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Steve Jobs once said, ‘I’d rather be a Pirate than be in the Navy.’ He believed it so much that often, the Skull and Crossbones would be flown at Apple HQ, so what can businesses learn from pirates? Our guest today, Sam Conniff is here to answer that with his book, Be More Pirate .  Sam is a multi-company founder from the UK, starting with Don’t Panic London , a creative agency that he founded out...

Today’s a very special episode of the Bring It In podcast, as we’ve got not one, but two returning guests and friends of the podcast!  First we’ve got John O'Sullivan, a member of the 1990 Patriot League Championship team, the former executive director of Oregon Rush Soccer Club , and founder of the Changing the Game Project , as well as the author of the “ Changing the Game: The Parents Guide...

It’s World Cup Season and if you’ve caught the past few games, you’ve probably seen a few former players from the UCLA Bruins on the field, coached by the great Margueritte Aozasa.  Coach Margueritte is the 6th head coach in UCLA women's soccer history and only one of five Asian American women currently serving as a head coach for a NCAA women's soccer team. She previously coached Stanford...

While there are specific skills that go into doing any job, being able to learn by doing and make it up as you go along, is a skill a lot of workers need to have in today's market. With 80% of Americans in a job where they’ve had little to no training for, a surprising skill is becoming more and more important for workers every day: the ability to improvise. Patricia Ryan Madson is a longtime...

Words like desperation, rock bottom, and adversity probably don’t inspire the best of feelings in people. But for Todd Burnham , embracing these extremes has led him to become one of the most successful litigators in the country. A two-time All American NCAA Lacrosse Star from Hobart College and graduate from Albany Law School , Todd is the founding partner of Burnham Law , one of the top rated la...

Today, we’re living in the loneliest time in history. Despite the marketing campaigns from major social media companies claiming to be able to connect with one another, technology, globalization, and urbanization have driven humanity at large to be more isolated, disconnected, and disengaged than any other time in human history. Charles Vogl has made it his mission to help reconnect us and to buil...

Never before have we seen 5 generations of workers at work at the same time.  Almost like a tradition, the previous generation has always bemoaned the newest one as lazy, spoiled, and in general, not as good as they were “back in the day.” Naturally, this can cause quite a lot of friction in a workplace and in the age of social media and 24/7 news cycles, it seems like there’s always some new beef...

To the dissatisfaction of a lot of leaders out there, there’s no definitive, cookie cutter way to manage and get the best out of people.  But to Dr. Fergus Connolly , that's actually a good thing. And he should know a thing or two about developing people: he’s been the performance coach for franchises across all sorts of pro sports, like the Boston Bruins , the Carolina Panthers , Liverpool FC...

The restaurant and hospitality industry is one of the leading sources of jobs not just in America, but across the globe. What an individual learns working in a kitchen, front of house, behind a bar, or in support of a restaurant can serve as lifelong skills to develop across industries. Chef Brandon Edwin Chrostowski knows this better than most people, not just because he’s made a career for himse...

Navigating the restaurant industry can be tough for workers involved in it.  From constantly changing schedules, demanding, and unruly customers, even A.I. and robots beginning to disrupt the space, restaurant workers are contending with a lot these days. The last thing they need is an organization using their own wages to lobby against increases to the minimum wage, which is exactly what’s happen...

With a culinary career spanning over six decades, Chef Ken Hom, CBE is a legend in the restaurant space.  Starting at his family's restaurant, Chef Ken has helped build restaurants from Bangkok to Rio de Janeiro, and is credited with championing traditional Chinese cuisine around the world. He’s developed his own line of Chinese cuisine cookware, which has become one of the highest-selling coo...

Winning is hard.  Whether it’s coming in first place in a race or making it to the end of a marathon, winning takes a lot of effort. In an age of Instagram life coaches, TikTok motivation accounts, “Alpha” and “Winner” influencers, there are a lot of external forces that can make you feel that the path to winning is one dimensional, “have it or you don’t” situation. Dr. Jeff Brown is here to chang...

