
Show overview
Live & Unlearn has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 76 episodes. That works out to roughly 9 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence, with the show now in its 8th season.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 5 min and 7 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 months ago, with 6 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 29 episodes published. Published by Katy Caroan.
From the publisher
How curious are you about yourself as a leader? What does it take to unlearn behaviors that are not serving you anymore? Join me to explore how you can build your unlearning capabilities to stay in demand as a leader!
Latest Episodes
View all 76 episodes#76 - Coaching First: When Teams Learn to Coach Themselves
In this episode, Katy Caroan explores the difference between group coaching and team coaching to accelerate the real potential in a team. However, team coaching only works when people are willing to unlearn on a deeper level. So what are the four things we need to unlearn to get results from team coaching beyond what is required for effective group coaching? For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning behaviors that no longer serve them.
#75 - Coaching First: Group Coaching as a Force Multiplier
In this episode, we explore why group coaching can be immensely effective for faster learning, deeper reflection, and more shared growth. However, group coaching only works when people are willing to unlearn. Most of us enter group settings carrying habits that make real reflection much harder than it looks. So what are the four things we need to unlearn to get results from group coaching? For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning behaviors that no longer serve them.
#74 - Coaching First: When Life Shows Up At Work
In this episode, we move into something a little more uncomfortable: The conversations leaders often avoid. Because sooner or later, every leader discovers this truth: Work is never just about work. When this happens, do we redirect the conversation back to tasks and performance, or do we coach the human being sitting in front of us? For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning behaviors that no longer serve them.
#73 - Coaching First: Career Conversations
We continue to explore coaching as a skillset and how AI can support leaders in becoming better coaches. In this episode, Katy Caroan dives into career conversations and how managers can add value by using coaching and AI for true discovery. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning behaviors that no longer serve them.
#72 - Coaching First: The Coaching Mindset
We continue to explore coaching as a skillset and how AI can support leaders in becoming better coaches, as individuals, and in teams. In this episode, Katy Caroan goes deeper and shares her experience of what happens when managers start using AI as a reflection partner. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning behaviors that no longer serve them.
#71 - Coaching First: Leveraging AI in Coaching
The new season focuses on coaching as a skillset and how AI can support leaders in becoming better coaches, as individuals, and in teams. Katy Caroan explores how leaders learn coaching skills and why AI can be instrumental in developing coaching capabilities. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning behaviors that no longer serve them.
#70 - Partnering with AI: Future-Proofing Our Humanity
This season, we have gone from fear to trust, from co-learning to co-creating. Today, Katy Caroan explores a final question this season: How do we future-proof our humanity in a world of intelligent machines? We are going to talk about resilience, meaning, and how to stay unmistakably human while using powerful tools. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#69 - Partnering with AI: The Ethics of Co-Creation
If we are co-evolving with technology, how do we make sure we are co-creating responsibly? The minute a machine starts helping us make creative, strategic, or moral choices, ethics moves from the margins to the middle. Because now, it’s not just what we create, it’s how we create it and with whom. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#68 - Partnering with AI: The Co-Evolution Opportunity
What can humans and machines actually learn from each other? In this episode, Katy Caroan explores what it means to not just use AI or to control it. How can we grow with it? For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#67 - Partnering with AI: Calibrating Trust
Trust is easy to talk about until it’s with a machine. In this episode, Katy Caroan explores what it means to build trust in AI partnerships. Because the challenge isn’t just whether we trust the machine, it’s whether the partnership works both ways. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#66 - Partnering with AI: The Human Upgrade
While technology continues to advance, we often overlook the skills that make us more than just efficient. This episode is about the human upgrade. Not an app, not an operating system, but the messy, beautiful skills we’ve been underestimating all along. In this episode, Katy Caroan challenges you to upgrade. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#65 - Unlearning Automation Anxiety
We’re continuing to explore the world of AI and the mindset required to effectively partner with it. Katy Caroan challenges you play with your potential anxiety of AI and asks the question: What if unlearning the fear of automation actually is the first step toward finding balance in the age of AI? For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#64 - Unlearning to Partner with AI: Spotting Bias, Hype, and Hallucinations
This season, we’re continuing to explore the world of AI and the mindset required to effectively partner with it. Katy Caroan challenges you to capture the reflexes related to a lack of source criticism. She also helps you explore how unlearning these reflexes can unlock a whole new approach to partnering with AI. Shoutout to Camilla Pilthammar at Swedish consulting firm "AI i praktiken Sverige AB" who suggested the topic for this episode. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#63 - Unlearning to Partner with AI: The Myth of the Lone Genius
This season, we’re continuing to explore the world of AI and the mindset required to effectively partner with it. Katy Caroan challenges you to reconsider the myth of the lone genius and explore how unlearning that belief can unlock a whole new approach to partnering with AI. For over a decade, Katy has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#62 - Unlearning to Partner with AI: The Mindset Required
This season, we’re continuing to explore the world of AI and the mindset required to effectively partner with it. Katy Caroan shares the key beliefs we need to build confidence with AI over time. For over a decade, Katy Caroan has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#61 - Beyond Human Limits: Unlearning to Partner with AI
In this season, we’re diving into the world of AI, and more specifically, what we need to unlearn in order to work with it, benefit from it, and remain powerfully human in the process. Katy Caroan introduces the key content components for the season as she challenges you to develop AI confidence over time. For over a decade, Katy Caroan has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#60 - Changemakers: What Are You Waiting For?
What is stopping you from taking on the changemaker role more often? Not next week or in a future position, but as of today? In this season finale, Katy Caroan challenges your mindset on what it takes to get into action, sparking change, one step at the time. She reminds you about the limiting beliefs that hold you back from having a greater impact in your professional and personal lives. For over a decade, Katy Caroan has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#59 - Unlearning Burnout Culture
What are the characteristics of burnout culture? Which beliefs do we need to unlearn to remain a sustainable changemaker? In this episode, Katy Caroan challenges your mindset on what it takes to defeat burnout culture dimensions. She continues to provide insight on how to unlearn some typical limiting beliefs that hold us back from having a greater impact in our professional and personal lives. For over a decade, Katy Caroan has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#58 - Unlearning the Need to Be Right
What are the benefits of not being right as a changemaker? And why is curiosity your superpower as a changemaker? In this episode, Katy Caroan challenges your mindset on the importance of being right. She continues to provide insight on how to unlearn some typical limiting beliefs that hold us back from having a greater impact in our professional and personal lives. For over a decade, Katy Caroan has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.
#57 - Unlearning Hierarchy
What do you need to unlearn to lead from anywhere? In this episode, Katy Caroan challenges myths about top-down leadership. She continues to challenge you to unlearn some typical limiting beliefs that hold us back from having a greater impact in our professional and personal lives. For over a decade, Katy Caroan has served clients looking to excel as professionals. She meets leaders on all levels to explore challenges, develop skills, and practice new behaviors. This podcast focuses on unlearning and helping professionals unlearn behaviors that no longer serve them.