Power & Impact

Power & Impact brings a sharp focus on conversations with top CEOs, executives, and thought leaders. Together, we'll explore their journeys to success, the challenges they've faced, and how they're using their influence to drive meaningful change in their industries and communities.

Power & Impact is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 174 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Power & Impact, a business show with 174 episodes published.

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  Stop Following the Plan. Start Following Curiosity | With Craig Dubitsky

  Sep 29, 202655 min

  What happens when you stop worrying about where your career is supposed to lead and start paying attention to what interests you? Craig Dubitsky has built a career on exactly that. He began on the floor of the commodities exchange and worked his way up to trader. Then he made a sharp turn into entrepreneurship, helping build Method and EOS before founding Hello Products. His latest venture is Happy, the coffee company he launched with Robert Downey Jr. On paper, those moves have little in common. To Craig, they're the same story. Each began with curiosity about something he couldn't leave alone, and with one question: Why does it have to be this way? In this week's Power & Impact , Craig explains how some of the biggest turns in his life began with simply saying yes to a meeting or starting a conversation. He makes the case that relationships have mattered more to his career than any carefully constructed plan. We also explore what great brands understand about human behavior, and why Craig believes curiosity and human connection will only grow more valuable in the age of AI. His career may look unconventional, but one idea runs through it: Pay attention to what interests you, and don't be afraid to follow an idea somewhere unexpected.

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  Why Storytelling Is A Leadership Superpower | With Joe Lazer

  Sep 22, 202647 min

  Every kid is a natural storyteller. Somewhere along the way, most of us lose our nerve for it. Joe Lazer believes rediscovering that skill may be one of the most powerful ways to connect with other people, especially in an age of AI. A writer, marketing executive, and AI strategist, Joe has spent his career studying what makes stories work. He sees storytelling as a human ability that starts early in life, and one most of us simply talk ourselves out of as we get older. In this week's Power & Impact , Joe and I explore why stories capture our attention, make ideas memorable, and create a shared emotional experience between people. Those qualities make storytelling especially valuable in business, and we talk about how leaders can use stories to communicate a vision and build trust. And then there's AI. As technology gets better at producing content and analysis, Joe believes our ability to form relationships and create emotional connection only becomes more valuable. He sees AI less as a replacement and more as a tool for thinking, an "intellectual sparring partner" that can challenge our assumptions.

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  What Happens When Money Tests Family Trust | With Emily Bouchard

  Sep 15, 202634 min

  Money can complicate even the strongest family relationships. It can bring to the surface questions about trust, loyalty, responsibility, and the roles everyone thought they understood. Those are questions Emily Bouchard has spent more than 20 years helping families work through. Her conversations often begin with wealth, inheritance, philanthropy, family businesses, or succession, but quickly get to the relationships underneath them. Her interest in family dynamics grew out of her own experience with loss. Emily was 14 when she suddenly lost her mother, and that loss has shaped how she thinks about resilience and about what holds a family together. In this week's Power & Impact , Emily and I explore what happens when money enters the family dynamic — and why the real challenges are rarely about the money itself. Trust is built in some moments and broken in others. Certain conversations get avoided, generation after generation. We also talk about what gets passed from one generation to the next, from wealth and responsibility to values and family stories. Emily's work is a reminder that what holds a family together can't always be measured on a balance sheet.

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  He Turned Fortune Cookies Into a Global Media Business | With Shawn Porat

  Sep 8, 202638 min

  What happens when you see an opportunity where everyone else sees something ordinary? That is the story Shawn Porat shares in this episode of Power & Impact . Shawn is a serial entrepreneur who has built businesses by thinking differently and refusing to follow the traditional path. From law school and his first technology startup to building a marketplace for legal judgments, Sean learned early that he was not wired to follow the traditional rules. Then came the fortune cookie. While sitting in a Chinese restaurant, Shawn watched people open their fortune cookies. They read the messages. They laughed. They talked about their lives. They took pictures and shared them. Most people would have seen a fortune cookie. Shawn saw an advertising platform. Today, that idea has grown into a global business reaching approximately 135 million people every month. Shawn explains how he built the company, why cold outreach became one of his most powerful tools, how he survived being $200,000 in credit card debt, and why his wife told him, "I didn't marry a quitter." We also talk about AI, the future of advertising, why real-world experiences are becoming more valuable, and why Shawn believes not fitting into the traditional mold can actually become your greatest advantage. One of my biggest takeaways from this conversation is simple: Don't wait until you know exactly how to get to the destination. Start with the next step. That's where opportunity begins.

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  Can Capitalism Work Better for Everyone? | With Martin Whittaker

  Sep 1, 202643 min

  Capitalism has a PR problem. Martin Whittaker thinks the solution isn't abandoning it but rather making it work better for more people. Martin is the CEO of JUST Capital, an organization built around a big idea: Business can be one of our most powerful tools for solving society's toughest problems, particularly when doing good and doing well point in the same direction. In this week's episode of Power & Impact , we talk about why Martin chose business after earning his Ph.D., how JUST Capital set out to "bend the arc of capitalism," and why jobs, wages, opportunity, and economic security matter so much to people's faith in the system. We also explore AI. Martin sees enormous potential for the technology to boost productivity and expand opportunity. How businesses put it to work will help determine what that opportunity looks like, especially for young people trying to find the entry-level jobs that have traditionally launched careers. Finally, we discuss philanthropy, incentives, the power of work, and creative approaches that bring business and social purpose together to solve difficult problems. It all comes back to one question: How do we build a future in which more people believe they have a stake?

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