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You're the most reliable person on your team, and that reliability might be exactly what's keeping you from the next promotion.

In this episode, executive and career transition coach Laura Berman Fortgang joins Bernadette to unpack the entrepreneurial mindset every corporate leader needs, and why the people who do everything right often stay stuck as the "understudy" instead of becoming the star.

Laura has spent decades coaching executives and entrepreneurs through career change including work with guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She and Bernadette dig into why asking questions builds more real influence than giving answers, how to handle a manager who feels threatened by your visibility, and the delegation habits (especially common among women) that quietly cap a career.

Laura also shares the four pillars — messaging, methodology, marketing, and managing yourself and your business that determine whether a corporate-to-entrepreneur transition actually works.

What You Will Learn

● Build the entrepreneurial mindset that gets you noticed for promotion, without overstepping

● Grow your influence by asking better questions instead of giving answers

● Handle a manager who feels threatened by your initiative

● Recognize the delegation trap that keeps capable people invisible for the roles they want

● Know when you're actually ready to leave corporate and build your own business

● How to apply the four pillars — messaging, methodology, marketing, managing

● Hear the client story of a stuck senior executive who took the reins and landed a C-suite role

Key Quote: “It's easier to find a new star than to replace the understudy.” — Laura Berman Fortgang

About the Guest
Laura Berman Fortgang is an executive and career transition coach and the author of Now What? Ninety Days to a New Life Direction. Her coaching career includes work with guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and she has spent decades helping corporate leaders and entrepreneurs navigate promotion, career change, and business transitions. Learn more at LauraBermanFortgang.com.

About Bernadette

Bernadette Boas is an executive leadership coach and founder of Ball of Fire Coaching, with 25+ years of corporate leadership experience — including VP and Chief Knowledge Officer roles — and 400+ executives coached across Fortune 500 and high-growth organizations.

Related Episodes from our From Stuck to Leading Series:

● Episode 3 - Shed - https://balloffirecoaching.com/whats-holding-you-back/

● Episode 2 — Confront https://balloffirecoaching.com/5-inner-fears-destroying-your-leadership/

● Episode 1— Discover https://balloffirecoaching.com/from-stuck-to-leading/

Leadership Gap Diagnostic: Take the free Leadership Gap Diagnostic to find out what's really holding your career back: balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in

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Most leaders don't stay stuck because they lack skill, they stay stuck because of an authentic leadership identity they haven't claimed yet.

In Episode 3 of From Stuck to Leading self-coaching series, Bernadette Boas breaks down the difference between a Borrowed, Performed, and Owned leadership identity, and walks through exactly what happens the moment you stop performing for the people around you.

This episode delivers the five concrete moves Bernadette's private clients use to shed a self-limiting story: finding the story behind a diagnostic gap, gathering the evidence that contradicts it, naming who you've been performing for, rewriting the story, and making one deliberate choice from it.

It builds directly on Episode 1 (Discover) and Episode 2 (Confront). If you haven't caught those yet, start there before diving into this one. https://balloffirecoaching.com/podcast

What You Will Learn

● The exact story quietly keeping you out of the room for your next promotion

● Why the people closest to you may resist your growth and why it isn't your problem to manage

● The difference between a Borrowed, Performed, and Owned leadership identity

● The 5-move method for shedding your limiting beliefs

● How to find the evidence that proves your limiting story was never true

● One deliberate choice you can make this week to start living your new story

Episode Chapters0:00 — Cold Open + Series Recap (matches — "the most dangerous moment..." opens the episode)

3:00 — What Shedding Actually Means

12:00 — The Three Leadership Identities

22:00 — Moves 1 & 2: Story and Evidence

38:00 — Move 3: Who You're Performing For

42:00 — Moves 4 & 5: Rewrite and Choose

47:00 — Bernadette's Story: The Milkman's Daughter (

52:00 — Close + Episode 4 Preview

About This Self-Coaching Series

From Stuck to Leading: Episode 1 — Discover, Episode 2 — Confront, Episode 3 — Shed (this episode), Episode 4 — Create and Episode 5 — Accelerate (every other Tuesday).

Related Episodes

● Episode 2 — Confront https://balloffirecoaching.com/5-inner-fears-destroying-your-leadership/

● Episode 1— Discover https://balloffirecoaching.com/from-stuck-to-leading/

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You're outperforming everyone, and still getting passed over.

A 30-year HR insider explains why companies reward compliance over contribution, and how to speak up without killing your career.

Tim Sharp sat inside the HR rooms of the world's largest tech and pharma companies for three decades. What he saw drove him to write a book so honest his lawyer warned it could get him fired — so he published it under a pen name.

In this episode, you'll learn:

— Why the "good soldier" path stalls at middle management, and what the people who rise do differently

— The "don't outshine the master" trap

— How to manage your visibility without dimming it

— What "soft corruption" in senior ranks means for who actually gets ahead

— Who HR really represents (Tim's in HR — he said it, not me)

— How Tim built real courage: 12 years sober, a values rebuild at 40, and the practice of speaking up

GET TIM'S BOOK — important: it's published under his pen name. Search Amazon for: PHILIP ARMSTRONG FEYNG: "Busting Business Bullshit: From Corporate Nonsense to The Rise of The 20% Company" - HERE

Connect with Tim: LinkedIn — @TSharp1 | Facebook & Instagram — @TimSharp

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Your leadership gaps aren’t measuring what you haven’t learned. They’re measuring what you’ve been afraid to confront.

In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas names the five inner fears, including leadership self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and fear of failure that quietly run even the most accomplished leaders from the inside out.

This is Episode 2 of From Stuck to Leading, a 5-part self-coaching series built around the exact steps Bernadette uses with private clients. In this episode, you’ll finally see the direct line between what you’re carrying internally and the leadership gaps showing up in your diagnostic scores.

Be sure to DOWNLOAD your free leadership gap diagnostic and refer to it while listening thoughout the series - balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in

ABOUT THIS SERIES

• Episode 1 — DISCOVER: Who are you as a leader when no one’s watching? HERE

• Episode 2 — CONFRONT: Meet the 5 inner fears destroying your leadership ← this episode

• Episode 3 — SHED: What do you release, change, or expand? (coming soon)

• Episode 4 — CREATE: What does the leader you’re meant to be look like? (coming soon)

• Episode 5 — ACCELERATE: What’s the one move that changes everything? (coming soon)

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Why leadership self-doubt and imposter syndrome are creating your diagnostic gaps

• How to identify which of the 5 inner fears is running your leadership

• The direct link between your internal fears and your team’s trust, performance, and engagement

• A 3-step Confront framework for facing what’s been running your leadership from the inside

• How to read your Leadership Gap Diagnostic scores as fear gaps, not skill gaps

KEY QUOTE

“Your diagnostic isn’t measuring what you haven’t learned. It’s measuring what you’ve been afraid to confront.” — Bernadette Boas

EPISODE CHAPTERS

0:00 — Cold Open / Series Intro
5:00 — Meet Your Five Inner Bitches
7:00 — Inner Bitch #1: The Imposter
9:30 — Inner Bitch #2: The Failure Avoider
13:00 — Inner Bitch #3: The Control Freak
15:00 — Inner Bitch #4: The People Pleaser
17:30 — Inner Bitch #5: The Approval Seeker
21:00 — Leadership Gap Diagnostic Spotlight Introduction
22:30 — Spotlight Question 1: Self-Awareness
25:30 — Spotlight Question 2: Executive Presence & Influence
27:00 — The 3-Step Confront Framework
33:30 — Coaching Question + I Dare You
34:30 — Outro + Episode 3 Tease

RESOURCES

• FREE Leadership Gap Diagnostic: balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in

RELATED EPISODES

• Episode 1 — DISCOVER: Who Are You as a Leader? HERE

• Why Your Team Ignores You and What to Fix First

• Confident as F*ck: How to Stop Leading Through Fear with RACHEL LAWRENCE

ABOUT BERNADETTE BOAS

Bernadette Boas is an executive coach, speaker, author, and founder of Ball of Fire Coaching. 25+ years in corporate America. 18+ years coaching 400+ executives across Fortune 500 organizations. Host of Shedding the Corporate Bitch podcast.

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If you've been powering through your workday instead of actually leading it, this episode will change how you think about your next move.

Bernadette Boas sits down with career strategy and executive coach Randi Roberts to talk about what it really takes to take control of your career path starting with the moment Randi turned down a company-recommended assignment to protect what mattered most to her family.

Randi shares how she rebuilt her own career like a strategic plan, why suggestions from leadership are not commands, and the small trusted circle she calls her "Holy Smokes List" when she genuinely doesn't know what to do next.

What You Will Learn

• How to tell the difference between a leader's suggestion and a required decision
• Why rehearsing a hard career conversation before you have it changes the outcome
• How to build a personal board of directors for your career
• What a Holy Smokes List is and why every leader needs one
• The first question to ask when a role stops fitting
• How to think like "future you" when evaluating an opportunity

Episode Chapters

00:00 – Cold Open: Are You Just Powering Through?
01:00 – Randi's Own Career Demotivation Story Begins
03:00 – Turning Down The Expat Assignment For Family
04:00 – The Real Risks Of Pushing Back On Leadership
06:00 – Rehearse The Hard Conversation Before You Have It
08:00 – Suggestions, Not Commands: Getting In The Driver's Seat
10:00 – Building Your Career Like A 25-Year Strategic Plan
13:00 – Think Like Future-You, Future-CEO-You
14:00 – The Pivotal Moment Randi Left Corporate
16:00 – Step One: Figure Out What's Itching
17:00 – Building Your Career Board Of Directors
20:00 – The Holy Smokes List, Explained
21:00 – Asking For Help Without Overthinking It
25:00 – Randi's Free Right Time Guide
26:00 – Close & Recap With Bernadette

About the Guest

Randi Roberts is a career strategy and executive coach who spent 30 years leading in corporate before launching her own coaching business nearly a decade ago. She helps professionals build intentional, strategic career paths instead of drifting through them. Learn more: https://www.corlinroberts.net/

Related Episodes

• How to Handle Workplace Disputes Before They Become Lawsuits — with Felicia Harris Hoss
• Employee Engagement Strategies That Actually Move the Needle with IAN WATTS
• Define What Winning Looks Like and Watch Performance Shift with JACKSON LYNCH

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In this 5-part series premiere of From Stuck to Leading, a five-part self-coaching experience on Shedding the Corporate B!tch, executive coach Bernadette Boas opens with the question at the foundation of every coaching engagement she runs: Who are you as a leader when no one is watching?

Not your title, not your results, not your LinkedIn profile, but the leader who shows up when the pressure is on, the recognition is absent, and the next five minutes are going to reveal everything about who you actually are.

Drawing on 18 years of coaching over 400 executives, Bernadette walks Powerhouses through two diagnostic spotlight questions from her Leadership Gap Diagnostic — a free 25-statement assessment that places leaders in one of four performance tiers. The gap between how you intend to lead and how your leadership actually lands, and the gap between knowing you need to develop and actively closing that gap, are the two fault lines most leaders have never honestly examined.

This is the coaching experience designed to change that — without the price tag of private coaching. Download the free Leadership Gap Diagnostic and start the series with your full baseline in hand.

What You Will Learn Throughout The Series:

• How to close the gap between the leader you perform and the leader you actually are

• Why self-awareness in leadership is about accuracy, not self-indulgence — and how most executives are overestimating theirs

• The difference between intending to close your leadership gaps and actively doing it

• How one executive went from being passed over for VP to landing the role, at a different company, on her own terms, in 18 months

• How to use the free Leadership Gap Diagnostic to establish your baseline for all five episodes in this series

Key Quote: "The leaders who sustain their impact, the ones who lead well under pressure, who earn genuine trust, who grow over decades instead of burning out, they are not the smartest or most talented. They are the ones who know who they are, clearly, honestly, and without the title doing the work for them." — Bernadette Boas

Episode Chapters:

00:00:00 — Series Hook: Who Are You When No One Is Watching?

00:01:00 — Welcome + Series Introduction: From Stuck to Leading

00:02:00 — Bernadette's Story: From Fired to Foundation

00:03:00 — How to Use the Leadership Gap Diagnostic

00:05:00 — Branded Intro / How the Episode Works

00:06:00 — Spotlight Question 1: Do You Know How Your Leadership Actually Lands?

00:08:00 — Spotlight Question 2: Are You Actively Closing the Gap?

00:10:00 — The Four Leadership Tiers + Diagnostic Reminder

00:11:00 — The Identity Question: Returning to Who Are You When No One Is Watching?

00:13:00 — What Shaky Leadership Identity Looks Like

00:14:00 — Bernadette's Firing Story: The Identity Problem

00:16:00 — Client Story: Dana's Path to VP

00:18:00 — The I Dare You Challenge

00:19:00 — Wrap Up: What to Take Away Today

00:20:00 — Series Commitment + Subscribe CTA

00:21:00 — Preview of Episode 2: What Are You Avoiding?

ABOUT THIS SERIES — From Stuck to Leading: The Five-Part Self-Coaching Conversation

Every other Tuesday, Bernadette Boas asks one coaching question — the same question she asks every private client. Five episodes. Five questions. One complete leadership transformation arc.

• Episode 1 — Who Are You as a Leader When No One Is Watching? [YOU ARE HERE]

• Episode 2 — What Are You Avoiding That's Quietly Costing You Everything? [LINK WHEN LIVE]

• Episode 3 — [Coming every other Tuesday]

• Episode 4 — [Coming every other Tuesday]

• Episode 5 — [Coming every other Tuesday]

Subscribe to Shedding the Corporate B!tch on YouTube (@ShedtheCorpBitchTV) or your podcast platform so you never miss an episode in the series.

About Bernadette Boas:

Bernadette Boas is an executive coach, speaker, author, and founder of Ball of Fire Coaching. With 25+ years in corporate America — including VP and Chief Knowledge Officer roles — and 18 years coaching 400+ executives across Fortune 500 and high-growth organizations, she is the host of Shedding the Corporate B!tch. balloffirecoaching.com | coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Related Episodes:

• I Got Fired So You Could Lead — The story behind the framework: HERE

• The TIMER Framework Solo Episode: HERE

• Why Your Team Ignores You: HERE

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Workplace dispute resolution is one of the least discussed and most costly blindspots in executive leadership.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate B!tch, executive coach Bernadette Boas sits down with Felicia Harris Hoss, of Harris Hoss Mediations & Arbitration, a nationally recognized mediator with 30 years of trial law experience, to break down early dispute resolution and why it is one of the most powerful, underutilized tools available to corporate executives and HR leaders.

Felicia explains why less than five percent of filed lawsuits ever reach trial, what that means for how executives should be approaching conflict, and why the decision to mediate early is not a sign of weakness, it is a strategic move that preserves relationships, resources, and reputation.

She walks through the four Cs of mediation, the questions every executive should be asking their attorney, and how to shift from a reacting posture to a responding one in any dispute.

If you lead people, manage HR concerns, or sit in any seat where workplace conflict can escalate into legal action, this conversation will change how you think about resolution.

What You Will Learn

• What early dispute resolution (EDR) is and why it is ABA official policy

• When to engage a mediator before a lawsuit is filed

• Why litigation means surrendering control — and what executives can do instead

• The four Cs of mediation: confidentiality, control, creativity, certainty

• What questions to ask your attorney about workplace disputes and resolution options

• How the respond vs. react mindset shifts negotiation outcomes

• What 'winning' actually looks like in a corporate dispute

Key Quote

"If you go to the courthouse, you pass that baton called control to strangers. — Felicia Harris Hoss"

Episode Chapters

00:00:00 — The Legal Dispute Already Living in Your Organization
00:02:00 — Why Staying in the Room Changes Everything
00:03:00 — Meet Felicia Harris-Hoss: From Trial Partner to Neutral
00:06:00 — What Mediation Actually Is (And Isn't)
00:09:00 — Workplace Scenarios That Call for a Mediator
00:12:00 — Why Early Mediation — Before Positions Harden
00:13:00 — The Human Cost Behind Every Corporate Lawsuit
00:15:00 — Why Early Mediation Wasn't Working — And What Changed
00:17:00 — Ego, Fear, and the Real Reason Leaders Avoid Resolution
00:18:00 — The Courtroom Hands Control to Strangers
00:21:00 — The Four C's of Mediation: Confidentiality, Control, Creativity, Certainty
00:26:00 — Key Questions Every Leader Should Ask Their Attorney
00:27:00 — What to Know Before You Bring a Dispute to HR
00:31:00 — Why Even Lawyers Get Confirmation Bias
00:32:00 — Respond, Don't React: The Mindset That Changes Outcomes
00:34:00 — Bernadette's Takeaways for Every Leader and HR Professional

About the Guest

Felicia Harris Hoss, of Harris Hoss Mediations & Arbitration, is a 30-year trial attorney and nationally credentialed mediator who specializes in early dispute resolution for executives, corporations, and complex business conflicts. She co-authored Resolution 500 for the American Bar Association, which was unanimously adopted in 2024, making early dispute resolution official ABA policy. She also helped establish the American Arbitration Association's EDR Mediation Panel.

Learn more at HarrisHossPLLC| Connect on LinkedIn HERE

Related Episodes

Employee Engagement Strategies That Actually Move the Needle with Ian Watts— HERE

Your Calendar is Lying - The Timer Leadership Framework— HERE

Slow Down To Go Fast with Loretta Stagnitto — HERE

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The 5-Step Transformation Framework That Turns Your Biggest Leadership Gap Into Your Greatest Strength

About This Episode:
After 25 years in corporate America as VP, Chief Knowledge Officer, global team leader, Bernadette Boas was fired and labeled a tyrant. What she built out of that experience is a proven, five-step leadership transformation framework she has since used with 400+ executives across SMB - Fortune 500 companies and high-growth organizations.

This episode is for the manager who is still in the seat, not facing termination, but feeling the gap between the leader they are today and the leader they know they are capable of being. That gap is showing up in your team, your results, and the exhaustion of performing a version of leadership that doesn't actually feel like you.

Bernadette walks you through every step of her Shift to Riches Formula — Discover, Confront, Shed, Create, and Accelerate, and gives you three specific actions to begin your own transformation today.

What You'll Learn
• Why the gap between the manager you are and the leader you want to be starts on the inside, not in your title or your org chart

• How to identify the fears, insecurities, and ego-driven behaviors quietly costing you trust and results

• The 5-Step Shift to Riches Formula — Discover, Confront, Shed, Create, Accelerateand how to apply each step immediately

• Why building new goals without confronting old patterns is performance, not transformation

• The three requirements for sustaining leadership change when organizational chaos pulls you back

• Three actions to take today, not next week, to begin your own leadership shift

Key Quote
"The leader you are today was shaped by the fear you chose not to confront. The leader you're meant to be is waiting on the other side of that work." — Bernadette Boas

The 5-Step Shift to Riches Formula
• Step 1 — Discover: Who you are, who you want to be, and what internal fears and insecurities are getting in the way

• Step 2 — Confront: Looking directly and honestly at what you discovered — without rationalization, blame, or shame

• Step 3 — Shed: Releasing the behaviors, beliefs, and patterns that are no longer serving your leadership

• Step 4 — Create: Building new behaviors, a new leadership identity, and new goals grounded in who you are choosing to become

• Step 5 — Accelerate: Sustaining the transformation through iteration, accountability, and continued investment in your growth

Your Three Actions From This Episode
1. Name your dominant internal fear or insecurity — fear, ego, self-doubt, imposter syndrome. Write it down. That is your Discover work.

1. Identify one behavior to shed — just one — that is showing up in your leadership and costing you trust, impact, or peace. Name it.

2. Write one sentence about the leader you are choosing to create. Not the leader your organization needs. The one you want to be. That sentence is your north star.

Resources & Links
Free Leadership Gap Diagnostic: balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in

Book a Discovery Call with Bernadette: coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@ShedtheCorpBitchTV

Bernadette's Website: balloffirecoaching.com

Podcast Page: balloffirecoaching.com/podcast

About Bernadette Boas
Bernadette Boas is an Executive Coach, keynote speaker, and founder of Ball of Fire Coaching. A former Global VP and Chief Knowledge Officer, she has coached 400+ executives across Fortune 500 companies and high-growth organizations over 16 years. She is the author of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, published in 2011, and is currently authoring its sequel — Shift to Riches: The Guide to Your Success.

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Most leaders measure engagement with an annual survey and call it done. Ian M. Watts has spent two and a half decades proving that approach wrong and building a methodology that creates the kind of loyalty money alone will never buy.

In this episode, Ian joins Bernadette Boas to break down the real cost of employee disengagement, and it is not a soft number.

When fewer than 30% of your workforce is fully engaged, you are carrying a hidden expense equal to 18% of every disengaged employee's salary. For a company of 200 people, that arithmetic is brutal. But the more important question is why it keeps happening, and what leaders at every level can do about it right now.

Ian's ACTS method — Aspirations, Calling, Transformation, and Support, is a practical framework designed to create deep reciprocity between leaders and their people. Not through perks or ping pong tables, but by treating employees as whole human beings with goals, dreams, and lives that extend beyond the office.

This conversation delivers both the business case and the blueprint.

What You Will Learn

• How to calculate what disengagement is costing your specific organization

• The four components of the ACTS method and how to apply them without budget

• Why high performers leave while still producing — and what signals to watch for

• The difference between buying compliance and earning commitment from your team

• How the 'Dream Manager' concept achieved 50% turnover reduction and how ACTS builds on it

• How to lead with heart-centered values even when the broader culture doesn't support it

• Why succession planning — not just retention — should be your ultimate leadership goal

Key Quote: "Salary and benefits will bring people in. But you can't buy a hand — you have to win a heart." — Ian M. Watts

Episode Chapters:
00:02 — The Future of Leadership in an AI-First World
00:04 — Why Engagement Equals EBITDA (And Why Leaders Ignore It)
00:08 — Heart-Centered Leadership: What It Is and What It Isn't
00:17 — The ACTS Method: Aspirations, Calling, Transformation, Support
00:22 — Practical Steps Any Leader Can Take Today — With Zero Budget
00:14 — The Law of the Lid and Leading Within a Broken Culture
00:28 — My Greatest Success Is My Succession: Final Advice

About Ian Watts:

Ian Watts is the founder of Employee Success Company and developer of the ACTS Engagement Method, a proven framework for dramatically improving employee retention and engagement. With more than 25 years of entrepreneurial experience and 400+ people hired and developed, Ian is an authority on what actually makes people stay, give discretionary effort, and grow inside an organization.

Connect with Ian at employeesuccesscompany.com or follow him on LinkedIn and Instagram at @IanMWatts.

Related Episode: Define What Winning Looks Like

Related Episode: Why Your Team Ignores You and What to Fix First

Related Episode: Belonging Isn’t Culture. It’s Infrastructure for Performance

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Most team dysfunction doesn't start with a bad employee. It starts with a missing foundation.

In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas lays out the five characteristics of a high-performing team and explains exactly why the absence of even one will unravel everything else.

If you have a team member who ignores direction, meetings that go nowhere, team members who won't give you feedback, or people who agree to your face and do nothing afterward, this conversation will arm you with strategies to change that.

Bernadette draws on firsthand observations from dozen of businesses and her work with senior corporate leaders to show what high-performing teams actually look like and to give you a clear, step-by-step process for building one.

This is not a feel-good leadership episode. It is a working framework you can start applying this week.

What You Will Learn -

• How to create an environment where your team can have honest, productive conflict without it becoming personal

• Why chasing 100% agreement is the wrong goal

• What accountability truly means (and why reframing it as 'reminding' changes everything)

• How to involve your team in defining the culture they're being asked to live in

• The five-step process for moving from a fragmented team to a high-performing one

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Role clarity is the most underleveraged driver of leadership performance, and most organizations aren't building it.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, executive coach Bernadette Boas sits down with Jackson Lynch, founder of Talent Sherpa, to examine why talented people consistently underperform when the architecture around them is broken.

Drawing on W. Edwards Deming's research that 94% of performance problems are systemic, not personal, Jackson makes a compelling case that organizations have been investing in the wrong place.

The conversation moves from theory to practice quickly. Jackson breaks down what role architecture actually means: defining five to seven outcomes for any role so that everyone in the system, the incumbent, their manager, their peers upstream and downstream, knows exactly what winning looks like. Without that, accountability becomes blame, engagement flatlines, and even your highest-potential leaders are flying blind.

For HR leaders, this episode reframes the function itself. Jackson challenges the compliance-first model that most human capital teams operate within and argues that the real job is to identify talent constraints before the strategy is executed, not after things go sideways.

What You Will Learn

• Why 94% of performance problems are architectural, not personal, and what that means for how you develop leaders
• How to define the 5–7 outcomes that tell any role what winning looks like
• Why decision rights must be directly tied to accountability and what breaks when they aren't
• The difference between accountability (backward blame) and reliability (forward ownership) — and which one actually produces results
• How to use a talent portfolio optimization model to put the right people in the highest-impact roles
• Why HR's shift from compliance partner to business constraint solver changes organizational performance
• How auditing your calendar reveals whether you are leading strategically or managing noise

Episode Chapters [

00:00 — Welcome & Why Leadership Architecture Matters More Than Talent
02:00 — The Biggest Leadership Misconception: It's the System, Not the Person
03:00 — What Role Architecture Actually Means — Outcomes, Decision Rights & Boundary Conditions
05:00 — Role Clarity in Practice: Defining What Winning Looks Like
07:00 — Reframing Accountability as Reliability — and Why It Changes Everything
08:00 — The AI Fog Problem: Why Automating Unclear Roles Scales the Problem
10:00 — The Real Cost of Not Defining Outcomes: Opportunity Loss
13:00 — How to Drive Accountability Without Blame
16:00 — Why Leaders Stay Stuck in Tasks: Dopamine, Busyness & the Arsonist Problem
18:00 — The Talent Portfolio Optimization Model vs. Traditional Succession Planning
21:00 — How to Sequence Talent Decisions for Maximum Business Impact
23:00 — How HR and Business Leaders Should Partner on Talent Strategy
29:00 — Moving Your Team From Busy to Impactful
32:00 — Nobody Gets Overwhelmed Knowing What Winning Looks Like
33:00 — Audit Your Calendar: The One Move That Changes Everything
35:00 — Where to Find Jackson Lynch & Talent Sherpa

About the Guest Jackson Lynch is the founder of Talent Sherpa, where he works with CEOs and executive teams to build the role clarity, decision rights, and outcome-defined accountability structures that drive business performance. With 25 years in human capital — from the factory floor to senior leadership in public companies — Jackson brings an operator's perspective to the systemic gaps that most leadership development programs never address. He also publishes a weekly Substack followed by more than 6,000 human capital practitioners. Learn more at mytalentsherpa.com and connect with Jackson on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/jxnlynch.

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Your calendar isn't a time problem. It's a leadership leverage problem.

In this solo episode, executive leadership coach Bernadette Boas introduces the TIMER Leadership Framework — a five-phase operating system designed for leaders who re ready to stop surviving their schedule and start leading with intention.

What you'll learn:

• Why 63% of professionals are burning out from lack of protected thinking time
• How to shift from time manager to attention manager
• The 3-day audit that exposes your biggest time leaks
• How to design your ideal week around your golden hours
• Why only 19% of managers delegate well and the 4-step map to fix it
• How AI is creating "atrophied reasoning" in leadership teams
• The re-energizing habits that sustain high performance If you've ever said "I just don't have enough time" — this episode will change how you think about that.

Key Timestamps

• [00:00] — Opening: Is your calendar reflecting your priorities or someone else's?
• [00:02] — Introducing the TIMER Leadership Framework
• [00:04] — The 4 leadership observations shaping time in 2026
• [00:08] — The delegation gap: only 19% of managers delegate effectively
• [00:11] — The reframe: from time manager to attention manager
• [00:15] — T: Track Your Time — the 3-day audit and time leaks
• [00:25] — I: Intentional Design — building your ideal week
• [00:38] — Your productivity profile and golden hours
• [00:45] — M: Master Your Focus — the timer method and distraction scheduling
• [00:50] — E: Empower Through Delegation — the leadership leverage problem
• [00:52] — Assigning an hourly value to your leadership work
• [00:55] — Building your delegation map and cross-training your team
• [00:57] — R: Re-energize — why this is the phase most leaders skip
• [01:03] — The 5 implementation steps to start this week
• [01:07] — Closing: Become a powerhouse TIMER leader

Resources & Links Mentioned

• Laura Vanderkam — Big Time (2026, most talked-about leadership book)
• Barry O'Reilly — Leadership research on "atrophied reasoning" (Fortune 1000 CEOs)
• DDI — Global Leadership Forecast 2026 (delegation gap statistics)
• 2026 South by Southwest Leadership Survey (fragmented schedule research)
• MIT Research — Over-reliance on automated decision tools
• Craig Groeschel — The principle of subtraction

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If Part 1 of this conversation with Norman Wolfe gave you the "why" behind the Living Organization Framework, Part 2 gives you the "how."

In this episode, Bernadette and Norman go deeper into the four concrete leadership skills that make the framework operational, and more importantly, why most leaders are missing all of them.

Norman argues that organizations underperform not because of bad strategy, but because leaders are managing only one dimension of performance: activity. The Living Organization Framework adds two more, relationship and context, and the skills in this episode are how you actually lead across all three.

This is not a conversation about soft skills. It's a conversation about the specific, teachable capabilities that separate leaders who close the execution gap from those who keep wondering why their people aren't executing.

What You'll Learn

• Why optimizing for activity alone leaves the majority of your organization's potential energy on the table
• How heart centering works as a trainable skill — and why it's the only real foundation for psychological safety
• Why your culture change initiatives stall (hint: changing the narrative isn't enough without ritual scaffolding)
• What improvisational theater teaches us about leading through uncertainty without becoming reactive or rigid
• Why the biggest failures in new leadership approaches happen when one skill is applied in isolation

Key Timestamps

• [00:00] — Welcome back and recap of Part 1
• [00:01:00] — Preview of the four skills: heart centering, storytelling & ritual, improv mindset, balancing opposites
• [00:03:00] — The Living Organization Framework: activity, relationship, and context explained
• [00:07:00] — Why adding relationship and context multiplies organizational energy output
• [00:08:00] — Skill 1: Heart centering as the foundational leadership skill
• [00:14:00] — Skill 2: Storytelling and ritual — how to reframe context with scaffolding
• [00:16:00] — Skill 3: The improv mindset and Norman's personal connection to it
• [00:21:00] — Skill 4: Balancing opposites (polarity thinking)
• [00:22:00] — Norman's upcoming book and where to find his work
• [00:25:00] — Bernadette's closing reflection and call to action

About Norman Wolfe

Norman Wolfe is the creator of the Living Organization Framework and founder of Quantum Leaders, a consulting practice that helps senior leaders close the execution gap by treating organizations as living systems rather than machines to be optimized. A former systems engineer turned leadership strategist, Norman brings a rare combination of analytical rigor and human-centered insight to the work of organizational transformation. His first book, The Living Organization, is available free at thelivingorganization.com/book1, and his second book, Leading a Living Organization, a business parable written for senior leaders navigating real-world transformation, is targeting a September 2026 release.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• 📘 Free book — The Living Organization by Norman Wolfe: thelivingorganization.com/book1
• 🔔 Norman's newsletter (for Leading a Living Organization pre-order updates): thelivingorganization.com
• 📖 Power vs. Force by David Hawkins — referenced in discussion of vibrational frequencies and emotional states HERE

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Are you showing up for your team — or just showing up?

There’s a difference. And your team already knows which one you’re doing.

In this solo episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, executive coach Bernadette Boas gets direct about one of the most overlooked failures in leadership today: the gap between being available and being genuinely present.

