Coming Friday to Money & Wealth with John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE

When John Hope Bryant says he only reaches outside himself for “the best of the best,” he means it. This Friday, that means a household name you know — and a name you probably don’t.

Meet Kieran Shanahan, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Walmart U.S. He oversees the stores, the supply chains, the delivery, the real estate — the physical engine that keeps the world’s largest retailer running at trillion-dollar scale. And he sat down with John wearing the same vest 1.4 million associates wear to work every day.

That vest is not an accident. Neither is almost anything else about how this man leads.

In this conversation, Kieran traces a journey that started at sixteen years old, fifteen hours a week, earning £2.84 an hour in the UK — and the five-minute conversation in a break room that changed the entire direction of his life. He explains why Walmart’s financial week still starts on a Saturday, and the two-day head start Sam Walton was really after. He reveals what a store manager can actually earn (the number stopped John cold — twice). And he and John get into the issue they both call the civil rights issue of this generation, and why Walmart and Operation HOPE are now partnering on it in ways you’ll be hearing much more about.

There’s a lesson here about leadership that has almost nothing to do with retail — humility without hubris, confidence without the chest-puffing — and a phrase about perspective that may stay with you long after the episode ends.

How do you serve tens of millions of people every week and still insist the only way to win is “one at a time”?

Set your reminder. This one’s worth the wait. In the meantime, listen to last week’s episode below:

🎧 Money & Wealth with John Hope Bryant — premiering Friday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere podcasts are heard.