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Trust, Not Skills, Is Why You Get Hired: Eric Woodard on Winning at Work
Aug 17, 2026 · 23 min
From scuba instructor in Guam to the White House, the Senate, the State Department, and the Smithsonian, Eric Woodard's career never followed a script. He learned that nobody hires you for your skills, they hire you because they trust you. The founder of Win at Work joins Sana to talk about why vulnerability builds trust faster than polish, the difference between agreements and expectations, and why leaning into being more human might be the most useful career skill in the age of AI. About the G…
Why HR Becomes the Scapegoat and How to Change That, With Carolyn Moore
Aug 17, 2026 · 30 min
Something goes wrong with culture, hiring, or a change program, and everyone looks at HR. HR absorbs it, fixes what it can, and gets blamed for the rest. Carolyn Moore, a chief people officer with nearly 30 years guiding companies through IPOs, M&A, and AI adoption, joins Sana to talk about why that dynamic exists, and how HR leaders can stop waiting for an invitation and start driving strategy instead. About the Guest: Carolyn Moore is a seasoned Chief People Officer and CEO trusted advisor wit…
Change Is a Leadership Capability, Not a Plan: Eva Aimable-Kolosko
Aug 17, 2026 · 33 min
Eight countries, more than twenty years, and one clear lesson: organizational change is not a project plan, it is a leadership capability. Eva Aimable-Kolosko, author of Growth Without Borders and creator of the Global Leaders Compass framework, joins Sana to talk about cultural intelligence, credibility, influence, and impact, the four capabilities she has seen make or break global leaders across Asia, North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. About the Guest: Eva Aimable-Kolosko is the author…
High Agency: Corey Gladwell on Building Personal Brand Equity That Lasts
Aug 15, 2026 · 28 min
There is a real difference between promoting yourself and building something that keeps creating opportunities long after you've stopped working on it. Corey Gladwell calls the philosophy behind that gap high agency. A four time bestselling author and co-founder of Authrs.io and Speakrs.io, Corey joins Sana to talk about personal brand equity, why documenting your work matters more than talking about yourself, and what happens to that equity when a founder eventually leaves the company. About th…
You Don't Have an Ad Problem, You Have a Growth System Problem, with Johannes Krebs
Aug 15, 2026 · 38 min
Most companies do not actually have an advertising problem, they have a growth system problem, and a campaign is only as strong as its weakest link in that chain. Johannes Krebs, a growth systems architect who has managed millions in ad spend, joins Sana to talk about finding the one broken link that can drop a cost per lead from 400 euros to under 20, and how his understanding of resilience began with a near-fatal accident at eighteen. About the Guest: Johannes Krebs is a growth systems archite…
From Pro Tennis to Human Rights Law: Building a Values-Led Business, with Barbara Kvelstein
Aug 14, 2026 · 31 min
Professional tennis player and model across ninety countries, then a human rights lawyer and certified anti-trafficking investigator, now the founder of a wellness clinic in Seattle. Barbara Kvelstein's path doesn't fit any case study. Barbara joins Sana to talk about tolerating pain as a founder, why she built her clinic around Scandinavian values she actually holds, and how a business can fund a cause without turning that cause into a marketing hook. About the Guest: Barbara Kvelstein is the f…
Same Crisis, Different Brain: What ADHD Leaders See That Others Miss, with Kai Stowers
Aug 14, 2026 · 26 min
A test fails, a deadline looms, and one person sees a crisis while the person next to them sees the most interesting problem they have had in months. Same event, two completely different reactions. Kai Stowers, a former biotech research chemist now coaching leaders with ADHD and AuDHD, joins Sana to talk about masking, the hidden cost of forcing a nonlinear brain into a linear schedule, and what twelve leaders with ADHD taught him about compassion. About the Guest: Kai Stowers spent nearly two d…
Why Dysfunction Keeps Coming Back: Joel Klemmer on Fixing Broken Systems
Aug 14, 2026 · 33 min
