The EQ Leadership Podcast

Toluwani Adebekun built this show around a specific question: how do leaders who actually manage their own emotions well end up running the teams and companies they do. The answer, across dozens of guest interviews, is usually messier and more interesting than the LinkedIn version. Toluwani interviews executives, founders, and senior managers across industries, and he pushes them past the polished origin story into the uncomfortable moments that taught them something. Episodes average 30 to 45 minutes and cover hard conversations with direct reports, the emotional aftermath of layoffs, leading through grief, managing your own insecurity in a room of more experienced people, and how founders handle the private anxiety that never shows up in investor updates. Toluwani is a patient interviewer who doesn't rush past the awkward pauses, and he asks follow-up questions most business podcasts skip because they sound too personal. The show is particularly strong on the gap between knowing a leadership principle and actually executing it when your own ego is in the way. For listeners already studying emotional intelligence who want to see how it plays out in operating roles rather than in therapy or self-help contexts, this is one of the more grounded options in that lane.