What if your life’s purpose was to break the silence that held your family together?

In this episode of Getting Under the Skin, Topaz sits down with artist and filmmaker Tracey Arcabasso Smith (she/her), whose documentary Relative explores the generational trauma of sexual abuse in her family, and the healing that followed.

Tracey shares:

- The spiritual shifts that helped her redefine “mother”

- Why the courage to speak out didn’t feel like a choice

- How she balances her corporate leadership with a deep commitment to inner truth

- The tension between healing, parenting, and staying clear in a world full of pain

From vulnerability to visionary leadership, Tracey invites us to look within and reflect on what we’re really here to do. What has life designed you for?

These conversations are not performative interviews, book release tours or productivity hacks.

Genuine curiosity is the compass for these honest, human-to-human exchanges of stories. We explore how people are formed by the lives they’ve lived and celebrate the wisdom gained along the way.

Welcome to Getting Under The Skin

🔗 Learn more about Tracey and her work

https://www.instagram.com/tracey_arcabasso_smith

🎥 Watch her documentary, "Relative"

https://www.relativedocumentary.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Relative-Tracey-Arcabasso-Smith/dp/B0CBD67WSW?dplnkId=a1c63457-4732-4a10-ab97-c5444d224bbd&nodl=1

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What if your greatest strength came from your deepest wound?

In this unscripted and deeply human conversation, Dr. Ichak Adizes — one of the world’s most influential business thinkers — opens up to his son, filmmaker and host Topaz Adizes, in a raw dialogue about love, aging, grief, legacy, and healing.

At 87 years old, Dr. Adizes reflects on the life that shaped him, the legacy he's still writing, and the emotional wounds he's only now beginning to confront. Together, father and son explore:

- What he regrets passing down to his children — and what he’s proud to have given

- How a childhood without love became the fuel for global impact

- Why success was never about achievement, but about being loved

- What aging feels like when time no longer stretches endlessly ahead

- The paradox of gaining wisdom while losing memory

This is more than a father-son conversation, it’s a powerful reflection on mortality, meaning, family, vulnerability, and emotional truth.

These conversations are not performative interviews, book release tours, or productivity hacks. Genuine curiosity is the compass for these honest, human-to-human exchanges of stories. We explore how people are formed by the lives they’ve lived and celebrate the wisdom gained along the way.

Welcome to Getting Under The Skin.

🔗 Learn more about Dr. Adizes and his work

https://www.adizes.com/

📖 Read his autobiography, The Accordion Player

https://publications.adizes.com/products/the-accordion-player-english

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What if the key to our future isn’t smarter answers — but better questions?

Lauren Celenza is a designer, technologist, writer, and deeply curious human navigating the complex intersections of connection, technology, and imbalance. From redesigning Google Maps for informal transit systems across the Global South to building the first free direct IRS tax-filing tool in U.S. history, Lauren’s work is all about making the invisible visible — and helping people find their way.

In this episode, Topaz and Lauren explore:

• Why curiosity often begins with dissatisfaction

• The human cost of deindustrialization and distance — and how it shaped her family

• How asking “where is the imbalance?” became her guiding compass

• Why independence isn’t enough — and how interdependence could save us

• What we might lose — and long for — in a world increasingly shaped by AI

This is a conversation about grief and grasping. About navigating the spaces between what’s lost, what’s possible, and what’s still worth holding onto.

These conversations are not performative interviews, book release tours or productivity hacks.

Genuine curiosity is the compass for these honest, human-to-human exchanges of stories. We explore how people are formed by the lives they’ve lived and celebrate the wisdom gained along the way.

Welcome to Getting Under The Skin

👉 Mentioned in this episode:

• Monika Jiang’s “Sharing Our Loneliness” — https://www.monikajiang.org/sharing-our-loneliness

• Inside the beloved IRS Direct File tool — and why it’s under threat — https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/06/direct-file-beloved-its-users-internal-irs-report-says/405883/?oref=ng-homepage-riverand

• Why Direct File is now open-source (and what that means) — https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/

• On deindustrialisation and its lasting impact on working-class communities — https://inthesetimes.com/article/deindustrialization-offshoring-manufacturing-factory-factories-unemployment-layoff-work-labor-workers-working-people-working-class-industry-ohio-michigan-south-carolina-pepsi-gm

Welcome to Getting Under The Skin.

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