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Amplify Hope Today

Amplify Hope Today

Di: Simon T. Bailey
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Amplify Hope Today is a raw and deeply human podcast hosted by Simon T. Bailey, exploring what it means to lead, rebuild, and remain hopeful in a world marked by constant change and uncertainty. Through honest conversations about the topics most people avoid—grief, identity shifts, leadership under pressure, entrepreneurship, faith, communication, resilience, and the courage to begin again—each episode challenges listeners to expand their capacity and navigate life with clarity and purpose. This is not surface-level positivity. It is a practice of choosing goodness, taking action, and becoming hopeful so you can be helpful. Amplify Hope Today invites listeners into meaningful conversations that remind us hope is not passive—it is intentional, transformative, and necessary for the world we live in today.Amplify Hope Today Catechesi ed evangelismo Cristianesimo Scienze sociali Spiritualità Successo personale Sviluppo personale
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  • 26. You're Not Underperforming. You're Under-Recognized

    26. You're Not Underperforming. You're Under-Recognized
    Sep 6 2026
    You may not have a performance problem. You may have a visibility problem.

    Most people who feel stuck at work assume they aren't doing enough. Simon T. Bailey thinks that assumption is often wrong — and that treating a recognition problem like a performance problem is why so many capable people work harder and get nowhere.

    In this episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon introduces VITAL — Vision, Inputs, Tension, Action, and Life Source — a framework for figuring out where you're actually stuck before you start fixing the wrong thing.

    He covers how to become promotable before the promotion opens, which skills hold their value in an AI-driven workplace, and how to network by adding value instead of asking for favors.

    Then he takes a turn most career advice won't. Sometimes the next right action isn't doing more. It's serving someone else, getting still, listening, and reconnecting to why the work mattered in the first place.

    You'll learn:
    • How to tell whether you're underperforming or under-recognized
    • How to become promotable before the promotion exists
    • The five skills that hold value as AI absorbs the rest: creativity, adaptability, collaboration, emotional intelligence, and storytelling
    • Why accountability accelerates growth faster than effort does
    • The difference between being busy and being effective
    • What to do when the next right move is stillness
    You are more than your current job title, your circumstance, or this season of uncertainty. You are VITAL.


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    Watch full episodes on YouTube:
    http://www.youtube.com/@AmplifyHopeTodayShow
    Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amplify-hope-today/id1881115485?i=1000752112808
    Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OJS29kGxgcYTJnzZCoehb?si=b36e8692245b4551

    STAY CONNECTED
    Follow Simon at:
    Website: https://www.simontbailey.com/
    Instagram: @SimonTBailey
    LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/simontbailey

    Follow our podcast at:
    Website: https://www.amplifyhopetoday.com/
    Instagram: @AmplifyHopeToday

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    Special thanks to our partners: Hi Hello Labs in Orlando, Florida, for powering and producing this show.

    Sponsored by: Hi Hello Labs Produced at: Hi Hello Labs



    Learn More: https://www.amplifyhopetoday.com/
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    31 min
  • 25. The One Mistake Great Leaders Make with Guest Dr. Bahiyyah Maroon

    25. The One Mistake Great Leaders Make with Guest Dr. Bahiyyah Maroon
    Aug 30 2026
    Two teachers got angry about the same note. Only one was angry about the right thing.

    Dr. Bahiyyah Maroon opens this conversation in a sixth-grade classroom — a cruel note signed by every student, a math teacher furious that his lesson was interrupted, and a science teacher furious about the cruelty itself. Those two men, she says, are the two prototypical business leaders. Most of us learned leadership long before we had a title.

    In Episode 25 of Amplify Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey welcomes Dr. Maroon — leadership anthropologist, PhD from UC Santa Cruz, and author of Black Lives, American Love — for a conversation about what actually breaks in organizations.

    Her diagnosis is one phrase: power failure. Power wielded on behalf of people it never consulted. She traces it through the diversity committee staffed by skin color rather than expertise, through the CEO reporting workforce sentiment to a board without having had the conversations, through philanthropy that arrives already certain what a community needs — and lands it on the question she says almost no leader answers honestly: Am I willing to share power, and to what degree?

    She also does something rarer. She refuses to tell half a story. Her argument about asset-based framing — that the questions we ask about communities determine the solutions we get — turns on a historical detail most listeners won't know, and it reframes the entire conversation about who needs help and who has been solving problems all along.

    You'll learn:
    • Why "some" and "many" are the two most honest words in a leader's vocabulary
    • Three questions that reveal whether you share power or only describe sharing it
    • Why grocery stores don't open in certain neighborhoods — and why the answer is a business-model problem, not a moral one
    • What Costco and Wegmans do structurally that most organizations refuse to
    • Why the real definition of ambition might be a thousand people succeeding because you made room
    Dr. Bahiyyah Maroon holds a PhD in anthropology from UC Santa Cruz and is the author of Black Lives, American Love, a collection of essays on race and resilience. Her second book is nearly finished.

    Get Black Lives, American Love wherever books are sold.

    Simon's twelfth book, Amplify Hope: Lead From Where You Are Standing, releases October 1.



    Learn More: https://www.amplifyhopetoday.com/
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    39 min
  • 24. The Hidden Fear Driving Every Decision You Make | Kim Giles

    24. The Hidden Fear Driving Every Decision You Make | Kim Giles
    Aug 23 2026
    Why do two people facing the same pressure react in completely opposite ways?

    Why do some leaders build trust in a room while others quietly drain it?

    On this episode of Amplify Hope Today, Simon T. Bailey sits down with Kim Giles — founder of the 12 Shapes Behavioral Assessment and author of How Humans Are Wired — for a conversation about what's actually happening underneath human behavior.

    Kim's premise is that every person operates from one of two places: fear or clarity. And the fear comes in two forms.

    Fear of failure: I'm not enough.
    Fear of loss: I'm not safe.

    Everything else — how you lead, how you argue, how you parent, what you say yes to — is downstream of those two sentences.

    In this episode:
    • The two fears underneath every human decision — and which one is running you
    • Why fear literally shuts down the part of your brain that thinks clearly
    • What personality tests get wrong (and why you keep testing as a different type)
    • How to tell whether you're listening or just waiting to talk
    • The question that de-escalates almost any workplace conflict
    • Why the leader everyone trusts and the leader everyone fears are doing the same thing differently
    Whether you lead a team, run a business, coach, or are raising kids — this one gives you language for what you've been sensing but couldn't name.

    Here’s a link to take the assessment - https://www.12shapes.com/simontbailey

    Here’s a link to obtain a copy of How Human Are Wired - https://a.co/d/0bJBGN8s



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    Watch full episodes on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@AmplifyHopeTodayShow

    Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amplify-hope-today/id1881115485?i=1000752112808

    Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OJS29kGxgcYTJnzZCoehb?si=b36e8692245b4551

    STAY CONNECTED
    Follow Simon at:
    Website: https://www.simontbailey.com/
    Instagram: @SimonTBailey
    LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/simontbailey

    Follow our podcast at:
    Website: https://www.amplifyhopetoday.com/
    Instagram: @AmplifyHopeToday

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    Special thanks to our partners: Hi Hello Labs in Orlando, Florida, for powering and producing this show.

    Sponsored by: Hi Hello Labs Produced at: Hi Hello Labs

    Learn More: https://www.amplifyhopetoday.com/
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    35 min
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