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Radical Candor: Communication at Work

by Kim Scott & Jason Rosoff · English · Business

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 49 min
Latest: 6 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026 · 54 minNew

How Microaggressions can have significant negative impacts (with Dr. Kecia Thomas )

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, Kim Scott speaks with Dr. Kecia Thomas, an organizational psychologist renowned for her research on workplace dynamics. Kim discusses Dr. Thomas’ research on the 'Pet to Threat' framework, which explores the experiences of women, particularly women of color, in organizational settings. They discuss the transition from being seen as a 'pet' to a 'threat' in the workplace, the impact of gender and leadership dynamics, and the…

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S8 · E26 · 22 Sep 2026 · 1 hr

Fixing the Employee Experience (with Tiffani Bova)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. Today, employees working in organizations both large and small are faced with incredible pressure to integrate AI into their workflows both to save costs and to do more. But many of those same employees express fears, “am I just training robots to put me out of a job?!” While it can be tempting for leaders in the C-suites to use AI to “finally get the upper hand on these whiny/needy/entitled employees!”, they risk damaging their core…
S8 · E25 · 16 Sep 2026 · 54 min

The Science Behind High-Performing Teams (with Ron Friedman)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors whose books have had a big impact on her over the past two years. In this episode, Kim Scott speaks with Ron Friedman, PhD. Ron has written extensively about the sciences of building high-performing teams. Ron’s latest book is Superteams: The Science and Secrets of High-Performing Teams. They discuss the importance of the creative process, the role of restoration in productivity, and the key strengths that distinguish super teams from average teams. The conversation delves into effective meeting strategies,…
S8 · E24 · 9 Sep 2026 · 53 min

Ways to Manage - Back by Brain Science (with Caroline Webb)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors whose books have had a big impact on her over the past two years. In this episode, Kim Scott speaks with Caroline Webb about her latest book, Leadership Intelligence. They explore the principles of effective leadership: the importance of widening perspectives; the role of cognitive load in decision-making; and the significance of intrinsic motivation through competence and connection. The conversation also delves into the dynamics of disagreement, the necessity of feedback, and practical strategies for…
S8 · E23 · 1 Sep 2026 · 52 min

Get Situated for Success (with Angela Duckworth)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, Kim Scott speaks with Angela Duckworth. Her first book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, is a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her second book is Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best. In this conversation, Kim interviews Angela about her new book, 'Situated.' They explore a deceptively simple three-box model that explains all of human behavior. Angela emphasizes the power of environment in…
S8 · E22 · 18 Aug 2026 · 49 min

Revolutionizing Meetings: From Sabotage to Strategy (with Rebecca Hinds)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, Kim speaks with Rebecca Hinds, the author of Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done. They explore the evolution of meetings from wartime sabotage tools to the challenges and strategies for improving meetings in today's technology-driven workplace. They discuss the increasing time spent in meetings, especially post-pandemic, and present seven solutions to eliminate unnecessary…
S8 · E21 · 4 Aug 2026 · 45 min

Why some leaders are incorruptible, many get corrupted by power/money (with Rob Lalka)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, Kim speaks with Rob Lalka, the author of The Venture Alchemists - How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power. In this episode of Radical Sabbatical, Kim sits down with Rob Lalka, author of Venture Alchemist, to study what the founders of Facebook, Google, and the “PayPal Mafia” were saying and writing before anyone was paying attention to them. They explore what separates the leaders who stayed grounded from the ones who didn't.…
S8 · E20 · 15 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

How Great Leaders Make Everyone Better (with Liz Wiseman)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. Building high-performance teams, especially in dynamic industries, can be one of the biggest challenges a leader faces. Sometimes passionate founders or senior leaders can go from passionate advocate to authoritarian autocrat. Left unchecked, this can lead to organizations underperforming in the long term and missed opportunities. So where is the balance? In this episode, Kim speaks with Liz Wiseman, the author of multiple New York Times…
S8 · E19 · 7 Jul 2026 · 56 min

