What gives someone the courage to pursue an idea before they know where it will lead?

Margot Machol Bisnow became fascinated by that question and went looking for answers in an unexpected place: the childhoods of some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. Through conversations with founders and their families, she discovered recurring lessons about curiosity, independence, resilience, passion, and the power of having someone believe in you.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Margot to explore the environments that shape us long before we enter the workplace. They talk about raising entrepreneurial kids, learning to trust yourself, giving people room to find their own path, and developing the courage to move forward even when you’re scared.

It’s a conversation about parenting, entrepreneurship, and ultimately something much bigger: how we create the conditions for people to believe in what they might become.

What if the things that interrupt us, frustrate us, and make our work harder are also showing us exactly where our attention is needed?

Anne Morriss and Frances Frei have spent their careers helping leaders and organizations navigate change, build trust, and solve hard problems. They are the co-authors of Move Fast and Fix Things and Unleashed, and the hosts of TED’s Fixable, where they explore what becomes possible when we believe our biggest challenges can actually be solved.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Anne and Frances to explore the power of inconvenience and what our problems can reveal about our organizations, our leadership, and ourselves.

Together, they talk about trust, change, responsibility, and how leaders can create cultures with the courage and capacity to face what needs attention.

Because inconvenience can be more than an interruption. It can be information about where we’re ready to grow.

Throughout his career, Louis Carr has believed that the strongest institutions do more than entertain, inform, or educate. They create spaces where people feel seen, heard, understood, and ultimately served.

That philosophy has shaped nearly four decades at BET, where Louis helped build one of the most influential cultural institutions in America and now serves as its President. Along the way, he has helped redefine the relationship between Black culture, media, and business, earning recognition as an inductee into the Advertising Hall of Fame.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore the relationship between service and leadership, culture and community, and representation and responsibility. Together, they discuss why lasting institutions are built on trust, how culture creates belonging, and what it means to steward an institution while continuing to move it forward.

At the heart of the conversation is a simple idea: the places that shape us most deeply are the ones where we feel seen, heard, understood, and served.