“When your heart says one thing and your head says another, it is simply a dispute between the different parts of your brain.”Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor had a traumatic brain hemorrhage that caused her to lose the functioning of her left hemisphere. Simultaneous to losing her ability to walk, talk, and remember the details of her life, she lived in the blissful state of peace and presence that we access in our right hemisphere. She chronicled her eight year recovery in her best...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman have a shared goal: How can we do our best to stay in each other’s lives forever? In their book Big Friendship, they share the lessons they’ve learned in pursuit of it and illuminate our relationships as the essential ingredient to a meaningful life. They explore how their friendship shapes their becoming, gives them permission to achieve their dreams and confidence that, together, they can navigate life’s inevitable challenges. Twelve years in, they debunk the misc...
Jul 08, 2021•38 min
When Jessica Robertson was 20 years old, she boarded her second ever flight to NYC to embark on her dream job at Rolling Stone. She landed with $350 and no insight on how to build a life in the city. Her courageous step was the first in becoming a transformative storyteller whose work has impacted millions, most recently as the Chief Content Officer at TOGETHXR, where she’s sharing the dynamic stories of women athletes. Jessica’s life’s work continues to profoundly shift culture. In helping peop...
Jun 30, 2021•45 min
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to realize your vision, Hedley & Bennett Founder Ellen Bennett’s book, Dream First, Details Later, will show you the path. Fulfilling your dream is never easy. But, would you want to dedicate yourself to anything else? For Ellen, building a brand beloved by chefs around the world was more than worth it. We dive into her best stories, from the chef who gifted her the traveling apron to the team’s Hail Mary to meet their biggest deadline on the tarmac at L...
Jun 24, 2021•46 min
How do you feel when you are in alignment? Through her intuitive and highly individual lens, pilates pioneer Erika Bloom guides us to achieve that goal. Honoring ourselves begins with listening. We discuss how presence and embodiment help us develop an ongoing dialogue with our body, adding its signals to our “library of possibilities” of what we need to be well.To cultivate this awareness necessitates acceptance and openness. Erika shares her most significant personal journey, shedding the idea...
Jun 17, 2021•43 min
World-class organizations don't exist without world-class leadership - and no one embodies that more than HBSE CEO, Scott O'Neil. In this episode, he'll convince you that winning at any level starts by envisioning a future beyond your current reality towards a more meaningful North Star.
Jun 11, 2021•58 min
“When you speak your truth, you speak to some universal truth.” Tiffany Shlain has a gift for asking questions that delve into the heart of our shared human experience. Enlivening them in her acclaimed book, 24/6, and many films, she catalyzes global conversations about what matters most, from character to connection to creativity. We dive into these questions in our chat, exploring topics such as: What moves us? When are we truly connecting? What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? Ti...
Jun 10, 2021•51 min
In the midst of her becoming, Shelly McNamara had a transformative dream about her sister, awakening her with a clear message: “It starts from the inside out.” Saying it aloud unveiled a realization that would go on to guide her journey: “I will not find happiness or peace unless it starts from within.” Chief Equality and Inclusion Officer at Procter & Gamble, Shelly writes about the heart of our human experience in her book, No Blanks, No Pauses. We discuss giving ourselves permission to li...
Jun 02, 2021•42 min
“In all of it, I find joy.” Dr.Tarika Barrett spent her childhood growing up between Brooklyn and Kingston, Jamaica. It was during her formative years in Jamaica that she watched her mom launch the country’s first mentorship program; Unbeknownst that she’d too go on to lead one, Girls Who Code: A phenomenal non-profit that has reached over 450,000 young women. Dr. Barrett’s gift is her exuberant joy, unwavering in the face of both beauty and adversity. We explore gratitude as the genesis of opti...
May 25, 2021•38 min
How often do you think about your memory? As the Executive Director of The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement, Erin Mulcahy Stein doesn’t take her’s for granted. We explore ways we can be proactive about our brain health, prioritize mental fitness, and the importance of having conversations with our loved ones about caregiving. Erin’s dedicated her career to advocating for women. We discuss her compass for seeking meaning in her life, the value of knowing what you want, and speaking your truth to real...
