What if your greatest strength came from your deepest wound?

In this unscripted and deeply human conversation, Dr. Ichak Adizes — one of the world’s most influential business thinkers — opens up to his son, filmmaker and host Topaz Adizes, in a raw dialogue about love, aging, grief, legacy, and healing.

At 87 years old, Dr. Adizes reflects on the life that shaped him, the legacy he's still writing, and the emotional wounds he's only now beginning to confront. Together, father and son explore:

- What he regrets passing down to his children — and what he’s proud to have given

- How a childhood without love became the fuel for global impact

- Why success was never about achievement, but about being loved

- What aging feels like when time no longer stretches endlessly ahead

- The paradox of gaining wisdom while losing memory

This is more than a father-son conversation, it’s a powerful reflection on mortality, meaning, family, vulnerability, and emotional truth.

These conversations are not performative interviews, book release tours, or productivity hacks. Genuine curiosity is the compass for these honest, human-to-human exchanges of stories. We explore how people are formed by the lives they’ve lived and celebrate the wisdom gained along the way.

Welcome to Getting Under The Skin.

🔗 Learn more about Dr. Adizes and his work

https://www.adizes.com/

📖 Read his autobiography, The Accordion Player

https://publications.adizes.com/products/the-accordion-player-english

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What if healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken — but remembering who you really are?

Aaron Lazar is a celebrated Broadway actor, a father, a fighter, and a man in the middle of radical personal transformation. Diagnosed with ALS, Aaron now finds himself walking a path that demands more than physical strength — it calls for spiritual clarity, emotional courage, and a new kind of presence.

In this episode, he sits down with longtime friend and host Topaz Adizes for one of the rawest, most soul-opening conversations ever captured on GUTS.

Together, they unpack:

• How chasing success can disconnect you from yourself

• Why love from sympathy isn’t the same as love from love

• What it means to rehearse the energy you want to live in

• How joy and imagination are essential tools for healing

• The real difference between pushing through and showing up fully

This isn’t just a story of illness. It’s a story of rebirth.

It’s about shifting your inner script, one distinction at a time — and showing up, over and over, with more love than before.

These conversations are not performative interviews, book release tours or productivity hacks.

Genuine curiosity is the compass for these honest, human-to-human exchanges of stories. We explore how people are formed by the lives they’ve lived and celebrate the wisdom gained along the way.

Welcome to Getting Under The Skin.

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What if the clarity you're seeking is already within you, waiting for the noise to quiet down?

In this premiere episode of GUTS, Topaz Adizes sits down with creative collaborator and longtime friend, Ants Cabraal, for a conversation about the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we outgrow, and what happens when our actions don’t align with our supposed ambitions.

Together, they explore:

• Why chasing the wrong dream can still teach the right lesson

• How clarity doesn’t come from control, but from attention

• What it means to “steward your energy”, and how to know when you’re wasting it

• The power of small, serendipitous moments to show you you’re on the right path

• How building community is both a calling and a compass

These conversations are not performative interviews, book release tours or productivity hacks.

Genuine curiosity is the compass for these honest, human-to-human exchanges of stories. We explore how people are formed by the lives they’ve lived and celebrate the wisdom gained along the way.

Welcome to Getting Under The Skin

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