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Who Owns the Canadian Story? A Leadership Lens on Streaming, IP, and Sovereignty
October 19, 2026 · 15 minI've been watching a lot of TV lately. Reading a lot of books too. And I keep noticing something I can't stop thinking about: Canadian stories are having a moment, and I'm not sure Canadians are the ones who benefit most from it. This…
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Thought Leadership: Sponsorship, Celebrity and Influence in Canada
October 8, 2026 · 20 minWho pays for the ideas you trust? Keswick, Ontario might be Canada's unexpected capital of thought leadership. Amanda Cupido launched Let's Talk Thought Leadership right here, and our conversation has stayed with me. So this episode I'm…
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Strategic Foresight for Your Career: Planning When Planning Feels Impossible
October 6, 2026 · 22 minIn this solo episode, I look at what strategic foresight really means for your career when nobody can predict what's coming: longevity, retirement, caregiving, loneliness, and why the human skills will matter more than technical ones as AI…
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Who We Trust and How We Receive Advice : A Leadership Living Lab
October 2, 2026 · 13 minMy last episode was about giving advice. This one is about the other side: how we receive it. I start with the type of advice. There's the advice you go looking for and the advice that shows up uninvited. Then there's the question of who…
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The Future of Advice and Mentorship: A Leadership Living Lab
October 2, 2026 · 13 minA Leadership Living Lab: The Future of Advice and Mentorship | Episode 1 How do I advise my kid? It's one of the questions futurists get asked most. What should they study? What skills will be in demand by the time they graduate?…
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Trust, Foresight, and Canadian Leadership: Reading the Convergences Reshaping Our Careers
September 29, 2026 · 25 minI'm looking at the current breakdown in the Canada–U.S. relationship — tariffs, trust, and everything in between — through the lens of my own career, and what it means for Canadian leadership at a moment of real convergence between…
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Make It So: Futurism Is a Practice
September 6, 2026 · 20 minMake It So is my new eight-week seminar, and this episode is the full walkthrough — what it is, who it's for, and why I built it around practice instead of prediction. The name comes from Jean-Luc Picard: you're telling me you want to do…
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Rated: Human AI Detectors, Slop Buttons, and the New Price of Reputation
August 4, 2026 · 9 minA reader told me my AI-assisted essay didn't sound like me anymore. That critique kicked off a week where reputation and AI collided in public three times: Substack's new Pangram "human-detection" scan, LinkedIn's AI-slop report button…
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Every Word You Said, Forever and Always
August 4, 2026 · 17 minIf knowledge I gave a company five, ten, or twenty years ago is still generating value for them, why does the payroll relationship get to end while the value extraction doesn't? That's the question driving this episode. I read and respond…
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What Yapping Teaches Us About Trust
July 8, 2026 · 15 minEpisode: What the YAP Challenge Teaches Us About Trust, Presence, and the Future of Work In this episode, I dive into the phenomenon of Jessie Jean's YAP Challenge—a 30‑day video‑creation program that has taken the creator economy by…
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The Assumption Ground Audit: Everyday Futurism as a Leadership Practice
May 28, 2026 · 8 minWhat Is an Assumption-Ground Audit? Introducing Make It So | Hope + Possibilities Episode description The assumption ground audit is a structured practice for surfacing the beliefs, values, and past experiences that silently shape your…
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Witnessed Trust: A PR Crisis, a Pop Star, and a Camera Walk Into a Stadium
April 1, 2026 · 22 minIn this episode, I dive into trust through a pop culture moment that became a global case study: the Coldplay kiss cam incident. What looked like celebrity gossip actually opens up bigger conversations about leadership, workplace ethics…

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