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3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Each week, host Cameron Conaway shares a lens that helps him live with more clarity and courage. No noise. Just thoughts from a professor, meditator, and former MMA fighter who believes feedback is the secret to improving in everything. Cameron distills his unique background into sharp, impactful episodes — a reframed perspective on something can change your life, and you might get that in one episode of 3MR.
Episodes
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Observing as Practice
Feedback isn't always a conversation. Sometimes it arrives through your eyes. In this episode, we explore Observe, Card 04 of the Seeking Feedback suit from…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Give Feedback While It's Fresh
The longer you hold feedback, the harder it gets to give — until it either disappears entirely or comes out alongside nine other things you've been sitting on…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
When Feedback Feels Too Big
You found your biggest rock — the feedback that could most change your growth. Now what? Acting on adopted feedback is often harder than expected, because we…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Should You Trust That Feedback?
Feedback can be a mirror — and mirrors can be distorted. In an age where everyone seems to have a formed opinion on everything, including areas far outside…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
You Are Not Your Performance
Notice how quickly "what do you do?" follows "what's your name?" We're trained to fuse who we are with how we perform — and when those two things blur…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Feedback-Seeking Is Contagious
When you seek feedback, something happens beyond your own growth: you make it easier for everyone around you to do the same. Feedback-seeking is never just a…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Say this before giving hard feedback
Feedback givers often assume the receiver knows they mean well. But receivers may be carrying a very different assumption — including the fear that the…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Growth Nobody Sees
You've adopted the feedback. You're doing the work. But here's the thing — your change may be going completely unnoticed. In this video, we explore Signal…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Must you decide now?
A comma fix doesn't need processing time. But challenging feedback — the unexpected kind, the kind that reveals a weakness or shows that a perceived strength…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Did you agree too fast?
When challenging feedback lands, many of us react instantly — some by immediately agreeing to ease the tension, others by getting defensive before we've truly…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Who taught you to ask?
Perhaps nothing slows down our growth quite like the fear of asking others for feedback. In this video, we explore Courage, Card 02 of the Seeking Feedback…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The 2-second fix most managers skip
One of the biggest barriers to giving feedback isn't skill — it's anxiety. A Harvard Business Review article found that 21% of managers avoid giving negative…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
You're not done yet
When we decide to act on feedback, we often treat the first few attempts as the finish line. But if you've been doing something a particular way for years —…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Gut feeling is data
When difficult feedback lands, your body often speaks before your mind does — sweating palms, a tight chest, a stomach that drops. In this video, we explore…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Your body would like a word
Receiving critical feedback can spike your heart rate by 50% — and that's not a metaphor, it's physiology. In this video, we explore Instinct, Card 01 of the…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Seeking Feedback: Awareness | Card 01 | The Feedback Deck
Most of us assume we know how we come across — but the gap between our intent and our actual impact is often invisible to us. In this video, we explore…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The Skill That Builds All Others
Whether Cameron Conaway was training as a professional mixed martial artist, writing poetry, leading teams at Cisco, or learning to deadlift — feedback was…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Our Good Bad Habits
In 2013, Cameron Conaway was living in Thailand training in Muay Thai — a form of kickboxing that is the country's national sport — when he went on his first…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Shoes or Legs?
About two thousand years ago, a Greek painter named Apelles of Kos hid behind his paintings in public to hear honest reactions from strangers. When a shoemaker…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Our History Parts
In Fall 2025, Cameron Conaway opened his office door at Penn State Smeal to find Don Hambrick — one of the most cited management scholars in the world — simply…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Stacking Small Wins
When it rains it pours — but it can go the other way too. A small win creates the conditions for another, and another, until momentum that started almost…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
How Layoffs Changed Us
In 2025, Cameron Conaway was leading one of the best teams of his career at Cisco when the company announced it was laying off 4,000 people. What followed…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Double-Loop Learning
For nearly twenty years, Cameron Conaway bit his nails down to nothing every time he sat down to write. He tried willpower, deterrents, accountability —…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Steph Curry, Age 15
Before the championships, before changing the game of basketball forever — Steph Curry spent the worst summer of his life deliberately getting worse. At 15…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The Goo Stage
"Is everything alright?" That's what a Chief Marketing Officer asked Cameron before delivering feedback that rattled his ego and left him disoriented in ways…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The 90-Second Rule of Emotions
Have you ever felt an emotion that seemed to last all day — long after the moment that triggered it had passed? In this episode, Cameron shares the story of…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Avoiding Difficult Conversations
Most of us know what needs to be said. We rehearse it. And then we fall back into niceness at the last moment. In this episode, Cameron shares a story from his…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Healing Trauma & Somatic Experiencing
Your body isn't just a vehicle for your brain; it is the archive of your life. We often think we are overreacting to the present when we are actually reacting…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Let's get beyond psychedelics as tools to "delete" old pain. In my experience, that isn't how they work. But they did help me hold the vast complexity of the…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Why So Much Hate?
