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What if moving faster with AI didn't mean giving up your judgment?

We sit down with Lindsay Semas, an AI leader who's spent years building trustworthy technology at scale, to explore the gap between what AI can do and what we should let it do - from drafting emails to shaping customer strategy.

We start with the quick wins: smarter research, better first drafts, fewer browser tabs. Then we get into the harder stuff: how to earn trust in AI outputs by asking for sources, questioning what's missing, and matching your scrutiny to the stakes. Lindsay introduces a sliding-scale approach: lean on AI for synthesis, but keep humans in the loop when outcomes touch customers, compliance, or your reputation.

The real heart of the conversation: Governance. Lindsay walks us through how her company built a cross-functional trust council, complete with checklists, accountability structures, and clear guidelines on when AI decisions need human oversight. We also tackle the anxiety around job displacement and the pace of change.

Whether you're leading a team or just trying to use these tools better, this one's for you.

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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.

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What if trust didn't depend on heroic one-to-one fixes, but on the environment you design every day?

In this new episode, we explore what it means to shift from "I build trust with you" to "I build a space where everyone can build, maintain, and repair trust with each other."

Through real stories and practical moves, we map out the leadership behaviours that make trust the default: intentionality in how you bring your team together, asking questions instead of solving problems, surfacing values, and creating structures for reliability and repair.

If you're ready to lead a team where honesty is safe, accountability is normal, and collaboration moves faster because people feel respected, this one's for you.

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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.

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What 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.

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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.