Yamarie Negron: Trauma, Identity, and the Journey Back to Wholeness

Julia Stamm: Escaping the Certainty Trap in the Age of AI

As AI races ahead, trust is collapsing, and workers are disengaging. This conversation dives into a new model of leadership, real-world use cases, and why starting with problems, not technology, is the key to unlocking AI’s potential. In this episode, Lisa and Julia Stamm discuss: * Global power dynamics and narratives around AI (East vs. West, race to AGI) * Fear, job loss, and collapsing trust in AI and institutions * Responsible AI and women-led, problem-first innovation * New leadership models: uncertainty, trust, and bottom-up transformation * Concrete AI use cases in healthcare, safety, climate, and everyday life Key Takeaways:  * You can be excited about AI’s potential and still have a responsibility to question how it is built, governed, and deployed. * Fear-driven narratives and “race” rhetoric around AI erode trust, especially when people see job losses but not tangible benefits in their own lives. * The most promising AI solutions start from real, deeply understood problems and communities, not from the technology itself. * Successful AI transformation inside organizations depends far more on trust, change management, and inclusive leadership than on the tools alone. * Embracing uncertainty, inviting critical questions, and involving diverse expertise are essential if AI is to improve people’s lives instead of merely boosting efficiency. “You can love technology and AI, and you should still ask questions.” - Julia Stamm About Julia Stamm: Dr. Julia Stamm is a futurist, entrepreneur, and global advocate for responsible AI innovation. After leaving the European Commission a decade ago, she set out to ensure that technology and innovation serve humanity by aligning progress with human values and empowering people to shape the future, not simply react to it. Her career has spanned academia, policymaking in Brussels, and venture-building, giving her a unique perspective on how culture, policy, and technology intersect. In 2024, Julia founded She Shapes AI, a global movement now active in more than 60 countries that equips leaders with strategic AI fluency, publishes thought leadership, and sparks critical conversations about how technology is built, why it matters, and who gets to shape it. Editor’s Note: SDGs refer to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Connect with Julia Stamm: Website: https://www.sheshapes.ai/ [https://www.sheshapes.ai/]  Coming Soon: https://juliastamm.com/ [https://juliastamm.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-julia-stamm/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-julia-stamm/]  Substack: https://juliastamm.substack.com/ [https://juliastamm.substack.com/]  Connect with Lisa Thee: Website: https://lisathee.com/ [https://lisathee.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/]  Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi [https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisa_thee [https://twitter.com/lisa_thee]  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/ [https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/]  Lisa’s BOOK: Go!: Reboot Your Career in 90 Days [https://www.amazon.com/Go-Reboot-Your-Career-Days/dp/1639080597/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18HY9BRP8996L&keywords=go%21+lisa+thee&qid=1685995537&sprefix=go+lisa+thee%2Caps%2C337&sr=8-1]   Show notes by Podcastologist: Francine Poblete Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. [https://t.sidekickopen77.com/s1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lM8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XWPdSD1CW2zq9rs4Y8_jsTmtwR3JwfC-103?te=W3R5hFj4cm2zwW4mKLS-4fPf-FW3XWJt643Pr3GF4cQb1fmLXp1&si=8000000000242417&pi=a234d7d8-f11b-4fd4-feb6-16232278dc85]You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Justin Davis: From AI Founder to Human Connection Architect

About Justin Davis: Justin Davis is a four-time startup founder and AI pioneer with over 22 years in tech. He has helped build and scale infrastructure used by billions of devices worldwide, including early ad tech platforms and AI-powered trust and safety systems that protect online communities. A former executive at companies acquired by Microsoft and Salesforce, Justin has led organizations through rapid growth, cultural transformation, and meaningful exits. After stepping away from executive life in 2024, Justin embarked on a year-long sabbatical focused on healing, creative expression, and redefining success. Today, he is the co-founder of Eleven Dunbar, a curated community built around deep connection, creativity, and intentional growth. His work centers on helping leaders move from burnout and survival into freedom, peace, joy, and authentic community. In this episode, Lisa and Justin Davis discuss: * Justin’s journey from early internet sales at Cisco to building AI systems that scaled to billions of users * The power of