It’s fair to say that the robots aren’t coming, they’re already here . Not a week goes by that we don’t see a brand new article about some new self-driving car , another A.I company bursting onto the scene, or full on i-Robot style machines marching down an aisle . It’s hard not to be unnerved by the impact robotics and machine learning can have on the workforce, and there’s a lot of unknown factors we’re going to have to deal with in the not-too-far-off future. That’s where today’s guest Dan Ma...
Nov 14, 2024•39 min•Season 5Ep. 136
One major trait for many great leaders is the ability to not just persevere through hard times, but create an opportunity during challenging times. Eric Kapitulik really, really knows something about that. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy , where he was a four year varsity player in D1 Lacrosse, he then went on to serve in the United States Marine Corps , where he served as a Platoon Commander in the elite 1st Force Reconnaissance Division . In 1999 he suffered a tremendous tragedy,...
Oct 10, 2024•51 min•Season 5Ep. 135
2024 is going to be remembered for a lot of things, one of them being that it was the year we finally moved past the COVID-19 Pandemic. Industries everywhere are claiming to ‘be back’ to pre-pandemic functions, with everything from return to office initiatives to the National Restaurant Association boasting that restaurants are back to 2019 rates of turnover . The problem is, the 2019 turnover rate for restaurants was 73% , which is insane . So rather than referencing some not-so-great statistic...
Jul 24, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 134
For any long time listeners of the podcast, you know we are firm believers in failure being a positive thing. From D1 coaches to cutting edge researchers, great performers and leaders across the board understand the importance of allowing people to fail well. But, how exactly do you do that? Enter today’s guest Amy Edmondson , Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of the book Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well . Before her appoint...
Jun 26, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 133
In recent years, the celebrity chef and restaurant has taken the world by storm. The rise of the ‘chefprenaur’ has created a $10 billion dollar industry encapsulating everything from restaurant chains, branded cookware, cook books, television deals, and social media empires. Despite the glamor, one fact still remains: the restaurant scene is an unforgiving industry. Today’s guest, Kim Reed knows this first hand. In her debut book, “ Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in the New York Restaura...
May 22, 2024•28 min•Season 5Ep. 132
We’ve had a lot of impressive guests on the podcast, many who have overcome some real challenges in their lives to build something great, but today’s guest has an especially impressive story. Dr. Magie Cook began her life with 68 brothers and sisters in an orphanage in Mexico. Battling abuse, hunger, and poverty, during her high school years she earned a spot on the Mexican Women's National Basketball team, but broke her collarbone before she could fully commit. Despite the injury, the Unive...
May 01, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 131
According to a recent study, about 4-6% of all those incarcerated are considered to be wrongly imprisoned. That’s over 70,000 people who are wrongly incarcerated every year. Today’s guest, Justin Brooks has dedicated his life to representing those who have fallen victim to wrongful incarceration. Justin practiced as a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C., Michigan, Illinois, and California in both the trial and appellate courts. He was the founding director of the California Innocence P...
Apr 17, 2024•28 min•Season 5Ep. 130
According to a Pew Research poll , over 40% of adults in the United States are considered to be digitally illiterate, and while America’s crumbling transportation infrastructure often makes headlines , its digital infrastructure is equally as out of date. Organizations from the IRS , to the healthcare system are still relying on technology from the 80s or earlier. This is what today’s guest is out to remedy. Jennifer Pahlka is the former US Deputy Chief Technology Officer under the Obama Adminis...
Apr 05, 2024•18 min•Season 5Ep. 129
A study came across our desks recently that said, gamification was “just a fad.” We’re going to disagree with that, and so does our guest today Dr. Dave Eng; a creative intellectual, educator, designer, & researcher focusing on games, theory, and technology. Dave serves as the faculty member of NYU’s School of Professional Studies and the Principle Lead at University XP , a consulting group for game-based learning programs. He’s also the founder of Bandito’s Gaming , a registered 501(c)(3) s...
Mar 27, 2024•23 min•Season 4Ep. 128
Who’s ready for our first podcast 3-peat? Dr. Jerry Lynch is back for his third solo appearance on the Bring It In podcast, to share with us some wisdom from his latest book, “ The Mindful Coach .” Dr. Jerry Lynch is the Founder of Way of Champions , a performance consultancy that combines elite sports psychology, with international philosophy concepts, to generate peak performance. He’s written over a dozen books on his studies on excellence, from “ The Competitive Buddha ,” “ Coaching with Hea...
