The Human Edge is the home for leaders who believe belonging is not a buzzword, but the unshakable human birthright to be seen, valued, and deeply connected. Host Annastacia Wainaina—raised with a deep sense of belonging —challenges today’s leaders to stop treating culture as a strategy and start owning it as a living responsibility. Here, we move beyond inclusion rhetoric and build cultures people fight to be part of and never want to leave—cultures where belonging fuels innovation, loyalty, and real human flourishing. In a world racing toward automation, The Human Edge stands for the truth:
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The Human Edge is the home for leaders who believe belonging is not a buzzword, but the unshakable human birthright to be seen, valued, and deeply connected. Host Annastacia Wainaina—raised with a deep sense of belonging —challenges today’s leaders to stop treating culture as a strategy and start owning it as a living responsibility. Here, we move beyond inclusion rhetoric and build cultures people fight to be part of and never want to leave—cultures where belonging fuels innovation, loyalty, and real human flourishing. In a world racing toward automation, The Human Edge stands for the truth:
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Recent Episodes
July 9, 2026
Life Matters And People Come First | Saul on Leading Where Every Decision Is Life Or Death
<p>Walk through the front doors of Medi Response and the first sign you see says: life matters and people come first.</p><p><br></p><p>Annastacia Wainaina sits down with Saul, global CEO of Medi Response, an organisation delivering pre-hospital emergency care and aeromedical evacuation across the world. His teams run ambulances across South Africa, staff mining, oil and gas sites, and operate in hostile environments including Iraq and Afghanistan.</p><p><br></p><p>This is leadership shaped by life and death.</p><p><br></p><p>Saul explains why AI belongs in the medical pack as a tool rather than as the decision maker, and why his clinicians are told to fall back on their training and double check what the algorithm suggests. He describes the escalation pathways where questioning a decision is commended, not punished.</p><p><br></p><p>He speaks honestly about mental health in emergency care, and how the belief that a practitioner who cries after a scene is weak had to be dismantled. He argues that culture cannot be taught, only cultivated, and that empathy must run from the executive all the way to the person taking the rubbish out at the gate.</p><p><br></p><p>Then he shares the two stories that made him. The man trapped under a heavy vehicle who died the moment it was lifted, and the lesson that you can prepare every step and still not control the outcome. And the baby he delivered in an ambulance, now an adult walking past him years later.</p><p><br></p><p>His closing advice: go back to basics, build the foundations, and remember that if you are the most clever person in the room, you're in the wrong room.</p><p><br></p><p>Find Medi Response at mediresponse.co.za</p><p><br></p><p>The Human Edge Podcast explores what it really takes to lead, care and create change at the edge of human possibility.</p>
July 1, 2026
Supply and Demand, Not Self Worth | Jane Anderson on Pricing Power, Personal Brand and Building a Practice That Lasts
<p>If you have ever undercharged, wondered why your pipeline is dry or felt like your expertise is not being valued the way it should be, this is the conversation you needed years ago.<br>Jane Anderson is one of the world's leading consulting coaches, working with thought leaders, consultants and advisors across more than 40 countries. She is the author of multiple books, a certified speaking professional and a growth strategist whose clients have built some of the most recognised independent practices in their fields.<br>In this episode of The Human Edge, Jane and Annastacia cover: why pricing is a supply and demand question, not a self-worth one. The million dollar problem being solved for $500 and why that has to change. Why you are the non-negotiable and the thing no competitor can copy or undercut. The honest test that tells you if you have a business or a very expensive hobby. How she nearly walked away from everything in 2020, ran a free event instead, had 500 people show up and created over $50 million worth of IP in two days. The difference between an expert and a thought leader, and what it takes to make the shift. And a closing thought that every person sitting on their expertise needs to hear: you have got more in you than you think.<br>Find Jane Anderson at janeanderson.com.au and across social media.<br>he Human Edge is hosted by Annastacia Wainaina, for leaders who believe that how you build matters as much as what you build.<br>If this episode moved you, save it, share it and leave a review.</p>
May 20, 2026
From Stethoscope to System | Dr. Karl Daniel on Healthcare Access, Humanity and Building Tibu Health
<p>Over 50% of Kenyans cannot access primary healthcare. Most manage their own symptoms until a small condition becomes an expensive emergency. Dr. Karl Daniel decided to change the system rather than keep treating patients one at a time.<br>Dr. Karl is the CEO of Tibu Health Kenya, a company placing minute clinics inside pharmacies to make quality primary care accessible and affordable across Kenya and Uganda. He is a trained doctor with epidemiology training and an MBA, and he leads at the intersection of healthcare operations and human experience.<br>In this episode of The Human Edge, Dr. Karl and Annastacia Wainaina cover: why 50% of Kenyans cannot access primary care and how the system loses people in the cracks. The moment he knew the stethoscope was no longer his most powerful tool. What he learned about leadership from a superintendent in Turkana who told him: you lead and the money will follow. Why humanity is a clinical strategy, not just a value. How belonging in healthcare is clinical, not optional. The minute clinic model and why colocating inside pharmacies keeps costs low without cutting care. What preventive healthcare looks like inside a pharmacy where people already shop. The role of trust in medicine. And what is coming next for Tibu Health including supermarkets, HPV vaccines and audiology services.<br>Find Tibu Health at MMD.Africa or through Good Life Pharmacy across Kenya.<br>The Human Edge is hosted by Annastacia Wainaina, for leaders who believe humanity belongs at the centre of everything they build.<br>If this conversation moved something in you, save it, share it and leave a review.</p>
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