Snafu w/ Robin Zander

Hello and welcome back to Snafu, a podcast about behavior change! For today's episode, I sat down with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a Silicon Valley-based author, consultant, and researcher famous for advocating for the  4-day work week.  Alex has become a leading advocate for the concept of "deliberate rest" through his books Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less and Work Less, Do More.   Alex...

Hello and welcome back to The Robin Zander Show! For today's episode, I sat down with Sally Thornton, the founder and CEO of Forshay. Forshay is a company that specializes in executive recruiting and improving workplace dynamics through diversity and inclusion. She has a background in creating innovative solutions for work-life balance and has been a speaker at various conferences, including TEDx...

Hello and welcome back to The Robin Zander Show! For today's episode, I sat down with Michael Bugay Steiner, author of books that have sold a million copies, including The Coaching Habit, a self-published book that's become the best-selling book on coaching this century.  Michael Bungay Stanier is a speaker and executive coach. As the founder of Box of Crayons, he's trained thousands of managers i...

Hello and welcome back to The Robin Zander Show! For today's episode, I sat down with New York Times bestselling author, Charles Duhigg. In this episode, Charles and I talk about the art of communication and the insights from his new book, "Super Communicators." We explore how effective communication is a skill that anyone can learn, focusing on the importance of asking deep questions to connect w...

The Habit of Doing Hard Things I appreciate the irony. Do hard things, move to the Caribbean! And while most of us probably aren't going to move to a tiny island in order to make our lives more difficult, there are a lot of simple habits that can help. Identify One Thing  Every Day That Scares You Identify something that scares you. Notice someone you are intimidated by.  Recognize a moment when y...

There are a lot of things about being an entrepreneur that I avoid, but one of the silliest is opening physical mail. When I was starting Robin's Cafe, I got a  lot  of mail - plans from the San Francisco planning department, legal documents, food permitting, alcohol permitting, pest control notifications, more. I was so busy figuring out the day-to-day of running the business that I developed the...

I'm traveling with my family to Mexico for two weeks this winter. The trip is a throwback to holidays from my childhood. Every other year, my family avoided the holidays altogether and traveled to Latin America. As a kid, I was sad to miss the holidays, but in retrospect those international trips were formative. This will be the first family trip in a decade and the first time with my nephews (7 a...

I've always believed that in order to acknowledge what's going well in my life, I have to first solve any difficult emotional situations. Over the last few years, I've come to realize that it is often more effective to focus on the positive, instead of first trying to solve the negative. Instead of waiting for things to go just right, it's more effective – and more fun – to focus on what is alread...

Everything You Know About Sales is Wrong Everything in life is sales. From inviting your child to do her homework, to deciding where to go for dinner, to encouraging a colleague at work, the situations we encounter daily are filled with the dynamic of sales and persuasion. And, unfortunately, most of what you know about sales is wrong. What is Sales? My favorite example of sales comes from a scene...

Two years ago, my best friend was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. Two months ago, I went through a breakup. Whether personally or globally, challenges arise. Someone you love dies. A friend lets you down. You're forced to confront your own aging or an aging parent. Grief is complicated. We aren't taught much about it or how to deal with it. It is important to take time to mourn a loss. Here...

Hello and welcome back to The Robin Zander Show!   For this week's episode, I sat down with Eden Full Goh, the founder & CEO of Mobot.   Eden founded Mobot, a physical testing infrastructure in the cloud after her experience as a Product Manager. She noticed how challenging it was to do regression testing on mobile apps and created Mobot as the solution.   In this episode, we take a deep dive into...

Hello and welcome back to The Robin Zander Show! For this week's episode, I sat down with my longtime colleague and friend, Katie Stricker. Katie is the Co-Founder, President, and Chief Coaching Officer at Sayge, a tech-enabled service that provides companies with accessible coaching services. Having worked with a coach for 14 years, Katie knew the importance of coaching and seldom saw it offered...

