The Culture Matters Podcast
The Culture Matters Podcast with host, Jay Doran, is a platform to talk with business owners, executives, and cultural alike to get inside each individual's eco-system in which they practice culture in the workplace. We speak to some of the most interesting people about why culture is important.
Episodes
1126 episodes
Season 94, Episode 1126: Guest: Maria Quattrone: Becoming the Person You Could Have Been
Season 94, Episode 1126: Becoming the Person You Could Have Been with Maria QuattroneImagine reaching the end of your life and meeting the person you could have become.The person who took the chances. Who entered the rooms that in...
Season 94, Episode 1125: Guest: Russ Starke: Protecting Our Humanity in an Automated World
Technology has made life easier, faster, and more convenient.But what happens when convenience slowly teaches us to stop paying attention?In this episode of the Culture Matters Podcast, Jay Doran welcomes back Russ Starke, former ...
Season 94, Episode 1124: Guest: Mike Husson: The Eight Phases of Mastery Part 2: Why We Get Stuck with Mike Husson
Masters are learners, but they are also teachers.Mike Husson returns to the Culture Matters Podcast for Part 2 of his exploration of the Eight Phases of Mastery. This time, the conversation moves beyond understanding the framework...
Season 94, Episode 1123: Guest: Rey Perez: Building A Brand People Believe In
Your brand exists whether you intentionally build it or not.The question is: Are you controlling the narrative?In this episode of the Culture Matters Podcast, Jay Doran sits down with Rey Perez, CEO of AMPERE Brand, global ...
Season 94, Episode 1122: Guest: Kyle Ascione: The Details Matter
What happens when you care deeply about the details, the people, and the outcome, but realize that leadership sometimes requires you to care differently?In this episode of the Culture Matters Podcast, Jay Doran sits down with Kyle Ascion...
Season 94, Episode 1121: The Power To Choose: A Monologue Series
What if your greatest superpower is not intelligence, talent, experience, or even circumstance, but your ability to choose?In this monologue, Jay Doran explores choice, agency, responsibility, and the environments that shape our abili...
Season 94, Episode: 1120: Coaching, Consulting, and Advising: A Monologue Series
What is the actual purpose of a coach, consultant, or advisor?In this monologue, Jay Doran explores the distinctions between the helping professions and why the right outside perspective can change the trajectory of a leader, founder, or...
Season 94, Episode 1119: Guest: Dan Bartemus: Discernment, Preparation, and Becoming the Voice of Reason
What does it take to become the person others trust when the decision is difficult, the numbers do not tell the story everyone wants to hear, and someone has to bring the conversation back to reality?In this episode of the Culture Matter...
Season 94, Episode 1118: The Value of Values Is In THEIR Enforcement
Values are easy to claim when nothing is at stake.Their real value appears when living them costs you something.In this monologue episode of the Culture Matters Podcast, Jay Doran explores the moment when organizational values sto...
Season 94, Episode 1117: Guest: Guillermo Salazar: The Patterns We Inherit
What do we inherit from our families beyond money, genetics, and a last name?Guillermo Salazar returns to The Culture Matters Podcast for a conversation about genograms, family systems, culture, identity, and the invisible patte...
Season 93, Episode 1116: Guest: Pete Fournier: Goal First, Product Second, & Building an Insurance Business That Lasts
What separates a transactional salesperson from a trusted advisor?In this episode of the Culture Matters Podcast, Jay Doran sits down with returning guest Pete Fournier, founder of All Things Insurance Group (ATIG), to unpack the philoso...
Season 93, Episode 1115: Guest: Todd Bitter: Answer Your Damn Phone
Success rarely comes from doing extraordinary things.More often, it comes from doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well.In this episode, Jay Doran sits down with Todd Bitter, National Sales Director at NEXA Lending, t...
Season 93, Episode 1114: Guest: Nate Swink: Building Culture Through Accountability
What happens when a business grows faster than its culture?In this returning episode, Jay Doran welcomes entrepreneur and founder Nate Swink back to the Culture Matters Podcast to discuss the realities of leading a rapidly growing...
Season 93, Episode 1113: Guest: Aleck Arena: Patience, Philosophy, and the Practice of Value Investing
What if becoming a better investor has less to do with finding new ideas—and more to do with deepening your commitment to timeless ones?In this returning episode of the Value Investor Series, Jay Doran welcomes back Aleck Arena of...
Season 93, Episode 1112: Guest: Daniel Heller: Coaching Human Performance
What separates instruction from true coaching?In this thought-provoking conversation, Jay Doran sits down with educator, researcher, and performance coach Daniel Heller to explore what it really means to help people grow. Drawing from n...
Season 93, Episode 1111: When Values Become Words Instead of Actions: A Monologue Series
Every organization has values.The question is whether those values are being lived—or merely talked about.In this episode, Jay Doran examines one of the clearest signs that an organization has fallen under the influence of the ...
Season 93, Episode 1110: Breaking the Liar Lid: A Monologue Series
Every entrepreneur eventually reaches a moment where their greatest strength becomes their greatest obstacle.The vision that once fueled innovation can begin filtering reality instead of revealing it. In this episode, Jay Doran explores...
Season 93, Episode 1109: When Belief Becomes Distortion: A Monologue Series
Every entrepreneur must believe in something before anyone else does.But what happens when that belief stops serving the organization and starts protecting the entrepreneur instead?In this powerful solo episode, Jay Doran continue...
Season 93, Episode 1108: The Deficit That Creates Great Entrepreneurs: A Monologue Series
Every entrepreneurial journey begins with a deficit.Not simply a lack of money, but a gap between today's reality and tomorrow's possibility.In this continuation of The Liar Lid Journey series, Jay Doran explores how defi...
Season 93, Episode 1107: The Liar Lid Journey: A Monologue Series
Every entrepreneur begins with a vision that no one else can fully see.Before there is a company, a customer, or a balance sheet, there is an individual willing to assume extraordinary risk for an idea that exists only in their imaginati...
Season 93, Episode: 1106: Trust Is No Longer Assumed: A Monologue Series
What happens when organizations can no longer rely on trust that simply exists?In this thought-provoking solo episode, Jay Doran explores one of the defining challenges facing modern leadership: rebuilding trust in organizations where sh...
Season 93, Episode 1105: Attention is the New Currency: A Monologue Series
If attention has become the most valuable currency in business, how should organizations protect it without reducing people to metrics?In this solo episode, Jay Doran explores one of the defining leadership questions of the modern era: h...
Season 92, Episode 1104: Designing Attention in the Modern Organization: A Monologue Series
Attention is no longer something leaders can assume.It must be intentionally designed.In this thought-provoking solo episode, Jay Doran examines one of the defining challenges facing organizations today: how to keep employees focu...
Season 92, Episode: 1103: Incentives Shape Culture, but Sacrifice Sustains It: a Monologue Series
Every organization has incentives.The question is whether those incentives create commitment—or merely compliance.In this solo episode, Jay Doran explores the invisible relationship between incentives, sacrifice, accountability, a...
Season 92, Episode: 1102: The Leader Regulates The Culture: A Monologue Series
Culture doesn't maintain itself.Every organization naturally drifts toward disorder unless someone intentionally restores alignment. In this solo episode, Jay Doran explores one of leadership's greatest responsibilities: not creating cul...