Bernadette has coached leaders at every level for more than 25 years, from managers with zero direct reports to executives leading hundreds. What she’s observed consistently is this: most managers believe they’re showing up, yet, their teams experience them as absent.

This episode is the direct conversation most leaders never get from anyone in their orbit.

Topics discussed:

• What Leadership Presence Actually Means
• The Three Dimensions of Showing Up
• Five Strategies to Start This Week
• The Three Excuses Bernadette Won’t Accept
• Your Challenge This Week

About Bernadette Boas

Bernadette Boas is an executive coach, speaker, and author of Shedding the Corporate Bitch. With 25+ years inside corporate America, including VP-level roles, and her own transformation from “tyrant boss” to sought-after leadership coach, she helps corporate leaders and their teams close the gap between performance and potential.

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What if the reason your strategy isn't getting executed has nothing to do with the strategy and everything to do with the model you're using to run your organization?

In Part 1 of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas sits down with Norman Wolfe, executive consultant, author, and founder of the Living Organization Framework, to challenge one of the most deeply embedded assumptions in business: that organizations are machines to be optimized.

Drawing on his own early career experience at Pratt & Whitney and Hewlett Packard, Norman unpacks why 70% of companies fail to execute their strategies, what organizational maturity really means and why it's the dimension most leaders never measure, and how the leader's role must fundamentally shift from 'plan, organize, lead, and control' to something far more human.

What You'll Learn in Part 1:

• Why the machine paradigm of leadership is the root cause of disengagement

• The critical difference between a machine, a living system, and a living organization, and why only one truly reflects how people work

• What the 'execution gap' is and why closing it requires changing how leaders think about their role, not adding more process

• The three dimensions of organizational maturity; dealing with complexity, navigating diverse relationships, and self-reflective growth, and why skills alone will never be enough

• Why 'commitment not compliance' is the operating principle that separates thriving organizations from stagnant ones

• Why leaders who struggle with control are often controlling at the wrong level, and what to do instead

Key Timestamps

[00:00] — Introduction: The Living Organization Framework and what this episode is about

[02:00] — Norman's background: Pratt & Whitney, Hewlett Packard, and what corporate life really taught him

[08:00] — Machine vs. living system vs. living organization: breaking down the paradigms

[13:00] — Why leaders aren't bad people,they're just unconsciously operating from a limiting narrative

[16:00] — Commitment vs. compliance: the paradigm shift in one sentence

[23:00] — Defining the execution gap and why KPIs alone will never close it

[25:00] — Organizational maturity: the three dimensions and why they matter more than skills

[29:00] — Fear of the unknown: the real reason leaders resist the shift

[00:32] — Preview of Part 2: The four skills of the Living Organization Framework

About the Guest

Norman Wolfe is the founder of Quantum Leaders and creator of the Living Organization Framework. He is the author of The Living Organization, available as a free download, and is releasing his second book, Leading a Living Organization, in September 2026.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• thelivingorganization.com — Norman's primary hub for the Living Organization Framework

• thelivingorganization.com/book1— Free copy of The Living Organization (Norman's first book)

• quantumleaders.com — Norman's consulting and advisory platform

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US companies spent nearly $100 billion on workplace training last year. Employee engagement hasn't meaningfully improved in two decades.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, executive coach Bernadette Boas makes the case that the problem is not one of effort, talent, or even budget, it's a design problem.

Most organizations have built their development infrastructure around discrete events: a workshop here, an assessment there, a coaching session when someone gets promoted. That model was never engineered to produce lasting behavioral change. It was designed to check boxes.

Bernadette walks through the four structural reasons their current programs are failing, including why 81% of organizations measure completion rates instead of behavioral change, why the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve makes single-session training scientifically ineffective, and why most leaders lack the self-awareness to absorb and apply what they're being taught.

More importantly, she introduces a solution: the Leadership Development Operating System: a five-pillar framework that connects training, coaching, curriculum, assessment, and measurement into a single compounding architecture.

What You'll Learn

• Why the workshop model fails and how the distinction between an event and a system determines whether your investment produces resultsThe four root causes of program failure: lack of self-awareness, no structured practice, absent measurement, and no pull-through

• How to structure skill training so that 60–70% of session time is dedicated to practice and feedback, not information transfer

• The five pillars of the Leadership Development Operating System and how each one reinforces the others

• Why external coaching is essential for real-time behavioral change, and why internal L&D teams cannot fully replace it

• The four-layer measurement framework: behavioral assessment, application data, business impact metrics, and cultural integration

• A diagnostic question to immediately identify the structural gaps in your existing programs

Key Timestamps:

[00:00] — Why positive workshop feedback doesn't equal behavioral change

[01:30] — 80% mindset, 20% skillset: the leadership success formula

[03:00] — Why the current development model was built to check boxes, not produce change

[13:00] — Introducing the Leadership Development Operating System

[14:30] — Overview of the five pillars

[31:30] — The diagnostic question for your current program

[32:00] — How to book a 30-minute diagnostic call with Bernadette

Resources & Links:

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Change is no longer an event. It's the environment and the leaders who will win in the next decade are the ones who stop waiting for it to slow down and start building the capacity to perform inside it.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas sits down with executive coach and leadership strategist Loretta Stagnitto to explore what it actually takes to maintain high performance, build resilient culture, and sustain team effectiveness when everything around you is shifting at speed.

Her signature philosophy, slow down to go fast is the counterintuitive but data-backed approach that separates leaders who execute their way to exhaustion from leaders who build organizations capable of performing through any change.

What You'll Learn

• Why even experienced CEOs are experiencing imposter syndrome and why it has nothing to do with their capability
• How to assess your team's readiness for change before you ask them to execute
• The four leadership pillars that create culture, performance, and bench strength through any disruption
• Why internal self-awareness and external self-awareness often don't match and how to close the gap
• How to use structured, framework-based feedback to get actionable data you can actually measure over time
• The difference between top-down and bottom-up goal execution, and why only one of them drives real results
• Loretta's step-by-step process for assessing yourself, querying your team, and building an action plan for change

Key Timestamps

• 0:00 — Introduction: Leading through uncertainty and constant change
• 2:00 — Why the pace of change is different now and what it's doing to leaders
• 5:00 — AI, tariffs, and the anxiety driving leadership burnout
• 7:00 — Ambiguity as a leadership skill: how to build structure around chaos
• 11:00 — What's in your control and how to take pressure off by letting go of what isn't
• 13:00 — Assessing your team's emotional readiness before you lead them through change
• 15:00 — Loretta's four-pillar leadership framework introduced
• 17:00 — Why leaders become "hamsters on the treadmill" and how to get off
• 19:00 — Slow down to go fast: top-down vs. bottom-up execution
• 22:00 — How cascading goals connect every team member to the strategic plan
• 24:00 — Sustaining high performance through uncertainty, the sustainable leadership model
• 27:00 — What feedback leaders should actually be gathering and how to structure it
• 30:00 — Loretta's Self-Aware Leader Quiz
• 31:00 — The one thing leaders should do first when navigating change

Loretta Stagnitto is the founder of Loretta Stato Leadership Associates and an executive coach with extensive experience in corporate leadership development, organizational change, and team performance.

🔗 Website: https://www.lorettastagnitto.com📱 LinkedIn: Loretta Stagnitto 📱 Facebook & Instagram: @LorettaStagnittoLeadership

Resource Mentioned: Self-Aware Leader Quiz - HERE

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Is your successor ready, today?

Succession planning is one of the most universally acknowledged priorities in corporate America — and one of the most consistently neglected.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host and executive coach Bernadette Boas draws on 16 years of direct work with executives, HR leaders, and management teams to expose the real reasons succession planning keeps failing and what leaders can do about it starting this week.

Bernadette opens with a challenge that hits close to home for many leaders: Who in your organization is ready to step into a critical role tomorrow, not after six months of development or a 90-day executive search, but tomorrow?

If the answer doesn't come quickly, or comes with a knot in the stomach, this episode was made for you.

Drawing from Deloitte research, DDI's Leadership Forecast 2025 (which surveyed over 10,000 leaders across 50 countries), and real-world coaching case studies, Bernadette makes a case that is both data-driven and deeply human: succession planning is not a talent shortage problem. It is a leadership preparation problem. And the cost of getting it wrong to the people, culture, and the bottom line is far greater than most organizations calculate until it's too late.

What You'll Learn

• Why 86% of leaders call succession planning urgent, yet fewer than 14% believe they do it well
• The three most common myths that keep leadership pipelines empty, including the one no one says in the boardroom but everyone feels
• Why "names on a list" is not the same as having a successor, and what a genuinely prepared successor actually requires
• Why the leaders who develop their successors most effectively are the ones who get promoted fastest
• How to assess your succession plan for equity and diversity and why it matters strategically, not just ethically
• Seven concrete, actionable strategies to build a leadership pipeline that is genuinely ready, starting this week

Key Timestamps

• [00:00] — Opening challenge: Who is ready to step up tomorrow?
• [01:00] — The data: What Deloitte and DDI tell us about succession planning
• [02:30] — Myth #1: Succession planning is an HR project
• [03:30] — Myth #2: We have successors, we have names on a list
• [04:00] — Myth #3: Succession is about the future; we have fires right now
• [05:30] — Challenge #1: Leaders don't want to develop their own replacement
• [08:30] — Challenge #2: High potentials are identified but not sponsored
• [10:00] — Challenge #3: The human and business cost of succession gaps
• [13:00] — Seven concrete strategies for proactive succession planning
• [21:00] — The case for proactive executive coaching (12–18 months before transition)
• [23:00] — Auditing your succession plan for equity
• [24:30] — Creating and reviewing a critical role map
• [25:30] — This week's challenge: One role, one name, one 90-day plan
• [28:00] — Episode recap and closing
• [29:00] — Leadership diagnostic calls: coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Resources & Links Mentioned

• 🔗 Leadership Diagnostic Call (complimentary, 45 minutes): coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall
• 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shedding-the-corporate-bitch/id1651682974
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How to Lead Through Constant Change Without Losing Your Best People

Your best people are being recruited right now. Not because they're unhappy, but because someone out there is persistent enough to keep calling until they say yes.

If the only thing holding your team together is inertia, this episode is going to hit different.

Our guest is Borja Cuan, of Four15 Digital, who has been on both sides of this leadership challenge.

He joined a startup as employee #29, survived eight years of layoffs, mergers, and uncertainty, and built his own agency, Four15 Digital into a Google Premier Partner over two decades.

What he shares in this conversation isn't theory. It's a tested philosophy for keeping teams aligned, motivated, and loyal when nothing around them is guaranteed.

🎧 Listen to the full episode where we cover critical topics such as:

Why Most Retention Strategies Miss the Point

Leaders obsess over compensation packages and flexibility policies. Borja says those are table stakes, not the game. The real question every leader should be asking their team isn't "Are you happy with your salary?" It's "Do you believe I actually have your back?"

When one of his top performers came to him with a competing offer, his first question wasn't about matching the number. It was: "Do you want to stay here? Because everything after that is irrelevant." That single reframe changes the entire conversation.

The Non-Negotiable Most Leaders Skip

Borja calls it the 80/20 of people management. About 80% of what motivates employees is universal; growth, respect, clear expectations. But that remaining 20% is completely individual, and it's the difference between someone staying one year versus four.

If you want to hear what is really causing your team to be unmotivated, listen to our earlier episode: Your Team Isn’t Underperforming, They’re Under-Directed

Why In-Person Still Wins (Even in a Remote World)

One week in person with his Mexico-based team, Borja says, was worth a hundred Zoom calls. Not because remote doesn't work — but because the depth of connection you build face-to-face is categorically different, and pretending otherwise is just convenient.

His point isn't that you need to be in the same room every day. It's that effort is visible. Getting on a plane when you have kids, a mortgage, and a full calendar sends a signal that no Slack message can replicate. Your team notices who shows up and who finds reasons not to.

How to Make Hard Decisions Without Destroying Trust

Leadership, Borja says, is not a popularity contest. There will be decisions your team won't like; restructures, client calls that go against them, policy changes that feel unfair. The leaders who navigate those moments well aren't the ones who soften the blow. They're the ones who explain the why.

Not just the what. The why. What did you consider? What alternatives did you weigh? Why did you land here? When people understand the reasoning behind a difficult decision, they respect it even if they don't love it. When they don't, resentment fills the gap.

For a deeper dive on building that kind of trust, check out Why Waiting to React Is the Most Expensive Decision Leaders Make

Discomfort Is the Signal, Not the Problem

The leaders and employees who grow the most, Borja argues, are the ones who learn to stay when things get uncomfortable, rather than pulling the ripcord the moment things get hard. Discomfort isn't a warning sign. It's usually the signal that something interesting is about to happen.

This applies to

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Are you a leader coach or a manager to your people?

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas, tackles one of the most consequential and most misunderstood leadership skills: coaching.

Not coaching in the abstract, motivational sense, but the practical, disciplined capability that separates leaders who develop and grow people from leaders who simply focus on task output.

If your team keeps coming to you with problems they could solve themselves, if your one-on-ones consistently feel like status reports, or if your highest-potential employees seem less engaged than they should be, you'll walk away with a framework that will change all of that.

Bernadette opens by drawing sharp, actionable distinctions between managing, mentoring, and coaching. She then introduces a six-step coaching framework that works in real workplace conversations to genuinely empower your people: one-on-ones, performance check-ins, corrective discussions, and in-the-moment development opportunities.

The episode closes with dedicated strategies for HR leaders who want to move beyond individual manager development and embed a coaching culture into the fabric of the organization — from how managers are evaluated to how coaching language is normalized at every level.

What You'll Learn

• The critical difference between managing, mentoring, and coaching, and why using the wrong approach at the wrong moment stunts team growth

• Why psychological safety is the non-negotiable prerequisite to effective coaching

• How to make the mindset shift from problem solver to powerhouse coach, and why this transition is harder than it sounds for high-performing managers

• The types of questions that unlock real insight that allow you to guide and lead versus tell and direct

Key Timestamps

[00:00] — The scene that plays out in every office: why managing when you should coach never works

[02:30] — Managing vs. mentoring vs. coaching: breaking down the distinctions

[04:00] — Why coaching builds self-sufficiency, not just engagement

[06:00] — The mindset shift every leader must make to coach effectively

[12:00] — The three pillars of powerhouse coaching: curiosity, listening, and trust

[16:30] — Step 1 of the framework: How to prepare before any coaching conversation

[19:30] — Step 2: Asking powerful questions — the engine of coaching

[27:00] — Steps 3 & 4: Active listening and helping employees find their own answers

[29:00] — Step 5: Creating action plans that belong to the employee, not the manager

[31:00] — Step 6: Follow-up and accountability as a coaching discipline

[32:00] — HR-specific strategies for embedding coaching into organizational culture

[36:00] — The patience imperative: why sustainable development takes time and how to protect it

[38:00] — The challenge: try one real coaching conversation this week

Resources & Links

• Subscribe to the podcast: balloffirecoaching.com/podcast

• Previous episode referenced: 'Hiring a Leadership Coach — Ask These 15 Questions'

• Share your story with Bernadette directly: bernadettebows@balloffireinc.com

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Host Bernadette interviews organizational scientist and consultant Andrea D. Carter, creator of the validated Belonging First Methodology, on why workplaces confuse fitting in with belonging and how that fuels burnout.

Andrea explains belonging as measurable infrastructure, not just a feeling, built through five indicators: comfort, connection, contribution, psychological safety, and wellbeing.

She contrasts a “100-to-0” dynamic, where employees do all the work to belong, with a 50/50 accountability model that improves performance, innovation, quality, and speed.

The episode offers practical diagnostics and examples (clear meeting expectations, trust-building connection, visibility of impact beyond praise, and intelligent risk-taking), links low psychological safety to social-threat stress, and reframes wellbeing as sustainable performance with recovery.

Andrea caps off the discussion providing three power moves leaders can take to ensure team members are showing up fully, feeling valued, and building a foundation of trust with their leader, team, and business. :

Key Timestamps:
00:00 Fitting In vs Burnout
01:33 Meet Andrea Carter
02:24 Belonging Is Measurable
05:36 Five Belonging Indicators
06:55 Fitting In vs Belonging
11:56 Comfort Clear Expectations
13:49 Connection Trust Chemistry
16:08 Contribution Visibility Matters
21:26 Psychological Safety Risks
23:58 Wellbeing Recovery Culture
27:36 Three Power Moves
36:17 Belonging Health Check
37:34 Wrap Up and Next Steps

About the Guest

Andrea D. Carter is an organizational scientist, TEDx speaker, and the CEO of Andrea Carter Consulting. She is the creator of the Belonging First methodology, the first validated framework for measuring workplace belonging. Her research has influenced more than 150,000 employees across eight industries and focuses on helping organizations design systems that improve both human experience and performance.

Resources & Links Mentioned

Belonging Health Check Assessment
Belonging First Methodology
Andrea Carter Consulting

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The executive coaching industry is worth $20 billion — and yet most leaders and HR teams either skip the vetting process entirely or choose coaches for the wrong reasons. In this episode, Bernadette Boas lays out a powerful, practical framework including 15 must-ask questions so you can confidently identify, evaluate, and hire the executive or leadership coach who will drive real transformation in your organization.

Who This Episode Is For

• Individual leaders seeking a sounding board, honest feedback, or career acceleration

• Team leaders & hiring managers developing high-potentials or addressing toxic behavior

• HR and L&D leaders building or expanding a coaching program for their organization

Core Topic:

How to properly vet, select, and structure an executive or leadership coaching engagement — and why getting it wrong wastes money, damages morale, and gives coaching a bad reputation.

The Biggest Challenges Leaders Face

• Choosing coaches by referral alone — without asking a single vetting question

• Selecting coaches based on comfort rather than fit (coaching is meant to be uncomfortable)

• Misunderstanding credentials and certifications — or ignoring them entirely

• Expecting coaching to be a quick fix rather than a sustained investment in transformation

• Failing to define developmental vs. remedial coaching needs before the search begins

• Not involving the employee in understanding why they're receiving coaching

Key Takeaways

• Define Your Need First

• The Higher You Climb, the Lonelier It Gets

• ROI Is Real and Measurable

• Chemistry ≠ Comfort

Bernadette's 3-Step Framework for Finding the Right Coach

• Step 1 — Do the internal work

• Step 2 — Ask hard questions: Use the 15 questions (10 universal + 5 for HR/organizational sponsors) to rigorously vet every candidate.

• Step 3 — Evaluate Chemistry, Credentials, and Clarity

Your Weekly Challenge

Identify one leadership challenge for yourself or someone on your team that executive or leadership coaching could address. Start the conversation about coaching ROI, and take one concrete next step.

Connect with Bernadette

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In this powerful episode, we sit down with Rachel Lawrence — confidence coach, speaker, and author of Confident as F*ck to talk about why so many professionals struggle with imposter syndrome, and what it actually takes to overcome it.

Rachel's story is anything but ordinary. From surviving workplace humiliation by toxic leaders in her 20s, to donating a kidney to her ex-husband only to have her marriage fall apart, to facing a full-blown midlife confidence crisis during the pandemic, Rachel has rebuilt her sense of self more than once.

And she's turned those hard-won lessons into a book and a coaching practice that's changing lives.

This conversation is packed with honest truths, practical strategies, and a few laugh-out-loud moments, including the story of a hungover, skeptical man who walked into a room full of women and left as a completely transformed human being.

If you've ever held yourself back, let perfectionism paralyze you, or told yourself you're "not ready", this episode is your permission slip to start now.

Key Challenges Addressed in This Episode

• The lasting damage of toxic leadership on self-worth and career trajectory

• Rebuilding confidence after major life trauma and relationship breakdown

• Why imposter syndrome can return in midlife, even after years of personal development

• Perfectionism as a mask for fear — and how to stop letting it steal your time

• Learning to recognize when your inner critic is running your decisions

• Understanding that confidence is not a fixed trait — it's a daily practice

Episode Timestamps

[00:00] Intro — Rachel's background and what led her to confidence coaching

[06:00] Why weak leaders lead through fear — and how to find compassion for them

[08:00] The lessons from her 20s she leaned back into in her 40s

[12:00] Why imposter syndrome is conditioning, not a personal flaw

[20:00] One area, five goals, one bold move — the action framework

[27:00] The freeing feeling of finally not giving a f*ck

[30:00] Rachel's core message: confidence is a choice at any age

[31:00] Where to find the book and follow Rachel

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60-80% of managers have ZERO formal leadership training. Is your organization creating accidental managers?

In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas exposes the hidden crisis destroying teams across corporate America: unprepared and untrained talented professionals promoted into leadership roles without the training, mindset, or support to actually lead.

In This Episode, You'll Discover:

• Why 60-80% of managers never receive formal leadership training—and the devastating impact on teams, culture, and business results

• The 5 ways to stop the cycle of advancing or hiring professionals not prepared for leadership

• How to identify leadership readiness BEFORE promoting your top performers

• Why redefining success metrics from personal to team outcomes changes everything

• The power of leadership onboarding programs, mentorship, and mastermind communities

• How to hold leaders accountable for people development (and tie it to compensation)

• The bonus strategy: Creating alternative career paths for high performers who shouldn't manage people

Your Call to Action: Assess your current management pipeline. Ask yourself: Are my managers leading intentionally, or are they surviving accidentally? What do they need to become powerhouse people leaders?

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Have you ever been labeled too sensitive, too blunt, too intense, or too much at work?

In this episode, leadership coach and author Rachel Radway joins us to unpack the truth about neurodivergence in high-achieving professionals — and why many gifted leaders are misunderstood, sidelined, or burned out.

We discuss:
• What neurodivergence really looks like in the workplace
• The concept of “twice exceptional” leaders
• Neurodivergent burnout and personality shifts
• Masking and its hidden cost
• Self-advocacy in corporate environments
• How leaders can build inclusive cultures without requiring disclosure
• The power of personal user guides

This episode is essential listening for executives, managers, HR professionals, entrepreneurs, and high performers who want to build stronger, more inclusive teams.

Timestamps:

00:00 – Feeling misunderstood at work
01:00 – Rachel’s niche: neurodivergent high achievers
03:00 – “Too sensitive” and early conditioning
06:00 – Neurodivergent burnout explained
07:30 – What neurodivergence actually looks like
08:30 – Twice exceptional (2E) leaders & ADHD traits
10:30 – Communication challenges & context needs
13:00 – Leading with curiosity vs. judgment
15:00 – Disclosure risks in the workplace
18:30 – Personal user guides for inclusive teams
22:00 – Leveraging neurodivergent superpowers
24:00 – The cost of not advocating for yourself
27:00 – Inside Rachel’s book Perceptive
29:00 – Final leadership advice

Connect with Rachel Radway:

Website: RERcoaching.com
LinkedIn: Rachel Radway
Book: Perceptive: Insights for leaders who feel more, process deeply, and think differently (Available on Amazon)

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Most leaders don’t struggle with motivation—they struggle with clarity. In this episode, we break down why teams miss expectations even when goals seem “clear,” and how leaders unintentionally create confusion, overwhelm, and misalignment.

This conversation dives deep into the four root causes behind execution failure: unclear goals, vague expectations, unconfirmed commitment, and delayed accountability. You’ll learn practical leadership frameworks to replace assumption with alignment—without micromanaging or becoming reactive.

What You’ll Learn:
• Why silence and nodding are not signs of agreement
• How to set goals that actually drive results
• The four elements every clear expectation must include
• How to confirm understanding and commitment—before execution fails
• Why accountability should feel fair, predictable, and supportive

Key Takeaway:
Great leadership isn’t about saying things better—it’s about confirming they were understood.

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What does it take to shift from goal-driven leadership to identity-led leadership? In this episode, we sit down with Bianca D’Alessio — star of HBO Max’s Selling the Hamptons, top-ranked real estate broker, and author of Mastering Intentions: 10 Practices to Amplify Power and Lead with Lasting Impact.

Bianca shares why ambition isn’t the enemy — misalignment is, and how setting intentions (not just goals) transforms your confidence, leadership style, relationships, and long-term success.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro: Goal-driven vs identity-led leadership
01:15 Why Bianca felt successful… but not aligned
03:10 The real shift: “Who am I becoming?”
05:00 Reframing failure into growth + resilience
06:20 Why Bianca seeks failure (and what it unlocks)
07:45 Perfectionism kills creativity + connection
08:30 Leading with vulnerability vs being “stoic”
09:20 How to know you’ve hit a growth ceiling
11:00 Work identity vs personal identity (and why it causes crisis)
12:10 “If you don’t want to be a people person… don’t be a manager.”
13:40 Mastering Intentions: transformation starts with self-awareness
15:40 Bianca’s family intervention moment (rock bottom clarity)
19:45 Teamship: why life and leadership aren’t solo sports
23:10 Stop trying to be liked by everyone — focus on respect
25:50 When inner circle resistance reveals your priorities
27:20 What misalignment feels like (the warning signs)
29:10 Bianca’s alignment reset: daily/weekly check-ins + giving yourself grace
30:20 Bianca’s #1 tip: write down your story + use it as your superpower
31:10 Where to find Bianca + closing remarks

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Website: biancadalessio.com
Book: Mastering Intentions: 10 Practices to Amplify Power and Lead with Lasting Impact (Available on Amazon)
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I am hooked! I can't stop watching and listening @TarynSmithMovement on Instagram.

She is rowing across the Atlantic all by herself... she's on roughly, Day 44.

What can a 24-year-old rowing solo across the Atlantic teach seasoned corporate leaders about courage, endurance, fear, and leadership?

More than you think.

In this episode, we explore leadership through an unexpected but powerful lens: crossing an ocean alone. This is not an adventure story—it’s a leadership case study on how to lead when certainty disappears, fear shows up, and endurance matters more than intensity.

If you’re navigating ambiguity, pressure, burnout, or high-stakes decisions, this episode will challenge how you think about strength, courage, and what leadership actually requires today.

⏱️ CHAPTERS / TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Opening
Leadership when the horizon disappears

02:10 – Why an Ocean Is a Leadership Classroom
Uncertainty, isolation, and sustained effort

04:45 – Leadership vs. Management
Why leadership must work without clarity

07:30 – Endurance Over Intensity
Why you can’t sprint leadership (or an ocean)

11:15 – Burnout and Corporate Myths
Why exhaustion is not a credential

14:20 – Fear as Data, Not Danger
How leaders misuse fear—and how to use it properly

18:30 – When Fear Becomes Taboo
The innovation cost of fear-based cultures

22:10 – Beginner’s Mind and Adaptability
Why leaders must become students again

25:40 – Solo Doesn’t Mean Alone
Vulnerability, support, and leadership trust

28:45 – Practicing Courage Daily
You don’t need an ocean to lead boldly

31:00 – Final Reflection & Call to Action
What’s the ocean you’re facing right now?

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Leadership isn’t proven by certainty—it’s revealed by consistency under uncertainty
• Endurance beats intensity in long-term leadership effectiveness
• Burnout is not a leadership credential
• Fear is information; suppressing it kills innovation
• Cultures that shame fear create cautious leaders, not bold ones
• Beginner’s mind is a strategic advantage, not a weakness
• Vulnerability builds trust without eroding authority
• Courage is a daily practice, not a personality trait

🎯 CALLS TO ACTION: Reflect on these three leadership questions this week:

1️⃣ Assess your courage
What conversation, decision, or risk are you avoiding?

2️⃣ Become a student again
Where are you relying on past success instead of learning what’s changed?

3️⃣ Model vulnerability
How can you build trust by being honest—not performatively confident?

Leadership isn’t about knowing the way.
It’s about moving forward anyway—one stroke at a time.

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Your job is not your identity—and believing it is may be costing you your energy, joy, and leadership longevity.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, burnout coach and author Elisha Meek breaks down how high achievers unknowingly trap themselves in burnout through perfectionism, people-pleasing, and control. She shares practical tools to reclaim purpose without quitting your career, including her Brains-Body-Soul 5-5-5 reset and the power of identity diversification.

Timestamps:
00:00 – Why your title is not your identity
02:00 – Elisha’s burnout “lightning bolt” moment
05:30 – Hidden signs of burnout leaders ignore
10:00 – Identity diversification explained
14:30 – Control, perfectionism, and people-pleasing
21:30 – When strengths become career-limiting
27:00 – The Brains-Body-Soul 5-5-5 reset
33:00 – Why breakthroughs rarely happen alone
38:00 – One micro-step to reclaim purpose
42:00 – How to break up with burnout before it breaks you

Connect with Elisha Meek:
Website: elishameek.com
Instagram: @elisha.meek
LinkedIn: @ElishaMeek
Facebook: @Elisha Meek Coaching

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This should shock you! Only 25% of executives feel prepared to lead through disruptive change. In this episode, we explore why reactive leadership fails—and how anticipatory leadership equips leaders to navigate AI, automation, workforce shifts, and uncertainty with confidence.

You’ll learn the four core components of anticipatory leadership, the future-ready skills leaders must develop now, and how to shift from crisis-driven decisions to opportunity-focused strategy.

Timestamps

00:00 – Why reactive leadership is no longer enough
01:00 – What anticipatory leadership really means
02:00 – AI, automation, and workforce disruption
04:00 – The hidden cost of avoiding uncertainty
05:00 – Reactive vs anticipatory leadership explained
08:00 – The four components of anticipatory leadership
09:00 – Environmental scanning and spotting quiet signals
15:00 – Scenario planning and testing your strategy
19:00 – Adaptive decision-making in uncertain environments
22:00 – Change shaping and building trust
26:00 – Future leadership skills you must develop
31:00 – Reflection questions for leaders
35:00 – Final thoughts and next steps

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As you probably have already experienced, millennials have changed the rules of leadership.

Sawubona Leadership can be the team development tool you've been looking for to elevate your connection and impact with your team.

In this powerful episode, executive coach and bestselling author Susan Inouye joins Bernadette to explore Sawubona Leadership—an approach that moves beyond generational stereotypes and into truly human-centered leadership.

Susan shares how leaders can shift from control to connection, recognize the gifts hidden in behavior, and build cultures of belonging that drive engagement, retention, and performance. Drawing from real-world leadership transformations, this conversation offers practical insights for leading millennials, Gen Z, and multigenerational teams through change.

What You’ll Learn:
– Why “I see you” is a leadership skill
– How to identify gifts beneath challenging behavior
– The five leadership shifts required for today’s workforce
– Why belonging directly impacts productivity and profitability
– How leaders can coach instead of command

Chapters and Timestamps:

1. Introduction to Modern Leadership Challenges — 0:00
2. Meet Susan Inouye: A Journey of Transformation — 2:04
3. Discovering Sawubona Leadership — 6:36
4. Implementing Sawubona Leadership in the Corporate World — 9:51
5. Transforming Gifts into Organizational Success — 19:50
6. Recognizing and Leveraging Employee Gifts — 21:10
7. Adapting Leadership for Younger Generations — 24:53
8. Why Cutting Training and Coaching Hurts Growth During Challenging Times — 27:14

About the Guest:
Susan Inouye is an executive coach, bestselling author of Leadership’s Perfect Storm. She has worked with over 600 organizations across 40 industries, helping leaders engage and inspire multigenerational teams worldwide.

Resources & Links:
– Susan Inouye: https://susaninouye.com
– Book: Leadership’s Perfect Storm available at https://susaninouye.com/book

• Linkedin: @SusanInouye

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Drowning in meetings? Exhausted from your to-do list? This episode is your intervention. Discover why 94% of leaders are stressed, what's causing your burnout (hint: some of it's self-inflicted), and the exact frameworks to reclaim your time and sanity. Host Bernadette Boas delivers battle-tested strategies from 25+ years in the corporate trenches.

Here's the truth nobody's telling you: most of this is preventable.

