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  $40B Canva CHRO: How Canva Actually Builds Culture & Why they open source their Playbooks! 28.07.2026 56min

  What 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 Canva, joins Jessica Neal and co-host Peter Clarke on Truth Works for a conversation about culture as an operating system, not a perk. Jennie's path into the role is one of the more unlikely ones in tech. She came up through hospitality, running restaurant floors where 220 covers a night meant 220 individual experien...
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  He 2x'd Instagram's valuation in 3 Days: Why Nothing About AI Is Settled Yet || John Lilly 21.07.2026 43min

  John 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 Scientist at Apple in 1997, when the market cap was two billion dollars and most people assumed the company was finished. He co-founded Reactivity, later acquired by Cisco. He became CEO of Mozilla and led Firefox past 450 million users, running an open source nonprofit at a time when nobody else in Silicon Valley wa...
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  What Netflix got Right and Why Most companies are built WRONG for AI! - Dr. Mik Kersten 14.07.2026 48min

  What 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 8,000 value streams across enterprises, he found that only 8% of end-to-end delivery time is teams actually creating value. The rest disappears into planning, approvals, reviews, and coordination. Which means you can multiply team productivity by 2x or 10x with AI, and deliver nothing faster to your customers. ...
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  Google, Shopify..."Stay Away From The Badge Hunters": The Hiring Rule That Built Public.com 07.07.2026 54min

  Everything 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 AI agents to work directly inside your portfolio. They started in late 2019 by bringing their two former teams back together, and have since watched every market cycle twice: from launch, to the GameStop chaos of January 2021, to the AI shift they're now building on top of. In this episode, they sit down with Jessica...
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  The Modern-Day Napoleon Hill: Why Most People Don't Believe in Themselves! Evan Carmichael 30.06.2026 52min

  Evan 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 and co-host Jeff on Truth Works for an honest conversation about self-belief, building a movement as an introvert, and why serving one person matters more than reaching millions. Evan is not your typical YouTuber. At 19 he built and sold a biotech software company. At 22 he was a venture capitalist raising $500k to ...
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  "AI Is Quietly Killing Your Curiosity! - No.1 Coaching Expert | Michael Bungay Stanier 23.06.2026 50min

  What 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 most widely read leadership books of the last decade, now re-released in a 10-year anniversary edition. He is the founder of Box of Crayons and the host of the Change Signal podcast. In this episode of Truth Works, he joins Jessica Neal and guest co-host Peter Clarke to ask an uncomfortable question: is AI making us w...
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  Stanford Professor: Why 85% of People Freeze Up while speaking and 15% might be Lying! 16.06.2026 40min

  The 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: how to communicate. He's a lecturer in Strategic Communication at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, the bestselling author of "Think Faster, Talk Smarter" and "Speaking Up Without Freaking Out," and the host of the "Think Fast, Talk Smart" podcast. In a world racing toward AI, Matt makes a counterintuitive cas...
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  Fortune 500 work with this CEO building a $1billion dollar company with 100 people - Siobhan Savage. 09.06.2026 50min

  What if the reason the world's biggest companies keep failing at AI has nothing to do with the AI itself? Siobhan Savage is the co-founder and CEO of Reejig, the Work Operating System helping the most complex organizations on earth move work to worker in the age of AI. She works with Fortune 500 companies across banking, pharmaceutical, and retail, and she is building a billion-dollar company on a single conviction: opportunity belongs to the builder, not the platform. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━...
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  $10B Gusto CEO: "Imagine Describing Your Idea The 10,000th Time, Will You Still Be Excited?" 02.06.2026 49min

  Three friends. One closet. A company now valued at $10 billion, serving over 400,000 small businesses. Josh Reeves is the co-founder and CEO of Gusto, the payroll, benefits, and HR platform now valued at roughly $10 billion. But he didn't grow up dreaming of building HR software — nobody does. The son of two teachers who were the first in their families to go to college, Josh studied electrical engineering at Stanford during the dot-com collapse, when the conventional wisdom was that the int...
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  $0 to $750M - From Starting Hotel Empire at 11 to Biggest Raise in Legal Tech - Dan Mishin 26.05.2026 47min

  At 11 years old, Dan Mishin convinced his grandmother to move in with his parents so he could turn her apartment into a backpacker hostel. The idea came to him in Berlin, where his mom's wallet had just been stolen and they were stranded overnight in a hostel full of laughing 20-year-olds speaking a language he didn't understand. He made two decisions on the train ride home: learn English, and open a place just like it. That summer project became the largest hostel chain in Eastern Europe — ...
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  Ex-Google HR Boss & CHRO At Oura: Why Most Companies get People Completely Wrong! 19.05.2026 49min

  This week on Truth Works, my co-host Jeff Markowitz and I sit down with Judy Gilbert, the Chief People Officer of Oura, the company behind the Oura Ring. Judy is not a typical HR leader. She started her career at McKinsey, moved into executive search at Egon Zehnder, and then spent 12 years inside Google's People Operations team, helping scale the company from roughly 3,000 employees to 70,000. Along the way she ran learning and development, ran performance management, and served as head o...
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  The 6 Second Trick That Wins Every Negotiation: FBI's Hostage Negotiator || Chris Voss 12.05.2026 46min

