One Better Question

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May 2024

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Welcome to One Better Question, the podcast that promises to make questions your new superpower by talking to the world's most curious minds about their most loved questions. With your hosts Paul Barnett and Hannah Singleman. Brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies. Co-Producers: Hannah Singleman, Lee Bjarnason, and Julia Gorbach

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May 13, 2024Episode 1036 min

Episode 10: Linda Lee, CMO Campbell's

Send us Fan MailHow am I helping you or not helping you be at your best? What am I not asking? Why not?Linda Lee is Chief Marketing Officer of Meals and Beverages at Campbell Soup Company. She shows us how to embrace curiosity as a leader and the questions we can ask to champion vulnerability, push things forward, and leave our fingerprints on a business. Which of Linda’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

May 6, 2024Episode 943 min

Episode 9: Ann Davidman, Parenthood Clarity Mentor

Send us Fan MailDo you want to be a parent? What if you decided not to decide? What beliefs have you sitting on the fence? Ann Davidman is a Parenthood Clarity Mentor and licensed marriage and family therapist. She teaches us how to craft questions that shift you out of the mental gridlock of indecision and towards a place of clarity and understanding. You can learn more about Ann’s work here: https://www.motherhoodisitforme.com Which of Ann’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

April 29, 2024Episode 844 min

Episode 8: Rachel ten Brink, Venture Capitalist

Send us Fan MailIs this a risk worth taking? Do you have a bias for action? Which assumptions can you afford to get wrong? Rachel Ten Brink is a venture capitalist and General Partner and CEO of Red Bike Capital, an early stage VC fund that invests in verticals that are primed for disruption and growth. It’s safe to say she’s in the business of risk. She equips us with the better questions we can be asking to de-risk our decision-making, get smart fast, and make the right assumptions. Which of Rachel’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

April 22, 2024Episode 741 min

Episode 7: Dr. Darrin McMahon, Historian

Send us Fan MailWhy then? Why there? What’s novel about that form of inquiry in the first place? Dr. Darrin McMahon is a Professor of History at Dartmouth College and author of award-winning books on such topics as the history of equality, genius, and happiness. He teaches us the art of a simple, childlike question for getting to the heart of what’s really going on and even gives us a crash course into the history of curiosity. Which of Dr. McMahon’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

April 15, 2024Episode 639 min

Episode 6: Dr. Lisa Yaszek, Professor of Science Fiction

Send us Fan MailWhat if things change in these ways? What would be wonderful? What would be terrifying? What do we need to do in our present to nudge ourselves towards a better future? Dr. Lisa Yaszek is a professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech who teaches us how to get curious about the future to make sense of our present – especially in the face of uncertainty and change. She also guides us through the technique she uses with her students for transforming bad questions (yes, there is such a thing!) into great questions. Which of Dr. Yaszek’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

April 8, 2024Episode 538 min

Episode 5: Abigail Posner, Cultural Anthropologist

Send us Fan MailWhat’s your edge? What’s overlooked or underappreciated? What makes you weird?Abigail Posner is a cultural anthropologist and Director of U. S. Creative Works, Google’s creative think tank for agencies and brands. She teaches us how to question like an anthropologist, connecting the dots and following our curious instincts to more interesting and unique places along the way. Which of Abigail’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

April 1, 2024Episode 434 min

Episode 4: Major Thomas Gaines, Special Operations Command

Send us Fan MailSo what? What’s next? Who else needs to know?Major Thomas Gaines is an officer in the United States Special Operations Command who teaches us the importance of questioning the question in order to more effectively manage up, make better decisions under pressure, and get curious about our surroundings. Which of Major Gaines’ questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

March 4, 2024Episode 339 min

Episode 3: Reverend Karen Hutt, End-of-Life Chaplain

Send us Fan MailWhat’s on your heart today? How are you going to live? Where do you find joy? Reverend Karen Hutt is a chaplain, Unitarian Universalist minister, and clinical pastoral educator. For over 25 years, she’s been connecting with people in hospitals, hospice, and even death row. She teaches us how to break out of the scripts of our ‘same old’ questions if we want to go beyond the ‘same old’ answers. Which of Reverend Hutt’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

March 4, 2024Episode 241 min

Episode 2: Jonnie Cahill, CMO Heineken USA

Send us Fan MailWhat if it worked? What are the different ways we can do this? Is it good enough?Jonnie Cahill is the Chief Marketing Officer at Heineken USA, overseeing marketing for some of the biggest beer brands in the world. He teaches us how to lead with possibility, protect creative ideas at all costs, and ask the questions that have helped him turn curiosity into a catalyst for creativity and change. Which of Jonnie’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.

March 4, 2024Episode 129 min

Episode 1: Mónica Guzmán, Journalist & Bridge-Builder

Send us Fan MailHow did you come to believe what you believe? What are you missing? What are you protecting? Mónica Guzmán is a bridge builder, journalist, and author who teaches us the better questions we can use that allow the heat in a difficult conversation to cook up understanding instead of burn the relationship. Mónica is a Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, a nonprofit tackling the mission of depolarizing America, and author of I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, a book inspired by her own experiences as the loving, liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted for Donald Trump.Which of Mónica’s questions is your One Better Question? Let us know at onebetterquestion@nowwhat.com! One Better Question is a podcast brought to you by Now What. An insights, strategy, and design partner to the world’s most iconic and influential companies.