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Dr. Linda Babcock – Say No When You Have a Deeper Yes

Anthony Silard — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:20:50 GMT

You could read every leadership book in the world, attend every productivity seminar, and still end up in the same place, burned out, behind, and wondering why you're working twice as hard as your colleagues for half the recognition. If you're a woman in your career, there's a good chance you already know why. You're not failing. The system is working exactly as designed, just not for you.

Hello, I'm your host Dr. Anthony Silard, and welcome to ReSocial—where we rediscover, reflect on and renew how we approach social relationships so we can develop Compassionate, Meaningful, Sustainable Relationships, or what we call CMSRs.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Linda Babcock, a pioneering economist at Carnegie Mellon University whose research has fundamentally changed how we understand work, fairness, and the hidden barriers holding women back. She's here to talk about why your calendar doesn't look like it should, why saying no feels impossible, and what changes when you finally understand what's actually happening to your time and your career.

Check out Linda’s book The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work: https://www.thenoclub.com/

Information about Linda: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/people/emeritus/linda-babcock.html

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Carl Honore | To Achieve Your Most Important Goals as Quickly as Possible, Slow Down

Anthony Silard — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:31:08 GMT

Many of our listeners feel caught in a speed trap. They wake up running, they work in a state of constant acceleration, and by the time they slow down at night, they're too exhausted to actually connect with the people they love. They know something is wrong with this pace, but they don't know how to change it—or even if it's possible. Today we're talking about why that exhaustion exists, what it costs us, and what becomes possible when we finally decide to stop running.

Hello, I'm your host Dr. Anthony Silard, and welcome to ReSocial—where we rediscover, reflect on and renew how we approach social relationships so we can develop Compassionate, Meaningful, Sustainable Relationships, or what we call CMSRs.

I'm joined by Carl Honoré, award-winning author and speaker, who spent his career as a journalist watching the world accelerate. But his real breakthrough came when he realized he was caught in the same trap. Carl's here to talk about what changed when he decided to stop, and what that shift revealed about how we connect with ourselves and each other.

Check out Carl’s book In Praise of Slow: https://bit.ly/4ybNt0V

Information about Carl: https://carlhonore.info

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Dr. Jennifer Crocker – Your Work is Not Your Worth

Anthony Silard — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:43:21 GMT

Have you ever spent hours crafting the perfect email, rehearsing what you’d say before a hard conversation, or replaying an interaction trying to figure out how you came across? Most of us do this more than we’d like to admit. And here’s what research shows: that effort — all that energy spent managing how others see us — is one of the main things getting between us and the connection we want.

Hello, I'm your host Dr. Anthony Silard, and welcome to ReSocial—where we rediscover, reflect on and renew how we approach social relationships so we can develop Compassionate, Meaningful, Sustainable Relationships, or what we call CMSRs.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Jennifer Crocker, Emerita Professor of Social Psychology at The Ohio State University to talk about why our efforts to manage other’s perception of us is misspent, and what we can do instead.

Check out Jenny’s Substack “The Ego Equation” https://theegoequation.substack.com/

Information about Jenny: https://psychology.osu.edu/people/crocker.37

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Dr. Dacher Keltner – Why are Wealthy People Often Less Kind?

Anthony Silard — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:09:35 GMT

Many people listening have experienced moments that shifted everything—standing before something vast, witnessing genuine goodness in another person, or feeling a connection to something much larger than themselves. These moments can feel isolating in a culture that teaches us to chase individual achievement and personal gain. But what if awe is wired into our brains as a path back to connection, compassion, and meaning?

Hello, I'm your host Dr. Anthony Silard, and welcome to ReSocial—where we rediscover, reflect on and renew how we approach social relationships so we can develop Compassionate, Meaningful, Sustainable Relationships, or what we call CMSRs.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Dacher Keltner, a psychologist whose decades of research on emotion have fundamentally changed how we understand human nature.

Check out his book

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life: https://bit.ly/4exdApS

Information about Dacher: https://www.dacherkeltner.com/

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Dr. Alfie Kohn – Are We Fundamentally Selfish or Motivated to Help Others?

Anthony Silard — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:59:35 GMT

Today I'm joined by Alfie Kohn, one of my heroes, whose foundational research and writing about parenting and prosocial behaviors has influenced me profoundly and is truly amazing.

Check out his book Unconditional Parenting: https://bit.ly/4veVujL

Information about Alfie: https://alfiekohn.org

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Dr. Alejandro Poire Romero – Navigating Tough Decisions with Empathy

Anthony Silard — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:43:37 GMT

Many of our listeners feel the weight of real responsibility—they're leading teams, raising children, navigating visibility they didn't always expect. And if you're doing that work while your country is in crisis, while you're watching democratic institutions strain under pressure, you're carrying something heavier. Imagine holding the weight of decisions that affect thousands of people, all while you're trying to be a steady parent, a present partner, a human being underneath the role. How can you lead with integrity when the system itself feels like it's failing?

