Trust on Purpose
Are you intentional about building, maintaining or repairing trust with the people in your life? Most of us aren’t, and sometimes important relationships suffer as a result. So much of what is right or amiss in those relationships ties back to trust, whether we realize it or not. We are dedicated to helping you become intentional about cultivating strong trust with everyone important in your life: the people and teams you lead and work with, and your family, friends and community, as well. In the Trust on Purpose podcast, we dive into everything that makes up trust, what supports and damages it. We unpack situations we commonly see with leaders, teams, organizations, and others we work with to show how trust can be strengthened, sustained, and repaired when broken. Listen in for conversations between two pros who care deeply about you being an intentional and masterful trust-builder in your life so you and your relationships flourish. We share pragmatic and actionable takeaways you can use immediately and deepen with practice. If you have questions or situations related to trust that you’d like us to talk about in a future episode, please email charles@insightcoaching.com or ila@bigchangeinc.com.
We'd like to thank the team that continues to support us in producing, editing and sharing our work. Jonah Smith for the heartfelt intro music that you hear at the beginning of each podcast. We LOVE it. Hillary Rideout for writing descriptions, designing covers and helping us share our work on social media. Chad Penner for the superpower editing work that he does to take our recordings from bumpy and glitchy to the smooth and easy to listen to episodes you are all enjoying. From our hearts, we are so thankful for this team and the support they provide us.
Episodes
99 episodes
A farewell built on trust
After four years and nearly 100 episodes of exploring what it means to build trust on purpose, we're coming to you today with a different kind of conversation; one that's deeply personal and one of the hardest we've had.Ila shares why sh...
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Can leaders rebuild trust after breaking it?
You've messed up. You know it. Your team knows it. A lot of leaders know that sinking "Oh sh!t" feeling of realizing they've done something to break their team's trust. In this episode, we dig into a real story of broken trust: the ...
What can we trust AI with and what boundaries do we need?
What if moving faster with AI didn't mean giving up your judgment?We sit down with Lindsay Semas, an AI leader who's spent years building trustworthy technology at scale, to explore the gap between what AI can do and what we should let ...
Is your leadership creating trust or dependency?
What if trust didn't depend on heroic one-to-one fixes, but on the environment you design every day?In this new episode, we explore what it means to shift from "I build trust with you" to "I build a space where everyone can build, mainta...
How do you learn to trust when no one taught you?
What happens when your early life didn't teach you how to trust? How do you learn vulnerability and honesty when those skills were never modeled for you?We sit down with Andy Vasily - Leadership / Performance Coach, Podcast Host and Educ...
What if the answer to overwhelm isn't working harder?
Overwhelm never asks permission. When it hits, our reflex is to work harder and push through. Yet that often distracts us from the one thing that restores clarity: pausing. In this new episode of Trust on Purpose, we dive into the difference be...
Are you sabotaging your team by moving too fast?
What happens when you choose long-term trust over short-term speed? Psychologist Susan David's powerful question launches us into a revealing exploration of how trust-building decisions fundamentally transform outcomes.This episode contr...
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Why your team isn't delivering (and how to fix it)
What if the secret to breakthrough results isn't working harder but making better promises? Bob Dunham, founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership, reveals the power of trustworthy commitments in creating extraordinary outcomes...
I shouldn't have to explain this
"I shouldn't have to explain this." Sound familiar? A lot of leaders feel this way about making clear requests of people. It creates a destructive cycle: vague directions lead to poor results, which fuel resentment and reinforce the belief that...
Letting life move through us: poetry, presence and leadership
What happens when we trust life enough to put down our armour and show up authentically? Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer takes us on a journey through the transformative power of creative practice and how it builds the muscle of trust - in life,...
What kind of leader are you, really?
What truly makes a good leader? We dive into this question by challenging ourselves to identify the qualities that matter most – and then getting real about how we're actually doing.We share some of our own leadership strengths and blind...
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Don't let tacit dissatisfaction damage trust
Have you ever felt that weighty silence in a team meeting when dissatisfaction hangs in the air but remains unspoken? That silence might be eroding trust beneath the surface of your relationships and organizations.In this conversation, w...
How might work be different if the culture was built on love?
Could love be the key to workplace innovation, productivity, and social change? Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO of Mobius Consulting, thinks so. We have a fascinating conversation with her in which she advocates integrating healing practices and psycho-...
Trust, emotional regulation and the route to human connection
Psychologist Dr. Jody Carrington joins us to discuss the paradoxical nature of being human: we are biologically wired for connection, yet struggle to truly see each other. Drawing from her work with first responders and children, she explains h...
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How would a trust-building KPI benefit your company?
Trust-building isn’t just a nice concept; it can be identified as a key performance indicator that can reshape how consistently people build and maintain trust within an organization and even with external stakeholders.We're joined by Sa...
Is your leadership style too rigid? Discover how flexibility builds trust and drives success
In our latest episode, we talk about the often-overlooked but game-changing aspect of flexible leadership with Kevin Eikenberry, a well-known author and leadership expert. As leadership gets more complex, knowing how to be flexible gives leader...
Questioning your worth as a leader?
How often do you blame yourself for not doing enough to support the people who work for and with you? If you do, it turns out you aren’t alone.In this episode, we look at what happens to leaders when they carry the belief they aren’t doi...
How workplace silence kills trust
What happens when you pour your heart into work only to be met with silence? Or have you ever felt the sting of being ignored after applying, and even interviewing, for a job? You’re not alone. In a new episode of Trust on Purpose, we unravel t...
The Framework
Join us as we explore a field-tested framework for building and repairing trust. Drawing from "The Thin Book of Trust," we break down the four essential assessments that shape our choice to trust others. Discover why some relationships feel lik...
How broken resolutions reshape our inner truth
Every broken New Year's resolution leaves a crack in something far more precious than our goals - it fractures the trust we hold with ourselves. In this episode, we confront the damage of making promises we never truly intended to keep, and how...
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What happens to trust when we delay uncomfortable conversations?
Ever wondered how avoiding difficult conversations could be sabotaging your relationships and your career? Join us as we explore the art of timely communication, inspired by insights from Joseph Grenny's "Crucial Conversations." We delve into t...
Can you trust yourself?
In a world that demands constant multitasking and perfection, it’s easy for self-trust to slip through the cracks. In this episode of Trust on Purpose, we dive into what it really means to trust yourself and how it shapes both your personal and...
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AI and trust: can we believe everything we see?
Get ready to dive deep in this episode of Trust on Purpose, where hosts Charles Feltman and Ila Edgar tackle big questions around trust and artificial intelligence - starting with a curious twist! It kicks off with the story of a school project...
Great workplaces: who's responsibility is it?
Today, we’re diving into a question that strikes at the heart of workplace dynamics: can a truly great workplace happen without a team-wide effort, or is it solely the leader's responsibility? We draw inspiration from Tom Geraghty's insightful ...
Trust, Safety, and the Power of Failure with Tom Geraghty - Part 2
In Part 2 of our conversation with Tom Geraghty, we explore the critical role of psychological safety and how leaders can model it for their teams. He explains how creating a psychologically safe environment isn’t just about good intentions, bu...
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