A trip through Sri Lanka makes it hard to look at tea and cinnamon as ordinary groceries. You see the farms, meet the people, and start following the journey those products take beyond the island. Grace Sharkey and I talk about what I noticed during my visit, including the Port of Colombo and Sri Lanka’s place in Indian Ocean trade. We also discuss the work behind artisanal tea and the hospitality that made this trip feel so personal. This is the Sri Lanka conversation from our July Freight ...

How great would it be, having systems that sail smoothly no matter who is sick, who changes positions, who quits, who [insert out-of-the-blue incident here]? Tiff and Dana talk about what exactly to implement in your practice so that communication flows. Episode resources: Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Schedule a Practice Assessment Leave us a review Tiffanie (00:01) Hello, Dental A Team listeners. We are so excited to be here with you today. I say it every single time. and I have Miss

What does service, sacrifice, and patriotism look like inside a modern American family? In this episode of the Clear Impact Podcast brought to you by MITER Brands University, host Sherri Connor sits down with Aaron and LuAnn Shadle to share a deeply personal conversation about military service, Gold Star families, leadership, resilience, and the values that shape strong communities. Aaron Shadle, a CNC machinist at MI’s Gratz Operations and former Navy

A conversation about sponsorship effectiveness, creativity and the price of chasing vibes. Richard is joined by Mike Grumbridge and Peter Wilson of Sid Lee Sport to talk about Mike's recent Marketing Week piece: "Stop confusing vibes with sponsorship effectiveness" which took the Levi's Stadium ambush at this summer's FIFA World Cup as a starting point in to an argument about the value of official and unofficial sponsorship. From there the conversation widens: why sponsorship still can't prov...

A “slowdown” in healthcare spending sounds like relief until you ask one uncomfortable question: what if the numbers look better because people are quietly priced out of care? We sit down with award-winning healthcare journalist and author Ken Terry to unpack why CMS spending projections can hide a worsening healthcare affordability crisis, especially as disposable income drops and families rank housing and groceries ahead of doctor visits they still need. We dig into the growing gap between...

How do corporate boards and individual directors maintain credibility and investor support in an era where transparency, active communication, and demonstrable value are essential? In this episode, Doug Chia speaks with Jon Christensen and Robin Weinberg, both partners at FGS Global. They explore how the adoption of universal proxy has fundamentally changed director elections by requiring individual directors to effectively run "campaigns" for office. They also share actionable strategies fo...

What if having too much to do isn't actually the reason you feel overwhelmed?Justin Hale, author and consultant at Crucial Learning, sits down with productivity expert and Getting Things Done author David Allen to explore how to stay focused and productive without burning out. They explain what happens when we use our brains to hold and manage unfinished commitments, and why getting those commitments out of your head can create more clarity, focus, and peace of mind.Along the way, Justin and David

When an employee fails, managers usually don’t blame themselves.  Whatever the actual reason may be, the problem is assumed to be the employee’s fault and the employee’s responsibility.  But, what if the manager has also contributed to the poor performance?  That’s the focus of this week's episode.

In today's episode:There's a form of disengagement that explains why so many high performing people feel invisible at work even while succeeding on paper. A ranked-last employee engagement score at a major retailer revealed something deeper than morale, and the fix had nothing to do with shareholder value. A clever reframe connecting one team's daily work to their own family members shopping in the store completely changed how employees saw their impact. CEO Daily Brief is a 5-minute daily

Warren Bird and Sean Morgan bust the "8,000 multisite churches" myth with real numbers from the largest multisite study ever done (there are only 1800). Multisite churches are just 0.5% of all churches, yet they reach 10% of churchgoers, and that share is growing. Tune in for an hour of the most detailed data on multisite churches ever done, and what you can learn in the process. 🔗   Show Notes 🤖 AI and the Future Church - NEW BOOK! 🗣️ Preaching Cheat Sheet 🧠 The Art of Leadership Academy 🎥

