TruthWorks
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Stanford's Humor Teacher: Your Joke Can Fail And Still Make Your…
About this podcast
Are you ready to dive deep into the world of work, culture and leadership? Join Jessica Neal and Patty McCord each week as they chat with expert guests and explore the issues affecting the workplace — from AI and mental health, to making layoffs and combating toxic cultures. Featuring global industry leaders and specialists that are passionate about reshaping the way work today. Listen in as we redefine the rules to work for us, not against us. Episode 1 of TruthWorks launches March 19! Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
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- Stanford's Humor Teacher: Your Joke Can Fail And Still Make Your Team Trust You! · 51 minWhy do so many people do everything right, finish the course, earn the certificate, and still end up exactly where they started? Connor Diemand-Yauman was one of Coursera's early…
- From NASA's Mars Lander to a $1B Startup: Why Engineers Will Run the Next Decade · 53 minWhat does it take to hire, lead and keep the best engineers in the world while your company grows faster than you planned? Bryce Strauss, co-founder of Nominal, went from flying…
- $500M Search Founder: This is why Most Executive Hires Fail! · 51 minWhy do so many executive hires fail, and how do you spot a bad hire before you make the offer? Brad Stadler, co-founder of True Search, has spent 25 years in executive search…
- Stanford Meeting Expert: Your Packed Calendar Is Not Work! · 51 minWhy do we keep sitting in meetings we know are a waste of time? And why do 75% of employees say AI makes them more productive while only 13% say their company sees real value?…
- Why your Employees Feel More Productive but your Revenue Doesn't Show It! - Findem · 43 minNate Sokolić started and sold companies in college, spent three years in executive search at Russell Reynolds, then led the firm's AI strategy, where he brought Findem in and…
- How A 27-Year-Old Built A $5.6B AI Company In 21 Months! - Max Junestrand · 49 minMax Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, explains how Legora became the fastest company in history to grow from $1M to over $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), in 21…
- He Studied Gallup's Data for 25 Years: Here's What Makes People Great at Work · 52 minMarcus Buckingham has spent more than 25 years studying what makes people extraordinary at work, and his newest research points to a word most businesses are too nervous to use…
- How 2 Netflix Leaders Took "No Rules" Global! And Where It Almost Broke - Alix and Marta · 1 h 7 minAlix and Marta were the people who had to make Netflix's culture work outside America. Alix moved from the US to build the Amsterdam office and Netflix's European headquarters…
- Former Skype Exec: I Nearly Died Mid-Flight, here's The Mistake That Caused It! · 39 minEric Partaker built Skype's early business team into a multi-billion-dollar exit — then had a heart attack at 35,000 feet from years of 80-100 hour weeks. He rebuilt his entire…
- Only 65,000 H-1B visas exist per year! This is what decides it - Jeff Joseph · 37 minFor 30 years, Jeff Joseph has been one of the most influential lawyers in American immigration law — and he just joined Manifest Law, the AI-native immigration firm, as President…
- Rubrik CEO: From A $1,000-A-Month Garage In San Francisco To A Public Company · 29 minBipul Sinha failed his first shot at India's hardest entrance exam. His father told him to drop out and try again — the only other option was selling tobacco on a street corner…
- The Groupon PM Who Built A Supersonic Jet: "I Couldn't Find The Reason It Was A Bad Idea" | Blake Scholl · 46 minA former Groupon product manager set out to bring back supersonic passenger flight. Everyone told him it was a bad idea. He couldn't find a single reason they were right. Blake…
- The CEO Who Saved Homebuyers A Billion Dollars: Why Founder Mode Is A Lie | Glenn Kelman · 45 minGlenn Kelman ran Redfin for 20 years. He says the most important thing he learned had nothing to do with software. Glenn joins Jessica Neal and co-host Jeff Markowitz on Truth…
- $40B Canva CHRO: How Canva Actually Builds Culture & Why they open source their Playbooks! · 56 minWhat does it actually take to build the people function at a company that went from a design tool to a global platform of 5,500 people? Jennie Rogerson, Chief People Officer at…
- He 2x'd Instagram's valuation in 3 Days: Why Nothing About AI Is Settled Yet || John Lilly · 43 minJohn Lilly has had a front row seat to almost every major shift in technology over the last thirty years, and he has sat in almost every chair while it happened. He was a Senior…
- What Netflix got Right and Why Most companies are built WRONG for AI! - Dr. Mik Kersten · 49 minWhat if your teams became 10x more productive — and your business got nothing out of it? Dr. Mik Kersten has the data to prove it's already happening. After studying more than…
- Google, Shopify..."Stay Away From The Badge Hunters": The Hiring Rule That Built Public.com · 54 minEverything breaks in a startup. Culture is what kicks in when it does. Leif Abraham and Jannick Malling are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Public, the agentic brokerage putting…
- The Modern-Day Napoleon Hill: Why Most People Don't Believe in Themselves! Evan Carmichael · 52 minEvan Carmichael believes the world's biggest problem is that people don't believe in themselves enough. He has spent the last 15 years trying to fix it. Evan joins Jessica Neal…
- "AI Is Quietly Killing Your Curiosity! - No.1 Coaching Expert | Michael Bungay Stanier · 51 minWhat if AI is quietly making you a worse leader, and you can't even feel it happening? Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS) is the bestselling author of The Coaching Habit, one of the…
- Stanford Professor: Why 85% of People Freeze Up while speaking and 15% might be Lying! · 40 minThe Communication Expert: The No.1 Skill AI Can't Replace | Matt Abrahams Matt Abrahams has spent nearly two decades teaching the one skill almost no one is formally trained in…







