Bring It In | The Future of Work, Jobs, and Education

We’re back! And who better to join us for our return, than one of the biggest stars on Bring It In : Dr. Jerry Lynch! A former Officer in the U.S. Navy and Nike sponsored competitive runner, Dr. Jerry Lynch is a Founder of Way of Champions , a performance consultancy that combines elite sports psychology, with international philosophy concepts, to generate peak performance. He’s written over a doz...

It’s fair to say that the robots aren’t coming, they’re already here . Not a week goes by that we don’t see a brand new article about some new self-driving car , another A.I company bursting onto the scene, or full on i-Robot style machines marching down an aisle . It’s hard not to be unnerved by the impact robotics and machine learning can have on the workforce, and there’s a lot of unknown facto...

One major trait for many great leaders is the ability to not just persevere through hard times, but create an opportunity during challenging times. Eric Kapitulik really, really knows something about that. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy , where he was a four year varsity player in D1 Lacrosse, he then went on to serve in the United States Marine Corps , where he served as a Platoon...

2024 is going to be remembered for a lot of things, one of them being that it was the year we finally moved past the COVID-19 Pandemic. Industries everywhere are claiming to ‘be back’ to pre-pandemic functions, with everything from return to office initiatives to the National Restaurant Association boasting that restaurants are back to 2019 rates of turnover . The problem is, the 2019 turnover rat...

For any long time listeners of the podcast, you know we are firm believers in failure being a positive thing. From D1 coaches to cutting edge researchers, great performers and leaders across the board understand the importance of allowing people to fail well. But, how exactly do you do that? Enter today’s guest Amy Edmondson , Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business...

In recent years, the celebrity chef and restaurant has taken the world by storm. The rise of the ‘chefprenaur’ has created a $10 billion dollar industry encapsulating everything from restaurant chains, branded cookware, cook books, television deals, and social media empires.  Despite the glamor, one fact still remains: the restaurant scene is an unforgiving industry. Today’s guest, Kim Reed knows...

We’ve had a lot of impressive guests on the podcast, many who have overcome some real challenges in their lives to build something great, but today’s guest has an especially impressive story. Dr. Magie Cook began her life with 68 brothers and sisters in an orphanage in Mexico. Battling abuse, hunger, and poverty, during her high school years she earned a spot on the Mexican Women's National Ba...

According to a recent study, about 4-6% of all those incarcerated are considered to be wrongly imprisoned. That’s over 70,000 people who are wrongly incarcerated every year. Today’s guest, Justin Brooks has dedicated his life to representing those who have fallen victim to wrongful incarceration. Justin practiced as a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C., Michigan, Illinois, and Californi...

According to a Pew Research poll , over 40% of adults in the United States are considered to be digitally illiterate, and while America’s crumbling transportation infrastructure often makes headlines , its digital infrastructure is equally as out of date. Organizations from the IRS , to the healthcare system are still relying on technology from the 80s or earlier. This is what today’s guest is out...

A study came across our desks recently that said, gamification was “just a fad.” We’re going to disagree with that, and so does our guest today Dr. Dave Eng; a creative intellectual, educator, designer, & researcher focusing on games, theory, and technology. Dave serves as the faculty member of NYU’s School of Professional Studies and the Principle Lead at University XP , a consulting group fo...

Who’s ready for our first podcast 3-peat? Dr. Jerry Lynch is back for his third solo appearance on the Bring It In podcast, to share with us some wisdom from his latest book, “ The Mindful Coach .” Dr. Jerry Lynch is the Founder of Way of Champions , a performance consultancy that combines elite sports psychology, with international philosophy concepts, to generate peak performance. He’s written o...

You’ve probably heard the term “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” referring to one's ability to pick themselves up, and get to work. But what if we said the whole phrase was actually a joke? There’s no one better to explain this than Alissa Quart , an author, professor at Brown and Columbia Universities , and the Executive Director of the Economic Hardships Reporting Project and the author...

