Adding Context
A podcast that offers a platform for people to share their life experiences. A show of engaging conversations with people who have lived through and done amazing things. Shining a light on the fact that we are far more alike than different.
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- Jul 17, 2026
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What CAN I do? (opens the original)
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How do you rebuild your life when everything changes? In this episode of Adding Context, Michael Bollentin sits down with award-winning author, speaker, coach, and brain tumor survivor Risa August to explore resilience, personal growth, and the power of reinvention. After navigating a brain tumor, a rare disease, the end of an 18-year marriage, and a solo 1,845-mile bicycle journey from Canada to Mexico, Risa shares how one simple question—"What CAN I do?"—helped transform adversity into purpose
In AI we Trust? (opens the original)
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In this episode of Adding Context, Michael Bollentin sits down with Jack Myers to explore one of the defining challenges of our time: the growing erosion of trust. Their conversation examines why skepticism has spread beyond the media into government, healthcare, education, business, and other institutions, while unpacking the difference between authority and legitimacy, why trust is a relationship rather than a metric, and what today's leadership challenges reveal about the systems we've built.
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