Voice Notes while the Data Loads

Voice Notes while the Data Loads is the podcast for anyone who's ever felt like they're winging it. Host Timmy Cheung reveals what People Analytics work actually looks like: dashboards that panic you, leaders who want data to confirm their biases, and moments when imposter syndrome hits hard. Each bite-sized episode (5-10 minutes) tackles real struggles with honesty, unprofessionalism, and no corporate speak. Solo rants and guest conversations covering everything from engagement surveys to coffee shop AI converts. Perfect for your commute, coffee break, or while your data loads!

Voice Notes while the Data Loads is a business podcast hosted by Timmy Cheung, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Timmy Cheung hosts Voice Notes while the Data Loads, a business show with 22 episodes published.

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  Episode #20

  Episode XX - Its not a gut feeling. Its a hypothesis

  Aug 3, 202611 minS2

  Season 2 ends where Season 3 begins - with rationality. In this final episode, Timmy Cheung is joined by Ian Pinkett, Global People Analytics Director at Arcadis, for a conversation that will make you think differently about every senior stakeholder who's ever walked into your office with a hunch. Here's the thing about gut feel: it's not subjective noise. It's a hypothesis waiting to be tested. Ian shares why he actively encourages gut feel, how to build trust by serving the cheeseburger before selling the big mac, and why boiling the ocean leaves everyone unsatisfied. A warm, geeky, genuinely insightful conversation between two people who love Marvel, people analytics, and asking better questions.

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  Episode #19

  Episode XIX - Radiators, Drains and the art of Mattering

  Jul 26, 202612 minS2

  What does it actually mean to matter? Not after retirement, not in theory, but right now, today, as a whole person? In this episode, Timmy Cheung is joined by his beloved friend and people leader Katherine Billingham-Mohamed, who introduces the concept of mattering from Jennifer Breheny Wallace's book (feeling valued plus adding value equals mattering) and unpacks its five core principles: recognition, reliance, importance, ego extension, and attunement. A warm, honest, and genuinely human conversation about leadership, belonging, doing good to feel good, and why the people who radiate energy are always worth keeping close.

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  Episode #8

  Episode XVIII - Measuring the mask, not the person

  Jul 19, 20267 minS2

  A UFC fighter who lost his father and still stepped into the octagon. A god who lost everything and kept showing up. And a man on the underground to Canary Wharf, blasting hard rock into his ears, tearing up, feeling completely hollow - and then walking through the door and switching it all off. In this episode, Timmy Cheung asks the question most organisations are too focused on output to ever ask: what is actually happening behind the performance? Featuring Serghei Spivac, Thor, a dog named Shelby, and Andrew Marritt's central argument (featured in David Green's April 2026 curation) that the purpose of analysis is not insight. It is better decisions.

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  Episode #16

  Episode XVI- Retirement nobody prepared you for

  Jul 6, 20269 minS2

  What happens when the thing that defined you: the role, the purpose, the reason you got up every morning, quietly stops needing you back? In this episode, Timmy Cheung explores the retirement nobody talks about honestly. Not the pension pot. Not the gold watch. The grief. Drawing on the film Logan, a Wall Street Journal piece on the concept of a "mattering span," and a deeply personal reflection on watching his own parents figure out who they were once the family takeaway closed its doors. This episode asks the question most organisations are nowhere near ready to answer. What happens to a person when the world stops calling on them?

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  Episode #15

  Episode XV - When work becomes who you are

  Jun 28, 20268 minS2

  There's a question that runs underneath every promotion, every job title, every carefully built career. Almost nobody asks it. In this episode, Timmy Cheung explores what happens when work becomes the entirety of who you are, drawing on Tajfel's Social Identity Theory, Carmy Berzatto's identity crisis in The Bear, and a deceptively simple question from a Season 1 episode of Frasier that an entire psychiatrist couldn't answer. Because your job title is not your identity. It's a role an organisation gave you, and could take back at any moment. So before you reach for it the next time someone asks what you do, ask yourself the only question that actually matters. Are you happy? Voice Notes While the Data Loads. Season 2. Feelings drive everything.

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