Belonging does not mean comfort. Carlee Wolfe of Hyatt Hotels reveals why culture initiatives fail and what high performance actually requires. If your organization put the values on the wall and nothing moved, this conversation explains why. Lori Adams-Brown sits down with Carlee Wolfe, Associate Vice President of Leader Development…
Why do brilliant professionals go silent in meetings? Organizational psychologist Neelu Kaur reveals the hidden cultural forces behind self-advocacy, voice, and power at work. In this episode of A World of Difference, host Lori Adams-Brown sits down with Neelu Kaur, global keynote speaker, organizational psychologist, and author of Be Your…
What if the silence in your meetings has nothing to do with confidence and everything to do with culture? Organizational psychologist Neelu Kaur (https://www.neelukaur.com/) joins Lori Adams-Brown to decode the invisible operating systems shaping how professionals communicate, advocate for themselves, and lead across cultures and organizational hierarchies. IN THIS EPISODE:…
She built a $5M company across 80 countries, sold it, and woke up not knowing who she was. Fiona Macaulay's conversation on identity, failure, and reinvention will change how you think about what comes next. What happens to accomplished women when the role that defined them is gone? In this…
What happens when you spend 18 years building a company to $5 million in revenue across 80 countries, finally sell it, and then wake up with no idea who you are without it? Fiona Macaulay knows that moment intimately, and what she built from it is changing how thousands of…
What does it mean when the only HR professional in a room of 6,000 AI innovators refuses to stay silent? Anju Chaudhary attended HumanX in San Francisco, looked around, and decided that was not a coincidence. It was a calling. In this live conference conversation recorded at HumanX, Lori Adams-Brown…
Live from Move Abroad Con at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, @loriadams-brown sits down with Shasta Townsend, real estate and relocation expert in Puerto Vallarta, for an honest conversation about what it actually looks like to build a life in Mexico. Shasta has been calling Puerto Vallarta home for nearly…
Most people put New Zealand in the wrong corner of the map, and it changes everything about how they think of it. Mischa Mannix-Opie of Greener Pastures New Zealand sat down with Lori Adams-Brown live at Move Abroad Con in San Diego to set the record straight. Live from Move…
What if the life you have been imagining could actually begin somewhere else? At Move Abroad Con in San Diego, at the Hard Rock Hotel, Lori Adams-Brown stepped onto the conference floor to have three honest conversations with people living and breathing the conference about the expat life. Each one…
What if executive presence has nothing to do with how you look in a room and everything to do with how aware you are in your own body? Presence-based leadership coach Bradley McDevitt joins Lori Adams-Brown to explore why trust is built somatically, not just strategically, and why the discomfort…
What happens to your identity when the system that formed you was built to erase it? In this deeply personal and clear-eyed conversation, New York Times bestselling author Tia Levings returns to A World of Difference with her new book, a survivor's guide that meets you wherever you are on…
She was told to die to herself, that her selfhood was the problem. NYT bestselling author Tia Levings returns with a survivor's guide to recovery after religious trauma. Full Description: What happens to your identity when the system that formed you was built to erase it? Tia Levings, New York…
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: Why 88% of organizational changes produce no lasting results The science of motivational interviewing (2,000+ randomized control trials) Change talk vs. sustain talk — and why it's 19x more powerful than you think How to reframe resistance as actionable information Why training alone doesn't…
What if the resistance you're seeing in your organization isn't defiance, it's information? What if the way you're talking about change is the very thing blocking it? Episode Summary In this episode of A World of Difference, host Lori Adams-Brown sits down with Jeff Wetherhold, founder of the Sustainable Change…
You were trained for almost everything. Nobody trained you for this. In this solo episode, Lori Adams-Brown draws on her extraordinary career of working in civil war zones, surviving riots targeting American citizens, leading evacuations, and navigating genuine life-or-death threats across multiple countries to name the one threat most leaders…
You were trained for almost everything, except the most dangerous threat in your organization. In this powerful solo episode, Lori Adams-Brown draws on her experience working in conflict zones worldwide to expose the patterns workplace bullies use, and what every leader must do about it. ⏱ Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold…
What if the blueprint for thriving in the AI era has been buried for centuries, inside the civilization that built the pyramids? Organizational psychologist Christine Mikhail (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-mikhail-odconsultant/) joins Lori Adams-Brown live from the Transform Conference in Las Vegas (https://transform.us/conference/program-overview-2026/) to unpack one of the most urgent (and under-discussed) challenges in…
What if the reason you're exhausted isn't because you're doing it wrong — but because you're doing too much? Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey (Nell3D) is here to challenge the most dangerous assumption in modern leadership: that progress always comes from piling more on. In this episode, we unpack: • Why…
Live from the Transform 2026 (https://transform.us/conference/) conference floor in Las Vegas, Lori sat down with Daria Maneche (linkedin.com/in/daria-maneche-87331418) , founder of The Working Optimist, for a candid, neuroscience-backed conversation about what it actually takes to build human connection at work, and why the stakes for getting this right have never…
What do you do when the title is gone, but the work isn't finished? Lori Adams-Brown shares the origin story of Brava Global Advisory. In this solo episode, Lori pulls back the curtain on the past year: the blank bio she couldn't write, the beach day that reset everything, and…
What do you do when the title is gone, but the work isn't finished? In this solo episode, Lori Adams-Brown pulls back the curtain on the past six months: the beach day that changed everything, the blank bio she couldn't write, and the Italian word that finally gave shape to…
What does it look like to build a life from scratch, not once, but again and again? Nuray Krein Yilmaz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nuraykreinyilmaz/) has done it more times than most people ever will, and her story is one of the most quietly extraordinary ones we've shared on this podcast. Nuray grew up…
Dave Thompson shared something wild: the only extracurricular on his college resume was the cheese club. “No prerequisites. It fit my interest.” Today he’s a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt, two-time TEDx speaker, and advisor to Fortune 100s. Pedigree is not potential. 🧀 New eps out now.
In this episode of A World of Difference, Lori Adams-Brown sits down with Dave Thompson — strategist, two-time TEDx speaker, visiting scholar at Vanderbilt’s Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, and author of Brainstorm: Neurodivergent Talent and the Future of Work. Dave shares his journey from being counted out in…
