What if the most professionally useful film ever made isn't a documentary, a TED talk, or a business book—it's a Brad Pitt baseball movie? In this episode, host Matt Campobasso puts Moneyball on trial as the most professionally helpful movie ever made. Through six exhibits, he argues that what Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian wrote and Bennett Miller directed isn't really about the 2002 Oakland Athletics at all—it's a two-hour masterclass in how value is created, how it's overlooked, how innovation is resisted, and how the person who sees the future before everyone else doesn't get a parade, they get a war. Matt walks through the film's most transferable career lessons, tackles the toughest objection head-on ("Billy Beane never won a World Series"), and lands on the question the movie asks that no leadership seminar ever dares to: Which character are you right now—and are you sure you'd like your own answer?

• Exhibit A – The Market Is Inefficient: Why every industry has its own version of "he's got the face of a ballplayer," and how the gap between what people measure and what actually matters is where enormous opportunity lives
• Exhibit B – Build the Machine, Not the Highlight Reel: How Billy Beane replaced a star by reconstructing his production from parts nobody wanted—and why the best team is almost never the one with the most impressive individual résumés
• Exhibit C – Do More with Less or Go Home: Why resource constraints aren't a death sentence but an invitation to play a completely different game—and how the refusal to accept the premise became the source of the entire innovation
• Exhibit D – The First One Through the Wall Always Gets Bloody: How resistance to change comes hardest from inside your own house, and why Moneyball shows this isn't a bug in the system—it is the system
• Exhibit E – Trust the Process When the Scoreboard Says You're Wrong: The valley between decision and results, why the scoreboard is a lagging indicator, and the 20-game win streak that proved the approach was always working
• Exhibit F – Adapt or Become the Scouts: Why the most uncomfortable scene in the film isn't about incompetence—it's about expertise becoming a prison, and the question that should keep every professional up at night
• Objection Overruled: Why the fact that Billy Beane never won a World Series actually makes the movie more helpful, not less—and the professional lesson hidden in someone else finishing what you started
• Your Action Items: Watch Moneyball this week through a professional lens, ask yourself which character you honestly are right now, and find your industry's version of on-base percentage—the thing that actually predicts success but nobody's paying attention to

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What if the most powerful healthcare provider in America isn't a hospital—it's your employer? In this episode, host Matt Campobasso puts a radical idea on trial: that employers are uniquely positioned to solve America's health crisis. His guest, Cara Lenz—leadership transformation coach, former Apple talent and development manager, and author of Health Wanted, Enquire Within—argues that companies are the only major stakeholder whose bottom line actually improves when employees are genuinely well. Together, they follow the money through a healthcare system that profits from illness, unpack the science of burnout as a workplace-created syndrome, and explore why wellbeing isn't a perk or a personality trait—it's a teachable skill that belongs in the same training catalog as project management and giving feedback. Cara shares her own story of quitting her dream job, fleeing to a Caribbean island, and discovering that the stress followed her there—a lesson that reshaped her entire framework. They walk through the five inquiries from her book, tackle the toughest objections ("aren't we just turning managers into therapists?"), and land on something disarmingly simple: people shouldn't have to choose between their health and their career.

• Exhibit A – Follow the Money: Why employers are the only entity that loses when you're sick—and the trillion-dollar productivity cost they're already paying
• Exhibit B – The Water We Swim In: How work reshapes your emotional state every single day, and the question no leader thinks to ask
• Exhibit C – Wellbeing Is Not a Vacation: Cara's island experiment and why changing your scenery without changing your skills is just pattern interruption
• Exhibit D – The Five Inquiries: A practical, inside-out framework for functioning well under pressure—starting with "What do I believe?"
• Objection Overruled: Why this isn't about replacing healthcare or turning bosses into therapists—it's about teaching a skill set employers are already built to deliver
• Micro Tools for Monday Morning: Two things any leader can do this week—look to yourself first, and ask your team one question you've probably never asked

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In a career spanning more than 100 formal depositions, host Matt Campobasso has watched the full spectrum of human behavior under pressure—the liars, the saints, the corporate warriors, and the whistleblowers. And every single time, a witness says something in the first five minutes that tempts him to deliver a final verdict on the spot. But if he snapped that folder shut and walked out of every deposition after five minutes, he wouldn't just be wrong—he'd be committing professional malpractice.

In this solo episode, Matt makes the case that we've imported that same malpractice into our everyday lives. We live in a high-velocity judgment culture where a single political take, a bumper sticker, or an offhanded comment is enough to make us label someone, lock the door, and throw away the key. Drawing on neuroscience, litigation strategy, and a decade of courtroom experience, Matt introduces "The Deposition Discipline"—a framework for trading snap verdicts for patient discovery in the courtroom of life—and argues that the shortcut to being right is the longest road to being lonely.

Whether you're leading a team, navigating a divided family dinner, or just trying to build deeper relationships in a world designed to keep things shallow, this episode makes the case for staying in the room long after your ego has started looking for the exit.

• The Biological Shortcut: Why your brain is a prediction machine built for the savanna—and how its ancient survival templates are catastrophically misfiring in polarized workplaces, fractured communities, and divided families.
• The Deposition Discipline: The litigation-tested tool for replacing snap verdicts with curiosity—why the best lawyers don't walk out when a witness says something ridiculous, they lean in and ask "tell me more."
• The Connection Tax: How misunderstanding creates a compounding debt on your professional output and personal relationships—and why "trench warfare" in the workplace buries speed, creativity, and innovation.
• The Loneliness Verdict: Why judging people quickly curates your life down to a hall of mirrors that feels safe but is hollow—and how we've replaced the messy work of understanding with the sterile work of grouping.
• The Cross-Examination: Matt takes on the two toughest objections head-on—"some people are just bad" and "I don't have the time"—and explains why refusing to understand an opposing idea is like a doctor refusing to study a virus.
• The Origin Inquiry: The exact phrase—"Help me understand how you got there"—that drops someone's identity shield and gives you access to the inputs you're missing.
• The Snapshot Audit: How to identify one person you've filed away as "just one of those people" and find the common ground that has nothing to do with what you disagree on.
• The Discovery Delay: The practice of staying a judgment until discovery is complete—because real growth happens in the minute after you want to leave.
• The Mirror Mercy Test: Before you write someone off for a bad 10 seconds, ask yourself: what's the worst 10-second snapshot of my life—and would I want to be judged by it forever?

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