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AuthentiCityFM: Boundaries, Bonds, and the Big Chair with Andy Pederson

Bayside, Wisconsin is a village of about 4,400 people on the shore of Lake Michigan. Andy Pederson has managed it for more than twenty years, and later this month he beco

AuthentiCity FM: Hot Sauce, Hard Times, and Hero Stories with Ron Holifield

Ron Holifield has spent more than forty years in local government. He started in the city manager's office, then moved into the chair and went on to build the companies a

AuthentiCity FM: Rituals, Return, and Renewal

We are back. The return came wrapped in a run of eighties movie references, because of course it did, and underneath the fun was something real. After a few weeks of step

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 45: The Power to Convene with Bob O’Neill

Coherence was the note the summer kept building toward, the thread that holds when everything else is pulling apart. This is the conversation about what that thread is ac

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 44: Seize the Cs - Coherence, Clarity, and Curiosity

Some conversations wander. This one converges. After a summer spent working through truth and trust and the discipline of holding more than one version of what's real, we

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 43: Trust is the Whole Job with Booker Hodges

Some leaders spend an entire career learning to stay out of the way. This conversation is with one who chose the opposite. Booker Hodges, police chief in Bloomington, joi

AuthentiCityFM, Episode 42: Leap or Be Left Behind with Jerry Driessen and Brent Messer

This week we welcome Brent Messer, who spent eight years as chief information officer for the city of Chattanooga before moving to Info-Tech Research Group, and we welcom

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 41: The Evolution of Trust

Trust keeps moving. Across the last several generations, it lived first with the people we knew, then with the institutions we built, and now it is settling somewhere new

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 40: Time, Horizons, and a Midlife Crisis

We are calling this one our midlife crisis episode, and not just because we hit episode forty. Phil is off recharging with his family, so it is just the two of us wrestli

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 39: Curiosity, Urgency, and the Long View

There is something that happens when the familiar becomes invisible. You stop seeing it clearly, stop questioning it, stop asking whether it is actually working. For loca

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 38: Discernment, Intuition, and Competing Truths

#AuthentiCityFM #LocalGovernment #Leadership #PublicService #Discernment #CityManagementThis episode opens a summer series built around a question that has been sitting w

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 37: Origins, Ordinary, and Everything That Embiggens

A year in, the hosts of AuthentiCity FM do what any self-respecting Gen X podcast should eventually do. They pull a clip show. Framed around Mike's encyclopedic knowledg

AuthentiCity FM Episode 36: Legacy, Longevity, and the Lessons You Keep with Scott Neal

Some careers accumulate experience. A few accumulate wisdom. Scott Neal has been a city manager every day of his professional life since June 1st, 1988, and this conversa

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 35: Visibility, Values, and the Next Generation with Dr. Shannon Portillo

A generation that wants to make a difference is coming of age without a clear map for how to do it. Most of them have never heard of city management as a career. Fewer st

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 34: Faithful, Focused, and Fiercely Loyal with Christopher Walton

What does loyalty actually require of you? Not the version that sounds good in a performance review. The version that asks you to disagree fiercely, hold your ground, an

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 33: Culture, Courage, and the Next Thing with Michael Wilkes

What does it take to stay in the same seat for 27 years and never stop asking what comes next? In this episode, we sit down with Michael Wilkes, the longest-tenured city

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 32: Chutes, Ladders, and the Right Seat with Cori Burbach

What does it mean to be successful in local government? Not the version the profession has been selling for decades, the linear path from small city to bigger city to big

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 31: Trust, Then Transform with Angela Nicholson

What does it actually take to build a high-performing organization? Not the version that sounds good in a strategic plan, but the one that holds when things get hard, whe

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 30: Real Connection Was Never Meant to Scale

#AuthentiCityFM #LocalGovernment #Leadership #PublicService #CityManagement Something keeps coming up in the conversations people are having with us outside of this podc

AuthentiCity FM, Episode 29: Curiosity, Craft, and Courage

The chaos didn't go away. The inbox is still full. But something shifted, and this episode is about what you do with that. We pick up where Episode 28 left off, with the