You Speak First in Every Meeting. That's the Problem. | Shruti Rustagi

"Not all mistakes are equal." — Shruti RustagiShruti Rustagi spent two decades in Fortune 400 strategy roles, most recently at Amazon, before becoming a leadership coach and EQ speaker — and her new book landed the same week this episode drops. Her argument: most executives were never trained on the one skill their job now actually requires, and it's costing them their teams before it shows up on a single dashboard.Karl and Shruti get into the hat someone left in the middle of a conference table to signal "you're not being heard," the JFK trick for getting your team to actually disagree with you, and why treating every mistake the same way is quietly killing your company's ability to innovate.What you'll get from this episode:The three pillars of fearless leadership — and why most executives are only working on one of themA simple physical prop one C-level leader used to build psychological safety in their very first team meetingThe "speak last" rule that gets your team to tell you what they actually thinkWhy not all mistakes deserve the same reaction — and the three-bucket framework for telling them apartWhat it actually means to listen past the words someone is saying to you#H2H #HumanConnectionPodcast #StartupLeadership #CompanyCulture #B2BRelationships===You can connect with Shruti Rustagi here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutirustagi/https://www.youtube.com/@shruti.rustagi_clhttps://open.spotify.com/show/1NdPgXTJbM4gC5HfAYgCu3You can connect with Karl Pontau here:www.vouchedconnections.comwww.thehumanconnectionpodcast.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kpontauhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbf_bDWwB9KVrFn5Sj3u2w?sub_confirmation=1Please like, subscribe, and share this episode with somebody you care about!