From The Culture

We spend a lot of our lives absorbing definitions of success, certainty, and what we should build next. The harder work is learning to recognize what is actually true. David Kidder is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and co-founder of Bionic, where he has worked with founders and some of the world’s largest organizations to discover and build new possibilities. In this episode of From the Cultur...

The way we use AI reveals more than our relationship with technology. It reveals what our workplaces reward, the roles we learn to play, and the parts of ourselves we leave at the door. Bestselling author and collaboration expert Erica Dhawan joins Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin to explore the human questions behind the AI conversation. Her book, Use Your Brain, makes the case for independent th...

What if fear could help us find our way to joy? In this episode of From the Culture, Amanda Slavin and Dr. Marcus Collins sit down with author, filmmaker, and advocate Tanya Selvaratnam to explore the difference between fear that protects us and fear that keeps us from living fully. Drawing on her experiences of intimate violence, illness, and rebuilding her life, Tanya shares how she has learned...

Rejection, loneliness, heartbreak, stress, and disappointment don’t stay contained to one part of our lives. They shape how we think, how we relate to other people, and how present we’re able to be. Dr. Guy Winch is a psychologist, bestselling author, and one of the world’s leading voices on emotional health. Through books including Emotional First Aid, How to Fix a Broken Heart, and Mind Over Gri...

Success rarely follows the version of the story we imagined at the beginning. Sometimes growth means persevering. Sometimes it means letting go. And sometimes it means creating an entirely new table when the one you were trying to reach no longer fits who you are becoming. Dhar Mann is an entrepreneur, creator, and founder of Dhar Mann Studios, one of the world’s largest digital storytelling compa...

Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky is a bestselling author and speaker whose work explores friendship, belonging, purpose, and human connection, including Friendship in the Age of Loneliness and The Quarter-Life Breakthrough. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore the relationship between connection and agency. They talk about the people and communities that help us tru...

Children are already forming opinions, making choices, creating culture, and developing their sense of who they are through the media and technology surrounding them. Jennifer Kotler Clarke is a developmental psychologist and leader whose career has spanned Sesame Workshop and Google, working at the intersection of children, media, learning, and technology. In this episode of From the Culture, Mar...

The way we understand ourselves shapes the way we understand everyone around us. Heather Malenshek is a global marketing and brand leader whose career has spanned Harley-Davidson, Land O’Lakes, and some of the world’s most community-driven organizations. Across those experiences, she has worked at the intersection of identity, belonging, purpose, and the stories people tell about who they are. In...

Relationships shape how we see ourselves, how we lead, what we build, and the cultures we create. Jackie Jantos is CEO of Hinge, and Tamika Young is Hinge’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Their own relationship began years earlier at Spotify, where they helped build some of the brand’s most defining cultural moments, before choosing to work together again at Hinge. In this episode of...

A turnaround begins with seeing clearly. What is working. What is available. What is asking to change. And where the potential already exists. Grace Dolan has built a career transforming businesses and brands across Sharp, Samsung, Frontier Communications, and Johnson & Johnson. Her approach starts with truth, curiosity, and a willingness to put everything on the table, then look closely at th...

Dancers have powered some of the biggest moments in music, entertainment, fashion, and social media. Their movement travels across culture, often reaching millions before audiences ever learn the names of the people who created it. Connor Lim is helping change that. As Co-Founder, CEO, and League Commissioner of the International Dance League, Connor is building a professional sports structure aro...

What gives someone the courage to pursue an idea before they know where it will lead? Margot Machol Bisnow became fascinated by that question and went looking for answers in an unexpected place: the childhoods of some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. Through conversations with founders and their families, she discovered recurring lessons about curiosity, independence, resilience, pass...

What if the things that interrupt us, frustrate us, and make our work harder are also showing us exactly where our attention is needed? Anne Morriss and Frances Frei have spent their careers helping leaders and organizations navigate change, build trust, and solve hard problems. They are the co-authors of Move Fast and Fix Things and Unleashed, and the hosts of TED’s Fixable, where they explore wh...

Throughout his career, Louis Carr has believed that the strongest institutions do more than entertain, inform, or educate. They create spaces where people feel seen, heard, understood, and ultimately served. That philosophy has shaped nearly four decades at BET, where Louis helped build one of the most influential cultural institutions in America and now serves as its President. Along the way, he...

Before Arturo Nuñez ever built brands, culture built him. Growing up in Harlem, Arturo was surrounded by communities, identities, music, food, style, and stories that shaped how he understood people, belonging, and connection. Those early experiences became a foundation he would carry throughout his career. That understanding would eventually take him inside some of the world’s most influential br...

Today on From the Culture , we're exploring what it really takes to change a system. Our guest is Sam Rapoport, Senior Advisor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the NFL and one of the driving forces behind opening new pathways for women in professional football. Through initiatives like the Women's Forum and the NFL Women's Careers in Football program, she's helped redefine who gets to lead...

Today on From the Culture , we're exploring one of the most fundamental human needs: connection. Our guest is Francesca Hogi—coach, speaker, mediator, former corporate lawyer, and author of How to Find True Love: Unlock Your Romantic Flow and Create Lasting Relationships . Through her work, she's helped thousands of people build healthier relationships by first understanding themselves. But today'...

Today on From the Culture , we're asking a simple question: Where does greatness come from? Our guest is Matthew Knowles: music executive, entrepreneur, educator, author, and the visionary behind one of the most successful music careers of our time. For decades, he's developed talent, built high-performing teams, and helped shape moments that have influenced culture around the world. But this conv...

What does it take to build something people actually want in the age of AI? And as technology lowers the barriers to starting a company, what becomes even more important than the idea itself? Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with entrepreneur, investor, and UC Berkeley Haas Lester Center Fellow Jim Hornthal to explore how founders can move beyond hype and build organizations that genuinel...

What if the people most companies overlook are actually their greatest untapped source of talent? Dr. Gil Winch, founder of a call center, Call Yachol, that employs people with disabilities and others often excluded from the workforce, joins Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin to discuss belonging, culture, and why designing workplaces around human potential can create extraordinary results. Through...

This week, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin are joined by entrepreneur, craftsman, and Square co-founder Jim McKelvey. Through stories from his life as a glassblower and startup founder, Jim shares lessons on risk-taking, trust, innovation, and what it means to build something that can withstand pressure without losing its integrity. From unbreakable glass to billion-dollar businesses, the convers...

What if the most important leadership skill isn't strategy, charisma, or vision, but empathy? This week, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Kathryn Petralia, co-founder of Kabbage, a data-driven company bought by American Express that provides new lending opportunities to underserved communities. They explore how better understanding people’s needs became the foundation of a huge busin...

Blake Mycoskie built one of the world's most influential purpose-driven brands: TOMS. Yet after years of success and accompanying mental health struggles, he found himself asking a difficult question: Is this all there is? In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin talk with the industry-shaping entrepreneur about ambition, mental health, conscious capitalism, and the ch...

Today we dive into the expansive world of LEGO and what it means to harness the art of play to educate and build a business culture. On this episode, Marcus and Amanda talk with VP of Product Experience at LEGO Education, Andrew Sliwinski about his strategy for creating products that can inspire a diverse array of children with wide interests to learn more while bringing their creativity out in th...

On this episode of From the Culture , Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with psychologist and Good Inside founder Becky Kennedy to explore the surprising overlap between parenting, leadership, and workplace culture. Together, they unpack emotional intelligence, invisible labor, modern fatherhood, and why the skills that help people thrive at home are often the same ones that build healthie...