Episode 41: Unsubscribe: Letting Go to Lead Better in the Age of AI with Ginny Priem

Host Annette Klososky and co-host/producer Annie Brown introduce a new Leader Spotlight series focused on how leaders are learning, experimenting with, and implementing AI in their organizations and personal lives. Annette interviews Ginny Priem, a former corporate leader, TEDx/keynote speaker, and bestselling author of “Unsubscribed,” about leaders being overwhelmed, “over-functioning,” and mistaking busyness for productivity. Priem explains how letting go, avoiding micromanagement, and building diversified teams improves culture and results, and how her framework helps filter out what doesn’t matter. She shares leaving corporate after a traumatic personal experience, writing “You’re My Favorite,” and building a coaching/speaking business before exiting. They discuss using AI to offload administrative tasks to create more space for human connection in leadership. Priem shares her guiding “architect of your own destiny” mindset and where to connect with her.

Show Notes / Timestamps

00:00 Busy Versus Productive

00:48 Show And Season Intro

01:41 AI Series Focus

04:14 Where To Follow

05:03 Meet Ginny Priem

06:00 Unsubscribed Overview

08:05 Overfunctioning Leaders

10:21 Letting Go Advantage

13:18 Leaving Corporate Story

16:10 AI And Human Leadership

19:47 Architect Your Destiny

21:04 Unsubscribe Framework Tips

23:06 Connect With Ginny

23:44 What She's Reading

26:44 Final Thanks And Outro