How to Trust and Be Trusted

5 Lessons

By: Rachel Botsman

Narrated by: Rachel Botsman

Trust is a word we use a lot. But have you ever learned how to make smart decisions about trust? How to earn the trust of other people? Or, how to repair trust when it breaks down? Rachel Botsman has helped the world’s brightest minds change the way they think about trust. Now, in How to Trust and Be Trusted, she shares those insights with you in five clear principles.

Curated to strengthen connection and engagement, these five principles guide the listener through a series of accessible and relatable lessons, all with the groundbreaking framework of placing trust at the center of our daily conversations, decisions, and behaviors.

Leveraging more than a decade of research, Botsman examines the fundamental principles of high trust teams and cultures, combining eye-opening insights with compelling stories. Botsman guides listeners through interactive exercises that challenge our assumptions around trust, teaching us how to develop as individuals and team players—and ultimately experience the profound impact mutual trust can have on our lives.

Botsman has engaged with graduates, CEOs, start-up founders, and leaders from all walks of life about their trust challenges. In How to Trust and Be Trusted, she distills the most powerful takeaways to share new and unique ways to rethink trust and shine a light on its powerful role in personal and professional fulfillment.

Learn how to give your trust to the right people and how to be more trustworthy. It can be life-changing.

©2025 Rachel Botsman and Pushkin Industries (P)2025 Rachel Botsman and Pushkin Industries

Deeply thoughtful and useful

This book was surprisingly applicable in business, personal and certainly political scenarios. Worthwhile read for managers, staff, family, community.

Simple, actionable, insightful

This book delivers on its promises. I highly recommend it valuable in different domains of life without even trying.

Too short

This was more like an article. The author nees to dive deeper. I like the premise, but I need more meat.