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The Indigo Podcast

Ben Baran

Take control of your life, business, and career once and for all. The Indigo Podcast offers raw, unfiltered, and science-based talk about flourishing in life. Join CEOs, executives, and regu...

Episodes

20 of 139 episodes

Malissa Clark on Workaholism and Never Not Working

Do you feel compelled to work? Is your work difficult to stop thinking about? Are you upset if you have to miss a day of work? Do you tend t...

01:06:37Feb 22, 2024

Steven Rogelberg on 1:1 Meetings

Love them or hate them, meetings are everywhere. But we really do need good meetings for teams and organizations to work. Steven Rogelberg i...

50:21Feb 15, 2024

Loneliness and Building Connections for a Better Life

This episode is about loneliness--but it's also about so much more. The bigger issue has to do with building connections with each other and...

01:05:05Feb 8, 2024

Suzanne Lucas "The Evil HR Lady" on the State of HR, Improv, and More

Suzanne Lucas is the "Evil HR Lady." After a decade in corporate HR, she embarked on a new mission to enhance the world of work for all. She...

58:17Nov 9, 2023

What it Takes to be an Executive

What does it really take to be an effective senior leader? Beyond just getting promoted, what is it about people at higher levels that helps...

59:34Jul 5, 2023

Sam Paustian-Underdahl on Women, Work, and Why it Matters

Sam Paustian-Underdahl is the Mary Tilley Bessemer Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Department of Management at Florida...

01:02:54Jun 20, 2023

How "Real" Should You Be at Work and Beyond?

Who are YOU, really? In this episode, Ben and Chris explore how "real" you should be at work and in other social circles, including: The ben...

01:00:17May 30, 2023

Why Your Workplace Shouldn't be Your "Family"

It's common to hear people describe their work organizations as a "family." And that description is often made as a proud statement, as if t...

01:03:45Mar 6, 2023

Shonna Waters and Brodie Riordan on The Coaching Shift

Shonna Waters and Brodie Riordan recently wrote a book all about coaching called The Coaching Shift, and in it, they explain and describe co...

01:20:11Dec 21, 2022

Unfairness at Work: A Productivity Killer

Whether it's coping with unqualified people being promoted, working hard only to be rewarded with more hard work, supervisors getting away w...

01:01:21Oct 18, 2022

Gordon Schmidt and Sy Islam on Leadership Lessons from Superheroes

The marvel cinematic universe, or MCU, comprises 29 films that together have pulled in $27.432 billion in total revenue. And industrial and...

58:37Oct 4, 2022

What is Leadership, Actually?

Few ideas in business are as commonly discussed as leadership. Just think about all of the business books and articles and videos and bits o...

01:00:45Aug 29, 2022

Make the World Better on Sept. 24, 2022

The Vincent William Baran Day of Service is named after Ben's son, who died in a tragic accident in November 2020. The mission of the Day of...

17:07Aug 16, 2022

Bad Bosses: The Micromanager

When organizations hire managers they tend to look for experience in a similar role, or someone that might be able to take the team or organ...

01:05:59Aug 10, 2022

Imagination Beyond the Struggle of Life

What would you do if you had everything you wanted? What if you didn't have to work and your life was perfect? What then? In this episode, w...

01:02:15Jul 1, 2022

Reflect on How You Lead–and Then Lead Better

A lot of what people know about leadership and organizations is based only on their own thoughts, observations, and maybe some pop psycholog...

01:01:03May 20, 2022

Hiring Myths that Most HR People Believe

Human resources (HR) does important work and has the potential to be a powerful force for organizational capability. At the same time, HR is...

01:05:59May 12, 2022

Erik Helzer on Moral Psychology and Behavioral Ethics

Erik Helzer is an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and he specializes in three facets of practi...

01:06:39Apr 27, 2022

Some People HATED Our Joe Rogan Episode

We recently released an episode about Joe Rogan. Some people HATED it. To be fair, some people liked it too. Since releasing that episode, w...

47:51Feb 15, 2022

Joe Rogan: Why?

Joe Rogan has almost 12 million subscribers on YouTube and a gigantic podcast audience. He's also at the epicenter of an evolving controvers...

46:29Feb 8, 2022