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  • S36 Ep8: Catherine Bosley - Reputation in the Digital Age: Protecting Your Online Identiry

    S36 Ep8: Catherine Bosley - Reputation in the Digital Age: Protecting Your Online Identiry
    Oct 14 2025
    Today, Steve is in conversation with Catherine Bosley, an award-winning veteran journalist, with more than thirty years of public speaking experience. Steve and Catherine discuss the importance of protecting one’s online image, what to do when *it* hits the fan, and why a social media policy is something all organizations should have. Catherine also offers a reminder: pause before you post…

    Key Takeaways:
    1. Think before you post! It will save you a whole lot of headache.
    2. What you put online never goes away.
    3. Today, offline events can impact your online persona, so be aware of how you appear in public.
    Tune in to hear more about:
    1. How to shine online (4:07)
    2. How to deal with negative publicity online (11:19)
    3. Being online in the age of AI and deepfakes (19:03)
    Standout Quotes:
    1. “These days, that online image or online presence is so important. It almost is more important than a resume or a portfolio.” - Catherine Bosley
    2. “My first step with a response is to ignore the negative because the more you respond to the negative, especially in a defensive negative way, the more you're going to fuel that fire and the more it's going to catch on and become part of your forever and for all to see.” - Catherine Bosley
    3. “Understand that people are watching and people especially are looking for those social media gold moments, and if they capture you having one of those ‘what was I thinking?’ moments, because we all have them. We're all human. We all make mistakes. Then you just don't know what that's going to do to your world on the personal side or on the professional side." - Catherine Bosley
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    26 m
  • S36 Ep7: Dr. Amy Athey - Under Pressure: Leadership & High Performance

    S36 Ep7: Dr. Amy Athey - Under Pressure: Leadership & High Performance
    Oct 7 2025
    In today’s episode, Steve sits down with Dr. Amy Athey, founder of Athey Performance. Her mission is to make the tools of elite performance accessible and human. Amy is a nationally recognized performance psychologist and executive coach with more than two decades of experience working with NCAA champions, Olympians, Navy SEALs, Fortune 500 leaders, and individuals navigating complex lives. She shares how business leaders can help their teams feel more connected to their organization’s purpose and talks about what drives high-achievers. Steve and Amy also discuss stress in the cybersecurity industry and why rest is absolutely crucial for success.
    Key Takeaways:
    1. Leaders can address rising anxiety, burnout, and disconnection across all levels of their organization by fostering empathy, trust, and a stronger sense of shared purpose.
    2. Work with elite athletes and special forces has taught Athey that in high stress environments, recovery and rest are as essential to peak performance as hard work.
    3. Prioritize foundational wellness habits — consistent sleep, movement, hydration, and play — for sustainable performance and resilience.

    Tune in to hear more about:
    1. Impact of the grind (2:56)
    2. Technology and human disconnect (6:29)
    3. Keeping it simple (22:17)

    Standout Quotes:
    1. “What we came to learn and implement and certainly we've seen the results for, is that role of recovery is just as crucial as the tactics or the strategies you're using to solve that problem, the rehearsal and maybe it's the communication or in that performance domain, what you are drilling all the time to be able to execute.” - Amy Athey
    2. “And even to the extent that situation permits, how can you take a step away, even turn your back on your computer, even if it's for 90 seconds? Close your eyes and take three deep breaths. We've seen the return of energy stores just from that disconnection in that moment. So when you're sympathetically engaged, basically you're in that fight or flight response, you're trying to solve that problem.” - Amy Athey
    3. “And so keeping it simple with each of those. If people wanna take deep dives, certainly I could share the value of that. But some of the culture around hacking and like the quick fixes, that's what I will push up against until I'm blue in the face. Building in wellness as a foundation for performance isn't about a quick fix, if we could do just 80% of this, like how can you reduce some of the processed foods in your diet? How can you make sure you're hydrating? Movement. Then that active recovery..” - Amy Athey

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    27 m
  • S36 Ep6: Dr. Glen Moriarty - Human Connection in a Digital World

    S36 Ep6: Dr. Glen Moriarty - Human Connection in a Digital World
    Sep 30 2025
    Today, Steve speaks with psychologist Dr. Glen Moriarty, founder and CEO of Seven Cups, a free emotional support service with 570,000 trained volunteer listeners who support users in 189 countries. Steve and Glen explore the origins of Seven Cups, its background and its global user base, and discuss why so many feel alone in a hyper-connected online world. Glen also explains the nature of the gift economy and how we can avoid getting addicted to technology.

