The Ryan Vet Show

About The Ryan Vet Show

To lead well today, you have to understand the forces that shaped yesterday and the ones reshaping tomorrow. You were made to Inspire Forward...and every episode helps you do just that. The Ryan Vet Show is where leaders come to understand why the world, and the people in it, work the way they do. Hosted by Ryan Vet, USA Today bestselling author, generational futurist, and contrarian leadership thinker, the show blends research, lived experience, and narrative to help you navigate tomorrow with more insight, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each week, Ryan explores the ideas shaping today’s workplace and culture: Generational dynamics and the behaviors that form each cohort Leadership and organizational psychology Change management and the forces driving adaptation Entrepreneurship and real-world decision making Communication, influence, and human behavior How the past explains the present and the present shapes the future The show features two core formats: Long-form interviews with leaders, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and creators whose stories reveal the “why” behind their work, decisions, and impact. Weekly readings of the COLLIDE newsletter, where Ryan breaks down cultural shifts, generational insights, and leadership lessons with a story-rich, research-backed lens. Whether you’re an executive, a manager, an entrepreneur, an educator, or simply navigating cross-generational tension, The Ryan Vet Show gives you the insight and tools to lead with clarity, curiosity, and intentionality. If you want a show that’s intellectually grounded, practically useful, and deeply human — welcome. This is your place to understand the world more clearly and lead it more thoughtfully.

Publisher

Ryan Vet

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Nov 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

61 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Lake Ontario, or America, or Whatever - Renaming, the Velocity Gap, and Who Controls the Past

   Alaska spent forty years renaming one mountain. Now it takes thirty days and a database, and the past gets rewritten right along with the future. Generational futurist Ryan Vet reads his COLLIDE essay on what happens when renaming a place stops being a slow, public process and becomes a database edit. He remembers the mnemonics he learned as a kid for the Great Lakes and the planets, and how hard it is to rewrite memory. Then he flew to the Caribbean in February over a map that read Gulf of M...

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Dr. Connie Ledoux Book: Elon University, Gen Z, and the Future of Higher Ed Consolidation

   One in four teenagers told researchers they had sought emotional support from a chatbot. The president of Elon University says that is a very different student than a decade ago. Dr. Connie Ledoux Book is the president of Elon University, Ryan Vet's alma mater. She joins Ryan to answer the question he hears most from listeners and COLLIDE readers: what is going on with higher education, and will colleges still be around when his kids get there? Her starting point is a Gallup finding that publ...

3. 

   1 Oct 2026

   700 Agents Broke Into Hugging Face. Nobody Told Them To. - Jacob Coxon and the Velocity Gap

   Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and said they're gambling with our lives. He's right that AI can kill us now. He's wrong about what it will become. A former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher walked away from unvested stock options and went on X to declare AI an existential threat. The post has been viewed more than 117 million times. Generational futurist Ryan Vet reads his COLLIDE essay breaking down Jacob Coxon's argument piece by piece: where he agrees, where he doesn't, and why the real warning ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

3.9 / 5

18 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

551 ratings

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