What You'll Discover:

✅ Why multitasking is a myth and how it's destroying your productivity (it's not what you think)

✅ The calendar audit that eliminates 25-30% of wasted time without sacrificing results

✅ How to say NO strategically without tanking your career (your boss actually wants you to do this)

✅ The Pareto Principle: Why 80% of your effort produces only 20% of your results—and how to flip it

✅ Time blocking secrets that create white space for sanity, strategy, and breakthrough thinking

✅ The 4 D's Framework: Do, Delegate, Delete, or Delay—the simplest way to conquer any to-do list

✅ Digital detox strategies to eliminate the constant distractions draining your focus

✅ The 10-minute daily practice that transforms your performance and self-awareness

✅ Why reflection is non-negotiable for high-performing leaders (and how to do it right)

Time is the one resource you can't get back. How you use it defines your impact as a leader.

⏱️ EPISODE TIMESTAMPS

[00:00:00] Cold Open: What Keeps You Up at Night? The Alarming Statistics Every Leader Needs to Know

[00:01:00] Introduction: Why Time Mastery Is Non-Negotiable for Your Career

[00:06:00] The Self-Inflicted Causes of Burnout: What You're Doing to Yourself

[00:14:00] The Ripple Effect: How Your Overwhelm Impacts Team & Business Performance

[00:17:00] The Cost of Burnout: Career Stagnation, Work-Life Imbalance & Turnover

[00:21:00] 9 Strategies to Reset 2026

[00:34:00] Episode Recap: The Tools & Strategies You Just Learned

[00:35:00] Call to Action: Book Your Complimentary Discovery Call

[00:36:00] Outro & Where to Find More

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What if one of the most overlooked leadership behaviors was also one of the most powerful drivers of engagement, performance, and retention?

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, we reframe gratitude from being “nice” to being strategic. Backed by research from Harvard, Gallup, and the University of Pennsylvania, this conversation breaks down why leaders who fail to recognize effort quietly erode culture — and how intentional gratitude can transform results, morale, and loyalty.

Time Stamps & Key Talking Points

00:00 – Why Gratitude Shapes Leadership Legacy
People may forget what you say or do, but they never forget how you make them feel, Gratitude as an emotional leadership lever

04:00 – The #1 Thing Employees Ask For
Why employees just want to be seen, The underestimated power of “thank you”

09:00 – A 50% Productivity Increase
University of Pennsylvania research, Adam Grant’s findings on gratitude

13:00 – The Three Unspoken Employee Questions
Do I matter?, Does my work matter?, Do you even notice?

18:00 – Fuel the Climb, Not Just the Win
Recognizing effort and progress, not just outcomes

19:00 – Modeling Gratitude as a Leader
Why leaders set the emotional standard, Behavior gets mirrored

24:30 – The Real Question Leaders Must Ask
Can you afford the absence of gratitude?

26:00 – Leadership Reflection Challenge
What went unnoticed?, What culture are you quietly building?

28:00 – Final Takeaway
Gratitude isn’t changing who you are, It’s changing what you notice

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What is your body posture, gestures, and place at the table, say about you?

In this episode, we sit down with Tatiana Teppoeva, founder of One Nonverbal Ecosystems, to explore the often-overlooked leadership skill that silently shapes credibility, trust, and influence: nonverbal communication.

Tatiana breaks down how body language, tone, posture, space, and presence account for the majority of how leaders are perceived—often outweighing the words they carefully prepare.

Drawing on her background in tech, data science, and human behavior, she explains why leaders unintentionally sabotage their authority and how small, intentional shifts can dramatically elevate executive presence.

Key Talking Points

• Why 50–70% of communication is nonverbal—and why most leaders ignore it
• The nine core elements of nonverbal communication (beyond body language)
• Common nonverbal mistakes that quietly undermine credibility and trust
• Why copying other leaders’ body language often backfires
• How misalignment between words and body language erodes trust
• A simple self-assessment exercise to immediately improve presence

Episode Timestamps

00:00 – Introduction & why nonverbal behavior matters in leadership
05:10 – Why nonverbal communication makes up the majority of influence
07:30 – What “Nonverbal Ecosystems” really means
10:40 – The nine elements of nonverbal communication leaders overlook
19:30 – Nonverbal behaviors that damage credibility fast
24:00 – Why women often undermine their own presence without realizing it
26:00 – Trust breakdown: when words and nonverbal cues don’t align
28:45 – Why people believe nonverbal signals over spoken words
33:00 – Tatiana’s “Five High-Stakes Signals to Master” guide
35:00 – One powerful exercise every leader should try immediately
36:30 – Final insights on awareness, feedback, and leadership growth

Key Takeaway - Leadership presence isn’t about saying more—it’s about aligning what you say with what your body, voice, and behavior are already communicating. When leaders master nonverbal intelligence, they earn trust faster, communicate more clearly, and lead with greater impact.

Download Tatiana’s guide: Five High-Stakes Signals to Master at www.tatianateppoeva.com/decode

Learn more about Tatiana Teppoeva and her work at www.tatianateppoeva.com

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Do you agree the need for equity in the workplace is more important now than ever?

In this game-changing episode, executive coach and equity expert Celeste Warren reveals the truth about workplace equity that's been buried under myths, misinformation, and corporate buzzwords.

While companies retreat from DEI commitments, Celeste proves why understanding equity isn't just ethical—it's the smartest business decision you'll make.

Discover the powerful "rock and fence" framework that finally makes equity make sense, learn practical acts of equity you can implement tomorrow, and understand why meeting your team members where they are creates thriving organizations. Whether you're in the C-suite or an individual contributor, this conversation will transform how you lead, manage, and show up at work.

GUEST INTRODUCTION

Celeste Warren is an executive coach, globally recognized thought leader on diversity and inclusion, and author of the newly released book The Truth About Equity: What It Really Is, What It Isn't, and Why Everyone Wins When We Get It Right. Growing up with a front-row seat to her father's experience as the first Black teacher and principal in a Western Pennsylvania steel mill town, Celeste developed a lifelong commitment to dismantling systemic barriers in organizations. She brings decades of expertise helping leaders create truly inclusive environments where every team member can thrive. In this episode, Celeste shares actionable strategies for recognizing and addressing bias, implementing equity in daily management practices, and building cultures where everyone wins. Connect with Celeste at www.crwdiversity.com and grab your copy of her book plus a FREE Audible voucher (limited availability—US & UK only).

KEY MOMENTS & TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Introduction: Why the Truth About Equity Matters Now
02:00 - Meet Celeste Warren: From Steel Mill Town to Global Equity Expert
04:00 - The Rock & Fence Framework: Understanding Equity vs. Equality
06:00 - Why Everyone Needs to Get in the Boat and Row Together
08:30 - Practical Acts of Equity Every Manager Can Implement Today
09:00 - Meeting Team Members Where They Are: Real-Life Examples
15:00 - Breaking Down the Myths: What Equity Is NOT
26:00 - Unconscious Bias in Hiring, Promotions & Compensation Decisions
28:00 - The Questions Leaders Must Ask Themselves Before Making People Decisions
29:00 - Introducing "The Truth About Equity" Book & Why Celeste Wrote It
31:00 - SPECIAL OFFER: Free Audible Vouchers for Listeners (Limited Time)
32:00 - Final Takeaway: Start Small, Boil Two or Three People Around You
33:00 - How to Connect with Celeste & Next Steps

FREE AUDIBLE VOUCHER (Limited Availability!):
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What It Really Is, What It Isn't, and Why Everyone Wins When We Get It Right

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• LinkedIn: @celestewarrenLLC

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This episode dives into one of the most overlooked yet influential leadership skills: emotional pacing—the speed, tone, and intensity of your emotional responses in meetings, conversations, decisions, and crises.

As the transcript reveals, your team’s nervous system mirrors yours, and your emotional tempo has measurable effects on engagement, cognitive capacity, stress levels, and trust. Leaders who master emotional pacing don’t just communicate better—they transform culture quietly and powerfully.

Through research-backed insight, real-world examples, and actionable strategies, this episode breaks down how emotional pacing works, how it impacts high-performing teams, and how you can intentionally shift your tempo to lead with clarity, stability, and credibility.

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Key Talking Points

• Why every leader carries an “invisible metronome” that shapes team performance.
• How your emotional tempo—fast, reactive, calm, or flat—affects trust, engagement, and stress.
• Research from Yale, Stanford, and Gallup on how leaders’ emotional tone influences team outcomes.
• Why your team shouldn’t have to adapt to your emotional pace—and what great leaders do instead.
• How to pre-decide your emotional pace before tough meetings, decisions, or conflict.
• Practical techniques: pausing, breath work, voice pacing, body language calibration, and post-interaction emotional audits.
• How intentional pacing creates psychological safety, resilience, and high performance.

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Key Time Stamps

00:00 – The Leader’s Invisible Metronome

01:00 – Emotional Pacing Defined

02:00 – When Leadership Pace Becomes “Too Much”

03:00 – What the Research Says

06:00 – Overreacting vs. Underreacting

10:00 – Real-World Example: The Underreactive VP

15:00 – How to Deliver Difficult News Stabilizingly

17:00 – Celebrations & Positive Energy

18:00 – High-Pressure Decisions: The Power of Pausing

20:00 – Conflict & Difficult Conversations

22:00 – Techniques for Managing Your Pace

31:00 – Final Leadership Reminder

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What if the biggest reason you’re not being promoted has nothing to do with office politics, company structure, or how hard you work? In this transformative episode, host Bernadette Boas sits down with Diane Taylor, founder of Glow Leadership and author of Elevate Potential, to expose the surprising internal blocks that silently derail professional advancement.

Diane reveals how unconscious habits, emotional blind spots, and unexamined internal patterns dictate how we behave, lead, and ultimately rise—or stall—in our careers. She breaks down why leaders lose trust, how chaos becomes a comfort zone, and why intentional inner work is the true fast track to career success.

Whether you're a rising corporate star, a seasoned leader, or someone feeling stuck, this episode gives you the clarity and tools to shift from “Why not me?” to “Watch me.”

🔑 Key Topics & Insights• The #1 reason professionals stop advancing
• Why inner work matters more than external effort
• How unconscious beliefs influence your leadership
• Why many professionals wait for crisis before seeking change
• The principles of conscious leadership
• How leaders lose trust and how to rebuild it
• Burnout, chaos cycles, and internal safety patterns
• Accountability as a key predictor of promotion
• How to reclaim your authority and personal power

⏱️ Timestamps00:00 – Introduction: The myths holding professionals back
02:00 – Diane’s background and leadership journey
03:00 – Why self-awareness is the real advancement blocker
05:00 – Healing as a leadership skill
06:30 – Conscious leadership and intentional growth
09:00 – The shift from “to me” to “for me”
11:00 – Burnout and chaos cycles
13:00 – What Diane observes in leadership teams
15:00 – When leaders resist accountability
18:00 – Trust breakdowns and team disengagement
23:00 – How conscious leaders self-assess
28:00 – Vulnerability, responsibility, and influence
29:30 – Diane’s message: Take back your authority
31:00 – How to connect with Diane and next steps

📣 Calls to Action• Share this episode with a colleague or team member

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Corporate teams are burned out, managers are overwhelmed, and everyone claims they “don’t have time.” In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, executive coach Bernadette Boas breaks down the truth: great leaders make time—because developing people is their number one responsibility.

Using real leadership examples and actionable coaching strategies, Bernadette reveals how managers can transform into powerhouse leaders by shifting how they think about time. This episode is packed with practical, usable tools—no fluff, no theory without action. Expect to walk away with a new perspective and real steps you can start using today.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

– The difference between managers and true leaders
– Why time is a leadership tool—and how to invest it wisely
– How to use goals as alignment, accountability, and clarity tools
– The 4D framework (Delegate, Delay, Delete, Do) for managing overwhelm
– How to master time blocking for yourself and your team
– Techniques for setting boundaries without damaging relationships
– How to coach team members who are drowning in priorities
– Why reflection is essential for leadership growth
– How to model time-management behaviors that elevate team culture

WHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR

Corporate leaders, new managers, HR professionals, executive teams, emerging leaders, and anyone committed to leading people—not just managing tasks.

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Half of corporate change initiatives fail. Not because your people resist—but because your leadership model does.

In this powerhouse conversation, Bernadette Boas sits down with Dr. Mary Lippitt, founder of Enterprise Management and author of Leader Sheep: Saving the Herd, to expose why “command and control” leadership is killing transformation—and what actually drives sustainable change.

After four decades leading transformations across industries, Dr. Lippitt reveals the five critical components that make change stick—and why most leaders get them wrong. You’ll discover:

• Why announcing the vision and delegating the rest guarantees failure.
• How to turn resistance into real progress (and why “change” feels bad but “progress” feels empowering).
• The hidden ingredient missing from every leadership competency framework.
• The four monthly team questions that build trust, creativity, and commitment.

If your organization is stuck in change fatigue, this episode will rewrite how you lead.

Chapters / Timestamps:
00:00 – Why 50% of Change Initiatives Fail
02:00 – Meet Dr. Mary Lippitt and the Origin of Leader Sheep
04:30 – Why the “Command and Control” Era Is Over
07:00 – How to Turn Resistance into Progress
09:00 – The 5 Components That Make Change Stick
10:00 – Vision: Crafting Change People Believe In
11:00 – Competencies: Building the Skills for Change
12:00 – Incentives: The Secret to Motivation and Buy-In
14:00 – Resources and Action Planning: Leading with Clarity
18:00 – Why “On-Time and On-Budget” Doesn’t Equal Success
20:00 – The Generational Shift in Leadership Expectations
22:00 – How to Engage Passive or Silent Team Members
25:00 – The Power of Pilots and Peer Advocacy
27:00 – Four Monthly Questions That Build Trust and Innovation
29:00 – Respect as the Foundation of Modern Leadership
31:00 – The One Habit Every Leader Should Start Today

Connect with Dr. Mary Lippitt: enterprisemgt.com

Whether you’re an HR executive, change leader, or CEO, this episode is your roadmap to turning failed initiatives into thriving transformation.

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Are you waiting for a promotion to start leading? STOP. Leadership isn't about your position on an org chart—it's about your influence, clarity, and purpose. In this game-changing episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas reveals why everyone is already a leader and how to elevate your value starting TODAY.

If you're a corporate professional, people manager, or HR leader who wants to drive real results without waiting for permission, this episode is your blueprint.

💡 WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER:
✓ The 3 Pillars of Powerful Leadership: Influence, Clarity & Purpose [02:00]
✓ A Simple Leadership Assessment (Are You Already Leading?) [02:00]
✓ Why Value Isn't What You Know—It's What Others Gain From What You Know [09:00]
✓ The "Elevate, Anticipate, Lead" Framework for Career Acceleration [14:00]
✓ How to Lead Without Direct Reports (Real Story from Corporate) [04:00]
✓ Leadership Litmus Test: Would Your Absence Be Felt Immediately? [29:00]

⏱️ KEY TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction: Leadership Beyond Job Titles
02:00 - Leadership Self-Assessment
04:00 - Real Story: Leading Without an Org Chart
07:00 - Breaking Down Influence, Clarity & Purpose
09:00 - The Foundation: Leave People & Places Better Than You Found Them
14:00 - The Elevate, Anticipate, Lead Framework Explained
27:00 - Positioning Yourself as a Strategic Thought Leader
29:00 - Sheryl Sandberg's Powerful Leadership Quote
30:00 - 4 Strategies to Lead From Where You Are NOW
31:00 - Ask Questions, Not Statements (Communication Game-Changer)
33:00 - Connect the Dots: Help Your Team See the Bigger Picture
34:00 - Become the Problem Solver, Not the Problem Identifier
35:00 - Champion Others' Success & Growth
36:00 - Wrap-Up & Free Resources

🔥 BOTTOM LINE:
You don't need authority to be a leader. You need intention, attention, and initiative. Whether you're an individual contributor or managing a team of 100, you already have influence—now it's time to amplify it. This episode gives you the exact strategies to elevate your value, anticipate what's needed, and lead like the powerhouse you're meant to be.

💼 PERFECT FOR:
• Corporate professionals ready to increase their influence
• HR leaders developing emerging talent
• People managers building high-performing teams
• Individual contributors wanting to be seen as leaders
• Anyone stuck waiting for a title to start making an impact

🎁 FREE RESOURCES MENTIONED:
1. Self-Assessment for Measuring Your Value to Your Team - tiny.cc/valueselfassessment
2. 10 Proven Tactics for Elevating Your Value - tiny.cc/10tacticstoelevate

🚀 TAKE ACTION NOW:
✅ Rate and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts
✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode
✅ Share this with a colleague who needs to hear this message
✅ DM Bernadette on LinkedIn for your free leadership resources - @bernadetteboas
✅ Implement ONE strategy from this episode this week

📲 CONNECT WITH BERNADETTE BOAS:
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas
Instagram: @shedthecorpbitch
Website: balloffirecoaching.com
Email: bernadetteboas@balloffireinc.com

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What if being emotional, vulnerable, and transparent could actually be your greatest leadership advantage?

In this powerful episode, Kendra MacDonald, CEO of Canada's Ocean Supercluster, shatters the myth that effective leaders must separate their personal and professional lives. Leading a national innovation initiative with a majority-female team, Kendra shares raw, honest stories about adopting her daughter while climbing the corporate ladder, managing family health crises, and why scoring "high on emotion" as a CEO became her superpower—not her weakness.

You'll discover:

• Why transparency builds trust faster than perfection ever will
• The "24-hour rule" that prevents career-damaging emotional reactions
• How to reframe problems instead of falling in love with solutions
• Why purpose-driven leadership naturally creates emotional investment
• How to create truly inclusive policies (starting with your language)
• The truth about work-life "blend" vs. "balance"—and why it matters
• Why there's never a "perfect time" to step into leadership

The Challenge: This week, examine one area where you're hiding your authentic self at work. What would it look like to bring more transparency to that situation? Share your insights with your team or a trusted colleague.

Key Timestamps:

[00:01:00] - Introduction: Can you lead effectively without sacrificing your personal life?

[00:03:00] - The power of women in tech and innovation

[00:05:00] - Why diversity of thought solves complex challenges

[00:07:00] - The evolution from "private life stays private" to authentic leadership

[00:08:00] - Kendra's adoption journey: When transparency transformed her career

[00:11:00] - Remote work as a strategic talent advantage

[00:14:00] - Why men need work-life blend too (and the "babysitting" problem)

[00:15:00] - Language matters: From "maternity leave" to "parental leave"

[00:18:00] - Being an "emotional CEO": Liability or superpower?

[00:19:00] - Purpose creates emotion, emotion creates power

[00:24:00] - The 24-hour rule: Sleep on it before you send it

[00:25:00] - Focus on purpose, not path: Your North Star in chaos

[00:26:00] - "Are you trying to be pregnant or be a mom?" Reframing the problem

[00:27:00] - We need leaders in the mess—there's no perfect time

[00:28:00] - Setting personal boundaries in an age of transparency

Connect with Kendra MacDonald: Canada's Ocean Supercluster

Call to Action: Ready to transform your leadership approach? Subscribe to Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast for weekly episodes that challenge conventional corporate wisdom. Share this episode with a leader who needs permission to show up as their whole self.

Rate & Review: If this episode resonated with you, please leave a 5-star review and share what you learned. Your reviews help us reach more leaders ready to embrace authentic, purpose-driven leadership.

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aWhat happens when your best employees become your worst managers? Across corporate America, we're facing what experts call the "Accidental Manager Crisis." A staggering 60-80% of new managers receive ZERO formal leadership training before being thrown into people management roles.

The result? Burned-out managers, disengaged teams, and cultures quietly crumbling from the inside. Your top performer just got promoted—but technical excellence doesn't equal leadership ability. Without the right training, support, and mindset shift, you're setting them up to fail.

This isn't just an HR problem. It's a business crisis that costs organizations millions in turnover, lost productivity, and damaged culture.

🎯 KEY TAKEAWAYS: In this episode, executive coach and leadership expert Bernadette Boas breaks down:

✅ The Real Cost of Unprepared Leaders

✅ How Accidental Managers Are Created

✅ 5 Actionable Steps to Transform Accidental Managers into Intentional Leaders:

✅ The Bonus Step

✅ The Power of Vulnerability

⏱️ TOP TIMESTAMPS

[00:00] Introduction: The Accidental Manager Crisis Defined

[03:00] How Accidental Managers Are Created (And Why It's Dangerous)

[06:30] The Team Impact: Micromanaging, Neglect & Broken Trust

[07:30] The Business Impact: Low Engagement, High Turnover & Toxic Culture

[13:00] STEP 1: Redefine How You Promote (Readiness Assessments & Critical Questions)

[15:30] STEP 2: Build a Leadership Onboarding Program (Structure, Mentorship & Training)

[18:00] STEP 3: Redefine Success Metrics (Team Outcomes vs. Personal Outcomes)

[21:00] STEP 4: Create Systems & Peer Support Networks

[23:00] STEP 5: Normalize the Human Side of Leadership (Vulnerability as Strength)

[26:00] Hold Leaders Accountable (Tie People Goals to Compensation)

[29:00] BONUS: Get Creative with Career Paths (Not Everyone Should Manage People)

[30:30] Call to Action & Next Episode Preview

📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Leadership Assessment Tools (360 Assessments, DISC)
• Ball of Fire Coaching: ballfirecoaching.com
• Free Discovery Call: coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall
• Podcast Website: ballfirecoaching.com/podcast

🔥 COMING NEXT

Next Episode: Vulnerability as a Superpower in Leadership with Kendra MacDonald, CEO of Canada's Ocean Supercluster. You won't want to miss this powerful conversation!

🎙️ ABOUT THE SHOW

Shedding the Corporate Bitch transforms today's managers into tomorrow's powerhouse leaders. Hosted by Bernadette Boas—executive coach, author, and leadership expert—this podcast tackles the real challenges corporate professionals face and provides actionable strategies for leadership excellence, team performance, and career growth.

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Your team is showing up. But are they really working?

In this game-changing episode, host Bernadette Boas sat down over the summer with Rebecca Reed, global Workplace Well-being Specialist and creator of the Mental Flex Method, to expose the silent productivity killer costing organizations 10 times more than sick days: presenteeism.

When employees are physically present but mentally checked out, it's not just a morale problem—it's a financial crisis. In the UK, presenteeism accounts for £24 billion of the £51 billion annual cost of poor mental health. In the US, that's $1,500 per employee per year compared to just $150 for absenteeism.

This isn't another "add a wellness program" conversation. This is about recognizing trauma responses disguised as productivity, fixing broken systems instead of blaming people, and creating psychological safety that actually works.

If you're an HR leader, C-suite executive, manager, or anyone responsible for team performance, this episode will fundamentally change how you approach workplace wellbeing.

What You'll Learn

✅ The shocking cost difference between presenteeism and absenteeism (and why you should care)

✅ How to identify when hyper-productivity is actually a fear response, not ambition

✅ The real reason your wellness initiatives fail (hint: it's not the program itself)

✅ How "accidental managers" are contributing to team disengagement

✅ The hidden influencers in your workplace who can drive culture change without C-suite buy-in

✅ Nervous system regulation techniques that actually work for high performers

✅ Practical strategies to create psychological safety where people feel safe to challenge, struggle, and be human

Key Timestamps:

[00:00:00] Introduction: The silent productivity killer destroying your business

[00:01:00] Meet Rebecca Reed: From personal wellbeing journey to global workplace specialist

[00:03:00] What is presenteeism? Understanding "bums on seats, but nobody's home"

[00:04:00] The shocking cost: Why presenteeism is 10x more expensive than absenteeism

[00:06:00] The "accidental manager" problem: Why promotional ladders create unprepared leaders

[00:12:00] The hyper-productivity trap: How fight response disguises itself as high performance

[00:14:00] Creating safety: The foundation of everything in workplace wellbeing

[00:22:00] The HR burnout crisis: Why the people caring for everyone are drowning

[00:24:00] The Influentials: How 1/10 of people drive what the other 9/10 think and do

[00:32:00] Leadership strategies: Four ways to support your team's wellbeing right now

[00:36:00] Final takeaways and resources

Featured Guest

Rebecca Reed Global Workplace Wellbeing Specialist | Founder of Siendo | Creator of the Mental Flex Method

Rebecca helps organizations transform their approach to workplace wellbeing through science-backed strategies that address root causes, not just symptoms. After her own profound wellbeing journey, she's dedicated to helping leaders understand the real drivers of burnout, disengagement, and presenteeism.

🌐 Learn more: siendo.co.uk

Resources Mentioned

📖 "Finding Inner Safety" by Dr. Nerina Ramlakhan - Essential reading on nervous system regulation and creating internal safety

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Are you working harder than ever but still getting passed over for promotions? Your problem isn't effort—it's visibility and strategy.

In this episode, Bernadette Boas reveals why 78% of professionals believe their manager has no influence on their career advancement—and how understanding managing up creates a massive competitive advantage for those who get it right.

Most professionals think managing up means being a "yes person" or playing politics. They're wrong. Managing up is strategic leadership that makes you indispensable while advancing your career and supporting your team.

What You'll Learn: 8 actionable strategies to effectively manage up starting this week • How to bring solutions instead of complaints (and why this matters) • The visibility framework that gets you noticed for the right reasons • Why leaders actually want you to challenge them (and how to do it respectfully) • Communication mistakes that make your boss tune you out • The self-advocacy approach that doesn't feel like bragging • How to anticipate needs before they're voiced • Why emotional intelligence is your career currency • The alignment conversation that changes everything

Timestamps

[00:00] Introduction: What is managing up really about?

[03:00] The foundational principle: Leave people and places better than you found them

[09:00] What managing up is (and what it isn't)

[14:00] Myth #1: Hard work and long hours will get you ahead

[16:00] Myth #2: Managing up means being a yes person

[18:00] Myth #3: You can't push back or create healthy tension

[20:00] Mistake #1: Bringing complaints without solutions

[22:00] Mistake #2: Overloading your boss with problems you could solve

[23:00] Mistake #3: Failing to adapt to your boss's communication style

[26:00] Mistake #4: Assuming your boss understands your workload and impact

[28:00] Mistake #5: Inconsistent follow-through destroys trust

[30:00] Mistake #6: Not seeking visibility for your contributions

[32:00 - 46:00] 8 Strategies

[48:00] Summary: Managing up is about managing your impact

[50:00] Your challenge: Pick one strategy for the next 7 days

[52:00] Final thoughts and next episode preview

Connect with Bernadette Boas

Website: https://balloffirecoaching.com

Book a Discovery Call: coachmebernadette.com/discovery-call

LinkedIn: @BernadetteBoas

Podcast Website: balloffirecoaching.com/podcast

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Presenteeism: The Silent Culture Killer with Rebecca Reed Discover how showing up without being present is destroying your culture—and what to do about it.

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Are you constantly saying "sorry" for the smallest thing? Smoothing over tensions? Fixing everyone else's problems while your own leadership presence suffers? You're not alone - and it's costing you more than you think.

In this game-changing episode, powerhouse coach Kelly Travis reveals the hidden toll of over-apologizing and people-pleasing among high-achieving professionals. Discover how internalized roles like "the fixer," "the good girl," and "the perfectionist" are unconsciously driving your leadership decisions and holding you back from your true potential.

🎯 What You'll Learn:

• The childhood programming that's sabotaging your adult leadership
• Why your team feels insecure when you constantly apologize
• How to identify if you're "the helper," "the achiever," or "the good girl"
• A powerful exercise to transform your inner dialogue
• Simple language swaps that instantly boost your executive presence

💪 Ready to lead with clarity, confidence, and real self-trust? This episode is your wake-up call to stop operating on autopilot and start making deeply aligned leadership decisions.

Timestamps

[00:02:00] - Meet Kelly Travis: Competitive Athlete, Coach & Mom

[00:03:00] - Competition Lessons: Why Women Apologize for Success

[00:06:00] - The Breakthrough Moment: Why Kelly Focuses on Apologizing

[00:09:00] - Childhood Programming: Who You Had to Be vs. Who You Are Now

[00:11:00] - The Comfort Zone Trap: Why We Stay in Familiar Patterns

[00:13:00] - Simple Email Fix: "Thanks for Your Patience" vs. "Sorry I'm Late"

[00:14:00] - The Four Types: Perfectionist, Helper, Achiever, Peacemaker

[00:17:00] - When These Roles Become Toxic in Leadership

[00:19:00] - The Self-Awareness Continuum: From Autopilot to Integration

[00:22:00] - Red Flag Warning Signs You're Stuck in Old Patterns

[00:31:00] - What Others Really Think When You Over-Apologize

📝 TAKE ACTION:

• Count your apologies for one week - you might be shocked!
• Replace one "sorry" email with "thanks for understanding" this week
• Ask yourself "Is this thought useful?" when you catch negative self-talk

YOUR GUEST:

Kelly Travis is a powerhouse coach, team dynamics expert, and certified Enneagram practitioner who specializes in helping high-achieving women break free from outdated patterns that sabotage their leadership. As a competitive athlete and single mom, Kelly brings a unique perspective on performance, resilience, and authentic leadership.

Connect with Kelly:

• Website: KellyTravis.net
• Podcast: Ready When You Are
• Instagram: @WithKellyTravis

YOUR HOST:

Bernadette Boas is an executive coach, author, and host of Shedding the Corporate Bitch podcast. She transforms today's managers into tomorrow's powerhouse leaders through her no-nonsense approach to leadership development.

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Do you have a “good guy, but…” on your team? They’re smart, hardworking, maybe even a top producer—but they gossip, interrupt, or stir up conflict. You know it. Your team knows it. And yet, you hesitate to act.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas exposes the hidden cost of excusing a good guy, but..., even when it comes from your most likable or high-performing team members.

You’ll learn:

• Why the “good guy, but…” mentality sabotages trust, culture, and results
• The personal fears and biases that keep leaders from acting
• How one person’s bad behavior spreads like wildfire across a team
• Six practical steps to spot, address, and resolve these issues early
• How to redefine accountability so it feels like courage—not cruelty

If you’re serious about building high-performing teams and protecting your credibility as a leader, this episode is a must-listen.

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Are you resilient—or just surviving? In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, I sit down with Russell Harvey, “The Resilience Coach,” to challenge how leaders and HR managers think about resilience. Together, we unpack why resilience isn’t about “bouncing back” but about springing forward with learning.

If you’re a leader navigating burnout, constant change, and underperforming teams, this episode will show you how to shift from coping to thriving and build a team that’s unstoppable.

⏱ Episode Timestamps

• [00:02] What a truly resilient leader looks like
• [00:06] The 3 things leaders are actually responsible for
• [00:12] Why delegating brilliantly fuels succession planning
• [00:16] The resilience wheel: 7 dimensions every leader must know
• [00:22] How social connection—not happy hours—builds stronger teams
• [00:27] Why your “top five” people shape your leadership style
• [00:31] Reflection practice: What behaviors serve you vs. hold you back
• [00:38] Why resilience is proactive, not reactive

💡 What You’ll Learn

• The difference between coping, surviving, and thriving as a leader
• How to simplify leadership down to three core responsibilities
• The power of delegation for growth and succession planning
• Practical ways to remove blockages and clear the path for your team
• How to use the Resilience Wheel to strengthen yourself and your team
• Why resilience is about choice, not crisis

Resources & Links

• Connect with Russell Harvey at theresiliencecoach.co.uk
• Follow me, Bernadette Boas, on LinkedIn for bold leadership insights
• Subscribe to Shedding the Corporate Bitch wherever you listen to podcasts

Call to Action

If this episode sparked insight, share it with your colleagues and HR leaders who need to hear it. Leave us a rating and review to help more leaders find the show. And don’t just listen—take action: choose one way this week to build resilience into your leadership.

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Time is the one resource you can’t get back — and if you don’t take control of it, it will control you. In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas reveals why so many leaders struggle with time management, the hidden costs of poor productivity, and actionable strategies to reclaim your focus, sanity, and performance.

