Children are already forming opinions, making choices, creating culture, and developing their sense of who they are through the media and technology surrounding them. Jennifer Kotler Clarke is a developmental psychologist and leader whose career has spanned Sesame Workshop and Google, working at the intersection of children, media, learning, and technology.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore the media and technology diet surrounding kids, the role those experiences play in developing agency, and what changes when children are treated as active participants in shaping the world around them.

They talk about understanding the whole child behind the digital experience, creating healthier agreements with technology, and designing a future that makes room for kids’ ideas, perspectives, choices, and voices.

Because the future is already being shaped. The question is whether kids get to help shape it.

The way we understand ourselves shapes the way we understand everyone around us.

Heather Malenshek is a global marketing and brand leader whose career has spanned Harley-Davidson, Land O’Lakes, and some of the world’s most community-driven organizations. Across those experiences, she has worked at the intersection of identity, belonging, purpose, and the stories people tell about who they are.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore perspective, compassion, and the ability to see the whole person in front of us. They talk about how self-awareness changes the way we lead, how different experiences shape what people see and believe, and why curiosity about another person’s perspective can transform relationships, organizations, and culture.

What becomes possible when we understand ourselves well enough to see other people more clearly?

Relationships shape how we see ourselves, how we lead, what we build, and the cultures we create.

Jackie Jantos is CEO of Hinge, and Tamika Young is Hinge’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Their own relationship began years earlier at Spotify, where they helped build some of the brand’s most defining cultural moments, before choosing to work together again at Hinge.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore what makes relationships worth investing in. Jackie and Tamika talk about trust, friendship, leadership, building with the people around us, and how those same principles shape the products and communities we create.

What becomes possible when we treat relationships as the foundation of culture?