Trust on Purpose

• How do you learn to trust when no one taught you?

  Send us a message - we'd love to hear from youWhat happens when your early life didn't teach you how to trust? How do you learn vulnerability and honesty when those skills were never modeled for you?We sit down with Andy Vasily - Leadership / Performance Coach, Podcast Host and Educational Consultant - to explore how trust is a learnable competency, not something you're born with. We dig into the neuroscience behind protective behaviors, why withholding information robs others of learning, and how naming emotions transforms defensive meetings into productive ones. Andy explains how leaders who seek to understand how experiences have shaped their team members, before jumping to solutions, create far more effective outcomes.We examine the power of understanding our own propensity to trust, our ability to repair when we fall short, and how practicing small behaviors until they become second nature allow us to create space in which trust can grow. You'll learn why vulnerability is a performance advantage, how eight seconds of genuine acknowledgment can make someone feel truly seen, and the practical steps that build psychological safety.If you've wondered whether you can learn to trust differently than you were taught, this episode offers the language, mindset, and next steps to start building trust you can count on.Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review telling us the one trust behavior you'll try next.We want to thank the team that continues to support us in producing, editing and sharing our work. Jonah Smith for the heartfelt intro music you hear at the beginning of each podcast. We LOVE it. Hillary Rideout for writing descriptions, designing covers and helping us share our work on social media. Chad Penner for his superpower editing work to take our recordings from bumpy and glitchy to smooth and easy to listen to episodes for you to enjoy. From our hearts, we are so thankful for this team and the support they provide us.

  --------  

  59:16

  --------

  59:16
• What if the answer to overwhelm isn't working harder?

  Send us a message - we'd love to hear from youOverwhelm never asks permission. When it hits, our reflex is to work harder and push through. Yet that often distracts us from the one thing that restores clarity: pausing. In this new episode of Trust on Purpose, we dive into the difference between a nourishing pause and disassociation, how awareness of our sensations helps us return from checkout mode, and how small rituals create the space where we can make better choices.We share simple ways to practice pausing to regain calm and rebuild trust in your own inner wisdom. Then we connect the dots to leadership in unlocking a team’s intelligence, reducing decision anxiety, and sparking creativity in the uncertainty most leaders try to outrun.You’ll hear candid stories about over-planning, the fear of not having all the answers, and how surrender-in-doses becomes a practical skill. We talk about listening to the uncomfortable answers that arise when we finally get quiet, and how to hold them without rushing into action. Expect grounded tools, warm honesty, and a reframe of uncertainty as fertile ground for innovation, trust, and more humanness in our work.We want to thank the team that continues to support us in producing, editing and sharing our work. Jonah Smith for the heartfelt intro music you hear at the beginning of each podcast. We LOVE it. Hillary Rideout for writing descriptions, designing covers and helping us share our work on social media. Chad Penner for his superpower editing work to take our recordings from bumpy and glitchy to smooth and easy to listen to episodes for you to enjoy. From our hearts, we are so thankful for this team and the support they provide us.

  --------  

  41:23

  --------

  41:23
• Are you sabotaging your team by moving too fast?

  Send us a message - we'd love to hear from youWhat happens when you choose long-term trust over short-term speed? Psychologist Susan David's powerful question launches us into a revealing exploration of how trust-building decisions fundamentally transform outcomes.This episode contrasts two dramatically different approaches to organizational change. On one hand, a team that prioritizes rapid implementation, making unilateral decisions and forcing solutions on users can lead to active sabotage and project failure. Another that invests time upfront in building trust-filled relationships and understanding, creating psychological safety can enjoy dramatic success.The surprising insight: Prioritizing trust building up front doesn't necessarily extend timelines. Strong trust foundations allow teams to move quickly when it matters most, while preventing the costly rework cycles that sink speed-focused strategies.Listen to discover how trust conversations can transform your most important connections.We want to thank the team that continues to support us in producing, editing and sharing our work. Jonah Smith for the heartfelt intro music you hear at the beginning of each podcast. We LOVE it. Hillary Rideout for writing descriptions, designing covers and helping us share our work on social media. Chad Penner for his superpower editing work to take our recordings from bumpy and glitchy to smooth and easy to listen to episodes for you to enjoy. From our hearts, we are so thankful for this team and the support they provide us.

  --------  

  30:24

  --------

  30:24
• Why your team isn't delivering (and how to fix it)

  Send us a message - we'd love to hear from youWhat if the secret to breakthrough results isn't working harder but making better promises? Bob Dunham, founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership, reveals the power of trustworthy commitments in creating extraordinary outcomes.Dunham challenges the mechanistic approach dominating today's workplace, where employees are treated as production units rather than humans with creative potential. "We've left out being human; everything's being mechanized," he explains. He goes on to explain that this blindness to our human capacity restricts the value that can be created, and waking up to this opens up a whole new world.At the heart of Dunham's Generative Leadership discipline lies a powerful distinction between responsibility and accountability that transforms how we approach work. While many use these terms interchangeably, Dunham clarifies and contrasts them, leading us to reject blame and excuses, and focus instead on what can be done despite inevitable challenges.Dunham shares how he applied these principles to turn around a Silicon Valley software engineering department that hadn't delivered products in two and a half years. The key wasn't superhuman effort, but rather creating systems that supported responsibility at all levels.For listeners struggling with accountability issues, unmotivated teams, or untrustworthy commitments, this conversation offers practical wisdom on building cultures where people consistently deliver superior results by reconnecting our humanity with our work.We want to thank the team that continues to support us in producing, editing and sharing our work. Jonah Smith for the heartfelt intro music you hear at the beginning of each podcast. We LOVE it. Hillary Rideout for writing descriptions, designing covers and helping us share our work on social media. Chad Penner for his superpower editing work to take our recordings from bumpy and glitchy to smooth and easy to listen to episodes for you to enjoy. From our hearts, we are so thankful for this team and the support they provide us.

  --------  

  38:58

  --------

  38:58
• I shouldn't have to explain this

  Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you"I shouldn't have to explain this." Sound familiar? A lot of leaders feel this way about making clear requests of people. It creates a destructive cycle: vague directions lead to poor results, which fuel resentment and reinforce the belief that explanation shouldn't be necessary.The hidden cost is teams divided between mind-readers and the confused, while everyone wastes time "spinning," trying to guess what leaders actually want. What feels like giving creative freedom often creates anxiety and inefficiency instead.We explore how cultural pressure to move fast reinforces communication shortcuts, yet spending time on clear requests upfront saves massive time fixing problems later. We'll challenge you to ask yourself: "Am I more committed to my belief that I shouldn't have to explain this, or to getting the result I want?"Whether you're a frustrated leader or someone constantly guessing what your boss wants, this episode offers practical insights to break the cycle. Notice your own "shoulding" and consider whether it's serving you and your team.We want to thank the team that continues to support us in producing, editing and sharing our work. Jonah Smith for the heartfelt intro music you hear at the beginning of each podcast. We LOVE it. Hillary Rideout for writing descriptions, designing covers and helping us share our work on social media. Chad Penner for his superpower editing work to take our recordings from bumpy and glitchy to smooth and easy to listen to episodes for you to enjoy. From our hearts, we are so thankful for this team and the support they provide us.

  --------  

  31:41

  --------

  31:41

Mais podcasts de Negócios

Podcasts em tendência em Negócios

Sobre Trust on Purpose