Packed with tools like time blocking, the Eisenhower Matrix, SMART goals, and boundary-setting, this episode gives you a proven roadmap to beat burnout, boost productivity, and lead with clarity.

If you’re tired of feeling overwhelmed by your calendar, buried under endless to-do lists, or stuck in the trap of “busyness,” this episode is your blueprint to take back your time — before it masters you.

⏱️ Chapters & Timestamps:

• [00:00] The Real Cost of Poor Time Management
• [02:15] Stress, Burnout, and the Leadership Crisis
• [05:30] Self-Inflicted Time Traps Leaders Create
• [07:45] Why Multitasking Is a Myth
• [09:20] Your Calendar Is Too Full — Here’s How to Fix It
• [11:40] Distractions and Mental Fatigue in Leadership
• [14:00] The Hidden Impact of Overwhelm on Teams & Business
• [20:00] Master Time with Proven Tools & Frameworks
  • SMART Goals
  • The Pareto Principle
  • Eisenhower Matrix (Do, Delegate, Delete, Delay)
  • Time Blocking
  • Two-Minute Rule
• [27:00] Setting Boundaries That Stick
• [31:00] Reflection and Progress Tracking for Lasting Change
• [34:00] Final Leadership Takeaways & Next Steps

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Why busyness is not a badge of honor — it’s a burnout trigger.
• How to cut through the noise of multitasking and focus on what matters.
• The Eisenhower Matrix framework to prioritize with clarity.
• Why time blocking is the #1 productivity game-changer for leaders.
• The power of saying “no” and setting boundaries without guilt.
• How reflection accelerates leadership growth and team success.

📢 Call to Action:

If you’re ready to stop playing catch-up and start leading with intention, hit subscribe to Shedding the Corporate Bitch on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

👉 Share this episode with a colleague or leader who needs to hear it.
👉 Want personalized coaching to master your time and leadership? Visit BallOfFireCoaching.com to learn more.

Stay bold, stay focused, and keep shedding the corporate challenges holding you back!

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Connection isn’t a “nice to have”—it’s a business driver every leader needs to put front and center if they want to achieve their goals and succeed.

When employees feel seen, heard, and included, performance skyrockets. Yet, many leaders still struggle with creating cultures of belonging. Why is that?

In this powerful episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, I sit down with Greg Morley, global leader, author of Bond: Belonging and the Keys to Inclusion and Connection, and champion of inclusive leadership. With over 25 years of HR experience at companies like Disney, Hasbro, and LVMH, Greg shares hard-earned lessons and practical tools to help leaders and HR professionals turn inclusion into impact.

🔑 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why inclusion is not just a moral imperative—it’s a business imperative
• How risk-taking connects directly to inclusive leadership
• The micro-actions leaders take daily that shape culture
• Why the quietest voice in the room often carries the best ideas
• How to measure and sustain belonging with real-world tools

⏱️ Episode Timestamps:

• 00:02:00 – Greg’s global journey and what inspired his book Bond
• 00:08:30 – Why belonging is the foundation of high-performing teams
• 00:11:00 – The role of risk-taking in driving inclusion
• 00:15:00 – The “10 scoops of vanilla” analogy: finding uniqueness in similarity
• 00:18:00 – Why inclusion is a proven driver of business results
• 00:23:00 – How to move inclusion beyond “politically correct” language
• 00:26:00 – Practical techniques to ensure every voice is heard in meetings
• 00:31:00 – Trust: the #1 element of lasting culture change
• 00:35:00 – Building collaboration through strengths and weaknesses
• 00:39:00 – Greg’s #1 step leaders can take today to foster belonging

🚀 Call to Action:

✅ Learn more about Greg at www.gregmorley.com

✅ Pick up his book: https://www.gregmorley.com/books

✅ Follow the show and reach out to Bernadette: BallofFireCoaching.com/podcast

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Your highest performers haven’t quit—yet. But they’re not fully present either. They’re quietly cracking under the weight of stress, burnout, AI-driven changes, and poor leadership. And the cost? A staggering $438 billion in lost productivity.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas unpacks:

• What “Quiet Cracking” really is and how it’s different from Quiet Quitting
• The hidden warning signs leaders miss in their best people
• The real business costs of burnout and disengagement
• A proactive action plan to stop Quiet Cracking before it destroys your culture

If you’re an HR leader, manager, or executive who wants to protect performance, retain talent, and lead with confidence—this episode is a must-listen.

🕒 Episode Breakdown with Timestamps

• 00:00 – 01:00 | The crisis you don’t see: Why your top people are quietly cracking
• 01:00 – 02:30 | Quiet Cracking vs Quiet Quitting: What leaders need to know
• 05:00 – 10:00 | 7 warning signs your people are cracking under the pressure
• 06:30 – 07:30 | The shocking stats: $438B lost productivity, 67% burnout rates
• 15:00 – 22:00 | The leadership action plan: Conversations, pulse checks, redesigning workloads
• 27:00 – 28:30 | Why Quiet Cracking isn’t a character flaw—it’s a leadership signal
• 30:00 – 31:30 | How to reset your team’s wellbeing + free assessment
• 31:30 – 32:00 | Next episode preview: Belonging & Connection with Greg Morley

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Your success as a leader isn’t determined by how well you talk—it’s determined by how well you connect. And nowhere is that more critical than when the stakes are high and emotions are running hot.

Episode Overview:
In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, I sit down with Dr. Amber Johnson—leadership consultant, high-stakes communication expert, and truth-teller on why most leaders fail in conflict.

We dig into the hidden reasons leaders struggle to get communication right—especially under pressure—and why avoiding tough conversations is costing you trust, performance, and top talent.

Challenges We Tackle:

• Why “being nice” is sabotaging your leadership effectiveness
• How busyness kills connection and erodes team trust
• The gap between leaders’ “open door” intentions and employees’ real experiences
• Why avoidance turns small problems into reputation-damaging crises

What You’ll Learn:

• The difference between kindness and niceness—and why it matters for results
• How to lead without having all the answers by mastering the art of powerful questions
• Simple techniques to keep conversations future-focused and defuse defensiveness
• How to recognize when your “open door” is actually closed
• Strategies to address issues early—before they turn into patterns or cultural problems

Key Takeaways:

• Kindness is truth delivered with care; niceness is a performance that avoids discomfort.
• The conversation IS the relationship—avoid it and the relationship weakens.
• If no one has given you hard feedback lately, your team doesn’t feel safe enough to tell you the truth.

Your Next Step:
Don’t let communication blind spots limit your leadership impact.
🎧 Listen now and discover the tools to lead with clarity, connection, and confidence—even when conflict knocks at your door.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction: The Importance of Tough Conversations
00:21 Welcome to Shedding the Corporate Bitch
00:56 Meet Dr. Amber Johnson
01:16 Challenges in Leadership Communication
02:57 Amber's Background and Personal Insights
04:22 Strategies for Effective Communication
10:42 The Power of Asking Questions
15:56 Creating a Safe and Open Environment
20:11 Handling Difficult Bosses
29:39 Avoidance in Leadership
31:39 Final Thoughts and Takeaways
33:57 Closing Remarks and Resources

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What if the biggest threat to your workplace isn’t external—but staring back at you in the mirror?

In this powerful episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas dives deep into the hidden signs of toxic leadership, team behavior, and culture. You’ll learn how to identify red flags before they cost you your best people, and discover proven strategies to transform a dysfunctional team into a powerhouse culture that thrives.

Whether you’re a corporate leader, HR professional, or aspiring change agent, this episode will challenge your thinking, sharpen your awareness, and equip you with actionable steps to create a high-performing, healthy team environment.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• The silent killers of team trust and performance
• How leaders unintentionally feed toxic cultures
• Strategies for confronting and eradicating toxic behaviors
• Why culture change starts with inner work, not policy
• The essential steps to build a team that’s engaged, empowered, and loyal

Timestamps / Chapters:

0:00 – Introduction: The hidden threat of toxic leadership
1:15 – My own wake-up call: Realizing I was the problem
2:30 – What “toxic behavior” really means in the workplace
5:00 – Key questions every leader must ask themselves
6:20 – Hidden signs of a toxic individual or team
21:00 – Identifying and addressing one key toxic behavior
33:00 – The hallmarks of a high-functioning culture
36:10 – Why real change takes time and persistence
37:00 – Call to action: Start the conversation and lead boldly

Call to Action:

If you’re ready to become a powerhouse change agent, share this episode with your team, colleagues, and HR partners. Start the brave conversations that will transform your workplace into one where people love to contribute, grow, and thrive.

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What if the most underused resource in your company isn’t money or talent — but your HR team?

In this powerhouse episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas pulls back the curtain on a dangerous blind spot in leadership: the failure to partner with HR proactively and strategically.

🚫 HR isn’t a compliance cop.
⚡ HR is your culture driver, succession strategist, performance coach, and leadership ally — if you let them be.

Whether you're a corporate executive trying to build high-performing teams or an HR leader tired of being left out of the room, this episode is your wake-up call (and your blueprint).

🔥 In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why most managers only engage HR when it's too late — and the cost of that delay
• How treating HR as an “afterthought” kills performance, morale, and retention
• The four mindset shifts corporate leaders must make to unlock HR’s full value
• Tangible steps HR professionals can take to claim their strategic seat at the table
• How to build real alignment between business goals and people strategies

💡 If you want to lead boldly, retain talent, and build a people-first culture that actually performs, this episode is for you.

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Are you underpaid — or undervaluing yourself?
In this power-packed episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, I sit down with John Gates, former Fortune 500 head of recruiting and founder of Salary Coach, to dismantle the myths, fears, and bad advice surrounding salary negotiation.

💥 Spoiler alert: If you’re not negotiating, you're not just leaving money on the table — you're leaving opportunity, freedom, and leadership credibility behind.

👊 In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why 80% of professionals never negotiate — and how that’s costing you 5–6 figures
• The #1 fear that keeps women silent in comp conversations (and how to conquer it)
• How to shift negotiation from confrontation to collaboration
• Why lowballing yourself screams desperation — and kills your perceived value
• What to say instead of making demands
• How to uncover “hidden money” and benefits most people miss
• Why silence during an offer is NOT power — and what to say instead
• How to build confidence and control in high-stakes pay discussions

🎯 Whether you’re aiming for a promotion, a new role, or just more money for what you already do — this episode will change how you see your value and your voice.

💼 ABOUT JOHN GATES

John Gates is the founder of Salary Coach and the author of Act Your Wage. With decades of experience as a recruiter for top global corporations, John now helps professionals and executives master the art and strategy of compensation negotiation — without fear, conflict, or guesswork.
👉 Learn more at https://salary.coach

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In this episode, host Bernadette Boas sits down with world-class leadership communications coach and auctioneer Dia Bondi to explore the bold truth behind powerful leadership: your voice isn't just a tool—it's your greatest asset.

Whether you’re an executive, founder, HR leader, or people manager, this conversation will challenge you to rethink how you communicate, what you ask for, and why you're not being heard the way you should be.

Dia shares powerful insights from two decades of coaching C-suite leaders and venture-backed founders, revealing how to:

• Use your origin story to build executive presence
• Make bold asks that test your limits—and open new doors
• Develop a leadership voice that commands attention and drives results
• Avoid becoming “technically perfect but strategically invisible”
• Align purpose with presence to inspire and influence at every level

If your leaders are playing small or your teams are struggling to articulate their vision, this episode is a must-listen for building high-impact communicators across your organization.

Dia Bondi is a Communications Catalyst helping high-impact leaders and founders speak powerfully to win decisions and resources and carve a path for their future. She’s the author of Ask Like an Auctioneer and has worked with brands like Google X, Dropbox, and Salesforce—and even helped Rio land the 2016 Olympics.

🎯 Perfect for: Corporate professionals, HR executives, leadership development pros, and high-potential leaders ready to use their voice to lead with confidence and conviction.

🔹 Learn more about Dia Bondi: https://www.diabondi.com

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What if the key to becoming a bold, breakthrough leader isn’t solving problems—but creating them?

In this powerhouse episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas sits down with Ted Santos, CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners, to deliver a radical shift in how corporate professionals approach leadership.

Ted shares his personal transformation—from witnessing his mother run on two broken legs to leading organizations through chaos—and reveals the Leadership Disruptor’s Playbook that challenges conventional management at every level.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why the best leaders create problems to fuel innovation
• How to “coach up” your team—even when they’re not ready
• The importance of delegating strategically to free your calendar
• How to lead through chaos using a breakthrough mindset
• Why most leaders operate from blind spots—and how to eliminate them
• How personal disruption can unlock your professional superpower

If you’re an executive, team leader, HR partner, or high-performing professional ready to ignite real change and stop managing from the middle, this episode will give you the mindset, tools, and courage to lead differently.

Don’t just solve problems. Be the problem creator your company needs.

Website: www.turnaroundip.com
LinkedIn: Ted Santos
Book: Here’s Why You Can’t Find Love

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Is your team checked out, avoiding accountability, or silently resisting your leadership?

You're not alone—and you're not powerless.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas reveals the 5 critical functions of a high-performing team, and why trust is the foundation that everything else depends on. Whether you're a senior leader, HR executive, or rising manager, this conversation will challenge you to take an honest look at your team dynamics—and your own leadership behaviors.

You'll learn:

✅ Why dysfunction stems from more than just “difficult people”
✅ What healthy conflict really looks like—and why it leads to results
✅ How to create a culture where accountability isn’t feared
✅ A step-by-step strategy to start transforming your team (and yourself)
✅ The real reason your employees aren't listening—and how to shift that immediately

This is your wake-up call: If your team isn’t functioning, your results will never be sustainable. But with clarity, courage, and the right leadership habits, you can create a team that is loyal, aligned, and driven to win.

🛠️ Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Five Behaviors by Wiley & Sons – Research cited on trust and team dysfunction
• CoachMeBernadette.com/DiscoveryCall – Book a free strategy session with Bernadette

💬 Connect With Bernadette Boas:

• Website: https://balloffirecoaching.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas
• Instagram: @balloffirebernadette
• YouTube: Shedding the Corporate Bitch® Channel
• Discovery Call: https://coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

📌 Timestamps (Optional for YouTube or podcast blog post):

00:00 – Why trust is the starting point for any high-functioning team
03:00 – The stats that reveal just how broken most teams are
06:30 – Commitment vs. consensus: What your team actually needs
10:00 – Accountability without conflict
14:00 – Defining the team culture you want as a leader
22:00 – Step-by-step: How to rebuild trust and performance
28:00 – The personal transformation every leader must go through
35:00 – Final call to action and next steps

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Over the last several episodes, we have outlined 1) how best to write powerful reviews and 2) how to define results oriented action plans. Now, we'll revisit how best to give and receive feedback that will align you and your team member(s) to elevate ones success.

In this high-impact encore episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, executive coach powerhouse trainer, Bernadette Boas, pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to give and receive performance feedback that drives results—not resentment.

Whether you’re a seasoned executive, HR professional, or a corporate manager navigating your first review cycle, this episode offers a bold new approach to turning feedback into a year-round leadership advantage.

🎧 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to reframe feedback as a gift, not a threat
• Why most performance reviews fail—and how to make yours matter
• A simple framework (SBI: Situation, Behavior, Impact) to deliver impactful feedback
• How to prepare for reviews with clarity, confidence, and collaboration
• Powerful tips to eliminate vagueness, bias, and blind spots in your evaluations
• The #1 mindset shift you need before entering any feedback conversation
• How to transform reviews into continuous career development conversations

💡 Bonus: Bernadette also shares her top coaching tips on how to ask more questions than you make statements, build trust through transparency, and create a feedback culture that fuels team performance—not fear.

If you’re ready to ditch the anxiety and master performance reviews that actually matter—this encore episode is your playbook.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you stream.

Check out episodes: From Performance Reviews to Action Plans to Results, and Power Plays for Writing Powerful Performance Reviews.

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Are you doing the work… but still not getting noticed?
Do promotion decisions happen without your name in the room?

In this powerful episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas sits down with executive coach and author Monique Daigneault to unlock one of the most underutilized leadership tools in corporate life: the informational interview.

Whether you're navigating layoffs, aiming for a promotion, or just tired of being the best-kept secret in your organization—this episode is your wake-up call. 🔥

Monique reveals how strategic internal networking can help you:

• Expand your visibility across departments and leadership levels
• Clarify and communicate your personal brand
• Cultivate powerful relationships before you need them
• Mentor your team to think and network like leaders
• Take control of your career trajectory—starting now

Key Takeaways:

• Why visibility is often the missing link to getting promoted
• How to structure impactful informational interviews with intention
• Common fears professionals have—and how to overcome them
• The #1 action you should take today to build your influence
• How to subtly weave your brand and accomplishments into every conversation

📘 Special Bonus:

Monique shares insights from her new book:
"Survive and Thrive Toolkit for Leaders" – loaded with leadership strategies, personal branding tips, and a deep dive on informational interviews.

Learn more at mdconsultingglobal.com

🔗 Resources:

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• Connect on LinkedIn: Monique Daigneault
• Pick up the book: Survive and Thrive Toolkit for Leaders
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What’s the point of a performance review if nothing changes afterward?
In this power-packed episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas calls out the outdated review process and empowers both employees and managers to rethink how feedback is delivered, received, and transformed into measurable results.

Whether you’re a mid-level professional looking to grow or a manager committed to developing high-performing teams, this episode gives you a proven, 4-part framework for turning static performance reviews into dynamic action plans that drive clarity, confidence, and career momentum.

This episode is your wake-up call to stop checking boxes—and start building people.

What You’ll Learn:

• The 3 biggest pitfalls of performance reviews (and how to avoid them)
• How disengaged employees impact retention, morale, and ROI
• A 4-step framework for professionals to take control of their development
• A manager’s blueprint for coaching, accountability, and follow-through
• The powerful shift from managing tasks to leading people

Key Takeaways:

• Don’t wait for a roadmap—create your own and advocate for it
• Feedback isn’t the finish line—it’s the launchpad for growth
• Specificity in feedback is key to clarity and motivation
• Development is leadership’s #1 job—otherwise, you’re just managing
• Retention begins with relevance: make people feel seen, valued, and future-focused

Perfect For:

• Corporate professionals seeking growth and direction
• Managers struggling to engage and retain talent
• HR leaders rethinking their performance review strategy
• Executive coaches and leadership development professionals

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Don’t miss the companion episode: Power Plays for Writing Powerful Performance Reviews.

Call to Action:

➡️ Employees: Stop waiting for someone to hand you your career plan. Own it.
➡️ Managers: Shift from feedback to action. That’s real leadership.

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Are you navigating a major life or career shift—and silently struggling to keep it all together?

This powerful episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch with executive coach Bernadette Boas features Wendy Alexander, founder of Happy Career Hub, career coach, and author of Internal Uprising. Wendy shares her raw, real story of overcoming single motherhood, burnout, and the unspoken corporate impact of menopause—and how she reclaimed her power every step of the way.

Together, they break down:

• What it means to truly reclaim your power (and how to do it)
• How to renegotiate your career on your terms—without apology
• Why journaling, reflection, and owning your story are game-changers
• How HR leaders can better support midlife women in the workplace
• The bold career move that changed everything for Wendy

Whether you're a corporate executive, team leader, or HR decision-maker—this episode offers real talk, tactical takeaways, and inspiration to lead with courage, clarity, and confidence.

✨ Your career doesn’t end at change—it begins there.

🎧 Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you get your shows.

📘 Learn more about Wendy and grab her book Internal Uprising at https://happycareerhub.com

🔖 Timestamps Highlights:
0:00 – Introduction to the episode
3:00 – Wendy’s journey from corporate burnout to career coach
10:00 – How she negotiated flexible work while raising a child
16:00 – The journaling question that changed everything
24:00 – The unspoken corporate impact of menopause
31:00 – Strategies for women to ask for support and advocate at work
35:00 – What HR leaders must understand to retain midlife talent
38:00 – Final takeaway: Power comes from within

🔗 Follow & Connect:
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📲 Follow Bernadette on LinkedIn: Bernadette Boas
🌐 Visit: https://balloffirecoaching.com/podcast

🎯 Perfect For:
Corporate professionals, mid-career professionals, executives, HR leaders, DEI champions, wellness coordinators, and anyone navigating change while trying to lead with impact.

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What if your performance review wasn’t just a task… but a career-defining opportunity?

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, leadership coach Bernadette Boas flips the script on how corporate professionals — both employees and managers — should approach performance reviews.

Whether you're writing your own self-assessment or giving feedback to your team, this episode is your blueprint for using performance reviews to own your impact, build trust, and elevate careers.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• 🎯 Why your performance review is your personal press release
• ✍️ The 4 essential elements every self-assessment must include
• 🚫 The dangerous cost of vague, sugar-coated feedback
• 💡 How managers can turn reviews into true leadership moments
• 📈 How to align your story with strategic business outcomes
• 🤝 Why trust and growth begin with the words you use

Whether you're aiming for your next promotion or striving to lead with impact, this episode will help you make your review — and your voice — truly powerful.

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• Instagram: @SheddingTheBitch
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This week on Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette sits down with powerhouse executive coach and social psychologist Dr. Benah Parker of Level 42 Consulting to unpack the real habits sabotaging today’s high-achieving leaders — and how to reclaim your power through presence, resilience, and redefining success.

From overworking and under-delegating to struggling with control and burnout, Dr. Parker shares how the very habits that got you promoted may now be holding you — and your team — back. Through actionable insights and bold truths, you'll learn how to lead with trust, authenticity, and alignment, while still crushing results.

This conversation is for ambitious professionals and executives ready to stop surviving and start leading — with presence, purpose, and power.

🎧 Listen now to learn:

• Why “executive presence” is NOT about confidence or clothing — and what it truly takes
• How perfectionism is actually self-sabotage (and how to overcome it)
• Why redefining success is essential for sustainable leadership
• What overachievers must do to lead without burning out
• The surprising power of boundaries, delegation, and trust
• Why managing up and gathering feedback are leadership superpowers

💥 Whether you're climbing the ladder or managing a large team, this episode will shift how you think about leadership, success, and showing up as your best self — at work and beyond.

Dr. Benah Parker
Executive Coach & Founder, Level 42 Consulting
🔗 level42consulting.com
📲 LinkedIn: @BenahParker | Instagram: @Level42Consulting

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Are you really showing up for your team—or just checking the boxes?

In today’s high-pressure corporate landscape, being “available” isn’t enough. Your team craves something deeper: leadership that’s emotionally present, strategically engaged, and physically connected—even in a remote world.

In this bold and transformational episode, Bernadette Boas, executive coach and former corporate exec, pulls back the curtain on what it truly means to lead with presence. If your team is burned out, disengaged, or quietly quitting, this episode will hit home—and give you a plan to turn things around fast.

You’ll discover:

• 🔍 The difference between availability and true presence
• 🚩 The hidden costs of leaders who don’t show up (think: burnout, turnover, lost trust)
• 🛠️ 5 powerful strategies to lead with clarity, connection, and confidence
• 💬 Why recognition, listening, and emotional intelligence are your greatest leadership tools
• 🔁 The leadership mindsets that stop progress—and how to flip them

Whether you’re leading 2 people or 200, this episode is your roadmap to becoming the kind of leader your team brags about—not bails on.

🔥 Perfect for:

Corporate professionals, executive managers, team leaders, HR executives, and any ambitious leader ready to ditch burnout leadership and show up with power and purpose.

👉 Listen now and take the first step toward becoming a powerhouse leader.
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Feeling stuck in the grind of a “successful” career that doesn’t light you up anymore?

This episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch is a no-fluff conversation every high-performing leader, HR executive, and ambitious professional needs to hear. Host Bernadette Boas sits down with Tammy Alvarez, former Wall Street executive turned CEO of Career Winners Circle, who left the corner office behind to build a life and business she actually loves—and now teaches others to do the same.

Tammy pulls back the curtain on the corporate myths that keep professionals stuck, including the biggest lie we tell ourselves about career control. You’ll walk away with bold, actionable strategies for taking back your power, building a personal brand that gets noticed, and even negotiating for your worth—without waiting for permission.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• Why loving Mondays isn’t a fantasy—and how to make it your reality
• The “CEO of You” mindset and how to use it to drive your career
• What really happens behind closed doors in the C-suite (and how to play the game)
• How to create a Stakeholder Heat Map to build influence across your company
• How to say “yes, and…” to your boss while setting boundaries
• Why it's time to stop waiting for recognition—and start leading your own narrative

Whether you're an executive leader, HR professional, or someone at a career crossroads, this episode will give you the clarity and tools to move from burnout to boldness.

👤 About Our Guest:

Tammy Alvarez is the founder of Career Winners Circle, a career and leadership coaching firm that empowers professionals to build fulfilling careers they love—without sacrificing income or impact. A former Wall Street Managing Director, Tammy now lives in Mexico City and coaches professionals across the globe to break the rules and thrive on their own terms.

🔗 Learn more: https://www.careerwinnerscircle.com

• Tammy’s book: Escaping the Career Traps (Available on Amazon)

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Bernadette Boas on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas

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We are celebrating working moms. Happy Mother's Day!

In this episode, Bernadette Boas shines a spotlight on working moms—both celebrating their invaluable role in our lives and in today's corporate world. Whether you're a mom, colleague, manager, or executive, you won’t want to miss Bernadette’s deep dive into the unique skills and perspectives that working mothers bring to the professional table.

Bernadette answers real questions from her clients and listeners, tackling everything from how working moms can leverage their multitasking and organizational superpowers, to setting boundaries and battling workplace bias. She offers powerful, tactical advice on how mothers (and all women in business) can focus on their professional development, manage guilt, and honor their own achievements—while blending career aspirations with personal fulfillment.

Tune in for actionable strategies that help you build a rock-solid support system, set clear goals, assert your value, and maintain that ever-important work-life integration. This episode is a must-listen for corporate professionals striving for success, authenticity, and balance—especially those looking to support or become outstanding working parents.

What You’ll Learn:
- The unique leadership and management strengths working moms contribute to teams and organizations
- Practical strategies to prevent burnout and set boundaries at work and at home
- Key pitfalls to avoid as you pursue your personal and professional goals
- How to combat guilt, overcome bias, and advocate for your advancement
- Steps to build a strong support network, seek mentorship, and prioritize continuous learning

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Hold on tights, as this episode is all about thriving as your authentic self during transformative times, and our guest, Tracy Nolan, Senior Vice President with Humana, is sharing her journey from growing up with prim and proper roots in upstate New York to leading through historic transformations, including the Sprint T Mobile merger during COVID and spearheading hurricane relief in Puerto Rico.

In this episode, Tracy shares:

• The critical leadership skills needed to navigate large-scale crises and transformations.
• Why women don’t have to choose between compassion and strength—and how embracing both makes you a more effective leader.
• How to build a strong, actionable culture that drives results far beyond PowerPoints and posters.
• And the power of taking risks, leaning into change, and believing in yourself to grow your career and your team.

If you’ve ever wondered how to lead authentically while driving transformation, Tracy’s insights will inspire and challenge you to embrace bold opportunities.

Key Discussion Points:

1. Authentic Leadership
2. Navigating Challenges
3. Mentors and Sponsors
4. Building a Culture Beyond Posters
5. Taking Risks

Connect with Tracy Nolan:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyenolan/
• Instagram: @10Benarski

For further insights, strategies, and guidance on becoming a powerhouse leader, don't forget to follow the show at ballafirecoaching.com/podcast.

Join us in this riveting conversation to learn how you can embrace bold opportunities and transform your leadership path by thriving as your most authentic self.

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Are you intentional about who sits at your table of career success?
In this thought-provoking episode, host Bernadette Boas dives deep into the essential relationships you need to fuel your career growth and personal transformation. She unpacks why creating a circle of influence—your own “Personal Board of Directors”—isn’t just a nice-to-have, but a critical strategy for anyone determined to thrive at any stage of their journey.

Challenges Professionals Face:

• Navigating corporate life or entrepreneurship without the right support system
• Confusing the roles of coaches, mentors, advocates, and sponsors
• Failing to seek or cultivate key relationships that impact advancement and opportunities
• Struggling to showcase your achievements or take the initiative for your own growth

Key Talking Points:

• Why Relationships Matter: Relationships are central to career and personal success. Bernadette illustrates how they influence opportunities, insights, and your overall trajectory.
• Roles Defined:
  • Coaches: Focused on performance, accountability, and short-term goal setting. May be internal, external, formal, or informal.
  • Mentors: Offer guidance based on their own experience, helping you navigate processes, people, and decision-making. Typically less structured and ad hoc.
  • Advocates: People within your organization who actively support and promote your accomplishments behind the scenes.
  • Sponsors: Influential leaders invested in your advancement, leveraging their own power to champion your high-visibility projects and opportunities.
  • Board of Directors: A carefully curated mix of all of the above, including those outside your professional sphere (friends, family, community leaders) for holistic advice.
• Debunking Myths: Coaching isn’t just for “troubled” employees—it’s a growth catalyst!
• Cultivating Relationships: Why building, maintaining, and giving back to your network provides career insurance at every level.

Bernadette encourages listeners to “shed the bitches”—ditch self-doubt, fear, and hesitancy—to become the powerhouse leader you’re meant to be. Whether you’re 30 or 65, it’s never too late (or early) to build the structures that will skyrocket your career and life.

Connect with Bernadette:

• LinkedIn: @BernadetteBoas
• Instagram: @balloffirebernadette
• Podcast updates: Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast

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Tune in, take notes, and step up—your Power Circle awaits!

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When was the last time someone stole your idea or explained something to you that you were the expert on? It happens more often than one thinks.

Welcome to another transformative episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast with Bernadette Boas. In this powerful conversation, executive coach Kelly Meerbott joins us to unpack the nuanced, often contentious issue of mansplaining and its impact on workplace dynamics and leadership credibility.

Episode Highlights:

• Understanding Mansplaining: Discover what mansplaining truly entails and its subtle mechanisms aimed at undermining confidence, particularly in women leaders.
• Real-Life Scenarios: Kelly shares insightful stories that illustrate how mansplaining shows up in professional settings and how women can unintentionally find themselves silenced or their ideas overshadowed.
• Strategies to Reclaim Ownership: Learn actionable strategies to elevate your confidence and leadership presence. From aligning with female colleagues for mutual support to mastering communication techniques like alpha tonality, gain insights on how to effectively reclaim your voice and ideas.
• The Role of Men in the Dialogue: Delve into the important role men play in dismantling patriarchal practices. Hear about the significance of allies and how both genders can collaboratively foster an inclusive environment.
• Inter-generational Advocacy: Explore the challenges and opportunities in bridging generational divides among women in corporate settings. Understand the importance of support networks and mentorship for elevating emerging female leaders.
• Practical Takeaways: Whether you're combating imposter syndrome or seeking to bolster your leadership style, Kelly offers profound advice on building enduring confidence, aligning with core values, and navigating corporate power dynamics with authenticity and strength.

Connect with Kelly Meerbott:

• Website: kellymeerbott.com
• LinkedIn: Find Kelly Meerbott on LinkedIn for insights and updates.

Join us as we tackle the intricacies of gender dynamics in the workplace, empowering you with the tools to lead with resilience and authenticity. Whether a victim of mansplaining or as someone striving to create a more inclusive work environment, this episode offers something valuable for everyone aiming to unleash their powerhouse potential.

Don't miss out—tune in now to accelerate your journey towards transformative leadership!

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When was the last time you got up to get into the day and realized you are just not in the mood, or you just don't care to do anything?

We all have those days. Sometimes, there are days and even weeks of it. If you're not careful, it can really sabotage your success.

In this episode of the "Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast," host Bernadette Boas dives deep into the real-world struggles of managing low-energy days and facing times when you're just not in the mood to tackle your responsibilities. "When You're Just Not In The Mood" explores the critical impact of these days on your personal and professional life, highlighting essential strategies for recognizing burnout and transforming your energy so you can show up for your team, the business, and you!

