Lead Human with Jack Myers and Tim Spengler

About Lead Human with Jack Myers and Tim Spengler

Lead Human is 30-minutes of inspiration where today’s most influential leaders reflect on how empathy, adaptability, and integrity define success in the age of human-machine co-intelligence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Jack Myers

Category

business · society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jan 2026

Latest episode

9 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Your Third Brain: How to Think Better With AI | Jack Myers in Conversation with Tim Spengler

   After reading Jack Myers’ new book, Your Third Brain, Tim Spengler wanted to sit down with his Lead Human co-host and dig into the ideas that stood out to him most. What followed is a conversation about what human-machine collaboration really means for leadership, creativity, judgment, and the future of work. Jack explains his concept of the “third brain” as the space where human intention, experience, emotion, and judgment work together with the scale and speed of AI. Tim pulls from specific ideas he highlighted while reading the book, including presence, discernment, and the pause, the notion of AI as both a mirror and a reflector, and why “unlearning” may become just as important as learning. They also explore how leadership must evolve, why great leaders will need to become harmonizers of human and machine intelligence, and why the most useful question may not be whether AI becomes smarter than us, but whether our relationship with AI helps us become more intelligent, more humane, and more capable. At its core, Your Third Brain is not about surrendering human agency to technology. It is about learning how to use technology without giving up judgment, accountability, creativity, or the responsibility to shape what comes next. Lead Human is hosted by Jack Myers & Tim Spengler, produced by Wondir Studios (Desta Wondirad), in association with Acast. #LeadHuman #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #Leadership #HumanPotential Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   2 Sept 2026

   90% Ego Management: Jamie Reynolds on Leadership, Live Sports & ESPN

   For more than four decades, Jamie Reynolds has helped shape how millions of people experience live sports. As a longtime ESPN executive producer, Jamie oversaw massive production teams across tennis, basketball and other major sporting events—where hundreds of people, competing creative perspectives and the unpredictability of live television all had to come together in real time. His philosophy on leadership? “90% of my job is ego management.” Jamie joins Jack Myers and Tim Spengler to unpack what years behind the scenes at ESPN taught him about building high-performing teams, managing creative personalities, trusting people to make decisions under pressure and preparing for moments when a sporting event suddenly becomes a news event. He also shares stories from an extraordinary career: the Malice at the Palace, working with Bill Walton, Mike Ditka’s unexpected generosity, secretly adjusting the audio of John and Patrick McEnroe so viewers could tell their voices apart, and the evolution of the US Open into one of the great spectacles in sports. Along the way, Jamie reflects on something increasingly rare in modern media: the power of experiencing an event together, in full, rather than reducing it to an 18-second highlight. Lead Human explores what it takes to lead people—not just manage organizations—and why the greatest competitive advantage may come from unleashing human potential. Subscribe and share the episode with someone who thinks deeply about leadership, storytelling or the future of sports and media. Lead Human is hosted by Jack Myers & Tim Spengler, produced by Wondir Studios (Desta Wondirad), in association with Acast. #Leadership #ESPN #SportsMedia #LiveSports #LeadHuman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   12 Aug 2026

   From GLP-1 to Baseball Caps: What Our Appetites and Identities Reveal About Us

   What happens when a medication changes not just how much people eat—but how entire industries behave? In this episode of Lead Human, Jack Myers and Tim Spengler unpack the broader cultural and business impact of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, from shrinking food and beverage consumption to changing consumer habits, restaurant economics, body image, and even expectations for corporate leadership. If millions of people want less food, less alcohol, and less immediate gratification, what happens to the industries built around selling more? The conversation then takes a lighter turn into something surprisingly revealing: hats. Jack and Tim explore how baseball caps have become a kind of real-world emoji—signaling loyalty, geography, taste, aspiration, and cultural identity. From Yankees hats worn by people who don’t follow baseball to Sundance, Knicks, art, and family connections, they ask whether what we wear reflects who we truly are or simply the culture we want to belong to. It’s a distinctly Lead Human conversation about consumption, identity, technology, culture, and the choices—big and small—that shape how we present ourselves to the world. Lead Human is hosted by Jack Myers & Tim Spengler, produced by Wondir Studios (Desta Wondirad), in association with Acast. #LeadHuman #GLP1 #ConsumerTrends #Culture #HumanBehavior 00:00 Welcome to Lead Human 00:43 Jack & Tim take on the dog days of summer 01:48 Is America going through a consumption reset? 03:33 GLP-1s are changing more than weight 04:33 Are shrinking categories getting CEOs and CMOs fired? 05:18 Which food and beverage brands are still winning? 05:54 Do GLP-1s expand human potential—or replace discipline? 06:35 What happens to restaurants if America loses its appetite? 07:33 One in nine adults and the scale of the GLP-1 shift 08:25 Could body size become a marker of access and wealth? 09:27 Is this a lasting consumption reset or just a trend? 09:47 The conversation pivots to hats 10:23 What your hat says about who you are 11:27 Are hats authentic identity or borrowed cultural credibility? 12:21 Why the baseball cap may be the world’s most important accessory 13:09 Why people wear Yankees hats without knowing the Yankees 13:28 Do hats need “truth in labeling”? 14:35 When did wearing a baseball cap backwards become normal? 15:19 CEOs, culture, and the backwards hat 16:31 Could baseball caps actually be culturally unifying? 17:34 Hats as loyalty, memory, creativity, and aspiration 18:05 What hat tells the truest story about you? 18:45 Outro – share your favorite hat and why it matters Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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