Magnetic Authenticity Podcast with Jolynne Rydz
Welcome to the Magnetic Authenticity Podcast with Jolynne Rydz, where we elevate your leadership impact by embracing your true self. If you're ready to harness your strengths, level up your confidence and influence so you can make a bigger difference in this world, then you're in the right place.
Magnetic Authenticity Podcast with Jolynne Rydz
19: The Future is for the Real - Amplify your career with magnetic authenticity
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The relentless march of technology has many professionals wondering will AI replace me? This fear is understandable but misplaced. While skills may become obsolete overnight, your authentic self remains irreplaceable.
What AI struggles to replicate is your intuition – that knowing that can't be explained but shouldn't be ignored. Science reveals our conscious mind processes just 40-50 bits of information per second, while our entire brain processes a staggering 11 million bits. This explains why intuition isn't mystical but practical – it's your brain processing information beyond conscious awareness. This hidden processing power is your competitive advantage in an increasingly automated world.
The concept of magnetic authenticity extends beyond simply "being yourself." It means knowing yourself so deeply that you can show up confidently and consistently in any situation – whether speaking truth to power or admitting when you're wrong. Research from 2005 confirms authentic leadership increases psychological safety, focus, and career fulfillment. When you lead from this place of authenticity, you create environments where others can thrive too.
In recruitment, the difference between AI-generated applications and genuinely personal ones is immediately apparent. Generic statements like "I'm a team player" fade into the background, while specific, authentic expressions of your unique approach make you memorable. The future belongs to those who can define what they bring that others don't, show up as their genuine selves, and use AI as a tool rather than a replacement for their judgment.
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Imagine waking up and, overnight, your job, your industry, your career has changed. This is happening. We are in a world of rapid change at the moment. Change has always been a constant, but it seems to be getting faster and faster. What do you think?
Jolynne Rydz:And in this world, where technology can replace the tasks that we're used to doing and some of our skills are becoming outdated in the blink of an eye, one thing will always remain in demand your authenticity. That is an essence that I believe so far is very hard for AI to replicate. It can come close, but we can still detect it, and I think this is a really important topic to be talking about, because there's so much fear around AI and people losing their job, and I really want to flip that to a more empowering stance today. So, of course, there are challenges with things like AI and rapid change in our world. Skills are always going to come and go, and I do truly believe authenticity will always be in demand, because skills have always been replaceable Thinking about, you know, people on a production line and that being slowly automated, and it releases people human to do more interesting things, things that we're probably better at Like, if you imagine being on a production line doing the same thing over and over again. We do get injuries, like repetitive strain injuries. We're not designed to be a part in a production line. We're so much more meaningful and built for more meaning than that. I think the thing with AI is that people can nut things out and I'm not saying don't use it. I'm just saying we've got to find a relationship with it where we're not coming from a place of fear. So what I believe AI can't replace. So while it can replace things like logic and thinking and language, it can't really build trust and confidence and connection yet.
Jolynne Rydz:And intuition, think about it. The way it's been trained is and when I say it I mean language model, which is commonly referred to as AI, and I know there's so much more different kinds of artificial intelligence than that but when I say AI, I mean the chat GPT style of AI, right? So a lot of the way it's been trained is through language and logic and rational thought. So what it can't do because it hasn't been trained with that and it doesn't have access as far as I'm concerned is intuition. You know that sudden knowing that you know something is the right choice or the right way to go or maybe not to walk down that street. You can't explain why, but you just know and you trust it, and some of us don't trust it. We ignore it and we overthink our brain and go there's nothing wrong with that street and we walk down and then something may or may not happen who knows?
Jolynne Rydz:My point is that there is so much that we don't understand about our own brains and our own bodies, and one of the things that when I was doing my coaching course, that they brought to my attention and I've since looked it up as well is that our conscious brain can only process about 40 to 50 bits of information per second, but our whole, entire brain processes a massive amount. It's around 11 million bits per second. So I just did the numbers on that and the calculator kind of like it's 0.0004.5%. So our conscious brain is processing less than a percent, a fraction of a percent, of what our entire body and brain is being able to pick up from the world. So that intuition is not necessarily as airy-fairy as you think. It's information that our conscious brain is unable to process, but other parts of our brain can, and so what this means for me is that that is so key to us standing out and having value in a world that's increasingly being meshed with things like AI being meshed with things like AI, and I've spoken about this before but the amount of spend that organizations make on upskilling their people, which is fantastic, and I do believe, though, what we need to now double down on is investment in helping people to overcome their own unique barriers that prevent them from trusting themselves, that prevent them from realizing their own unique strengths, and letting this shine out, and I am so passionate about this because I see it.
