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Julie Dirksen’s three key insights about modern change mastery: most training fails because it ignores immediate relevance; organizational change temporarily destroys people's competence and professional identity; corporate learning only addresses logic while ignoring the emotional brain that actually drives decisions. Julie Dirksen joins me to dissect why most corporate training feels like "high school, but worse." She's spent years figuring out how to design learning that actually changes behavior, not just fills heads with information. Her printer repair experiment reveals why engagement isn't about jazzing up content—it's about timing and immediate application. When your printer's broken and you need it fixed, suddenly that boring YouTube video becomes fascinating. But here's what really stuck with me: change doesn't just alter what people do, it shatters who they are. Take someone who's unconsciously competent at their job and force them to learn new processes, and you've just broken their professional identity. Julie introduces the elephant-rider metaphor to explain why purely rational training approaches fail. Your logical brain might understand why change is necessary, but your emotional, experiential brain—the elephant—often has other plans. If you're leading transformation efforts and wondering why smart people resist obviously good ideas, this conversation will shift how you think about supporting behavior change in organizations. Change Signal. Cut through the blather, the BS, and the noise to find the good stuff that works in change. If you’re a transformational leader seeking modern change mastery, you’re in exactly the right place. *** WHEN YOU’RE READY 🎧 A new episode every week (and sometimes two!) The Change Signal newsletter. Short, practical, weekly *** CONNECT 💼 Connect on LinkedIn *** SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a review on Spotify…

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Pastor Ben Marsh on Christian Nationalism and Spiritual Warfare on the Evangelical Right 53:19

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Ben Marsh is a pastor at First Alliance Church Winston-Salem. He's an advocate for the maligned, lonely, afraid, and harmed. Deeply suspect of the rising linkage of Christianity and partisanship, he aims to disentangle awful social and theological ties that have created *where we are now.* He has particular interests in the areas of Christian Nationalism, sexual abuse, and mental healthcare. You may have seen him on CNN ( 2024 , 2021 ), Al-Jazeera, World Relief , or other news outlets. Previously he worked in DC as a human rights advocate for Dalits . Ben and I talk about Christian nationalism, the rise of the New Apostolic Reformation, the differences between some of these groups, and, most importantly, how he thinks people can heal. It's a great conversation. You can find him on his Substack "It's Me Ben Marsh" and Bluesky with the handle itsmebenmarsh.…

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Benjamin Carter Hett Reminds Us The End of Democracy Is Never Inevitable 55:49

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Benjamin Carter Hett is Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. He specializes in German history, and his books include The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic ; The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War ; and more. He is one of my favorite historians, and I was really excited to get to have him on the show. We dive into the parallels he thinks do and don't exist between today and the 1920s and 1930s. We also spend some time on the f-word debate and whether he thinks fascism is the best term to describe what we're facing in Trump 2.0. Then we get into contemporary politics in Germany and the strength of the AfD ahead of the upcoming elections.…

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Franziska Wagner on Positive Authoritarianism and How The Far Right Makes Extremism Sound Good 50:33

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Franziska Wagner studied comparative political sciences at the University of Mannheim and at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Sciences Po. Her research interests lie in party politics, far-right politics, social media, and computational approaches to social sciences. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D in Political Sciences at the Central European University, where she works on party communication on social media, and the role of discourse and emotions. Franziska is a researcher at the AUTHLIB project (Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response) that aims at exploring the varieties of neo-authoritarian, illiberal ideologies in Europe and their political implications. You can read her piece here: https://www.authlib.eu/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2024.1390587/full…

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Keri Leigh Merritt on Life, Poverty, and Politics in The American South 49:25

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Today, I'm talking with Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt about her recent piece in Aeon Magazine , entitled "The southern gap." The piece explores the roots of economic underdevelopment in the American South, a problem that still plagues the region. From there, we talk more broadly about the politics of the South and what it means to be a Southerner today. Keri Leigh Merritt works as a historian and writer in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her B.A. from Emory University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her first book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017), won both the Bennett Wall Award from the Southern Historical Association, honoring the best book in Southern economic or business history published in the previous two years, as well as the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association. Keri's piece at aeon: https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-and-underdevelopment-in-the-american-south Keri's website: https://kerileighmerritt.com/…

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Kristin Lunz Trujillo on White Rural Rage and Being Rural in America 50:56

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Dr. Kristin Lunz Trujillo from the University of South Carolina joins to discuss ruralness and identity in America. We talk about the new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, as well as some of the broader ideas about who is rural and what that means for the people living in those places. You can read Kristin's Newsweek response to White Rural Rage here: 'White Rural Rage' Cites My Research. It Gets Everything About Rural America Wrong…

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Mifepristone and Judge Shopping with Bailey Fairbanks 31:41

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Pulaski fellow Bailey Fairbanks joins to talk about the potential for a mifepristone ban and the practice of judge shopping.