You bring in new leadership, a new strategy, the right tools, and a few years later the same dysfunction is sitting in the same chair with a different name. A chief procurement officer and leadership systems architect who has led transformation across defense, federal healthcare, and complex public institutions, Joel Klemmer joins Sana to talk about why systems, not people, are usually the real bottleneck, and what a genuine leadership operating system looks like in practice. About the Guest: Jo…
The Myth of Always Being Zen: Samantha Kane on Authentic Calm at Work
Aug 14, 2026 · 44 min
Almost every founder quietly holds themselves to an impossible standard, always calm, always centered, never rattled. Samantha Kane says that entire framing is wrong. The founder of Roots Wings Wellness and a certified holistic life coach for nearly a decade, Samantha returns to BizBlend to talk about the difference between authentic calm and a mask, why telling someone to "calm down" backfires, and how to stop carrying emotional baggage home from work. About the Guest: Samantha Kane is the foun…
Stop Chasing Visibility: Marketing Stability With Juliana Weiss-Roessler
Aug 13, 2026 · 27 min
Marketing can start to feel like a hamster wheel, another platform, another trend, another expectation to keep posting just to stay visible. Juliana Weiss-Roessler says growth doesn't have to be this exhausting. The founder of WR Digital Marketing, who has worked with more than 150 organizations over two decades, joins Sana to talk about the three roots of marketing, why shiny object syndrome keeps businesses stuck, and how to build stability instead of chasing visibility. About the Guest: Julia…
One Breath Leadership: How Your Breathing Shapes Decisions Under Pressure, with Ed Howard
Aug 13, 2026 · 44 min
The biggest leadership limitation is rarely a lack of skill or a flawed strategy, it's what happens to your thinking under real pressure. Ed Howard, founder of Kokoro Business Performance and creator of the One Breath Leadership framework, joins Sana to break down how thirty years of Zen practice and modern neuroscience compress into a single conscious breath you can use before any hard conversation, pitch, or decision. About the Guest: Ed Howard is the founder of Kokoro Business Performance and…
The Activation Gap: Why Good Strategy Stalls, With Brianna Sylver
Aug 13, 2026 · 38 min
The insight is brilliant, the deck is gorgeous, everyone nods, and then nothing happens. Brianna Sylver calls this the activation gap, and it has less to do with strategy than most leaders think. The founder of Sylver Consulting and author of Leading Through Free Fall joins Sana to explain why change hits people like a grief curve, why decks alone never activate anything, and how one simple exercise turned a room of resistant employees into believers. About the Guest: Brianna Sylver is the found…
Effective vs Coherent Leadership: Lara Bezerra on Ending the Mask
Aug 13, 2026 · 29 min
There is a difference between a leader who is effective and a leader who is coherent, one produces results, the other produces results that come from something real instead of pressure. Lara Bezerra spent thirty years as a CEO at Bayer and Roche before becoming the world's first CEO to hold the title Chief Purpose Officer. She joins Sana to talk about why wearing two selves at work quietly burns leaders out. About the Guest: Lara Bezerra spent more than thirty years in global leadership, includi…
Personality Isn't a Label, It's a Doorway: Arky Jones on Self-Awareness
Aug 13, 2026 · 35 min
Personality tests can be gamed, labeled, and misused, but Arky Jones believes they can also be a doorway into real self-awareness, if you know how to use them. The founder of Personality Peek joins Sana to talk about why self-awareness is often mistaken for an excuse, how culture shapes our patterns without us noticing, and what it actually takes to build a team you trust. About the Guest: Arky Jones is the founder of Personality Peek, a platform that pairs personality insight with stoicism to h…
Who Defined Your Success? Shante Alexander on the Emotional Cost of Clarity
Aug 12, 2026 · 36 min
Almost nobody asks who defined success before spending twenty years chasing it. Organizational psychologist Shante Alexander says for most high achievers, the answer was never really their own. The author of The Emotional Cost of Clarity joins Sana to talk about why burnout is often your body telling you something is not aligned with your design, and what it actually costs to finally question the story you inherited. About the Guest: Shante Alexander is an organizational psychologist and executi…
Why 70% of Organizational Change Initiatives Fail, With Dr. Richard Carson