Jolynne Rydz:In every single client that I meet, and even the clients that don't quite come through to me, I see these patterns of behavior where there's gold inside that person and they don't realize it. Or they don't believe it, or they don't think they're worthy, or they don't think people are going to accept it if they let it out. There's so many layers and walls and barriers of protection that half of us are walking around as shells of ourselves, trying to fit in to a idea that we think other people think so. It's not even a real idea, necessarily Somewhere along the line it was but we've meshed it all together in our heads to create this imaginary image of who we should be. And in the workplace this translates to how we show up and communicate and lead in the workplace in a way that is replicable by things like AI. And so if we take off that armor and tap into that intuition and the other parts of our brain, so the subconscious excuse me, the subconscious brain there's power in that.
Jolynne Rydz:So one of the other things that I'm noticing in terms of what's probably going to become an over-reliance on AI tools is this need to copy right, so the need to use AI as a security blanket, because, well, if I wrote it and I get criticised for it, it's not really me, it's AI. Right, it's easy to blame others, even if it's a piece of technology, for something that didn't work well, and what works for one person doesn't always work for everyone else. So, with all of these tools and the way that they've been trained at such a rapid pace, I just get this sense that everything's getting homogenized, everything's getting pushed down into this common output and then you kind of have to untrain it out of that, but even then it struggles to do it. So am I anti-AI? No, I'm not. I'm saying use it, use it to streamline what you do, but you still need to own your own flair to whatever that is.
Jolynne Rydz:So, whether that's a speech, you're writing a report, you're writing email that you're sending to someone I won't even go into other things because, again, I don't want to get in the rabbit hole. That's not my rabbit hole to get into. I don't want to get in the rabbit hole, that's not my rabbit hole to get into. But what I do want to ask you is to think about a great leader, someone that has inspired you, maybe, to be a great leader yourself, and have a think about what the top three things are that make them a great leader. I bet you it's not something like I've spent seven years as a journal manager, or I'm a PowerPoint queen or whatever that is, and I'm bringing up these skills, because this is what I'm seeing at the moment that a lot of people talk to is what skills they have, and so many people share the same skills. Yeah, so many people can use PowerPoint. So many people can use AI. So many people can I don't know communicate with emotional intelligence. We have to get way more nuanced about what it is your skills and flair are.
Jolynne Rydz:So the whole idea of this episode is that the future belongs to the real and that you can amplify your career using magnetic authenticity. So magnetic authenticity isn't just being yourself. It's knowing yourself so well that you can be confident, consistent and compelling in any situation, even if it's challenging, even if it's having to have the courage to speak up when something matters to you and doesn't feel right, or even when you need to have that humility to listen when you're out of your depth or you've done something wrong. The future belongs to the real and you can amplify your career using magnetic authenticity. In 2005, there were some researchers from Korea, taiwan and the USA who did a study into authentic leadership, and what they found was that authentic leadership increased things like psychological safety. So how safe someone feels to be themselves, how safe it feels to show up to work and maybe be a bit vulnerable, how safe it feels to take that mask off that we all have of you know you can't be emotional at work. They also found that authentic leadership helped people to be more focused and that people that used authentic leadership had greater career fulfillment.
Jolynne Rydz:So you and your career and your leadership and your impact can have so much more meaning when it's coming from you, not what everyone else tells you you should do so, tell me, like, who out there doesn't want to make a difference and pay the bills? Like we can do both. And I'm so passionate that if everyone did both those things, rather than one or the other. And what I mean by that is there's a lot of people that will take a job and they settle for that because, yeah, it does pay their mortgage, but they're not really fulfilled. They're just kind of coasting along. They might still try and do a great job or they might just do the bare minimum anywhere in between.
