HeyJaredFault Lines
Fault Lines explores why trust breaks and how to rebuild it in organizations, leadership, communities, and public institutions.
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A PhD Program Doesn't Have to Feel Like a Solo Race (opens the original)
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The hardest part of a doctorate is not the coursework. It is the moment the cohort disappears, the dissertation begins, and the quiet isolation hits all at once. Madeline Rowe, PhD and Richard unpack what really happens after structured support fades, why so many PhD students experience a shift from belonging to burnout, and how peer relationships can matter more than formal advising when it comes to surviving the long middle of doctoral work. Madeline shares how a politically charged undergradu
Trust Isn’t Declared. It’s Demonstrated One Interaction at a Time | Solo Episode (opens the original)
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Trust is not something you ask for; it is something you prove, one visible act at a time. Dr. Richard Roman breaks down why the fastest way to rebuild trust in a person, team, organization, or institution is often the least flashy one: showing up, following through, and closing the loop. Using Hallie Thompson's real-world experience from a Missouri town, a campaign, and her own consulting work, Richard maps trust across four levels (individual, team, organizational, and civic) and connects it to
How Door Knocking Rebuilt Trust in a Depleted Political System (opens the original)
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What if the fastest way to rebuild trust in politics, science, and your community was not to persuade harder, but to listen better? Science policy professional and Boonville, Missouri city council member Hallie Thompson shares the deceptively simple approach that helped her win rural counties, launch a science-policy nonprofit, and turn local conversations into real policy ideas.Raised on a cow-calf farm in rural Missouri, Hallie learned early from her grandfather that good decisions come from c
When Trust Breaks, What Fills the Vacuum? | A Solo Episode (opens the original)
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Trust is the invisible economy that holds organizations, communities, and even families together, but what happens when it breaks? In this episode, Dr. Richard Roman examines why people stop trusting institutions not because the facts changed, but because the relationship broke down first.Using the autism-vaccine debate as a case study, he separates legitimate trust failures from unsupported causal claims and explains why “more facts” often backfires when trust is already damaged. He breaks down
The 40-Year Shield: How One Law Fractured Trust Between Families and the Healthcare System (opens the original)
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She was told her son would never talk, never live independently, never function without lifelong care. She refused to accept it. In this episode, Tracy Slepcevic, bestselling author of Warrior Mom, founder of the Autism Health Summit, and one of the newest members of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, speaks with Richard Roman to trace the fault line between the families who lost trust in the healthcare system and the institutions that stopped listening. From the 1986 Vaccine
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