I just got back from Costa Rica celebrating my granddaughter's sweet 16. Three generations of women on a beach and one question wouldn't leave me alone: what are we actually passing down?

Not the good stuff. We talk about that plenty. I mean the other things. The assumptions we carry into every room. The way we dismiss the young for being too green and push out the experienced for being too old. The biases we've convinced ourselves we don't have.

In this episode, I get into the real cost of ageism and why it doesn't travel alone. I use a real-world leadership example that has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with what happens when people finally feel heard. I share three hiring stories from my own corporate career that changed how I lead, and one of them still makes me smile and still stings at the same time.  ...