Jolynne Rydz:But the energetic drain to show up every day doing something that you don't love is a massive cost to society. And I don't mean that just in terms of the effort it takes to get you out of bed. It's the toll that that takes on your wellbeing. So you're more likely to be sick. You're more likely to end up with disease. If you're constantly in this state of being, somewhere where you're not, you're literally forcing yourself. And before I get too technical, like, just think about it in terms of muscle aches and pains, headaches, the basic things. I'm not even talking about anything crazy here. But your mental well-being, your emotional well-being and your physical well-being are so interrelated being your emotional wellbeing and your physical wellbeing are so interrelated and it's not something that I think we talk about enough in organisations.
Jolynne Rydz:So the other end of that spectrum is people that love what they do but don't deserve don't believe that they deserve to get paid for it, so they give it away and they give it away for free. Or they give it away for so low that they can't sustain it and they burn it away for free, or they give it away for so low that they can't sustain it and they burn themselves out. And there's some incredibly talented people who do that and then go back to some other job to support themselves and get disillusioned and then they stop shining that light that is very much needed in the world. Think of like the poor, creative type archetype here. So I'm saying we can have both and we get so much more energy from people's passion, their effort and that pull energy where they pull towards what their purpose is, rather than that push because you have to do it. You have to get it done. This is the deadline, this is what we're told, this is what you're contracted to do.
Jolynne Rydz:So what does this all have to do with your career in AI. Well, recently I was doing some recruitment for one of my clients actually a couple of my clients and I do this for a couple of reasons. One, some of my clients are smaller business owners and they need some support in terms of human resources or organizational development basically anything people related to help people to thrive in their business and one of them is getting the right people in the door with the right skills at the right time, and I love doing this from time to time because it's such a rush to get someone who's really passionate about an opportunity to actually match with an organization that's going to be a great fit for them and then watch what happens Like it's so beautiful. However, I've noticed a marked difference from recruitment in 2025 versus recruitment, maybe, you know, three, four, five years ago, where AI was not so prominent. So I don't know if this is related, but it's likely that it might be, given what's alive in the world today, right, and what I'm seeing.
Jolynne Rydz:So, what I'm seeing is like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of applications that people probably did spend a lot of time and effort doing, but then they've hit send and sent it out broadly and not actually tailored it in any way to the job, to what their skillset is, and it's just, if I could be really frank boring and almost disheartening because there's no personality in it and often you can tell that someone's done a chat GPT. I mean, some people have accidentally left the you know little. Oh, are you happy with this Like copy and paste bit in there? So, in amongst that, how can you possibly stand out if you haven't put your own personal flair onto it and you've only relied on AI? So the future truly belongs to the real and you can amplify your career using magnetic authenticity. So how do you do that Like?
Jolynne Rydz:How do you stand out, whether you're job hunting for your next opportunity or whether you're in your current role and you just want to shine so that when that next opportunity comes, your name is front of mind? The first one is to show up as you Like. Honestly, that sounds so simple, but really when was the last time that you showed up as you quirks and all, and for some people, yes, the environment might not be safe to do that, but if it is, give it a go and check. Is it safe? But you just are scared it's not, because that might be a case. You can do some little tests.
Jolynne Rydz:So, especially when you're applying for a job or you're going for that next opportunity or you just want people to see your value, the only way to get noticed is to not be that common person who says I've got great communication skills, I can use computers, I can, I'm a team player. Right, a lot of people can do that. How is that different? So, as an example, I am a team player, but how I language, that is very different.
Jolynne Rydz:So when I was in high school, I was part of a symphonic band. I think some of you might've heard this story. So, yes, the band nerd. Yes, but what that taught me? Because when you're in a group musical setting, if you just shine all the time and be the solo star in a group, you make everyone else sound bad and the music and the experience for the audience is just ugh, right, yeah. But if you're a true team player, you know when to shine and that's your time to bring your unique, like timber to the sound out and your talent, and you know when to pair it back so that someone else can shine. So that is how I describe my ability to be a team player. It's that knowing of exactly when I step up and someone else needs to step up, and how do I empower them to do that?
