What Juices You Podcast

Juice Inc
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What Juices You is a podcast about energy—the kind that fuels high performance, deepens engagement, and brings out the best in people. Hosted by Juice Inc. co-founder Brady Wilson, this interview-style series invites leaders and changemakers to explore what truly energizes them—at work, at home, and in life. Through unscripted, human conversations, each episode uncovers the personal stories, hard-won insights, and daily practices that help individuals manage their energy and lead with impact. Guests reflect on moments of transformation, resilience, connection, and clarity—shedding light on how energy isn’t just a feeling, but a vital resource leaders can learn to cultivate and share. Whether it’s creating psychological safety, finding clarity in chaos, unlocking potential through coaching, or leading with ruthless compassion, you’ll hear what fuels real performance and lasting change. If you’re a leader looking to energize your team, sustain your own spark, and turn insight into impact—this podcast is for you. Because when you learn to manage energy, you transform employee engagement—and amplify what’s possible for us to accomplish together.

  1. Jul 20

    What Juices You with Jennifer Paylor | Why You Can Never Fully Predict a Human Being

    Why do the leaders who try hardest to control people so often get the least out of them? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Jennifer Paylor, executive coach and former Head of Learning & Development, Talent, and Culture for Capgemini in North America, whose career has been built on a refusal to treat people like resources. Jennifer built and scaled one of the largest internal coaching practices in the world at IBM, reaching tens of thousands of employees across dozens of countries, on a simple premise: you cannot fully predict a human being, and building for that unpredictability is where the real gains show up. She's since taken that philosophy into her own coaching practice, working across industries from technology to law. Together, Brady and Jennifer explore what happens when organizations try to engineer uncertainty out of the people, and why the leaders who make room for what they can't predict tend to get the most from the people around them. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why Jennifer refuses to call people "resources," and what that word quietly does to how leaders treat their teamsHow a coaching program built around dopamine, not compliance, reached tens of thousands of employees inside IBMWhy freedom, in Jennifer's world, means releasing people into who they're already wired to beThe blunt question Jennifer asks executive teams the moment a conversation narrows down to just the numbersWhy the same skill that makes someone a great coach, asking questions that create real tension, is what separates a useful AI conversation from a hollow oneIf you're a leader who has ever tried to control an outcome by controlling a person, this episode will change how you think about what leadership is actually for. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.   Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

    What Juices You with Jennifer Paylor | Why You Can Never Fully Predict a Human Being

  2. Jul 6

    What Juices You with Matthew James | You Can't Build a Unified Culture Without Hard Conversations

    What if the empathy you're showing your team is actually the thing holding them back? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Matthew James, President and CEO of Purity Life Health Products, Canada's leading full-service distributor of natural health, wellness, and grocery products. Over the past decade, Matthew has led Purity Life through sustained growth and a major acquisition — bringing three distinct businesses, cultures, and teams under one roof and building toward a single, unified organization. What Matthew keeps finding at the center of every integration challenge is not a technology problem or a strategy problem. It is a conversation problem. The leaders who stall the integration are almost always the ones who have been protecting people from the truth rather than partnering with them through it. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why the employee rated excellent in every annual review ends up fired without warning — and what that pattern reveals about the cost of avoiding difficult conversationsHow Matthew parlays the physical discomfort of early-morning CrossFit workouts into the mental readiness to have the leadership conversations he is dreadingWhat "One Purity Life" actually requires from leaders — and why alignment across different cultures cannot be achieved through controlHow Purity Life is using AI not to replace people but to remove the drudgery that drains engagement, and what that shift is doing to the energy of the organizationWhat the difference between ruinous empathy and genuine candor looks like in practice — and why Brady argues that withholding hard feedback is an act of self-betrayalIf you are leading a team through change and have ever wondered whether your instinct to protect people is actually serving them, Matthew James offers a candid, grounded perspective from the middle of the work. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.   Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

    What Juices You with Matthew James | You Can't Build a Unified Culture Without Hard Conversations

