Featured Guest Series Episodes
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Building Trust with Responsible AI with Dominique Shelton Leipzig
A 2025 PwC study found that 78% of consumers will only engage with brands that use AI responsibly and transparently. That statistic is more than a warning. It’s a window into the future of business. In this episode of The Bli...
Sustainable Business Practices and Ethics with Shelby Parsons
More customers are watching how companies behave, not just what they sell.A recent global study found that 64 percent of consumers rank sustainability as a top factor in their buying decisions, and a majority say they are mor...
The Role of Empathy in Business with Karen Price Owen
Empathy is not a soft extra in business anymore. A recent EY study found that 90 percent of workers believe empathetic leadership leads to higher job satisfaction, and nearly 80 percent say it reduces turnover. In this episod...
Building Community and Connection in Business with Michael Browning
Kids today are surrounded by digital noise, but what they crave most is a place to belong. A longitudinal study found that when young people move from no extracurriculars into regular activities, their mental health improves ...
The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Business with Kelly Roddy
Emotional intelligence is not a “nice to have” for leaders anymore. A study of more than 300 organizations found that leaders with higher emotional intelligence were associated with significantly higher employee engagement, p...
Building Community and Connection in Business with Craig Moody
Youth sports are not just about skills and scores. They are one of the most powerful engines of belonging. A 2020 meta-analysis of 50 studies found that youth sport participation is consistently linked to a stronger sense of ...
Building Community and Connection in Business with Carl Comeaux
Community is often talked about as a brand value, but for many businesses it becomes an afterthought once growth accelerates.At the same time, customers, employees, and franchise partners are craving real connection more than...
The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Business with Jania Bailey
Emotional intelligence is often called a “soft skill,” yet research shows it can account for more than half of job performance in many roles and is one of the strongest predictors of effective leadership. At the same time, ma...
Building Community and Connection in Business with Paul Flick
Only 19% of executives believe they have the right culture in place, even though 94% agree it’s critical to business success (Deloitte, 2024). Culture isn’t built through policy. It’s built through people, through shared pur...
The Role of Empathy in Leadership with Teresa Johnson
Empathy gets talked about a lot in leadership, but too often it stays at the level of slogans. Many employees still experience leaders who are distant, reactive, or purely numbers driven, even as research shows that empatheti...
Building Community and Connection in Business with Heather Neary
We have access to fast transactions and endless options, but people are craving something deeper from the brands they choose. Recent workplace surveys show that most employees and customers want to feel part of a real communi...
Innovative Work Models for the Future with Alex Filipuk
Today the “future of work” often sounds like a buzzword, because most people are still living with outdated models. Recent research from McKinsey shows that a little over half of workers prefer remote or flexible arrangements...
Conscious Capitalism: Business Beyond Profit with Shane Jackson
In a business world obsessed with quarterly results, too many leaders still treat purpose as optional instead of essential. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report shows that only about one in four employees strongly ag...
The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Business with Jennifer Lemcke
Ninety percent of top performers share one thing in common: emotional intelligence. Yet many organizations still focus on technical skills over the human skills that drive trust, retention, and growth. In this episode of The ...
Innovative Work Models for the Future with Patrick Cowden
In a world obsessed with productivity, many leaders overlook the one factor that drives it all: connection. A recent Deloitte study found that 74% of employees want more flexibility and meaning in how they work. Yet too many ...
Conscious Capitalism: Business Beyond Profit with Neal Courtney
According to Harvard Business Review, purpose-driven companies outperform competitors by 42 percent in profitability and retention. Yet too often, leaders treat profit as the goal instead of the result of meaningful, people-c...
Building Community and Connections in Business with Mark Van Wye
Only 33 percent of employees strongly agree they feel connected to their company’s mission (Gallup, 2024). That lack of connection impacts everything from engagement to innovation. In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcas...
Building Community and Connection in Business with Brian Kellerman
Only 31 percent of employees strongly agree that their company cares about their well-being (Gallup, 2024). That’s not just a people problem, it’s a business problem. In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast , we sit dow...
Conscious Capitalism: Business Beyond Profit with Rachel Fine Wilson
Only 32% of employees believe their company truly lives its stated values (Deloitte, 2024). That gap between words and actions is where trust is lost — and where conscious capitalism steps in. In this episode of The Bliss Bus...
The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Business with Kim Daly
Research from Harvard Business Review shows that 90% of top performers possess high emotional intelligence. Yet many organizations still prioritize technical skills over emotional skills when developing leaders. In this episo...
Conscious Capitalism: Business Beyond Profit with Raj Sisodia
Seventy-three percent of employees say they want to work for companies that balance profit with purpose, yet fewer than one in four believe their employer truly does (Deloitte Human Values Index, 2025). The truth is, business...
Building Community and Connection in Business with Jonathan Weathington
79% of consumers say they want brands to create real connections, not just transactions (Edelman Trust Barometer, 2024). Community isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a growth strategy. In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast ,...
Innovative Work Models for the Future with Ashley Wright
74% of companies say they are rethinking their work models to remain competitive (Deloitte, 2024). The challenge is no longer whether work will change — it is how leaders will design models that sustain both people and perfor...
What Every CEO Needs to Know About Workforce ROI with Mason Duchatschek
Only 31% of U.S. employees say they feel engaged at work (Gallup). That disengagement, combined with turnover and poor hiring decisions, costs companies nearly $1.9 trillion each year. Most CEOs treat these issues as people p...