AI Anxiety at Work: The Conversation Most Leaders Are Avoiding

Your Dream Coach Podcast · Sep 8, 2026 · 12m

Fewer than one in five employees say their manager has actually talked to them about AI and how it affects their job. Your team's silence about AI isn't because they don't care, it's because most leaders don't feel confident enough to bring it up. That silence is being read as confirmation of their worst fears.

In this episode, Shayla Wey breaks down the real cost of avoiding the AI conversation with your team: not sudden resignations, but quiet disengagement... your best people updating their resumes, showing up without bringing their full thinking, wondering if this is a business worth…