  3. Jun 22

    What Juices You with Jim Brown | Real Leadership Starts When You Stop Pretending

    What if the most powerful thing a leader could do is stop pretending to have all the answers? Most leaders are afraid that showing their imperfection will cost them credibility. Jim Brown's observation after thirty years of working with CEOs: everyone already knows. In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Jim Brown, founder of OrgHealth and USA Today bestselling author of The Imperfect CEO. Jim has spent decades advising CEOs, boards, and executive teams across North America, and what he keeps finding is the same pattern: leaders performing a version of themselves they think the organization needs, while the organization quietly waits for the real person to show up. Together, Brady and Jim make the case that organizational health is not a byproduct of strong leadership — it is the condition that makes strong leadership possible. And the leader who stops pretending to have all the answers is the one who finally frees everyone else to bring theirs. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why the leader who is terrified of being exposed as imperfect is already exposed — and what changes when they stop performing perfectionHow profit is a byproduct of a well-led organization, and why chasing it directly is what produces the dysfunction leaders are trying to avoidWhat Brady openly admits about Juice Inc. — and why that moment of vulnerability is one of the most powerful in the episodeWhy caring for people and holding them accountable are not in tension, and what leaders who confuse the two are actually doing to their teamsHow the Ascent Model — collaborative culture, leadership accountability, strategic momentum, and talent magnetism — maps the climb to organizational health in a way leaders can observe and act onIf you lead an organization or a team and have ever felt the weight of having to appear more certain than you are, Jim Brown will give you both permission and a practical path forward. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.   Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

    What Juices You with Jim Brown | Real Leadership Starts When You Stop Pretending

  4. Jun 8

    What Juices You with Tom Emery | Culture Is a Performance System — Start Treating It Like One

    Most HR leaders are trying to help. The ones who create the most impact have learned to do something harder. In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Tom Emery, founder of HEX Consulting, former Chief People Officer, and author of the #1 Amazon bestselling book People People. With over 20 years of experience partnering with CEOs and executive teams across multinational banking and fast-growth industries, Tom has spent his career at the intersection of leadership, culture, and commercial performance. Tom makes the case that the shift from good HR leader to genuinely impactful one is not a skills problem. It is an identity problem. The helper identity — built around supporting, rescuing, and making things better for people — eventually becomes the thing that limits how much a leader can actually do. Letting go of it is uncomfortable. It can even feel like self-betrayal. But Tom argues it is precisely that discomfort that separates leaders who shape conditions from those who simply respond to them. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why culture only gets labeled "soft" when it has been built around comfort rather than honesty — and what a high-performance culture actually normalizesHow the most effective feedback has nothing to do with the person receiving it, and why Tom and Brady role-play this live in the episodeWhat it costs an HR leader to keep rescuing people when the job actually requires letting them sit in discomfortWhy engagement scores are a starting point for a conversation, not an answer — and what questions a leader should actually be askingHow to build credibility with a CEO when you are the guardian of the thing they are most likely to sacrifice under pressureIf you lead people — or lead the leaders who do — Tom Emery offers a clear-eyed, practical case for why the most human thing a leader can do is sometimes the hardest. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.   Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

    What Juices You with Tom Emery | Culture Is a Performance System — Start Treating It Like One

  5. May 25

    What Juices You with Claude Silver | Be Yourself at Work: What It Actually Takes to Mean It

    What does it actually take to make "be yourself at work" a real promise — not just a poster on the wall? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Claude Silver, the world's first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX and author of Be Yourself at Work. With 12 years inside one of the world's most well-known creative companies, Claude has built people and culture infrastructure for a 2,000-person global organization where empathy is not an aspiration — it is an operational discipline. She shares what it really costs to create a workplace where people feel seen, what leaders get wrong about authenticity, and why the hardest part of her job has nothing to do with the individual standing in front of her. Claude makes a case that most organizations extend the invitation to be yourself without building the container that catches people when they do. This is a conversation about what genuine care looks like when it has both heart and spine. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why telling someone the floor will accept them is only half the job — and what the other half actually requiresHow most difficult behavior at work is an unmet need in disguise, and what changes when leaders ask "what happened" instead of "what's wrong with you"What the line between care and coddling really looks like — and what it costs leaders who can't find itHow Claude's Kind Candor framework builds the connection that makes feedback receivable in the first placeA simple tool called Rose Bud Thorn that any leader can use to read the energy of their team in everyday momentsIf you lead people and have ever wondered whether your culture commitments are succeeding (or just hanging on the wall) Claude Silver's perspective will give you something concrete to act on. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.   Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

    What Juices You with Claude Silver | Be Yourself at Work: What It Actually Takes to Mean It

  6. May 11

    What Juices You with Lindsay Mackintosh | Leading from the Inside Out

    What does it look like when the person you are at work is the same person you are at home? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Lindsay Mackintosh, AVP and Head of HR at TD Insurance, whose career has been built on a simple belief: when people are supported, seen, and developed, incredible things can happen. Together, Brady and Lindsay explore what it means to lead from a place of genuine alignment — where values, energy, and identity are not divided between a work self and a home self, but integrated into one. Lindsay reflects on how she has sustained high performance across complex organizational transformations, raised three kids, and found energy in the chaos rather than being drained by it. The conversation moves across mentorship and sponsorship, the invisible load many women carry when the workday ends, what it takes to have honest conversations at home, and how presence with the people who matter most is a practice, not a personality trait. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why thriving in complexity is often a signal that your values and your work are genuinely alignedHow two leaders sponsored Lindsay into roles she would not have pursued on her own, and what that kind of belief actually looks like in practiceWhat the return-to-office shift means for the invisible load many women still carry, and what leaders can do about itHow Lindsay and her husband built a partnership at home that makes the demands at work sustainable, and the honest conversation it requiredWhy being fully present is something you have to decide, not something that happens on its ownIf you're a leader who wants to bring more of yourself to the work without burning out, this episode offers a grounded and honest look at what genuine integration actually takes. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.   Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

