Every team has people with the spark of leadership. You may or may not have the title, but you have the will to make a difference. Often something holds you back. We’re here to break those barriers to unleash your full potential.
Setbacks don’t send a calendar invite. They show up at 6 a.m. on a Teams call. In a hospital room. On a battlefield. George Tagg Jr. has met adversity at every one of those addresses. And every single time, he found a way forward.
Attorney. Former DOJ Nazi hunter. A State Department and DOD official who negotiated in the Caucasus, was on the ground in Kyiv when Russia’s invasion began, and managed the deconfliction line between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria. George has served across multiple presidential administrations. He is now founder and CEO of GTC 360 Advisors. And writing a book on resilience, including a chapter on dealing with bullies. Starting with Putin.
But if you ask George, his hardest moments were never on a battlefield. Losing his grandparents young. Then his father, one of the most magnetic lobbyists in DC during the 90s, gone suddenly to a heart attack six months after 9/11. George was 20. He could have gone the other direction. Instead, he picked up the legacy, held onto the lessons, and kept going.
That is what this episode is really about. Not the geopolitics. The process. A repeatable, human way of turning your worst moments into the thing that moves you forward. If you have ever faced a moment that felt unsurvivable, this one is for you.
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Key Takeaways:
- Lick Your Wounds, Then Move: why giving yourself grace after a setback is not weakness, it is the first step
- The Blamestorm Trap: how blaming others feels good for a minute and keeps you stuck indefinitely
- The 180 Turn: George’s three-phase framework from retrospective grief to forward-facing momentum
- The Rabbi Rule: why your results will never speak for themselves and the connective tissue that keeps you standing
- The Rule of Threes: why trying something once tells you almost nothing and how to find what reignites you
- Compounding Works Both Ways: small investments in action compound powerfully