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24th Mar 2026

Welcome to the show - 15 Minutes Customer Obsession

I was standing in the shower when I heard it.

The new CEO of Deutsche Bahn — Evelyn Palla — is cutting an entire management layer. Faster decisions. And closer to the customer.

I had to turn off the water.

Because that is the reset nobody is talking about loudly enough.

We're investing more in technology than ever before — AI, automation, optimization. And at the same time, customers feel less and less seen.

That is not a coincidence. That is a leadership question.

This podcast is my answer to that question.

Once a week. 15 minutes. Real observations, new research, trial and error. AI — and gut feeling. No buzzword bingo. No comfortable distance. Just the conversations that actually change something.

I am convinced: genuine human experience doesn't happen on charts with dark blue graphics. It happens in the moment when someone is truly present.

"People don't remember the process. They remember the moment when someone was truly there — and cared."

My name is Peggy Amelung. 20 years in luxury hospitality. Your host — and your genuine human experience nerd.

New episode every Tuesday. Starting 24 March 2026.

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AI is great. But humanity is the driving force.

See you next Tuesday.

— Peggy

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About the Podcast

15 Minutes Customer Obsession

Human Connection Is the Strategy.

You have read the books. Attended the conferences. Mapped the customer journey. Trained the team. And something still feels like it is not quite working.

This podcast is the honest explanation for why.

15 Minutes Customer Obsession is hosted by Peggy Amelung — Integral Coach, founder of the GHX™ (Genuine Human Xperience) Framework, and alumna of Ritz-Carlton and Bvlgari Hotels. Each episode takes one question most CX and leadership content refuses to ask: not what great organisations do differently, but who their leaders have become.

After 157 German-language episodes and 20 years inside the world's most demanding service environments, Peggy has arrived at one conclusion that changes everything:

The quality of human experience you can create for another person is a direct function of what you have developed within yourself. You cannot give what you have not grown.

This is not a metaphor. It is the mechanism behind every CX programme that fails, every culture initiative that doesn't stick, and every leader who does everything right — and still cannot produce genuine human connection in their organisation.

If you have ever thought "we train our people, and nothing actually changes" — you are not missing a better training programme. You are missing the developmental understanding of what is upstream of genuine service. That is what this podcast is about.

Every Tuesday, in 15 minutes: one interior insight, one business consequence, one thing that shifts how you see your team, your customers, and your own leadership.

New listener? Start with Episode 1: Get to know the six pillars of GHX and get closer epsiode by episode to yourself and the menaing of genuine human connection. The closer you are to yourself, the closer you can be to your customer. Fifteen minutes that will reframe everything you thought you knew about customer experience.

AI is great. But humanity is the driving force.
See you next Tuesday. Peggy.

About your host

Peggy Amelung