We spend 40+ hours a week with coworkers but often know little about them beyond their work roles. During COVID, I started “Curiosity Conversations,” sitting one-on-one with colleagues to uncover their lives, challenges, and passions. These conversations revealed vulnerability, connection, and the power of seeing coworkers as people. This podcast shares inspiring stories, revealing how deeper connections can transform work into a supportive community. Join me as I uncover inspiring stories behind the people we spend so much of our lives with.
Raw and Real at Work: An Experiment to Find Authenticity and Connection
Claim This Podcastby Sean Neville
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We spend 40+ hours a week with coworkers but often know little about them beyond their work roles. During COVID, I started “Curiosity Conversations,” sitting one-on-one with colleagues to uncover their lives, challenges, and passions. These conversations revealed vulnerability, connection, and the power of seeing coworkers as people. This podcast shares inspiring stories, revealing how deeper connections can transform work into a supportive community. Join me as I uncover inspiring stories behind the people we spend so much of our lives with.
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Recent Episodes
December 2, 2025
From Giving Birth in Grad School to Becoming an Executive — The Power of Support (Episode 12)
<p>Jamie Moore, now a Gilead executive, gave birth during grad school and kept going. She was propelled by teachers who spotted her spark, a boss who saved a leadership role for her when she felt ready, and a spouse who took on caregiving so she could step into the lab and the boardroom.</p><p>Her reflections echo across our series: how early champions, stretch assignments, and shared family responsibility create the scaffolding for talent to thrive. She also shares how thriving inside supportive systems can blind us to the struggles others face</p><p>Jamie thought she didn’t have much of a story. Yet in her journey, we see the universal truth: drive + support = impact. And it raises the question—what breakthroughs could we see if those conditions were available to everyone?</p>
August 25, 2025
The Boy Who Raised Himself on the Streets of Nepal at Age Ten (Episode 11)
<p>Damai was only ten years old when his mother died. His father was overwhelmed caring for his two younger siblings, so Damai left his childhood home—a mud hut with a straw roof in the hills of Nepal. He set off alone in search of work, shelter, and food. Alone. Hungry. Without guidance or comfort, he became a dishwasher in a tea house for five cents a month, sleeping where strangers let him, surviving moment to moment. At age ten!</p><p>This episode traces the extraordinary life of a boy who became an adult far too soon. From being sent to school in Nepal by kindhearted European tourists who noticed this young boy living alone on the streets to working as a Sherpa to Everest Base Camp in his twenties, to receiving a fiancé visa from an American woman he spent two weeks with on the mountain. From one impossible moment to the next. One chance encounter to the next shepherded Damai to building a new life in the United States. Damai’s story is one of unimaginable hardship, surprising kindness from strangers, and unbelievable grit.</p><p>Now a father to a college graduate, he reflects on a life without role models, love, or safety—and the steady peace he continues to seek with that absence.</p>
August 2, 2025
From Isolation to Intimacy: The Search for Friendship in a Disconnected World (Episode 10)
<p>In this deeply personal and thought-provoking episode, Sean sits down with Rankin, a Filipino-American biotech professional and former entomologist, to explore what it means to belong, connect, and follow your gut—both inside and outside the workplace. From growing up between cultures, to studying invasive ants in Australia, to navigating disconnection in post-COVID America, Rankin shares how identity, friendship vs friends, and deep self-reflection have shaped his journey. Together, he and Sean reflect on the courage it takes to be real in corporate America, and why, in an age of AI, human connection is more vital than ever.</p>
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