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Simple, NOT Easy
By Michelle Jack & Cyndee LakeBusiness
Simple, NOT Easy episodes
- Why Smart Teams Stop Thinking
What if your team's biggest competitive advantage isn't talent...
It's curiosity.
Most teams spend their days reacting, blah, blah, blah, meeting after meeting, deadline after deadline, solving today's problems with yesterday's thinking. Gross!
But what happens when a team intentionally creates space to ask:
"What if?"
In this episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle and Cyndee explore curiosity as a team superpower and why innovation doesn't happen by accident—it happens when leaders create the conditions for it.
Together they discuss:
- Why teams need white space...not just more meetings.
- How curiosity moves teams from playing defense to creating offense.
- Why constraints actually fuel innovation instead of limiting it.
- How to ensure every voice is heard....not just the loudest one.
- Practical tools to build curiosity into the flow of work.
They also challenge one of the biggest myths in today's workplace:
Being busy isn't the same as being present.
Because curiosity requires more than asking great questions.
It requires listening, noticing, and caring enough to understand what's happening around you.
CTA: Create one moment where your team explores possibilities before jumping to solutions.
You might discover the best idea was already sitting in the room.
In a world obsessed with AI, we're doubling down on human intelligence.
Work is experiential, and every day you choose your role:
observer, participant, or impactor.Simple. Not easy.
11 min - The Story You Are Telling Yourself
What if the biggest barrier to influence isn't other people...it's the story you've already created in your own head?
We've all been there. You send the email. You pitch the idea. You hear...nothing.
Silence becomes rejection.
Questions become resistance.And before you've had a conversation, you've already decided how it's going to end.In this first episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle and Cyndee explore curiosity from the individual perspective—not as a personality trait, but as one of the most powerful leadership skills you can develop.
Together they discuss:
- Why we create stories before we have facts.
- How assumptions quietly sabotage influence.
- The difference between asking questions for information versus asking questions for understanding.
- Why leaders must suspend their own point of view before expecting others to embrace it.
- How slowing down for curiosity actually helps you move faster.
Curiosity is the courage to pause, challenge your own assumptions, and create space for better outcomes.
CTA: Walk into one meeting and replace certainty with curiosity.
In a world obsessed with AI, we're doubling down on human intelligence.
Work is experiential, and every day you choose your role:
observer, participant, or impactor.Simple. Not easy.
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About Simple, NOT Easy
From the publisher's feed
Simple, Not Easy is not about pretending work is simple.
It is about making work more understandable, more intentional, and more actionable, especially when it's NOT easy.
Cyndee, the insightful illuminator, helps listeners see what is really going on with compassion and accountability. Michelle, the bold black marker, calls it like it is and challenges listeners to own their role in the outcome.
Together, they create a conversation that is practical, honest, and rooted in real experience.
So grab your coffee. Get intentional. Listen for the idea, the tool, the question, or the push that meets you where you are.
Then try something.
Because in a world obsessed with artificial intelligence, we are doubling down on human intelligence. Your human intelligence that may be the very thing that changes the room.