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All Things Human with Adele Wang

How power works, in people and in AI. Adele Wang watches how people behave, in organizations and in ordinary life, and says the part most people leave out. Some episodes are about work. Who decides, who gets blamed, what happens when nobody quite owns a decision. Some are about relationships. Why you know your neighbor"s dog"s name and not theirs. What we want from each other and what we"re willing to admit we want. The through line is the same either way. What"s really going on underneath the

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22:32

AI Could Fix This Kind of Problem. Here's Why No One...

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/10/02

A ticket sold by one airline and flown by another can fail at check-in in a way neither airline can see in full, leaving the customer to carry information between them. Adele Wang argues that problems falling between companies persist even as each company adopts AI, because no single company owns the gap and the cost of failure is spread across customers instead of showing up on anyone's budget.The day before a trip to Croatia, my check-in failed somewhere between KLM and Delta. Each airline sent me

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57:05

Everyone Meant Well. It Ended at Gunpoint

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/09/10

A man in West Africa was tied up and taken at gunpoint over a payroll schedule. Nobody in the story was a bad person.Head office wanted to save money, so payroll moved from every two weeks to once a month. It made sense on a spreadsheet. Nobody asked the 600 guards how they lived, or knew that most of them were feeding whole villages on a two-week rhythm. Ten days later children were not eating. A bodyguard did the fastest thing he could think of to get someone's attention.Leanne Terrace was there

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10:29

70 People Said They Resonated With What I Said and I...

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/07/26

Adele published a quiet episode about walking her dog. Within a day, dozens of emails arrived pitching podcast guests, and nearly every one quoted the exact same abstract phrase back to her. None of the senders had listened. This is what happens when the effort that used to prove attention gets automated away, and why nobody in the production machinery has a clue that it failed the end recipient. The irony is that most of the pitches were generated by AI to promote guests hoping to be booked to talk

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23:10

I Know Your Dog. I Still Don't Know Your Name

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/07/18

You can know a person for years and never learn their name. You know their dog, though. You know Max is reactive, that Sophie just had surgery, that the golden at the corner loses his mind the second he spots you. The human stays a little bit of a mystery, and somehow that works fine.This is a solo episode about the friendships that live entirely on the sidewalk. How a dog gives two strangers permission to stop and talk. Why the dog's name sticks while the owner's slides right off. And why these

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16:50

The Contamination Problem: Why 1% AI Has the Same...

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2026/05/04

Psychologists call it contamination theory. When something pure comes into contact with something threatening — even at trace levels — we consider the whole thing spoiled. Researchers are now finding the same response in how audiences value creative work that involves AI.In this episode, I walk through a recent University of Chicago study where participants bid real money for art prints at different levels of AI involvement: 100% human, 1% AI-assisted, 30% AI-generated. The result was striking. The

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17:22

I Was Breaking the Internet. Then My Brain Broke...

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/03/02

"I Was Breaking the Internet. Then My Brain Broke First."Why is everyone generating so much content than ever before?Today, millions of creators are using AI to produce content faster than humans can consume it, leading to "Content Shock."Episode Description: I Was Breaking the Internet. Then My Brain Broke First.We are currently living through the loudest, fastest, and most saturated era in human history. Every second, millions of determined creators, powered by AI, are frantically churning out

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16:25

Unclosed Loops: Why We Remember the Rude Stuff

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/02/14

About this Episode: This is a Raw Memo edition of All Things Human. In the spirit of staying authentic and keeping the conversation moving, I’m skipping the studio polish and the theme music to bring you a thought exactly as it happened.In this memo:The "Type 3" Distraction: Why some public behaviors feel like a "system failure" rather than a simple annoyance.Unclosed Loops: The psychological reason why we remember a rude encounter from 15 years ago.Shared Scripts: How the lack of explicit rules in

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15:27

The "Nobody in Charge" Problem: Why AI Governance...

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2026/02/03

Have you ever had an automated system deny your loan, flag your social media post, or change your work schedule without explanation?In this episode, we dive into the "talk of the town" in tech circles: AI Governance. What is AI Governance?. While it sounds like a dry topic for lawyers, it’s actually a deeply human issue that impacts our daily lives and livelihoods.We explore the growing "accountability gap" where decisions are made instantly and at scale, yet no single human feels responsible for

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08:40

When AI Takes Your Job -- the Myth of "Just Start...

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2026/01/30

Many conversations about AI-driven job losses frame entrepreneurship as “freedom.” But what if you don’t want to start a business? In this episode, I talk honestly about why not everyone is wired to be a solopreneur—and why that matters as AI reshapes work.This episode is for people who have been laid off or displaced and are quietly overwhelmed by the pressure to “figure it out” on their own. There's the idea that they can do that, armed with a bunch of AI tools. Even though it may be theoretically

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16:31

The Visibility Industrial Complex - What Solopreneurs...

