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Turning the Tide: Olympic Swimmer Natalie Hinds on Leadership, Burnout, and Self-Discovery
You’ve worked tirelessly and achieved the pinnacle of what is humanly possible long before turning 30. Then what? What measures success when medals fade into memory? A...
The Road Taken: Two Women's Tales of Grit, Leadership and Resilience
How do we balance a life-defining career with the strain it can place on life outside it? How can we reconcile complex identities that may clash at home and in our car...
Educating the Whole Child in a Digital World with Principal Luis Ramirez
What is an educator’s role in developing well-rounded students facing an unpredictable future? Can an emphasis on social-emotional learning close persistent gaps creat...
Communication in a Global Workplace with Gerd Hoefner
In this episode of "Are We There Yet?," global leadership expert Gerd Hoefner shares fascinating insights from his decades-long journey across multicultural landscapes...
Crafting Influence: The Transformative Power of Story in Modern Communication with Jim Holtje
What role does emotion play in effective communication? What makes words so powerful they can stick with you for the rest of your life? In this podcast episode, Sonja ...
Empathetic Leadership in Action: Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David Bassett on Sustainable Organizational Change
How does open communication contribute to sustainable change? How can leaders balance the demands of immediate objectives with long-term vision? What strategies can be...
Mathematics As Storytelling with Marcus du Sautoy
Chaos theory shows that both the future and the past are unknowable. Exponential growth always seems to be stymied by an unpredictable limitation that flattens the cur...
The Power of Pausing To Watch The Snow Fall
There are hundreds of AI-powered therapy apps on the market today. When we talk to them, are we doing more than just talking to ourselves? Can we reach the same effect...
Breaking Barriers: Beyond Grit with Marion Gornik
Resilience, grit, and determination: three essential qualities for achieving one’s goals. But are they enough? This episode we follow Marion Gornick’s career from pers...
Leadership and Crisis Management with Hostage Negotiator Scott Walker
Sometimes people can feel like hostages to their organizations, leading to negative outcomes at every scale. As a team leader, how can you recognize and address these ...
The Future of Creativity and AI with Greg Kahn
Will AI transform creative endeavors like film, television, and music into one where human contribution is centered, or marginalized? What about painting, theater, or ...
Empathy and AI in Healthcare with Dr. Jennie Byrne
To kick off season two of Are We There Yet?, Sonja and Jamie invite distinguished healthcare advisor, entrepreneur, and author Dr. Jennie Byrne to unpack the complex m...
Sustainable Leadership in Uncertain Times with Gerda-Marie Adenau
What is the one crucial aspect of leadership that correlates directly with the success of a team? Research shows a clear answer—but to get to it, first you must define...
True Luxury: Authentic Connection with Pasha Khaledpour
A mother's determination to provide a better future for her son set a transformative journey in motion, thrusting the boy into the unknown and, ultimately, towards a t...
From Meth Lab to Ministry: Leading from Within with Michael Buck
Have you ever imagined that the leadership skills needed to spin up a regional methamphetamine lab would transfer to leading a church ? While he couldn’t have known hi...
Climate Science & Action with Dr. Benjamin Strauss, CEO of Climate Central
What makes a story—an ancient myth, a newspaper article, even a map—powerful enough to shape a culture? Dr. Benjamin Strauss asks this question every day in his role a...
Water, Electricity, Gas, Artificial Intelligence: Insights on the Inevitability of AI from Policy Advisor Ami Fields-Meyer
Imagine AI as a public utility—what would that look like? This episode, Sonja and Jamie ask: What are the hidden societal costs of broad AI adoption? How can we mitiga...
Communicating Climate Urgency: Dr. Zoë Sadokierski and Dr. Timo Rissanen on the Power of Storytelling in the Sixth Extinction
What happens when a bird no longer recognizes the song of its species? What is the role of art and storytelling in building sustainable worlds? Can AI unchain human cr...
The Intelligence AI Can Never Create: Dr. Rina Bliss on Humans, Creativity, and Our Future
Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, emotional literacy, mindfulness, learning from our environment: these are aspects of intelligence that are uniquely human, and truly c...
How We Get There—Pathways to Leadership: Elite Spartan Racer Nick Miles
Competition, meet collaboration. Solitary grit, meet mutual support. Fierce warrior, meet loyal ally. These seemingly contradictory identities come together in the Spa...