Mar 20, 2024•58 min•Season 5Ep. 127
You’ve probably heard the term “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” referring to one's ability to pick themselves up, and get to work. But what if we said the whole phrase was actually a joke? There’s no one better to explain this than Alissa Quart , an author, professor at Brown and Columbia Universities , and the Executive Director of the Economic Hardships Reporting Project and the author of the book “ Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream ” and “ Squeezed: Why Our ...
Mar 13, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 126
We’ve had our fair share of coaches on the podcast on how to lead and guide people, but how do you lead and guide other coaches to improve their game? Enter today’s guest, Cody Royle, a coach who’s dedicated his entire focus on improving other coaches through the ‘user experience’ of coaching. Cody’s coaching career has taken him from playing Rugby in his home of Canberra, Australia, all the way to Toronto, Canada where he currently resides. Serving for over 10 years as a Head Coach in Canada’s ...
Dec 22, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 125
The United States only spends 0.1% of its GDP on job training and reskilling initiatives, putting us in last place for funding towards job reskilling amongst other developed countries. Now, it may be hard to concretely define the effects of this, but let’s look at what we know: only 15% of workers are currently engaged at their jobs, 44% of workers are in bad jobs, and almost 1-in-2 workers is just $400 away from falling beneath the poverty line. So, that 0.1% GDP spent on job training? It’s pro...
Dec 14, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 124
Despite mountains of research showing how “helicopter parenting” is incredibly detrimental for kids, it still happens. A University of Michigan study published this year said that while the majority of parents said they encouraged kids to ‘do things for themselves,’ half also felt that unsupervised kids caused trouble, and a third felt that their kids weren’t ready to be left alone. It’s this cognitive dissonance from parents that today’s guest, Hara Estroff Marano , says is not just seriously h...
Dec 05, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 123
The COVID-19 pandemic brought upon some of the most sweeping changes to benefit the modern workforce…or did it? Returning for a second episode on the Bring It In Podcast, author, professor, and filmmaker Jamie McCallum is back to talk about the findings of his new book, “ Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. ” Jamie’s previous book, “ Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work is Killing the American Dream ,” focused on those most overworked, underpaid, and vulne...
Nov 28, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 122
Don’t believe the jobs reports: it’s a tough labor market out there, and not in the way you’re thinking. 44% of workers have what’s considered a bad job, which is defined as a high risk, low wage position. The majority of these jobs are frontline, hourly positions, with little to no consistency or benefits. These organizations have some of the highest turnover rates, costing the U.S. economy 1 Trillion dollars per year. This is where today’s guest Zeynep Ton has set her sights on fixing. Zeynep ...
Nov 15, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 121
There's a learning problem in America's workforce. Opportunities for workers to develop skills that can lead them down successful career paths are scarce, and often ineffective. 83 cents of every dollar goes towards training for people who already have received some form of higher education, and even then, 59% of workers claim they had no proper training, and simply acquired skills "on the job." With massive turnover rates and somehow so-called "talent shortages," the...
Nov 03, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 120
Subminimum wage workers make about 10% of the American workforce. That means, of all working Americans, 13 million people make about $2.13. These workers are in an incredibly vulnerable position, as they’re often reliant on tips, receive little to no benefits, and lack consistent hours, to make ends meet. It’s a massive problem that's become endemic to our workforce, especially in areas like the hospitality and restaurant industry. This is what today's guest, Saru Jarayaman, is fighting ...
Oct 25, 2023•14 min•Season 4Ep. 119
Leaders across the world are struggling to motivate their people to get fired up for the task at hand. A recent Gallup study found that only 1-in-3 of the entirety of the United States workforce is considered engaged. This issue has managers everywhere grasping for straws on how to motivate their people, using everything from the classic underwhelming pizza party, to forcing employees to ‘have fun’ with disastrous results. But the great coaches in the world know that the most powerful motivation...
Oct 16, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 118
Water Polo is a very tough sport, demanding straight swimming for 30 plus minutes, grappling with opposing players, and the mental acuity to be able to remember strategies and positions. It’s also one of the oldest sports in the world, with the first game being played in 1888 in America, and quickly spread across the collegiate athletic circle. Our guest today is Kirk Everist, a 2x Olympian , head coach of men’s water polo at U Cal Berkeley , 5x National Champion, 4x ACWPC Coach of the Year, USA...
