Kindadjective
Merriam-Webster: kind (opens in a new tab)“of a sympathetic or helpful nature”
A new podcast with Sandra Lopez
Can you be
kind and
still win?
An honest look at kindness, ambition, and power. With people who have shaped business, culture, and public life, exploring questions that go beyond the usual talking points.
In the making. Be here from the beginning.
Do you have to be mean
to mean business?
Experience.
Perspective.
A few familiar rooms.
Perspective.
A few familiar rooms.
A better conversation
High standards.
Human decency.
Same conversation.
“Toughen up.”
“Don’t take it personally.”
“It’s just business.”
Can kindness coexist with power and influence? Kindly Explain explores what happens when we expect kindness from the people who hold both. The choices they make. The pressures they face. The self-awareness it takes to lead with care.
Come for a point of view. Leave with a question you’ll keep thinking about.
Let’s define our terms
Kind vs. Nice.
Selected adjective meanings from Merriam-Webster.
Niceadjective
“pleasing, agreeable”
Merriam-Webster also lists polite, kind
as a meaning.
The question behind the podcast
The meanings overlap. Our question goes beyond being agreeable: what does it take to care for people when the decision is difficult, the feedback is honest, or the stakes are high?
Questions shaping the show
An invitation to make kindness essential to how we define success, power, and influence.
Success & its trade-offs
What did getting to the top ask you to leave behind?
As you climbed the ladder and gained power, what did you feel you had to change about yourself? Where did the conscious choice to be kind sit among your priorities? We often confuse being nice with being kind. Being nice can mean keeping things comfortable. Being kind can mean telling a difficult truth, setting a boundary, or holding someone accountable with care.
What’s in it for youA more honest look at what we trade for success.
Be here for these conversations Your host
She’s been in the room.
She still has questions.
A first-generation Mexican American. A mother. A builder. Sandra Lopez has led at Microsoft and Intel, founded AMBI Ventures, and spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She has met and worked with people who hold considerable power and influence.
Five years into her own spiritual work and growing self-awareness, she began exploring whether kindness could coexist with power and influence. This podcast grew out of that curiosity. It may be a little messy. She doesn’t have the answers, and that’s part of why she wants to ask.
Kindly Explain brings those experiences into a bigger conversation about who we become when we have influence and how we choose to use it.
Have that conversation with SandraFor guests & their teams
A real decision.
The story behind it.
Your perspective.
You’ve shaped a company, a community, or a conversation. What has that taught you about kindness and power?
We’re inviting voices from business, public life, sport, and culture to help shape a more human definition of leadership.
A good conversation starts here.
A short introduction.
Share the experience or question you’d bring to the conversation.
Find the interesting part.
We’ll explore the story together and agree on a thoughtful direction.
Make it work for you.
We agree on format and timing, with just a little preparation in advance. The conversation itself is honest and unrehearsed.
The first conversations are ahead
Be here for
the beginning.
A little curiosity. A lot of nerve.
For anyone building a business, leading a team, raising a human—or working out what kind of person they want to be.
Join the waiting list to hear when Kindly Explain launches.