Today I'm joined by Alejandro Poiré Romero, a Mexican political scientist and former Secretary of the Interior of Mexico who has spent his life thinking about how democracies work—and how they break. He's also a father who has navigated profound personal transitions while serving at the highest levels of his country's government. His story reveals something essential about leadership under pressure: the personal and political are never separate.

Information about Alejandro: https://tec.mx/en/our-faculty/ecsg/alejandro-poire?srsltid=AfmBOorZNrEPSbxDLLyNbspdxQuYdvQgaQF8wj9zkhhPtTH3z_5MD827

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Dr. Kristen Shockley – Women are Still the Default for Caretaking in Families – and What It Causes

Anthony Silard — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:43:29 GMT

Many of our listeners have lived through a shock to their working lives. Whether it was the COVID-19 pandemic, a sudden shift to remote work, or a partner's job change, they found themselves navigating something they weren't prepared for: How do we decide whose career takes priority? Who adjusts? And what does that adjustment cost when it lands unequally on one person's shoulders?

Today I'm joined by Dr. Kristen Shockley, a leading researcher on work-family dynamics and a scientist studying the real story behind dual-earner couples making career decisions under pressure. Her research reveals something uncomfortable: when couples are forced to make choices about whose work matters more, it's rarely a conversation of equals. And the cost of that decision shows up in the relationship itself.

Information about Kristin’s research: https://harbert.auburn.edu/directory/kristen-shockley.html

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Dr. Alicia Grandey – What Do the Emotional Expression of Women and Menopause Have in Common?

Anthony Silard — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:06:47 GMT

Many of our listeners spend their working lives managing how they appear to others — monitoring their emotions, controlling their responses, sometimes faking what they actually feel just to fit in at work. And if you're a woman navigating midlife, you're often managing something else entirely: your body's own rebellion in the form of hot flashes, brain fog, or sudden emotional shifts. You're working twice as hard and getting half the credit. Today we're talking about the hidden cost of that effort, and what it means for our connections to ourselves and to each other.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Alicia Grandey, a distinguished professor of psychology at Penn State University, whose research over the past quarter century has fundamentally changed how we think about emotional authenticity in the workplace. She's here to talk about why we're all paying a price we barely notice and what liberation looks like when we stop paying it.

Alicia’s new book Emotionally Charged: https://bit.ly/42YBllr

More information about Alicia’s research: https://psych.la.psu.edu/people/aag6/

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Dr. Nicholas Epley – Are You Making the Choice of Social Connection?

Anthony Silard — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:14:44 GMT

Have you ever felt like the people around you were somehow unreachable? Maybe you were on a bus or an elevator or sitting across from someone at dinner and the distance between you felt wider than it should. If you’ve ever wondered whether the connections you keep meaning to make are worth making—and whether the people you hesitate to reach out to really want to hear from you—today’s guest has spent more than twenty years finding out.

Hello, I'm your host Dr. Anthony Silard, and welcome to ReSocial—where we reflect on and renew how we approach social relationships so we can develop Compassionate, Meaningful, Sustainable Relationships, or what we call CMSRs.

Today I’m joined by Dr. Nick Epley, professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and author of the upcoming book A Little More Social. Nick teaches one of Chicago Booth’s most sought-after courses: “Designing a Good Life.”For over two decades, his research has examined social cognition and why well-meaning people so routinely underestimate how much others would enjoy connecting with them, and how much good they could do by reaching out.

Nick’s new book A Little More Social: https://bit.ly/4wyGTAx

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Dr. Juliana Schroeder – Talk to Strangers

Anthony Silard — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:40:29 GMT

Think about the last argument you had over text. Maybe it escalated faster than you expected. Maybe the other person came across as colder or more hostile than they probably meant to be. There’s a neuroscientific reason for that and once you understand it, you can’t unsee it.

Today I’m joined by Professor Juliana Schroeder from University of California Berkeley, one of the world’s leading researchers on how we communicate, how we read each other’s minds, and how the tools we use to connect are quietly changing what it means to be human to one another.

Learn more about Juliana Schroeder: https://julianaschroeder.com

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Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky: The Gap between Being Loved and Feeling Loved

Anthony Silard — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:53:44 GMT

Have you ever had someone in your life who clearly cared about you, and yet, for some reason you couldn’t put your finger on, you still didn’t feel loved? You weren’t making that up. It turns out there’s a real gap between being loved and feeling loved.

Today I’m joined by Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, one of the leading happiness researchers and author of How to Feel Loved. She's spent decades studying what actually moves the needle on human connection, and her latest research reveals something that changes everything: the gap between being loved and feeling it is something we can actually do something about.

Learn more about Sonja Lyubomirsky: https://sonjalyubomirsky.com/
Sonja’s new book How to Feel Loved: https://howtofeelloved.com/

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