Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Radical Candor started as a management framework from Kim Scott's bestselling book, and the podcast extends that framework into real workplace scenarios week after week. Co-hosted by Scott alongside Jason Rosoff and Amy Sandler, episodes run 45 minutes to about an hour and often feature guest experts discussing feedback, team dynamics, and career transitions. The core idea is deceptively simple: care personally about your colleagues while challenging them directly. The show takes that two-by-two matrix and applies it to situations you will actually recognize — the colleague who avoids giving honest feedback, the manager who confuses being nice with being helpful, the team meeting where everyone agrees but nobody means it. Over 200 episodes and a 4.7-star rating from nearly 700 reviews show that the concept has real staying power. What makes this podcast worth your time, especially if you lead people, is how specific it gets. Scott and her co-hosts do not just talk about giving better feedback in the abstract. They role-play scenarios, break down listener-submitted situations, and point out the exact moment where a conversation went sideways. The show has shifted to a roughly biweekly cadence recently, which gives each episode more room to breathe. If you have ever left a difficult conversation at work feeling like you either said too much or not enough, this podcast will give you a vocabulary and a framework for next time.