While at the same time, giving yourself grace that you just may need to take a break.

Bernadette shares personal anecdotes, powerful tips for self-assessment, and practical hacks to shift from feeling empty to energized.

This episode is a must-listen for leaders looking to maintain peak performance while juggling their rigorous commitments and self-care. Learn how adjusting your routine, giving yourself permission to rest, and leveraging simple practices can help reignite your focus and empowerment in the corporate realm.

Tune in to discover how you can be the best leader for your team and yourself by embracing self-care and adaptability.

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How often have you paused to ask yourself: What is my 'why,' and how can unlocking it transform the way I navigate my work and personal goals?

In this empowering episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas engages in a transformative conversation with Jannette Anderson, also known as the "Why Whisperer" as she shares her unique insights and proven strategies to help you discover and articulate your "why," enabling you to stand out and achieve both personal and professional success.

Challenges Explored:

• The struggle of identifying personal and professional "why" and its significance in achieving career goals.
• Overcoming core negative beliefs and stories that hinder personal growth.
• Navigating and thriving in work environments that may not align with your personal values or purpose.

Key Talking Points:

• What makes you stand out and how to convey it compellingly.
• The intersection of healing from the past and longing for the future as the essence of your "why."
• The importance of storytelling in personal branding and professional environments.
• Utilizing personal "why" to transform not just personal life but also to impact organizational and team dynamics.
• The concept of the "Genesis Story" and why it is crucial for self-presentation.

Connect with Us:

• Learn more about Jannette Anderson and her work at Maturepreneur World and follow her on Facebook @MaturepreneurWorld.
• Visit Jannette's website for Genesis Story training: Bodacity.ca/GenesisStory
• Connect with Bernadette Boas on LinkedIn for further insights and support - www.linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas

Whether you're looking to declutter your personal fears or rise as a powerhouse leader in your organization, this episode offers valuable perspectives to help you redefine your path with clarity and confidence.

Don't forget to subscribe for more empowering conversations, and share your thoughts and experiences with us. If you're ready to make bold strides in your leadership journey, reach out to Bernadette at coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall for a complimentary session.

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We all have the same amount of time in a day. So, why are some managers better people leaders than others?

In this episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, host Bernadette Boas delves deep into a common challenge faced by corporate and entrepreneurial leaders alike: effectively managing time to prioritize your people. Bernadette shares her insights and strategies for putting your team first, highlighting the pivotal role employees play as the number one asset in any organization.

Key Challenges Addressed:

• The conflict between existing commitments and dedicating time to employee engagement.
• Leaders’ struggle to make their people a top priority due to overloaded calendars.
• Difficulty in setting boundaries and learning to say "no" to less critical tasks.

Key Talking Points:

1. The Priority of People: Bernadette challenges leaders to question if they’re truly making their people their number one asset. Through global client experiences, she reveals the disconnect many employees feel despite leadership’s intentions.
2. Time Management and Prioritization: The episode dives into practical methods for time management, urging leaders to re-evaluate their schedules. Bernadette emphasizes the importance of creating ‘white space’ on calendars to engage with team members.
3. Setting SMARTY Goals: Bernadette introduces her unique approach to goal-setting, integrating the idea of personal accountability (the ‘Y’ for ‘You’) and aligning leadership goals with these metrics.
4. The Four Ds Strategy: Delegation, Delay, Deletion, and Doing – learn how harnessing these can streamline tasks and safeguard time for people-focused activities.
5. Time Blocking as a Tool: Discover how strategic time-blocking has transformed productivity and well-being for leaders and can create a balance between professional obligations and personal life.

For leaders eager to elevate their approach, this episode is a valuable resource for understanding and overcoming time management barriers. Tune in now to uncover ways to truly put your people first!

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Call To Action: If this episode resonates with you, consider booking a discovery call with Bernadette Boas to discuss transforming your leadership and team engagement strategies.

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Have you ever stopped to wonder if your difficult boss or colleague is just a challenging personality, or could it be that you yourself are unknowingly contributing to the toxic dynamic?

In our latest episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, host Bernadette Boas sits down with award-winning author Vicky Oliver to explore the complex world of workplace dynamics. With her book "Bad Bosses, Crazy Co-Workers, and Other Office Idiots" as a guide, Vicky shares her wealth of knowledge on how to effectively combat bullying, confront challenging colleagues, and maintain a learning mindset amidst workplace chaos.

Key Talking Points:

1. The Prevalence of Dysfunctional Workplace Personalities:
   • Revealing at least 17 distinct dysfunctional work styles.
   • From bully bosses to credit snatchers, understanding these categories is crucial for navigating workplace relationships.
2. Dealing with Bully Bosses:
   • Importance of documenting incidents and addressing the aggression calmly and strategically to earn respect.
   • How to handle an outburst, stressing the power of pausing and assessing the situation.
3. Self-Reflection and Personal Development:
   • The need for self-reflection and personal growth to understand one's role in workplace dynamics.
   • Evaluate whether they might unconsciously be contributing to their own challenges.
4. Strategies for HR and Leadership:
   • The responsibility of HR and company leadership in training and creating an environment where bully behaviors are not tolerated.
5. Power of Self-Awareness:
   • Listeners are reminded of the potential decision point of whether to remain in a toxic environment or move on, but with the caution that similar personalities exist elsewhere.

Connect with Vicki Oliver:

• LinkedIn: @VickyOliver
• Facebook: @VickyOliver
• Website: VickyOliver.com

Join us in exploring these rich insights and empowering transformations, ensuring that your journey through the corporate world is one of growth and leadership. SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW, LIKE, and REVIEW this episode on your favorite podcast platform.

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Are you truly aware of the cost your organization pays for ignoring mental health, not just in lost productivity, but in the unseen toll on your employees’ lives?"

Join host Bernadette Boas as she delves into the critical topic of mental health and well-being in the corporate world. This episode stresses the urgent necessity for businesses to treat mental health as a core business imperative rather than a mere afterthought.

Bernadette shares personal stories and statistics to underscore the profound impact mental health has on productivity, innovation, retention, and the overall success of a business.

Key Challenges Discussed:

• Acknowledging Underlying Issues
• The Cost of Ignoring Mental Health
• Internal Triggers Overlooked:

Key Talking Points:

• The Importance of Safe Spaces
• The Role of Leadership
• Investment in Well-Being Programs

Connect with Us:

Stay engaged with future episodes and dive deeper into valuable leadership and cultural insights by visiting ballafirecoaching.com/podcast. Follow us on YouTube at Shedding the Corporate Bitch TV for more content and perspectives.

Join us next time on Shedding the Corporate Bitch for more empowering conversations and leadership guidance.

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Are you truly being 100% honest and open with your team—or even yourself? What walls might you be building and what fake personas might you need to shed to become the powerhouse leader you're meant to be?

Are you ready to transform your leadership style by embracing real connections and genuine communication? Join us on the "Shedding the Corporate Bitch" podcast as we dive into a transformative discussion with Grace Gavin, co-founder and author of Know Honesty. In our latest episode, we explore the undeniable power of open and honest communication in the workplace.

Discover how honesty and openness can lead to significant financial gains, enhanced leadership collaboration, and stronger team relationships. Grace shares her expertise, offering actionable insights and six pivotal practices for transforming your team interactions.

Highlights include:

• Understanding the three essentials of honesty
• Identifying and overcoming the great divide in workplace communication
• Practical steps to eliminate fake interactions and break down walls
• How empathetic leadership can turn you into a powerhouse leader

Ready to ditch the corporate fasade and foster a culture of trust and transformative communication? Tune into this episode to unlock your potential and that of your team!

Download Your Free Lead Magnet: "The Open & Honest Leader's Toolkit"

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Don’t forget to revisit this episode for a refresher or share it with colleagues to foster a collective journey in becoming powerful leaders.

For personalized guidance, reach out to Bernadette at coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall for a free 30-minute strategy coaching call.

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Do you dread giving or receiving performance reviews? If so, what causes that anxiety, stress, or avoidance?

In this episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, host Bernadette Bowes dives deep into the world of performance reviews—those annual or semi-annual evaluations that often spark anxiety and uncertainty among employees and managers alike. Bernadette explores how mastering both giving and receiving feedback can unlock your career potential and transform performance reviews into a year-round strategy for growth.

Key Challenges Discussed:

• The common anxieties and misconceptions surrounding performance reviews.
• Balancing honesty with encouragement in feedback to avoid demotivating employees.
• The inadvertent biases that can skew a manager’s assessment and feedback.
• Creating a performance review culture that prevents surprise negative feedback.
• How a lack of detailed, specific, and constructive feedback can leave employees confused and disheartened.

Key Talking Points:

• The significance of viewing feedback as a gift that can reveal your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots.
• The necessity for managers to build trust and open communication channels, fostering a collaborative feedback environment.
• Implementing a notebook strategy for managers to document employee progress throughout the year.
• The challenges faced by employees in receiving feedback, including preparing mentally and emotionally to embrace performance evaluations.
• Strategies for both managers and employees to turn feedback into actionable plans for professional and personal development.

Social Media Handles:

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Remember, performance reviews should not be a dreaded formality but an opportunity for growth, trust-building, and career development. Whether you're giving or receiving feedback, embrace the opportunity to learn and improve. For more tips and to schedule a coaching session, reach out to Bernadette Bowes for personalized strategies. Share this episode with colleagues to foster an environment of constructive feedback and professional growth.

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How prepared are you to lead in a workplace that’s changing faster than ever before? As corporate executives, you’re facing unprecedented challenges—shifting workforce dynamics, evolving employee expectations, and relentless demands for adaptability.

Is your leadership evolving to meet these demands, or are you stuck in outdated methods that no longer work?

Bernadette Boas is joined by Vanessa Juldeman, President of Mosaic People Development, to delve into the rapidly evolving landscape of leadership in today's corporate world. With over 20 years of experience with top organizations such as Campbell Soup and the UN, Vanessa shares her expertise on how leaders need to adapt to meet the demands of an ever-changing work environment.

Key Challenges Explored:

• Navigating unprecedented workplace challenges and shifting workforce dynamics.
• Addressing the macro and micro-level changes in organizational structures.
• Dealing with the lack of self-awareness, strategic insight, and insufficient education among leaders.

Key Talking Points:

1. The New World of Leadership
2. Essential Leadership Skills
3. Five Powerful Tools to Lead Successfully
4. Balancing Task and Relationship Orientations

Resources and Links:

• Dive deeper with Vanessa's book, Mastering Leadership,available at mosaicpd.com.
• Connect with Vanessa Judelman through Mosaic People Development's website for more insights.

Stay Connected: Follow Bernadette Boas and the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast on social media to join the conversation and receive updates on future episodes.

Don't forget to revisit this episode for a refresher or share it with colleagues to foster a collective journey in becoming powerful leaders. For personalized guidance, reach out to Bernadette at coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall.

We're thrilled to have you with us and look forward to embarking on this transformation journey together!

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Have you ever felt like you're achieving success on paper, but deep down you're not fulfilled with who you've become as a leader or person?

Bernadette's diving into the profound yet simple questions that uncover what you really want out of life, drawing from my own experiences of transition from a high-powered corporate career to a more fulfilling path of self-awareness and leadership, and providing you a process for discovering the powerhouse leader within you.

Key Challenges Discussed:

• The struggle to identify one’s true desires amidst external expectations and self-imposed limitations.
• The difficulty of acknowledging personal shortcomings and negative behavioral patterns.
• The fear of confronting truths about oneself and the impact on professional and personal relationships.

Key Talking Points:

• The revelation of the five key steps necessary for self-discovery and transformation: Discover, Confront, Shed, Create, and Accelerate.
• The importance of journaling, meditation, and continuous learning in the journey of self-discovery.
• How personal development can transform leadership styles and career objectives.

Takeaways:

• Embrace the journey of self-discovery by asking yourself deep questions and challenging surface-level answers.
• Recognize and confront fears and negativities to make room for growth and genuine transformation.
• By shedding what doesn’t serve you and focusing on your true desires, you can create profound changes in both personal and professional realms.

Connect with Us: Start your journey of transformation today. For further guidance on discovering and achieving your personal and professional goals, reach out to Bernadette for a complimentary 30-minute discovery call at coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall.

Join us in evolving beyond corporate expectations to become the leaders we were meant to be, both in our careers and in our personal lives. Tune in for more episodes and engage with our community at Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast.

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Bernadette Boas is getting into a difficult and intimate conversation with guest, Gabriella Rosa, all about fertility, and in many cases, infertility.

Gabriela shares her profound insights on how workplace pressures impact both men and women on their fertility journey, and provides actionable strategies to optimize health and improve chances of conceiving a healthy baby.

Episode Highlights:

1. Gabriela's Personal Fertility Journey
2. Impact of Stress on Male Fertility
3. Stress and Female Fertility
4. Optimizing Fertility - Key Strategies

Mentioned Resources:

• Gabriela Rosa's Book: Fertility Breakthrough: Overcoming Infertility and Recurrent Miscarriage When Other Treatments Have Failed. Available FREE on Spotify and YouTube
• You can buy the book on Amazon and other major booksellers
• Gabriela's Podcast: TalkSex with Gabriela Rosa - fertilitybreakthrough.com

Connect with Gabriela Rosa on Instagram @GabrielaRosaFertility

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Join us in the conversation and take the first step towards shedding the corporate pressures that impede your personal and professional growth. Don't miss our future episodes where we'll continue to explore transformative journeys and actionable insights. Until next time, keep shedding, keep growing, and keep leading!

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When was the last time your trust was broken by a leader, and how did it impact your performance and commitment to the organization?

In this powerful episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, Bernadette Boas explores the critical importance of trust in corporate leadership and its impact on organizational success. Drawing from recent research and real-world examples, she delivers actionable insights for leaders looking to build stronger, more effective teams.

Key Highlights:

• The trust gap revealed
• How remote work has exposed leadership trust issues and management challenges
• The significant financial impact of trust:
• Three key strategies for building a trust-based culture

Resources Mentioned:

• coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall
• Patrick Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions of a Team"
• Google's Project Aristotle findings

Perfect for corporate leaders seeking to:

• Improve team productivity and engagement
• Reduce turnover and increase retention
• Build stronger cross-cultural teams
• Navigate remote/hybrid work environments effectively

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Do you know what your personal brand is at work, and how other's view that brand?

If you don't, you really need to, as it conveys to everyone around you, especially your boss(es), how others perceive, know, trust, and like you, and what that means to advancement.

In this episode, Bernadette is joined by Mitchell Levy, a thought leader and expert on credibility and clarity with Credibility Nation, to delve into critical strategies for achieving clarity in the professional world, the importance of credibility, and actionable steps to enhance leadership integrity. Mitchell also shares invaluable insights from his community "Clarity Superheroes" and introduces concepts like the Customer Point of Possibilities (CPOP).

Key Challenges Discussed:

• Lack of Clarity in Purpose and Mission
• Employee Disengagement
• Credibility and Authenticity

Key Talking Points:

1. Clarity Superheroes Community: Offers complimentary courses at aha.pub/superheroes
2. Customer Point of Possibilities (CPOP): A technique to simplify corporate mission, vision, and values for better employee engagement.
3. Importance of Integrity: Integrity as a crucial value for credibility, repeated in the 10 values of credibility.
4. Trust, Know, Like Model: An updated approach for the digital age, emphasizing the importance of trust based on online presence before familiarity and liking.

Connect with Mitchell Levy

• Website: mitchelllevy.com
• Clarity Superheroes Community: aha.pub/superheroes
• LinkedIn: Follow Mitchell Levy for more insights and updates

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Are you setting goals or just dreaming? Is your team aligned to the business goals you've passed down to them or are they spinning in confusion?

Do you have a process for setting, communicating, and pursuing your goals?

In this episode, Bernadette Boas delves into the art of effective goal setting within the corporate environment. She highlights the critical steps and strategies necessary for setting realistic, specific, and manageable goals that drive success and foster team collaboration. Understanding why many people fail at their New Year’s resolutions within the first 17 days, Bernadette shares key insights on maintaining motivation and focus. Tune in to learn actionable tips and avoid common pitfalls in goal setting!

For a team, goals provide e a clear direction, motivate team members to work together, enhance collaboration, and enable measurable progress, ultimately leading to better overall results and a stronger sense of purpose within the team. Without them, teams can lack focus and struggle to achieve optimal performance

We discuss:

• why most goals fail

• how to craft not just a powerful SMART goal but a SMARTY goal that actually work

• And the key do’s and don’ts to avoid the pitfalls that derail even the best intentions.

• Tools you can use

Whether you’re managing a team, a project, or your own career trajectory, this episode will give you actionable strategies to set goals that inspire action and deliver results.

Additional Resources:

• For a free SMARTY Goal template, visit: BallofFireCoaching

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Have you wanted to foster the ability to express and understand your emotions to better navigate success and challenges at work, and to find ways to internalize positive emotions so you can learn valuable lessons from your experiences to elevate your leadership.

In this inspiring episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, host Bernadette Boas sits down with Carrie Vanston, an accomplished executive coach and business strategist, to delve into the intricacies of emotional awareness, self-reflection, and leadership. Together, they unpack the challenges many face in expressing feelings tied to success, the importance of pausing to reflect on accomplishments, and the significance of intuitive listening and communication in fostering a positive workplace environment.

Key Topics:

1. Emotional Awareness:
2. Value of Reflection:
3. Win-Win Situations:
4. Communication Strategies:
5. Personal Practices for Mindset:
6. Celebrating Success:

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In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas explores the powerful role of gratitude in leadership and its profound impact on organizational culture, team performance, and personal growth.

Key Insights

• Serving Others Serves You
• Research-Backed Benefits
• The Role of Managers
• Overcoming Challenges
• Practical Practices

Key Take-Aways

• Gratitude leads to increased performance, engagement, trust, retention, and reduces burnout.
• Simple practices like reflections, team acknowledgments, and appreciative messages can build a positive work environment.
• Practicing gratitude can enhance leadership qualities and drive organizational success.

Challenges Addressed

• Integrating gratitude into busy schedules.
• Reframing gratitude as strong human connection.
• Identifying and overcoming leadership blind spots related to appreciation.

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Step into the new era of leadership with Bernadette Boas and special guest Thom Dennis from Serenity in Leadership. Together, we promise to uncover the secrets to thriving as a corporate leader amid the relentless pace of change fueled by AI advancements and societal shifts.

Thom's unique perspective, grounded in his experiences as a former Royal Marine officer and global consultant, provides practical tools for embracing flexibility, resilience, and compassionate vulnerability. From navigating the challenges of hybrid work environments to understanding the implications of quantum computing and climate change, this episode offers a masterclass in adapting to the dynamic corporate landscape.

Join us as we delve into the transformative power of AI across industries and the ethical dilemmas it presents, particularly the potential loss of the human touch in customer service and its psychological impacts.

We also confront the resistance facing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, questioning the genuine intentions behind organizational change. Highlighting companies like Patagonia, we explore how prioritizing passion can lead to meaningful progress in a post-pandemic world.

Whether you're an executive aiming to shed insecurities or an HR leader seeking effective strategies, prepare to challenge traditional models and step confidently into your role as a powerhouse leader.

Call to Action:

• Learn more about Tom Dennis and his work:
  • Serenity in Leadership
  • LinkedIn
• Tune in to learn how you can start shedding your corporate constraints and unlock your leadership potential.
• Stay connected by subscribing to the "Shedding the Corporate Bitch" podcast on platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

Listen to this powerful episode—it's time to face the changes and challenges in leadership and become the powerhouse you already are.

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What is causing your stress and overwhelm, is it your packed calendar or multiple-page to-do list?

It is critical for the health and success of your team and you to find solutions to managing your time and workload. It will save your sanity. Despite the demanding nature of leadership roles, effective time management emerges as a powerful antidote to these pervasive problems.

You will gain actionable insights on mastering time management to mitigate stress and burnout. By implementing the strategies discussed, leaders can enhance their performance, support their teams effectively, and prevent high-potential employees from leaving.

Challenges Addressed:

1. Workplace Stress:
   • 35% of respondents identify their supervisor as a primary source of stress.
   • 65% of leaders experience burnout.
   • Only 27% feel adequately supported by their organization.
   • Fear of top-performing employees leaving due to burnout, cited by 71% of managers.
2. Leadership Pressure:
   • Executives feeling overwhelmed, leading to 44% contemplating company switches for better growth opportunities.
   • High stress levels contributing to sleep disturbances in 94% of leaders.
3. Common Stress Factors:
   • The myth of multitasking.
   • Overfilled calendars.
   • Technological distractions.

Impact on Corporate Life:

• Individual Consequences:
  • Poor time management leads to reduced productivity, performance, and career stagnation.
  • Work-life imbalance and mental fatigue from managing people and providing feedback.
• Business Consequences:
  • Decreased team and business performance.
  • Increased employee turnover.
  • Negative brand reputation due to stressed and dissatisfied employees.

Valuable Takeaways:

1. Personal Strategies for Time Management
2. Organizational Strategies
3. Team Performance Solutions

Call to Action:

• Tune in to learn how you can start shedding your corporate constraints and unlock your leadership potential.
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Rank or position does not make you a leader. So what does?

Welcome to another insightful episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast! In this episode, Bernadette Boas sits down with Julia Becker Collins to discuss the transformative journey from being a task-focused boss to becoming an empathetic, servant leader. Dive in as we explore the trending concepts of micromanagement, trust, accountability, and how leaders can foster an open, supportive work environment that shifts them away from just being a manager to an actual leader who inspires, motivates, and develops a high-functioning team.

Julia shares tips, strategies and client stories regarding:

🔹 Trust and Effective Leadership

🔹 Recognizing Individual Strengths

🔹 Mentorship and Creating Safe Spaces

🔹 Empathy and Vulnerability

🔹 Servant Leadership in Action

You'll walk away with a deeper understanding of how to:

1. Build trust by focusing on results, not controlling every process.
2. Support your team by allowing them to work to their strengths while helping them develop weaker areas.
3. Create a safe space for honest communication and provide necessary resources.
4. Empower and inspire your team to reach their full potential.
5. Regular check-ins can significantly enhance trust and productivity.
6. Support employees by acknowledging personal challenges and their impact on work.

Follow Julia Becker Collins -

• Twitter: @juliabeckercollins
• LinkedIn: @Julia Becker Collins

Tune in to transform your approach from merely managing tasks to inspiring and leading with empathy and purpose.

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Have you ever gotten into a car, drove for miles, and reached your destination unsure of exactly how you go there? It was if you put the car on autopilot.

Now, have you had days, weeks, even months of this at the job and at home, wondering at the end of each day, what you accomplished, who you impacted, and what contribution did you make?

Don't worry if you said YES... because at times we all have. The key is, that we become aware of it and ensure we shift to consciously and intentionally walking through our day with purpose and meaning.

In this eye-opening episode of "Shedding the Corporate Bitch," we'll get into the realm of unconscious leadership and its detrimental effects on team dynamics, trust, productivity, and innovation. Drawing from both my own personal experiences and professional insights, you'll hear how the importance of self-awareness and continuous feedback in overcoming unconscious behaviors and evolving into a conscious leader is critical to your success.

This episode is a must-listen for any professional, HR executive, or team leader striving to create an engaging and inclusive workplace culture.

Key Talking Points:

• Unconscious Leadership Explained
• Challenges Faced by Unconscious Leaders
• Impact on Business
• How to Transform into a Conscious Leader

Key Takeaways:

• Recognize and address personal blind spots and biases
• Move from task-focused to people-focused leadership
• Getting and giving continuous feedback and self-assessment
• Empower your teams through inclusive and engaging leadership
• Develop intentional and conscious behavior for overall success

Resources and Call to Action:

• For additional resources on leadership development, visit balloffirecoaching.com.
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• Connect with Bernadette Boas for coaching and support in becoming a conscious and effective leader by scheduling a call HERE.

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What if you could take control of those anxious emotions that come up when work and life become uncertain?

In this episode we are working to understand the world of uncertainty in leadership and life with renowned cognitive scientist and expert in emotional intelligence, Katherine Templar Lewis.

This episode unpacks the profound impact of uncertainty on leadership and how leveraging it can lead to innovation, enhanced decision-making, and stronger team dynamics.

Guest Bio: Katherine Templar Lewis is the chief scientist at the Uncertainty Experts, founder of the All Women Neuroscience Studio and Labs King Studios, and leads the science on the groundbreaking interactive course, the Uncertainty Experiment. Her passion for unlocking human potential is rooted in her personal experiences with anxiety and imposter syndrome.

Key Discussion Points:

1. Evolving Leadership Models:
   • The necessity of shifting traditional leadership frameworks to better navigate today’s rapidly changing global landscape.
   • How leaders can facilitate open-mindedness and innovative decision-making within their teams.
2. Emotional Intelligence in Leadership:
   • The critical role of emotional awareness and regulation in decision-making processes.
   • Techniques for improving emotional intelligence, such as breath work and interoception.
3. Overcoming the Fear of Uncertainty:
   • Reframing uncertainty as an opportunity rather than something to fear.
   • The importance of identifying and overcoming safety behaviors that limit potential.
4. The "Tolerance of Uncertainty Scale":
   • Understanding and measuring individuals' emotional reactions to uncertainty.
   • Tools and exercises, such as positive affirmations and envisioning positive outcomes, to enhance tolerance of uncertainty.
5. Psychological Safety and Empathy:
   • Creating a psychologically safe environment where team members feel empowered to share ideas without judgment.
   • Enhancing empathy to improve team dynamics and leadership effectiveness.
6. Personal Reflections:
   • Katherine shares her journey of managing anxiety and imposter syndrome, offering insights into how these experiences shaped her research and approach to leadership.
   • The significance of admitting uncertainty and the power of collective problem-solving in fostering trust within a team.

Take-Aways:

• Embracing uncertainty and vulnerability is not a sign of weakness but a path to growth, innovation, and stronger leadership.
• Leaders equipped with high emotional intelligence and empathy are better positioned to navigate complex and uncertain situations.
• By acknowledging and managing uncertainty, leaders can foster a supportive and collaborative environment conducive to creativity and effective decision-making.

Connect & Subscribe:

• Follow Katherine Templar Lewis on LinkedIn and Instagram: @TheUncertaintyExperts
• Visit uncertaintyexperts.com

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If you were to describe your leadership style in 1 word, what would it be? Does that word convey executive presence?

In this encore episode, Bernadette dives deep into the depths of self-assessment to help you uncover your true leadership potential and develop a commanding executive presence.

Whether you're a seasoned executive or aspiring to climb the corporate ladder, this episode is packed with valuable insights designed to transform understanding of self into unstoppable leadership strength.

Key Challenges Discussed:

· Understanding and identifying your blind spots

· Maintaining composure and controlling stressors, crucial for effective leadership.

· Overcoming indecisiveness to take swift and informed actions as a leader.

· Embracing flexibility and continuous learning in dynamic corporate environments.

Actionable Takeaways:
1. How to conduct a thorough self-assessment to enhance self-awareness.
2. What to ask to gain feedback to understand perceptions and reality.
3. Defining and pursuing personal and professional development goals.

In order to advance in your career and in the minds of the decision makers around you, you need to be intentional about honing your executive presence.

Not sure how? Schedule a discovery call and let Bernadette give you specific tips based on where you are in your career. coachmebernadette.com

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What does it truly mean to create safe spaces at work?Are you aligning your personal values with your professional life?

Melissa Bachnight joins us to unpack the layers of psychological safety and empowerment in today’s workplaces. Learn from Melissa as she shares insightful strategies for leaders to embrace their authentic selves, leading with empathy, resilience, and a genuine commitment to aligning personal and professional lives with core values.

We'll explore the idea of being a "manifesting generator" and the powerful role of intuition in pursuing multiple passions.

Challenges Discussed:

• Burnout and Lack of Self-awareness
• Suppressed Voices
• Impacts of Unsupportive Workplaces

Key Takeaways:

• Learn about the importance of addressing well-being before reaching a crisis.
• How having a coach or mentor can make a significant difference.
• Insight into creating workspaces that offer executive coaching and personal development resources.

Throughout our conversation, we touch on the significance of finding your voice, from early childhood influences to the power of environments that encourage self-expression. Melissa shares her journey with generous leaders who have championed her growth, illustrating the importance of fostering spaces where everyone is empowered to use their voice.

Join us for an episode rich with insights and stories that challenge societal norms and encourage exploration of diverse interests, paving the way for a more fulfilling professional and personal life.

Access her Life Alignment Worksheet and other free tools for personal growth on Melissa’s website: thenovaglobal.com

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What challenges do you have confronting a difficult employee, let alone a boss?

Why would you avoid confronting them?

In this powerful episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Bernadette Boas dives deep into confronting toxic employees and bosses, providing listeners with actionable steps and insightful perspectives on handling negativity in the workplace. Through practical advice and personal experiences, Bernadette highlights the critical importance of addressing toxic behavior head-on for the well-being of individuals and overall business success.

Challenges Discussed:

• Fear of retaliation or aggressive responses.
• Lack of conflict management training and clarity on policy and procedures.
• Apprehension about legal repercussions and impact on career trajectory.
• Managing emotions and maintaining boundaries during confrontation.

Key Talking Points:

1. Why is someone toxic?
2. Steps to Effectively Confront a Bully:
3. Your Leadership Role:
4. Collaborative Solutions and Boundaries:
5. Dealing with Uncooperative Parties:
6. Personal Experience and Growth:

Take-Aways:

• Address toxic behavior despite discomfort to protect personal well-being and business interests.
• Understanding and addressing root causes of toxic behavior can facilitate positive change.
• Leaders play a critical role in guiding and supporting their team to navigate and resolve conflicts.

Check out our previous episode: "Toxic Bosses Killed Teams and Businesses", to learn how to identify a toxic employee.

If you need support for coaching and practical tools to manage workplace toxicity, explore Ball of Fire Coaching.

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Are you feeling stuck and unmotivated in your corporate career, and longing for a way to take back control and reignite your passion?

In this transformative episode of "Shedding the Corporate Bitch," host Bernadette Boas dives deep with executive coach, Randi Roberts, to discuss how professionals can regain control over their careers and life decisions. Randi shares her journey from feeling unmotivated in a corporate role to thriving as an entrepreneur, highlighting the importance of strategic planning, self-awareness, and effective communication.

This episode is packed with actionable advice for anyone looking to align their career with their personal values and take their professional life to the next level.

Key Talking Points:

• Navigating Career Dissatisfaction:
  • Steps to take control of your career rather than being driven by external factors.
  • How to identify what feels wrong or missing and address it within your current role if possible.
  • The importance of strategic planning in aligning career moves with long-term goals.
• Building Your Personal "Board of Directors":
  • The value of forming a supportive network of mentors, advisors, friends, or supervisors.
  • Selecting the right people based on the type of support or advice needed.
  • Trust and selective openness within your inner circle.
• Preparation for Critical Conversations:
  • Importance of preparing for difficult discussions, similar to a job interview.
  • Tips on outlining and practicing communication to manage emotions and achieve desired outcomes.
• Strategic Career Planning:
  • Creating a strategic career plan to evaluate opportunities and align them with long-term goals.
  • Managing emotions as part of strategic planning.
• Future-Oriented Thinking:
  • Thinking like a strategic leader now to pave the way for future opportunities.
  • Demonstrating qualities that leaders value to open doors for new roles.

Take-Aways:

• Take control of your career by determining what truly aligns with your values and long-term goals.
• Build a trusted network of advisors and be selective about who you include in your inner circle.
• Prepare thoroughly for important conversations to effectively manage emotions and outcomes.
• Maintain strategic thinking and planning to evaluate opportunities objectively and stay aligned with your career aspirations.
• Ask for help confidently and leverage the support around you to navigate career transitions or challenges.

