Network First Podcast, Episode One
With Nat Schooler & Deacon Larry Hiner, Ps.D.
The first episode of the Network First Podcast is live, and it opens with the question I have been sitting with for twelve years: what happens to people when the structure they trust disappears overnight.
I joined Deacon Larry Hiner to launch the Network First Podcast, a framework built on collaborative freedom rather than rigid hierarchy.
Twelve years ago, an IBM roundtable turned into a magazine editor’s monologue about how wonderful artificial intelligence would be. I caught the eye of the IBM lead across that beige conference table, and when my turn came, I said five words: I am deeply worried about this. I have spent every year since trying to be wrong about that.
For a long stretch, I was wrong. The early fear gave way to real excitement about lives reshaped for the better. Lately the worry has returned, because most organisations are still removing people rather than building the new roles the moment actually demands.
The Network First Manifesto does not strip out structure. It keeps a flat, collaborative shape where consultants, freelancers, and corporate teams move between projects on shared purpose rather than rank.
I co-created MONDAY INFLUENCER® the same way. A colleague in his seventies, a colleague in her twenties, and I work with no layer between us, and it holds together because the direction is shared, not assigned.
That is the hope inside episode one. Work where people have your back, where motivation outruns fear, and where what comes next gets built rather than survived.
Listen to episode one wherever you get your podcasts.
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