{"podcast":{"title":"Growth Hacking Culture","slug":"growth-hacking-culture-7025931","podcast_index_feed_id":7025931,"rss_url":"https://podcast.ivanpalomino.net/feed.xml","website_url":"https://podcast.ivanpalomino.net","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13648247/GHC_Logo_3_b6fvv.jpg","author":"Ivan Palomino","episode_count":100,"summary":"Most workplace advice treats people as the problem. Growth Hacking Culture starts from the opposite premise: if your best people are disengaged, burned out, or leaving, the system is broken, not them. Hosted by Ivan Palomino, this top 5% global podcast brings you unfiltered conversations with the people rewriting the rules of work: executives from Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Zappos, organizational psychologists, neuroscientists, and founders who’ve built cultures that perform without burning people down. No corporate wellness fluff. No recycled leadership clichés. Just the behavioral science, psychology, and uncomfortable truths behind workplace culture, employee engagement, and leadership that actually works. For HR leaders, CHROs, founders, and executives who suspect the standard playbook is the problem.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T20:20:00.709377+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growth-hacking-culture-7025931"},"episode":{"title":"Dr. Audrey Tang: Detours, Dopamine, and the Science of a Life Not Scripted","slug":"dr-audrey-tang-detours-dopamine-and-the-science-of-a-life-not-scripted","published_at":"2026-08-16T13:20:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growth-hacking-culture-7025931/dr-audrey-tang-detours-dopamine-and-the-science-of-a-life-not-scripted","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growth-hacking-culture-7025931","url":"https://podcast.ivanpalomino.net/e/dr-audrey-tang-detours-dopamine-and-the-science-of-a-life-not-scripted/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/x72nces5zcgm45cu/audrey_tang9q87i.mp3","summary":"Most of us were handed a script before we were old enough to question it. A school told us what to study. A parent told us what success looks like. A career ladder told us which rung comes next. And somewhere along the way, we confused following the script with actually living. This conversation with Dr. Audrey Tang starts with a simple but unsettling question: what if the detour was never the problem? What if the belief in a straight line was? Dr. Audrey Tang is a Chartered Psychologist, leadership trainer, and award-winning author of The Leader's Guide to Resilience and The Leader's Guide to Wellbeing (winner, Business Book Awards 2024). For years she has worked with leaders and organisations on the psychology behind performance, confidence, and behaviour change. Her own life, which has crossed teaching, performing, writing, broadcasting, and building a charity, is anything but linear. Ivan and Audrey explore the neuroscience behind why we default to linear thinking, why the corporate habit of setting fixed goals makes us worse at life, and what it actually takes to build confidence in the face of the unexpected. In this episode: Why the brain fills in narrative gaps automatically, and how Gestalt psychology explains our obsession with sequences and conclusions The difference between happiness and relief, and why \"I'll be happy when I achieve X\" is one of the most common traps we fall into How parental scripts get installed early and how to start asking whose critical voice you are actually hearing The skills vs. strengths distinction: why getting promoted on things you are good at but that drain you is one of the quietest career crises there is How dopamine reinforces the wrong behaviours, keeping people climbing ladders that lead somewhere they never wanted to go W…","meta_description":"Most of us were handed a script before we were old enough to question it. A school told us what to study. A parent told us what success looks like. A care…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2723,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/growth-hacking-culture-7025931/episodes/dr-audrey-tang-detours-dopamine-and-the-science-of-a-life-not-scripted/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growth-hacking-culture-7025931/dr-audrey-tang-detours-dopamine-and-the-science-of-a-life-not-scripted.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}