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Biz-Souls
by Jeffrey Hansler & Rona Lewis
Welcome to the BizSouls podcast! We talk about the business of everything and we get to the heart, soul…and humor… of business and the people who make it happen.
Episodes
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Episode 241: The Outrage Economy – Bigger Drama, Bigger Audience, Bigger Problems
Welcome to Biz-Souls, where two people sit down to talk about business and somehow end up discussing the WNBA, soap operas, hockey fights, social media, dictatorships, Canadian violence, Hollywood explosions, potato chips, and Jeffrey’s apparently magnificent legs. Basically, a normal episode of...
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Episode 240: Who’s Making Your Choices?
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who walk into a movie theater and order a reasonable amount of popcorn… and people who look at the largest bucket and think, ‘Well, obviously.’ Welcome back to Biz-Souls, where Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler once again set out to discuss business...
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Episode 239: Smart Enough to Be Wrong
You would think being smart would protect you from making dumb decisions. You would be wrong. In this episode of Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler take on one of the great mysteries of human behavior: Why do intelligent people sometimes make spectacularly stupid decisions? And, because…
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Episode 238: Your Weakest Connection Might Be Your Strongest Opportunity
Networking. Everybody says they’re good at it. Then you go to a conference, and someone walks up, hands you a business card, says, ‘Hi, I’m in real estate,” and immediately begins explaining the 14 things they sell’. Congratulations. You have just experienced ‘show up and throw up.’ In this…
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Episode 237: Great Culture Slogan, Too Bad It’s Fantasy
You can put ‘People First’ on the wall. You can put, ‘Our people are our greatest asset!’ on the website. You can even give everyone a company mug that says, ‘Teamwork Makes the Dream Work’. Eventually somebody must actually create a culture where people want to work. In this episode, Rona Lewis...
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Episode 236: Leadership Landmines - Are You Standing on One?
Leadership has landmines though not the cool kind from an action movie. Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler get into a conversation about the things that can quietly derail leaders and teams and, as usual, manage to wander into Apple, NASA, Steve Wozniak, JCPenney, ego, fear, cash flow, poker faces…
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Episode 235: Your Face Is Talking and AI Is Listening by watching
What happens when artificial intelligence gets really, really good at reading people? Well, apparently, poker is about to become a lot less fun—and Jeffrey Hansler is about to become a lot poorer. In this episode of Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler dive into the fascinating, and slightly...
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Episode 234: Congratulations! You're Promoted... Now What?
Congratulations! You're the best employee in the company. Your reward? A brand-new job you're completely unprepared for. What could possibly go wrong? This week on Biz-Souls, Jeffrey Hansler and Rona Lewis tackle one of business's oldest traditions: "You're amazing at your job, so let's…
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Episode 233: The Secret Job Description Every Leader Ignores
Ever worked for someone whose leadership philosophy could be summarized as, ‘Because I'm the boss.’ How'd that work out for them? This week on Biz-Souls, Jeffrey and Rona tackle the value of sales skills for leaders. No, we're not talking about cold calls, quotas, or convincing your Aunt Linda…
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Episode 232: Moneyball Politics – Is Democracy Doomed?
This episode begins with one simple agreement, "We're not going to talk politics." That agreement lasts... approximately 37 seconds. Fortunately, this isn't really an episode about politics. It's an episode about innovation. This week on Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler stumble into one…
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Episode 231: Mindset Before Medicine? A Conversation with Bill Quaterman on Health, Leadership & Performance
What if your biggest business problem isn't your business... it's your energy level? This week on Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler welcome Bill Quaterman, a man who's spent more than three decades helping people reclaim their health, optimize performance, and ask one deceptively simple...
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Episode 230: How to Command a Room Without Clearing it Out!
Some speakers are born with "natural talent." The rest of us accidentally clear out conference rooms, get compared to fire hoses, improvise ourselves right off the stage, and somehow survive long enough to become keynote speakers. Guess which category Jeffrey and Rona belong to? In this...