Connect with Us:

• Podcast Host Bernadette Boas:
  • Website: http://www.balloffirecoaching.com
  • Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette
  • LinkedIn:Bernadette Boas
• Guest Randi Roberts:
  • LinkedIn:Randi Roberts
  • Randi's Website: https://www.corlinroberts.net/

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What is your experience in dealing with a toxic boss or team member? How do they leave you feeling about them, the work, and yourself?

In this eye-opening episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, our host Bernadette Boas delves deep into the world of toxic bosses and employees and how they kill teams and businesses, providing essential insights and practical strategies to identify and manage toxic behaviors within organizations.

Drawing from her personal experience as a former toxic boss, Bernadette shares her journey of self-reflection and transformation to shed light on the impacts and signs of toxic leadership.

Key Talking Points:

• Differentiating Leaders from Toxic Bosses
• Traits of Toxic Individuals
• How Toxic Bosses Kill Team and Businesses
• Addressing Toxic Behaviors

Major Takeaways:

1. Proactive Identification
2. Support Tools
3. Encouragement NOT Punishment for Change
4. Put Culture over Results

Listeners are encouraged to reach out for support and utilize resources like coaching, training, and skill development with Bernadette for handling toxic work situations. Visit Ball of Fire Coaching for more resources.

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE and FOLLOW to the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast on your favorite platform to be notified of new episodes! Tune in November 5th for a discussion on Confronting a Toxic Boss!

Join Us Next Time: Stay tuned for future episodes where Bernadette dives deeper into understanding and tackling specific toxic traits in the workplace to foster effective leadership and a healthier work environment.

Thank you for listening to this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast. Remember, transformation is possible, and it starts with shedding toxic behaviors to unleash the true leader within.

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Are you lifting up or stifling your employees’ unique strengths and skills?

Welcome to another powerhouse of an episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast with your host, Bernadette Boas, and guest, Michelle Hoffman, author of "The New Management Blueprint" and "Life Worth Living," to explore the profound impact of interdepartmental synergies, leadership dynamics, and “relationshipping” on organizational success.

Michelle, a seasoned leader and relationship coach, brings her wealth of experience from various industries to share actionable insights on transforming corporate culture without incurring additional costs.

3 Challenges Addressed:

1. Overcoming Managerial Failures: Addressing the startling statistic that 60% of new managers fail within their first 24 months.

2. Dealing with Stifling Managers: Strategies for managing "eucalyptus managers" who hinder organizational growth.

3. Creating Effective Interdepartmental Synergies: Boosting productivity and achieving goals without additional costs.

Key Talking Points:

1. The New Management Blueprint: A revolutionary approach to identifying organizational "treasures" and necessary skills.

2. Understanding Employee Motivations: How tapping into what drives your team can lead to mutual success.

3. Case Study Success: Real-world examples of transforming organizational culture through intellectual engagement.

Take-Aways:

1. Empowerment Without Loss of Control: Learn how empowering others to lead can enhance your own leadership.

2. Redefining Roles for Stifling Managers: Redirecting fewer effective managers to roles that better suit their expertise.

3. The Power of Relationshipping: Building strong professional relationships to support collective goals and personal growth.

Learn how harnessing interdepartmental synergies and transformative leadership can elevate your organization to new heights!

Listen to this episode and more on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
For additional resources and coaching services, visit Ball of Fire Coaching to propel your team’s performance to new heights.

Connect with Michelle Hoffman:

• Website: https://www.michellehoffman.com

• Check out her Books:

· Life Worth Living

· The New Management Blueprint

• LinkedIn: Michelle Hoffman

Thank you for joining us on this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast. Stay tuned, stay inspired, and remember – you are destined to be a powerhouse leader!

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Are you feeling overwhelmed by your transition from an individual contributor to a leadership role? What are the specific challenges you face as you navigate this critical shift?

Welcome to another powerhouse of an episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast with your host, Bernadette Boas. Today, we dive deep into the tumultuous yet rewarding journey of leadership, especially for those new to the role or seasoned managers who still find themselves struggling.

Key Challenges Discussed:

• Navigating the Shift in Role from individual contributer to a people manager
• Consistent Feedback
• Calm Leadership in Uncertain Environments

3 Key Takeaways from 12 Skills and Attributes critical to leadership:

1. Meet Employees Where They Are: Understand the external factors and internal struggles that affect your team members. Empathizing with their conditions can lead to better connection and motivation.
2. Leadership Attributes: Prioritize working on three out of the twelve key leadership attributes Bernadette outlines. This focused approach can significantly enhance engagement and support within your team.
3. Empowerment over Micromanagement: Trust your team members and avoid constant oversight. Empower them with opportunities beyond their defined roles to prevent boredom and improve job satisfaction.

Connect with Bernadette: Reach out to Bernadette on LinkedIn or schedule a complimentary 30-minute discovery call for personalized advice and coaching if you or your team need guidance on leading with influence, confidence, and empowerment. www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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For additional resources and coaching services, visit Ball of Fire Coaching to propel your team’s performance to new heights.

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Welcome to Episode 10.1 of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast! In this powerful and transformative episode, Bernadette Boas sits down with Jada Willis, an experienced HR professional and executive coach, to discuss the secrets behind effective time management, intentional leadership, and fostering a values-driven workplace culture.

🔑 Key Discussion Points:

• Sunday Planning Mastery: Hear about her unique 5D Process that categorizes tasks into "Do now", "Do later", "Never do", "Delegate", and "Do not ever do".
• Setting Weekly Priorities: Learn how Jada establishes five key priorities each week based on her quarterly goals. This intentional planning method ensures alignment with long-term objectives.
• Energy Management and Time Multiplication: Discover how to structure your day based on personal energy levels, crucial for maintaining productivity and effectiveness. Jada shares her insights on prioritizing creative tasks in the morning and allocating mundane tasks to times of lower energy.
• Leadership and Accountability: Dive into the significance of self-leadership and accountability in driving organizational success. Jada explains why holding oneself and others accountable is vital, and provides tips for fostering a supportive environment that encourages transparent communication.
• Core Values-Driven Culture: Jada emphasizes the necessity of having clear, challenging core values that guide every aspect of the business. Learn how to use core values in strategic planning, performance reviews, and decision-making processes.

💡 Take-Aways:

1. Comprehensive Planning:
2. Start your week with a clear plan and prioritize tasks to ensure alignment with your goals.
3. Self-Leadership:
4. Practice self-care and maintain accountability to lead effectively.
5. Energy-Driven Time Management:
6. Align tasks with your energy levels to maximize productivity.
7. Intentional Culture Building:
8. Infuse your organization's core values into every decision and interaction.
9. Daily Self-Reflection:
10. Engage in daily journaling and self-awareness exercises to continuously improve your leadership and personal development.

Resource:

• Free Download: "Five Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Business" available at jadawillis.com

Be sure to connect:

• Follow Jada Willis on LinkedIn for more insights and updates.
• Connect with Bernadette and the Shedding the Corporate Bitch community on Instagram

Join us in this episode as we uncover the transformative practices that lead to enhanced productivity, better work-life balance, and a thriving organizational culture. Don’t miss out on these powerful insights!

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In this episode, Breaking Down Silos: Effective Strategies for Cross-Functional Teamwork, host Bernadette Boas dives deep into the essential topic of trust in leadership and the myriad of challenges cross-functional team leaders face. She imparts valuable strategies for building relationships, fostering mutual respect, and ensuring effective communication in a corporate environment, especially in an era of hybrid work settings.

Key Challenges Discussed:

1. Trust in Leadership:
2. Addressing Communication Gaps:
3. Bridging Skill and Knowledge Gaps:
4. Aligning Objectives:
5. Accountability and Decision-Making:
6. Importance of Organizational Culture:
7. and more...

Bernadette shares an insightful personal experience of leading a system integration for two merging companies, underscoring the importance of relationship building, strategic planning, communication, and at the core, establishing trust.

Are you ready to transform your leadership approach and effectively manage cross-functional teams? Book a personalized strategy session with Bernadette by visiting coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall.

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Thank you for tuning in! Remember, effective leadership starts with personal growth. Keep shedding those corporate bitches and growing into the leader you are meant to be. See you next time!

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In this compelling episode of "Shedding the Corporate Bitch," host Bernadette Boas delves deep into the world of behavioral change, leadership development, and conflict resolution with her guest, Karen Brown of Exponential Results. Karen shares her extensive experience in helping clients unearth deeply ingrained behavioral patterns and offers practical tools for establishing new, productive pathways to achieve greater success both in corporate environments and personal endeavors.

Challenges Discussed:

• Ineffectively managing conflict due to unconscious behavioral patterns.
• The difficulty of identifying and changing deep-seated, often subconscious, habits.
• Common leadership pitfalls such as lack of self-awareness, inconsistency, and inauthenticity.
• Overcoming ingrained fears and misconceptions that hold individuals back.

Key Talking Points:

1. Behavioral Change through Neuroplasticity
2. The Role of Neuroscience
3. Practical Strategies for Leaders

Key Takeaways:

• Recognize and Transform Patterns
• Effective Conflict Management
• Leadership Habits
• Neuroscientific Tools

Resources and Contact Information:

• For more insights and resources, visit Karen's website at https://yourexponentialresults.com/
• Grab a copy of Karen’s book, "Unlimiting Your Beliefs: 7 Keys to Greater Success" on
  Amazon
• Connect with Karen Brown via LinkedIn: Karen Brown

Begin your journey of overcoming fear, insecurity, and doubt by using the techniques discussed in this episode. Start creating meaningful and successful experiences in both your work and personal life today.

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What are the biggest challenges when it comes to managing a hybrid workforce of remote and in-office employees?

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, Bernadette delves into the complexities of managing a hybrid workforce, highlighting the importance of adaptability and effective leadership to maintain productivity, company culture, and overall success in both remote and in-office settings.

Key Topics Covered:

• The key challenges managers face leading a team not immediately in front of them.
• The key skills and attributes a leader needs to effectively influence a hybrid team
• Strategies for developing, inspiring and leading remote and in-office workers.

As Bernadette explains, it's all about tapping into your emotional intelligence, adaptability and willingness to change, trust building, and holding each other accountable.

Bernadette advises leaders to evaluate their own teams and company culture to determine the best hybrid work structure, and more importantly, their own personal leadership style to effectively lead their team to successful outcomes. By tailoring strategies to individual and team needs, leaders can create an inclusive, productive, and engaged hybrid workforce.

Need help, schedule a complimentary strategy call with her at www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Welcome to another insightful episode of the "Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast" with host and executive coach, Bernadette Boas. This week, we welcome Dr. Don Thomas who dives deep into the complexities and opportunities of managing a multigenerational workforce.

You will learn how effective communication and strategic leadership can drive greater teamwork, success, and workplace enjoyment. You will discover practical tips for enhancing human connections and integrating diverse generational preferences into your leadership style.

Don Thomas is a strategic communicator, technologist, and self-professed "pirate." With a keen ability to navigate the intricate waters of workplace dynamics, Don brings a wealth of knowledge on adaptive leadership, democratic decision-making, risk-taking, and innovation networking. As a thought leader, he leverages his deep understanding of generational cohorts to foster effective communication and collaboration within diverse teams.

Key Topics:
- The benefits of a multi-generational workforce.
- Enhancing communication and human connections within business environments.
- Aligning leadership and communication styles across different generations.
- The significance of incorporating tests for communication skills and cultural fit in hiring processes.
- Addressing the challenges of remote communication and missing non-verbal cues.
- The role of adaptive, nimble, and flexible leadership in today's fluid cultural, economic, and technological landscape.
- Encouraging soft skills development and incorporating leadership goals into business metrics.
- Don's insights into Generation Alpha and their potential impact on the workplace.

Some Memorable Quotes from our Guest and Bernadette:
"Successful multigenerational communications lead to greater teamwork, success, and enjoyment at work." - Don
"Leaders should prioritize building a supportive culture, valuing, and growing their people, rather than simply managing the workforce." - Bernadette
"We need a metaphorical 'Rosetta Stone' to navigate communication across multiple generational cohorts effectively." - Don

Social Links:
Follow Don on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/donthomas
Learn more about Don and his work at - https://www.drdonthomas.com

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In this episode of the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, we delve into the significance of prioritizing vacations and self-care for both leaders and their team members. Our speaker emphasizes the importance of setting and achieving personal well-being goals, reevaluating work arrangements, and building a transparent, supportive culture within the team environment. Discover actionable strategies to advocate for mental health, support employee well-being, and embrace flexible work structures that cater to individual needs.

Key Topics:

• The necessity of taking vacations and prioritizing self-care.
• Setting personal well-being goals and regular check-ins.
• Advocating for the well-being of yourself and your team.
• Reevaluating work arrangements to suit individual strengths and needs.
• Building a culture of openness, support, and safety.
• Providing mental health resources and tools for employees.
• Encouraging a shift from "work-life balance" to "work-life blend".
• Promoting flexible work arrangements, including remote work options.
• Recognizing the impact of organizational changes and external pressures on well-being.

Take-Aways:

• Vacation and Self-Care: Regular downtime is crucial for maintaining high productivity and mental well-being.
• Personal Well-Being Goals: Set and routinely evaluate goals to ensure continuous personal health improvement.
• Team Advocacy: Leaders should be vocal and proactive about their team’s well-being.
• Work Arrangement Reevaluation: Tailor work structures to individual team member's strengths and needs.
• Open Culture: Cultivate a supportive and open environment to address mental health struggles freely.
• Mental Health Support: Offer access to counselors, mental health experts, and well-being apps.
• Work-Life Blend: Integrate personal and work life effectively rather than seeking a perfect balance.
• Flexible Work Options: Embrace and implement flexible working arrangements to meet the changing needs of employees.

Links and Resources:

• American Institute of Stress
• Mental Health America
• Employee Well-Being Apps Recommendations

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Are your limiting beliefs true, or are they self-made narratives that are holding you back?

This question underpins our entire discussion about overcoming self-imposed limitations to achieve success, particularly in the corporate world.

Our guest, Scott Aaron of The Time to Grow, and Bernadette explore the idea that the stories we tell ourselves often shape our confidence and self-belief. Scott challenges listeners to reassess and rewire these narratives to unlock their true potential by sharing invaluable insights on projecting positive energy, building self-confidence, and utilizing platforms like LinkedIn to establish oneself as a thought leader.

With strategies ranging from content creation to profile optimization, he provides actionable steps for professionals aiming to ascend the corporate ladder and gain influence in their industries.

Topics Covered:
1. Rewiring personal narratives to foster self-belief and combat limiting beliefs.
2. Creating a thought leader persona through consistent and strategic LinkedIn activity.
3. Leveraging accomplishments and experiences to establish and enhance a professional brand online.

Key Takeaways:
- Challenge Limiting Beliefs: Regularly question and reframe the stories you tell yourself to build greater self-confidence.
- Project Positive Energy: Aim to be a person of value, providing help and empowerment to others.
- LinkedIn Strategy: Utilize LinkedIn for more than job-seeking—focus on professional networking, content creation, and influencing business decisions.
- Become a Game Changer: Focus on becoming a thought leader by actively providing solutions to industry challenges and sharing valuable insights.

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Who is your leadership coach, mentor, advocate and sponsor? What type of individuals do you have on your board of directors?

In this episode, we dive deep into the importance of creating and nurturing your with key experts who can expand your knowledge, enrich your leadership style, and drive your career path.

Learn how to identify, engage, and leverage coaches, mentors, advocates, sponsors, and a personal board of directors to accelerate your career success.

Key Topics Discussed

• Importance of Relationships: Why having a circle of influence is critical to career and life success.
• Types of Advisors
• Examples of Leveraging Advisors: Real-life scenarios of how each type of advisor can help you.
• 10 Strategies to Engage Advisors:

Key Takeaways

• Proactive Engagement: Actively seek out and engage with coaches and mentors within and outside your organization.
• Relationship Building: Cultivate relationships with advocates and sponsors who will support and promote you.
• Self-Promotion: Be your own PR agent by showcasing your accomplishments and seeking opportunities.
• Mentorship: Not only seek mentors but also take the initiative to mentor others.
• Value Delivery: Ensure that your interactions with your advisors are mutually beneficial and that you deliver value in return.

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• SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, REVIEW the podcast and let us know what you want to hear about.

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Welcome back to the Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast! Today, we have an extraordinary episode for you, featuring an inspiring conversation between our host Bernadette and leadership expert Susan Drumm.

We'll dive into the transformative power of music in leadership, exploring Susan's unique approach that combines the Enneagram model with carefully curated playlists to redefine leadership from the inside out.

Susan will share her insights from her book "The Leader's Playlist" and explain how understanding and shifting one's internal "playlist" can uncover and address deep-seated emotions and beliefs, leading to more effective leadership. We'll hear compelling stories, including how a leader named Deborah shifted her emotional patterns and how Bernadette herself overcame feelings of exclusion in her corporate career.

Key Takeaways:
- The Leader's Playlist Concept - The "playlist" symbolizes the internal beliefs we broadcast to the world.
- Music as a Transformational Tool - Music can trigger and reshape emotions, helping to form new neural pathways. -
- Practical Application - Susan shared the story of Deborah, a CMO who overcame feelings of exclusion by identifying her emotional pattern and using music to shift her mindset.
- Steps to Emotional Awareness and Change - Identify underlying emotions and beliefs. - Use music to interrupt old neural pathways.
- And more...

. Call to Action: -
1. Read Susan's Book: For more in-depth insights and practical guidance, check out "The Leader's Playlist" by Susan Drumm. HERE
- Connect with Susan Drumm: Visit her website at www.susandrum.com
- Follow her on social media for updates and resources: - Twitter: @SusanDrumm, LinkedIn: Susan Drumm
- Join the Conversation - Share your thoughts on the episode and how music has impacted your leadership journey. Use our hashtag #SheddingCorporateBitch and tag @BernadetteBoas to keep the dialogue going.

Tune in to this episode for an eye-opening discussion that will inspire you to harness the power of music and self-awareness to become a more empathetic and effective leader.

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Hey there, future powerhouses! 🌟 Ready to step up your leadership game? What if shifting your mindset could unlock your true leadership potential?

In this episode of "Shedding the Corporate Bitch," we dive into the essentials of being a successful leader, whether you're new to the role or looking to refine your skills.

Bernadette shares her top 12 attributes of leadership that will help you transform from a manager to a powerhouse leader.

Summary:

Feeling lost in your new leadership role? Or maybe you're an experienced manager struggling to elevate your impact? This episode breaks down the 12 fundamental attributes every leader needs to master. From shifting your mindset to trusting your team, these tips are designed to help you lead with confidence and effectiveness.

Key Takeaways:

1. Shift from Contributor to Leader: Focus on strategic oversight and team development.
2. Model the Behavior You Want: Lead by example to foster a positive team culture.
3. Build Strong Relationships: Network at all levels for mutual success.
4. Meet Your Team Where They Are: Recognize and address your team’s personal and professional challenges.
5. And more…

Start by focusing on a few of these key attributes and watch your effectiveness soar.

For personalized tips and strategies, connect with Bernadette on LinkedIn or schedule a complimentary discovery call at CoachMeBernadette.com/discoverycall.

And don’t forget to follow us on social media to stay updated with our latest episodes and leadership insights!

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• LinkedIn: Bernadette Boas
• Website: BallofFireCoaching.com
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Thank you for listening to this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch. Join us next time for another powerful discussion on how you can shed your bitches of fear, insecurity, and doubt, so you create the riches you want and deserve as a powerhouse leader.

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Welcome back to "Shedding the Corporate Bitch!" In this episode, I am talking with the powerhouse mediator Hesha Abrams, diving into the art of conflict resolution and the secrets to diffusing tension. Hesha, a seasoned dealmaker, shares her wealth of experience and practical tips to help us navigate the chaotic business world with grace and effectiveness.

Meet Hesha Abrams Hesha kicks off the conversation by sharing a bit about her background. Not only is she a mother and grandmother, but she’s also a passionate Star Trek fan, which fuels her optimistic outlook on life. Hesha’s mediation experience spans over three decades, dealing with everything from massive corporate disputes to everyday conflicts.

Key Strategies for Conflict Resolution Hesha emphasizes the importance of being practical and realistic when resolving conflicts. Forget the “win-win” idealism; it's about managing real-world situations with real people. She explains that conflict is like spaghetti sauce on a counter—if you clean it up right away, it's easy, but if you leave it, it becomes a tough, moldy mess.

Communication is Key One of the main takeaways from Hesha’s insights is the power of effective communication. She stresses the importance of listening deeply and diagnosing the needs of the person you're dealing with. This involves understanding whether they are an introvert or extrovert, a thinker or feeler, and tailoring your approach accordingly.

Practical Techniques Hesha provides some golden nuggets of advice:

• Sentence Stems: Use phrases like “What I admire about you…” to disarm and redirect conversations.
• Do-Overs: Don’t be afraid to ask for a second chance if a conversation didn’t go as planned.
• Validation: Catch people doing things right and acknowledge it. This simple act can transform relationships and build trust.

Creating a Positive Environment Hesha also discusses the importance of catching people doing things right rather than focusing solely on the negatives. This shift in perspective can help create a more supportive and productive work environment.

Trust and Power Dynamics Hesha tackles the complex issue of trust in the workplace. She argues that trust must be earned and that it’s okay to be cautious. By practicing good communication and validation, leaders can build trust over time.

Final Thoughts The episode wraps up with Hesha reiterating her mantra: "Best is the enemy of better." Instead of striving for perfection, focus on making small, winnable victories. This approach not only eases the pressure but also fosters continuous improvement.

Tune in to this enlightening episode and learn how to become a more effective leader by mastering the art of conflict resolution.

Don't forget to grab Hesha’s book, "Holding the Calm," for more tips and insights.

LinkedIn: Hesha Abrams Website: Holding the Calm

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What if your performance reviews could leave your team feeling genuinely inspired and motivated? What challenges do you have giving your team members an effective review?

In this episode, Bernadette delves deep into the critical process of performance reviews.

As a manager, your role is vital in offering meaningful feedback that motivates, engages, and inspires your team members.

Bernadette discusses the five keys to conducting performance reviews that lead to successful and empowered employees who will go the extra mile for you.

This episode is packed with actionable insights and strategies to help you prepare, organize, and deliver powerhouse performance reviews.

Top Challenges for Managers:

· Managers often face challenges in finding time and energy for thorough performance reviews.

· Ensuring feedback is well-received and leads to positive changes can be difficult.

· Balancing constructive criticism with positive reinforcement to maintain employee morale.

Key Topics:

1. Importance of Performance Reviews.

2. Five Keys to Powerhouse Performance Reviews

3. Actionable Steps for Managers

4. Common Challenges and Solutions

Call to Action:

· For Managers:

· Take the time to prepare and organize for performance reviews.

· Ensure feedback is clear, specific, and constructive.

· Engage employees in the review process and make them a part of the solution.

· Provide balanced feedback and continuous support to foster growth and development.

· Free Discovery Call:

· Schedule a complimentary discovery call with Bernadette at www. coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall for personalized guidance on conducting powerhouse performance reviews.

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Are you ready to transform that inner critic that is consuming you and holding you back, into a inner champion who helps you to excel in everything you do?

In the latest episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast, Bernadette Boas welcomes powerhouse performance coach, Whitney Alexandra, to delve deep into the realms of personal and leadership transformation so you advance to the next level with the confidence and certainty that you deserve it.

The conversation is enriched with the story of a leader struggling with a mismatch between his desired image and how he's perceived, offering valuable lessons on the importance of staying true to oneself.

Whitney highlights key challenges leaders have and the impact they have on their overall success:

1. Confidence Gap Between Genders

2. Inner Critic and Self-Doubt

3. Balancing Professional and Personal Life

Her Top 3 Takeaways she discusses in detail:

1. Develop a Leadership Brand

2. Use the Power of Positive Affirmations

3. Embrace a Limitless Mindset

Be sure to learn more about Whitney and her work at whitneyalexandra.co, and follow her on LinkedIn - @Whitney.Alexandra

Tune in weekly to Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast for more empowering conversations on the key challenges, opportunities, and learning you are experiencing each day as you transform yourself into a powerhouse leader.

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Are you ready to transform your workplace into a hub of innovation and productivity? Discover the profound benefits of empowering your employees with freedom and autonomy.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, we unveil eye-opening statistics on employee engagement and satisfaction, driving home the urgent need for change. We'll walk you through 10 actionable strategies to foster autonomy, from delegating decision-making to nurturing a culture of trust and respect. See how these methods can cultivate a happier, more effective workforce, propelling your business toward greater success.

But that's not all—understanding the critical elements of employee development and feedback is just as essential.

We'll explore how equipping your team with the right tools, resources, and training can prevent stress and disengagement. Consistent, constructive feedback and clear career development paths are keys to unlocking your team's full potential.

Tune in for insights on integrating personal and leadership goals into performance reviews, and the importance of flexible work environments. Join us to learn how to create a supportive, dynamic work culture that fosters growth, satisfaction, and collaboration.

Key Topics Discussed:
1. The Importance of Employee Freedom - Statistical insights highlighting the lack of workplace engagement and autonomy, with references to Gallup and Business Insider studies. - Impact of high employee engagement on profitability and revenue growth.
2. Leadership Strategies - Encouraging Autonomy
3. Call to Action: - Reflect on the discussed strategies and determine which ones can enhance your team's performance. - Reach out for a complimentary consultation to get tailored advice and actionable steps for fostering employee freedom in your organization.

For more insights and detailed discussions on nurturing a thriving work environment, tune in to Shedding the Corporate Bitch Podcast.

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Many people want to be engaged leaders, but they don’t know where to start. According to Kimberly Benoit of Kimberly Benoit Leadership, the key to true engagement lies in small, consistent actions.

In this episode, Kimberly shares simple actions leaders can take to overcome disengagement in their teams and their own leadership practices. She addresses common workplace challenges that can lead to disengagement and toxic environments, and outlines ways leaders can eliminate distractions, stay present, and foster genuine connections with their team members.

We also discuss the emotional labor of leadership, strategies for building engagement in large organizations, and the crucial role of feedback in establishing trust and driving growth.

Tune in to discover how self-awareness and small actions can transform your team from disengaged to engaged!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Signs of an engaged leader
• Practical engagement tips for leaders
• Assessing your engagement in the workplace
• Why leaders should prioritize note-taking
• Creating a culture of trust and open communication
• The importance of giving and receiving feedback
• How to build engagement in a large organization
• The emotional labor of leadership

Grab Kimberly’s book, We've All Done It: Getting Real About the Role We Each Play in a Toxic Workplace, on Amazon! https://tiny.cc/kimberlybenoitbook

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https://www.instagram.com/kimberlyjbenoit

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Let's continue the conversation and support each other in creating more connected and engaged workplaces!

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Tips to my younger self and you... Whether you're just establishing yourself as a leader or a corporate decision-maker already, unlocking your true potential starts with understanding yourself and learning from your experiences. In this episode, I share 15 essential tips I wish I could have given to my younger self, covering key topics like self-awareness, effective communication, and resiliency.

We’ll explore the importance of recognizing when to part ways with people whose paths no longer align with yours and the reality of being replaceable in the corporate world—an acknowledgment that can fuel your determination to excel.

Through personal anecdotes, I’ll illustrate the transformative power of hard work, self-belief, and serving others. We’ll delve into the significance of living in the present, understanding that material wealth doesn’t equate to happiness, and how finding contentment in simplicity can bring true freedom. Additionally, we will address the crucial role of self-awareness and positive communication in shaping a fulfilling life.

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As we unravel these 15 essential tips, you'll gain the tools needed to become a dynamic leader in your career and life. Each tip offers practical advice on navigating life's challenges and achieving personal and professional fulfillment, from being kind to yourself and embracing failure to understanding the value of serving others.

KEY TOPICS AND TIMESTAMP

00:00 Weekly powerhouse discussions on work-life fulfillment.

03:16 Self-discovery and empowerment through coaching profile.

06:36 Negative self-talk harms both internally and externally.

11:57 Embrace failure, take risks, don’t seek approval.

15:49 Corporate environment led to loss of connections.

23:02 Overcoming challenges and finding inner strength.

27:06 Imposter syndrome and feeling like outsider resolved.

28:27 Confidence, not material possessions, brings happiness.

31:59 Evaluate your communication, formulate a plan.

Part of our discussion focuses on the importance of WORDS and how we talk to ourselves and others. So, check out this episode, “Assess Your Communication Style to Elevate Your Success!”to learn more - https://balloffirecoaching.com/assess-your-communication/ , and as a BONUS for those seeking to improve their communication skills, be sure to download our free communication assessment at tiny.cc/communicationassessment.

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Forget titles — it’s your actions that determine if you’re a true leader. So, what do your actions say about you? Are you simply chasing titles or taking the steps to establish yourself as a trusted leader?

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Benjamin Ritter to discuss how to lead confidently and own the room no matter your position. We explore the core principles of authentic leadership, delving into how to gain genuine influence and develop executive presence, and common mistakes professionals are making as they try to climb the corporate ladder.

Dr. Ritter shares practical strategies for increasing visibility and credibility, leveraging feedback for growth, and navigating toxic workplace cultures. Tune in to find out what action you can take TODAY to become a true leader and advance your career!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What it means to be a leader (no matter your title)
• Navigating toxic cultures with resilience
• The pitfalls of chasing titles over true leadership
• How to strategically leverage feedback
• Defining and communicating your vision
• Overcoming ego and limiting beliefs in your career
• Building credibility and expanding your influence

Sign up to get Dr. Benjamin Ritter’s free e-book, Five Secrets to Creating a Fulfilling Career!

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Effective communication is more than just successfully conveying a message; it's about engaging, connecting, and influencing those around you. Whether you’re a decision maker or future leader, mastering communication is the key to your career success.

This episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch explores the importance of communication for meeting goals, building trust, boosting team engagement and productivity. I dive into the essential traits of a powerhouse communicator, and share a 5-minute self-assessment tool that will help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement in eight fundamental areas of communication.

Join me in this episode to start making an actionable plan to improve your communication style and elevate your success!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The role of effective communication in leadership
• Benefits of clear and effective communication
• Consequences of poor communication in the workplace
• How to assess your communication skills

Key Takeaways:
Effective communication is the cornerstone of successful leadership and can have a significant impact on team performance.
Benefits of powerful communication include enhanced clarity, stronger relationships, increased engagement, better decision-making, and improved customer satisfaction.
Poor communication can lead to breakdowns in understanding, decreased productivity, increased conflict, and damage to reputation.
The host introduces a communication assessment tool that listeners can use to evaluate their communication skills and identify areas for improvement.
* By assessing their communication style and creating an actionable plan, leaders can become powerhouse communicators and unlock new opportunities for advancement and recognition.

Do you or your team members need to transform their communication style for success? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Could empathy be the missing link in effective leadership? In today's world, leaders are expected to lead with compassion and authenticity, leveraging what leadership coach Sabine Gedeon calls “power skills.” These traits are critical for successfully shifting corporate cultures and promoting engaged leadership.

In this episode, Sabine and I discuss how to become an engaged leader that balances business acumen and empathy. She explores core aspects of engaged leadership, highlighting the ability to navigate difficult conversations with confidence and use feedback as a tool for growth and building trust within teams. We also discuss the post-pandemic workplace culture, the importance of owning your power, and how to leverage your social capital.

Discover how to embrace engaged leadership and take charge of your career now!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The definition of engaged leadership
• How women are redefining corporate leadership
• Shifting from empowerment to recognition of inherent power
• The importance of authenticity and self-awareness in leadership
• Building strong teams through engaged leadership

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Over the last 16 years of coaching up and comers, senior managers, and C-suite executives, I have seen where too many of them are unsure of what the decision-makers in their organization are looking for when it comes to leadership, advancement, and overall opportunities. So, they end up waiting for approval or instructions from them before making a move. But let me tell you, that is so not what your bosses want.

