Positive Leadership Podcast

During COVID, Rebecca Winthrop watched her straight-A eldest son stop working the day his grades went pass/fail. "If it's not counted, it doesn't matter," he told her. Her younger son, who had struggled at school, blossomed at the kitchen table. The education expert had read her

Jamil Zaki was eight when his parents began a divorce that took four years. To stay close to both of them, he had to work, every day, to understand two people who could no longer understand each other. He calls it his empathy gym. Jamil is a professor of psychology at Stanford Un

In December 2020, a neurologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière told Olivier Goy he had ALS, Charcot's disease. No cure. Three to five years. He spent four months on the floor. Then a sentence came to him, so simple it almost made him laugh: if I stay depressed, I punish myself twice. O

He kept promising himself he would fight poverty one day. First at retirement. Then in his fifties. Then his forties. Until the day it felt like he was lying to himself. So one weekend he started cold-calling nonprofits at random, and walked away from a career most people spend t