FreshMinds Podcast

73% of executives believe their organization is deploying AI in a way that puts people first. Less than half of workers agree. In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck explore the findings of the Humans at Work Barometer and ask the harder question: what would an AI rollout look like if it were designed the way a great FreshBiz workshop is designed? With everyone in the room, ev...

What if instead of starting with mission statements and KPIs, you started with the questions that actually matter? In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck turn the lens on themselves and their own podcast, asking why they really do this, what each of them personally needs from it, and what makes it one of the best parts of their week. A warm, honest, and surprisingly strategic...

Hope is not a strategy. Every time Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck open the FreshBiz game and tell people to collaborate, most people do not. Not because they are selfish, but because nothing in the system is designed to make collaboration the obvious choice. In this episode, they explore what it actually looks like to design collaboration rather than simply encourage it. From captured...

Knowing that collaboration works is not enough. If the system were designed to reward individual performance, people will keep performing individually no matter what the culture deck says. In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck unpack the cultural, institutional, and psychological forces that quietly block collaboration in even the best teams. From corporate suit-and-tie ident...

Collaboration is not something humans need to be taught. It is what we are built for. In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck explore why teams default to individual performance even when collaboration would get them there faster. From the Messi assist record to Ram Dass, this conversation reframes what winning actually looks like in a world where collective intelligence outper...

AI is giving your team back time. But if that time just gets filled with more work, nothing has changed. You have become the machine. In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck introduce the Pause and Think practice and the powerful question: what is possible now? Drawing on FreshBiz game insights, real community-building experiments, and honest observations about how teams behave...

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...