Humane leadership for complicated days.
We're All in This Together is a warm, reflective business-and-life show led by Mike Robbins. Recent episodes move from attitude, effort, appreciation, and emotional space to grief, death, trust, and the courage it takes to care without guarantees.
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We're All in This Together is a warm, reflective show about leadership, resilience, and the emotional realities underneath ordinary performance advice. Mike Robbins is the steady recurring voice, and the recent episodes lean more toward intimate monologue than formal interview. A topic usually begins in a concrete moment. A walk becomes a meditation on trust. A retreat becomes a way into grief, emotional release, and the freedom of being messy. A short video about becoming mildly amused instead of mildly annoyed becomes a broader look at worry, frustration, and the instinct to search for what is wrong. The show keeps returning to the same practical question: how can people show up with more honesty, steadiness, and care when the world feels overwhelming? It is not detached self-help. Robbins talks about families, teams, relationships, politics, the economy, AI, sports, college applications, marriage, and the private fears people carry into public life. That range gives the show a lived-in quality. Work is never treated as separate from being a parent, partner, friend, teammate, or person trying to make sense of hard news. Some episodes stay close to everyday habits, including appreciation, attitude, effort, clutter clearing, and creating room in a calendar or physical space. Others move into heavier emotional ground. The conversation with Darnell Lamont Walker centers death, peaceful endings, communal grief, Black experiences of loss, and the limits of needing to be the strong one. The show can be tender. It can also be direct about fear, sadness, vulnerability, and the cost of caring deeply about something with no promise of success. Its business value comes from that honesty. Rather than turning leadership into polish, it frames good leadership as a willingness to notice what is true, name what is hard, and keep choosing connection. The pacing is measured, with room for repetition, reflection, and personal detail. Listeners looking for sharp tactics may find it slower than typical management audio, but those drawn to humane leadership will find a consistent moral center. The show is best when it makes ordinary emotional labor feel visible and usable.
Made for: Best for leaders, speakers, team builders, parents, and reflective professionals who want workplace insight that leaves room for grief, uncertainty, family, and inner life.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating leadership less as polish or strategy and more as a daily practice of honesty, appreciation, emotional courage, and perspective under pressure.
On We're All In This Together, leadership, teamwork, and company culture expert Mike Robbins shares his wisdom and insight, and also interviews interesting and influential business leaders, thought leaders, and change makers. Over the past 20 years, Mike has partnered with people, leaders, and teams within top organizations like Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Schwab, the NBA, Genentech, eBay, the Oakland A's, and many others. He gets real about his own experience and with his guests, so that you can learn the truth behind his and their stories, how they've overcome challenges, and specifics tips about leadership, teamwork, culture, and life. These conversations are designed to give you prac…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mike Robbins connects workplace leadership to vulnerability, curiosity, grief, and the difficult work of caring for people while still challenging them.
Mike Robbins treats leadership as a question of emotional conduct: how people care, accept uncertainty, and challenge others without losing connection.
Mike Robbins puts grief beside leadership, so you can stop pretending courage always looks composed.
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A personal case for caring deeply when love, work, and goals come with no guarantee.
Mike Robbins frames caring as a kind of courage, grounding the idea in rare Olympic moments where effort comes with no promise of reward. He brings that same pressure closer to home through Rosie's college applications, where wanting a school makes rejection possible, and…
A steady, candid conversation about grief, communal loss, and the pressure to stay strong at work and home.
Mike Robbins' conversation with Darnell Lamont Walker brings grief into the workplace without treating it as something people can neatly leave at the door.
A grounded reflection on protecting curiosity when instant answers and workplace pressure make thoughtful inquiry harder to hold.
Curiosity is framed here as a useful pause before judgment, both at work and in daily life. The host ties that habit to therapy, client conversations, and wider political, social, global, and economic uncertainty, then grounds it in something much simpler: the urge to reach for…
A grounded conversation about the demanding, personal work behind John Beam's culture of belief.
John Beam's coaching philosophy comes through as a culture of belief, hard standards, and real care for players as whole people. In the August 2020 conversation with Mike Robbins, Beam explains how a coach can be both demanding and deeply connected, especially with…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Mike Robbins re-shares a 2020 interview with John Beam, the late Laney College athletic director and football coach featured on Netflix's Last Chance U.
Mike Robbins discusses how to prepare for change and uncertainty in the wake of the 2024 US presidential election.
Mike Robbins discusses finding peace amid life's challenges and uncertainties, sharing personal reflections from a recent trip to Maui.
Mike Robbins explores the power of curiosity in personal and professional growth.
Mike Robbins opens with a Silicon Valley leadership workshop where re-orgs and leadership changes led people to invent stories, because 'people make stuff up and they don't usually make up good stuff.' He argues that we fill ambiguity with fear because our minds dislike uncertainty, and that old insecurities and confirmation bias shape the new stories.
Mike Robbins discusses the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and putting in effort amidst overwhelming negativity in the news and current events.
Mike Robbins explores the difference between being thirsty, hungry, and trusting in life, business, and relationships.
Mike Robbins discusses the importance of creating physical, emotional, and relational space for well-being.
Mike Robbins discusses a TikTok-inspired idea to shift from a default mindset of mild annoyance to mild amusement for a more positive and flow-oriented life.
Mike Robbins discusses the importance of authentic appreciation, why it's difficult, its benefits, and offers practical tips to cultivate it.
Caring takes courage.
Mike Robbins says “messy is not the same as broken,” after describing a retreat on authenticity where he cried, felt grief, and asked the facilitator, “Is this okay?” He connects that vulnerability to a broader claim that people give others permission to be human while judging their own mess more harshly, which he ties to shame, exhaustion, and the pressure to look polished in meetings, on social media, and at home.
We're All in This Together's "Embracing the Gift of Life" centers on Mike Robbins interviewing Darnell Lamont Walker about Walker's book Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End.
Mike Robbins shares a reshared interview with John Beam, a legendary football coach and athletic director who was tragically murdered, reflecting on his impact and legacy.
Mike Robbins discusses finding peace amid life's challenges and uncertainties, sharing personal reflections from a recent trip to Maui.
Mike Robbins discusses navigating uncertainty and tragedy, sharing a personal connection to the Texas flooding.