Beneath the Transaction Podcast

A Transformational Idea can Change the World.

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The world doesn't need more content, it needs more Transformational Ideas.

Hosted by Dr. Chris Pineda and Kenzie Pineda, Beneath the Transaction explores the ideas, stories, and experiences that transform people, organizations, families, and communities.

Inspired by Chris's book, this podcast goes beneath performance, productivity, and surface-level success to ask a deeper question: What is being formed beneath it all?

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What transformational idea are you carrying?

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SEASON 2

What Does It Mean to Live and Lead Beneath the Transaction?

For two seasons, we've explored what transforms people, relationships, and organizations.

Inspired by Beneath the Transaction, we've dug deep to discover what truly shapes who we become.

And now we're asking a new question: What transformational idea are you carrying?

Kiko San Diego

Kiko San Diego

What Does Tattooing Have to Do With Purpose?

A conversation about indigenous Filipino tattooing, identity, ancestry, and what it means to live a life marked by purpose.

Kathleen Patrick

Kathleen Patrick

Can You Be Grateful for Suffering?

A deeper look at gratitude—not just for good moments, but for the hard things that shape who we become.

Kendra Davenport

Kendra Davenport

Stop Leaving Yourself at the Door

A conversation about authentic leadership, vulnerability, and why the best leaders allow themselves to be known.

Dominic Kolleh

Dominic Kolleh

What Keeps You Grounded When Life Falls Apart?

A conversation about burnout, self-leadership, anchors, and finding your way back to what holds you.

Arthur Soriano

Arthur Soriano

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Leadership

A conversation about indigenous Filipino wisdom, identity, community, and what our ancestors can teach us today.

Brian Belliveau

Brian Belliveau

When Profit Replaces Purpose

A conversation about why profit should never outweigh purpose, and why leaders need to keep asking deeper questions.

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Meet Your Hosts

Dr. Chris Pineda

Dr. Chris Pineda

Dr. Chris Pineda is an organizational psychologist, speaker, leadership consultant, TEDx speaker, and author of Beneath the Transaction. His work bridges organizational psychology, indigenous wisdom, and modern leadership to help people and organizations transform beneath the surface.

Chris created the 7 Conditions of Transformation and helps leaders uncover the deeper ideas, stories, and frameworks that shape how they live, lead, and create impact.

Kenzie Pineda

Kenzie Pineda

Kenzie Pineda is co-founder of Groundwork and co-host of Beneath the Transaction. She is an idea development strategist with a gift for helping people identify patterns, clarify meaning, and shape lived experience into ideas worth sharing.

Kenzie helped shape Chris's TEDx journey and now works alongside him through The Idea Lab to help leaders, experts, and changemakers discover and develop transformational ideas.

What we explore

Transformational Ideas

The ideas that reshape how people see themselves, their work, their relationships, and the world.

Purpose & Identity

How people uncover who they are, what they carry, and what they are becoming.

Life & Leadership

Why the way we live personally cannot be separated from the way we lead professionally.

TEDx & Thought Leadership

How powerful ideas are discovered, developed, communicated, and shared with the world.

Culture & Transformation

How leaders build environments rooted in trust, vulnerability, purpose, and belonging.

Indigenous Wisdom

What ancestral wisdom can teach us about modern leadership, community, and human transformation.

The Foundation

The podcast is an extension of the book.

Beneath the Transaction began as a book about transformation.

After years of working with leaders across sectors, Chris identified 7 Conditions that consistently create the soil where people, relationships, and organizations transform.

The podcast brings that framework to life through real conversations with people who are living, leading, questioning, building, and becoming.

This is where the ideas in the book breathe.

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Do you have an idea worth sharing?

Every transformational idea starts somewhere.

Some begin in research.
Some emerge through leadership.
Some are discovered through hardship, healing, faith, or lived experience.

We're looking for guests who are carrying ideas worth exploring—ideas that can help others live, lead, grow, and transform.

If you have an idea that has changed your life, your work, or your perspective, we'd love to hear from you.

Ideal Guests Include:

  • TEDx speakers
  • Authors
  • Founders & Coaches
  • Nonprofit leaders
  • Culture builders
  • Researchers
  • Faith and community leaders
  • Experts with a transformational message
  • People who have lived through something that shaped how they see the world
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The Idea Lab

The Idea Lab is where leaders, experts, and changemakers uncover the transformational ideas they are already carrying and shape them into messages worth sharing.

TEDx is one possible stage. But the deeper work is the idea.

The Idea Lab will help people move from:

"I know I have something important to say..."

to:

"I know exactly what my idea is, why it matters, and how to share it."

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