Biz-Souls

Cancer changes everything—but it doesn't have to steal your confidence. In this heartfelt and surprisingly funny episode of Biz-Souls, Jeffrey Hansler and Rona Lewis welcome back longtime friend and internationally recognized cancer hair-loss expert Amy Gibson, founder of Created Hair and the new Cancer Comfort Corner. Amy has spent more than 26 years helping thousands of women navigate one of...

If you've ever called customer service and ended up questioning your life choices, your sanity, and possibly the existence of organized civilization, this episode is for you. This week on Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler tackle a business problem so common it has practically become its own department: the giant communication gap between sales and technical teams. What starts as a simp...

Remember when Windex was suggested as the solution to cleaning a clapboard? Neither do we. Well, actually, Jeffrey does. Repeatedly. This week's episode of Biz-Souls begins with household confusion, questionable cleaning advice, and a closet door that apparently became an escape room challenge. Naturally, this leads directly into one of psychology's most fascinating concepts: cognitive dis...

Color is emotion. Gray is a mood. This episode is a whole palette. Somewhere along the way, the world went gray. Not metaphorically — literally. Scroll through a parking lot photo from 1980 and you'll see yellows, blues, reds, a green car someone clearly loved. Scroll through a 2025 parking lot and you'll think your screen broke. It didn't. That's just… the vibe now. Black, white,...

Somewhere between Willy Wonka, Silicon Valley wellness culture, and two entrepreneurs stubborn enough to spend a year making mushrooms taste luxurious, Episode 222 of Biz-Souls was born. Well, Welcome back, Kotter and Room 222. In this delightfully smooth episode, hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler sit down with Graham Bailey and Lee Ribeiro, the masterminds behind Mana Bars (https://manabars.co...

Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler welcome back recurring guest and hospitality insider Nick Morton to unpack a story that rocked the culinary world - centered on famed chef René Redzepi of Noma. This isn’t just another ‘celebrity chef gone rogue’ story. It’s a full-on reality check about internships, unpaid labor, and the culture of ‘abuse-as-education’. Redzepi’s empire didn’t crumble overnight. It...

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a former would-be radio DJ, a philosophy major, body builder, and a “professional button pusher” walk into a podcast… this episode is your answer. This week on Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler sit down with Alex Fredricks, a growth strategist who has done everything short of becoming Wolfman. From mixing records with oscilloscopes to scaling brand...

This episode of Biz-Souls is what happens when business strategy meets… booze with a backstory. Recorded on location at Hollywood Distillery, Rona Lewis takes the mic solo (don’t worry, Jeffrey is lurking off-camera like a true executive producer ninja) and dives headfirst into a story that proves entrepreneurship is equal parts vision, timing… and apparently, several thousand pounds of dates. Bec...

If you thought the Biz-Souls Podcast was just about deep business insights and the occasional philosophical mic drop, think again. This episode takes a hard left turn into barrels, booze, and beautifully crooked labels at the one and only Hollywood Distillery. Welcome to Biz-Souls’ educational buzz tour! Where Rona and Jeffrey (your behind the scenes camera guy) roll up like serious business journ...

If you’ve ever thought, “You know what this podcast needs?” More accounting.” Congratulations, this episode is your Siberian Gulag. (Don’t you really wish it was more cowbell!) Rona does her very best to make this a fun episode. Still, everyone suffers just a little. This is the perfect podcast episode if you’ve ever said, “I should understand finance…” and then immediately open Hulu instead. On t...

This is the perfect podcast for anyone who’s ever tried to have a rational discussion and had it turned into a verbal explosion. In this episode of Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler dive headfirst into moral framing that confounding when a simple conversation turns into good versus evil, us versus them, and “you’re wrong and I’m morally superior.” Critical thinking disappears in a single b...

This is the perfect podcast to follow Episode 215: Grace Under Fire… because apparently, grace only gets you so far when you can’t agree on the definition of basic words. Welcome to Biz-Souls Episode 216, where Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler do what all great business leaders do…debate, disagree, double down—and then invite you to decide who’s right (with pizza on the line, no less). This episode...

What do scuba diving, courtroom drama, Facebook comment sections, and losing your cool in a meeting all have in common? Absolutely everything—according to Biz-Souls, the business podcast with an edge (and just enough sarcasm to keep you honest). This week, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler tackle the fine art of not losing your mind when everyone else already has. Because let’s face it, in today’s wo...

