# Intro — coming up this week

- **Episode:** [214](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/214.md) (2025-07-15)
- **Type:** intro
- **Tags:** intro, podcast
- **Time:** 0:02–0:57 (start 2s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/214?t=2](https://truthliesandwork.com/214?t=2)

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[0:02] Al Elliott: Coming up this week in work
[0:04] Leanne Elliott: How can you tell the difference between genuine care and emotional performance? This week we're asking whether modern leadership has become too good at sounding empathetic while quietly avoiding the hard stuff
[0:14] Al Elliott: And could the wildest employment scam in Silicon Valley history actually change the way we look at overworking? One engineer pocketed over $1 million working at 22 startups I'm barely doing the work. So is this fraud or is the system just broken?
[0:30] Leanne Elliott: And in the workplace surgery, should you hire your spouse into your team?
[0:34] Al Elliott: No, no, a bad idea
[0:36] Leanne Elliott: Well, one listener wants our advice. Stay tuned for that
[0:39] Al Elliott: This is Truth, Lies and Work
[0:41] Leanne Elliott: The award-winning podcast where behavioural science meets workplace culture, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. My name is Leanne. I'm a chartered occupational psychologist
[0:52] Al Elliott: My name is Al. I'm a business owner
[0:54] Leanne Elliott: And together we help organisations build amazing workplace cultures