A lot of leaders are talking about AI.

But behind the confident language, there is often something else going on.

Pressure. Confusion. Fear of falling behind. And in many cases, a rush to act before the business is truly ready.

In Episode 301 of The Limitless Podcast, I speak with Srirangam R Srirangarajan of Siemens about what leaders must get right if they want AI to create real business impact.

Most breakdowns do not happen overnight.

They build slowly while we keep performing, keep coping, and keep telling ourselves everything is fine.

In Episode 300 of The Limitless Podcast, I speak with Cindy Tien about the lies we tell ourselves before life forces us to face the truth.

Cindy shares her story with rare honesty. From chasing titles and success on the outside to hitting moments where everything began to crack on the inside. Addiction, denial, and painful wake up calls eventually pushed her to confront what she had been avoiding.

AI is everywhere right now.

But if you are a business owner, it can still feel cluttered, confusing, and a little overwhelming.

In Episode 299 of The Limitless Podcast, I sat down with Daniel Hindi, Founder and CEO of Noam.ai, to strip away the hype and focus on what actually matters for business.

Daniel is a software engineer by trade and a serial founder. He has built five successful startups, and he was refreshingly honest about the reality behind the headlines. Wins matter, but the graveyard of lessons matters too.

This is an episode #298 of The Limitless Podcast, and I am pleased to welcome Sujit Radhakrishnan, Head People and Franchisee Europe at Yum Brands.

In this conversation, we tackle a reality many leaders are still avoiding.

Employee Experience is no longer an HR initiative. It is a business survival strategy.

This is Episode 297 of The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, and I am pleased to welcome Jen Marr, Founder and CEO of Showing Up.

We are tackling a topic that is really important, and one that many of my clients around Asia are struggling with and want to learn more about. It is the conversations you are avoiding, and the ones shaping your culture.

Jen has spent the last decade diving deep into our human behaviors in times of disruption, uncertainty, upheaval, and massive change. She shares what her research and work have revealed, that in times like these, we are getting our human relational behaviors wrong more than we are getting them right.

In this episode, we talk about Adaptive Leadership in Hospitality.

Shaun has spent more than twenty years leading across cultures, markets, and constant disruption. His message is simple and powerful.

Start with people. Understand the culture. Know the why. Then grow.

We speak about navigating uncertainty in a world shaped by geopolitics, AI, restructuring, matrix organisations, and constant technological acceleration.

This is Episode 295 of The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, and I am honored to welcome David Greer, entrepreneur, executive coach, and 16 years sober.

In this deeply honest and powerful conversation, David shares the moment that changed everything. After more than 20 years as a daily drinker and a high performing executive, he admitted to his coach, “Kevin, I have a drinking problem.” That single sentence opened a one way door that led to recovery, clarity, and a completely new way of living.

This is Episode 294 of The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, and we are honored to welcome Ricky Foo, Partner and Board and CEO Practice APAC Lead at Mercuri Urval, and the author of his new book Jobhunting.

In this episode, Ricky shares why he wrote Jobhunting, and why it took him five years to complete. What started as a personal milestone as he turned forty became a serious project built on real career stories, real interviews, and real lessons that many professionals only learn after it is too late.

This is Episode 293 of The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, and we are pleased to welcome John Frost, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Marketing at Doane University.

In this episode, John shares a real and deeply human perspective on why education is still one of the most powerful tools we have to change lives. John opens up about his own unexpected journey, from local news journalism to higher education, and how that pivot happened through one simple truth.

Everybody has a story.

This is Episode 292 of The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, and we are pleased to welcome Andrea Edwards, Founder and CEO of The Digital Conversationalist.

In this episode, Andrea introduces and explains the polycrisis, a moment in history where climate change, AI disruption, geopolitics, supply chain instability, and rising authoritarianism are all happening at the same time and feeding into each other. She explains why this is not a situation that can be reduced to sound bites, calling it the most complex situation humanity has ever faced.

This is Episode 291 of The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, and we are pleased to welcome Stephen Lew, Founder and CEO of The School of Positive Psychology.

In this conversation, Stephen goes straight to what many high performers need to hear right now. Burnout is not a personal phenomenon. It is a global phenomenon. He shares why people may say it is my boss, it is this meeting, it is this conversation, but what they are actually facing can be something deeper, something systemic, and even intergenerational.

Stephen introduces a phrase that lands hard. The humanity gap. He explains that we have been brought out in a system where we chase after performance through extraction, acceleration, optimization, scaling, in order to optimize performance and profits. Then we reach a milestone, and immediately we think about the next milestone.

This is Episode #290 of The In-Person Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, and we are honored to welcome Sterling, a 71 year old athlete and a man whose resilience will stay with you long after the episode ends.

Nick meets Sterling in Phuket, where they train together in the pool and the ocean. What begins as a warm conversation between swim buddies quickly becomes something deeper. Sterling shares what happened during the pandemic, and he does not hide the truth.

He lost his mother during COVID, under painful circumstances. Lockdowns removed the social connection and daily routines that had helped her thrive. Sterling was not able to return home, and the family was never able to have a proper funeral. Grief did not get its rightful place.

This is Episode #289 of The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, and we are pleased to welcome Steven Puri, Founder of The Sukha Company.

In this episode, Steven shares practical insights on healthy high performance drawn from an uncommon career spanning engineering, film, and technology. From bridging engineers and creatives during the digital transformation of Hollywood to holding senior executive roles at major studios and later building tech companies, Steven brings lived experience into one central theme: sustainable creativity through deep work.

Nick and Steven explore what leaders are facing in early 2026. Rapid technological change, discomfort around AI, and pressure to keep up. Steven offers clarity by reframing how AI is often misunderstood.

This is Episode #288 of The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson, featuring Gil Petersil, Quantum Networking and Strategy Expert, and Founder of MeetPartners.

In this episode, Gil Petersil explores relationship capital and why it is the currency leaders don’t see on the balance sheet. In a world filled with inauthentic content where people question what is real, Gil explains why we have not yet mastered the depth of human connection.