In this episode, I bridge the gap between what decision-makers want from you and what you and other leaders actually deliver. We’ll delve into the critical need for initiative, visionary thinking and proactive leadership to set you apart and accelerate your career.

I also cover key leadership skills, from delegation to storytelling, and provide strategies for improving these skills and boosting your visibility within your company.

If you're ready to transition from follower to leader and successfully climb the corporate ladder, this episode is packed with insights you can't afford to miss!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The disconnect between leaders’ expectations and employees’ actions
• Showing leadership/taking initiative/action
• Thinking big and sharing your strategic vision
• Mastering the art of storytelling
• The importance of delegation and boundaries
• Leveraging feedback for career advancement
• The responsibility of leaders to develop their team
• How to assess and improve your leadership skills

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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The battle against mediocrity in the workplace is a tough one because many professionals fail to recognize the signs until it’s too late. Its presence may go unnoticed but its impact can be career damaging, undermining professional and personal growth.

Shilpa Kulshrestha, known as the Game Changer Career Coach, teaches professionals how to break free from the cycle of mediocrity and reach their full potential. She joins me in this episode to share useful strategies and tips for “murdering mediocrity,” including her golden rule for nurturing relationships and driving career success.

We discuss the importance of self-awareness, challenges like imposter syndrome, and how professionals at every level of their career can adopt her strategies to advance their career and escape the mediocrity trap.

Tune in to learn how to rejuvenate your career and achieve your goals!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The dangers of workplace mediocrity
• How to recognize and overcome mediocrity
• Building professional support networks
• Creating a shared vision for career advancement

This will be transformative for you and your career!

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In the spirit of Mother's Day, we're diving deep into a topic close to my heart – Celebrating Working Mom's with Strategies for Career Success.

In this episode, we spotlight the undeniable value that working moms add to their workplaces with their exceptional loyalty, innovation, and connectivity. We understand that juggling professional aspirations with personal commitments is no easy task, which is why we'll discuss the importance of self-care, establishing a robust support system, and flexibility in both work and life.

Let's not forget, your worth is immense, and today we're here to help you recognize and capitalize on it. I've got some insights on carving out 'me time,' understanding the significance of support systems, and how to foster leadership skills that will help you shine.

So, grab your headphones, take a deep breath, and let's dive into a conversation that empowers all the magnificent working moms out there. Here we go!

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Unique skills/value moms bring to the workplace
• The importance of self-care and building a support system
• Common challenges of working moms and how to overcome them
• Career advancement strategies for working moms

Here's a breakdown:
00:00 Celebrating moms, balancing career and family.

06:19 Value personal and professional goals as a woman.

07:47 Celebrate women, honor working moms, value multitasking.

14:41 Moms make quick decisions, great problem solvers.

17:23 Working moms bring diverse perspectives to workplace.

22:02 Success for working moms: self-care is critical.

24:28 Balancing work and family while setting boundaries.

27:05 Set boundaries, focus on professional development, manage guilt.

31:46 Don't let life pass you by unnoticed.

If you are a working mom looking for tips, strategies and support on how to achieve all of the goals you have for yourself and your family, book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Do you know anyone who is a great manager, but a horrible leader? This is a common workplace issue, and it highlights the leadership gap between those that manage tasks and those who truly lead a team.

Veteran Stephen Morris of Renowned Leadership has mastered the art of building an elite team by bringing military principles into organizational culture. In this episode, he outlines how leaders can transform their teams and themselves through community, consistency and clarity. He then delves into the important role of trust, structure, discipline and precision for nurturing a well-functioning team that communicates clearly and meets objectives.

Stephen also shares a unique perspective on trust that may redefine your approach to leadership. Join this conversation on team building and elite leadership!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The leadership training gap
• The 3 C’s of building an elite team
• Fostering trust and a culture of safety
• The importance of discipline, structure, and boundaries
• The value of precision in leadership
• Bringing the personal into business
• The role of clarity in team engagement

Learn more about Stephen Morris and his coaching services at Renowned Leadership:

https://renownedleadership.com/

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Effective hiring takes more than choosing a role, looking at resumes, choosing a candidate and then hoping for the best. Hiring requires strategic planning and thoughtful preparation, otherwise businesses risk costly turnover and missed opportunities for growth.

This episode is a comprehensive guide on the art of hiring, outlining the steps leaders can take to reduce the chances of hiring the wrong person.

I break down how to assess your current team, identify gaps, then define new roles that fill those gaps and strengthen your team. From evaluating candidates for key skills to ensuring alignment with company culture, I provide actionable strategies and tools leaders need to make successful hiring decisions.

Tune in to learn how to master the hiring process!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• 00:00 Expertise leadership is vital in a knowledge economy.
  05:35 Expert leaders need to learn to span.
  07:34 Balancing expertise and spanning in knowledge-driven world.
  09:54 Convey message effectively, prioritize non-negotiable elements.
  14:13 Prepare, organize thoughts, clarify timelines, for effective leadership.
  16:28 Leading in a spanning way requires adding value.
  20:11 Unlocking potential leads to leadership success.
  25:49 99% valid judgment on executive presence factors.
  28:59 Emphasizing confidence, calmness, and focus in situations.
  32:48 Effective leadership requires understanding and adapting to differences.
  33:43 Feedback key to adapting, avoiding command control.
  38:45 Leave comments, questions, and schedule a call.

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Today's knowledge economy is redefining what it means to be an effective leader. Dr. Wanda Wallace explores this evolving expertise leadership landscape in her book, You Can't Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise. She joins me in this episode to discuss how leaders can become comfortable with not knowing everything and find value in their roles beyond their areas of expertise — what she calls “spanning leadership”

Wanda shares her insights on the challenges of modern leadership, including how women are pigeonholed into areas of expertise and not given the chance to advance to broader leadership positions. We also dive into the power of executive presence and self-assessment, sharing tips on how leaders can enhance their influence, refine their communication skills and spanning abilities, and reach their career goals.

Tune in as we unpack strategies for leaders to balance between deep expertise and the adaptability required to thrive in leadership roles!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The growing importance of expertise in business
• Expert leadership to spanning leadership
• How to be an expert leader without micromanaging
• Transitioning from expert to spanning leadership
• Key elements of executive presence
• The art of listening and communication
• Self-assessment for leadership development

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Executive presence goes beyond commanding a room or giving off boss energy. In this episode, I explore the traits that truly define impactful leadership and distinguish so-so leaders from powerhouse leaders that exude executive presence.

I do a deep dive into the characteristics that enable leaders to inspire and motivate their teams, discussing the importance of emotional intelligence, communication, confidence, and more. Along the way, you’ll hear insights and actionable steps you can take to elevate your executive presence and advance in your career.

Whether you're looking to lead more effectively or move up the corporate ladder, this episode is packed with valuable takeaways to leverage in your journey. Tune in now!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Defining executive presence
• The role of emotional intelligence and communication in leadership
• How to build relationships and drive success
• The importance of authenticity
• Navigating change with confidence and resilience
• How to increase your executive presence

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Unlocking the true potential of your team starts with understanding what truly motivates people. This episode featuring Joy Meserve of Leading with Joydives into the power of partner leadership: a leadership style that emphasizes a culture of ownership in order to empower teams.

Joy explores how viewing employees as valuable gifts and considering their intrinsic motivators can increase engagement and transform an entire organization. She highlights trust and autonomy as the backbone of a thriving, productive workplace, and encourages leaders to leverage the strengths and passion of every individual team member.

We also discuss the shifting landscape of the workplace post-pandemic and the modern challenges faced by both leaders and employees, including high burnout rates, women leaving corporate positions, and more.

Tune in to learn how you can adopt this impactful leadership style!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The essence of partner leadership
• Challenges and solutions for employee engagement
• The battle between control and trust
• How to be a supportive partner leader
• Partner versus servant leadership
• Why women are leaving corporate
• Intrinsic motivators: mastery, autonomy, and purpose

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Did you know that 59% of people say their team members fail to take personal responsibility to improve team performance, and 79% of people say their team members don’t openly acknowledge their own weaknesses? These statistics underscore the obstacles leaders face when trying to unite a team that can work together to achieve common goals.

Unlock the secrets to assembling a powerhouse team that thrives in any workplace environment.

In this episode, I explore how leaders can navigate challenging team dynamics to increase productivity and team performance. I introduce the DiSC assessment as a tool for leaders to gain insights on the diverse styles of their team members and share strategies on how to leverage this information to address the individual needs while promoting collective growth.

I also go over the five key elements that are essential to building a highly-functioning team. Tune in to learn how to create a culture of trust and collaboration so that the team and individual members thrive!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The art of team building
• 5 pillars of a high-functioning team
• Using the DiSC assessment to understand your team
• How to build a high-performing team

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Ever felt trapped between the pursuit of a fulfilling career and a rich personal life?

Delynn Miller, the transformative coach from the Pursuit Institute, joins me in peeling back the layers on how we, as leaders, can embrace an 'and' mindset to have it all.

Throughout our conversation, Delynn shares her wisdom on breaking through restrictive societal norms and generational beliefs that have long dictated a woman's role in the workforce and at home. We tap into the art of finding one's voice, building confidence, and the magic that happens when you start inspiring rather than pushing your team.

Authentic leadership is not just climbing the corporate ladder; it's about leading from within.

This episode cracks open the myth of the 'hot mess' leader and acknowledges the internal struggles many face while trying to project confidence and capability.

She shares insight on the transformative 'be, do, have' model that Delynn champions, encouraging us to imagine the rich tapestry of life we yearn for across health, relationships, and finances.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Overcoming societal programming
• Embracing the ‘And’ attitude over the 'Or'
• Following intuition and shifting your mindset
• Delynn’s Be-Do-Have model
• The essence of true leadership
• Leveraging imagination to achieve your goals

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The foundation of a highly functioning team is trust, because without it teams face communication breakdowns, lack of accountability and cohesion, and failure to commit to common goals. In this episode, I outline the five pillars of a high-performing team and what steps leaders can take to ensure their teams are successful.

Creating an environment where team members feel safe to engage in open and honest communication starts with leaders, so I share strategies leaders can implement to establish trust, gain buy-in from every employee, and foster a supportive atmosphere where every team member feels valued and heard.

Catch this episode to learn how you can transform your team from divided to highly functioning!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why teams need a foundation of trust
• 5 functions of a highly successful team
• A leader’s role in the success of a team
• Strategies for building trust

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Have you experienced the subtle undercurrents of gender bias in the workplace? If so, were you able to overcome these invisible barriers with resilience and confidence?

In this episode featuring author, speaker and coach Gifty Enright, we discuss the impact of gender bias and strategies women can use to navigate these bias traps and take control of their career. She identifies six prevailing types of gender bias, addressing the need for both men and women to tackle unconscious bias through personal accountability, peer support, and self-awareness.

Gifty’s insights on finding balance through boundary-setting and effective communication will help women confront biases and advocate not only for themselves in the workplace, but also for everyone affected by workplace biases.

Tune in now!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• 6 biases prevalent in the workplace
• The impact of biases on the female talent pipeline
• Women’s role in changing the system of bias
• The role of self-awareness in navigating workplace biases
• Gifty's book: Octopus on a Treadmill

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Believe it or not, setting goals can backfire. Blind ambition or external pressures can lead to goal setting that lacks direction or isn’t achievable with our current means. It’s about more than setting clear, measurable objectives; knowing your WHY will equip you with the intention and focus needed to reach your goals.

In this episode, I break down how to set goals that are meaningful to YOU and in alignment with your vision for your life and career. I explore the value of goals for individuals, leaders and especially teams, highlighting the motivational power of goals in driving personal growth and professional success.

I also reflect on the pitfalls of goal setting and how to navigate the dangers of overachievement, loss of motivation, and more.

Listen to this episode for strategies on setting goals that will guide you forward and not set you back!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The value of goal setting
• Understanding your WHY in goal setting
• Common pitfalls of goal setting and how to avoid them
• The impact of goal setting on a team

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Leadership is an action, not merely a position. This powerful idea is explored in this episode with Laura Darrell of Laura Darrell Leadership Consulting, as we dive into her leadership approach that emphasizes bold action and self-reflection in order to take charge of one’s career.

During our conversation, we discuss the promotability gap and proximity bias in the workplace, both issues that limit career advancement and leave employees unprepared to step into new roles as leaders. Laura offers insights into how these challenges impact career advancement and suggests strategies for recognizing and overcoming them, especially for those lacking mentorship from their managers.

By the end of this episode, you’ll know what steps to take if you’re not getting promoted within your organization and how to learn the skills required for leadership roles, whether you’re working remotely or in the office.

Tune in now to start embedding action into your leadership style!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The concept of leadership as an action
• Investing in your leadership development
• Overcoming proximity bias in the workplace
• Bold actions for career advancement
• Building relationships within an organization

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Do you recall the anticipation of getting test results in school, waiting to see what questions you got right and which ones you got wrong? This same hunger for feedback extends into the workplace, where employees at every level of an organization also want insights on their performance.

In this episode, I’m diving deeper into the role of performance reviews and why they’re crucial for employee growth. I share tips on how to prepare for these reviews, ensure feedback is effectively communicated, and adopt a win-win approach that leaves both sides feeling aligned and engaged.

My goal is to help leaders understand how to structure performance reviews so that employees get the constructive feedback they need to succeed, and also empower leaders to elevate their teams. Listen now!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why performance reviews are so important
• Examples of the impact of failed performance reviews
• Tips for conducting effective performance reviews

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Past generations have conditioned women to play a role, to listen and follow someone else’s rules. Meanwhile, our current culture tells us that women can do it all. These competing ideals have created a unique challenge for women in leadership, as they strive to find their authentic voice and break free of the pressure of societal expectations.

In this episode featuring Andrea Tessier, entrepreneur and master coach, you’ll learn how to harness the transformative power of self-awareness and radical confidence to become a powerhouse leader. We talk about imposter syndrome and perfectionism faced by women in leadership roles, focusing on strategies they can use to overcome self-doubt and embrace their own brand of leadership.

Andrea and I discuss the early signs of burnout, collaboration versus competition between women, and the role of self-care in leadership. She also offers great tips to recognize and address overwhelm before you reach a breaking point.

Tune in for a deep dive into the journey of female leadership!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Women’s experience with imposter syndrome and self-doubt
• How to recognize and address burnout
• Overcoming self-doubt and leading with authenticity
• Collaboration versus competition amongst women
• The concept of radical confidence

Learn more about Andrea Tessier and her work at https://www.andreatessier.com/!

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Unlock the secrets to a seamless work-life blend as we navigate the nuances of professional and personal freedom in our latest podcast episode.

Gone are the days of the elusive work-life balance—instead, we're bringing you actual strategies that fuse your passions with your career, fostering a thriving environment where flexibility and trust aren't just buzzwords but the foundation of our culture.

I'll be your guide, sharing my personal experiences and favorite tactics to help you integrate what you love into what you do, amplifying not only your happiness but also your business's success.

We'll delve into the power of recognizing each team member's unique capabilities and how this understanding can catapult both individual growth and collective achievements.

Well discuss how you can embrace the thrill of intrapreneurship and become a catalyst for change within your organization.

We confront the tough stuff too, like facing our weaknesses, but here's the twist: by leveraging our strengths, we transform potential pitfalls into powerful contributions.

So tune in, and let's journey together towards a more liberated, purpose-filled professional life.

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Have you ever grappled with the voice in your head that whispers, “Am I good enough? Am I doing enough?”

In this episode with executive coach Jenn Adamson, we discuss the doubts commonly experienced by women in leadership, as well as how they can conquer the internal barriers that hinder their success.

Jenn and I address complex issues like imposter syndrome and perfectionism, diving into the root causes and their impact on female leaders and their teams. Most importantly, she shares strategies and tools women can use to unlock their full potential, emphasizing the importance of building self-worth, compassion and connection.

We also dive into the crucial role coaches play in not just professional development, but also personal growth.

Join us for an insightful conversation on how to reshape your self-perceptions and break through the glass ceiling that’s limiting your progress!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Women’s perception of themselves and their success
• Exploring the root causes of imposter syndrome
• Jenn’s 3 C’s and 5 C’s formula for success
• Addressing burnout in experience female leaders
• The power of compassion and connection in leadership
• The impact of perfectionism and tools to overcome it
• Personal and professional benefits of having a coach
• Coping mechanism to deal with our internal barriers

Learn more about Jenn Adamson and her coaching services at https://www.jennadamson.com/!

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Performance Reviews Don't Have to Suck!

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Performance reviews are a dreaded, daunting task for most leaders, yet they hold immense potential for growth and collaboration. They offer both givers and receivers a chance to learn from the past by addressing areas for improvement, while also taking control of their career by looking to the future.

In this episode, I break down effective strategies for both giving and receiving performance reviews, focusing on preparation, meaningful feedback and setting future goals. By understanding these key aspects, leaders can transform the review process into a positive, developmental experience.

This episode explores the challenges of performance reviews, highlighting the importance of self-advocacy and consistent, constructive feedback throughout the year. I also share tips on navigating the review process, including how to prepare to give or receive reviews, balance past performance with future objectives, and MORE.

Tune in to hear my actionable advice on making performance reviews a positive experience, turning them into a tool for empowerment and progress!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Preparing for effective performance reviews
• Tips for giving performance reviews that make a difference
• The importance of regular feedback for employee performance
• Assessing your strengths and areas of improvement
• The role of self-advocacy for your career development

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Leadership doesn’t require a fancy title within an organization. According to my guest, Janice Fraser, true leaders are the people that help those around them solve problems and achieve their goals.

Unlock the secrets to soaring higher and swifter in your leadership journey Janet unveils the four transformative leadership motions in our latest empowering conversation.

Navigating the leadership landscape can feel like a treacherous climb, but it's thrilling to share strategies that equip you to conquer the steepest of challenges with grace.

Janet and I dissect the core motions of orienting honestly, valuing outcomes, and leveraging collective intellect, demonstrating how these principles foster a more dynamic, inclusive, and adaptable approach.

During our conversation, we explore how to bridge mindset with action, the importance of leveraging versus managing, and the concept of Janice’s UBAD model to gain support and ditch the workplace drama.

My interview with Janice will help you revamp your leadership playbook, so tune in now!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Janice’s definition of leadership
• The 4 motions of leadership
• UBAD diagnostic model for gaining support
• How to take “drama” out of the decision-making process
• Ambition and pragmatism in leadership
• The power of “orienting honestly”

Learn more about Janice Fraser’s approach in her book, Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama: https://tiny.cc/fartherfasterbook

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Are you ready to break the door down in 2024 and reach your career goals and aspirations?

I'm sharing 6 must-haves you need in your career plan and growth strategy if you want to gain the visibility, reputation, brand image, and recognition you want.

Of course, it is a new year, so we will talk about the need for goals, but you'll also learn:

• Our enrichment of the SMART goal methodology
• The one key understanding you need to have to fully pursue and achieve those goals
• The key roles and individuals you need to have in your circle to propel you forward
• The ultimate must-have that without it, you will struggle to achieve your goals

Kick off this new chapter of your career and gain key tools to add to your plan that will significantly increase your success at work (and home).

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Communication is a key leadership skill, but it means nothing if your message doesn’t align with organizational goals.

In this episode, leadership expert and executive coach Tissa Richards helps us dive into the power of strategic communication and an outcome-focused approach in leadership. This means establishing clear goals, effectively communicating them to each level of an organization, and creating a culture that empowers teams to reach desired outcomes.

Our discussion centers on this concept of connected outcomes, and how integrating them into your leadership style drives collective success as well as individual career growth. Tissa also provides actionable advice to become a great communicator, and shares a constructive team-building exercise to improve communication and build trust with your team.

Tune in to find out how to be a purpose-driven leader that influences others!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The role of context in leadership and outcome-setting
• Communication barriers within teams
• Creating alignment and trust in an organization
• Building confidence and self-advocacy
• Individual and team benefits of connecting to outcomes
• Communication as an essential professional skill

Learn more about Tissa Richards and her book, No Permission Needed: Unlock Your Leadership Potential and Eliminate Self-Doubt! https://www.tissarichards.com/

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Gratitude is a quiet but powerful tool that leaders often overlook. In fact, research shows that workplace gratitude reduces stress, increases happiness, and fosters a more compassionate and collaborative work environment.

This episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch covers all the amazing benefits of embedding gratitude into workplace culture, including its impact on employee engagement, team dynamics, job satisfaction and more. As I share what you can do to start living in gratitude and express genuine gratitude to your team, you’ll learn the difference between thankfulness and gratefulness — and why the distinction matters.

I also highlight regular feedback as an important way leaders can show gratitude while simultaneously helping team members grow professionally.

Tune in to discover how embracing gratitude can positively shift your mindset, transform you into a powerhouse leader, and elevate your team's morale and performance!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The role of gratitude in the workplace
• Feedback as an expression of gratitude
• Thankfulness versus gratefulness
• The value of finding gratitude in the workplace
• How to practice gratitude as a leader

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All work and no play does not make for happy employees or a successful organization. This research-backed truth is the foundation for today’s episode with Tamzin Hall, a psychology-driven leadership coach and mentor. She’s thrown out the old-school playbook to redefine workplace culture, helping leaders incorporate fun into the workplace.

In this episode, Tamzin introduces the principles of business psychology and the impact happiness has on productivity. We explore the benefits of bringing play into the workplace, discussing everything from increasing engagement through fun activities to fostering a culture of creativity and authenticity.

Tamzin has tons of great advice for building a fun and productive culture, including ideas for creative team-building activities and tips to conduct effective one-on-one meetings. She also shares strategies to turn the office into a space where joy and work coexist, boosting both morale and output.

Join us in this enlightening conversation to learn how to transform your organization’s culture using Tamzin Hall’s insights!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The impact of happiness on productivity
• Business psychology and fostering a positive work culture
• How to build a productive team
• Strategies to integrate play into the workplace
• Engaging with teams and individuals remotely

Download a FREE copy of Tamzin’s “The Performance Playground: A 1:1 Checklist for Fun and Success” here: https://tiny.cc/happyworkchecklist

Learn more about Tamzin Hall and her coaching services at https://www.tamzinhallcoaching.co.uk/!

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You may understand the importance of branding for an organization, but do you know the value of having a personal brand?

Whether you realize it or not, those around you will form their own opinions of who you are and what you offer if you don’t proactively shape your personal brand.

Join me today as I dive into the power of personal branding and its role in leadership and professional growth.

I start off this episode by defining what it means to have a personal brand and the impact it can have on your career, both positive and negative. I also share real-life examples of personal brands, including my own branding journey to establish Ball of Fire Coaching.

This episode is loaded with practical advice to refine your personal brand so it aligns with your professional goals. From assessing your unique strengths or crafting a compelling personal narrative, I cover steps you can take to define and embody your personal brand at work and home.

Tune in to learn how you can take charge of your personal brand and career!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Defining “personal brand” and why it’s important
• How personal branding can advance your career
• Examples of effective personal brands
• Steps to define your personal brand
• Why leaders need to establish a personal brand

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Are you feeling the heat of leadership, either struggling to advance your career or feeling confident in your current role? In this episode, I’m joined by Shruti Rustagi to discuss key strategies to elevate your professional game and more effectively approach leadership.

Shruti starts by emphasizing three core areas to focus on: mindset, building a circle of influence, and viewing your career at a macro level to identify strengths and gaps. She does a deep dive into each, highlighting the importance of self-assessment, mentorship and mentoring, and cultivating confidence within oneself.

There’s a ton of actionable advice in this episode, including three mindset changes women can make to up their professional game, tips to overcome imposter syndrome, and how to set healthy boundaries that will reduce burnout in your role.

By changing how you approach your work, you can increase your growth potential and take charge of your career. Tune in to learn more!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Mindset changes for professional growth
• Boundary setting in the workplace
• Strategies to level up in your career
• Building and utilizing a network of support
• The importance of mentorship and mentoring
• Taking a macro view to assess skills and gaps
• Overcoming imposter syndrome and lack of confidence
• What having a coach says about you

Learn more about how an executive coach like Shruti Rustagi can help you! https://www.shrutirustagi.com

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Gone are the days of authoritarian leadership meant to command and rigidly drive results.

Nowadays, job seekers want to work for organizations that nurture relationships and empower their employees. And just as work culture has evolved, so have the rules of what makes an effective leader.

In this episode, learn what true leadership entails as I present the 12 attributes of a powerhouse leader.

I dive into each attribute in detail, covering topics like the role of leaders in managing and inspiring a team, the importance of feedback and supporting team members, and more.

I also revisit how to navigate leadership in a VUCA world and guide your team through challenges.

Tune in to discover how you can transform your leadership style to thrive in today's dynamic world!

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How comfortable are you with being uncomfortable?

This is one question Shauna Vassell of Koncave Coaching & Consulting asks her clients when they’re struggling to thrive in times of change.

Shauna is joining me in this episode to discuss her work building resilience in leaders by helping them embrace discomfort and identify areas for growth. She defines the true meaning of resilience in the workplace and shares insights on the importance of self-awareness, self-care, confidence and personal development in leadership.

During our conversation, we also explore strategies to nurture resilience and work through stressors, address resistance from team members, and create a team environment that models resilience and drives results.

Tune in to learn how you can better navigate change to become a resilient, powerhouse leader!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Resilience and its role in leadership
• Self-awareness and willingness as an agent for change
• Building resilience and confidence
• Professional development and defining your role
• How to motivate your team
• Preparing your team for change

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Change is the only constant in life, so change is also inevitable in business. Especially in today’s world of new technologies and global crises, leaders must be able to adapt and manage the effects of this often chaotic and overwhelming change.

In this episode, I go over VUCA theory and its four components: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, as well as the impact of living in a VUCA world. You’ll learn why it’s important to embrace change as a leader, how to support your team during change and build their resilience, and how VUCA leadership can improve an organization's decision-making, risk management, creativity and more.

I also give tips on how to be an effective VUCA leader, and what you can do as a leader to stay ahead of the curve and find opportunity in change.

Tune in to find out how the principles of VUCA leadership can help you become a better leader in our ever-changing world!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The concept of VUCA theory
• What it means to live in a VUCA world and its impact
• The benefits of VUCA leadership
• Adapting to change as a leader and organization
• How to find opportunity in a VUCA world
• Tips to become a VUCA leader

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Within every person is the ability to lead. Even if someone is naturally conflict-averse or lacks accountability, they have the potential to develop their skills and be a powerhouse leader — all they need is the confidence to embrace their power and find their own approach to leadership.

Dan Kopp of Leading Like A Buffalo is an expert in this area, so he’s joining me on the show to share his leadership tenets that can help anyone become a better leader.

These tenets are a wonderful guide for leaders to discover and build upon their strengths that align with effective leadership.

Dan’s book, “The Power of Me Leadership,” dives deeper into all nine tenets, but today you’ll learn what it means to “lead like a buffalo” and “lead like King Arthur.”

In this episode, we also discuss the power of diversity, how to cultivate a culture that people want to work in, and the importance of taking care of your people. Plus, find out what small steps you can take to create an inclusive environment and

Tune in to learn how you can forge your own path and lead with confidence!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What it means to “lead like a buffalo”
• A leader’s responsibility to address issues
• Dan’s book, “The Power of Me Leadership”
• Diversity and the King Arthur tenet
• How he helps leaders and organizations prioritize diversity
• David’s tenet to take care of your people
• What holds people back from being a good leader
• How to start improving your leadership skills today

Learn more about Dan Kopp’s work with Leading Like A Buffalo! https://leadingbuffalo.com/

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Grab Dan’s book, “The Power of Me Leadership,” here: https://www.tiny.cc/thepowerofmeleadership

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Would you like to transform into a powerhouse delegator?

Whether you’re a leader in a large or midsize organization, delegation is a crucial skill that increases productivity and empowers employees.

However, many leaders struggle with delegating and the impact is damaging to their team, the business and themselves.

That’s why this episode is all about delegation, specifically how YOU as a leader can become a powerhouse delegator.

It’s important to first understand the value of delegation and why it’s a common issue for leaders.

There are many challenges leaders face when it comes to delegation, such as the need to control, lacking trust, and feeling guilt about delegating.

Sharing what I’ve learned in my work as an executive coach, I dive deeper into all six reasons in this episode.

I also cover the effect on teams when their leaders either don’t delegate or delegate menial tasks to employees capable of handling more, as well as what employees and leaders can do to overcome these challenges.

Tune in to get my tips for becoming an effective, powerhouse delegator!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why delegation is a challenge for many leaders
• The impact on employees when leaders don’t delegate
• Tips to overcome challenges and become a powerhouse delegator
• How leaders can support their team during the delegation process
• Assessing the progress of leaders and employees

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Have you ever heard the saying, “men are from Mars, women are from Venus?” It comes from the popular 1992 book of the same name, which posited that men and women are fundamentally different, and it’s a lack of understanding of our male and female traits that causes problems in relationships.

However this philosophy is outdated, and today’s guest has a different theory.

Christoffel Sneijders is a leadership coach and therapist, and he’s speaking with me today about what he calls the Mars and Venus Fallacy — because men and women are, in fact, biologically similar.

Both sexes possess masculine and feminine traits, but it’s society that develops our biases around what’s appropriate or who we should be.

In the episode, we talk about how these biases affect relationships and leadership, and Christoffel’s scientifically-backed 3 brain theory.

He dives deep into his Head-Heart-Gut approach, including the purpose of each brain and how you can integrate them to make decisions that align with your goals. Plus, he shares the inspiration for his latest book, Relationships? Which Brain is Talking?

Tune in as we break myths, shed biases, and give you advice to flourish both at home and work!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What’s wrong about the Mars and Venus analogy
• The impact of socialization on our behavior
• How to assess and train your three brains
• Integrating your three brains to use them in harmony
• How Christoffel helps clients create lasting change
• Why he wrote his book, Relationships? Which Brain is Talking?
• Questions to gain a better understanding of your three brains

Learn more about Christoffel Sneijders and his work at 3 Brains Intelligence! https://www.3brainsintelligence.com/

Grab Christoffel’s book, Relationships? Which Brain Is Talking?: The Ultimate Guide to Happy, Healthy & Successful Relationships, HERE

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Have you ever had a boss that could never admit they were wrong, and often deflected blame to someone else? Or they just never would confront someone about their behavior or performance, leaving you and others frustrated.

When accountability is embedded into a workplace culture, and those they are following actually lead by example and model that behavior, employees are far more committed, productive, and happy in their job, even when working their butts off during challenging times.

It’s a crucial skill for driving results and meeting organizational goals, and the consequences of not having it can be absolutely detrimental to the morale, output, and overall success of the team, the business, and you.

That’s why I’m once again diving into the topic of accountability and sharing how you as a leader can inspire accountability on your team.

In my work as an executive coach, assessing clients regularly on their performance and effectiveness in their job, many leaders and their employees don’t rate themselves high on accountability.

What this tells me is that accountability isn’t being modeled by leaders, and teams are lacking trust and transparency with those around them.

Without a foundation of trust, it’s hard to communicate, resolve conflict, and grow — in other words, it’s the downfall of a team.

In this episode, I cover what taking personal accountability looks like both as a leader and employee, and the right way to take accountability for your mistakes. I also review the traits and skills leaders need to focus on if they want to establish accountability on their team.