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Episode 229: Leadership, AI & Other Dangerous Combinations
Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why? Forgotten an actor's name? Couldn't find your glasses... while wearing them? Congratulations! You're already qualified for this week's episode of Biz-Souls where Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler tackle one of the biggest business questions of…
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Episode 228: Happiness Is Complicated, Which Is Probably Why We Made Jokes About It
What makes people happy? Money? Success? Contrast? Getting promoted? Buying a boat? On second thought, scratch that last one. This week on Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler dive headfirst into one of the biggest misconceptions floating around social media—that happiness is something you...
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Episode 227: Confidence vs. Intelligence: Why the Loudest Person Isn’t Always the Smartest
Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler explore the battle between confidence and intelligence, and why organizations sometimes reward the person who sounds the most certain instead of the person who is actually the most knowledgeable. Our Biz-Souls’ hosts ask the question every workplace has secretly...
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Episode 226: From Fear to Fierce in Your Cancer Journey
Cancer changes everything—but it doesn't have to steal your confidence. In this heartfelt and surprisingly funny episode of Biz-Souls, Jeffrey Hansler and Rona Lewis welcome back longtime friend and internationally recognized cancer hair-loss expert Amy Gibson, founder of Created Hair and the new...
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Episode 225: The Great Executive Disconnect and Why Sales and Tech Need Couples Therapy
If you've ever called customer service and ended up questioning your life choices, your sanity, and possibly the existence of organized civilization, this episode is for you. This week on Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler tackle a business problem so common it has practically become its…
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Episode 224: Cognitive Dissonance: The World's Most Annoying Companion
Remember when Windex was suggested as the solution to cleaning a clapboard? Neither do we. Well, actually, Jeffrey does. Repeatedly. This week's episode of Biz-Souls begins with household confusion, questionable cleaning advice, and a closet door that apparently became an escape room challenge....
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Episode 223: Fifty Shades of Beige, How the World Forgot Color, And Why Color is Coming Back
Color is emotion. Gray is a mood. This episode is a whole palette. Somewhere along the way, the world went gray. Not metaphorically — literally. Scroll through a parking lot photo from 1980 and you'll see yellows, blues, reds, a green car someone clearly loved. Scroll through a 2025 parking lot…
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Episode 222: The Mushroom Chocolate Bar That Doesn’t Taste Like a Forest Floor
Somewhere between Willy Wonka, Silicon Valley wellness culture, and two entrepreneurs stubborn enough to spend a year making mushrooms taste luxurious, Episode 222 of Biz-Souls was born. Well, Welcome back, Kotter and Room 222. In this delightfully smooth episode, hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey...
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Episode 221: Abuse Should Not Be a Business Model - Even If It Gets Great Reviews
Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler welcome back recurring guest and hospitality insider Nick Morton to unpack a story that rocked the culinary world - centered on famed chef René Redzepi of Noma. This isn’t just another ‘celebrity chef gone rogue’ story. It’s a full-on reality check about…
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Episode 220: From Wolfman Jack to Wellness Tech - A Frequency-Based Business Story
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a former would-be radio DJ, a philosophy major, body builder, and a “professional button pusher” walk into a podcast… this episode is your answer. This week on Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler sit down with Alex Fredricks, a growth strategist who...
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Episode 219T: Biz-Souls’ Educational Buzz Tour of the Hollywood Distillery.
If you thought the Biz-Souls Podcast was just about deep business insights and the occasional philosophical mic drop, think again. This episode takes a hard left turn into barrels, booze, and beautifully crooked labels at the one and only Hollywood Distillery. Welcome to Biz-Souls’ educational…
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Episode 219: Proof of Concept (Literally): Business Lessons from a Hooch Commander.
This episode of Biz-Souls is what happens when business strategy meets… booze with a backstory. Recorded on location at Hollywood Distillery, Rona Lewis takes the mic solo (don’t worry, Jeffrey is lurking off-camera like a true executive producer ninja) and dives headfirst into a story that…
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Episode 218: GAAP, Traps, and Why Your Brain Just Left the Chat.
If you’ve ever thought, “You know what this podcast needs?” More accounting.” Congratulations, this episode is your Siberian Gulag. (Don’t you really wish it was more cowbell!) Rona does her very best to make this a fun episode. Still, everyone suffers just a little. This is the perfect podcast...
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Episode 217: Moral Framing Aikido
This is the perfect podcast for anyone who’s ever tried to have a rational discussion and had it turned into a verbal explosion. In this episode of Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler dive headfirst into moral framing that confounding when a simple conversation turns into good versus evil…
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Episode 216: Empathy versus Sympathy … Inconceivable!