    What Juices You with Lindsay Mackintosh | Leading from the Inside Out

  7. Apr 27

    What Juices You with Ginny Priem | The Leadership Case for Letting Go

    Most high performers have built their identity around contribution. Always showing up, never asking for help, pushing through. But what happens when that identity becomes the thing depleting you? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Ginny Priem, master coach, TEDx presenter, keynote speaker, and author of Unsubscribe: Why Letting Go Is the Secret to Getting Ahead. With more than 20 years of corporate leadership experience, Ginny helps high-achievers make intentional change without losing momentum through a four-pillar framework she calls UNSUBSCRIBE™. Ginny explains how the patterns that drive high performance, perfectionism, over-functioning, and people-pleasing, are often fear-based behaviors that quietly drain the energy needed to lead well. Her framework gives leaders four practical tools for releasing what no longer serves them: Block, Mute, Swap, and Manage. Unlike approaches that treat letting go as weakness, Unsubscribe is designed to be accountable, actionable, and applied in real time. Together, Brady and Ginny explore how leaders can make better, faster decisions by developing the discipline to release what's draining them and create space for what actually matters. In this conversation, you'll hear: Why perfectionism is fear-based and the simple swap that makes it workableHow the four pillars of Unsubscribe apply across relationships, leadership, and everyday workWhat a 1980s study on baboon troops reveals about what happens when you remove toxicity from a systemWhy over-functioning leaders often miss the signals their body is already sending themHow shared language makes it easier for teams to navigate friction without it feeling like a threatIf you're a leader who has built your identity around high performance and wants a practical framework for letting go of what's holding you back, this episode offers a clear, actionable approach to reclaiming your energy and leading with greater intention. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.   Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

    What Juices You with Ginny Priem | The Leadership Case for Letting Go

  8. Apr 13

    What Juices You with Kevin Rice | Scaling Success Without Losing What Matters

    What does success look like when ambition, leadership, and family all compete for the same limited energy? In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Kevin Rice, founder, investor, and leadership thinker. Kevin shares the story of co-founding Hathway straight out of college and growing it from a garage-stage startup into a 200+ person digital consultancy before its acquisition by Bounteous in 2021. Drawing from both his entrepreneurial journey and his experience as a full-time single father during a period of intense professional growth, Kevin reflects on the tension many leaders feel between building ambitious careers and staying present for the people who matter most. The conversation explores the habits, routines, and leadership mindset that helped him navigate pressure, build community, and rethink what success really means. Today, Kevin invests in and advises growth-stage companies through Theorem One Capital and hosts the CEOs & ABCs podcast, where leaders discuss the realities of leadership, parenthood, and redefining success beyond the boardroom. In this conversation, you’ll hear: Kevin’s journey scaling Hathway from a startup to a 200+ person organizationThe realities of leading through intense growth while raising a familyHow daily routines, accountability, and community support leadership resilienceWhy many leaders are rethinking traditional definitions of success and ambitionHow honest conversations about leadership and life can reshape how leaders show up at work and at homeIf you're a leader looking to pursue ambitious goals while staying grounded in what matters most, this episode offers a thoughtful conversation about leadership, resilience, and redefining success. -------- Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.   Leadership Training Programs Learning Experiences Leadership Resources Webinars & Workshops About Juice

    What Juices You with Kevin Rice | Scaling Success Without Losing What Matters
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What Juices You is a podcast about energy—the kind that fuels high performance, deepens engagement, and brings out the best in people. Hosted by Juice Inc. co-founder Brady Wilson, this interview-style series invites leaders and changemakers to explore what truly energizes them—at work, at home, and in life. Through unscripted, human conversations, each episode uncovers the personal stories, hard-won insights, and daily practices that help individuals manage their energy and lead with impact. Guests reflect on moments of transformation, resilience, connection, and clarity—shedding light on how energy isn’t just a feeling, but a vital resource leaders can learn to cultivate and share. Whether it’s creating psychological safety, finding clarity in chaos, unlocking potential through coaching, or leading with ruthless compassion, you’ll hear what fuels real performance and lasting change. If you’re a leader looking to energize your team, sustain your own spark, and turn insight into impact—this podcast is for you. Because when you learn to manage energy, you transform employee engagement—and amplify what’s possible for us to accomplish together.

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  • Creator
    Juice Inc
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    40
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