Aug 12, 2026 · 33 min
Roughly 70% of organizational change initiatives fail, and it is rarely the strategy that breaks. Dr. Richard Carson says the real problem is usually that people inside the organization were never brought along. A change management consultant and creator of the People Sustained Organizational Change Management model, Richard walks Sana through why leaders who do not listen sink their own initiatives, and what actually holds change together once the pressure is off. About the Guest: Dr. Richard C…
The Ripple Effect of a Decision: Stephanie Wachman on Alignment, Intuition, and Change
Aug 12, 2026 · 36 min
In this episode of BizBlend, Sana talks with executive coach Stephanie Wachman about the moment her son ran to his father instead of her, and how that one afternoon changed the shape of her career. This is for anyone who has built something impressive and quietly wondered what it was costing the people at home. Stephanie shares how she left a fast rising corporate career for a door to door sales job just to stay in one city, later built a consulting business from nothing while facing a cancer di…
How One Board Takeover Uncovered $340,000 in Hidden Building Costs, with Tina Larsson
Aug 12, 2026 · 28 min
One woman found $340,000 sitting inside her own apartment building's finances, money nobody had been tracking until she decided to look. Tina Larsson, co-founder of The Folson Group and a former Wall Street analyst, tells Sana how a quiet review of her co-op's books turned into a board takeover, then into a business helping other New York City boards find the savings hiding in plain sight. About the Guest: Tina Larsson is co-founder of The Folson Group, a New York City co-op and condo consultanc…
The Relationship Gap: Why Trust, Not Liking, Predicts Employee Retention, with Eddie Mac
Aug 11, 2026 · 33 min
People don't quit their jobs for the reasons you think. A twenty year SWAT commander turned leadership consultant says the real cost is a relationship gap that has drained businesses of $223 billion. Eddie Mac breaks down why trust, not likability, is what keeps your best people from walking out the door, and how his Be Like Tony, Don't Be Like Chad framework bridges five generations in one workforce. About the Guest: Eddie Mac (Ed McManus) is a number one Amazon best selling author and contribu…
Inadvertent Bottleneck to Intentional Catalyst: A Founder's Leadership Shiftm with Tracy Clark
Aug 11, 2026 · 30 min
Most founders never question the leadership habits that got them here, until those same habits quietly turn them into the one thing their business is waiting on. Tracy Clark spent years scaling an international company before realizing that strategy and skill weren't the real gap, the psychology of the team was. In this episode, Tracy unpacks how high-achieving founders unknowingly become bottlenecks, and how a simple shift she calls "Let's Play" moves them from carrying the business to unlockin…
Confidence Comes After Action: Leadership Lessons From Yogi Mueller
Aug 11, 2026 · 28 min
Confidence is usually treated like a prerequisite, something you need before you act. Leadership coach Yogi Mueller, a former Disney trainer and professional comedian, says that order is backwards. In this conversation on BizBlend, Yogi shares why confidence actually follows action, how comedy stage skills build stronger leaders, and why honest feedback is one of the most generous things a leader can offer. About the Guest: Yogi Mueller is a leadership strategist, speaker, and author with more t…
Choosing Presence Over Vindication: A Father's Story of Pressure, with David VanBeenen
Aug 11, 2026 · 27 min
Would you still fight for your own name if it cost you time with your children? David VanBeenen had to answer that question for real. A performance coach and former All-American athlete, David walks through the mortgage fraud case that entangled him, the plea deal he chose over a courtroom gamble, and what pressure actually does to the mind. About the Guest: David VanBeenen is a performance coach with more than twenty years of experience working with All-American athletes, entrepreneurs, and exe…
Occupational Friction: Why Half of All Hiring Decisions Fail, with Martin Gibbons
Aug 11, 2026 · 33 min
What if the productivity gap in your business has nothing to do with headcount, and everything to do with fit. Martin Gibbons has spent twenty-six years studying what he calls occupational friction, the quiet mismatch between a person's natural wiring and the demands of their role, and why it explains almost everything that goes wrong in hiring and retention. In this episode, Martin shares the physics-meets-psychology thinking behind his work, why nearly half of all hires fail within eighteen mo…
