September 16, 2024 · 31 min listen
Why I Bet on Potential Over Perfection
Duolingo's Chief Engineering Officer Natalie Glance in conversation with Jeff Hunter and host Angie D'Sa — exploring modern leadership, diversity in tech, and why potential matters more than perfection.
August 13, 2024 · 37 min listen
Transforming My Trauma Into My Purpose
Meet 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
July 8, 2024 · 50 min listen
I Thought I was Helping, But Really I was Judging
Joel Keating, Grindr's SVP of Engineering & Chief Information Security Officer, joins his Talentism coach Gregory Kim to explore how paying attention to his "This Sucks" response can open the door to genuine curiosity and unlock solutions to big problems at work.
June 3, 2024 · 52 min listen
What Happened When I Unlocked My Intuition by Confronting My Fear
Meet 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
May 10, 2024 · 39 min listen
Then One Day, I Was Just Like my Boss
Meet 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
April 10, 2024 · 44 min listen
Do I Have to Fire Everybody?
Ope Bukola, CEO and co-founder of Kibo School, an online university in Africa, shares how she stopped blaming her team and instead asked how she was contributing to the dynamic — learning that managing more closely actually unlocked the entrepreneurial culture she wanted.
March 21, 2024 · 33 min listen
The Problem with Being the Only One Who Can Solve the Problem
Meet 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
March 6, 2024 · 44 min listen
It's Gonna Get Ugly Before it Gets Good
Meet 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
February 7, 2024 · 48 min listen
When Your Superpower Becomes A Liability
Meet 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
October 5, 2023 · 50 min listen
Hope is Good, Clarity is Better
“You're reading that quote from Larry Fink saying there's never been more fear, what we need now is hope. As a business leader you may think, yeah, I'll go in with more hope – that's better than despair. More hope means better outcomes. But the truth is, hope alone doesn't give an accurate picture of
September 14, 2023 · 34 min listen
Founders Need Feedback
Andela co-founder Christina Sass shares how 360-degree feedback revealed that a strength she relied on — moral persuasion — was alienating her executive peers, and how she learned to reframe her approach to actually achieve her goals.
August 28, 2023 · 39 min listen
Are Goals Bulls**t?
In this episode of The Clarifier, join host Angie D'Sa as she speaks to CEO coach Trevor Hunter about how to set effective goals. Tune in to learn how most of us are setting goals that we think we can achieve and why what actually serves us is setting goals from which we can learn.
August 3, 2023 · 43 min listen
Management Myths
Jeff Hunter — who admits he hates management — argues that mastering it is not about building skills but about understanding your own psychology, and offers three practical practices: courage, asking questions, and choosing to be either a player or a coach.
July 19, 2023 · 48 min listen
The Art of Letting Go
Angie D'Sa and Jeff Hunter explore why founders and CEOs struggle to let go of control when building out their executive teams, and how to navigate those transitions well.
July 12, 2023 · 43 min listen
The Problem with Co-Founders
Jeff Hunter unpacks why co-founder relationships are intensely personal despite their professional context, where they break down, and how two-way-door decisions and honest conversations about fear can prevent the most common traps.
June 28, 2023 · 35 min listen
A Leader's Guide to Return-to-Office
Jeff Hunter and Angie D'Sa argue that return-to-office debates are really about unexamined manager confusion and a failure to distinguish work from productivity — and offer four practical tips for shifting the conversation to what actually matters.
June 15, 2023 · 56 min listen
The Speed of Change
In this episode of Quick Clarity, Angie D'Sa and Jeff Hunter delve into the topic of the speed of change, which is the fundamental problem that most businesses face.
May 31, 2023 · 49 min listen
Am I A Therapist Now?
In this episode of Quick Clarity, Angie and Jeff discuss a new role CEOs are feeling increasing pressure to fill, leaving them asking “Do I have to be a therapist for my employees?” and “How do I motivate my team after experiencing a layoff?”
May 25, 2023 · 40 min listen
Start With Me
In this episode of Quick Clarity, Angie D'Sa and Jeff Hunter respond to crowd-sourced questions circling the minds of CEOs, like how to take responsibility for a system you have created as a leader. Angie outlines the three steps to ‘Start With Me' and how each creates the opportunity to unlock human potential.
May 16, 2023 · 56 min listen
The Confusion Episode
In this episode of Quick Clarity Angie and Jeff explore how the talent market is evolving. Today employees' expectations of their work experience and of their leaders are heightening. This creates inevitable, sometimes painful, confusion for leaders.
April 26, 2023 · 57 min listen
Company Coaching: Unlocking Team Learning
Six key principles Talentism Clarity Coaches use to unlock a company's potential — from synthesizing independently and building psychological safety to driving perpetual learning loops.
April 11, 2023 · 52 min listen
Solve Systems, Not Symptoms
Jeff Hunter and Angie explore why leaders waste time and capital by attacking symptoms instead of the underlying systems they created, using Jeff's diabetes diagnosis and a CEO-CMO conflict story to illustrate how design experiments beat willpower.
March 28, 2023 · 49 min listen
Start With You: The Power of Personal Responsibility
Jeff Hunter opens with an unexpected apology about Silicon Valley Bank to illustrate why personal responsibility is the only door to learning — then Angie and Jeff work through real client stories showing how radical self-acceptance unlocks the 'Start With Me' practice.
March 21, 2023 · 58 min listen
From Panic to Purpose
In part 2 of the conversation, Jeff Hunter shares the personal health journey behind a hard truth for leaders: in an unprecedented environment there is no playbook, so you have to build a system that lets you experiment and learn your own way to success.
March 14, 2023 · 45 min listen
Rising Need and Costs of Capital, Talent, and Growth
Jeff Hunter and Angie D'Sa build a model for why this moment feels different for business leaders, examining the rising need for and cost of capital, talent, and growth all at once — an unprecedented confluence with no ready playbook.