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• $10B Gusto CEO: "Imagine Describing Your Idea The 10,000th Time, Will You Still Be Excited?" 02.06.2026 49хв

  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...
• $0 to $750M - From Starting Hotel Empire at 11 to Biggest Raise in Legal Tech - Dan Mishin 26.05.2026 47хв

  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 — ...
• Ex-Google HR Boss & CHRO At Oura: Why Most Companies get People Completely Wrong! 19.05.2026 49хв

  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...
• The 6 Second Trick That Wins Every Negotiation: FBI's Hostage Negotiator || Chris Voss 12.05.2026 46хв

  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 ...
• $29 Billion CPO Reveals how they Manage 70,000 Employees - Michael Bowes 05.05.2026 58хв

  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...
• Ex-LinkedIn CHRO: The Whiteboard Exercise That Built LinkedIn's Culture & The Question That Empowers Her Every Day 28.04.2026 53хв

  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...
• 'Most People Are MISSING The AI Revolution!' Gagan Biyani On Why Universities Are LAGGING Behind 21.04.2026 53хв

  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...
• "I Came To America With $5": The Billionaire Detecting Stage 1 Pancreatic Cancer Before Symptoms Appear 14.04.2026 43хв

  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 ...
• Burger King & Star Wars Branding Expert Said NO TO THE CEO JOB! - Debbie Millman 07.04.2026 47хв

  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...
• Snowflake's CMO and Former CRO: How Snowflake actually built to $4B+ in revenue! 31.03.2026 51хв

  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...
• Apple's Original Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki: Why Most Founders Fail Before They Even Pitch 24.03.2026 39хв

  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...
• Youngest Self-Made Female Billionaire: How she Co-Founded Scale AI At 21, then Built another Nine-Figure Company Again! 17.03.2026 35хв

  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...
• The Ultimate Hiring Masterclass from 3 Hiring Titans! - Peter Clarke, Jeff Markowitz, Jessica Neal. 10.03.2026 54хв

  From the earliest days of executive search to shaping the leadership of companies like Netflix, Facebook, Google, and Spotify, few people have seen more of Silicon Valley’s hiring successes—and failures—than Jeff Markowitz and Peter Clarke. In this exclusive episode of Truth Works, host Jessica Neal sits down with two of her closest professional allies and heavyweights in the world of venture capital and executive talent. Together, the three share over 30 years of experience navigating the hi...
• We Promote People Then Abandon Them! - The Leadership Crisis Nobody Is Talking About | Claude Silver 03.03.2026 50хв

  Claude Silver is the world's first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia — one of the largest independent agencies on the planet with over 2,000 employees globally. What started as an unexpected conversation over breakfast with Gary Vaynerchuck turned into a decade-long mission to build what he calls "the greatest human organization in the history of time." Her only job description? "Touch every single human being and infuse the agency with empathy." Claude never wanted to be in HR. She started ...
• Uber's CHRO: Why Your Company Culture Is Failing & The Secret To "Strategic Calmness 24.02.2026 53хв

  In this incredibly candid conversation, Nikki Krishnamurthy (Chief People Officer at Uber) joins Jessica Neal (former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix) to discuss the high-stakes reality of leading people through crisis, transformation, and the AI revolution. Nikki opens up about the "Strategic Calmness" required to navigate Uber’s most turbulent years, from handling global layoffs to dismantling a culture of leaks and entitlement. She shares the internal mechanics of her 13-year partnership w...
• HBO to $50,000,000: How I Built a Fortune, Lost Everything, and Reclaimed My Life | James Altucher 17.02.2026 49хв

  James Altucher is a name that carries both the weight of massive success and the scars of public collapse. He has built and sold companies for millions, lived the life of the elite, and then—through a series of "stupid" decisions and a warped psychology of money—watched it all evaporate. In this episode, James sits down with Jessica Neal for a masterclass on the human ego. He takes us back to the "least respected" basement office at HBO, where he was just an IT guy with a secret dream of maki...
• Why Your Best Employees Are Quietly Quitting (and How to Fix It) - Ashley Herd 10.02.2026 48хв

  In this deep-dive conversation, we strip away the HR jargon to look at the Truth behind high-performing cultures. We explore why most "leadership training" fails and how the Manager Method is flipping the script by prioritizing radical honesty over comfortable lies. In this episode, we uncover: The "Toxic Nice" Trap: Why avoiding conflict is actually the most unkind thing a manager can do.The Death of the Performance Review: Why annual check-ins are a waste of time and what the "Truth-Based" ...
• Snowflake’s Chief People Officer: The High-Performance Culture Secret 03.02.2026 44хв

  Arnnon Geshuri is the legendary Chief People Officer behind the world's most iconic workforces. From the early days of Google to the high-stakes scaling of Tesla under Elon Musk, and now leading the charge at Snowflake, Arnnon has mastered the art of "human engineering" at a scale very few on Earth have ever seen. In this conversation, Arnnon pulls no punches on what it actually takes to build a high-performance culture. We discuss the "performance DNA" required to survive in a hyper-growth e...
• The Work Expert: Why Your Obsession With Speed Is Destroying Your Team | Bree Groff 27.01.2026 50хв

  Why do 70% of organizational transformations fail? It isn't because of bad strategy, poor funding, or a lack of talent. It is because we have fundamentally misunderstood the psychology of change. In this episode, we sit down with Bree Groff, a Senior Advisor at the global transformation consultancy SYPartners and the former CEO of NOBL Collective, to discuss the counter-intuitive truth about innovation: you cannot build the future until you mourn the past. Bree explains that what leaders of...
• From $0 - $1 Billion Company: How this Founder went from suffering Migraines to Building in Nutrition 20.01.2026 52хв

  In this episode, I sit down with the man who is on a mission to completely dismantle the way we think about modern medicine. Aidan Dewar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nourish, and he believes that the healthcare industry has been ignoring the single most powerful tool for human longevity: what we put on our plates. We live in a world where we treat sickness rather than preventing it. In this conversation, Aidan exposes the cracks in the insurance system, reveals why "food as medicine" isn't ju...