Jolynne Rydz:So when you stand out, there is a risk that you will put people off, but my question is are they the people that you actually want to put off? And you've saved yourself from, you know, a couple of years of slogging it out to feel like you have done your time in that role and given it its dues. Could you have saved yourself that if you actually turned some people off on purpose? Because when you show up as you and you don't have those inhibitions and you've got to do it within reason, obviously people will love you and remember you. The right people will.
Jolynne Rydz:So one story that comes to mind is I was doing some recruitment during COVID for a role which was basically a data analyst role. So usually a lot of applicants in this area are very structured people because you've got to be for the job. Yeah, very structured, very task focused. Usually a little bit less personality comes through. Naturally for these people and I'm generalizing here, I know, but I'm trying to paint the picture so you can imagine the kind of candidates we were interviewing and seeing meet us across the table and this one candidate told us how they'd invented the COVID foot shake and we're like, what is the COVID foot shake Right? So we obviously at this point weren't allowed to shake hands or it was a taboo. So you stick out your foot and the other person sticks out your foot and you kind of like jiggle the feet together. It's hard to explain it verbally but I hope it paints the picture that it's. It was funny like that. He did that and it's something that I think I will always remember.
Jolynne Rydz:So when you're looking at hundreds, tens, hundreds of different people for a role, like standing out is really important. So the next way that you can use magnetic authenticity to amplify your career is to define what's the number one thing that you bring that others don't. Everyone's going to say on their application I'm a great leader, I have excellent leadership skills. How can you define the number one thing that you do that others actually can't or find very difficult to do and let that shine? And sometimes finding out what that thing is does take a lot of effort, and that's why it's something that I do spend a lot of time with with my clients is and I've got tools to do that because you don't always know what that is and sometimes you need other people to tell you. But once you find what that thing is, it's pretty magical, and when you start getting feedback on that, that's when you know it's happening.
Jolynne Rydz:So I've, as an example, often my whole life had people just open up to me. Even strangers, within 10, 20 seconds of meeting me, will tell them their deepest hurts and feelings and challenges. And that's why I think I'm probably was meant to be a coach, because I can create that safe space for people to share so easily and naturally. And I think I do that because I can just be myself in that moment. Sometimes I sometimes I'm shy, sometimes I'm really out there, sometimes I'm really open about what's challenging for me. And so more and more recently, and even after this podcast, like so many people are using the word oh, you're so authentic, like just so real, and so that's feedback to me that this piece that I've picked out, that I think I do well, is starting to shine and other people are seeing it and feeding it back to me. So that's how you know that that is one of the things that you're good at, and if you're not open to this feedback, sometimes you will dismiss these messages and not get there. So that is why sometimes some people do need some guidance along the way to actually open up the doors so you can see this kind of feedback coming in. It's like putting on your glasses but cleaning them so they're not so foggy and so you can actually see what other people are seeing.
Jolynne Rydz:And then the third thing to amplify your career using magnetic authenticity is to use AI really smartly. Use it as a starting point and then trust your own flair, because what I'm concerned with is that people, more and more, are relying on AI for things that they know, things that maybe big decisions, and they're trying to use that as a validation. And I think the more we sort of do this, the more we're going to start to over-rely on it. A simple example is let's say, you're at a pub with your friends and someone says, hey, what's the name of that movie where such and such actor is in space and they have to dive down and they've got to hold their breath for a long time, like, and they've got to push the button and they they sacrifice themselves for their daughter, like, what's the name of that movie?
Jolynne Rydz:And everyone will sit there going oh, it's just right on the tip of my tongue and I guarantee you in 99.9% of cases, someone is going to pull out their phone and say let's Google it.
Jolynne Rydz:Why? Because we're uncomfortable sitting in with that discomfort of not knowing. And so how this relates to AI is that AI kind of feeds this, this instant answer or instant possibility of how we could answer something instantly. So it's so quick that we are going to find it harder and harder and harder to sit with this discomfort of not knowing or sit with this discomfort of trying something out and testing how it feels and is it the right thing, unless we're really intentional about it? So I hope you kind of are getting the point here that I hope you kind of are getting the point here that you know the only thing that is going to make you replaceable is complacency and over-reliance on AI. So if you just let yourself shine, there is always going to be new and better ways that you can grow and have an impact and find what lights you up and go do that. So, on that note, go do that and remember you were born for a reason. It's time to shine.