your part.

We don’t need more silos.
We need strategy + synergy.
##LeadershipUnlocked #CommunityImpact

I wasn’t burnt out because I was weak.
I was burnt out because I kept saying yes to be seen.

Saying no didn’t shrink my ambition—
It saved it.

🔗 Watch the Speaker reel: https://youtu.be/879MOvhtbS4
🎤 Book me to speak: https://bit.ly/4oeAtls

🔑 if this hit.