Curious as Hell

Nobody would hire her. So she listed herself on Kijiji for $22/hour and built a company from that. Nine years later, she was signing exit papers, and she could not tell a single person it was happening, not even her wife. This is the version of that story she could not tell while it was happening. Bobbie Racette founded Virtual Gurus in 2016 after being turned down for every job she applied for as...

The skills that got you promoted are the same ones quietly strangling your team's potential. Jayson Krause spent eight years as a funded national team bobsled athlete before discovering that the most important performance arena is not a track. It is the room where a senior leader decides whether to solve a problem or ask a question. Since 2010, he has worked with CEOs, founders, and senior executi...

Season one of Curious as Hell asked one question: What does it really mean to lead today? Over six conversations, a pattern kept emerging. The leaders who were doing it well weren't the most credentialed or the most certain. They were the ones who had stopped pretending they had all the answers. In this final episode of Season 1, Tyler is joined by Meghan, a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psycho...

The habits that made you an exceptional doer are the same ones quietly working against your team now. Jennifer Lussier spent six years raising her hand for every available role at Platform Calgary, moving from contract advisor to COO after her tech startup failed in 2019. She ran the organization as interim CEO for six months while simultaneously competing in a formal three-interview search to mak...

When a senior leader retires, their phone stops ringing. Almost immediately. Iggy Domagalski noticed this and built his entire personal mentorship network around it. He maintains relationships with between 10 and 15 mentors and connects with each of them every six months with a written list of questions. The group most willing to give their time was available and brought value to every single conv...

In 2021, Canada won Olympic gold in women’s soccer. Yet the country still did not have a professional league. At the 2023 FIFA World Cup, Haiti and Canada were the only countries without female domestic leagues. But Canada finally has one. The Northern Super League had its first season last year, in 2025. Lara Murphy is the co-founder, president, and CEO of the Calgary Wild FC, one of the league’s...

A leader who thinks they have all the answers is not leading. They are performing certainty, and that performance has a price. Tyler Chisholm is the founder of clearmotive, the author of *Curious as Hell: Leading and Growing with Curiosity*, and the host of this new podcast series. In this first episode, fellow podcaster and former journalist Leah Sarich turns the mic on Tyler to surface the origi...