Grey Matter with Declan Kelly: Inside the Minds of the People Who Move the World

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Sarah Friar: What is Experience Worth in the Age of AI? | Grey Matter with Declan Kelly

2026-09-1051:23

Every CEO is being asked to make decisions about AI before there is a reliable playbook for what comes next. Where to invest. How to create business value. Which risks to take. What to automate. And what should remain fundamentally human. That makes experience a more complicated asset. The past may offer fewer obvious answers, but the judgment built through years of operating across different environments may become even more valuable. Few executives embody that challenge better than Sarah Fr...

Larry Fitzgerald: The Trait That Powered a Hall of Fame Career | Grey Matter with Declan Kelly

2026-08-1045:36

Larry Fitzgerald is an 11x Pro Bowler and now a first-ballot Pro Football Hall of Famer. Since retiring, he's built a second career as a successful investor, with a portfolio spanning more than 160 companies. Despite being one of the greatest wide receivers in the modern era, what often gets overlooked is how much his inquisitive mind played in his success, and the discipline to treat the moments that tested him most as turning points for his evolution. That endless curiosity showed up in the...

Mark Messier: The Art of Reinvention | Grey Matter with Declan Kelly

2026-07-1543:22

Over the course of his remarkable 26-year career, Mark Messier won six Stanley Cups and remains the only player in NHL history to captain two different franchises to a championship. Few elite athletes have been asked to reinvent themselves as often or as successfully. In Edmonton, he spent a decade alongside Wayne Gretzky as the team's indispensable second star. When Gretzky was traded in 1988, Messier stepped into the captaincy and led the Oilers to another Stanley Cup two years later. Then ...

Steve Kerr: The Mind of a Champion | Grey Matter with Declan Kelly

2026-06-1134:52

Steve Kerr has spent a lifetime studying his own mind. As a player, he was an overthinker with a fierce competitive drive who had to learn how to channel those qualities rather than be ruled by them. As a coach, that inner work became the foundation for one of the most successful dynasties in NBA history. That journey was shaped by years spent inside the cultures of Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich, two of the most exceptional leadership minds the game has ever produced. When he became head co...

Ruthie Rogers: The Heart Behind One of the World's Most Beloved Restaurants | Grey Matter with Declan Kelly

2026-05-2140:28

For nearly 40 years, Ruthie Rogers has run one of the most celebrated restaurants in the world on the banks of the River Thames in London. The River Cafe has held a Michelin star for decades, launched the careers of some of the most acclaimed chefs in the world, and drawn a loyal following that spans generations and continents. And yet, what its guests most often describe is not just the exceptional food. It is how the restaurant makes them feel. That quality begins with Ruthie. She is self-t...

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Grey Matter with Declan Kelly: Inside the Minds of the People Who Move the World