What Juices You Podcast
What Juices You Podcast
Podcast Description
What Juices You is a podcast about energy—the kind that fuels high performance, deepens engagement, and brings out the best in people. Hosted by Juice Inc. co-founder Brady Wilson, this interview-style series invites leaders and changemakers to explore what truly energizes them—at work, at home, and in life.Through unscripted, human conversations, each episode uncovers the personal stories, hard-won insights, and daily practices that help individuals manage their energy and lead with impact. Guests reflect on moments of transformation, resilience, connection, and clarity—shedding light on how energy isn’t just a feeling, but a vital resource leaders can learn to cultivate and share.Whether it’s creating psychological safety, finding clarity in chaos, unlocking potential through coaching, or leading with ruthless compassion, you’ll hear what fuels real performance and lasting change.If you’re a leader looking to energize your team, sustain your own spark, and turn insight into impact—this podcast is for you.Because when you learn to manage energy, you transform employee engagement—and amplify what’s possible for us to accomplish together.
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Content Themes
The podcast centers on themes including leadership energy, personal transformation, coaching practices, and building workplace trust. Episodes tackle topics such as creating psychological safety, navigating tension, and the importance of contribution, illustrated by guests sharing their real-life experiences and insights, like finding clarity in chaos and fostering authentic connections.
What Juices You is a podcast about energy—the kind that fuels high performance, deepens engagement, and brings out the best in people. Hosted by Juice Inc. co-founder Brady Wilson, this interview-style series invites leaders and changemakers to explore what truly energizes them—at work, at home, and in life.
Through unscripted, human conversations, each episode uncovers the personal stories, hard-won insights, and daily practices that help individuals manage their energy and lead with impact. Guests reflect on moments of transformation, resilience, connection, and clarity—shedding light on how energy isn’t just a feeling, but a vital resource leaders can learn to cultivate and share.
Whether it’s creating psychological safety, finding clarity in chaos, unlocking potential through coaching, or leading with ruthless compassion, you’ll hear what fuels real performance and lasting change.
If you’re a leader looking to energize your team, sustain your own spark, and turn insight into impact—this podcast is for you.
Because when you learn to manage energy, you transform employee engagement—and amplify what’s possible for us to accomplish together.
What if the key to sustaining energy wasn’t based on your personality, motivation or will power, but on your ability to understand and skillfully meet five universal driving needs?
In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson and Kris MacQueen sit down together to unpack the origins, evolution, and real-world impact of the Five Driving Needs: Belonging, Security, Freedom, Significance, and Meaning.
This conversation explores how these needs moved from early emotional indicators (“I fit,” “I’m clear,” “I’m supported,” “I’m valued”) into deeper, enduring states of being that more accurately predict energy, performance, and engagement.
Brady and Kris bring candid stories, research, and lived leadership experience to life—revealing why unmet needs create depletion, reactivity, and unproductive effort… and why cultivating these needs generates energy that is sustainable, intentional, and deeply human.
This episode sets the stage for a five-part series, offering you a clear, practical lens for understanding what truly fuels people—and what drains them.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
✨ Why emotions are fleeting—but driving needs are enduring fuel sources
✨ How unmet needs create “energy leaks” that pull leaders into over-efforting, floundering, or cynicism
✨ Why mono-focusing on one need (like Meaning) leads to burnout and “leached soil” cultures
✨ How the five needs work together like an ecosystem—not a hierarchy
✨ Why understanding your own driving needs increases empathy, resilience, and clarity
✨ How misinterpretations, small moments of threat, or missing recognition derail performance
✨ Why identifying needs earlier prevents conflict, depletion, and disengagement
✨ How the “Three Sisters” metaphor (corn, beans, squash) illustrates why needs must be grown together
Whether you lead teams, coach others, or want to understand what energizes your own work, this episode gives you a practical, human framework for generating energy—not by pushing harder, but by cultivating what people need most.
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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years
Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.
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