What is the shape of your hate? We often wonder "why" there is so much hate in the world, yet the world's challenges are largely a reflection of the human…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Intent, Impact, Accountability
Impact is the emergency; intent is the debrief. Lead with the bandage, not the shield. When we cause harm, we often retreat into a defensive crouch: "That…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Face the Wall: Zen Lessons
The goal of Zen isn’t to feel good—it’s to see clearly. Mainstream culture often brands "Zen" as an escape into synthetic tranquility, but traditional…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The Feedback Second Arrow
Don't stab a second arrow into the wound of the first. The Buddha told a story of two arrows: the first is a painful event beyond your control; the second is…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
What’s Your Joy Yield?
If your hard work results in high output but zero joy, you might be operating at a loss. Following the devastating loss of his daughter, Audrey Jo, Cameron…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Pam Bondi and the Courage to Turn Toward
During the House Judiciary Committee hearing on February 11, 2026, Attorney General Pam Bondi sat just feet away from survivors of Jeffrey Epstein—and refused…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The Illusion of Separateness
“We are here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.” — Ram Dass In an individualistic culture that promotes the myth of the "self-made millionaire," it…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Action Observation as Feedback
Stop guessing how you're doing and start seeing what you're doing. We usually think of feedback as a verbal exchange, but there is a silent, more flexible path…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The Cost of Calendar Conformity
"The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day." — Charles Dickens In 2009, Paul Graham identified the conflict between the…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Finding Your Purple Cow
"That weirdness? That could be your Purple Cow." Inspired by Seth Godin, this episode challenges the pressure to fit into a box—whether in business school or…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
What's Under Your Rug?
We sweep things away so quickly, we often forget we even have a rug. It is easier than ever to distract ourselves from grief, discomfort, or tough…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
When the Cage Door Shuts
Knowing the feedback isn't enough. You have to embody it. Twenty years ago, Cameron was a professional mixed martial artist. In this episode, he shares the…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Jiro Ono and Slow Excellence
In a world of "Fast Averageness," dare to choose Slow Excellence. Jiro Ono is considered the world's greatest sushi chef. His secret? A relentless…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
No Mud, No Lotus
"My most painful experiences have been my greatest teachers." Inspired by the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, this episode explores the necessity of "mud" in our…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The Brachistochrone Curve
Straight lines aren't always the fastest way to get where we want to go. In physics, the Brachistochrone curve proves that the fastest path between two points…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Kurt Lewin's Model of Change
Perhaps nothing brings more joy and suffering to our lives than change. In this episode, Cameron explores Kurt Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change: Unfreeze…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
To My Stillborn Daughter
On October 19, 2025, my wife gave birth to our precious daughter Audrey Jo. AJ, as we call her, had died in utero a few days prior. Due to complications…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Darkness as Bell Tower
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a line that reframes suffering: “Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Bring Me The Problems
We’ve all heard the corporate mantra: "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions." While the intention is to avoid complaining, this mindset is actually one…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
The Value of Partial Feelings
The Japanese sword saint, Miyamoto Musashi, taught a crucial lesson: "Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling." In the heat of battle…
- 3-Minute Reframe with Cameron Conaway
Comfort Zone Complexities
The dominant narrative suggests we must always "crush" our comfort zones. But let's reframe that: Comfort zones are actually vital, dynamic places we enter for…