The Clarifier

Sep 16 2024 17 ep. 43 mins 11
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We take a close look at your toughest moments at work and turn the discomfort into advantage. Learn more at www.talentism.com

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Why I Bet on Potential Over Perfection

Sep 16 2024 31 mins  
Meet Natalie Glance, Duolingo’s Chief Engineering Officer, as she digs into the contradictions of modern leadership: How do you give employees the space to fail and learn while still hitting your team’s targets? Can you really build a diverse, empowering culture when you're sprinting on the startup treadmill?In this conversation, she reveals what it felt like to be a math-lovin

Transforming My Trauma Into My Purpose

Aug 12 2024 37 mins  
Meet Simmone Taitt, founder + CEO of Poppy Seed Health, who is rewriting the rules of pregnancy, loss and postpartum support. With 24/7 1:1 access to doulas, midwives, and nurses, Poppy Seed Health offers on-demand emotional and mental health support. Simmone opens up to Angie D'Sa, her executive coach, about how she transformed her personal trauma into profound purpose. And what i

I Thought I was Helping, But Really I was Judging

Jul 08 2024 49 mins  
Meet Joel Keating. He’s Grindr's SVP of Engineering & Chief Information Security Officer. He's joined by his Talentism coach, Gregory Kim.Together, they describe how paying attention to Joel’s “This Sucks” response can open up the door to curiosity and unlock solutions to big problems at work. But, this only works if the curiosity is genuine. We learn that sometimes Joe

I Unlocked My Intuition by Confronting My Fear

Jun 03 2024 51 mins  
Meet Evan O'Donnell an early-stage investor + co-founder of the VC firm, Timespan. Evan shares his powerful journey of overcoming the deep-seated fears instilled from growing up closeted as a gay man, striving for perfection to avoid the perceived catastrophe of being outed. Through self-work, Evan shed the limiting armor he had built up and transformed his heightened perception fr

Then One Day, I Was Just Like my Boss

May 09 2024 39 mins  
Meet Meghan Joyce the founder + CEO of Duckbill, an AI-and-human powered answer to tiresome but deeply necessary life admin - think renewing your passport or making appointments with doctors who actually take your insurance. But MJ wasn't always "Founder or Bust." In fact, she has spent most of her career working for pretty iconoclastic founders. First at the ride-sharing app Uber,

Do I Have to Fire Everybody?

Apr 09 2024 43 mins  
Meet Ope Bukola. She’s founder and CEO of Kibo School, an online university in Africa. Ope is both relatable and remarkable. Relatable because, like so many founders, at one point she looked around her company and felt a pang of disappointment - everyone was falling short of her expectations. Remarkable because, instead of blaming her team, she did the uncomfortable thing and ask

The Problem with Being the Only One Who Can Solve the Problem

Mar 20 2024 32 mins  
Meet Joshua Walsky. He was co-founder and CTO of Broadway Technology and came up during the dot com boom. Now he’s a Talentism coach, guiding the next generation of founders. If you’ve worked in tech, you’ve probably met someone like Joshua. Exceedingly smart, exceedingly talented, and digging an exceedingly big hole for himself...Like many technical leaders, his views on man

It's Gonna Get Ugly Before it Gets Good

Mar 05 2024 43 mins  
Meet Kathie Chao. She’s a Managing Director and Head of Digital Retail at Charles Schwab. Never one to back down from a challenge, her role has changed almost every year for the past decade.In 2021, her scope shifted dramatically. She realized her anxiety about work was tipping into an unhealthy point. She started working with a coach and learned how to use those signals of anxie

When Your Superpower Becomes A Liability

Feb 06 2024 47 mins  
Meet Stef Sy, founder and CEO of Thinking Machines (TM). TM is a leading data consultancy, using AI to transform the way governments and conglomerates in South East Asia do business. Stef created TM because she wanted to put the power of data in all employees' hands, regardless of rank. And she wanted to make better jobs for emerging tech talent in her home-country, the Philippines

Hope is Good, Clarity is Better

Oct 05 2023 49 mins  
BlackRock's Larry Fink sees pervasive fear and says we need hope. Talentism's Jeff Hunter says hope isn't enough - leaders need clarity.Jeff provides tangible steps leaders can take to understand the root of fear, reorient with purpose, and turn unprecedented challenges into opportunities.Gain a new leadership perspective.