LIMITLESS Leaders Toolkit: Confidence, Resilience & Professional Identity-The Path to Your True Calling

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This podcast episode of ASPS University’s Leadership Conversations features hosts Dr. Michelle Roughton and Dr. Gordon Lee interviewing Robbie Poe, COO and co-founder of Amelia Aesthetics. Robbie shares how his upbringing in Tennessee and Georgia, love of punk rock, and early entrepreneurial instincts shaped his leadership style. He describes selling guitar pedals on eBay as a teenager, learning business through experience rather than formal education, and later joining Dave Ramsey’s organization, where he was mentored in leadership, communication, and financial discipline.

Key themes include building trust, giving feedback, and leading teams effectively. Robbie explains Amelia’s “happy, challenged, focused” model for evaluating employees and emphasizes that leaders must create friendship, vulnerability, and clarity within teams. He also shares a powerful lesson about not overinvesting in struggling employees at the expense of high performers.

The episode also touches on intentional parenting through “Hazel’s life lessons,” a set of principles Robbie and his wife teach their daughter. Robbie closes by recommending three leadership books: John Maxwell’s <em>The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership</em>, Jim Collins’ <em>Good to Great</em>, and Chip and Dan Heath’s <em>Switch</em>.

Keywords

leadership

team management

employee feedback

trust building

entrepreneurship

financial discipline

parenting principles

Amelia Aesthetics

leadership books