From Postpartum Anxiety to UNLEASHED: Crystal Bean on Rebuilding Yourself
Aug 11, 2026 · 29 min
This episode is for any founder or leader who's built an impressive career and still feels like they've lost themselves somewhere along the way. Host Sana talks with Crystal Bean, an international speaker, Amazon bestselling author, and transformational coach, about the postpartum anxiety and panic attacks that stopped her executive career in its tracks, and the nine-step framework she built out of that experience. Crystal shares what it actually took to rebuild her sense of self after years in…
Commerce as Human Value: Rethinking Money After 25 Years in Fintech, with Connie Davis
Aug 10, 2026 · 34 min
What if commerce was never just the transaction. Connie Davis spent twenty-five years building products for the payments and fintech industry before she walked away to sit with survivors of trafficking and financial trauma, and came back with a different definition of value entirely. In this episode, Connie unpacks her framework of commerce as the full exchange of human value, introduces the Austrian economic principle of praxeology, and makes the case that emotional labor and financial trauma s…
The COPE Method: How Leaders Can Handle Stress Without Breaking | Corey Jefferson
Aug 10, 2026 · 47 min
What if the advice we’ve been given about stress is exactly what’s hurting us? In this deeply honest episode of BizBlend, host Sana sits down with Corey Jefferson, U.S. Navy submarine veteran, people executive, and founder of Esther Media Group, to explore why pushing emotions aside is not resilience, it’s delayed damage. Corey shares the personal story behind the COPE Method, a practical framework built not from theory, but from military service, leadership under pressure, depression, grief, an…
From Paintbrush to Six Figures: Michael Cappa on Building a Profitable Trades Business
Aug 10, 2026 · 37 min
What if one of the smartest entrepreneurial opportunities today isn't in tech, but in the skilled trades? In this episode of BizBlend, entrepreneur and painting business owner Michael Cappa shares how he built a successful trades business from the ground up and why skilled trades remain one of the most overlooked paths to financial freedom. Michael challenges the outdated belief that success only comes through corporate careers or technology startups. Instead, he explains how mastering a craft,…
The Hidden Cost of AI: Energy, Water, Privacy, and the Infrastructure Behind the Hype | Ken Chester
Aug 8, 2026 · 30 min
Everyone is talking about what AI can do for business. Far fewer people are asking what it is costing us beneath the surface. In this episode of BizBlend, host Sana sits down with Ken Chester, CEO of Tech Mobility Productions, veteran technology and media professional, and experienced podcast host, to explore the hidden financial, environmental, and strategic costs of building in the AI era. From token-based billing surprises and infrastructure expenses to water consumption, energy demand, priva…
Escaping Survival Mode: Leadership Lessons From Disaster Reconstruction, with Paul Padgett
Aug 8, 2026 · 38 min
Reacting all day is not a strategy. Many teams run on survival mode for years, not because it works, but because nobody stopped to design something better. Paul Padgett spent four decades rebuilding lives after tornadoes, fires and floods. He joins Sana on resilience, why survival mode becomes the default in business, and what building by design actually looks like. ABOUT THE GUEST: Paul Padgett is the founder and chief executive of Blueprints to Success, a speaker, author and coach. He started…
AI Adoption Fails Without Change Management: Human First AI Strategy, with Mykel Salomon
Aug 7, 2026 · 29 min
You are not behind on AI. You might just be unclear. Most teams buy the tool before naming the problem, and it quietly collects dust. Mykel Salomon explains why AI adoption is a change management problem, not a technology one. People resist confusion, not tools. Start with the problem, design the deployment around your people, and the efficiency follows. ABOUT THE GUEST: Mykel Salomon was born in Santiago de Cuba, raised in Brazil, and has led global support and customer experience teams across…
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