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You can’t lead with clarity if you avoid the mirror.

And you can’t lead with courage if you collapse your spine.

This episode of The Dealership War Room cuts straight to the leadership muscles most managers avoid but elite operators train every day.

Chris Hunsicker exposes the brutal truth: if you dodge self-honesty, you drift into delusion. If you soften your spine, your culture collapses. But when you master both? You lead with integrity and influence that lasts under fire.

Inside this episode, you’ll learn:

• The Mirror – How to confront what you’re tolerating, avoiding, or excusing before it rots your culture.
• The Spine – How to hold the line with calm courage and set standards that stick.
• The Leadership Equation – Why Mirror = Integrity and Spine = Influence and how losing one means losing both.
• A tactical 2-step challenge to practice brutal honesty and courageous action today.

Chris Hunsicker is a battle-tested leadership strategist, equipping high-performance leaders to win with clarity, courage, and execution fire.

Listen now. Subscribe, take the Mirror + Spine Challenge, and step into the kind of leadership your team trusts in chaos and respects in conflict. Because leaders who face the mirror and stand tall with the spine don’t just manage—they transform. Love the show? like, rate, review, and share

Step Into the War Room Community

Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

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Watch, Learn, Apply — Anytime

YouTube Channel: Full episodes, highlight reels, and visual frameworks so you can train yourself and your managers anytime.

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Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.