HeyJaredUnlocked with Madelyn Blair
Experts join Madelyn in conversation on the knowledge and skills to be the leader of your career, business or both. Expect stories, surprises, and solid information.
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Is Joy Silly or Essential? (opens the original)
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Serious about your work? So are we. Madelyn Blair tells a story that sounds silly and makes the case that joy and awe are anything but frivolous, drawing on research about the mind, the body, and legacy. It ends with a three-day challenge. Sources FlexJobs, Work & PTO Pressure Report (2025), survey of 3,063U.S. workers conducted August 18–31, 2025.https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/pto-statistics Fredrickson, B. L. (2004). The broaden-and-build theory of positiveemotions. Philosophical Transacti
Decision Making Is Never Done Alone (opens the original)
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In the second episode ofGrounds for Thought, Madelyn Blair unpacks Gary Klein's Recognition-PrimedDecision model to show why you're never really deciding alone — experience,observation, confidence, and imagination are already working on your behalf.
Who would pick up? Rethinking Friendship as an Adult (opens the original)
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I always believed that deep friendships had to begin when we are young. Believing it caused me real frustration and concern when I realized I had no friends from my school years. Did I do something wrong? Then I began to look at the people in my world of today and realized that belief was a lie. I share why it is a lie in this video. This video traces what actually holds a friendship together over 15, 25, even 30 years — even when the people involved barely see each other. It comes down to three
The Journey That Finds You (opens the original)
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A career is what you do, but the real journey is who you become. #Leadership, #Resilience, #CareerJourney, #LifelongLearning, #PersonalGrowth,#ExecutiveLeadership, #Learning, #Purpose, #KnowledgeManagement, #UnlockedTV,
The Journey That Finds You S5 E48 (opens the original)
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What can a garden teach you about a boardroom? On this episode of Unlocked , I sit down with my longtime friend Dr. Ed Hoffman, former Chief Knowledge Officer of NASA, to trace a lifetime of unexpected turns — from a farm, to a research mathematician's desk, to a division chief's office at the World Bank. We talk about the three things every garden needs — water, sunlight, and food — and how those same three things, trust, resources, and knowledge, are what make a team, a board, or a career actu
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