Artificial intelligence is changing the speed of business—but it doesn't replace leadership. It raises the standard for it. In Episode 785 of Daily Influence, Brian Smith welcomes executive leadership advisor Eva Minkoff, founder of Bold Being, for a timely conversation about decision fatigue, grounded agency, and leading through uncertainty in the age of AI. Drawing from her work with healthcare executives and enterprise leaders, Eva explains why today's greatest leadership challenge isn't technology itself—it's maintaining clarity, purpose, and human connection while navigating constant change. Together, Brian and Eva explore how leaders can move beyond reactive decision-making, reconnect with their purpose, and create organizations where trust and influence thrive. Whether you lead a healthcare organization, a family business, a growing company, or simply want to become a more intentional leader, this episode offers practical insights that apply across every industry. In this episode: Why leaders become organizational bottlenecks The real cause of decision fatigue What ""Grounded Agency"" means—and why it matters How AI is transforming leadership rather than replacing it The importance of purpose during times of uncertainty Building cultures rooted in clarity, trust, and meaningful influence Because technology may change how we work—but leadership will always determine how people thrive. https://boldbeing.co

In this episode of the Disambiguation podcast, host Michael Fauscette talks with Eva Minkoff, Founder of Bold Being, about why AI adoption failures are not technology problems but identity threats, and why organizations cannot train or explain their way through them. Eva spent two decades in healthcare across clinical research, bedside care, media, marketing, and startups as both a co-founder and early employee. She gave a TEDx talk called "Five Minutes to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System" about the patient-doctor relationship and the collapse of self-trust under relentless pressure. That same pattern of pressure-driven identity loss is now playing out across every industry as AI reaches professionals whose authority and sense of legitimacy are built on a specific kind of expertise. The conversation covers why AI adoption is an identity threat rather than a change management problem, why employee sabotage of AI initiatives (30 to 70 percent in some studies) is survival behavior rather than insubordination, the Luddite parallel (skilled workers whose livelihoods were being erased, not irrational resisters), why you cannot explain someone out of an identity threat, compliance theater (employees using AI to produce outputs and then quietly redoing the work themselves), decision latency in leaders who were previously decisive, leadership brittleness (senior leaders going rigid or withdrawing under AI pressure), Eva's three-stage framework (instability, autopilot, durable agency), sustainable adaptability versus just staying current, regulated empathy in healthcare and its parallel in every industry, a client transformation story (Chief Patient Safety Officer who eliminated ED wait times and saved $50 million after doing identity work rather than operational work and was promoted to CMO), and three practical steps leaders should take right now: name the instability out loud, audit your own autopilot, and change the metric from adoption speed to adaptive capacity.

Eva Minkoff and I discuss some of the biggest mistakes you can make in implementing AI and ways to counteract them. We touched on

• The real first question to ask when considering AI

• The importance of trust

• The rate of implementation

• How administrators in healthcare may not have perspective

• And more!

Meet Steven. A newly appointed CEO at a healthcare organization in North Carolina, Steven is full of visionary ideas but feels stuck and disconnected. His attempts to gain team buy-in and overcome his self-doubt leave him drained and overwhelmed. Despite his determination, Steven struggles with the challenge of inspiring others to embrace change. In this episode, Jay sits down with Eva Minkoff, founder of Bold Being, TEDx speaker, and executive coach, whose mission is to help leaders cultivate empowering relationships with themselves and others. Eva shares her deeply personal journey of overcoming self-doubt, chronic illness, and societal expectations to embrace boldness and authenticity. She offers insightful guidance on how Steven—and leaders like him—can reconnect with their core values, align with their teams, and lead with vulnerability. From unlocking the power of self-connection to navigating bold, authentic leadership, this episode is packed with practical strategies to help you thrive as a leader and in life. Notable Quotes “You can only connect with others when you're connected to yourself.” — Eva Minkoff “Being bold requires authenticity and vulnerability. It’s not about eliminating fear but showing up despite it.” — Eva Minkoff About Our Guest Eva Minkoff is the founder of Bold Being, a TEDx speaker, and an executive coach passionate about helping leaders unlock their bold potential. Eva’s unique approach combines her lived experiences with chronic illness, her study of ontological coaching, and her expertise in building empowering relationships. Through her work, she guides high-performing leaders in creating authentic connections with themselves, their teams, and their purposes.

