There's a question running quietly underneath almost every relationship in your life — with clients, family, your team — and most people never say it out loud: are you there for me?

Maurice Basset is a publisher who has spent over two decades putting personal development and business books into the world, working with bestselling authors and shaping ideas that travel far beyond what he ever hears back about. In this conversation, he and James talk about leadership not as a title or a tactic, but as a daily practice of showing up from a place of service — and why the tone of how you treat people, in an email, a phone call, or a waiting room, might matter more than almost anything else in your business.

They get into the idea of the self-actualizing leader, why elevating your own consciousness even slightly changes everything d ...