One Better Question

May 12 2024 11 ep. 35 mins 4
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Welcome to One Better Question, the podcast that promises to make questions your new superpower by talking to the world's most curious minds about their most loved questions. With your hosts Paul Barnett and Hannah Singleman. 
 
Brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.  

Co-Producers: Hannah Singleman, Lee Bjarnason, and Julia Gorbach

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Episode 10: Linda Lee, CMO Campbell's

May 12 2024 36 mins  
Send us a textHow am I helping you or not helping you be at your best? What am I not asking? Why not?Linda Lee is Chief Marketing Officer of Meals and Beverages at Campbell Soup Company. She shows us how to embrace curiosity as a leader and the questions we can ask to champion vulnerability, push things forward, and leave our fingerprints on a business. Which of Linda’s questions

Episode 9: Ann Davidman, Parenthood Clarity Mentor

May 05 2024 43 mins  
Send us a textDo you want to be a parent? What if you decided not to decide? What beliefs have you sitting on the fence? Ann Davidman is a Parenthood Clarity Mentor and licensed marriage and family therapist. She teaches us how to craft questions that shift you out of the mental gridlock of indecision and towards a place of clarity and understanding. You can learn more about Ann’

Episode 8: Rachel ten Brink, Venture Capitalist

Apr 28 2024 44 mins  
Send us a textIs this a risk worth taking? Do you have a bias for action? Which assumptions can you afford to get wrong? Rachel Ten Brink is a venture capitalist and General Partner and CEO of Red Bike Capital, an early stage VC fund that invests in verticals that are primed for disruption and growth. It’s safe to say she’s in the business of risk. She equips us with the better

Episode 7: Dr. Darrin McMahon, Historian

Apr 21 2024 41 mins  
Send us a textWhy then? Why there? What’s novel about that form of inquiry in the first place? Dr. Darrin McMahon is a Professor of History at Dartmouth College and author of award-winning books on such topics as the history of equality, genius, and happiness. He teaches us the art of a simple, childlike question for getting to the heart of what’s really going on and even gives

Episode 6: Dr. Lisa Yaszek, Professor of Science Fiction

Apr 14 2024 39 mins  
Send us a textWhat if things change in these ways? What would be wonderful? What would be terrifying? What do we need to do in our present to nudge ourselves towards a better future? Dr. Lisa Yaszek is a professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech who teaches us how to get curious about the future to make sense of our present – especially in the face of uncertainty and c

Episode 5: Abigail Posner, Cultural Anthropologist

Apr 07 2024 38 mins  
Send us a textWhat’s your edge? What’s overlooked or underappreciated? What makes you weird?Abigail Posner is a cultural anthropologist and Director of U. S. Creative Works, Google’s creative think tank for agencies and brands. She teaches us how to question like an anthropologist, connecting the dots and following our curious instincts to more interesting and unique places a

Episode 4: Major Thomas Gaines, Special Operations Command

Mar 31 2024 34 mins  
Send us a textSo what? What’s next? Who else needs to know?Major Thomas Gaines is an officer in the United States Special Operations Command who teaches us the importance of questioning the question in order to more effectively manage up, make better decisions under pressure, and get curious about our surroundings. Which of Major Gaines’ questions is your One Better Question? L

Episode 3: Reverend Karen Hutt, End-of-Life Chaplain

Mar 04 2024 39 mins  
Send us a textWhat’s on your heart today? How are you going to live? Where do you find joy? Reverend Karen Hutt is a chaplain, Unitarian Universalist minister, and clinical pastoral educator. For over 25 years, she’s been connecting with people in hospitals, hospice, and even death row. She teaches us how to break out of the scripts of our ‘same old’ questions if we want to

Episode 2: Jonnie Cahill, CMO Heineken USA

Mar 04 2024 41 mins  
Send us a textWhat if it worked? What are the different ways we can do this? Is it good enough?Jonnie Cahill is the Chief Marketing Officer at Heineken USA, overseeing marketing for some of the biggest beer brands in the world. He teaches us how to lead with possibility, protect creative ideas at all costs, and ask the questions that have helped him turn curiosity into a catalyst f

Episode 1: Mónica Guzmán, Journalist & Bridge-Builder

Mar 04 2024 29 mins  
Send us a textHow did you come to believe what you believe? What are you missing? What are you protecting? Mónica Guzmán is a bridge builder, journalist, and author who teaches us the better questions we can use that allow the heat in a difficult conversation to cook up understanding instead of burn the relationship. Mónica is a Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels