Things Go Sideways is a podcast about the personal excavations hiding inside the plot twists — and the patterns in the story.
Things Go Sideways is a podcast about the personal excavations hiding inside the plot twists — and the patterns in the story.
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"The future of associations and the future of our leadership will not be built on certainty. It will be built on trust. Trust in our values, trust in each other. Trust in the quiet wisdom that says even now you are becoming. And trust isn't something we can possess. We can't buy trust. You can't own it. It's something that we practice, and when we do, it carries us forward, even when the ground is still forming beneath our feet. Trust. Trust is how we move forward."
"Trust is in a recession. And what we have now is people not really knowing what to believe. People of all ages believe more of what they're seeing on TikTok than they do from their own news that they see on TV, and that's a real problem."
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"I think people are getting tired. There's definitely interest in how we can get some cool little prompt or something to, like, create some marketing or whatever. But I think most people are bored with that at this point, and they're like, "Okay, can we move on beyond that, and what can we actually do now? I understand I'm hearing about things like agentic AI. What does that mean? And how do we apply that to our organizations?"
"Who can we trust? What messages can we trust? That's what's really at the center of all of it. This is especially important for any of the associations that I work with, where their stock and trade, their currency, is trust. And trust really breaks down to two things..."
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Stories, questions, and podcast notes for the moments when life, work, or identity goes sideways — and the next chapter hasn’t made itself clear yet.