This is the perfect podcast to follow Episode 215: Grace Under Fire… because apparently, grace only gets you so far when you can’t agree on the definition of basic words. Welcome to Biz-Souls Episode 216, where Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler do what all great business leaders do…debate, disagree,...
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Episode 215: Grace Under Fire
What do scuba diving, courtroom drama, Facebook comment sections, and losing your cool in a meeting all have in common? Absolutely everything—according to Biz-Souls, the business podcast with an edge (and just enough sarcasm to keep you honest). This week, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler tackle…
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Episode 214: Stop Negotiating with Your To-Do List
What do gym shoes, Olympic athletes, and getting your to-do list under control have in common? According to Rona Lewis, quite a lot. In this episode of Biz-Souls, Rona arrives fresh from yet another workout (seriously… does she ever sit down?) and shares the secret behind the productivity levels...
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Episode 213: Why Most Companies Fail at Innovation and How Melissa Dinwiddie Fixes It
Some people take the straight road to the corporate world. Melissa Dinwiddie did not. Her journey zig-zagged through science, arts, creativity, and what most companies politely call “that messy innovation thing we keep trying to do but somehow never quite pull off.” Now she helps leaders make...
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Episode 212: Marvelous Manipulation and Why Your Brain Plays Tricks on You
Are you being manipulated right now? Relax… the answer is probably yes, and the scary part is you might even be enjoying it. Did you know a worm can turn a cricket into a suicidal zombie swimmer and we’re not even exaggerating. In this wildly entertaining episode of Biz-Souls, hosts Rona Lewis…
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Episode 211: Greg Schirmer From Badge to Boardroom with the Rugby Pitch in Between
Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler sit down with retired Long Beach Police Commander Greg Schirmer, also known as ‘Fab’ by Jeffrey and his other Orange County Bucks rugby mates. Yes. They’ve literally tackled leadership together. Greg’s path isn’t linear - it’s cinematic. Arts student. Business...
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Episode 210: Leadership in the Boxing Ring, Because Change Fights Back
Grab your boxing gloves. And maybe a helmet. In Episode 210 of Biz-Souls, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler step into the leadership ring for a knockout, drag-down discussion about creating change — which sounds noble until you actually try to do it. Rona opens strong, framing the episode around a...
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Episode 209: Artificial Intelligence, Real People, and Aaron Windrum
In this information-packed (and mind-expanding) episode of Biz-Souls, your ever-curious co-hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler sit down with the visionary Aaron Windrum to unpack the present and future of HR and Artificial Intelligence. And no, this is not another “AI is coming for your job”...
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Episode 208: Dr. Laura’s Solution to the Skill Social Media is Killing
In the newest Biz-Souls deep dive, your dynamic duo, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, sit with the one and only Dr. Laura Janusik to unpack one of the most misunderstood and most misused skills in life, leadership, and business. Listening. Not waiting to talk. Not reloading your opinion. Not...
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Episode 207: Nomad Alexis Boyett Knows
Our never-say-never, ever-expanding, occasionally echoing hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler are joined by the luminous, luggage-light, lava-dodging force of nature known as Alexis Boyett. This episode doesn’t travel. It transcends. Alexis has done something most people threaten to do after a…
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Episode 206: The Missing Link Between What You Mean and Deliver is Congruency
Our dynamic duo, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, are back — and this time they’re tackling the slippery, sneaky, side-eye subject of incongruency. Fresh off their episode on hypocrisy, they double down and drill deep into what happens when leaders say one thing… and their body language, bonus...
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Episode 205: High Ideals Plus Human Habits Brings on a Hypocrisy Hangover
Our hyper-handy hosts, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, are officially harried by hypocrisy—and instead of hiding it, hedging it, or pretending they’re holier-than-thou, they do the most Biz-Souls thing possible… They hit record. In this episode, hypocrisy haunts the halls of business, leadership,...
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Episode 204: The Great Exhaustion
Welcome to The Great Exhaustion. No, not a new Netflix docuseries, just your life… and ours! Biz-Souls’ dynamic duo Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler pull up a couple of chairs, rub their temples, and talk candidly about the bone-deep fatigue that seems to have settled over… well, everyone. Change...
