FreshMinds Podcast

If you are still playing the same game you played five years ago, AI is not your opportunity. It is your threat. In this one-on-one episode, Mitch Simon and Ronen Gafni explore what it means to stop clinging to the game that built your career and start designing the one that will carry it forward. They cover how companies are measuring collaboration wrong, why individual KPIs are killing collectiv...

AI cannot be funny. It cannot gamify the way a human can. And it cannot break a room full of people out of their own limiting beliefs the way a great game experience does. In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck explore why gamification and humor are two of the most powerful and uniquely human tools available to leaders today. Recorded during a period of real tension and danger...

AI is great at telling you what has already been done. Creativity is about what has not been done yet, and that starts with the things that frustrate you most. In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck share how their biggest creative breakthroughs were born from friction, not inspiration. From Ronen's frustration with Monopoly to Simcha's rethinking of real estate to Mitch's rej...

AI is forcing every professional to ask a hard question: what is actually yours? In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck share personal stories of experimentation and failure that led them to discover their unique art. From bombing in front of 500 people to building platforms through vibe coding, this conversation explores why finding your genius is a lifelong pursuit and why t...

How do you actually find your art? And what do you do when the world tries to shut you down? In this episode of FreshMinds, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni (creator of the FreshBiz game and TEDx speaker), and Simcha Gluck (co-author of The New Entrepreneurs) get personal. They share their own stories of discovering their genius zones, the obstacles they faced along the way, and how to know when you've tr...

Most people think art is for painters, musicians, and creatives. But what if your art is actually the unique way you create value in the world? In this episode of FreshMinds, Mitch Simon is joined by Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluck to explore one of the most important questions of the AI era: What is your art? As AI takes over more tasks, the value of human creativity, perspective, imagination, and s...

Most people think entrepreneurial thinking is for founders and startup CEOs. It is not. And in a world where AI can write your business plan, draft your emails, and generate your next product idea, the leaders and contributors who thrive will be the ones who figured that out first. In this episode, host Mitch Simon sits down with Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluck, creators of the FreshBiz business simu...

Most people are using AI to do the same work faster. Write emails faster. Build decks faster. Summarize meetings faster. But that is exactly the wrong move, and it is going to cost people more than they realize. In this opening episode, host Mitch Simon sits down with Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluck , creators of the FreshBiz business simulation game and co-authors of The New Entrepreneurs, to lay th...