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One Great Question
by Carl Lubbe
One Great Question is a Curiosity podcast exploring leadership, decision-making, and human behavior through meaningful conversations. Each episode begins with a single question designed to challenge assumptions, spark insight, and help leaders think more clearly about people, work, and life.
Episodes
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Episode 23: Are You Being Honest to God? Or Just Honest Enough? A conversation with Toni Nieuwhof
Toni Nieuwhof is a pharmacist, a lawyer, a divorce mediator, a speaker, and an author. She has watched more marriages end than most people will ever witness up close. She almost watched her own. And somewhere in the middle of a decade of hanging on by a thread, she and her husband Kerry found…
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Episode 23: What Happens When You Just Raise Your Hand?
Hey friends, we are back with another episode of One Great Question, and this one is a masterclass in what happens when you just keep raising your hand. Barry Moline has spent 29 years in the CEO chair, is a founding member of the Cialdini Institute, a certified licensed trainer, and the host of...
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Episode 22: What Does It Cost You to Keep Waiting for Permission? A conversation with Fay Niewiadomski
Hey friends, we are back with another episode of One Great Question, and today we have a first on the podcast. Our very first guest joining us from overseas. And I have to tell you, I was not prepared for how good this conversation was going to be. Dr. Fay Niewiadomski grew up in Jamaica to...
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Episode 21: Stop Outsourcing Your Worthiness. A conversation with Blakeley Vaughn
Blakeley Vaughn spent 25 years at Sephora. Started on the floor, ended in a VP seat. Moved from Eugene, Oregon to Hollywood Boulevard to Madison Avenue to Atlanta. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, sitting alone on a park bench near the Met in Central Park, she almost threw the whole...
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Episode 20:The Kid Who Got in Trouble for Shining Lights in Church Now Gets Paid to Do It. A conversation with Stephen Proctor
Stephen Proctor is an artist of light. He flies drones over glaciers in New Zealand, projects forests onto the walls of the Washington National Cathedral, and lives in a cabin in the Pacific Northwest woods that he named Rivendell. He got in trouble as a kid for shining a laser pointer in church....
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Episode 19 What's the Worst That Could Happen? A conversation with Callie Murray
Callie Murray is not a clean LinkedIn narrative. She'll tell you that herself. She's got an HR company, a historical fiction novel just released, and a family that went from three kids to seven overnight when she and her husband David finalized the adoption of a sibling group of four through…
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Episode 18 Why Don't You Do It Tomorrow? A conversation with Jeremy Cowart
Jeremy Cowart is one of the most celebrated photographers and creative minds alive. He's also genuinely terrified about where AI is headed. And that tension, being all in on something that scares you, turns out to be one of the most honest things you'll hear a creative say out loud in 2026. In…
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Episode 17: What If Your Greatest Deficit Became Your Greatest Asset? A conversation with Jason Wahler
Jason Wahler grew up in Southern California, became a household name on Laguna Beach and The Hills, fought a very public battle with addiction, and somewhere in the middle of all of it found the thing that actually mattered. A pillow fight with his kids on a random Tuesday night. Crying laughing....
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Episode 16:What If You've Been Designing Someone Else's Good Life? A conversation with Charles Lee
Charles Lee arrived in the US at five years old with very little English, moved to Koreatown in Los Angeles, watched his parents build a restaurant that became an institution and cost them their marriage, dropped out of college twice, and somehow ended up advising Toyota, Google, and Sequoia.…
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Episode 15: What If the Mountain Was Never About the Summit? A conversation with Matt Chenard
Matt Chenard lost $1.2 million dollars, his wife's nursing job, their life savings, and nearly his health. And he'll tell you straight up, it was the best thing that ever happened to him. Not because he's a masochist. Because it was the moment he finally stopped confusing a good thing for the...
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Episode 14: What Does This Make Possible? A conversation with Chris Ducker
Chris Ducker built companies with nearly 600 employees, hit his first million dollar year, and was completely done. Not celebrating. Done. And then he did it again in 2021, this time landing in anxiety, depression, and phase three adrenal failure with cortisol completely flatlined. The long way...
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Episode 13: They Said Don't Mix Business and Friends. He Ignored That. A conversation with Sam Primm.
