Breaking Script

Breaking Script

Join Tina Vatanka Murphy for unscripted conversations with leaders who challenge norms, take bold risks, and rise through uncertainty. Breaking Script explores the human side of leadership, including fear, failure, resilience, and the ideas redefining the future across business and healthcare.

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March 12, 2026 31 mins
Healthcare transformation requires more than new technology—it demands new ways of thinking. In this episode, Tina Vatanka Murphy speaks with healthcare finance leader and former Marine Jon Alford about leadership, innovation, and challenging legacy systems. From lessons learned in military service to reimagining automation, culture, and supply chains, Jon shares why healthcare leaders must rethink how the system works to build a m...
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In this episode, Bruce Johnson, Former CEO and former Chairman of the board, of GHX, talks about leadership, transformation, and building a lasting legacy. He shares how humor and vulnerability build trust and adaptability, why clarity of purpose and vision matter at pivotal moments, and how values and a clear North Star guide leaders through hard, emotionally charged decisions.
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February 5, 2026 28 mins
Leadership isn’t tested in comfort; it’s revealed under pressure. In this episode, Tina sits down with Army veteran and executive coach Nate Allen to explore leadership when the cost of failure is real. Drawing on high-stakes military experience and profound personal loss, Nate shares his “three fights” framework – self, team and mission – and why trust, vulnerability and curiosity determine whether teams fracture under pressure or...
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The leaders who successfully navigate disruptive innovation are the ones who anchor every decision in service to their customers and mission. In this episode, Geoffrey Moore, author of best-selling books and advisor, explains why established enterprises struggle to catch the second wave of innovation, especially when shifting resources from profitable legacy systems to unproven new technologies. He highlights the CEO’s role in sec...
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January 8, 2026 22 mins
Courage fuels growth in uncertainty. In this episode, Harvard Business School Professor, Dr. Ranjay Gulati, shares why courage is not the absence of fear, but rather taking bold action in the face of it. He explains how purpose and courage reinforce each other, how leaders can build cultures where safe experimentation and smart failures drive learning, and how courage can be trained like a muscle through mindset and self-narrative.
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December 11, 2025 33 mins
In a world that never stops shouting for your attention, radical clarity is a leadership advantage. In this episode, Tina sits down with Deidre Paknad, CEO and co-founder of WorkBoard, to explore how great leaders and great teams cut through noise and stay aligned on what matters most. Deidre defines alignment as the convergence of time and effort, and challenges the myth that it should ever be “set and done,” especially in a h...
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Driving lasting performance through people-first leadership and the discipline to keep pushing even when you’re winning. What separates leaders who thrive in complexity from leaders who get trapped in it? Clarity and the courage to keep choosing it. In this episode, Tina sits down with Mike Mahoney, Chairman and CEO of Boston Scientific, for a candid conversation on leading at scale without losing speed or soul. Mike shares how h...
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In this opening episode of Breaking Script, host Tina Vatanka Murphy reflects on a moment that reinforced her beliefs about what real leadership requires. It came from a professor who reminded a room of CEOs that the only way to lead through uncertainty and disruption is with bold, courageous leadership. That call to action sparked the idea for this podcast: a space for real, unvarnished conversations with CEOs, authors, changemak...
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