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The ClarifierThe Power of Visionary LeadershipJoin host Angie D’Sa as she interviews Jeff Hunter, Founder and CEO of Talentism. Tune in to learn.Where traditional management fails.How to unlock productivity with "Clarity Management."How to diagnose and fix management problems. 2025-01-1348 min
The ClarifierWhy I Bet on Potential Over PerfectionMeet 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-loving girl and to encounter unsettling data at age 12. That experience still informs how she thinks about managing (and equipping others to manage) folks from underrepresented groups. She describes how she strives to scope...2024-09-1631 minThe ClarifierTransforming My Trauma Into My PurposeMeet 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 it looked like to get out of her own way and build her team. Simmone shares a challenging part of her founder journey - one where she was slow to replace a star performer who left the co...2024-08-1237 minThe ClarifierI Thought I was Helping, But Really I was JudgingMeet 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 Joel can go through the motions: set up a meeting, ask questions, get feedback. But if under those behaviors Joel is actually harboring judgment, it doesn’t unlock anything. Greg and...2024-07-0849 minThe ClarifierI Unlocked My Intuition by Confronting My FearMeet 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 from a self-protective mechanism into a "superpower" for intuition, creativity, and problem-solving.By continuously confronting his fears, he has found a way to unlock new possibilities for personal growth and professional success. H...2024-06-0351 minThe ClarifierThen One Day, I Was Just Like my BossMeet 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, then at the health insurance provider Oscar. In this episode, MJ vividly describes what it felt like to be baffled or upset by her boss’s behavior. And admits she now sees herself doing some of...2024-05-0939 minThe ClarifierDo I Have to Fire Everybody?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 asked how she was contributing to that dynamic. She realized she was giving her people lots of autonomy - the thing she most craved. But she was failing to give them what th...2024-04-1043 minThe ClarifierThe Problem with Being the Only One Who Can Solve the ProblemMeet 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 management have evolved dramatically since his early days as a software engineer. He used to believe that he was the one who should solve the problems so others could focus on execution. Throug...2024-03-2032 minThe ClarifierIt's Gonna Get Ugly Before it Gets GoodMeet 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 anxiety to focus her attention on critical areas rather than overwhelm her, ensuring the anxiety and confusion she encountered was ultimately productive vs. limiting.Kathie, a Harvard and Wharton Bu...2024-03-0543 minThe ClarifierWhen Your Superpower Becomes A LiabilityMeet 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. In 2015, when Stef created TM, it had a rock band ethos – a motley crew making beautiful music, often chaotically, where each individual was unique and indispensable. A few years la...2024-02-0647 minThe ClarifierHope is Good, Clarity is BetterBlackRock'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.2023-10-0549 minThe ClarifierFounders Need FeedbackMeet Christina Sass, founding partner of Dive In Labs and co-founder of Andela. Tune in to learn:How to productively analyze feedbackKey challenges faced by foundersWhy your context matters When to empower your team and let goThis episode has been updated since its original upload on 9/14/2023 to better reflect the standards of Talentism and was reuploaded on 9/22/2023.2023-09-2234 minThe ClarifierAre Goals Bulls**t?CEO coach Trevor Hunter unpacks his contrarian POV on goals. Tune in to learn… How to set effective goals that winThe science and psychology of goalsThe problems with conventional thinking about goals2023-08-2439 minThe ClarifierManagement MythsFounder and CEO Jeff Hunter reveals why being a good manager is not about learning skills—it's about uncovering your fears.Listen to learn:The origin of today's thinking on management and why it’s wrongChallenges leaders face when managing their peopleKey practices for becoming a better managerEssential frameworks for developing effective management system2023-08-0343 minThe ClarifierStart with Me"How do I take responsibility for a system that I, as a leader, have created?" Jeff Hunter tackles this question by sharing his reflections as a founder, CEO, hiring manager and executive coach. Tune in to learn the three steps to ‘Start With Me’ and begin taking responsibility to your contribution to a suboptimal system.2023-07-2040 minThe ClarifierThe Art of Letting GoWhen the time comes for founders and CEOs to build their executive teams, it can feel challenging or even threatening. By not acknowledging their fear of letting go, these leaders either stay too distant or swoop in too quickly to grab the wheel. This results in founders and CEOs undermining themselves and their executives. Tune in to learn...The struggles leaders face when letting go of responsibilitiesMethods for evaluating the talent needed at each stage of your organization’s growthStrategies for successful onboarding and management of new executivesThree essential fr...2023-07-1947 minThe ClarifierThe Confusion EpisodeToday employees’ expectations of their work experience and of their leaders are heightening. This creates inevitable, sometimes painful, confusion for leaders. Founder and CEO Jeff Hunter explores how the talent market is evolving, how we explore these great expectations, and how leaders can recognize their own confusion and adapt.2023-07-1856 minThe ClarifierThe Problem with Co-FoundersThe complexities of co-founder relationships are vast. Founder and CEO Jeff Hunter provides practical guidance for navigating these complexities and the inevitable challenges.2023-07-1243 min
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Off Off Pod with Stephen BittrichOff Off Pod - Episode 024 - Jessi Blue Gormezano and Joe Jung – Project Theater and Our Bar NYCJoe Jung and Jessi Blue Gormezano are a talented and adorable theater couple. I was first introduced to their work with a production of the dark comedy, The Secretaries, produced by their NYC company, Project Theater.
And then when a production of my play Home of the Great Pecan was done at The Drilling Company, we were lucky enough to get Jessi in the lead for that fun Texas romp.
In 2009 they formed a site specific theater experience which has been going strong ever since called Our Bar, which is set – surprise! – in a bar. It's a great...2014-05-021h 16
Off Off Pod with Stephen BittrichOff Off Pod - Episode 023 - Steve Sherman – Actor in University of Tennessee Masters ProgramSteve Sherman in Spamalot at the Clarence Brown Theater
Jessi Blue Gormezano and Steve Sherman in Home of the Great Pecan. Photo by Lee Wexler.
I was introduced to actor Steve Sherman by my buddy Dave Marantz, and he was great in my play, Home of the Great Pecan as Deputy Diggity. I liked him so much I asked him to be in a workshop to help me develop a new play I'd been working on called Hole.
That was in New York City. As it happens we are both in Tennessee at the moment, he as a stu...2014-04-2542 min