mission, vision, and values in creating thriving company cultures * Burnout, grief, and the identity crisis that followed stepping down as CEO * The role of creative expression, nature, and stillness in rediscovering purpose * Plant medicine, integration work, and confronting self-limiting belief systems Key Takeaways:  * Culture is not perks — it’s how people feel and how decisions are made when leadership isn’t in the room. Justin’s companies scaled globally because trust, growth, collaboration, and passion were embedded from day one and reinforced consistently. * Burnout often hides behind achievement. Even while leading high-performing AI companies, Justin was privately navigating grief, anxiety, and exhaustion — a reminder that external success does not guarantee internal alignment. * Creative expression and play are not luxuries; they are neurological and emotional necessities. Activities that move us out of our heads and into our bodies can rewire stress patterns and reconnect us to our authentic selves. * Self-limiting beliefs formed in childhood quietly shape adult ambition and identity. Confronting and releasing those internal narratives can unlock profound freedom and emotional clarity. * Integration is the real work of transformation. Whether through plant medicine, therapy, or major life shifts, lasting change comes from building daily rituals, habits, and routines that reinforce new awareness. “The space by which you can expand internally, the spirit, the heart, the mind, is infinite.” - Justin Davis Connect with Justin Davis: Website: https://www.elevendunbar.com/ [https://www.elevendunbar.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justindavis/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/justindavis/]  Connect with Lisa Thee: Website: https://lisathee.com/ [https://lisathee.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/]  Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi [https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisa_thee [https://twitter.com/lisa_thee]  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/ [https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/]  Lisa’s BOOK: Go!: Reboot Your Career in 90 Days [https://www.amazon.com/Go-Reboot-Your-Career-Days/dp/1639080597/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18HY9BRP8996L&keywords=go%21+lisa+thee&qid=1685995537&sprefix=go+lisa+thee%2Caps%2C337&sr=8-1] Show notes by Podcastologist: Francine Poblete Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. [https://t.sidekickopen77.com/s1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lM8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XWPdSD1CW2zq9rs4Y8_jsTmtwR3JwfC-103?te=W3R5hFj4cm2zwW4mKLS-4fPf-FW3XWJt643Pr3GF4cQb1fmLXp1&si=8000000000242417&pi=a234d7d8-f11b-4fd4-feb6-16232278dc85]You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Yamarie Negron: Trauma, Identity, and the Journey Back to Wholeness

About Yamarie Negron: Yamarie Negron is a trauma-informed transition and transformation coach who specializes in identity-level healing. After beginning her career in communications and serving as a director of content marketing at a startup, Yamarie felt called back to her first passion—understanding human behavior and psychology. Her own experience navigating divorce, health challenges, and deep personal transformation led her to develop a unique framework called the Transformation Tree, which integrates biology, identity, nervous system regulation, and behavior change. Today, she helps high-functioning women move from survival strategies to self-led living, expanding their capacity for resilience, relational health, and aligned success. In this episode, Lisa and Yamarie Negron discuss: * Yamarie’s pivot from corporate marketing to trauma-informed coaching * The difference between behavior change and identity-level transformation * Awareness, acceptance, and alignment as non-linear phases of healing * Boundaries, relational health, and expanding nervous system resilience * Redefining success beyond achievement and external validation Key Takeaways:  * Healing is not a destination; it is a continuous journey back to wholeness. As Yamarie explains, transformation unfolds through ongoing awareness, acceptance, and alignment, not a single breakthrough moment. * Many high achievers focus on changing behaviors without addressing the deeper identity and biological roots that fuel them. Lasting transformation requires working with the nervous system, not against it. * Survival strategies like fixing, forcing, or operating from fear, obligation, guilt, and shame may have once kept us safe. But over time, they quietly erode capacity and limit relational and personal growth. * Capacity is not just about time management. It’s about nervous system regulation, boundaries, and self-honoring choices. Expanding capacity requires both internal awareness and practical skill-building. * True success evolves. For Yamarie, success is no longer defined by achievement or income alone, but by self-preservation, health, alignment, and honoring her well-being along the path.   “That's what acceptance is really about, is acknowledging the things that you can and cannot influence, impact, and change.” - Yamarie Negron Connect with Yamarie Negron: Website: https://www.yamarienegron.com/ [https://www.yamarienegron.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yamarienegron/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/yamarienegron/]  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/namastenslay/ [https://www.instagram.com/namastenslay/]  Transformation Tree Framework: Why Doing The Inner Work Isn't Changing Results - https://www.yamarienegron.com/why-inner-work-isnt-working-transformation-tree [https://www.yamarienegron.com/why-inner-work-isnt-working-transformation-tree]  Connect with Lisa Thee: Website: https://lisathee.com/ [https://lisathee.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/]  Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi [https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisa_thee [https://twitter.com/lisa_thee]  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/ [https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/]  Lisa’s BOOK: Go!: Reboot Your Career in 90 Days [https://www.amazon.com/Go-Reboot-Your-Career-Days/dp/1639080597/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18HY9BRP8996L&keywords=go%21+lisa+thee&qid=1685995537&sprefix=go+lisa+thee%2Caps%2C337&sr=8-1] Show notes by Podcastologist: Francine Poblete Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. [https://t.sidekickopen77.com/s1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lM8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XWPdSD1CW2zq9rs4Y8_jsTmtwR3JwfC-103?te=W3R5hFj4cm2zwW4mKLS-4fPf-FW3XWJt643Pr3GF4cQb1fmLXp1&si=8000000000242417&pi=a234d7d8-f11b-4fd4-feb6-16232278dc85]You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Rashida Malcolm Bradley: Using Data, Capital, and AI to Drive Health Equity

About Rashida Malcolm Bradley: Rashida Malcolm Bradley is a healthcare analytics and finance leader with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of enterprise healthcare, data science, and capital deployment. Currently serving in a senior leadership role at a Fortune 5 healthcare organization, Rashida focuses on pricing strategy, predictive analytics, and pharmacy benefit management to improve affordability, access, and outcomes across the healthcare ecosystem. Her career journey spans investment banking, private banking, international finance operations, and corporate healthcare strategy, including roles at Lehman Brothers, Citi, JP Morgan, and CVS Health. With a deep passion for health equity, women’s health, and servant leadership, Rashida brings a mission-driven lens to how AI and analytics can make the invisible visible for decision-makers while creating more sustainable, human-centered healthcare systems. In this episode, Lisa and Rashida Malcolm Bradley discuss: * Rashida’s career journey from investment banking to healthcare analytics leadership * How AI, predictive analytics, and pricing strategy are reshaping healthcare decision-making * The role of capital deployment in improving access, affordability, and health outcomes * Navigating mission-driven work inside large, publicly traded organizations * Defining success through alignment, balance, and servant leadership Key Takeaways:  * Healthcare outcomes are deeply influenced by how capital is allocated, and decisions are made behind the scenes. Rashida highlights how data transparency and analytics can drive more equitable and sustainable healthcare models. * AI serves as a decision-support tool that enhances human judgment rather than replacing it. When used effectively, predictive analytics can improve affordability, access, and long-term patient outcomes. * Mission-driven leadership is possible within large enterprises when leaders stay grounded in purpose. Rashida emphasizes keeping patient impact front and center, even while navigating financial and shareholder pressures. * Career resilience in an AI-driven economy requires continuous upskilling and intentional networking. Investing in education and relationships allows professionals to stay relevant and create new opportunities. * True success is defined by alignment between values, energy, and impact. For Rashida, leadership means serving others, mentoring the next generation, and creating balance across professional and personal life.   “You can measure success with titles, visibility, external validation, and those things are nice, don't get me wrong. But now I think about it from a sense of alignment in my values, my energy, and how I spend my time.” - Rashida Malcolm Bradley Connect with Rashida Malcolm Bradley: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashidabradley/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashidabradley/]  Connect with Lisa Thee: Website: https://lisathee.com/ [https://lisathee.