Radical Candor Podcast

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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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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When it comes to making a real difference, being remarkable isn’t about fame or titles—it’s about how you show up for others and yourself. Kim and Amy are joined by Guy Kawasaki—chief evangelist at Canva, bestselling author, and host of the Remarkable People podcast—to talk about what it really means to be remarkable. 

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How do you stay true to your values when the pressure is on? On this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim and Jason talk with Robert Glazer, author of The Compass Within, about what it really means to live and lead by your core values. 

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