Radical Candor Podcast

Wealth concentration in the United States is top of mind these days. While it's tempting to see this as a recent trend, it's instructive to look at what was happening in American politics decades ago — and see how many of these forces were already set in motion in the 1970s.

On this episode of the Radical Candor Podcast, Kim talks with Prof. David Gibbs about his book Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America's Class Divide — and the Nixon and Carter administration decisions that still reverberate today.

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We all love the convenience of our digital devices and connected services. But what about the ever-expanding pile of digital breadcrumbs we leave behind every day? Those crumbs get swept up by private companies to target us with ads, and by government agencies who might use them for legitimate police work — or, in some cases, political repression. So a lot of people are asking: should I be doing more to protect my personal privacy, and how?

On this episode of the Radical Candor Podcast, Kim talks with tech evangelist and prolific author Guy Kawasaki about the journey that led him to start using Signal — and then to co-author Everybody Has Something to Hide, a hands-on guide for using it well.

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When tech is at its best, it’s a group of people working together to solve hard problems in a way that makes the world a better place. That goal is what motivated so many folks in Silicon Valley to come here. How then did we cede the microphone to a small number of people who espouse an authoritarian, rich-get-richer algorithm? How can we take action to advocate for our vision of a better future?

On this episode of the Radical Candor Podcast, Kim talks with Lisa Conn — founder of Gatheround and former Meta employee — and Anne Wootton — co-founder of Pop Up Archive and current senior engineering manager at Apple — about the ICEout.tech movement, why they signed the pledge, and how tech employees can organize for change without compromising their day jobs.

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What if the advice to “just be yourself” is quietly sabotaging your leadership?

What if the reason your feedback lands poorly, your team feels divided, or your workplace feels tense isn’t honesty, but how you define authenticity?

In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim Scott and Amy Sandler sit down with organizational psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author of Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated and What to Do Instead. Together, they unpack the four “authenticity traps” that sound empowering — but often backfire at work.

Are Your Beliefs Running Your Leadership?

What if the reason you’re not doing what you know you should do isn’t discipline, intelligence, or even distraction — but belief

What if the hardest conversations you’re avoiding, the habits you can’t seem to build, or the distractions you keep blaming on technology are actually rooted in a story you’re telling yourself?

In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim Scott sits down with behavioral design expert and bestselling author Nir Eyal, known for Hooked, Indistractable, and his forthcoming book Beyond Belief. Together, they explore how beliefs shape behavior, why discomfort drives more of our actions than we realize, and how leaders can rewrite the internal scripts that keep them stuck.

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Leadership conversations often center on feedback, culture, and performance. But sometimes the most important leadership questions are bigger:

• What future are we building?

• Who gets to decide?

• And what stories are shaping our choices?

In this episode of the Radical Candor Podcast, Kim Scott and Amy Sandler sit down with astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.

It’s a conversation about AI, billionaires, space colonization, effective altruism—and the powerful myths driving Silicon Valley’s vision of the future.

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Leadership challenges don’t usually stem from a lack of effort, intelligence, or commitment. More often, they come from something harder to see: the assumptions leaders carry about themselves, their teams, and what it takes to succeed.

In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim Scott and Amy Sandler are joined by Muriel Wilkins,  executive coach to senior leaders and C-suite executives, host of the Coaching Real Leaders podcast from Harvard Business Review, and author of Leadership Unblocked. Muriel has spent decades helping high performers navigate inflection points in their leadership journeys. In this conversation, she shares what she’s learned about the hidden beliefs that quietly shape behavior, and why sustainable change begins beneath the surface.

What emerges is a clear throughline: leaders don’t get stuck because they aren’t trying hard enough. They get stuck because they’re solving the wrong problem.

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What do you do when the career path that once felt clear no longer is? What if that stuck, uneasy feeling in the middle of your career isn’t a failure, it’s information and an opportunity to rewrite your career story.

In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim and Jason  sit down with Adrion Porter, founder of Mid-Career Mastery, host of the podcast Gen X Amplified, and a LinkedIn Top Voice to talk honestly about the “Messy Middle” and what to do when your old definitions of success no longer fit. 

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The early internet was built on big hopes—access, openness, connection, and the belief that technology could make the world fairer. In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim & Jason are in conversation with Steven Levy. His recent article, “I thought I knew Silicon Valley. I was wrong.”, becomes the lens through which they revisit tech’s early promise and its reality today.

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How do you fix what’s not working without losing trust in the process? On this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim and Amy talk with beloved Harvard Business professor Frances Frei and her wife, CEO and bestselling author Anne Morriss, about why speed and care aren’t opposites — and how the right sequence of actions can help you go faster and strengthen relationships along the way.

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