How to Raise Emotionally Resilient Kids — and Lead the Same Way (with Dr. Becky Kennedy)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. How can parenting skills help us become better team members and leaders in the workplace? Sure, you can’t “ground” your direct report when they screw up an important project, but the lessons of good parenting can certainly help us all be better at building effective and healthy teams. In this episode, Kim speaks with Dr. Becky Kennedy, the author of Good Inside, a New York Times #1 bestseller. Dr. Becky’s background as a clinical…
S8 · E18 · 10 Jun 2026 · 49 min

Why Racial Inequality Costs Everyone (with Heather McGhee)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, Kim speaks with Heather McGhee, the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, a New York Times bestseller. Heather takes Kim on a journey through US history, demonstrating how efforts to exclude some of us from public goods harm all of us, starting with public swimming pools in the United States. As Heather describes in The Sum of Us, “By World War II, the country’s two thousand…
S8 · E17 · 3 Jun 2026 · 1 hr

Where the World's Dirty Money Actually Goes (with Oliver Bullough)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, Kim speaks with Oliver Bullough, journalist and author of the highly acclaimed books: Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything and Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back. Oliver’s new book is called Everybody Loves Our Dollars - How Money Laundering Won. Oliver describes a moment in his life that shaped each…
S8 · E16 · 27 May 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (with Prof Gary Gerstle)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, Kim speaks with Gary Gerstle, best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order and ten other books. Kim said that after reading this book, she began to feel that when it comes to economic policy, we really have a one-party system. The architect of the New Deal Order was FDR, a Democrat, but its general contractor was Eisenhower, arguably the most progressive of all American presidents. The architect of the…
S8 · E15 · 20 May 2026 · 46 min

How a 19th-Century Bombing Shaped Modern Surveillance (with Steven Johnson)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, Kim speaks with Steven Johnson, co-founder of Notebook LM, not about AI but about his book, The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective. They start with the story of how the Swiss dominated the watch industry for over a century, thanks to a highly decentralized network of cottage laborers in the Jura mountains. The culture of autonomy in the industry was so strong that it…
S8 · E14 · 13 May 2026 · 57 min

Why You Want What Other People Want (with Luke Burgis)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, she’s speaking with Luke Burgis about his new book, The One and the Ninety-Nine, Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion. Through stories ranging from the parable of the lost sheep to August Landmesser, the only person in a huge crowd to refuse to salute to Hitler, Luke describes the missing skill that makes real community possible: learning how to remain oneself while staying connected to others. He offers…
S8 · E13 · 6 May 2026 · 46 min

How to Build Teams That Actually Flourish (with Daniel Coyle)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode, she’s speaking with Daniel Coyle about his new book, Flourish, The Art of Building Meaning, Joy and Fulfillment. What is a meaningful life, and how do we make one? How do certain communities foster closeness, fulfillment, happiness, and energy? Daniel Coyle has spent the last few years trying to crack this code. He talks about the transformation that happened during the famous story of the 33 miners trapped 2000 feet…
S8 · E12 · 29 Apr 2026 · 1 hr

How Great Companies Stay Great (with Eric Ries)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode she’s speaking with Eric Ries about his new book, Incorruptible, Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great. All too often, founders start a company and hire an incredible team dedicated to building a company that will solve an important problem and leave the world better off. Then they get a taste of success and life is good. But all too often, the bankers and lawyers swoop in and the demands to…
S8 · E11 · 22 Apr 2026 · 47 min

What is a Problem I Can Help Solve? (with Tom Rath)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. In this episode she’s speaking with Tom Rath about his new book What’s The Point. Graduation speeches are often filled with lofty advice for how to approach the upcoming transition from school to the real world–a topic that feels especially fraught at this moment of AI Anxiety. Speakers often urge newly minted graduates to “follow your passion.” But is that the best way to decide what type of work to focus on as a career? Perhaps a better…
S8 · E10 · 15 Apr 2026 · 43 min