  Chris Voss is the former lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI. For seven years, his job was to talk people out of the worst decisions of their lives. He's the reason a bank robber walked out of a Manhattan branch after an eight-hour standoff and surrendered to him personally on the sidewalk. A teammate named Jamie Sedania passed Chris two notes at critical moments. Those two notes ended the standoff. But Chris didn't start there. He grew up in a small town in Iowa, the son of ...
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  $29 Billion CPO Reveals how they Manage 70,000 Employees - Michael Bowes 05.05.2026 58min

  What does it actually take to lead 70,000 people through one of the biggest cultural resets in beauty history? Michael Bowes, Chief People Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies, joins Jessica Neal on Truth Works for a candid conversation about stepping into the top HR seat at an iconic 80-year-old company in the middle of a billion-dollar restructure, the courage it takes to disagree with your CEO without breaking the partnership, and why the loneliness of the role is real but the work is wor...
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  Ex-LinkedIn CHRO: The Whiteboard Exercise That Built LinkedIn's Culture & The Question That Empowers Her Every Day 28.04.2026 53min

  Pat Wadors, CHRO at Intuitive (the company behind the da Vinci surgical robot), the architect of LinkedIn's Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging framework known as DIBs, and the author of the 2024 Wiley book Unlock Your Leadership Story, joins Jessica Neal and Peter Clarke on Truth Works. From losing her mother during her freshman year of college and getting diagnosed with dyslexia in a career center conversation at LSU, to declaring at nineteen that she was going to run HR, Pat traces the unli...
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  'Most People Are MISSING The AI Revolution!' Gagan Biyani On Why Universities Are LAGGING Behind 21.04.2026 53min

  Jessica Neal and co-host Peter Clarke sit down with Gagan Biyani, co-founder of Udemy, founder of Sprig, and now co-founder and CEO of Maven, the live cohort-based learning platform reshaping how the world's top operators learn from each other. Gagan started his first business at 13, teaching speech and debate to kids in his living room while his parents went through a divorce and his family rode out multiple tech recessions. By his senior year, that summer camp had 150 students and was finan...
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  "I Came To America With $5": The Billionaire Detecting Stage 1 Pancreatic Cancer Before Symptoms Appear 14.04.2026 43min

  What if illness was optional? Naveen Jain has built seven companies. He was on top of the world running Moon Express, the first private company ever granted permission to leave Earth orbit, with a $2.6 billion NASA contract to mine the moon, when his father was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and given three months to live. He got exactly that. That moment broke something open. Naveen walked away from space and started asking a different question: if we can land on the moon, why are ...
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  Burger King & Star Wars Branding Expert Said NO TO THE CEO JOB! - Debbie Millman 07.04.2026 47min

  She built one of the first podcasts in the world. She turned down the CEO job after twenty years. And she wants you to ask yourself one question: if not now, when? In this episode of Truth Works, Jessica Neal and co-host Peter Clarke sit down with Debbie Millman, the founder and host of Design Matters, the longest-running design podcast in the world, now in its twentieth year. Over two decades, Debbie has interviewed more than 700 of the world's most creative people, written eight b...
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  Snowflake's CMO and Former CRO: How Snowflake actually built to $4B+ in revenue! 31.03.2026 51min

  He joined when Snowflake had 0 customers, no CEO, and no website. The company was in stealth mode, he wasn't even allowed to list where he worked on LinkedIn. Twelve years later, Snowflake was doing well north of $4 billion in annual revenue. Chris Degnan was Snowflake's first sales hire and spent over eleven years as its founding Chief Revenue Officer, growing the company from zero to one of the fastest-scaling enterprise software businesses in history. He joined in November 2013 as employee...
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  Apple's Original Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki: Why Most Founders Fail Before They Even Pitch 24.03.2026 39min

  Guy Kawasaki: Don't Pitch What You Can't Believe In Guy Kawasaki: Apple's original software evangelist, Chief Evangelist at Canva, host of the Remarkable People podcast, and bestselling author of Think Remarkable, Wise Guy, and his upcoming Everybody Has Something to Hide , joins Jessica Neal on Truth Works for a conversation that goes everywhere you didn't expect. Guy didn't have a plan. He fainted on his first day of a pre-med hospital tour, dropped out of law school after two weeks, a...
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  Youngest Self-Made Female Billionaire: How she Co-Founded Scale AI At 21, then Built another Nine-Figure Company Again! 17.03.2026 35min

  Lucy Guo didn't follow a path — she built one nobody had walked before. She was trading Pokemon cards for cash in kindergarten, running bots on Neopets in second grade, and teaching herself to code before most kids knew what a startup was. By 21, she had co-founded Scale AI — one of the most consequential AI infrastructure companies ever built. By her late twenties, she had become the youngest self-made female billionaire in history. But the real story isn't the title. It's what happened befo...