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Trust on Purpose

Charles Feltman and Ila Edgar

95 episodes

4 days ago

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you 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, ...

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Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you 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, ...

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Society & Culture,

Entrepreneurship,

Episodes (20/95)

Trust on Purpose

How do you learn to trust when no one taught you?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you 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, ...

1 week ago

59 minutes

Trust on Purpose

What if the answer to overwhelm isn't working harder?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Overwhelm never asks permission. When it hits, our reflex is to work harder and push through. Yet that often distracts us from the one thing that restores clarity: pausing. In this new episode of Trust on Purpose, we dive into the difference between a nourishing pause and disassociation, how awareness of our sensations helps us return from checkout mode, and how small rituals create the space where we can make better choices. We share simple way...

3 weeks ago

41 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Are you sabotaging your team by moving too fast?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What happens when you choose long-term trust over short-term speed? Psychologist Susan David's powerful question launches us into a revealing exploration of how trust-building decisions fundamentally transform outcomes. This episode contrasts two dramatically different approaches to organizational change. On one hand, a team that prioritizes rapid implementation, making unilateral decisions and forcing solutions on users can lead to active sabota...

1 month ago

30 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Why your team isn't delivering (and how to fix it)

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What if the secret to breakthrough results isn't working harder but making better promises? Bob Dunham, founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership, reveals the power of trustworthy commitments in creating extraordinary outcomes. Dunham challenges the mechanistic approach dominating today's workplace, where employees are treated as production units rather than humans with creative potential. "We've left out being human; everything's being ...

1 month ago

38 minutes

Trust on Purpose

I shouldn't have to explain this

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you "I shouldn't have to explain this." Sound familiar? A lot of leaders feel this way about making clear requests of people. It creates a destructive cycle: vague directions lead to poor results, which fuel resentment and reinforce the belief that explanation shouldn't be necessary. The hidden cost is teams divided between mind-readers and the confused, while everyone wastes time "spinning," trying to guess what leaders actually want. What feels lik...

4 months ago

31 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Letting life move through us: poetry, presence and leadership

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What happens when we trust life enough to put down our armour and show up authentically? Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer takes us on a journey through the transformative power of creative practice and how it builds the muscle of trust - in life, in ourselves - that we need in our most challenging moments. Rosemerry opens our conversation with her powerful poem "Growing Trust," asking why we would ever "slip back into armour" when life itself is w...

4 months ago

43 minutes

Trust on Purpose

What kind of leader are you, really?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What truly makes a good leader? We dive into this question by challenging ourselves to identify the qualities that matter most – and then getting real about how we're actually doing. We share some of our own leadership strengths and blind spots, but the conversation quickly evolves into something more interesting: How do you even know if you're leading well? Turns out, your body might have more answers than you think. We wrestle with some of the ...

5 months ago

32 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Don't let tacit dissatisfaction damage trust

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Have you ever felt that weighty silence in a team meeting when dissatisfaction hangs in the air but remains unspoken? That silence might be eroding trust beneath the surface of your relationships and organizations. In this conversation, we explore how dissatisfaction manifests across different contexts - from personal relationships to large organizations, with special focus on team dynamics when remaining quiet creates invisible barriers. We disc...

5 months ago

32 minutes

Trust on Purpose

How might work be different if the culture was built on love?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Could love be the key to workplace innovation, productivity, and social change? Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO of Mobius Consulting, thinks so. We have a fascinating conversation with her in which she advocates integrating healing practices and psycho-spiritual transformation into organizations, challenging the idea that caring connection and high performance are mutually exclusive. Amy believes our current reality (which she describes as brittle, anxiou...

6 months ago

41 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Trust, emotional regulation and the route to human connection

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Psychologist Dr. Jody Carrington joins us to discuss the paradoxical nature of being human: we are biologically wired for connection, yet struggle to truly see each other. Drawing from her work with first responders and children, she explains how emotional regulation builds trust and why distrust often stems from trauma rather than choice. We explore how digital connectivity, sleep deprivation, and fractured attention hijack our nervous systems,...

