FreshMinds Podcast

73% of executives believe their organization is deploying AI in a way that puts people first. Less than half of workers agree.In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck explore the findings of the Humans at Work Barometer and ask the harder question: what would an AI rollout look like if it were designed the way a great FreshBiz workshop is designed? With everyone in the room, everyone's needs on the table, and AI as a source of inspiration rather than anxiety. One of the most relevant episodes in the FreshMinds series for anyone navigating organizational change right now.

What if instead of starting with mission statements and KPIs, you started with the questions that actually matter?In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck turn the lens on themselves and their own podcast, asking why they really do this, what each of them personally needs from it, and what makes it one of the best parts of their week. A warm, honest, and surprisingly strategic conversation about what a genuine collaborative quest looks like when people who care about each other build something together.

Hope is not a strategy. Every time Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck open the FreshBiz game and tell people to collaborate, most people do not. Not because they are selfish, but because nothing in the system is designed to make collaboration the obvious choice.In this episode, they explore what it actually looks like to design collaboration rather than simply encourage it. From captured knowledge bases to cross-departmental rituals to the Wall Street Journal's confirmation that humans are still essential, this is the most practical episode in the collaboration series.

Collaboration is not something humans need to be taught. It is what we are built for.In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck explore why teams default to individual performance even when collaboration would get them there faster. From the Messi assist record to Ram Dass, this conversation reframes what winning actually looks like in a world where collective intelligence outperforms individual productivity every time. Grounded in the FreshBiz philosophy and entrepreneurial thinking.

AI is giving your team back time. But if that time just gets filled with more work, nothing has changed. You have become the machine.In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck introduce the Pause and Think practice and the powerful question: what is possible now? Drawing on FreshBiz game insights, real community-building experiments, and honest observations about how teams behave under pressure, this episode offers a practical framework for turning AI efficiency into genuine human collaboration. One of the most actionable episodes in the FreshMinds series.

If you are still playing the same game you played five years ago, AI is not your opportunity. It is your threat.In this one-on-one episode, Mitch Simon and Ronen Gafni explore what it means to stop clinging to the game that built your career and start designing the one that will carry it forward. They cover how companies are measuring collaboration wrong, why individual KPIs are killing collective performance, and what working smarter, not harder, actually looks like when AI is handling the labor. A sharp, honest, and highly practical episode built on FreshBiz philosophy and entrepreneurial thinking.

AI cannot be funny. It cannot gamify the way a human can. And it cannot break a room full of people out of their own limiting beliefs the way a great game experience does. In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck explore why gamification and humor are two of the most powerful and uniquely human tools available to leaders today. Recorded during a period of real tension and danger for Ronen and Simcha in Israel, this conversation is also one of the most honest explorations of what entrepreneurial thinking and the FreshBiz mindset look like when life gets genuinely hard.

AI is great at telling you what has already been done. Creativity is about what has not been done yet, and that starts with the things that frustrate you most.In this episode, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck share how their biggest creative breakthroughs were born from friction, not inspiration. From Ronen's frustration with Monopoly to Simcha's rethinking of real estate to Mitch's rejection of classroom-only leadership, this episode gives you three sharp questions to unlock your own creative edge. Entrepreneurial thinking in action.