When Work Cultures Turn Toxic (with Rob Copeland)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. Office culture is a fascinating topic. It can be the special sauce that helps bring together team members to achieve excellence. But what happens when the company culture becomes a toxic mess? What happens when a very charismatic CEO becomes obsessed with both cataloging people’s weaknesses and then broadcasting them to the entire company? What happens when that same CEO mandates “internal reporting” on fellow co-workers, techniques that…
S8 · E8 · 8 Apr 2026 · 45 min

How to Remake America S8 | E9

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. Again we discuss the topic of wealth inequality and the accompanying concentration of political power. It is tempting to think that we live in an unprecedented era, and yet there are lessons to be learned from the past. Today, Kim talks to Professor John Witt of Yale Law School about his recent book, The Radical Fund. It is a fascinating story of The Garland Fund, established by Charles Garland in the early 1920s. The book takes us on a…
S8 · E8 · 1 Apr 2026 · 48 min

How the Ultra-Wealthy Captured American Democracy (with Prof David Gibbs)

While the podcast team is taking a Radical Sabbatical, Kim is interviewing authors of the books that have had a big impact on her in the past two years. Wealth concentration in the United States is top of mind these days. While it’s tempting to see this as a recent trend, it is instructive to look at what was happening in American politics decades ago and see how many of these forces were set in motion in the 1970’s. Kim talks with Prof. David Gibbs about his book, Revolt of the Rich, How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America's Class Divide. Prof. Gibbs reviews decisions that were made…
S8 · E7 · 25 Mar 2026 · 23 min

Your Privacy: Why You Should Care and Tools to Protect It 8 | 7

We all love the convenience of our digital devices and connected services. But what about our ever expanding pile of digital breadcrumbs we leave behind as we go about our day? These breadcrumbs can be swept up by private companies to learn quite about us and target us with specific goods and services. They can also be collected by government agencies who might use this information for legitimate police work or in some instances, political repression. So, many people are asking themselves, should I be doing more to protect my personal privacy and how should I go about this. Tech evangelist…
S8 · E6 · 18 Mar 2026 · 41 min

How Tech Employees Can Organize for Change (with Lisa Conn and Anne Wootton)

When tech is at its best, it is 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 people working inside tech companies grab the bullhorn away from the authoritarians to describe the world we want to create? How we can take action to advocate for our vision of a better future? One recent manifestation of this is the ⁠ICEout.tech⁠ movement.…
S8 · E5 · 11 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

Rethinking Authenticity and What to Do Instead with Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 8|5

“Be yourself.” “Bring your whole self to work.” “Don’t worry what people think.” These phrases sound empowering—but in real workplaces, they can create confusion, conflict, and even harm. In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim Scott and Amy Sandler sit down with organizational psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic—Chief Science Officer at Russell Reynolds Associates, professor of business psychology at University College London and Columbia University, and author of Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated and What to Do Instead. They start with a moment of actual Radical…
S8 · E4 · 4 Mar 2026 · 48 min

Why We Don’t Do What We Know We Should: Beliefs, Habits, and AI Practice with Nir Eyal 8|4

What if the reason you don’t give feedback, follow through, or change your habits… isn’t willpower? What if it’s a belief? In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim Scott talks with Nir Eyal — author of Hooked, Indistractable, and his new book Beyond Belief — about the hidden force behind motivation: the stories we tell ourselves. They explore: Why AI can’t replace human relationships — but can help us practice hard conversations The limiting belief that keeps people silent at work Why knowing what to do isn’t enough How pain (not pleasure) drives behavior The difference between…
S8 · E3 · 18 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

AI Gods, Space Empires, and the Stories Tech Uses to Justify Power with Adam Becker 8|3