We’ve had our fair share of coaches on the podcast on how to lead and guide people, but how do you lead and guide other coaches to improve their game? Enter today’s guest, Cody Royle, a coach who’s dedicated his entire focus on improving other coaches through the ‘user experience’ of coaching. Cody’s coaching career has taken him from playing Rugby in his home of Canberra, Australia, all the way t...

The United States only spends 0.1% of its GDP on job training and reskilling initiatives, putting us in last place for funding towards job reskilling amongst other developed countries.  Now, it may be hard to concretely define the effects of this, but let’s look at what we know: only 15% of workers are currently engaged at their jobs, 44% of workers are in bad jobs, and almost 1-in-2 workers is ju...

Despite mountains of research showing how “helicopter parenting” is incredibly detrimental for kids, it still happens. A University of Michigan study published this year said that while the majority of parents said they encouraged kids to ‘do things for themselves,’ half also felt that unsupervised kids caused trouble, and a third felt that their kids weren’t ready to be left alone. It’s this cogn...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought upon some of the most sweeping changes to benefit the modern workforce…or did it? Returning for a second episode on the Bring It In Podcast, author, professor, and filmmaker Jamie McCallum is back to talk about the findings of his new book, “ Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. ” Jamie’s previous book, “ Worked Over: How Round-th...

Don’t believe the jobs reports: it’s a tough labor market out there, and not in the way you’re thinking. 44% of workers have what’s considered a bad job, which is defined as a high risk, low wage position. The majority of these jobs are frontline, hourly positions, with little to no consistency or benefits. These organizations have some of the highest turnover rates, costing the U.S. economy 1 Tri...

There's a learning problem in America's workforce. Opportunities for workers to develop skills that can lead them down successful career paths are scarce, and often ineffective. 83 cents of every dollar goes towards training for people who already have received some form of higher education, and even then, 59% of workers claim they had no proper training, and simply acquired skills "o...

Subminimum wage workers make about 10% of the American workforce. That means, of all working Americans, 13 million people make about $2.13. These workers are in an incredibly vulnerable position, as they’re often reliant on tips, receive little to no benefits, and lack consistent hours, to make ends meet. It’s a massive problem that's become endemic to our workforce, especially in areas like t...

Leaders across the world are struggling to motivate their people to get fired up for the task at hand. A recent Gallup study found that only 1-in-3 of the entirety of the United States workforce is considered engaged. This issue has managers everywhere grasping for straws on how to motivate their people, using everything from the classic underwhelming pizza party, to forcing employees to ‘have fun...

Water Polo is a very tough sport, demanding straight swimming for 30 plus minutes, grappling with opposing players, and the mental acuity to be able to remember strategies and positions. It’s also one of the oldest sports in the world, with the first game being played in 1888 in America, and quickly spread across the collegiate athletic circle. Our guest today is Kirk Everist, a 2x Olympian , head...

Glossophobia , is the fear of public speaking and it’s believed to affect about 75% of people across the globe.  With this in mind, think about how critical being able to speak to an audience, to customers, to teammates, in any working environment is. It’s why communication skills are in such high demand in organizations, and why today’s guest is particularly important. Matt Abrahams is an instruc...

For as long as work has existed, new technologies have been a double edged sword for the workforce, making some jobs easier to do and making others obsolete. With data collection, computer processing, automation, and generative AI being implemented daily within our workforce, this issue has never been more apparent than today. Educators and authors Dr. Anna Tavis and Stela Lupushor are at the fore...

One of the biggest challenges of leading any team, is being able to coach the individuals in an organization, as well as coach the team that those individuals make up. A number of sports encapsulate this coaching challenge, and golf, is probably one of the best examples of it. That’s what led us to our conversation with today’s guest, Coach Anne Walker. Coach Anne is the Margot and Mitch Milas Dir...

AAAAAAAARRRRRRR MATEY! We’re still talking about pirates on the podcast, because there's just too much treasure to dig up here. Today, we’re looking at the “sequel” to “ Be More Pirate ” with the aptly named “ How to Be: More Pirate ” by our guest, Alex Barker. Alex graduated from Kings College in 2008 and after pursuing an MA in Conflict Resolution studies, began backpacking around the Middle...