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/01/24

What Solopreneurs Need To Understand About the Attention GameWhat is the Visibility Industrial Complex?The Visibility Industrial Complex is a system where solopreneurs are pressured to remain constantly visible in order to be seen as credible, relevant, or legitimate — even when that visibility no longer leads to connection or meaningful work.Why does marketing feel exhausting for solopreneurs?Because visibility practices have become a requirement rather than a tool, turning self-promotion into

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17:32

[Systems] Why I Hate Networking (and maybe you do too)

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/01/15

Why performative networking is failing and how to reclaim real connection in the age of AIIf you’ve ever stood in a room of 50 people, clutching a coffee cup and waiting for a 29-second countdown to pitch your business to a room of people who aren’t actually listening, you’ve felt the "Chamber of Commerce" exhaustion. We have replaced real relationship-building with "Identity Flashcards"—a phenomenon I call Brand Warmth Simulation. In this episode, we dissect why this extractive style of networking

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14:42

[Human] The Split We’re Living With in the AI Age

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2026/01/10

We are living with a quiet internal split — and most of us feel it, but few can name it.On one side of us is the part that uses AI, productivity tools, and digital systems to stay relevant, visible, and competitive.On the other side is the part of us that longs for what feels real. Presence, trust, effort, and genuine human connection.In this episode, Adele Wang explores the growing emotional and relational tension of these two parts of us in the AI era. People use these tools to be more productive,

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10:05

Why Good People Become Bad Bosses: The "Power vs...

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2025/12/26

What is the one word that makes corporate leaders more squeamish than "taxes" or "sex"?Power.In the coaching and development world, people are allergic to the word. It sounds dirty. It sounds like corruption. So, the word got rebranded to "Empowerment" because that feels safe. It feels internal. It feels like yoga.But in this episode, I argue that this semantic shift is actually dangerous. By confusing the feeling of empowerment with the physics of power, we are accidentally training a generation of

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08:00

So "cringe" -- when a LinkedIn article imploring...

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2025/12/16

The irony of this was not lost on me. It's frankly embarassing to see this. It's obvious, once you know how to look. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you're already feeling that disembodied feeling when you encounter vanilla smooth AI-generated content. It looks fine. It looks great. But doesn't actually really say anything. Why? Because there's no distinction. There's no point of view. It's all just very smooth and vanilla. The AI detector tool told me:This article hasextremely high probabilities of

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37:32

AI as a Therapist: Helpful Tool or Dangerous Illusion?

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2025/06/17

Did you know that of all the possible uses of AI, the one that's the most popular right now is therapy? People are using AI as their own online therapist to work out their issues. What does that mean, for our mental health?This episode challenges what you believe about connection, AI, and human emotion. I sat down with Dr. Marlyn Wei, a Harvard and Yale trained psychiatrist who has been at the forefront in exploring the connection between AI and psychology. Listen in as I asked her whether AI can

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12:22

The Million-Dollar AI Mistake Most Business Leaders...

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2025/05/30

Most business leaders think they know how to profit from AI. Even though no one actually says it out loud, a lot of the push is coming from the desire to become more efficicent, reduce staff, and enjoy the jump in profitability. Those are certainly true. But by looking at AI with the lens, it's likely many business owners are also, at the same time, likely to miss the real opportunity worth millions.In this episode, AI consultant and leadership coach Adele Wang explains why the companies firing

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47:10

Dating in the Age of AI: The Real-Life Hitch on Love,...

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2025/05/06

Are dating apps ruining romance, or just reshaping it? It was super fun to have a deeply human conversation with Connell Barrett, bestselling author of Dating Sucks, But You Don’t and host of The How to Get a Girlfriend Podcast. Often dubbed the real-life Hitch, Connell shares how AI, apps, and filters are rewriting the rules of love, while us as regular human people still long for something that's real.We talked about why modern dating feels harder than ever, how authenticity is being gamed by

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16:02

Is AI Better at Being Human Than We Are? Here’s Why...

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2025/03/20

🎙 Is AI Better at Being Human Than We Are? 🤯Why is it so hard to have conversations with people who fundamentally disagree with us?If you're like me, it can make you anxious and stressed. But at the same time, maybe you actually DO want to understand how and why someone feels the way they do. Because you care about them...but... Maybe you're absolutely baffled at their world viewpoint. How and why do they feel the way they do?? Especially now... So maybe you've tried to have a thoughtful

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21:10

The Coaching Industry Has It Wrong—Here’s What...

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2025/03/13

As a former perfectionist, I spent years on personal development, leadership growth, therapy, and coaching—but I still felt stuck. If this is you, you’re not alone.In this episode, I reveal the fundamental flaw in the coaching industry and why two dominant coaching approaches—emotional processing and mindset work—often keep people spinning their wheels. You could say I'm the anti-personal development coach.✅ Why mindset shifts, reframing, and subconscious work don’t always lead to real

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05:23

Stop Relating to Yourself—Just Live

All Things Human with Adele Wang ·

2025/03/01

We’ve been told to “build a better relationship with ourselves” as if we’re two separate people. But what if that’s the very thing keeping us stuck? In this episode, I explore a profound idea from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle: the illusion of self-improvement. Basically, when we try to “fix” or “improve” our relationship with ourselves, we unconsciously create a split—one part observing, one part being judged.The pop psychology idea behind this is that if we have a good relationship with

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