What happens when one of HR's most seasoned leaders gets fed up with broken systems and decides to build new ones? Let’s find out! In this episode, we sit down with Kristy McCann, multi-time founder, CEO, and HR powerhouse, for a wide-ranging, energizing conversation about the real state of the future of work.

We dig into why change management is ultimately just project management (and why most leaders are failing at it), the growing ethics and efficacy crisis around AI adoption in the workplace, what's gone wrong with SHRM as a certifying body, and why consumer power might be the most underutilized lever we have right now. Kristy also shares how she reads pattern recognition as a superpower, and what her next chapter looks like as she works to close the skilling gap she's spent her career fighting.

It's one of those conversations where we left feeling genuinely fired up and we think you will too!

Also in this episode: we introduce Ask the Librarian, our new AI-powered tool built on the Inclusion Geeks resource library. {blush emoji}

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction & Episode Preview

01:14 - Introducing Ask the Librarian, Our New AI-Powered Resource Tool

11:47 - Welcome, Kristy McCann Flynn

12:03 - Kristy's Career Journey, From Scranton to HR Founder

18:02 - Rethinking Change Management for a World in Constant Flux

22:00 - AI in the Workplace, Enhancement or Replacement?

28:33 - AI Ethics, Data Privacy & the No-Guardrails Problem

31:11 - Leadership Gaps, Accountability & Why Ideas Aren't Enough

33:21 - Kristy's Stealth Next Chapter, Education, Skilling & AI Efficacy

35:13 - The SHRM Problem, When Certifying Bodies Lose Their Way

44:49 - Rebuilding Critical Thinking & Trust in Institutions

50:18 - Consumer Power, Boycotts & Collective Action

52:59 - Unionization, General Strikes & Protecting Workers

57:42 - Think Globally, Act Locally

61:14 - AI Displacement, What History Tells Us

64:31 - Closing Thoughts & Where to Find Kristy

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This episode goes somewhere we didn't plan, and we think that makes it one of our best yet.

We sat down with Jarah Euston, co-founder and CEO of WorkWhile, a fast-growing app-based staffing platform connecting 80 million frontline workers with flexible shift opportunities. Jarah grew up in Fresno working retail, got burnt out building software for tech people, and decided to build technology for workers instead. It's a compelling vision and a genuinely interesting conversation about flexibility, AI, and what the future of work could look like for hourly employees.

But after that conversation wrapped, we learned that WorkWhile had recently settled a second major lawsuit with the San Francisco City Attorney's office for misclassifying workers as independent contractors. So we spoke with David Chu, the San Francisco City Attorney, and asked for his side of the story.

What you'll hear in this episode is both interviews back to back. First, Jarah's perspective on building worker-centered technology, and then David's perspective on what happens when "flexibility" becomes a cover for avoiding worker protections.

Together, these two conversations raise a question that feels urgent right now: Is it possible to build a genuinely worker-centered future of work, one with flexibility, innovation, and fair treatment? Or are we just repackaging old inequities in new apps?

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It's February 2026, and everything is happening all at once. In this unfiltered bonus episode, we try to make sense of the polycrisis… from billionaires losing it (looking at you, Benioff), to the Epstein files, to AI potentially developing consciousness, to Tesla pivoting to humanoid robots. We dig into why the people with the most power and money seem to be the most broken, how institutions (including Felicia's own alma mater!) are choosing money over morals, and why this might actually be the reckoning we've been overdue for. Plus: Reggie Watts' optimistic AI theory, the case for dismantling the patriarchy, why capitalism is the connective tissue in all of this, and an honest conversation about aging as women in a world designed to make us hate our wrinkles.

Let’s get into it!

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