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?

A turnaround begins with seeing clearly. What is working. What is available. What is asking to change. And where the potential already exists.

Grace Dolan has built a career transforming businesses and brands across Sharp, Samsung, Frontier Communications, and Johnson & Johnson. Her approach starts with truth, curiosity, and a willingness to put everything on the table, then look closely at the strengths, people, and possibilities already present.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Grace to explore what it really means to create a turnaround, in business and in life. They talk about the courage to see things as they are, the power of asking better questions, how leaders recognize potential before the outcome is visible, and what becomes possible when we build from our strengths.

At the heart of the conversation is a bigger idea: transformation begins when we can see the potential in what is already in front of us.

Dancers have powered some of the biggest moments in music, entertainment, fashion, and social media. Their movement travels across culture, often reaching millions before audiences ever learn the names of the people who created it.

Connor Lim is helping change that.

As Co-Founder, CEO, and League Commissioner of the International Dance League, Connor is building a professional sports structure around dance, with contracts, teams, standings, championships, global broadcasts, and a media rights partnership with ESPN.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore what happens when dancers move from the background to center stage. They talk about how incentives shape behavior, why credit determines who gets to participate in the value culture creates, and what professional sports can teach us about recognition, investment, fandom, and ownership.

At the center of the conversation is a bigger question: what changes when the people creating culture receive the credit, structure, and opportunity their influence deserves?

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.

Before Arturo Nuñez ever built brands, culture built him.

Growing up in Harlem, Arturo was surrounded by communities, identities, music, food, style, and stories that shaped how he understood people, belonging, and connection. Those early experiences became a foundation he would carry throughout his career.

That understanding would eventually take him inside some of the world’s most influential brands, including Nike, Apple, the NBA, Coca-Cola, and Nubank. Today, he’s bringing that same perspective to hospitality, creating restaurants and spaces where people can gather, connect, and feel part of something.

In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Arturo to explore the power of cultural intimacy and what becomes possible when we understand people, communities, and culture deeply.