It’s episode 100!  For hitting such an incredible milestone, we decided to bring in a guest that works in one of the most high pressure fields in the world; a place where mentorship, teamwork, process-oriented hard work, and demands of the highest quality are needed: the professional kitchen. Chef Nick Wallace is Mississippi born and raised and with a lifelong passion for cooking instilled in him...

Between remote work, quiet hiring, quiet firing, forced back into office, gig work, A.I., automation, and so much more, the workforce is in a challenging position today. Workers are sandwiched between anxiety towards an unsure future and strict performance reviews saying ‘do better!’ of the past. Sadly, what workers lack support in, is focusing on the present. Luckily, Tom Sterner is here to chang...

According to the 2022 World Talent Ranking from the IMD , the U.S. ranked 16th out of 64 developed countries, dropping 2 spots from 2021. What accounts for this decline? “Education is the oxygen to work, you can’t breath without air, you can’t work without education,” says Sanjay Sarma, our very special guest on today's episode. Sanjay is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the fo...

Talent is a good thing…right? In today’s episode, we’re joined by professor, PhD, coach, author, scientist, Joe Baker. Joe is a Professor at York University whose work focuses on studying human development, looking at psychosocial and environmental factors, to see how the best athletes in the world achieve peak performance. Joe’s work has led him to advise dozens of high-profile athletic organizat...

In a back-to-back special, we’re continuing to explore how learning works through the book “ How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles of Smart Teaching ” . Picking up from our last episode with Dr. Marie Norman at the University of Pittsburgh , a short walk down Forbes Ave towards Carnegie Mellon , you can find the office of today’s guest, Dr. Marsha Lovett. Starting as a professor in Carne...

How does learning really work?  Who better to join us on the podcast than Dr. Marie K. Norman -- the co-author of “ How Learning Works: 8 Research Based Principles of Smart Teaching ,” to answer the question? After graduating from University of Pittsburgh and acquiring her Ph. D, Dr. Norman began teaching at Carnegie Melon and has been there for 14 years, including designing program...

For anyone who has ever worked in the food service industry, the word ServSafe will likely bring back painful memories of some of the most mind-numbing, waste of time online courses in the world. But, as New York Times reporter David Fahrenthold has uncovered, there’s a much more sinister side to the infamous food safety software. David’s been a reporter since 2000, where he started as an intern o...

2022 is in the bag and with that, comes our traditional End of Year Special where Sam and our very own Jaime, Manager of Branded Media sat down and to chat about the year. 2022 was a year filled with craziness in the workforce, from in-office mandates, to The Great Resignation, Boss Loss, to the rise and fall of dozens of companies, the year certainly had its ups and downs. And, how did 1Huddle na...

How do teachers learn how to teach? They go through a whole process of licensing, and academic theory, but where do teachers practice teaching? Justin Reich is an Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, as well as the Director for the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, a space where teachers can practice how to teach. He’s compiled nearly two decades of experience into a book, Failure to D...

Hourly workers have always been the backbone of the US economy. That’s 82 million workers who earn an hourly wage for their service— and 82 million workers who are too often left time poor, without the training and development resources so often afforded only to management and salaried employees. So today, Sam was joined by Mathieu Stevenson, the CEO of Snagajob, the country's largest marketplace...

That’s right: According to a recent report, 53 percent of executives are unhappy in their jobs, and 72% plan to leave within the next two years. 72%! To learn more about “Boss Loss,” 1Huddle Founder and CEO Sam Caucci sat down with Tammy Browning, the President of the company that coined that term, KellyOCG – global leader that manages all categories of talent to drive strategic growth for clients...

Want to learn about cognitive psychology that affects teachers and students? Then this is the episode for you. Jim Lang has delivered conference keynotes and conducted workshops at more than a hundred colleges, universities, and high schools in the United States and abroad. The Jim Lang Foundation , which he formed and leads with his wife, provides grants to non-profit organizations dedicated to a...

Think it’s impossible to complete and pass a 4 year MIT course, in just 1 year? Not for Scott Young . He’s the author of "Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career" , where he shares how he managed to turn 4 years of learning into 1. It’s a technique he calls “Ultralearning,” an aggressive, self-directed method that helped him master self portraiture i...