Truth, Lies & Work

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Pick a topic that matters to you and jump straight to the episodes and clips where the show has actually talked about it.

Burnout and Wellbeing

What the show has said about burnout, workplace wellbeing, and the structures (boundaries, hope, health, money) that keep people well at work.

6 episodes · 7 clips

AI in the Workplace

How the show has covered AI's arrival in work — as a stressor, a skill, a hiring tool, and a cultural force.

4 episodes · 4 clips

Hiring and Recruitment

107 episodes carry hiring/recruitment-tagged segments — hiring is one of the show's most consistent practical themes, from methods to the "war for talent."

4 episodes · 4 clips

Leadership and Management

The show's recurring thread on what leadership and management actually are — from formal leadership theory to the everyday reality of accidental managers.

4 episodes · 8 clips

Careers and Career Change

110 episodes carry career-tagged segments — the show's most consistent individual-level theme, spanning redundancy, reinvention, promotions, and the "portfolio career."

3 episodes · 3 clips

Coaching and Mentoring

75 episodes carry coaching/mentoring-tagged segments — coaching shows up both as a professional-development investment and as a concrete practice (including reverse mentoring).

3 episodes · 3 clips

Communication and Feedback

99 episodes carry communication/feedback-tagged segments — listening, honesty, and having the difficult conversation are recurring throughlines, often framed as leadership "superpowers."

3 episodes · 3 clips

Culture and Trust

One of the highest-density themes in the archive — 199 episodes carry segments tagged culture/trust/values/belonging. It is the connective tissue beneath engagement, leadership, hiring and wellbeing.

3 episodes · 3 clips

Employee Engagement

The show's founding subject — the very first episodes are built around it, and 84 episodes carry engagement-tagged segments.

3 episodes · 3 clips

Flexible Work

What the show has said across episodes about flexible, hybrid and remote work — and the value exchange between employer and employee.

3 episodes · 6 clips

Gen Z and the Multigenerational Workplace

50 episodes carry gen-z/intergenerational-tagged segments — a consistent thread on how generations differ (and how much is just each generation being "different").

3 episodes · 3 clips

Productivity and Focus

48 episodes carry productivity-tagged segments — covering the 4-day week, focus and attention, and how we measure (and mis-measure) output.

3 episodes · 3 clips

Psychological Safety

A young theme — currently drawn from two episodes (batch 1 of the wiki build). Will thicken as more of the archive is processed.

2 episodes · 2 clips

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