What do gym shoes, Olympic athletes, and getting your to-do list under control have in common? According to Rona Lewis, quite a lot. In this episode of Biz-Souls, Rona arrives fresh from yet another workout (seriously… does she ever sit down?) and shares the secret behind the productivity levels that have friends—and her long-suffering podcast partner Jeffrey Hansler—comparing her to the Ever-Read...

Some people take the straight road to the corporate world. Melissa Dinwiddie did not. Her journey zig-zagged through science, arts, creativity, and what most companies politely call “that messy innovation thing we keep trying to do but somehow never quite pull off.” Now she helps leaders make innovation stick, which, as executives know, is about as easy as nailing Jell-O to a whiteboard. Hosts Ron...

Are you being manipulated right now? Relax… the answer is probably yes, and the scary part is you might even be enjoying it. Did you know a worm can turn a cricket into a suicidal zombie swimmer and we’re not even exaggerating. In this wildly entertaining episode of Biz-Souls, hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler dive into the strange, fascinating, and hilarious world of manipulation and cover eve...

Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler sit down with retired Long Beach Police Commander Greg Schirmer, also known as ‘Fab’ by Jeffrey and his other Orange County Bucks rugby mates. Yes. They’ve literally tackled leadership together. Greg’s path isn’t linear - it’s cinematic. Arts student. Business thinker. Then, just before turning 30, he makes the dramatic life pivot and joins the Long Beach Police Depa...

Grab your boxing gloves. And maybe a helmet. In Episode 210 of Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler step into the leadership ring for a knockout, drag-down discussion about creating change — which sounds noble until you actually try to do it. Rona opens strong, framing the episode around a leadership system inspired by some of the big-brain thinking you’ll find over at Big Think — you know, t...

In this information-packed (and mind-expanding) episode of Biz-Souls, your ever-curious co-hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler sit down with the visionary Aaron Windrum to unpack the present and future of HR and Artificial Intelligence. And no, this is not another “AI is coming for your job” doomcast. Aaron flips the script. While headlines scream layoffs and robots, he sees something different:...

In the newest Biz-Souls deep dive, your dynamic duo, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, sit with the one and only Dr. Laura Janusik to unpack one of the most misunderstood and most misused skills in life, leadership, and business. Listening. Not waiting to talk. Not reloading your opinion. Not speed-scrolling someone’s face while mentally drafting your rebuttal. Actual listening. While many leaders t...

Our never-say-never, ever-expanding, occasionally echoing hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler are joined by the luminous, luggage-light, lava-dodging force of nature known as Alexis Boyett. This episode doesn’t travel. It transcends. Alexis has done something most people threaten to do after a bad Tuesday — she actually stepped off the treadmill of funnels, followers, and forced expansion… and wa...

Our dynamic duo, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, are back — and this time they’re tackling the slippery, sneaky, side-eye subject of incongruency. Fresh off their episode on hypocrisy, they double down and drill deep into what happens when leaders say one thing… and their body language, bonus structure, or boardroom behavior says another. If you’ve ever taken a body language class, you’ve likely s...

Our hyper-handy hosts, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, are officially harried by hypocrisy—and instead of hiding it, hedging it, or pretending they’re holier-than-thou, they do the most Biz-Souls thing possible… They hit record. In this episode, hypocrisy haunts the halls of business, leadership, culture, and the occasional hotel hallway of a conference center. From policies that preach one thing...

Welcome to The Great Exhaustion. No, not a new Netflix docuseries, just your life… and ours! Biz-Souls’ dynamic duo Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler pull up a couple of chairs, rub their temples, and talk candidly about the bone-deep fatigue that seems to have settled over… well, everyone. Change fatigue. Decision fatigue. “Another email?” fatigue. You’re exhausted. We’re exhausted. The whole room i...

Batten down the hatches and buckle your braincells, Biz-Souls is back with an episode that declares unequivocally that AI is here to stay. Not because a robot whispered it in binary. Oh no, not that, because Jeffrey Hansler and Rona Lewis looked it square in the silicone eyes and asked, “So what?” Yes, folks, the future of work has officially RSVP’d, crashed the party uninvited, and now refuses to...