The HX Collective explores the human experience through three main channels of life: work, relationships, and self. With raw, authentic conversations, the podcast investigates how challenges can become powerful teachers, leading to personal growth and deeper connections.Rooted in humanity-centered design, each episode reflects a commitment to doing good and doing well, featuring diverse voices and generational perspectives. Expect gripping stories of struggle and success, with thought-provoking discussions and concrete tools and tactics that encourage you to rethink your relationship with dis
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe HX Collective explores the human experience through three main channels of life: work, relationships, and self. With raw, authentic conversations, the podcast investigates how challenges can become powerful teachers, leading to personal growth and deeper connections. Rooted in humanity-centered design, each episode reflects a commitment to doing good and doing well, featuring diverse voices and generational perspectives.
Recent episodes include "work - Colleen Affeldt | between the halls and the walls, how culture elevates human flourishing" (5 October 2026, 48 minutes), "work - Matt Kocanda | more santa and less stalker" (5 October 2026, 46 minutes), and "relationships - Heather Heaton | hospitality isn't a gift - it's a posture" (5 October 2026, 43 minutes).
The HX Collective publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 64 episodes.
Booking probability for The HX Collective is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The HX Collective requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The HX Collective's contact route on record: verified email.
The HX Collective is a society podcast with 64 episodes published.
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Episode #64
In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Colleen Affeldt, Vice Chair at Corient Wealth Management and a lifelong student of why people do what they do. Colleen's path is unusual: fifteen years running her own...
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In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Matt Kocanda, office managing partner for the Chicago office of Corient and, by Deb's own description, her collaborator in crime for more than ten years. The subject is one most...
In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Heather Heaton, a writer, an unconventional pastor, and Deb's friend and fellow resident of a town of fewer than eight thousand people. The subject is hospitality, but not the...
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In this episode, Deb Knupp welcomes back Jay Stark, partner and wealth advisor at Sutton Wealth Planning of CI Assante Wealth Management, for a second conversation. The first introduced the HX Collective community to...
The HX Collective
In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Roy Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer at Vedder and one of legal marketing's most visible advocates for showing up authentically, for a conversation that, as Deb puts it, feels...
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In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Eric Schoonveld, Partner and Co-Founder of The Peak Law Group and a nearly two-decade friend and client, for a conversation about what it actually costs to treat culture as a...
In this episode, Deb Knupp welcomes back Libby Baney Burstein, a partner at Faegre Drinker where she has practiced for nearly twenty years in public policy across the pharmacy and FDA space, working to keep unsafe...
Episode #57
In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Beth Sherman, a seven time Emmy award winning comedy writer turned keynote speaker and the creator of Audience-First Communication. After thirty years writing for the Late Show...
In this episode, Deb Knupp reconnects with returning HX Ally Ali Schroer, MSW, LCSW, C-PD, founder of Mental Scope Consulting and Schroer Counseling and Consulting, for a conversation that reframes one of the most...
Episode #55
In this episode, Deb Knupp welcomes back Rick and Amy Wellock of The Wellock Group for a second, more personal conversation. While their first appearance focused on leadership development and human flourishing, this...
Episode #54
In this episode, Deb Knupp welcomes back one of the HX Collective's most beloved returning guests, Bob Craig, a 40-year technologist and 25-year CIO who has spent the last three years on a deliberate journey of...
In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with longtime friend and legal marketing leader Laura Gutierrez, Director of Referral Partnerships at JD Supra, for an unflinching conversation about what it really means to...
Episode #52
In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Joanna Meyer, founder and executive director of Women, Work, and Calling at the Denver Institute for Faith and Work and author of the book Women, Work, and Calling. Through a...
In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with friend and Faegre Drinker partner Sean Metherell for an unplanned, deeply personal conversation that began professionally and turned into a Mother's Day tribute. Recorded on the...
In this conversation, Deb and Suzanne Massel explore networking not as a transactional exercise, but as a deeply human practice rooted in connection, curiosity, and community. What emerges throughout the discussion is a...
Episode #49
In this conversation, Deb and Andrew Cohn explore leadership not as a performance exercise, but as a deeply human practice rooted in reflection, intentionality, and presence. What emerges throughout the discussion is a...
In this episode, Deb sits down with Dr. Mikah Sellers, founder and CEO of Veteran Brands, to explore a question that quietly sits underneath nearly every conversation about the future of work: what happens to humanity...
In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with longtime mentor and HX Ally Dean Carter, a four-time CHRO turned first-time CEO and co-author of Employee Experience Design: How to Co-create Work Where People and Organizations...
Episode #46
In this episode, Deb sits down with Cat Miller, founder of This Way Up , to talk about what it really takes to make mental health feel accessible, without watering it down or turning it into a buzzword. Deb’s...
In this episode, Deb sits down with Nahel Gandhi, founder of Parinamas, to talk about what the AI era is really asking of us, not as technologists, but as humans. Deb comes into the conversation naming what many people...
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Director of Referral Partnerships at JD Supra, United Community Center
Director of Public Engagement at Denver Institute for Faith & Work, Denver Institute for Faith and Work
Lighthouse Consulting LLC
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