Most people were told the same thing growing up. Keep work and friendship separate. Don't mix business and pleasure. Play it safe. Sam Primm heard all of that and quietly decided to do the opposite. Sam has 3.5 million followers, 2000 real estate deals, and a team of 55 people, about 15 of whom...
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Episode 12: Success Cost Me Everything I Was Proud Of A conversation with Mike Kim
Most people chase success without ever asking what it's actually going to cost them. Mike Kim did the work, wrote the books, built the brand, and got close enough to the mountain to realize he was climbing the wrong one. In this episode, Mike and I dig into what it really takes to become who…
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Episode 11: The Cost of Becoming A conversation with Nigel Darius
Hey friends, we are back with another episode of One Great Question, and this one went somewhere I didn't expect, which is honestly my favorite kind of conversation. Nigel Darius is one of those rare humans who is an author, keynote speaker, spoken word artist, and creative director, but more…
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Episode 10: How Do You Reinvent Yourself? With Andrew Averso
What if the most powerful thing you could do for your career wasn't a strategy, it was a question? In Episode 10 of One Great Question, Carl sits down with Andrew Averso, a multi-disciplinary creative who has reinvented himself across music, fashion, brand identity, and now his own creative…
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The Seven Tools for Doing the People Stuff Well
This final episode answers a practical question: Now what? After a full season of exploring curiosity and leadership, this conversation zooms out to look at the end goal. Not abstract philosophy, but real life. Most people spend the majority of their waking hours at work. If that time is...
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S1E08 | One Great Question: Why Leadership Feels Hard and Why It Does Not Have to Be
The leadership industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, yet most leaders still feel unsure, lonely, and overwhelmed. That disconnect is not accidental. In this episode, we challenge the idea that leadership is complex, mysterious, or reserved for experts with answers. Using stories from...
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S1E07 | One Great Question: The one question that changed how I communicate
Most leaders think profit comes from speed. This episode argues the opposite. In this conversation, we unpack a simple but demanding idea: the real profit is found in the pause. When leaders slow down long enough to ask what is unclear, anxiety drops and performance improves. When they do not…
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S1E06: One Great Question: Stop the "figure it out or get fired" madness
Most companies do not have a people problem. They have an orientation problem. In this episode, we unpack why smart, capable people feel lost, anxious, and overwhelmed at work, even in healthy organizations. The issue is not motivation or talent. It is a lack of clarity around where someone is in...
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S1E05| One Great Question: Shifting Focus - Aligning Daily Work with Meaning and Impact
Burnout isn’t about working too hard, it’s about not knowing why your work matters. In this episode, we dive into the power of asking the right question: “Does my job matter?” is a lazy question, it seeks reassurance. “Why does my job matter?” is a demanding question, it creates clarity,...
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S1E04 | One Great Question: How Do We Set Expectations That Actually Work?
Most disappointment at work doesn’t start with bad intentions. It starts with unclear expectations. This episode explores why teams, relationships, and organizations fall apart when no one defines the rules of the game. Using stories from childhood playgrounds, leadership failures, and real...
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S1E03 | One Great Question: What are the next steps? Turning Ideas
Great ideas are easy to fall in love with. Turning them into something real is where most teams get stuck. This episode explores the quiet tension between vision and execution, and why so many promising ideas either die too quickly or exhaust the people responsible for making them happen. We…
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S1E01 | One Great Question: Better Questions, Not Simple Answers
This episode sets the foundation for everything that follows. We start with a simple, uncomfortable question: why are we here? Not as a productivity exercise or a branding hook, but as an honest invitation into better conversations. Most questions are assumptions in disguise. Asking better...
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S1E02 | One Great Question: What if winning the argument is still losing?
Most conflict is not caused by bad intentions. It happens when curiosity disappears. This episode explores a deceptively simple question that changes everything: When was the last time you asked a real question? From a surprising John Lennon and Yoko Ono story to a real-time conflict that forced…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
One Great Question is a Curiosity podcast exploring leadership, decision-making, and human behavior through meaningful conversations. Each episode begins with a single question designed to challenge assumptions, spark insight, and help leaders think more clearly about people, work, and life.
HOSTED BY
Carl Lubbe
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One Great Question is a Curiosity podcast exploring leadership, decision-making, and human behavior through meaningful conversations. Each episode begins with a single question designed to challenge assumptions, spark insight, and help leaders think more clearly about people, work, and life.
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