What if the loudest stories about the future—AI gods, Mars colonies, digital immortality—aren’t science at all, but science fiction masquerading as inevitability? In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim Scott and Amy Sandler are joined by science journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker (PhD in computational cosmology), author of More Everything Forever. Adam breaks down the “big three” myths that dominate Silicon Valley’s imagination: space colonization, superintelligent god-like AI, and the singularity. He explains why both the utopian and apocalyptic versions of AI stories…
S8 · E2 · 11 Feb 2026 · 55 min

The 7 Hidden Beliefs That Hold Leaders Back with Muriel Wilkins 8|2

Why do so many leaders work hard to change — only to end up in the same place months later? What if the problem isn’t effort, but the beliefs running in the background? In this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim Scott and Amy Sandler are joined by Muriel Wilkins — executive coach, C-suite advisor, host of Coaching Real Leaders, and author of Leadership Unblocked. Together, they unpack why high performers default to action, how action bias can backfire when internal beliefs stay the same, and what it takes to create sustainable leadership growth. Muriel introduces seven common “hidden…
S8 · E1 · 21 Jan 2026 · 41 min

It’s Not Too Late: Getting Unstuck Mid-Career with Adrion Porter 8|1

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. On this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Adrion Porter founder of Mid-Career Mastery, host of the podcast Gen X Amplified, and a LinkedIn top voice joins Kim and Jason to talk honestly about the “Messy Middle” and what to do when your old definitions of success no longer fit. Together, they explore Adrion’s Mastery Map, a practical framework for getting unstuck by letting…
S7 · E43 · 10 Dec 2025 · 36 min

From Optimism to Reckoning: Reflections on Silicon Valley with Steven Levy 7|43

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. They take an honest look at the optimism that shaped Silicon Valley’s early culture and how those ideals unraveled. Kim & Steven candidly share their unique perspective of how it feels to recognize the gap…
S7 · E42 · 3 Dec 2025 · 45 min

The Fixable Framework : Solve Real Problems Quickly, Without Breaking Relationships with Frances Frei & Anne Morriss 7|42

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. Anne and Frances break down the five-day framework behind their book Move Fast and Fix Things, share real stories from coaching leaders and teams, and explain why so many of us misdiagnose the problems…
S7 · E41 · 19 Nov 2025 · 45 min

Why We All Need a Curiosity Check With Jeff Wetzler 7 | 41

Difficult conversations don’t get easier by avoiding them—but they can get better when you prepare for them by getting curious. On this episode of The Radical Candor Podcast, Kim talks with Jeff Wetzler, author of ASK, about how staying curious helps us understand what others are really thinking and feeling. Jeff walks us through the curiosity curve and explains how to move into greater curiosity to reduce misunderstandings, deepen trust, and make space for more honest, helpful conversations—at work and at home. If you’ve ever faced a moment where you weren’t sure how to start, what to say,…

About Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Ready to love your job, crush your career goals, and become the kind of leader everyone actually wants to work with? Welcome to the Radical Candor podcast, where you'll learn how to kick ass at work without losing your humanity. Host Amy Sandler and Radical Candor co-founders Kim Scott and Jason Rosoff to break down how you can Care Personally and Challenge Directly — the deceptively simple but powerful formula for building stronger teams, giving (and getting) better feedback, and leading with heart and clarity. Each episode is packed with real talk, relatable stories, and actionable tips to help you do the best work of your life while building the best relationships of your career. Whether you’re a manager, a team player, or dreaming bigger for your future, this is the podcast that will change how you show up at work — and in life. P.S. Don’t forget to check out Kim Scott’s New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity! Want even more Radical Candor? Join the Radical Candor Community — free forever.

Radical Candor: Communication at Work is a English business podcast from Kim Scott & Jason Rosoff. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Kim Scott & Jason Rosoff
Language: English
Category: Business
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 49 min
Latest episode: 6 Oct 2026
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