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  • Imbalances in Tech, Industry and AI with Lauren Celenza (Throwback)

    Imbalances in Tech, Industry and AI with Lauren Celenza (Throwback)
    Jul 20 2026
    What if the key to navigating technology, AI and modern life is just knowing where to look for the imbalance? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Lauren Celenza, software designer and navigator of the relationship between humans and technology, who helped redesign Google Maps for communities across Indonesia, India, Nigeria and Brazil, and built the free tax filing tool that saved Americans over $90 million. But the conversation goes much deeper than tech. In this episode: - Growing up with a dad shaped by de-industrialization and what that taught her about work - Why it's a radical act to love family members with different political views - The biggest imbalances she sees in AI right now and who holds the power - What it means to be part of the last generation that remembers life before the internet - Independence vs interdependence and why that distinction matters more than ever - What her dad told her about finding a career that won't consume you Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 👉 Mentioned in this episode: • Monika Jiang’s “Sharing Our Loneliness” — https://www.monikajiang.org/sharing-our-loneliness • Inside the beloved IRS Direct File tool — and why it’s under threat — https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/06/direct-file-beloved-its-users-internal-irs-report-says/405883/?oref=ng-homepage-riverand • Why Direct File is now open-source (and what that means) — https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/ • On deindustrialisation and its lasting impact on working-class communities — https://inthesetimes.com/article/deindustrialization-offshoring-manufacturing-factory-factories-unemployment-layoff-work-labor-workers-working-people-working-class-industry-ohio-michigan-south-carolina-pepsi-gm Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@guts.podcast LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 13 min
  • Turning Trauma Into Truth with Tracey Arcabasso Smith

    Turning Trauma Into Truth with Tracey Arcabasso Smith
    Jul 13 2026
    What if your life’s purpose was to break the silence that held your family together? In this episode of Getting Under the Skin, Topaz sits down with artist and filmmaker Tracey Arcabasso Smith (she/her), whose documentary Relative explores the generational trauma of sexual abuse in her family, and the healing that followed. Tracey shares: - The spiritual shifts that helped her redefine “mother” - Why the courage to speak out didn’t feel like a choice - How she balances her corporate leadership with a deep commitment to inner truth - The tension between healing, parenting, and staying clear in a world full of pain From vulnerability to visionary leadership, Tracey invites us to look within and reflect on what we’re really here to do. What has life designed you for? Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 23 min
  • Deepening Minds with Tegan Broadwater

    Deepening Minds with Tegan Broadwater
    Jul 6 2026
    What happens when you spend months building real friendships with people you're about to send to prison? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Tegan Broadwater, decorated undercover operative, author of Life in the Fishbowl, and founder of a private security firm, who burned out as a jazz musician, cut his hair and became a cop, then spent nearly two years deep undercover infiltrating a Crips gang in his own city. The same city where his wife and son were waiting at home. In this episode: - Burning out as a jazz musician and becoming a cop overnight - Going deep undercover in a gang in his own city - Building real friendships with people he was about to arrest, and the emotional crash when it was all over - Why perspective is his greatest gift Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. Deepening Minds with Tegan Broadwater | Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 10 min
  • We Need Each Other to See Ourselves with Ashley Wick

    We Need Each Other to See Ourselves with Ashley Wick
    Jun 29 2026
    What if the life you've been building has been quietly asking you to slow down and find out who you actually are? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Ashley Wick, transformational coach and founder of Fertile Ground, who spent her childhood shapeshifting between groups she never quite belonged to, 15 years in PR and fashion helping brands find their essence while losing her own, and then at 30, made a phone call that changed everything. In this episode: Growing up as a floater, never quite belonging to any one group Fifteen years in PR learning to shape narratives and what that cost her The phone call she made at 30 to the person who abused her in childhood Handing her three-day-old daughter over for open heart surgery and finding pure surrender How moving to Uruguay is teaching her to shed everything she leaned on Why the question is never "can I do it?" but "who am I becoming if I do?" Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 🎙️ Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt, out now on GUTS: Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 15 min
  • Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt

    Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt
    Jun 22 2026
    What does it cost to spend a lifetime doing what you believe in, while the world decides whether it agrees? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Joseph Gerstandt, Desert Storm veteran, poet, and one of America's most trusted voices on diversity and inclusion, who grew up on a farm in Iowa convinced that emotions were a distraction. He spent years in corporate America lying awake at night dreading work, certain the problem was him. It wasn't. In this episode: - Growing up stoic on a farm and spending decades emotionally behind the curve - How working in HIV prevention cracked his world open and changed everything - What it's like being a white man doing DEI work for 18 years as the field gets politicized - Why he believes the world needs better questions more than better answers - The quiet admission that he still struggles to feel worthy of love Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 🎙️ Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt, out now on GUTS: Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 min
  • Show Up and Show Out with Jess Russ

    Show Up and Show Out with Jess Russ
    Jun 15 2026
    What happens when you win the thing you've been working toward your whole life and it terrifies you? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Jess Russ, Grammy award-winning songwriter, creative, and athlete, who grew up in Alabama with Goodwill clothes and $5 to everyone else's hundred. She learned early how to show up and show out. But at 27, she's asking a harder question: what happens when showing up starts to cost you everything?In this episode: - Growing up Black in the South, showing up in rooms she was never handed access to - How winning a Grammy at 27 became a double-edged sword - Why her biggest failures have been relational, not professional - The fear of being considered but never chosen - What it really means to give yourself permission before anyone else does Listen to GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 4 min
  • Uncovering the Truth Behind a Legendary Life with Dr. Ichak Adizes

    Uncovering the Truth Behind a Legendary Life with Dr. Ichak Adizes
    Jun 8 2026
    What if your greatest strength came from your deepest wound?In this unscripted and deeply human conversation, Dr. Ichak Adizes, one of the world's most influential business thinkers, opens up to his son, filmmaker and host Topaz Adizes, in a raw dialogue about love, aging, grief, legacy, and healing. In this conversation, we explore: - What he regrets passing down to his children and what he's proud to have given - How a childhood without love became the fuel for global impact - Why success was never about achievement, but about being loved - What aging feels like when time no longer feels endless - The paradox of gaining wisdom while losing memory 🔗 Learn more about Dr. Adizes and his work https://www.adizes.com/ 📖 Read his autobiography, The Accordion Player https://publications.adizes.com/products/the-accordion-player-english __________________________________________________________________________ 👉 Follow us on social media: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@guts.podcast LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 min
  • Descaling the Dragon with Daryn Reicherter ​

    Descaling the Dragon with Daryn Reicherter ​
    Jun 1 2026
    What if the worst thing that could happen to you isn't death, but stopping your growth? What if the worst thing that could happen to you isn't death, but stopping your growth? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Daryn Reicherter, Stanford professor of psychiatry and the man courts call when they need to put a dollar value on human suffering. From his grandfather escaping a Nazi work camp in Holland to briefing the UN Security Council on trauma and ISIS, Daryn has spent decades translating the language of human suffering into something courts and governments can actually act on. In this episode: - The grandfather who survived a Nazi work camp and never spoke about it - Why trauma psychology was invisible in courts until 2011 - The moment all ego disappeared saving his best friend from drowning - The camel, the lion, and the dragon you have to slay to become yourself - What happens when you take Stanford freshmen to Leland Stanford's grave - Why the worst thing that could happen isn't death Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 min