If you have a creative vision, how do you focus your skills on making it happen? Can you turn your dream into a career? How can we encourage more creative entrepreneurs? And can we incorporate more creativity into an analytical job? American director, producer, photographer, writer and professor, Jeff Madoff discusses the essential skills for creativity.

It’s the time of year for setting New Year’s resolutions. But how can you set goals that you will actually achieve? The first step to reaching your goals is actually knowing how to set yourself up to succeed. Kurt and Tim share expert advice on developing healthy habits and new routines in 2022.

What a year for behavioral science books 2021 has been! To help us with the immense job of summarizing the best BehSci books of the year, we invited the incredible Louise Ward of the Behavioural Science Club to join our fun discussion. Was your favorite book of the year on our list?

Applying Behavioral Science insights at work takes more than just another checklist or document, it’s about creating an environment that enables people to make good decisions. Torben Emmerling specializes in innovative, evidence-based strategies for behavior change. We discuss with him the nuances that differentiate applied behavioral science from academic behavioral science.

Where and how we listened to music has shifted during the pandemic. But the music industry itself had to quickly adapt in 2020 to how music was recorded and produced. Our very musical conversation with guest Mark Thorley, delves into the changes that COVID brought to remote working and how people’s relationships with music have changed in recent months.

Habit Weekly, a wonderful organization founded by Samuel Salzer, is asking people to weigh in on their favorite podcast. Kurt and Tim are asking for your vote since you (and lots of other people) voted for Behavioral Grooves in 2021 making it the Number One Behavioral Science Podcast in 2021. We’d like to maintain that spot in the upcoming year and all we need is your vote.

The Covid pandemic has seen people around the globe question their trust in leadership. What impact does this have on business leaders? Can organizations ever rebuild trust? What are the building blocks of trust? We draw back the layers to these questions with Sandra Sucher, co-author of “The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It”.

If we are open minded, we challenge our beliefs and accept that our thinking can, at times, be misguided. After all, our thoughts are merely a function of our personal habits, experiences and internal communication. Dr Howard Rankin PhD encourages us to recognize the value of critical thinking, and become more aware of our own consciousness.

Need some respite from the work day grind? Join this fun episode for a light-hearted take on workplace humor. Dan Hill delivers a real tongue-in-cheek take on the corporate lingo and jargon that infiltrates our workplaces. And why we should be embracing jokes at work to address some serious issues.

What makes us more likely to believe in conspiracy theories? Can our religious beliefs or political affiliations determine whether we‘re less likely to believe in scientific facts? Why are health conspiracy theories some of the most widely believed notions? We revisit a conversation with Eric Oliver who talks us through the factors that drive people towards conspiracy theories.