Kelly has a powerful conversation with longtime friend and Second City colleague Tania Richard, whose new book “Black Girl from a White Suburb” looks at race, a life in theatre, loss and finding resilience along the way.    We’ve known each other for 30 some odd years, but it always seems like I learn the …

Kelly connects with longtime BBDO CEO Andrew Robertson to talk about his new book: “The Creative Shift: How to Power Up Your Organization by Making Space for New Ideas.”     You highlight a misconception that people have about creativity and talent and it’s the myth that those qualities are innate – you are either born with it or …

Kelly talks to Muriel Wilkins, host of the award-winning Harvard Business Review podcast, Coaching Real Leaders. Her latest book is called “Leadership Unblocked: Break Through the Beliefs That Limit Your Potential.”     A recurring theme in this book is ceding the need to be right.  “Probably one of the things that if you had asked …

Kelly celebrates the release of Anne Libera’s new book on comedy, “Funnier.” The talk in front of a live audience at The Second City.   There’s a great line in your new book, “Funnier,” you write: “The real secret to creating good comedy is to start by creating comedy that is likely not good at …

Kelly welcomes Richard Thaler, the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to the podcast along with his co-author, professor Alex Imas to talk about their updated version of Thaler’s seminal book “The Winner’s Curse.”    One of the stories I love from the book was how Richard saw how farmers used …

Kelly welcomes the always provocative Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic back to the podcast to talk about his new book: “Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity is Overrated (and What to Do Instead).”  The idea of ‘authenticity’ is seen as such a valuable commodity that we talk a lot about how important it and yet, do we really want …