Oct 04, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 117
Glossophobia , is the fear of public speaking and it’s believed to affect about 75% of people across the globe. With this in mind, think about how critical being able to speak to an audience, to customers, to teammates, in any working environment is. It’s why communication skills are in such high demand in organizations, and why today’s guest is particularly important. Matt Abrahams is an instructor and lecturer at Stanford University , and author of “ Speaking Up Without Freaking Out : 50 Techn...
Sep 26, 2023•18 min•Season 4Ep. 116
For as long as work has existed, new technologies have been a double edged sword for the workforce, making some jobs easier to do and making others obsolete. With data collection, computer processing, automation, and generative AI being implemented daily within our workforce, this issue has never been more apparent than today. Educators and authors Dr. Anna Tavis and Stela Lupushor are at the forefront of the fight for human capital, to make sure that technology is set to enhance the worker expe...
Sep 14, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 115
One of the biggest challenges of leading any team, is being able to coach the individuals in an organization, as well as coach the team that those individuals make up. A number of sports encapsulate this coaching challenge, and golf, is probably one of the best examples of it. That’s what led us to our conversation with today’s guest, Coach Anne Walker. Coach Anne is the Margot and Mitch Milas Director of Women’s Golf at Stanford , has two (2015 and 2022) NCAA Championship titles under her belt,...
Sep 06, 2023•33 min•Season 4Ep. 114
AAAAAAAARRRRRRR MATEY! We’re still talking about pirates on the podcast, because there's just too much treasure to dig up here. Today, we’re looking at the “sequel” to “ Be More Pirate ” with the aptly named “ How to Be: More Pirate ” by our guest, Alex Barker. Alex graduated from Kings College in 2008 and after pursuing an MA in Conflict Resolution studies, began backpacking around the Middle East which eventually led to her working at Global Citizen, and then came to the Royal Society of A...
Aug 29, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 113
Steve Jobs once said, ‘I’d rather be a Pirate than be in the Navy.’ He believed it so much that often, the Skull and Crossbones would be flown at Apple HQ, so what can businesses learn from pirates? Our guest today, Sam Conniff is here to answer that with his book, Be More Pirate . Sam is a multi-company founder from the UK, starting with Don’t Panic London , a creative agency that he founded out of his bedroom when he was 20 years old in 1997. Since then he’s gone on to co-found a youth centere...
Aug 22, 2023•35 min
Today’s a very special episode of the Bring It In podcast, as we’ve got not one, but two returning guests and friends of the podcast! First we’ve got John O'Sullivan, a member of the 1990 Patriot League Championship team, the former executive director of Oregon Rush Soccer Club , and founder of the Changing the Game Project , as well as the author of the “ Changing the Game: The Parents Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes, and Giving Youth Sports Back to our Kids ” book. He’s jo...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 111
It’s World Cup Season and if you’ve caught the past few games, you’ve probably seen a few former players from the UCLA Bruins on the field, coached by the great Margueritte Aozasa. Coach Margueritte is the 6th head coach in UCLA women's soccer history and only one of five Asian American women currently serving as a head coach for a NCAA women's soccer team. She previously coached Stanford to great success during her seven seasons (2015-21), helping guide the Cardinals to the NCAA Champio...
Aug 03, 2023•27 min
While there are specific skills that go into doing any job, being able to learn by doing and make it up as you go along, is a skill a lot of workers need to have in today's market. With 80% of Americans in a job where they’ve had little to no training for, a surprising skill is becoming more and more important for workers every day: the ability to improvise. Patricia Ryan Madson is a longtime professor Emerita from Stanford University’s theater department. During her time at the university, ...
Jul 27, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 109
Words like desperation, rock bottom, and adversity probably don’t inspire the best of feelings in people. But for Todd Burnham , embracing these extremes has led him to become one of the most successful litigators in the country. A two-time All American NCAA Lacrosse Star from Hobart College and graduate from Albany Law School , Todd is the founding partner of Burnham Law , one of the top rated law firms in the country with offices spread across the Western United States. He’s also the host of t...
Jul 20, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 108
Today, we’re living in the loneliest time in history. Despite the marketing campaigns from major social media companies claiming to be able to connect with one another, technology, globalization, and urbanization have driven humanity at large to be more isolated, disconnected, and disengaged than any other time in human history. Charles Vogl has made it his mission to help reconnect us and to build better communities. Charles served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Sub-Saharan Africa where he worked o...
Jun 29, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 107