This is Part 1 of our new Token Series with Tabs. CJ calls up Ali Hussain to dig into one of the fastest-growing, least-understood line items on the P&L: AI inference and token spend. They debate whether AI costs ultimately belong to the CTO or the CFO, why the shift from "experimentation budgets" to real operating costs is forcing companies to rethink ownership, what's actually different about AI spend compared to the early cloud transition, and how tools like OpenRouter (acquired

If the construction boom ended tomorrow, would your business simply survive the shock or come out of it stronger than your competitors? Data center construction is booming while other parts of the construction industry are experiencing a very different market. Bradley Hartmann sees that divergence as a reason for leaders to think ahead while conditions are still favorable. Drawing from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile, Bradley explores how construction leaders can prepare for the inevitable

Prediction markets incentivize truth. Everything else incentivizes clickbait. That's the core argument Luana Lopes Lara makes for Kalshi — the prediction market platform she co-founded that has gone from $5 billion to $22 billion in valuation in under a year, and is now being sued by New York's attorney general for $36 billion. Luana joins Rapid Response to make the case that Kalshi is fundamentally different from DraftKings — even though 75% of its volume is sports — explain why George Santos got

Energy, AI, Investments, & MathMany people have failed to look ahead when making decisions. Europe's green energy move combined with the destruction of refineries are creating an energy crisis that will affect these citizens this winter. AI companies are claiming high valuations but are not producing income and have to spend more in capital expenditures than their current valuations to make AI work. There are a lot of retirement funds exposed to risk in the stock market currently. Real

Can consumer spending keep defying gravity? Steve Dennis and Michael LeBlanc open Episode 314 by untangling a contradictory economy. GDP growth is solid and spending is holding up, yet consumer sentiment sits at its lowest since 2014, the latest jobs report came in weak, inflation won't budge, and mortgage rates are the highest since 2002. As one commentator put it, the U.S. is a tortoise economy in a greyhound costume. Nike offers little relief: sales down 4%, another round of restructuring and

The Workplace MinuteWelcome to the Workplace Minute, brought to you by H3 HR Advisors. Your quick-hit version of the HR Happy Hour Podcast, where Steve Boese shares the latest in Human Resources, HR tech, workplace trends, and more—all in just a few minutes. Tune in and stay on top of what’s shaping the workplace today!Financial knowledge can help people make better retirment decisions. It cannot create money that the household does not have. In fact, It takes years to build retirement savings

At Bridging the Gap 2026, James Donovan of the Accounting Leads Now Podcast sat down with Camden Bean, founder of Ping for a live conversation. Camden traced Ping's evolution from a basic note taker into a platform that detects upsell opportunities and generates proposals before a client meeting even ends, and told the story about the now-legendary ping pong ball jacket stunt that got the team escorted out of Intuit Connect. Suddenly, Randy crashed the conversation, accidentally becoming the first

There are 8 questions every company needs clarity on to build a real go-to-market operating system, and most businesses never sit down to answer the first one. In this video I walk through how one question took our business from $0 to $1 million in revenue in 9 months, with no marketing team and no sales team.I break down the exact process: how we turned advisory work into three revenue streams, how three people each built half a million dollar businesses using the same process, and why

Some days, gratitude feels like something for people with calmer inboxes. Someone dropped the ball, you're three meetings deep, and "thank you" is the last thing on your mind. But gratitude that only shows up on easy days never shows up at all. Learn what grateful leadership really looks like, how to appreciate the team member you struggle with, why a pizza party can backfire, and the one question that reveals how each person wants to be recognized.We could all use a bit more gratitude, so

You hired the director. You hired the admin. Maybe you even hired the regional. So why are you still the one lying awake thinking about the classroom that isn't staffed?A lot of you are hiring right now. Teachers, admin, maybe a whole new layer of leadership. Before you make that next hire, I want to have a conversation with you about what you are actually handing off.It started in my kitchen. My 11-year-old daughter asked to bake with her 8-year-old brother, and I said yes, as long as the whole