Hello and welcome back to The Robin Zander Show! For today's episode, I sat down with my dear friend, Rajkumari Neogy. Rajkumari is the founder of iRestart and an executive coach utilizing epigenetics and neurobiology to understand clients and shift communication across organizations. He uses the intersection of technology, culture, and empathic language to address complex and deep-rooted problems...

Hello and welcome back to The Robin Zander Show!  Today's episode was recorded right before going on stage at Culture Summit 2022.  I spoke on a panel called Trends and Insights that will Shape The Future of Work in 2022 and Beyond about becoming more of ourselves through the work we do. In this episode I talk about embracing the energy I feel before going on stage and the vocal prep work i've bee...

Hello and welcome back to the Robin Zander Show! Today's episode is a panel discussion I participated in at @Culture Summit 2022 called Trends and Insights that will Shape The Future of Work in 2022 and Beyond. We cover remote & distributed work, empathy in the workplace, how to show up as a full human at work, and the responsibility of organizations. A pleasure to join this incredible group onsta...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show! Today's episode is a talk I gave to a group called First Founders. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, First Founders is a group of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs who build, scale and fund startups based out of Africa. I sat down with a group of founders and VC's to share some of my personal stories from founding businesses. From building Robin's Cafe, to Respons...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show! Today's episode is an interview I did on my friend Lar Schmidt's Redefining HR podcast.  In this interview, we discuss my atypical career path, creativity and digital storytelling, and our work in video at Zander Media. We also talk about Zander Media's new documentary, "Parenthood @ Work." I've long admired Lars and his work at Amplify Talent , so it was a p...

Welcome back to The Robin Zander Show! Today's episode is one I did with Jamie Ceglarz, Co-founder and Managing Member of the Operators Guild & Guild Talent. Ran by Jamie, both organizations provide a community for excellent operators, COOs who are in charge of running sophisticated organizations. Jamie and I discuss problem solving processes', learning from each other's similarities and differenc...

Welcome to Episode 6 of Ask RPZ, where I answer your questions! I've been asking people questions, via my podcast, for almost 10 years, so I've decided to turn the tables and answer your questions, too! This week I answer questions from @Noah Hussin, @Jesse Freese, @Emily Rogers about video marketing and making content that people want to see! I answer questions about social media platforms and ho...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show! For today's episode I sit down with Eddie Hudson & Tullio Siragusa on the Tech Backstage podcast. The podcast goes behind the scenes with today's leaders who discuss the intersection of technology and problem solving, and applying Design Thinking to business. In this episode, we discuss how connection is essential for a courageous organization and drives inno...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show! Today's episode is an interview I did with my friend Jennifer Brown on her podcast The Will to Change . Jennifer Brown is a long time DEI consultant, speaker, and the author of several books, including "How to Be an Inclusive Leader" and "Beyond Diversity."  Jennifer and I discuss a wide array of topics from the importance of bravery and courage at work, to t...

Andrew Bartlow is the founder of Series B Consulting and People Leader Accelerator, and the author of the new book "Scaling for Success." In this conversation, I sit down with Andrew Bartlow to talk about his career and work in HR, what it was like to grow up in a family business, and how he's built People Leader Accelerator, his modern executive development program for HR people. We discuss how g...

Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show!   Today's interview is a sit down I did on the new podcast "Talent Talks with Nolan Cox!" For the inaugural episode, Nolan Cox and I sat down for a deep dive about the future of work and building courageous organizations. I talk about being a "future of work" OG - or anyway talking about things like remote a distributed work at my annual event Responsive Conf...

Hello, and welcome back to the Robin Zander Show! Today, I'm pleased to sit down with my dear friend Jenny Sauer-Klein. Jenny is the founder of Scaling Intimacy: a School of Experience Design, and the Culture Conference, an invite-only immersive 2-day event for leaders. She is an experience designer, facilitator, and also the co-founder of the global movement of AcroYoga. Jenny played a big role i...

My guest today is Marcus Sawyer, the founder of EQ, a private community that connects diverse professionals with professional opportunities. I connected with Marcus because of a mutual love of building the Future of Work, our shared passion for entrepreneurship and the hustle that building great companies requires, and building communities that support people. As Marcus and EQ say: "each one touch...