330. The Leader's Playlist: Using Music and Neuroscience to Transform Leadership with Susan Drumm

330. The Leader's Playlist: Using Music and Neuroscience to Transform Leadership with Susan Drumm

July 7, 2026 · 53 min · Season 6 · Episode 330

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Susan Drumm discusses how music and internal beliefs influence leadership.

That thought you can’t stop replaying isn’t just annoying. It quietly shapes how you walk into meetings, how you speak under pressure, and how safe other people feel around you. Susan Drumm, bestselling author of The Leader’s Playlist and founder of Meritage Leadership, joins me to unpack a powerful idea: every leader has a playlist. Some of it is literal music that shifts your energy fast. Some of it is the internal soundtrack of beliefs, doubts, old wounds, and reflex reactions that can end...

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