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  He Studied Gallup's Data for 25 Years: Here's What Makes People Great at Work 15.09.2026 52min

  Marcus Buckingham has spent more than 25 years studying what makes people extraordinary at work, and his newest research points to a word most businesses are too nervous to use: love. In this episode of Truth Works, host Jessica Neal sits down with the co-creator of StrengthsFinder and author of First, Break All the Rules to talk about why Net Promoter Score barely predicts anything, why not one of the world's top business schools teaches the most powerful force in business, and how even a N...
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  How 2 Netflix Leaders Took "No Rules" Global! And Where It Almost Broke - Alix and Marta 08.09.2026 1h 7min

  Alix and Marta were the people who had to make Netflix's culture work outside America. Alix moved from the US to build the Amsterdam office and Netflix's European headquarters from a handful of desks; Marta, a Venezuelan-born recruiter who had just scaled Booking.com from 5,000 to 15,000 people, read the Netflix culture deck and assumed it was "American BS" until she flew in to interview and find out. Together they built the HR function for EMEA during the company's fastest international expa...
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  Former Skype Exec: I Nearly Died Mid-Flight, here's The Mistake That Caused It! 01.09.2026 38min

  Eric Partaker built Skype's early business team into a multi-billion-dollar exit — then had a heart attack at 35,000 feet from years of 80-100 hour weeks. He rebuilt his entire approach to work around one method, and now coaches CEOs on it worldwide. In this episode, Jessica Neal talks to Eric about his new book Ultra Productive and the science behind doing more by doing less. In this episode: 1. The heart attack at 35,000 feet and the days leading up to it 2. Building Skype's business team...
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  Only 65,000 H-1B visas exist per year! This is what decides it - Jeff Joseph 25.08.2026 37min

  For 30 years, Jeff Joseph has been one of the most influential lawyers in American immigration law — and he just joined Manifest Law, the AI-native immigration firm, as President of Immigration Strategy. On this episode, Jessica Neal sits down with him for a rare, no-spin look at how U.S. immigration actually works, who it works for, and why almost nothing about it has changed in decades. Jeff is the 79th President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the 18,000-member bar...
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  Rubrik CEO: From A $1,000-A-Month Garage In San Francisco To A Public Company 18.08.2026 29min

  Bipul Sinha failed his first shot at India's hardest entrance exam. His father told him to drop out and try again — the only other option was selling tobacco on a street corner. Bipul is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Rubrik, the cybersecurity and data management company he took public on the NYSE in April 2024. Before Rubrik, he spent four years as a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he was a founding investor and board member of Nutanix and part of the team behind early be...
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  The Groupon PM Who Built A Supersonic Jet: "I Couldn't Find The Reason It Was A Bad Idea" | Blake Scholl 11.08.2026 45min

  A former Groupon product manager set out to bring back supersonic passenger flight. Everyone told him it was a bad idea. He couldn't find a single reason they were right. Blake Scholl is the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the company that built the first civil supersonic jet outside of a government or military, and then made the sonic boom disappear entirely. He joins Jessica Neal and co-host Peter Clarke on Truth Works for an honest conversation about audacious goals, telling the trut...
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  The CEO Who Saved Homebuyers A Billion Dollars: Why Founder Mode Is A Lie | Glenn Kelman 04.08.2026 45min

  Glenn Kelman ran Redfin for 20 years. He says the most important thing he learned had nothing to do with software. Glenn joins Jessica Neal and co-host Jeff Markowitz on Truth Works for an unusually honest conversation about love, leadership, boards, and the handful of decisions that actually decide a company's fate. Glenn is not your typical tech CEO. At 21 he tried to write a novel, got nowhere, and his girlfriend broke up with him for being unemployed too long. He nearly went to medical...
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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...