May 18, 2021•34 min
Erin Gallagher wakes up each day to advocate for a world where we can all be our whole selves. Through the culture consultancy she co-founded, Have Her Back, and the honest conversations she catalyzes, the only way she can achieve her mission is to live it herself. We chat about being brave enough to be vulnerable, fight for what matters to you, and live a full life. To be whole is to honor our own needs. Erin encourages us to rethink the nature of selflessness and affirms that showing up for ou...
May 13, 2021•49 min
When do you feel most creative? For Rachel Pally, it’s while throwing pottery and salsa dancing. These passions aren’t related to her work as a designer, which is precisely why they’ve been instrumental to her success. We explore the tenets of living a creative life, staying true to yourself as an artist, and why change is often less scary than staying the same. Reinvention paves our path to fulfillment. Rachel highlights the importance of doing work that inspires us, cultivating heart connectio...
May 06, 2021•43 min
Martha Beck has asked thousands of people: What makes you feel like the truth is coming home to you more than anything else? Harvard-trained sociologist and world-renowned life coach, she’s found a sentence “that makes people feel this ring of truth. It is: I am meant to live in peace.” In her latest bestseller, The Way of Integrity, she shows us how to get there. Martha’s integrity journey began with her courageous year of truth telling when she vowed not to tell a single lie. What began as a c...
Apr 27, 2021•47 min
How would you approach what matters most if you truly grasped that time is finite? As a two-time cancer survivor in her early 30s, Liya Shuster-Bier puts her priorities at the center. Today, she views life through a venn diagram of fulfillment: “Investing every minute you have into your heart, your happiness, other people’s hearts, and other people’s happiness.” She credits her love army with inspiring her strength and orients her life around the “kaleidoscope of human connection.”Though Liya’s ...
Apr 22, 2021•41 min
Rebecca van Bergen celebrated her graduation by asking a big question: How do you create agency and change through human to human work? She’s spent the last 14 years answering it through Nest: Her non-profit that’s connected hundreds of thousands of artisans, across 115 countries, to ethical home-based work with leading brands. She believes in creating change from where you are. We delve into articulating the difference you aspire to make in the world and continuously evolving your mission and y...
Apr 20, 2021•47 min
Ethan Kross has the most fascinating job: Studying the conscious mind. Director of the Emotion and Self-Control Lab at the University of Michigan, where he’s also an award winning professor, his new book Chatter, explores a topic that impacts each and every one of us: Our inner voice. Our inner voice influences everything we do, from our relationships to our physical health and performance. We discuss the ways it can empower or disempower us, and valuable tools to harness it for good.
Apr 14, 2021•38 min
Chief Co-founder Lindsay Kaplan wants you to be selfish. “Investing in oneself is spending the time to align your values with your goals, to reset and make sure that you’re not giving yourself away too much to your job. But, making sure that you have some feeling of wholeness," she says. What contributes to that feeling of wholeness? For Lindsay, it’s values-alignment in her work, cognitive diversity in her relationships, and creativity in her passion projects, like the screenplay she’s working ...
Apr 06, 2021•47 min
When Expectful Co-founder Nathalie Walton was 17 she won a fellowship to study in Thailand and spent time at a Buddhist Ashram. It was there that she embraced the basic truths of love, compassion, and humility as her compass. A trip to India soon after would reveal the question that would shape her journey: How do I live by my Eastern beliefs in a Western culture? She explored this in her application to Stanford GSB which has become a governing article to live with intention and be the person sh...
Mar 31, 2021•41 min
Musicians are artists, and entrepreneurs are innovators - what happens when their thinking converge? IDEO senior partner R. Michael Hendrix, and Berklee College of Music senior VP, Panos A. Panay join Moe to discuss the intersection of art and business.