    Key Takeaways:
    1. Even as more things move online, human interaction remains important.
    2. Technology can be good and bad, it depends on how it’s designed.
    3. The mental health care system needs better triaging so that people get the right help.
    Tune in to hear more about:
    1. How and why Seven Cups began (1:58)
    2. Technology addiction (4:59)
    3. Whether Seven Cups is replacing humans with computers when it comes to mental health (9:54)
    Standout Quotes:
    1. “Technology can be used for good or bad. And so the internet can be a source of amazing compassion and love. But it has to be deliberately designed that way. It won't happen by accident.” - Glen Moriarty
    2. “Certainly there are cultural differences and different pushes and pulls, but humans we're a lot similar. The way we read emotions are universal, so it doesn't matter where you live. The emotional expression is similar. Human societies are pretty similar. Relationships are similar. There's different assumptions about I'm part of more collective society, or I'm part of a more individualistic society, but by and large, people generally struggle with feelings of sadness, feelings of worry, fear, and relationship difficulties.” - Glen Moriarty
    3. “Therapists should be seeing people that can't be helped by a volunteer or a family member or a friend. They should be helping people that are in higher levels or more complex levels of distress. And so in the States, part of the challenge is that you can think about it like a pyramid or a triangle. They're at the very top and it's all clogged up there. But if we could take some of the folks that can get help for free or low cost to other folks, then that opens up the channels for more people that really need help to get help by those expert professionals.” - Glen Moriarty
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    19 m
  • 5: Dr. Sam Adeyemi - Leadership in a Changing World: Culture, People & Technology

    5: Dr. Sam Adeyemi - Leadership in a Changing World: Culture, People & Technology
    Sep 16 2025
    Today, Steve sits down with leadership coach Dr. Sam Adeyemi. Sam is an expert in leadership who has coached C-suite executives for over two decades. Together, Steve and Sam explore the essence of who is a leader, and Sam explains why people should always be the first priority of a leader. They also discuss AI and how it will impact people and business in the coming years.

    Key Takeaways:
    1. Leadership is about your ability to influence, not the position you hold.
    2. Technology has changed the nature of leading.
    3. AI will change how we work by taking over routine tasks and giving humans more time for creative challenges.
    Tune in to hear more about:
    1. How leadership differs across cultures (4:28)
    2. How technology is changing leadership (8:47)
    3. How AI will change how we work (14:27)
    Standout Quotes:
    1. “We still need to leave those spaces where we actually ask, how are you doing, to be sure the parts of their lives that are important are going well. Because those parts actually influence what they do on the job.” - Dr. Sam Adeyemi
    2. “It’s like when computers first came. They made things work faster. When I was doing mathematics in high school, we used to use log tables and things like that. It was much slower getting to work through the calculations. But with calculators these days and so on, it’s faster. AI is going to create an even bigger shift than that. The computers did not take all the jobs away. However, they changed the way that we do our work. So we humans, therefore, need to move more towards creativity, and that is tied more to our uniqueness, the unique way our minds work.” - Dr. Sam Adeyemi
    3. “A lot of C-suite leaders find it difficult to reinvent, and it’s one of the major reasons why people get stranded, why leaders just stagnate. Change is inevitable. It happens, the world doesn’t remain the same. The conditions that facilitated our achievement of success, those conditions have changed. The context has changed. So for us to sustain our success, for us to remain relevant, for example, we also have just got to change.” Dr. Sam Adeyemi
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    23 m
  • S36 Ep4: Kathleen Perley - Turning AI Into Business Growth

    S36 Ep4: Kathleen Perley - Turning AI Into Business Growth
    Sep 9 2025
    Today, Steve talks with Dr. Kathleen Perley, founder of DemystifAI and faculty and AI advisor to the deans at Rice Business. Dr. Perley explains why leadership matters when implementing AI in your business, and shares how to bridge the gap between tech-savvy CTOs and non-technical folks. Dr. Perley and Steve also discuss the possibilities and boundaries of artificial intelligence.

    Key Takeaways:
    1. AI has some exciting use cases.
    2. Executives should be involved in the implementation of AI.
    3. Business will fall behind if they don’t embrace artificial intelligence.
    Tune in to hear more about:
    1. How Dr. Perley got into the AI field (1:33)
    2. The role of the C-suite in AI implementation (8:17)
    3. Dr. Perley’s new book about AI (18:57)
    Standout Quotes:
    1. “If you don't have at least a couple sleepless nights where you get a little bit anxious about the unknown in terms of job displacement, falls into the wrong hands—that should be a concern.” - Dr. Kathleen Perley
    2. “I think part of the reason why AI implementation is failing today is that leadership issue. They're maybe unsure of this technology, don't have what they feel like is appropriate technical background to navigate it. And so they've completely delegated it, versus leaning in and learning the technology themself.” - Dr. Kathleen Perley
    3. “If you have AI skills, and I'm not talking building, but leveraging these AI tools in terms of skills, you're 70% more likely to get hired. Those individuals are garnering about a 56% wage premium right now. All of your A-players, if you're not leaning into AI as an organization, are going to start looking elsewhere because they know that they need those skills and that exposure for their own career development.” - Dr. Kathleen Perley
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    28 m
  • S36 Ep3: Karena Man - Cultivating Trust: Engaging Boards on Cyber and AI

    S36 Ep3: Karena Man - Cultivating Trust: Engaging Boards on Cyber and AI
    Sep 2 2025
    In today’s episode, Steve speaks with Karena Man, whose expertise is connecting organizations with experts in technology as a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry. Karena highlights the growing awareness of cyber by boards of directors — an awareness brought on by the increase in cyber intrusions. She also emphasizes the importance of storytelling and collaboration, and she and Steve discuss AI and the preparedness of the board.