6 months ago

40 minutes

Trust on Purpose

How would a trust-building KPI benefit your company?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Trust-building isn’t just a nice concept; it can be identified as a key performance indicator that can reshape how consistently people build and maintain trust within an organization and even with external stakeholders. We're joined by Sandra Rose and Leonie von Uthmann from NRICHED, who introduce their groundbreaking tool, TrustY - an innovative product that puts a number on trust in your organization. Together, we break down the four essential ...

7 months ago

42 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Is your leadership style too rigid? Discover how flexibility builds trust and drives success

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you In our latest episode, we talk about the often-overlooked but game-changing aspect of flexible leadership with Kevin Eikenberry, a well-known author and leadership expert. As leadership gets more complex, knowing how to be flexible gives leaders the tools they need to handle uncertainty. Kevin shares how leaders can develop an adaptive mindset based on intention and awareness, helping them respond to challenges on the fly. You'll hear Kevin's tak...

7 months ago

35 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Questioning your worth as a leader?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you How often do you blame yourself for not doing enough to support the people who work for and with you? If you do, it turns out you aren’t alone. In this episode, we look at what happens to leaders when they carry the belief they aren’t doing enough—for the teams they lead and the teams they are on. We consider examples of people we’ve coached who lived with some version of this story, and the suffering it produces, including breakdowns in trust, f...

8 months ago

32 minutes

Trust on Purpose

How workplace silence kills trust

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What happens when you pour your heart into work only to be met with silence? Or have you ever felt the sting of being ignored after applying, and even interviewing, for a job? You’re not alone. In a new episode of Trust on Purpose, we unravel the silent killer of workplace trust - ghosting. The frustrating reality of unacknowledged contributions almost always erodes trust. From candidates experiencing profound disappointment and companies unknow...

8 months ago

29 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Join us as we explore a field-tested framework for building and repairing trust. Drawing from "The Thin Book of Trust," we break down the four essential assessments that shape our choice to trust others. Discover why some relationships feel like safe harbours while others leave us constantly on guard, and learn how to navigate the complex dynamics of trust in all areas of life. Whether you're looking to strengthen trust in individual relationship...

9 months ago

45 minutes

Trust on Purpose

How broken resolutions reshape our inner truth

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from youEvery broken New Year's resolution leaves a crack in something far more precious than our goals - it fractures the trust we hold with ourselves. In this episode, we confront the damage of making promises we never truly intended to keep, and how these seemingly small betrayals ripple through our lives, relationships, and leadership.Our own personal stories illuminate why simply understanding our failures isn't enough - we must dive beneath the surf...

9 months ago

26 minutes

Trust on Purpose

What happens to trust when we delay uncomfortable conversations?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Ever wondered how avoiding difficult conversations could be sabotaging your relationships and your career? Join us as we explore the art of timely communication, inspired by insights from Joseph Grenny's "Crucial Conversations." We delve into the reasons we shy away from those essential talks, whether it's fear, procrastination, or the pressures of a fast-paced environment. We share personal anecdotes and reflect on our own internal battles that ...

11 months ago

33 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Can you trust yourself?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you In a world that demands constant multitasking and perfection, it’s easy for self-trust to slip through the cracks. In this episode of Trust on Purpose, we dive into what it really means to trust yourself and how it shapes both your personal and professional life. We share an honest conversation about how life’s changes can shake our confidence and why it’s okay (and even helpful) to let go of the pressure to remember everything and focus ...

11 months ago

29 minutes

Trust on Purpose

AI and trust: can we believe everything we see?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Get ready to dive deep in this episode of Trust on Purpose, where hosts Charles Feltman and Ila Edgar tackle big questions around trust and artificial intelligence - starting with a curious twist! It kicks off with the story of a school project involving AI-generated sloth images - yes, sloths - and quickly jumps into a thought-provoking conversation about the ripple effects of AI on trust in our daily lives. Can we believe everything we see and ...

11 months ago

29 minutes

Trust on Purpose

Great workplaces: who's responsibility is it?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Today, we’re diving into a question that strikes at the heart of workplace dynamics: can a truly great workplace happen without a team-wide effort, or is it solely the leader's responsibility? We draw inspiration from Tom Geraghty's insightful perspective from a recent conversation: "A great workplace is worth working for." We’re flipping the usual script on who drives work dynamics and culture. Spoiler: everyone does - for better or worse! We ex...

1 year ago

31 minutes