Latest Simons Podcast Episodes
Milling About with Noah Wyle
Milling About - November 09, 2023 17:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNoah Wyle, best known as Dr. John Carter on ER, The Librarian, and Falling Skies, joins host Robin Milling to talk about his latest film project, At The Gates. Noah plays the patriarch of the Barris family, whose life is turned upside down when his family hides their housekeeper from El Salvado...
THL Refresher: Dealing With Crisis in Business, Bob Chapman and Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute
Truly Human Leadership - October 26, 2023 21:43 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsChapman & Co. Leadership Institute is Barry-Wehmiller’s consulting company that helps organizations identify, develop, and equip leaders. They bring the lessons we have learned at Barry-Wehmiller and our principles of Truly Human Leadership alongside scientific methods to provide individual and ...
THL Refresher: Building and Sustaining Company Culture w/ Rhonda Spencer
Truly Human Leadership - October 12, 2023 20:39 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsRhonda Spencer is Barry-Wehmiller’s Chief People Officer. She has been with our company since before the development of our Guiding Principles of Leadership and was one of the major voices in its creation. It’s her primary responsibility to be the steward of our values and make sure that light s...
Milling About with Susanna Fogel
Milling About - October 04, 2023 15:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEveryone has a dating nightmare story and Cat Person takes it to the extreme. Drector Susanna Fogel joins host Robin Milling to talk about the perils of dating in the modern world and how her lead actors Emilia Jones (CODA) and Nicholas Braun (Succession) approached their roles, finessing their c...
THL Refresher: Bob Chapman, Looking Back to Move Forward
Truly Human Leadership - September 27, 2023 21:14 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsImagine going to get coffee for your team and finding your coffee maker had been repossessed. In the early 1980s, Barry-Wehmiller was in trouble as a business, but we learned to embrace the lessons that arise during times of adversity and uncover the opportunities hidden within periods of cris...
Milling About with Mike Sargent
Milling About - September 20, 2023 18:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMike Sargent joins host Robin Milling to talk about his directorial horror slasher project From The Shadows, inspired by Zoom and the virtual world, Mike talks about working with veteran film and stage actors Bruce Davison and Keith David, and how his various life experiences as a film critic ra...
Burnout with Dr. Neha Sangwan
Truly Human Leadership - September 14, 2023 20:35 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsHere are some insights on the effects of burnout: The World Health Organization (WHO) officially recognized burnout as an occupational phenomenon in 2019. It estimates that over 75% of professionals worldwide experience burnout at some point in their careers. According to Gallup, burned-out ...
THL Refresher: Bob Chapman and Jeffrey Pfeffer, Wellness in the Workplace
Truly Human Leadership - August 31, 2023 21:23 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsA few years ago, the World Health Organization added “burn-out” to the International Classification of Diseases. Here’s how they define it: Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Quite a while ago, we learned fro...
Modeling Truly Human Leadership in the Classroom
Truly Human Leadership - August 17, 2023 21:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsAs we’ve talked about in several past episodes of this podcast, Barry-Wehmiller’s CEO, Bob Chapman, has a passion for transforming the way business education is taught in our universities. We want to transform these institutions that train people to manage into institutions that foster Truly Hum...
Milling About with John Waite
Milling About - August 14, 2023 16:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRaconteur rocker John Waite, currently on tour, checks in with host Robin Milling. Celebrating 40 years making music, John is not only a great songwriter, but a wonderful storyteller who reminisces about poignant moments in his career. At 71, John tells Robin he has no intention of letting the ye...
Raj Sisodia on Looking Inward as a Leader
Truly Human Leadership - August 03, 2023 22:17 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThroughout his writing career, Raj Sisodia has put together a roadmap of how businesses can be a powerful force for good in the world through powerful stories of conscious organizations and their leadership. However, in Raj’s new book, Awaken, The Path to Purpose, Inner Peace and Healing, he u...
THL Refresher: Simon Sinek and Bob Chapman
Truly Human Leadership - July 20, 2023 20:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIt was Simon Sinek who coined the term “Truly Human Leadership.” Simon and Barry-Wehmiller CEO Bob Chapman became fast friends when they first met years ago. Simon wrote about Barry-Wehmiller in his book, Leaders Eat Last, and he also wrote the foreword to Bob and Raj Sisodia’s book, Everybody...
Milling About with Alex Winter
Milling About - July 16, 2023 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn The YouTube Effect, director Alex Winter (Bill & Ted Franchise, Zappa) goes behind the screen with this documentary delving deep into the social media channel. Winter questions YouTube founder SteveChen, former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, YouTube creators - some who have become stars in their ...
THL Refresher: A Harvard Case Study of Truly Human Leadership
Truly Human Leadership - July 06, 2023 17:26 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIn 2016, Harvard Business School published a case study on Barry-Wehmiller's approach to leadership that is now taught at 80 business schools. In this episode of our podcast, its authors, Jan Rivkin and Dylan Minor talk about the case study method of teaching, why they chose Barry-Wehmiller as a...
Milling About with Brian Cox
Milling About - June 30, 2023 18:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSuccession star Brian Cox did his best to provide entertaining anecdotes from shooting Prisoner’s Daughter, but his attention was paid more to working with the cast and director Catherine Hardwicke. What he does remember fondly is having "great fun" with Kate Beckinsale, who played his daughter i...