    Key Takeaways:
    1. Boards are increasingly knowledgeable of cyber and AI.
    2. CISOs must be good storytellers and cultivate relationships with other departments to be able to succeed in their role.
    3. Involve board members in the processes, not just the results.
    Tune in to hear more about:
    1. Cyber and the board (01:27)
    2. AI and the board (19:30)
    3. How cyber and AI will impact the board in the coming years (24:53)
    Standout Quotes:
    1. “If we go back to what boards are really charged with, they're charged with oversight and governance. They are there to really provide guardrails in many ways, allow the organization to go fast by asking the right questions.” - Karena Man
    2. “When I am also assessing and helping my clients hire their next CISO, one of the things I'm looking for is not just someone who's technically deep, but someone who has the empathy, someone who really understands what is it that the business is trying to do.” - Karena Man
    3. “Anyone who's used one of the large language models, don't name any of them, I think there isn't a single person I've talked to who hasn't had a model hallucinate. Or give them a questionable answer to a query or to a task. And so there is this understanding that the technology is promising and that we should experiment with it and innovate with it within our enterprise. But there is this worry that it could be used for not so good purposes.” - Karena Man
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    28 m
  • S36 Ep2: Debra Andrews - Balancing Human Insight with AI in Marketing

    S36 Ep2: Debra Andrews - Balancing Human Insight with AI in Marketing
    Aug 26 2025
    In this week’s episode, Steve sits down with Debra Andrews, president and owner of Marketri. Marketri, a strategic marketing firm. Steve and Debra talk about what goes into creating a marketing plan that the C-suite can get on board with, and Deb shares how she and her team work to balance human knowledge with the speed of artificial intelligence. Debra also explains the role of Marketri’s AI council…

    Key Takeaways:
    1. Using key performance measures to show growth toward a goal is integral to getting the C-suite on board with a marketing plan.
    2. To gain trust for AI both inside and outside the organization, transparency is paramount.
    3. AI will shrink marketing teams and marketers will need broader skillsets.
    Tune in to hear more about:
    1. How Marketri went about incorporating AI into its operations (6:23)
    2. Deb’s thoughts on the ethics of AI (10:55)
    3. How AI will impact the future of marketing (13:43)
    Standout Quotes:
    1. “When we use AI to do the copywriting, we ask it not to supplement with any extra information, only use the information you're given and through that, AI is a wonderful copywriter. It can learn your voice and tone. You can train it on your particular voice and tone, so we can train it on our client's voice and tone. So it can be very customized to that person and how they like to speak, and words they like to use and how they like to sound. But ethically means we're not using trained data in the large language models to produce our content pieces. We're using human brains, their experience, and we're leveraging the tools as copywriters.” - Deb Andrews
    2. “We're not trying to hide that we're using AI and shortcutting the process or delivering something like an AI-produced post. What we share is that we're using it to help them gain competitive advantage, to have the best access to human thinking, our thinking, their thinking as far as their area of subject matter expertise, and then the best of what this technology can do, and it's extremely powerful.” - Deb Andrews
    3. “I think the smaller organizations, they're just struggling to keep afloat of their workload right now. I feel like AI's had this paralyzing effect on a lot of mid-size organizations where they know AI's out there and they know it's supposed to have an impact and they're reading about companies reducing head count and not hiring.” - Deb Andrews
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    23 m
  • S36 Ep1: Baroness Beeban Kidron - Privacy in the Age of AI and Surveillance

    S36 Ep1: Baroness Beeban Kidron - Privacy in the Age of AI and Surveillance
    Aug 19 2025
    Today, Steve sits down with Baroness Beeban Kidron, a member of the House of Lords in the UK and a global authority on online privacy and tech regulation. They discuss the critical importance of privacy on the internet in the age of surveillance capitalism, why we need to reframe how we talk about AI and new technology, and the problems with the UK government’s current AI policy.

    Key Takeaways:
    1. The internet has changed, making privacy online essential.
    2. Regulating the internet and technology is still possible.
    3. The current path the world is on when it comes to AI is highly problematic and should be taken more seriously.
    Tune in to hear more about:
    1. Why privacy online matters more than ever (1:22)
    2. How technology is impacting early childhood development (12:08)
    3. Baroness Kidron’s take on the UK’s AI strategy (28:17)
    Standout Quotes:
    1. “[The internet] is deliberately designed to keep your attention. Deliberately designed to make you come back, deliberately designed to know the most, to reveal the most. And in that context, actually, privacy becomes an incredible tool of protection for the user, particularly for children who may not understand the negotiation that they're in.” - Baroness Beeban Kidron
    2. “ We have to think about what kind of world we want, what kind of world is good for us, what kind of world benefits most people, and then we build ourselves a pathway to do the most we can in that direction.” - Baroness Beeban Kidron
    3. “ it is hugely important to protect the idea of copyright. It is a moral right because it is an expression of your humanity. What you write, what you draw, what you sing is yours. It is you. It is a manifestation of you. So it comes with, and in fact, in human rights law, it is specifically stated that it is your moral right to determine how that is used.” - Baroness Beeban Kidron
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    37 m