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✨Healthcare isn’t just about medicine — it’s about connection. In this explosive conversation, Jason and Eva Minkoff uncover a hidden truth: the missing ingredient in today’s healthcare system is empathy. Eva shares her deeply personal journey into why connection and compassion matter more than ever — not just for patients, but for doctors too. They reveal: How patients can actually train their doctors to be more empathetic

💥 Why mental health and happiness can’t be separated from physical care The surprising role AI and technology might play in reshaping doctor-patient interactions The systemic challenges NO ONE talks about — and how compassion can break through This isn’t just about healthcare… it’s about what it means to be human. ⚡

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Episode 49: Eva Minkoff might be the only person I know that has equal perspectives from the patient side, provider side, organizational side, and research side of things. Her ability to see all sides of the healthcare equation is one of her greatest strengths. I naturally had to have her join the show to talk about one of the most important discussions out there in the world today.

In this insightful episode, Dr. Suleiman Ijani and Eva Minkoff delve into the nuances of modern parenting. They discuss the pivotal role of doctor-patient relationships in family health, share childhood lessons that shape parenting styles, and highlight the importance of setting boundaries to foster independence. The conversation also explores the dynamics of equal partnerships in parenting and the significance of instilling hard work and determination in children. Discover actionable strategies to create meaningful experiences with your kids and navigate the challenges of modern fatherhood.

Key Takeaways:

The impact of strong doctor-patient relationships on family well-being.

Implementing effective boundaries to promote security and growth in children.

Balancing equal partnerships in parenting for optimal child development.

Encouraging hard work and determination to achieve life goals.

Fostering independence to build children's confidence.

Prioritizing quality time over quantity to strengthen family bonds.

Eva Minkoff is an executive coach who works with leaders in their highest-stakes moments, and her focus is the negotiation most people overlook: the one happening inside their own head. Eva's premise is that under pressure the real contest isn't across the table. It's whether you can stay steady enough to act from conviction instead of fear.

Eva is a keynote and TEDx speaker, with a talk viewed more than 36,000 times, certified through the International Coach Federation, and Chief Transformation Officer at transformental. Over 15 years she's helped people move through fear, resistance, and change without losing themselves. She teaches one idea with hard consequences: you can't hold a line you haven't first found inside yourself. I've watched too many capable people lose themselves right when the stakes get highest. They keep performing on the outside, but inside they've gone into survival mode, and they start making decisions out of fear instead of conviction. I've done it myself. I still catch myself doing it. So this isn't theoretical for me. I do the work because the cost of abandoning yourself under pressure is enormous, and most of it is preventable. If I can help someone stay steady enough to stay themselves, that's the whole job.

Eva was joined this week by Dr. Payal Bhandari, M.D., a leading practitioner of integrative functional medicine and the founder of SF Advanced Health. She combines the best in Western and Eastern medicine to define the root cause of illness. By being an expert of cell function, Dr. Bhandari specializes in cancer prevention and reversal, digestive & autoimmune disorders.

In this conversation on Mo-ments of Experience, Geoffrey Smith and Eva Minkoff explore the critical role of human connection in healthcare. They discuss personal experiences that highlight the importance of relationships between caregivers and patients, comparing these dynamics to dating. Eva shares her Bold Key Framework, emphasizing the need for connection to self, others, and purpose. The discussion also touches on transformative moments in healthcare and the necessity of authentic presence in patient interactions.

𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀:

Follow Eva on LinkedIn:   / evalana  

Visit Bold Being: https://boldbeing.co/

Listen to Eva’s TEDs talk:    • Five Minutes to Fix Our Broken Healthcare ...  