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Talking Texas Immigration Law and "Ortho Bros" with Bailey Fairbanks 41:29

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Bailey Fairbanks joins Alan to talk about the Supreme Court's temporary hold on Texas's SB4. We also chat about a story featured in one of this week's Headlines from the Heartlands, concerning Russian Orthodoxy and American neo-Confederates. Find the link to our new home for Headlines from the Heartlands here: https://alanelrod.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web…

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Alex Middlewood on IKE Lab, Kansas Politics, and Local Democracy 47:07

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Dr. Alex Middlewood of Wichita State University joins to talk about her new venture, IKE Lab . At IKE Lab, Alex and Brian Amos are building data and analysis of Kansas elections down to the most local level. We also talk about a new anti-DEI bill in Kansas, the challenges of brain drain, and crackdowns on local authority in red states. Read Dr. Middlewood's previous essay for Pulaski's 50 Takes on Democracy series here .…

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IVF Is Good, Actually with Bailey Fairbanks 38:44

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Bailey Fairbanks joins to talk immunity, Judge Aileen Cannon, Alabama's IVF U-turn, and the Michigan primary.

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Talking About the Alabama Embryo Ruling with Bailey Fairbanks 36:42

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Welcome to a new regular segment of The Periphery, in which I'll be joined by Pulaski fellow Dr. Bailey Fairbanks to talk about current events with an eye to Pulaski's mission. This time, we're talking about the Alabama Supreme Court's recent ruling that frozen embryos are children.

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Special Episode: Dominik Stecula and Ben Stanley on Poland's Elections and the Future of Polish Democracy 44:53

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This episode is guest hosted by Pulaski fellow Dr. Dominik Stecula. Dominik is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University. His research interests encompass the intersection of political communication, political behavior, and science communication, in the American, but also in a comparative context. He was also born in Brzeg, Poland and writes about American politics for Polish publications like Polityka, Gazeta Wyborcza, and Kultura Liberalna. Dominic interviews Dr. Ben Stanley, of SWPS University in Warsaw. Dr. Stanley is a sociologist and political scientist. He researches voting behavior, political parties, populism, and the state of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. They talk about the recent elections in Poland, why Law and Justice stumbled, and the near-term prospects for pro-democracy forces in Poland.…

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Matt McManus on The Political Right and Equality 1:05:56

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Matt McManus joins to talk about his newest book, The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity (Routledge). The book is a wide-ranging and gripping exploration of right-wing arguments against egalitarianism. We talk about as many of McManus's subjects as we can fit into an episode, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Patrick Devlin, Patrick Deneen, Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, and more. Matt lectures at the University of Michigan .…

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Itoro Bassey on Growing Up Rural, Being Nigerian-American, and How We Relate to One Another 47:46

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Itoro Bassey is a first-generation Nigerian-American who grew up in Southbridge, Massachusetts. She is a journalist, playwright, cultural worker, educator, and novelist. Her debut novel, Faith , was published by Malarkey Books in 2022. Itoro has previously worked as a correspondent for Arise News and is now a segment producer for the BBC, based in Washington, D.C. We talk about her experiences growing up in rural New England, her time living in Nigeria, and how identity and ruralness play out in our everyday lives.…

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Dr. Kevin Vallier on Catholic Integralism, Anti-liberal Elites, and the Hungarian Connection 46:02

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Dr. Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University , where he directs their program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. Vallier’s interests lie primarily in political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE). He is also an affiliate with the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. His newest book is All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism . He joins to talk about Catholic integralism, its vision of politics and freedom, and some of the leading thinkers in America, as well as Hungary, who are driving it forward. More on Dr. Vallier's book, from the publisher ( Oxford University Press ): According to a common narrative, the twentieth century spelled the end of faith-infused political movements. Their ideologies, like Catholic integralism, would soon be forgotten. Humans were finally learning to keep religion out of politics. Or were we? In the twenty-first century, nations as diverse as Russia, India, Poland, and Turkey have seen a revival of religious politics, and many religious movements in other countries have proved similarly resilient. A new generation of political theologians passionately reformulates ancient religious doctrines to revolutionize modern political life. They insist that states recognize the true religion, and they reject modern liberal ideals of universal religious freedom and church-state separation. In this book, philosopher Kevin Vallier explores these new doctrines, not as lurid oddities but as though they might be true. The anti-liberal doctrine known as Catholic integralism serves as Vallier’s test case. Yet his approach naturally extends to similar ideologies within Chinese Confucianism and Sunni Islam. Vallier treats anti-liberal thinkers with respect that liberals seldom afford them and offers more moderate skeptics of liberalism a clear account of the alternatives. Many liberals, by contrast, will find these doctrines frightening and strange but of enduring interest. Vallier invites all his readers on a unique intellectual adventure, encouraging them to explore unfamiliar ideals through the lenses of theology, philosophy, politics, economics, and history.…

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A Pulaski Panel: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Offline Effects in America's Heartlands 1:31:33

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