Let Go & Lead with Maril MacDonald

Mick Ebeling, Founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs, shares his journey from filmmaking to human-centered innovation. He talks about creating technology for real people and building teams around purpose rather than expertise. Mick touches on egoless leadership, the power of storytelling and why solving for one person can unlock scalable impact. He also explores failure, change and how leaders can remove distractions to help teams do their best work. Key Takeaways: 00:00 Introduction. 01:48 Meaningful innovation often begins with empathy for a real human problem. 04:41 Leaders can commit to ambitious goals before knowing how to achieve them. 11:03 Focusing on one person can create clarity and broader impact. 14:52 Failure plays a critical role in learning and long-term progress. 17:00 Removing ego helps teams stay aligned on purpose and outcomes. 20:49 Naivete and fresh perspectives can challenge limiting status quos. 23:48 Change is constant, and resisting it often creates more risk than embracing it. 28:45 Letting go of ego allows leaders to adapt, learn and lead more effectively. Resources Mentioned: Mick Ebeling https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickebeling/ Not Impossible Labs | LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/not-impossible/ Not Impossible Labs | Website http://www.notimpossible.com TED Talks https://www.ted.com/ Time Magazine https://time.com/ The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) https://www.moma.org/ ABOUT LET GO & LEAD Let Go & Lead is a leadership community created by Maril MacDonald, founder and CEO of Gagen MacDonald. Maril brings together provocateurs, pioneers, thought leaders and those leading the conversation around culture, transformation and change. Over the course of the past 14 years, Let Go & Lead has existed in many forms, from video interviews to resource guides to its current iteration as a podcast. At its core, it remains a place where people can access a diversity of perspectives on interdisciplinary approaches to leadership. Maril is also working on a book incorporating these insights gathered over the past several years from global leaders and change makers. Maril has interviewed over 140 leaders — from business to academia and nonprofits to the arts — through the years. In each conversation, from personal anecdotes to ground-breaking scientific analysis, she has probed the lessons learned in leadership. From these conversations, the Let Go & Lead framework has emerged. It is both a personal and organizational resource that aims to serve the individual leader or leadership at scale. ABOUT GAGEN MACDONALD At Gagen MacDonald, we are dedicated to helping organizations navigate the human struggle of change. We are a people-focused consulting firm and our passion is improving the employee experience — for everyone. For more than 25 years, we have been working with companies to create clarity from chaos by uniting employees across all levels around a single vision so they can achieve results and realize their future. We have been a pioneer in bringing humanity to strategy execution, leading in areas such as organizational communication, culture, leadership and employee engagement. Our Vision is to lift all humanity by transforming the companies that transform the world. Full episodes also available on: Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/let-go-lead-with-maril-macdonald/id1454869525  Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5Gaf7JXOckZMtkpsMtnjAj?si=WZjZkvfLTX2T4eaeB1PO2A  Gagen MacDonald is a woman-owned, human-focused transformation consulting firm and trusted partner to the C-suite. We specialize in internal communications, employee engagement, culture change and leadership development. Learn more at http://www.gagenmacdonald.com.  #LeadershipDevelopment #OrganizationalChange #CorporateCulture