Mo-ments of Experience website: http://www.mo-mentsofexperience.com/  

Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn:   / peopleforward-network  

There are things you know you don't know, like rocket science, maybe. But there are also many things that you don't know that you don't know, like your unconscious habits or how your body will respond to a particular fibromyalgia treatment option you never knew existed.

In this special replay, Eva Minkoff, host of the [Human]care (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...) podcast, interviews Tami to uncover the two lowest points in Tami's fibromyalgia journey, the thing that turned it all around for her, and how she guides her clients into "knowing what you don't know." Be warned!

There is a lot of laughter and fun in this episode! In fact, Tami describes this interview as one of the most fun interviews she's ever done! Enjoy! For more information, free copies of Tami's books, and full show notes visit: FibromyalgiaPodcast.com/48 (https://FibromyalgiaPodcast.com/48) .

Note: This interview was originally shared in April 2019 on the Invisible Not Broken podcast. Eva has recently launched her own podcast, [Human]care, and includes a re-issue of this episode.

Doctors, patients, we are all PEOPLE! And people need CONNECTION! Tune into this revealing conversation with TEDx Speaker, Eva Minkoff, who shares her personal journey and how human connection and relationships make for proper healthcare! Discussed in episode: NAMI Walks Fundraiser: namiwalks.org/orangeny

Eva enjoys passionate story telling around relationship dynamics. She often compare doctor-patient relationships to romantic ones. People seem to love it. Eva has a TED Talk on it that will be published soon. Eva Minkoff’s ten years of career experience in healthcare and lifetime of chronic patient experience has motivated her to pursue health system reform through championing effective patient-practitioner relationships. Eva is the co-founder of Invisible Not Broken, a podcast network for chronic illness, disability and other health topics. She is also the host of Humancare, a podcast and organization that supports her mission to improve global health through self-reflection and human connection. Eva holds degrees in Neuropsychology from Sarah Lawrence College and Nutrition Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Eva also has a breaking news alert about her Invisible not broken network on the show. Eva will have her website up soon at www.humancare.org

Most doctors think burnout comes from caring too much. It doesn't. It comes from caring the wrong way. Executive coach Eva Minkoff, who has navigated the health care system as a chronic patient for decades, and physician advocate Kim Downey break down a five-second shift that lets clinicians stay present with suffering without absorbing it, and explain why medical school never taught the one skill that decides whether a doctor stays or quits.

Dr. Kaye and Eva Minkoff will discuss chronic pain and strategies to navigate through our complicated healthcare system.

Eva's Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/.../eva_lana_mink....

Humancare Podcast https://invisiblenotbroken.com/humanc...

For more great interviews visit our Interviews Playlist on this channel or our Facebook group at   / drkayec4fh  

In this episode, we dive into the unseen struggles of physicians' families with Joshua Kenney and Eva Minkoff. From missed holidays, to the emotional toll of a doctor’s demanding life, we explore how the sacrifices of doctors impact their loved ones, and how doctors are always carrying more than they express. Join us as we shed light on the importance of supporting our physicians, because when we support them, we improve healthcare for everyone!

Joshua Kenney:   / joshua-kenney-b07b9b85  

Eva Minkoff:   / evalana   #doctorsfamilies #physicianlife #empathyinhealthcare

Amanda Hill is a lawyer and a fierce advocate for physicians. She currently focuses on helping doctors with job transitions. Eva Minkoff presented a TEDx talk, "Five Minutes to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System," which has been viewed 18,000 times! Eva says her life's mission is to transform healthcare through human connection. Amanda says, "It's not about leaving your job. It's about finding the place that you belong, whether it's right where you're at, or something new." She adds, "Negotiate for what you are actually worth. Nobody owns you; fight for what you deserve right now. You have a lot more leverage than you think you do!" Eva answers the question, "What can we do right now, as individuals, even if nothing else changes?" "We can bring empathy, bring a human interaction into these dynamics. It can take just 5 seconds to build a connection with another individual!" Tune in to hear suggestions for doctors AND patients! Amanda Hill website: https://www.guardmypractice.com/ Eva Minkoff website: https://fiveminutestofixhealthcare.com/