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Management · Charles Feltman and Ila Edgar

Trust on Purpose

by Charles Feltman and Ila Edgar

Are you intentional about building, maintaining or repairing trust with the people in your life? Most of us aren’t, and sometimes important relationships suffer as a result. So much of what is right or amiss in those relationships ties back to trust, whether we realize it or not. We are dedicated to helping you become intentional about cultivating strong trust with everyone important in your life: the people and teams you lead and work with, and your family, friends and community, as well. In the Trust on Purpose podcast, we dive into everything that makes up trust, what supports and damages it. We unpack situations we commonly see with leaders, teams, organizations, and others we work with to show how trust can be strengthened, sustained, and repaired when broken. Listen in for conversations between two pros who care deeply about you being an intentional and masterful trust-builder in your life so you and your relationships flourish. We share pragmatic and actionable takeaways you can use immediately and deepen with practice. If you have questions or situations related to trust that you’d like us to talk about in a future episode, please email charles@insightcoaching.com or ila@bigchangeinc.com. We'd like to thank the team that continues to support us in producing, editing and sharing our work. Jonah Smith for the heartfelt intro music that you hear at the beginning of each podcast. We LOVE it. Hillary Rideout for writing descriptions, designing covers and helping us share our work on social media. Chad Penner for the superpower editing work that he does to take our recordings from bumpy and glitchy to the smooth and easy to listen to episodes you are all enjoying. From our hearts, we are so thankful for this team and the support they provide us. 

Latest episodes

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A farewell built on trust

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you After four years and nearly 100 episodes of exploring what it means to build trust on purpose, we're coming to you to

Apr 14
5 min

Can leaders rebuild trust after breaking it?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you You've messed up. You know it. Your team knows it. A lot of leaders know that sinking "Oh sh!t" feeling of realizing

Feb 9
29 min

What can we trust AI with and what boundaries do we need?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What if moving faster with AI didn't mean giving up your judgment? We sit down with Lindsay Semas, an AI leader who&

Dec 8 2025
44 min

Is your leadership creating trust or dependency?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What if trust didn't depend on heroic one-to-one fixes, but on the environment you design every day? In this new epi

Nov 24 2025
50 min

How do you learn to trust when no one taught you?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What happens when your early life didn't teach you how to trust? How do you learn vulnerability and honesty when thos

Oct 27 2025
59 min

What if the answer to overwhelm isn't working harder?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Overwhelm never asks permission. When it hits, our reflex is to work harder and push through. Yet that often distracts us

Oct 12 2025
41 min

Are you sabotaging your team by moving too fast?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What happens when you choose long-term trust over short-term speed? Psychologist Susan David's powerful question laun

Sep 28 2025
30 min

Why your team isn't delivering (and how to fix it)

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What if the secret to breakthrough results isn't working harder but making better promises? Bob Dunham, founder of th

Sep 13 2025
38 min

I shouldn't have to explain this

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you "I shouldn't have to explain this." Sound familiar? A lot of leaders feel this way about making clear requests of peo

Jun 22 2025
31 min

Letting life move through us: poetry, presence and leadership

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What happens when we trust life enough to put down our armour and show up authentically? Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer ta

Jun 9 2025
43 min

What kind of leader are you, really?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What truly makes a good leader? We dive into this question by challenging ourselves to identify the qualities that matter

May 26 2025
32 min

Don't let tacit dissatisfaction damage trust

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Have you ever felt that weighty silence in a team meeting when dissatisfaction hangs in the air but remains unspoken? That

May 12 2025
32 min

How might work be different if the culture was built on love?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Could love be the key to workplace innovation, productivity, and social change? Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO of Mobius Consultin

Apr 27 2025
41 min

Trust, emotional regulation and the route to human connection

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Psychologist Dr. Jody Carrington joins us to discuss the paradoxical nature of being human: we are biologically wired for

Apr 14 2025
40 min

How would a trust-building KPI benefit your company?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Trust-building isn’t just a nice concept; it can be identified as a key performance indicator that can reshape how consist

Mar 31 2025
42 min

Is your leadership style too rigid? Discover how flexibility builds trust and drives success

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you In our latest episode, we talk about the often-overlooked but game-changing aspect of flexible leadership with Kevin Eiken

Mar 17 2025
35 min

Questioning your worth as a leader?

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you How often do you blame yourself for not doing enough to support the people who work for and with you? If you do, it turns

Mar 3 2025
32 min

How workplace silence kills trust

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you What happens when you pour your heart into work only to be met with silence? Or have you ever felt the sting of being igno

Feb 17 2025
29 min

The Framework

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Join us as we explore a field-tested framework for building and repairing trust. Drawing from "The Thin Book of Trust," we

Feb 3 2025
45 min

How broken resolutions reshape our inner truth

Send us a message - we'd love to hear from you Every broken New Year's resolution leaves a crack in something far more precious than our goals - it fractures the tr

Jan 20 2025
26 min

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