Mar 27, 2021•37 min
“You want to liberate yourself from the concentration camp of your own mind.”Dr.Edith Eger is the embodiment of resilience in mind and spirit. In her books The Choice and The Gift, she details her extraordinary journey as a Holocaust survivor and the lessons it taught her to achieve freedom in our lives. She shares various prisons of the mind - from victimhood to the need to be right - and reveals that the key to free ourselves is within.Our relationship with ourselves is the throughline of Dr. ...
Mar 24, 2021•43 min
Twenty years from now, the case study on Amazon will not only showcase an unparalleled customer obsession, and an always evolving invention machine - perhaps more importantly - it will shine a light on exemplary leadership. Two such leaders - Colin Bryar and Bill Carr chat with Moe about the methods & principles that make Amazon - Amazon.
Mar 04, 2021•57 min
“To evolve the conversation, we have to first evolve the question.” For Laura Modi, that journey began at her kitchen table, where amongst her four siblings, she learned the art of having enriching conversations. Today, she’s harnessing those skills to create an inclusive dialogue around how families feed their babies through her category defining company, Bobbie. We have a fascinating conversation about self-discovery through Laura’s thought-provoking question: What makes us, us? We delve into ...
Mar 03, 2021•47 min
To create with intention is to take your time. We know the benefits of this. So, why do we feel pressured to move so fast? Bearaby Founder Kathrin Hamm detached from these societal expectations — and it’s working. Daily naps. Creative flow. Fluid schedules. These habits enable her to design her day around when she feels best and, more importantly, to genuinely enjoy the process. What inspires that contentment amidst audacious goals? A sense of purpose. When you know where you’re going, the journ...
Feb 10, 2021•33 min
At an extraordinary moment in history, exceptional leadership is increasingly scarce. Leadership advocate & former faculty director of Stanford Graduate School's famed Interpersonal Dynamics course, Carole Robin rejoins Moe Abdou to explore the modern essence of leadership excellence.
Feb 10, 2021•51 min
Who are the people who shaped you? For Erin Kleinberg, it’s her grandmother, Sidia, a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Canada and created an incredible life as the iconic pillar of her family. “Fashion was a vehicle for her soul,” Erin shares. She’s since designed the womenswear brand, SIDIA, to honor her legacy and inspire us to stand as the women who came before us. Erin is a contagious creative spirit. She’s learned that ‘the more we’re ourselves, the more our work soars’ and believes in ...
Jan 27, 2021•40 min
Kapil Gupta rejoins Moe Abdou to explore why the pursuit of world-class performance - in life or business - is a murky process and hardly ever linear.
Jan 26, 2021•53 min
Carpe Diem. It’s the belief that inspires BrainTrust Founder and rē•spin CEO Kendra Bracken-Ferguson to create her spectacularly full life. My favorite thing about Kendra is her vibrant optimism. We chat about how to cultivate joy through gratitude and focus on the positive by asking: What is the best thing that can happen? Our authenticity stems from our relationship with ourselves and influences our ability to step into our power. We discuss how stillness enables us to be our true selves and p...
Jan 13, 2021•40 min
Great leaders orchestrate rather than do - And few embody that more than Netflix's Reed Hastings. Moe Abdou is joined by INSEAD professor and Hastings collaborator, Erin Meyer to explore why Netflix's workplace culture is without peer.
Jan 08, 2021•48 min
PYM Co-founder Zak Williams believes we can all be mental health advocates. His inspiring advocacy efforts stem from his own healing journey and realization that service is foundational to fulfillment. We all want to feel whole. Zak shares the importance of being honest with ourselves, evaluating our self-beliefs, and clearing out the attic when they don’t serve us. It’s the path to being the person we aspire to be.
Jan 06, 2021•56 min
“You see the glory but you don’t know the story.” Grayson and Frank & Eileen Founder Audrey McLoghlin joins us to share what it really takes to build a successful career: Practice. She discusses how to cultivate the resilience to achieve your dream and the three basket philosophy that’s helped her avoid burnout for two decades. There’s only one catch, she says: “You can’t drop the self one.”Editor’s Note: This episode was recorded prior to the pandemic.
Dec 22, 2020•51 min