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Episode 203: Playing Duck-Duck-Goose with AI?
Batten down the hatches and buckle your braincells, Biz-Souls is back with an episode that declares unequivocally that AI is here to stay. Not because a robot whispered it in binary. Oh no, not that, because Jeffrey Hansler and Rona Lewis looked it square in the silicone eyes and asked, “So…
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Episode 202: The AMEX Forecast and the Biz-Souls Whether System
As you can tell by our homophonic title, this one’s got classic Biz-Souls energy all over it. Listen in to this episode for some fun, high-octane, tongue-in-cheek, comments on the 2026 outlook for professional and not so professional speakers. In this episode, your ever-dependable Titans of Fact,...
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Episode 201: Bayes, Brains, and the Breakdown of Internet Illusion
Warning: What you think you’re about to hear is a podcast. What you are actually about to experience is an unfinished symphony of hypotheses, half-baked Bayesian ruminations, and the ghost of critical thinking haunting the digital realm. In this installment of Biz-Souls, Jeffrey dominates the...
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Episode 200: Personally Professional
Ladies and gentlemen, business leaders and business weirdos, Episode 200 of Biz-Souls is live! That’s right — two hundred glorious, caffeine-fueled conversations where Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler have tried (and sometimes failed spectacularly) to act professional which is today’s topic....
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Episode 199: Networking not working? Rona and Jeffrey have ideas!
Hardly ever — well, nearly never before — have we ventured into the mysterious world of behind-the-scenes shots of Jeffrey watching Rona. Wait — no, she doesn’t, because we thought her camera was recording. Jeffrey, ever the visionary, stayed with the wide-angle shot while Rona delivered straight...
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Episode 198: Mistletoe, Micro-Joy & Mutts: A Biz-Souls Holiday Special!
Strap on your jingle bells and loosen those ugly sweaters — Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler have crash-landed into your holiday spirit like two mistletoe misfits on a mission! In this delightfully absurd episode, these Festive Facilitators of Fun brave the wilds of workplace joy. (Side note:...
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Episode 197: Business Wisdom with a Side of Chuckles with Kevin Hubschmann
Who says you can’t have fun at work anymore? Not your hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, and certainly not Kevin Hubschmann—the guy who literally sells laughter as a service. That’s right: he turned comedy into corporate wellness before it was cool. Kevin set out to be a police officer. But…
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Episode 196: Biz-Souls After Dark (But Still PG… Sort Of)
I do believe in Porn, I do believe in Porn, I do believe in Porn… Well Toto, buckle up—this definitely ain’t Kansas anymore. This week, our dynamic duo—Rona “Clickbait Queen” Lewis and Jeffrey “Incognito Mode” Hansler—bravely unzip the truth behind Sam Altman’s other big venture: Letting ChatGPT...
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Episode 195: AI - Turning Customer Service into Customer Suffering
This week, our delightful hosts, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, dive headfirst into the digital swamp where customer service goes to die—the brave new world of AI systems that somehow manage to be both “revolutionary” and “spectacularly useless.” Jeffrey kicks things off with his favorite…
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Episode 194: Hope This Episode Finds You Well (It Won’t) - Passive Aggression & Other Management Skills
“...but it's WOMEN who are the source... the only power. Nature, birth, rebirth. Cliché? Cliché... sure... but true.” —Devilish Daryl Van Horne, The Witches of Eastwick (1987) If that isn’t the perfect opener for an episode drowning—no, baptized—in clichés, then what is? Our dubious duo, Rona…
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Episode 193: White Labels, Wild Speculation & Where Jeffrey Shops (…Always)
Our dutiful duo, Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, have returned with yet another episode of Biz-Souls — and yes, they did deliver a podcast. Did they do enough research? Ehhh… let’s just say “research-ish.” Today they bravely explore the mysterious, misunderstood, and occasionally mislabeled...
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Welcome to the BizSouls podcast! We talk about the business of everything and we get to the heart, soul…and humor… of business and the people who make it happen.
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Jeffrey Hansler & Rona Lewis
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Welcome to the BizSouls podcast! We talk about the business of everything and we get to the heart, soul…and humor… of business and the people who make it happen.
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