Listening for the Questions Podcast - Big ideas. Bold questions. Smart AF conversations.

Show me the money. Go ahead, say it out loud. Feels good, doesn't it? Now ask yourself why you hesitated.

That hesitation is exactly where this episode starts.

Dr. Patti Fletcher, Lynne Cuppernull, and Dan Ward go well past the balance sheet on this one. Because it turns out when you pull the thread on money, you don't end up talking about money for very long. You end up talking about fear, safety, power, and value. The wor...

What Are the Questions We Should Be Asking About Women?

John, Mark, and David each hold more corporate board seats than all female corporate directors combined. Not all three of them together. Each one of them, individually. Let that sit.

This is the season two Women's History Month episode, and we are not here to celebrate what women have survived. We are here to interrogate the systems that made survival necessary in the first...

Loneliness is everywhere, and most of us are pretending it is not.

In this episode of Listening for the Questions, Patti Fletcher, Dan Ward, and Lynne Cuppernull take on a topic that is deeply personal, widely shared, and still difficult to talk about. This conversation is not about being alone. It is about disconnection from others, from community, and sometimes from ourselves. It is about the quiet ways loneliness shows up even in...

Why do you read? And what biases are sitting on your bookshelf?

The hosts center their careers on innovation which means that they ask questions for a living. So when hosts Dr. Patti Fletcher, Lynne Cuppernull, and Dan Ward tackle reading, they don't ask what you're reading, they ask why.

This episode starts with the personal: reading as escape, ritual, education, connection, a cuddle for the brain. Then...

What questions are you carrying that you haven't asked out loud? And what is not asking them costing you?

We ask questions for a living. But what about the ones we don't ask?

In this episode, hosts Dr. Patti Fletcher, Lynne Cuppernull, and Dan Ward get honest about the questions they avoid. They talk about why we skip certain questions: we're afraid of the answer, we don't want to do the work that follows, we&apos...

Valentine’s Day is supposed to be about love. But for many people, it lands as pressure, performance, exclusion, or quiet disappointment. In this episode, Lynne, Dan, and Dr. Patti take a familiar cultural moment and do what we always do on Listening for the Questions: we slow it down and ask better questions.

Together, we explore what Valentine’s Day reveals about how we define love, worth, success, and belonging. We talk about the...

We are surrounded by misinformation and disinformation, but reacting faster is not the solution. Asking better questions is.

In this episode, Patti Fletcher, Dan Ward, and Lynne Cuppernull explore the difference between misinformation shared without intent to harm and disinformation spread deliberately to deceive. More importantly, they examine why both work so well and what they reveal about fear, identity, trust, and belonging.

Dra...

New season. Same curiosity. And a topic most of us have a complicated relationship with.

In the Season 2 premiere of Listening for the Questions, Dr. Patti Fletcher, Dan Ward, and Lynne Cuppernull take on New Year’s resolutions and immediately question whether we should be making them at all. Instead of debating which resolutions work, the conversation focuses on something far more interesting: the questions underneath our urge to s...

Finish lines are supposed to be clear. Cross it. Celebrate. Move on...but what if they are not endings at all?

In the Season 1 finale of Listening for the Questions, Dr. Patti Fletcher, Dan Ward, and Lynne Cuppernull take on one of the most emotionally loaded ideas we carry with us: finish lines. Athletic. Professional. Academic. Personal. Visible and invisible. Chosen and imposed.

Drawing on Lynne’s experience as an Ironman triathle...

Building something new sounds exciting. Rebuilding something after it breaks sounds exhausting. And yet most of us are living in a world where both are happening all at once. In this episode, Patti, Dan, and Lynne dig into the questions we should be asking when we talk about building and rebuilding and why these processes are never as simple as they seem.

Dan brings his experience as an engineer and technologist and admits that even...

Magic is one of those topics everyone thinks they understand until someone asks a real question about it. In this episode, Patti, Dan, and Lynne step into the world of tricks, sleight of hand, wonder, and the deeper meaning of it all.

Dan adds a twist right from the start by revealing that he is not only an engineer and a technologist but also a magician who believes the best magic happens close up, in the moments when you are not s...

What if the wisest questions aren’t asked in boardrooms or think-tanks — but in kindergarten classrooms, minivans, and sticky-fingered breakfast tables?

In this episode, Dr. Patti Fletcher, Dan Ward, and Lynne Cuppernull dive into one of the most delightfully disruptive prompts we’ve ever explored:

Why do kids ask the best questions — and why did so many of us stop?

From “Why is the sky blue?” to “Why don’t gr...

Why do some beliefs feel like bedrock while others crumble at the first nudge? In this episode of Listening for the Questions, Patti, Dan, and Lynne unpack why we cling to what we “know,” how power structures profit from our certainty, and what happens when curiosity finally cracks something open.

From “don’t wear white after Labor Day” to faith, identity, and technology’s role in reinforcing echo chambers, this episode invites you ...

What does the “best sandwich” reveal about how we make choices, give feedback, and connect with one another? In this deliciously curious episode of Listening for the Questions, hosts Dan Ward, Lynne Cuppernull, and Dr. Patti Fletcher unwrap the layers—literally and metaphorically—of one of humanity’s most universal meals: the sandwich.

From the Earl of Sandwich’s gaming table to your local deli, this conversation dives into why we l...

What if the best thing we can do with a question… is share it?

In the very first episode of Listening For The Questions, hosts Lynne Cuppernull, Dan Ward, and Dr. Patti Fletcher invite you into a lively, thought-provoking conversation about three topics shaping today’s world: burnout, power, and artificial intelligence. But this isn’t another show promising quick answers — instead, it’s an exploration of the questions we should be a...