Joudie Weekes

Helping people stop living two separate lives.
Closing the gap between public performance and private reality.

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If you’re capable, responsible, and still feel stuck, this might explain it.

Most people think progress comes from learning more tactics.
In reality, progress stalls when your internal operating system is outdated.
You take on bigger roles.
More pressure.
More expectations.

But you’re still making decisions, setting standards, and judging yourself using rules you picked up years ago.
That gap creates:
overthinking,

inconsistency,

quiet frustration,

and the sense that you should be further along by now.

This isn’t a motivation problem.
It’s a leadership sequence problem.

I put together The Leadership Journey to show how leadership actually develops, stage by stage, and what tends to break at each one.

Not theory.
Not inspiration.
Just clarity around:

where you are,
why certain things feel harder than they should,

and what to focus on next so effort starts compounding again.

If you feel like you’ve outgrown your current way of operating, this is the reset.
Start here:
👉 https://t.co/yIVE8v7jQ3

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Senate Republicans RAMMED through a massive $70B funding bill for Border Patrol and ICE overnight — delivering critical resources to secure the border and enforce immigration laws.

The bill passed by a 52-47 vote after an 18-hour vote-a-rama, providing $38.6B for ICE and $22.6B for Border Patrol to fund operations through the end of President Trump’s term.

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@mattvanswol Vote them out.

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@SenMikeLee This is a JOKE, right? You guys have the majority, and this is what you're capable of. There is a reason that the president has to issue all those EOs, you people are useless.

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https://t.co/ZJXcogXKhS

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@timburchett Not wanted to cheat. They are doing it now!

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@elonmusk Reverse racism is STILL racism.

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@joeroganhq From the man who can't define a woman.

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Grok Build is great. I asked it to keep track of previous chat sessions and create something to do that, and it built a whole system to do that.

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The men who insist they’re “self-made” are usually protecting a story more than describing reality.

They downplay every mentor, every break, every person who carried weight.

The real builders don’t deny the inputs — they select them ruthlessly and own what they do with them.

This is why the lone-wolf myth quietly costs high-achieving men their capacity.

Read the full piece (including the practical “How to Stop Pretending” section) in The Leader of One:

https://t.co/BXErzp3W5R

One question: Who are the two or three people you’ve never fully credited for where you are? Name them to yourself.

#SelfLeadership #Leadership #PersonalGrowth

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@ModernxDad And women can’t get it because they need to be the center of it all.

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@OliLondonTV It took him two days to make a statement about what happened. But you’re quick to respond to those outraged about the murder and incompetent response of the police.

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Built something for NYC commuters 🚌🚇
Aurvo, “When you need to know what’s next.”
One page: nearby bus stops, live arrivals, nearby subway at the stop level, service alerts that affect your routes.
Trying to keep it fast and simple on mobile. If you’re in NYC, take 30 seconds to open it on your phone:
👉 https://t.co/NXKqyPrG1w
Near me = GPS · Browse NYC = popular areas
Not MTA-affiliated.

Feedback welcome, what’s missing for your commute?

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Built something for NYC commuters 🚌🚇
Aurvo, “When you need to know what’s next.”
One page: nearby bus stops, live arrivals, nearby subway at the stop level, service alerts that affect your routes.
Trying to keep it fast and simple on mobile. If you’re in NYC, take 30 seconds to open it on your phone:
👉 https://t.co/NXKqyPrG1w
Near me = GPS · Browse NYC = popular areas
Not MTA-affiliated.

Feedback welcome, what’s missing for your commute?

[Joudie Weekes @JoudieWeekes]

Built something for NYC commuters 🚌🚇
Aurvo, “When you need to know what’s next.”
One page: nearby bus stops, live arrivals, nearby subway at the stop level, service alerts that affect your routes.
Trying to keep it fast and simple on mobile. If you’re in NYC, take 30 seconds to open it on your phone:
👉 https://t.co/NXKqyPrG1w
Near me = GPS · Browse NYC = popular areas
Not MTA-affiliated.

Feedback welcome, what’s missing for your commute?

[Joudie Weekes @JoudieWeekes]

Built something for NYC commuters 🚌🚇
Aurvo, “When you need to know what’s next.”
One page: nearby bus stops, live arrivals, nearby subway at the stop level, service alerts that affect your routes.
Trying to keep it fast and simple on mobile. If you’re in NYC, take 30 seconds to open it on your phone:
👉 https://t.co/NXKqyPrG1w
Near me = GPS · Browse NYC = popular areas
Not MTA-affiliated.

Feedback welcome, what’s missing for your commute?

[Joudie Weekes @JoudieWeekes]

Built something for NYC commuters 🚌🚇
Aurvo, “When you need to know what’s next.”
One page: nearby bus stops, live arrivals, nearby subway at the stop level, service alerts that affect your routes.
Trying to keep it fast and simple on mobile. If you’re in NYC, take 30 seconds to open it on your phone:
👉 https://t.co/NXKqyPrG1w
Near me = GPS · Browse NYC = popular areas
Not MTA-affiliated.

Feedback welcome, what’s missing for your commute?

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@SahilBloom It's important to realize that you can only do what's right for yourself. Everyone else is doing the same thing. Even the advice is coming from an if I were you pov. Like the man said, smile and keep it moving.

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“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” — Epictetus

Most men spend years trying to find their purpose.

The problem is that purpose isn't usually found.

It's built.

A man without purpose drifts toward whatever is loudest, comfort, distraction, other people's expectations, or the next crisis demanding his attention.

A man with purpose lives differently.

His decisions become clearer.
His standards become higher.
His discipline becomes easier because he knows what he's saying yes to.

Purpose isn't a job title.
It's not a bank account.
It's not a status symbol.
It's the answer to one question:
"What am I willing to organize my life around?"

Once you answer that, everything else starts to fall into place.
The challenge isn't finding purpose.
The challenge is having the courage to live it.

#Purpose #Leadership #SelfLeadership #Discipline #Stoicism #PersonalGrowth #LeaderOfOne #Identity #MensDevelopment #JoudieWeekes

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@KonstantinKisin Irronically, he also said he couldn't breathe. This is tragic on so many levels. It's time sanity comes back to our politics, where your skin colour doesn't matter, just the law applied evenly. I feel for his family and their loss. It was avoidable.

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@RedWavePress Axios right!!! This sounds like the story of him grabbing the steering wheel.