Joey Coleman and The Simple Path to Remarkable Retention
Truly Human Leadership - June 22, 2023 21:29 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsJoey Coleman is the founder and Chief Experience Composer of Design Symphony – a customer experience branding firm and also the author of Wall Street Journal bestseller, Never Lose a Customer Again. Joey has a new book that very appropriate for our current times where we’ve had a Great Resignati...
Milling About with Chris Stack
Milling About - June 14, 2023 20:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this cinematic poem Midday Black Midnight Blue, Chris Stack stars as Ian, a loner on the edge of Puget Sound, grappling with long-held grief for a woman he loved Liv who died nearly two decades ago. Co-written and co-directed by Samantha Soule (Liv) and Daniel Talbott with Merritt Wever, it's...
Leadership Mindsets with Leanne Holdsworth and Naryan Wong
Truly Human Leadership - June 08, 2023 20:58 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsWhat if the best workplace we’ve ever experienced is just a fraction of what is possible? Dare we dream of something so far beyond ‘business as usual’ that it feels like a fantasy? ...to venture past the workplaces of the past and into the unknown to imagine and create something recognizably dif...
Stephen Shedletzky on Creating a Speak Up Culture
Truly Human Leadership - May 25, 2023 20:37 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDoes your organization have a Speak Up Culture? One where people feel it is safe and worth it to share their ideas, concerns, disagreements, and mistakes? Are you a leader who listens? What are you doing to make sure all voices in your organization are heard? These things are vital to having a...
THL Refresher: Starbucks Former President Howard Behar
Truly Human Leadership - May 10, 2023 21:28 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsHoward Behar, former president at Starbucks and a key figure in establishing their culture, talks about his views on leadership, his time at the coffee giant, Uber, Lyft, Amazon, Whole Foods and a whole lot else.
Milling About with Judith Owen
Milling About - May 08, 2023 19:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSinger, songwriter, and musical chanteuse Judith Owen has found her joy once again, this time with a new album of jazz standards, "Come And Get It." Judith joins host Robin Milling to chat about making her home in New Orleans to escape the last few years, where she celebrated her creativity and a...
Dr. Alise Cortez and the Great Revitalization
Truly Human Leadership - April 27, 2023 22:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOver the past several years, for multiple reasons, we’ve seen an upheaval in the workplace. Not least of which is the so-called Great Resignation. But could the turmoil of the last few years result in better workplaces? Could business leaders really understand the value of caring for their peo...
THL Refresher: Your Leader is More Important Than Your Doctor
Truly Human Leadership - April 13, 2023 19:50 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsYou may have heard our CEO, Bob Chapman, say that the person you report to at work is more important to your health than your primary care physician. It sounds outrageous, but it underscores one of the profound truths we’ve discovered at Barry-Wehmiller: That the way we lead impacts the way peop...
Building a Mattering Movement, Jennifer Wallace and Sarah Bennison
Truly Human Leadership - March 30, 2023 18:23 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsJennifer Wallace recently wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal, "The Power of Mattering at Work" that was forwarded to Barry-Wehmiller CEO, Bob Chapman. Jennifer has written a book that discusses the importance of mattering in children that comes out in August 2023, Never Enough: When...
Milling About with Todd Flaherty
Milling About - March 29, 2023 15:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWriter, director, and star Todd Flaherty joins host Robin Milling to discuss his wonderful film Chrissy Judy. Todd was inspired to write the story of two drag sisters who find themselves at a crossroads in their friendship when one pursues love in Philadelphia, while the other stays in New York t...
THL Refresher: Shawn Murphy and the Optimistic Workplace
Truly Human Leadership - March 15, 2023 21:50 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings“Today, leaders need to recognize the impact work has on peoples’ overall life satisfaction. It is an antiquated belief that leaders should focus solely on the professional side of team members’ lives. Work needs to be a positive influence, given that it consumes much of our waking time. The wor...
THL Refresher: Sara Hannah and Matt Whiat of Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute
Truly Human Leadership - March 02, 2023 20:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsChapman & Co. Leadership Institute is Barry-Wehmiller’s consulting arm that helps other companies and organizations through what we have come to call a Truly Human approach to business. They can help companies hire the right people, inspire them through a thriving and inclusive culture, develo...
Milling About with Matthew Saville
Milling About - February 23, 2023 15:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWriter/director Matthew Saville joins Robin Milling to talk about his directorial feature Juniper starring Charlotte Rampling. Matthew tells Robin about the trip he made to Paris from Auckland, New Zealand to "woo" Rampling into playing the role of the grandmother, based on his own father's mothe...
THL Refresher: Getting to Yes with Bill Ury
Truly Human Leadership - February 16, 2023 20:59 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBill Ury is the co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and is one of the world’s leading experts on negotiation and mediation. Trained as a social anthropologist, Bill has carried out his research on negotiation not only in the boardroom and at the bargaining table, but also among the Bu...
Milling About with Karen Carpenter Biographer Randy Schmidt
Milling About - February 16, 2023 16:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsProducer Randy Schmidt takes a deep dive into the real truth behind Karen Carpenter and her battle with anorexia in the poignant documentary Karen Carpenter: Starving For Perfection which premiered at the 38th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Randy spoke with host Robin Milling a...