{"podcast":{"title":"The Retail Razor: Blade to Greatness!","slug":"the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900","podcast_index_feed_id":6610900,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/retail-razor-blade-to-greatness/feed.xml","website_url":"https://retailrazor.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/retail-razor-blade-to-greatness/20250526_010501_77e0055cf9122a02c2d98b880241e025.png","author":"Ricardo Belmar | Top Retail Expert","episode_count":19,"summary":"The Retail Razor: Blade to Greatness explores the essential skills & qualities that every retail executive needs in the AI era to lead their teams and their business to success. In each episode our hosts, RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert & NRF 2025 Retail Voice, Ricardo Belmar , and RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert, Casey Golden , hear from a seasoned retail industry leader who shares their greatest insights and wisdom on retail career growth and operational excellence . Whether we’re talking about the corporate office or store teams, together we’ll uncover valuable tips and advice that you can apply to your own retail career journey . Stay Sharp . Lead Boldly . Stay Human . Subscribe Part of the Retail Razor Podcast Network. https://retailrazor.com/ Subscribe to our Newsletter : https://retailrazor.substack.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://go.retailrazor.com/utube Follow The Retail Razor Show LinkedIn : https://go.retailrazor.com/INnews BlueSky : https://go.retailrazor.com/Bluesky Instagram : https://go.retailrazor.com/insta Threads : https://go.retailrazor.com/threads Facebook : https://go.retailrazor.com/Facebook About your hosts Ricardo Belmar is an NRF Top Retail…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900"},"episode":{"title":"Why Great Leaders Embrace AI - April Sabral on Curiosity, Adaptability & Trust","slug":"why-great-leaders-embrace-ai-april-sabral-on-curiosity-adaptability-trust","published_at":"2025-10-28T09:05:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900/why-great-leaders-embrace-ai-april-sabral-on-curiosity-adaptability-trust","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/retail-razor-blade-to-greatness/2295098","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/275756/2295098/retail-razor-blade-to-greatness/2025_10_28_06_37_51_bc2d7ead-b9e4-4cb6-bc75-31ef3ddaca27.mp3","summary":"S2E1- How to Empower Your Leadership Skills with AI In this Season 2 premiere of Blade to Greatness , hosts Ricardo Belmar & Casey Golden sit down with renowned leadership coach and author April Sabral to explore how AI is transforming leadership in retail . Far from replacing leaders, AI is exposing poor leadership behaviors while empowering those who lead with curiosity, adaptability, and transparency . April shares insights from her new book Positive Accountability for Teams and explains why the future isn’t AI vs. people — it’s AI plus people . What You’ll Learn in This Episode: Why AI is exposing leadership failures, not just process gaps Why curiosity will replace control as the defining leadership trait The three essential leadership skills for the AI era: curiosity, ideation, and agency How to train humans and machines together for better outcomes Why adaptability and transparency are non-negotiable for future leaders How small retail businesses can use AI to compete with enterprise brands The role of positive accountability in driving change management Subscribe to the Retail Razor Podcast Network: https://retailrazor.com/ Subscribe to our Newsletter : https://retailrazor.substack.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://go.retailrazor.com/utube Guest Spotlight: April Sabral — Leadership coach, author of Positive Accountability for Teams , and founder of RetailU and Ask April AI. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilsabral/ Learn more at www.AskApril.ai . & www.aprilsabral.com Chapters: 00:00 Previews 00:53 Show Intro 02:57 Welcome April Sabral - AI Gives Leaders the Edge 03:39 The Role of AI in Leadership 04:41 Identifying Leadership vs. Process Gaps with AI 05:46 Training Humans and Machines Together 08:08 Essential Skills for Future Leaders 09:16 P…","meta_description":"S2E1- How to Empower Your Leadership Skills with AI In this Season 2 premiere of Blade to Greatness , hosts Ricardo Belmar & Casey Golden sit down wit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":801,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900/episodes/why-great-leaders-embrace-ai-april-sabral-on-curiosity-adaptability-trust/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900/why-great-leaders-embrace-ai-april-sabral-on-curiosity-adaptability-trust.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}