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/]  Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi [https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisa_thee [https://twitter.com/lisa_thee]  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/ [https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/]  Lisa’s BOOK: Go!: Reboot Your Career in 90 Days [https://www.amazon.com/Go-Reboot-Your-Career-Days/dp/1639080597/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18HY9BRP8996L&keywords=go%21+lisa+thee&qid=1685995537&sprefix=go+lisa+thee%2Caps%2C337&sr=8-1] Show notes by Podcastologist: Francine Poblete Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. [https://t.sidekickopen77.com/s1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lM8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XWPdSD1CW2zq9rs4Y8_jsTmtwR3JwfC-103?te=W3R5hFj4cm2zwW4mKLS-4fPf-FW3XWJt643Pr3GF4cQb1fmLXp1&si=8000000000242417&pi=a234d7d8-f11b-4fd4-feb6-16232278dc85]You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Sarah Porter: Turning Chronic Illness into Healthcare Innovation

About Sarah Porter: Sarah Porter is the CEO and founder of Boardwalk Health, an AI-powered healthcare software company focused on improving outcomes for patients with complex and chronic conditions. With nearly a decade of experience building early-stage startups across edtech and HR tech, Sarah’s entrepreneurial path took a deeply personal turn after she was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). Frustrated by a healthcare system that often overlooks and misunderstands complex cases, she founded Boardwalk Health to bridge the gap between patients and providers by reducing prep time, improving continuity of care, and empowering physicians with actionable insights. Sarah is a passionate advocate for patient-centered innovation and a visible leader redefining what compassionate, effective healthcare can look like. In this episode, Lisa and Sarah Porter discuss: * Sarah’s journey from startup operator to founder after being diagnosed with POTS * The systemic gaps in healthcare for patients with chronic and complex conditions * How Boardwalk Health uses AI to reduce provider prep time and improve patient outcomes * Managing energy, leadership, and entrepreneurship while living with a chronic illness * Redefining success, legacy, and impact in healthcare innovation Key Takeaways:  * Personal pain can become a powerful catalyst for systemic change when paired with purpose and execution. Sarah’s experience navigating chronic illness revealed deep flaws in healthcare and inspired her to build a solution from the inside out. * Chronic illness forces entrepreneurs to think differently about energy, sustainability, and leadership. Success often depends not on doing more, but on building safeguards, support systems, and intentional boundaries. * AI can enhance, not replace, healthcare providers when designed to meet them within existing workflows. By reducing prep time and clarifying patient data, providers can focus on what matters most: care and connection. * Early hiring decisions shape the trajectory of a startup more than founders often realize. Clear documentation, product vision, and role alignment are essential, especially for non-technical founders. * True success goes beyond growth metrics and exits. For Sarah, impact is measured by lives improved, patients heard, and a healthcare system made more humane for future generations.   “Success is saying I found this huge thing that's broken in this big system, and I'm going to fix it, and it's going to impact all of these lives.” - Sarah Porter Connect with Sarah Porter: Website: https://mymeddefend.com/ [https://mymeddefend.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahatboardwalk/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahatboardwalk/]  Podcast: The Capital Maze   Connect with Lisa Thee: Website: https://lisathee.com/ [https://lisathee.com/]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/]  Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi [https://web.facebook.com/lisa.thee.polvi]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisa_thee [https://twitter.com/lisa_thee]  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/ [https://www.instagram.com/lisatheepolvi/]  Lisa’s BOOK: Go!: Reboot Your Career in 90 Days [https://www.amazon.com/Go-Reboot-Your-Career-Days/dp/1639080597/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18HY9BRP8996L&keywords=go%21+lisa+thee&qid=1685995537&sprefix=go+lisa+thee%2Caps%2C337&sr=8-1]   Show notes by Podcastologist: Francine Poblete Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. [https://t.sidekickopen77.com/s1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lM8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XWPdSD1CW2zq9rs4Y8_jsTmtwR3JwfC-103?te=W3R5hFj4cm2zwW4mKLS-4fPf-FW3XWJt643Pr3GF4cQb1fmLXp1&si=8000000000242417&pi=a234d7d8-f11b-4fd4-feb6-16232278dc85]You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.