Tune in to learn how you can become an accountability powerhouse!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Defining accountability and why it’s important
• How to take accountability for your mistakes
• The consequences of not taking accountability
• The positive impact of accountability on a team
• How to build a foundation of trust and accountability
• What you need as a leader to inspire accountability

Are you or your team struggling with accountability, difficult conversations or confronting conflict?
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Ladies, you’ve probably heard all the disheartening statistics around women in tech, women in STEM, and women in corporate positions. But have you ever considered how this knowledge might affect your performance, or get in the way of your career advancement? Do you think your experience would be different if you never knew about these statistics?

Sudeshna Sen, economist and senior leader, is joining me on this episode to discuss the data around women in these industries, and how these statistics can impact confidence and lead to limiting beliefs. As an Indian woman living in the UK, Sudeshna has a unique perspective that she employs in her business, The Abundance Psyche, to help coach clients to thrive in their career and get the money they deserve.

In this episode, Sudeshna shares the cultural differences that shaped her career path, how you can find your value and leverage it to get ahead, and why we need to stop viewing money as a bad thing and instead a vehicle for positivity and abundance.

Tune in to learn how YOU can rise up and reach your goals with an abundance mindset!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Sudeshna’s experience as an immigrant and woman of color in corporate
• How she improved her communication skills
• The impact of misleading statistics on women’s careers
• Abundance mindset and how to get ahead
• How Sudeshna supports her clients and teaches them to provide value
• Why you should change your mindset around money

Find out how you can work with Sudeshna Sen through her business, The Abundance Psyche! https://www.theabundancepsyche.com/work-with-me

Take Sudeshna’s free money quiz to learn about your money style! https://www.theabundancepsyche.com/

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If you’ve found yourself using the excuse that you just “don’t have enough time” to finish an important task or reach a career goal, then you likely have a productivity problem.

I’ve heard this excuse a lot in my work as an executive coach, and that’s why I created a productivity profile to assess my client’s productivity and help them go from procrastinator to productivity powerhouse.

In this episode, I’m sharing how you can determine your own productivity profile and understand the harmful patterns that hinder your productivity. During this self-assessment, you’ll discover which time of day you’re most productive, the type of environment you work best in, what inhibits your productivity, and MORE.

Plus, I offer tips on how you can leverage this information to create a schedule that increases productivity, supports your goals, and drives results on your team.

As I say in this episode, “even small steps lead to big results over time, and that will help you to achieve all the riches that you want in your work and life.” So take one small step by listening to this episode to learn how you can boost your productivity starting today!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The benefits of defining your productivity profile
• Questions to answer for your productivity profile
• How to build a schedule around your productivity profile
• Why goals are crucial for efficient productivity
• Using your productivity profile to make positive changes

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Ever wondered how you can harness the power of negotiation to transform your life?

Join us as we welcome our high-profile guest, Cindy Watson, of Women on Purpose, who takes us on a fascinating journey from her humble beginnings to becoming an influential force in her workspace.

Cindy passionately uncovers how femininity can be a driving force in negotiation and dispels the myths that cloud our understanding of this crucial skill.

Chapter by chapter, we explore the art of negotiation with Watson, decoding her unique 5W model and the seven deadly sins that can hinder successful negotiation.

Her insights on the importance of active listening, intention, and relationship-building in negotiation are not just inspiring, but packed with practical tips that can be applied immediately.

We also dive deep into the unconscious gender bias that impacts negotiations and how a shift from a scarcity to an abundance mindset can immensely benefit us.

Lastly, we lean into the power of the feminine side of negotiation.

Cindy provides us with valuable resources and shares how we can all rise by supporting each other, without the fear of gender bias. Her transformative approach to negotiation will leave you feeling empowered and ready to negotiate for your best life.

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• The cost of being “tough” in your professional life
• Why Cindy to changed her approach to negotiation
• Myths around negotiation and skills in a good negotiator
• Cindy’s 5W model for effective negotiating
• What it means to show up with intention
• How to overcome unconscious gender bias
• The 7 deadly sins of negotiation
• Why you should “lean into the messiness”

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As a teenager, did you ever find yourself annoyed when your parents reprimanded you for doing something they themselves do? Has your child ever asked why they have to do a certain task but you don’t have to?

Well, adults also have these same thoughts in business.

When a leader has expectations of their employees, such as showing up to work everyday and getting assignments done on time, but they’re not holding themselves to the same standard, it creates a culture of mistrust and apathy.

Employees won’t feel motivated and inspired to commit to their position or share their ideas in this kind of work environment.

In this episode, I’m focusing on the impact leading by example has on a team and how you can “walk the talk.” This includes setting clear goals, exuding the values you want to instill in your team, and more. I share my tips and strategies to start reaping the benefits of leading by example.

Tune in for my actionable advice to start leading by example every day!

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• What employees truly want from their managers
• Why leading by example is important as a manager
• How leading by example inspires and builds trust
• The benefits of leading by example
• Tips to start leading by example
• Why feedback is important for your growth and development
• What it takes to lead by example

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What keeps you from being a confident, empowered, and successful negotiator?

Whether you’re asking for a raise or convincing your child to eat their dinner before dessert, negotiation is the key skill that will set you apart at work and in life.

But for many people, especially women, being vocal about their needs and wants is unfamiliar and intimidating.

No one knows this better than Katie Evans of Katie Evans Speaks, who has spent decades helping women free themselves from the weight of toxic workplaces by becoming powerful negotiators. She’s speaking with me today about why some people have a hard time being assertive, how to change this type of mindset and overcome fear of failure, sexism in the workplace, and MORE.

You’ll walk away from this episode with tips and techniques to prepare yourself for negotiations, and the tools to build your case and reach your desired outcome. Plus, you’ll also find out the most powerful word you can use in negotiation.

Tune in now to master negotiation and feel empowered at home and in the workplace!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why negotiation is an important life skill
• How to change your mindset around negotiation
• The most powerful word when it comes to negotiating
• Katie’s tips and tools for negotiation
• Sexism in the workplace
• How to deal with disagreements and when to compromise
• What to NOT do in a negotiation

Listen to this recording from Katie Evans to reduce stress and prepare for your next negotiation! https://tiny.cc/reducestresskatieevans

How can I help you be the powerhouse leader you can be?

Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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As an executive leadership coach, I’ve heard a lot of clients, especially women, express feelings of insecurity around their approach to work. They think they need to “man up,” get tough or show less emotion in order to succeed in their career.

Why do employees feel this way, especially when many organizations have moved away from the old school style of leadership? Why aren’t they confident enough to be who they truly are, and go after what they want? What can they do to gain respect and not let the opinion of others get them down?

In this episode, I’m answering all these questions and more. I also share how my own iron fist approach to leadership led to the end of my career, the major lessons learned from my time in corporate, and the tips and strategies I use to transform so-so managers into powerhouse leaders.

Tune in to learn how to take control of your career and success in the workplace and life!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Why some women feel the need to “man up”
Key lessons I learned during my corporate career
Learning to let go of control
My advice to discover who you are
How to build confidence
The importance of mentorship
Why you need goals both professionally and personally

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Connect with Bernadette:

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Get ready to revolutionize your leadership approach with our esteemed guest, Dr. John Dentico. 

Prepare to discover the intricacies of building mutual trust in leadership and how to foster an environment of collaboration amidst the constraints of bureaucracy. 

With John's expertise, we navigate the origins of bureaucracy and its inherent conflict with cultivating trust in a team. 

Learn how managers and leaders can leverage their values to nurture this trust and the significant role informal communication plays in this process.

Strap in as we delve into the distinctions between leadership and management, and the synergy between these two roles. 

John enlightens us on the importance of strategic thinking and planning in enhancing your leadership network. 

Immerse yourself in an insightful discussion on breaking free from bureaucratic limitations through the power of imagination. A truly empowering conversation, this episode leaves you with valuable insights on fostering an environment conducive to your team's optimum performance. 

Join us in this exploration of trust, leadership, and the importance of imagination in overcoming obstacles.

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If your employees seem apathetic towards their work, do you know how you, as a leader, can reinvigorate their passion and get them motivated? This episode will answer this question and more!

In my recent work as a leadership coach, I’ve interviewed hundreds of employees on what they need from managers in order to feel fulfilled and valued in the workplace.

In this episode, I share what I’ve learned as well as statistics that may surprise you. These insights, including the number one thing employees ask of their managers and the top cause of employee turnover, are key to keeping employees engaged.

Based on this feedback and my own experience, I’ve developed a list of 11 tips and strategies that will help leaders ensure employees feel seen and heard, empower them to improve and expand their skills, and build an inclusive culture of belonging.

Tune in to hear my strategies, and start implementing them TODAY to transform your team and maximize results!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What employees need from their managers
• What happens when you don’t meet their needs
• Prioritizing team building
• Tips to improve effective communication
• Setting goals and expectations
• How to empower employees
• Why development is important to employees and how to provide it
• Keeping employees engaged through continuous improvement
• How work-life blend impacts engagement
• Creating an inclusive culture
• Giving valuable employee feedback

What challenges are you having with your team? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Purpose is not just an important tool for top-level executives, but every person in an organization.

Understanding your personal “why” and knowing the value you bring to the table is key to staying confident, motivated and engaged in your work.

Purpose is also just ONE of the three keys you need to build a winning team and be a powerful, impactful leader.

In this episode, I’m joined by Sonya Shelton of Executive Leadership Consulting to dive deeper into these three keys, exploring what it takes to create a winning team and be the leader of a winning team. She breaks down how her company, Executive Leadership Consulting, helps clients grow their business using the 5 P’s of Red Thread Leadership.

Sonya’s Red Thread Leadership model will help you create passionate, winning teams without sacrificing culture or strategy.

By the end of our interview, you’ll know how to help prevent employee burnout, nurture resilience, and drive results. Plus, Sonya spills on her new book, “You're an Executive, But Are You a Leader?”

Tune in to learn how to influence change and make an impact in your organization!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why women struggle to stand in their power
• The definition of “business case”
• The 5 P’s of Red Thread Leadership
• How Executive Leadership Consulting helps clients find their purpose
• Why so many people are lacking clarity and focus
• Employee acknowledgment and appreciation
• Making an impact and being the change
• What you can expect from Sonya’s book
• Preventing burnout on your team

Check out Sonya Shelton’s book, “You're an Executive, But Are You a Leader?” https://executiveleader.com/sonya-shelton/#book

Learn more about the Red Thread Leadership model here: https://executiveleader.com/red-thread-leadership/

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

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AI is making its way into every industry, and leaders need to be prepared for it.

That’s why this episode is dedicated to the opportunities and challenges presented by AI, and how leaders can leverage it in their favor.

Perhaps one of the biggest benefits of AI is the enhanced feedback that leaders can get on their own performance and that of their team.

These insights will improve your decision-making, employee training, productivity, and lots more.

I go over not just how AI can be useful to you as a leader, but the responsibility leaders will have when it comes to issues of privacy, bias, and the accountability of blending this technology into their work.

Whether you approve of the use of AI or not, it’s important to understand the implications of it, for yourself but also so you can educate your team. So tune in NOW to learn more about how AI will change how you lead!

But these are just a couple of the 10 areas that leaders will be affected, so take a listen as I address them all in this episode.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• How AI will affect the role of leaders
• Using AI to understand people important to your organization
• Increasing productivity and making better decisions
• Creating education materials and development plans
• Why we need to consider the moral implications of AI
• The accountability of a leader using AI

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Ready to navigate the vast world of cross-cultural teams?

Cross-cultural intelligence is your awareness of the beliefs and values of another culture, as well as the behaviors of your own culture.

Without this type of open mindset in business, there will be a breakdown in communication that will make it hard to engage, collaborate, and even manage a cross-cultural team.

According to today’s guest, global leader and coach Liu Liu, cross-cultural intelligence is the one missing management tool that most leaders don't know they need.

Through his years working with cultures around the world, he’s seen firsthand the struggles organizations go through when their teams can’t effectively communicate. But with cross-cultural intelligence, leaders can make sure everyone feels heard, respected, and part of the team.

In this episode, Liu Liu shares what he’s learned about cross-cultural teams, including the challenges they face and how to address these issues. You’ll also hear his approach to building a foundation of trust, setting expectations, and communicating every step of the way.

If you lead a culturally diverse team, are you aware of the beliefs and values of your people? Would you be able to blend ideas and build trust if you were sent to work in another country? Tune in to measure your own cross-cultural intelligence and become a better leader!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Liu Liu’s experience living and working internationally
• What you need to build trust with a cross cultural team
• The challenges of working in hot versus cold climate cultural countries
• How communication styles affect trust building
• Liu Liu’s approach to building a foundation of trust
• The benefits of learning from other cultures

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse cross-cultural leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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We often think striving for perfection will make us better, that it will motivate us and provide a path towards our goals. In reality, perfectionism sets us up for failure and is a cause of burnout and imposter syndrome.

Instead of setting unrealistic standards for yourself and expecting the same from others, modeling persistence over perfection is the best way to drive results and create a healthy culture for your team.

That’s why I’m dedicating this episode to uncovering the truth about perfectionism, and giving you tips on how to be persistent over perfect.

Persistence not only leads to more success, but can have a huge impact on your confidence. So if you’re struggling in a new position or have a fear of failing, this episode will help you change your mindset and become a more effective leader.

Switching gears, we examine how to leverage failure for innovation, creativity, and fresh perspectives. You'll hear about building mental resilience, cultivating support systems, practicing self-care, and the crucial role of self-awareness.

We'll guide you on taking a thorough inventory of your setbacks and transforming them into potent lessons.

As we wrap up, we dissect the art of balancing persistence and perfectionism.

The dialogue continues on our LinkedIn page - we'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences about this transformative journey from perfection to persistence.

Tune in now for all this and MORE!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Perfection versus persistence
• The impact of striving for perfection
• What persistence really means
• Why persistence is better for business
• Steps to start modeling persistence as a leader
• How to shed the tendency towards perfectionism

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Ever felt like you're playing a part in your workplace, hiding your true self out of fear of judgment or rejection?

In our latest episode, we sit down with globally recognized coach, Prateek Singhal, who's transformed countless leaders into being their authentic selves while achieving career success and life fulfillment.

Unmasking the true you might seem daunting, but trust us, it's the key to preventing burnout and guaranteeing long-term satisfaction.

Striking a balance between authenticity and adaptability might feel like walking a tightrope.

But with insights from Prateek's expertise, we discuss how to create a culture of psychological safety and embrace failure as a stepping stone to success.

We also unpack the intimidating imposter syndrome, combat negative self-talk, and build a case for your worthiness. The road to self-discovery is filled with twists and turns, but together, let's navigate this journey and trust the process.

Lastly, we challenge the status quo, urging you to be adaptable and deliver critical feedback even if it's uncomfortable.

Prateek shares how starting small, taking calculated risks, and acknowledging evidence that contradicts self-doubt can lead to significant personal growth.

Remember, being an authentic, empowered leader isn't an overnight achievement. It's a process, one that requires patience, perseverance, and most importantly, trust.

So, ready to start your journey to authenticity?

Tune in for an episode filled with empowering and inspiring leadership conversations.

Learn more about Prateek Singhal’s work and his executive coaching company, Perch Academy! https://www.perch.academy/

Connect with Prateek:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateeksinghal1/
https://twitter.com/PrateekSinghal1

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Imagine effortlessly weaving your passions, your strengths and your mission into a seamless blend of work and personal life. 

That's the promise of our latest podcast episode, where we unlock the secret to finding freedom, purpose, and passion in work and life. 

We'll explore how to craft a work environment that not only suits you but inspires your team, how trust and openness can foster a creative atmosphere, and how to find that elusive white space - room to breathe and embrace freedom.

Provoked by an inspiring story of a life's WHY,  I heard from a man I met on a plane as he was reading a self-help book that got my attention. Now, we delve into the emotional "why" behind our passions and goals. 

We'll discuss:

• How understanding your deep-seated motivations can lend your life a sense of purpose and fulfillment.
• We delve into the intrepreneurial mindset and its potential to drive satisfaction in work and life.

This episode is a treasure trove of insights for those seeking to infuse their work and personal life with a sense of meaning, passion, and freedom. Don't miss out!

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We’ve all had a job that starts off great, where we go into the office feeling excited and ready to prove ourselves. But then, gradually, we become bored, even apathetic to our position within the company.

Some might say they become jaded by their peers, bosses and the culture, leaving employees stressed, anxious, depressed, and undervalued.

That’s why I invited Danielle Boris, author of “The Energy of Weirdos” and host of the Unboxing Humans podcast, on the show to speak with me about how to energize your team.

Her company, Sandbox, was started from her own desire to solve problems like low energy and enthusiasm in the workplace, which have an unavoidable effect on employee retention, satisfaction and ultimately company results.

In this episode, Danielle shares tips on keeping everyone on your team engaged in their day-to-day work, improving employee retention and performance. She also details how the Sandbox software is solving these types of problems in the workplace.

To learn how you can best leverage your team’s passions and skills, tune in now!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Danielle’s experience with corporate leadership and engagement
• What led her to start her own company
• The questions leaders need to start asking their employees
• How her software company, Sandbox, helps employees and leaders
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Learn more about Danielle Boris on her website: https://www.danielleboris.com/

Find out how Sandbox can help your organization here: https://www.sandboxtogether.com/

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The importance of feedback for the success of leaders, employees, and companies has been highlighted in previous episodes of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, but this episode dives deeper into how leaders can get to the root issues that are affecting their team and impacting outcomes.

In this episode, I go over the role of feedback in a corporate setting and what I’ve learned during my coaching sessions, such as why so many leaders don’t seek feedback and why employees may be scared to give it.

I also provide specific questions you should be asking, and examples of how to have these vital conversations.

With my tips, you’ll discover ways you can learn from the unique perspective of each team member, and give every single person the tools they need to succeed.

Tune in to take note of the dos and don’ts of seeking feedback, and even some powerful questions you might never think to ask!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The reasons leaders don’t seek feedback
• Dos and don'ts of seeking feedback
• How to dive deep and get real answers
• What questions you should be asking
• How feedback can help you become a better leader

Do you need help defining the questions you need ask to ensure your team members actually share with you? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

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Have you heard about Shine Theory, which proposes the idea that a group can be more successful supporting each other rather than competing?

Heather Backstrom of Backstrom Leadership Strategies shares this theory with me as we talk about how women can stay confident as they hold leadership positions. She discusses this theory and her three pillars of collaborative confidence on the show and in her book, Collaborative Confidence.

In this episode, Heather also outlines how you can exude confidence, raise your visibility, support other women in your organization, and more.

If you struggle with self-promotion or lack confidence, tune in to learn ways you can start advocating for yourself TODAY!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Heather’s idea of collaborative confidence
• Why so many women leaders lack confidence
• The 3 pillars of collaborative confidence
• What it means to amplify your executive presence
• How Heather helps women promote themselves
• Easy steps to become more self-aware
• Implementing the WAIT acronym to exude confidence
• The benefits of sponsorship
• What readers can expect from her book, Collaborative Confidence

Learn more about Heather Backstrom: https://heatherbackstrom.com/

Grab her book, Collaborative Confidence, from Amazon: https://www.tiny.cc/collaborativeconfidence

Connect with Bernadette:

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On a scale of 1-10 (being the highest), how self-aware are you? How good are you at being accountable and holding others accountable?

In today’s episode, I’m sharing 5 key steps you can take to become fully self-aware and accountable leaders for your people, business, and self and create the riches in your life you want. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Understanding what self-awareness and accountability really looks like
• Bernadette’s story of self-discovery
• The number one thing to accomplish in life - fully knowing YOU
• How to make changes within yourself and your surroundings
• The steps to become a powerhouse leader

If you have questions on how you can grow and advance in your leadership, career, and life, book a call with me at coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall, and let's talk!

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Have you dealt with inequity in pay, imposter syndrome, workplace bias, or simply, being overlooked for a promotion?

Instead, would you prefer to have unapologetic confidence that will take you straight to the top?

In this episode, leadership and conflict resolution expert, Dr. Patricia K Suggs with ARISE Leadership Consulting, will share strategies and tips for ditching the need to climb the ladder, and instead take a smooth elevator ride to the top by navigating bias, standing up for what you want, dealing with imposter syndrome, and dealing with conflict effectively with great compassion.

As a leadership and conflict resolution expert, she has helpful tips on challenging bias head on, staying true to yourself, and more.

Patricia breaks down the skills that will help you address bias and seek out the right mentors.

We also discuss the link between imposter syndrome and perfectionism, and how women can live in their confidence being unapologetically themselves. How freeing is that?

If you want to be an unapologetic leader, listen to this episode for the small steps that will get you there!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What unapologetic leadership looks like
• The bias women face in leadership roles
• Patricia’s advice to challenge bias
• The benefits of choosing the right mentors
• Why even capable leaders suffer from imposter syndrome
• Steps women can take to become an unapologetic leadership

Learn more about Dr. Patricia Suggs and her work at ARISE Leadership Consulting: https://ariseleadershipconsulting.com/

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become an unpologetic powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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When life gets crazy, it’s easy to feel like there’s never enough time to meet your goals and be the powerhouse leader you can be.p

But, why do some people make it look so easy to achieve their goals and get the work done, while many others don't.

Some reasons could be: (provided by Timeular.com

• According to American Psychological Association (APA), 20% of adults are chronic procrastinators
• Zippia’s study shows that 82% don’t use a time management system.
• Only 20% of people feel like they have their workload under control on a daily basis.

In this episode, I focus on tips, tools, and strategies that will elevate your own productivity and leadership skills, and that of your people.

Whether your focus is on developing your people as your #1 asset or to improve a specific leadership skill, my tips and strategies are the guidance you need to set priorities, make intentional decisions as part of your daily routine, and get your team effectively pursuing and achieving the business goals set.

After listening, you’ll know how to define specific goals and measure your progress with my SMARTY goal method. And if you have a heavy workload, my Four D's Formula will help you run through your to-do list with focus, energy and confidence.

You'll also learn how to ensure you're building time for yourself into your calendar and life.

Tune in as I cover topics like time blocking, prioritization, goal setting, and MORE!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The obstacle of time
• My tips for making your people a priority
• Applying my SMARTY Goal Method
• How to commit to your priorities
• Managing workload with my Four D’s Formula
• Efficient time blocking
• Setting expectations

What challenges are you and/or your team having when it comes to effectively managing time? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

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If you believe achieving your goals will make you happy, then you’re thinking about happiness wrong. In fact, happiness is what will make you successful.

Like all of us, Grace Ueng of Savvy Growth has experienced tough times and pain, but she’s dedicated time to learn how to find happiness and thrive even in those dark moments. I invited her on the show today to share one of the strategies she uses to find joy in her work: taking a pause.

During this episode, we discuss the benefits of a happy work culture, and what she’s learned from positive psychology and experts in psychological safety. Grace also has tons of tips that will help you become self-aware, find happiness, fight burnout, and help your team succeed.

Grace and I have an insightful conversation on the ROI of happiness, so tune in to learn more and apply these concepts to your role as a leader!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Going from a corporate career to coaching
• The biggest challenges facing ambitious leaders
• Why happiness in the workplace brings ROI
• What it looks like to “pause” as a leader
• Qualities of an enlightened, powerhouse leader
• How psychological safety benefits teams
• Taking a pause to find happiness
• Grace’s #1 tip to be happy and flourish

Check out Grace Ueng’s company, Savvy Growth: chttps://savvygrowth.com/

Connect with Grace Ueng on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savvygrace/

Sign up for Grace’s Happiness and Leadership Community on LinkedIn: https://tiny.cc/happinessnewsletter

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy Edmondson

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks

Learn more about Google’s Project Aristotle: https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/

What are the challenges you or your team is having is pausing and taking care of yourself so you are the powerhouse you're meant to be? BOOK A CALL with me and let's talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

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Mother’s Day has always been a special time for me and with my clients at Ball of Fire Coaching.

For many years, for Mother's Day week, my mother and 5 sisters, 4 of whom are moms, would celebrate during our annual trip to the beach.

This year is no different, as we are back there, and investing even more time for the many kick-ass working moms out there, who are seeking new ways to rejvenate and take care of themselves.

In this episode, you’ll hear my key strategies for embodying the powerhouse woman you already are while focusing on your physical health, renewing interest in an old hobby, or taking action to care for yourself with the end goal of increasing your happiness and growth.

Tune in to celebrate Mother’s Day by putting the focus on YOU and your dreams!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

● The meaning of Mother’s Day

● Why moms need to set goals and find their passion

● My methodology for creating personal goals

● The purpose of self-care and how to practice it

● My 5-step process for growth and reaching goals

● Blending versus balance

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas

https://www.twitter.com/shedthebitch

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Even powerhouse leaders have an inner critic, so it’s crucial to learn ways to combat negative self-talk and build confidence not only professionally but personally as well.

Dina Scippa of Enough Labs is joining me on this episode to talk about the power of believing you are enough and “failing forward.”

Inspired by her own struggles with confidence and disillusionment with leaders in her field, she founded Enough Labs to help women regain their confidence and advocate for themselves in their professional and personal life.

This episode will inspire you to unlearn the rules and expectations that may be holding you back, take charge of your own story and become the leader you want to be.

If you want to drop your insecurities and start living life by your own rules, this episode is for you!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

● How Dina’s early experiences informed her career and confidence

● The inspiration to found Enough Labs

● What imposter syndrome feels like and why we experience it

● Imposter syndrome in senior leaders

● Blind spots that hinder effective leadership

● Dina’s coaching framework

● How she helps clients overcome their inner critic

● Setting your own rules as a leader

Learn more about Dina Scippa and Enough Labs here: https://enoughlabs.com/

You can reach Dina at dina@enoughlabs.com

Connect with Dina:

https://www.instagram.com/enoughlabs/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dina-scippa-founder-and-ceo-of-enough-labs-82b64a1a7

What are you struggling with when it comes to being a powerhouse leader? BOOK A CALL a call with me and let’s talk so you can get the tips, strategies, and techniques you can use today! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Connect with Bernadette:

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https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette

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“One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.”

This quote by J. C. Macaulay inspired today’s episode on how encouragement leads to higher employee engagement and greater profitability. In just 20 minutes, I give helpful tips and easy practices that you can immediately put into action to motivate employees to work harder for themselves, but also the success of the organization.

Expect to learn the importance of authenticity, recognition of big and small wins, empathy, and more. My guidance to encourage your people to reach their full potential will build up those key leadership skills and enable you to achieve desired results.

If you want to bring the best out of your employees and inspire loyalty, this episode is for you!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why encouragement is beneficial for leaders and their organization
• The crucial discovery process
• What affects employees’ performance
• The power of recognition and communication
• Putting my tips into action

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette

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Leaders, don’t be thrown off by today’s topic of sexuality and pleasure. My guest, Marianne St Clair, helps us discover how feminine and masculine energies are both essential to unlock creativity and boost confidence — both crucial attributes for a powerhouse leader.

Marianne is a trailblazing coach who employs her background in somatic work and connection to the muse, aka her feminine side, to help others reach their full potential. In this episode, she explains why so many leaders are experiencing burnout, and how the muse can empower both men and women to become multi-dimensional leaders.

We also talk about how pleasure and play in everyday moments can reconnect us with our bodies, and my own personal struggle with reclaiming my sexuality. Plus, Marianne gives actionable advice you can start doing now.

If you want to get excited about life again and improve your leadership skills, this episode is for you!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• How Marianne escaped a cycle of burnout
• Defining the “premier muse” and “coach”
• Embracing our femininity
• The effect of sexuality and pleasure on leadership
• Why so many people are unfulfilled and how to fix it
• What we can learn from the younger generations
• How Marianne helps clients release unseen barriers
• Marianne’s best piece of advice you act on NOW

Connect with Marianne St Clair: https://linktr.ee/MarianneStClair

Check out the book both Marianne and I talked about in this episode, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill!

Are you struggling to find your authentic self in your work? BOOK A CALL with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

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https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich
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nHow well do you receive feedback from your boss or your peers? Do you approach situations with openness, or do you get defensive? Are you even aware how you receive criticism, or compliments?

In this episode, I’ll help you discover your level of defensiveness or openess, and the reasons behind it — or as I call it, “excavating your soul.”

You can dig deep into the WHY with my simple exercises, and learn how your reactions and behavior may be impacting your career.

This self-discovery is important to not just build trust and confidence within yourself, but for the relationship between you and your team.

Powerhouse leaders need to model the behavior they expect from their team, and recognizing your own behavior is the first step.

Listen in to start understanding your own responses, and how to translate the feedback you get into change that will make you a better leader!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Types of feedback that can trigger defensive behavior
• Why leaders needs to be open to feedback
• How to break down defensive walls and receive feedback
• Taking inventory of your actions and reactions
• Building confidence and trust in yourself
• How leaders can create a safe, comfortable space for employees

What challenges do you have receiving or giving hard feedback, dealing with difficult conversations, or holding your people accountable? BOOK A CALL with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette

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https://www.twitter.com/shedthebitch

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Leadership is not an ability you automatically gain when you get promoted to a leadership role. It requires multiple skills that need to be developed, and can mean the difference between managing and leading.

Joining me to discuss her proven framework to become a transformational leader is Cynthia Corsetti of Cynthia Corsetti Coaching.

With decades of experience coaching executives, she’s gained a deep understanding of what it takes to be a leader that pushes an organization forward.

In this episode, Cynthia shares the common mistakes she sees leaders making, her four pillars of leadership, and how to evolve into a powerhouse leader.

You’ll learn what transformation looks like, the difference between mentoring and coaching, and MORE.

If you’re an aspiring leader or want to know how to level up your leadership skills, tune in now!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

● Challenges faced by Cynthia’s clients

● How leaders should serve their employees

● A leaders path to self-awareness

● Skills necessary to be a transformational leader

● Mentoring versus coaching

● The 4 pillars of leadership

● How her team implements their CARE framework

● Cynthia Corsetti Coaching’s CARE to Lead cohorts

● Cynthia’s top piece of advice to aspiring leaders

Learn more about Cynthia Corsetti Coaching and their CARE to Lead programs here: https://www.cynthiacorsetti.com/care/

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? BOOK A CALL with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette

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https://www.twitter.com/shedthebitch

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Confidence is crucial for all leaders, but confidence with a lack of communication can result in a misalignment of your perception and the reality of how others see you.

During this episode, I’m breaking down why it’s important to address this issue of perception vs. reality, and how to ensure your perception is indeed reality. You’ll learn how to implement your idea of self to how you present yourself to your team.

I also cover the benefits for you and your team to have an open line of communication, and create an atmosphere of authenticity and trust.

With my tips for getting honest feedback from your team, you can start to understand how you’re impacting those around you and affecting your own success. Tune in now to start!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why perception should matter to leaders
• When your perception doesn’t match up with reality
• Learning how others perceived of me
• How we all benefit from sharing our perceptions
• Questions to ask and assessments to take

What struggles do you have understanding the impact or affect you are having on your employees? Have Book a call with me and let’s talk about it so I can give you tips and strategies for being a powerhouse! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas

https://www.twitter.com/shedthebitch

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Research shows that women rate higher than men in skills that are essential to business leadership, such as communication. Even so, women generally make less and get promoted less compared to men. This reality led today’s guest to question, where have all the women leaders gone?

Executive coach and speaker, Jane Lovas, is joining me today to examine the lack of women in leadership roles. She says that putting women in senior leadership positions can elevate a company’s profitability, innovation, and employee engagement by 30% or MORE.

In this episode, we address why this issue exists, why diversity is important, and how common female attributes compliment men in the workplace. Jane also shares her definition of bringing love to the workplace, which you can learn more about in her book, Leading With Love.

Tune in to learn how women can take control of their career, and how men can support them!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Jane’s interest in the lack of women in leadership
• Why women struggle in the workplace
• Have attitudes changed in the younger generation?
• Benefits of having women in leadership
• Skills women bring to the table
• How women can start taking responsibility of their career
• What authenticity means and why it matters
• Bringing love into the workplace
• Lessons from Jane’s ebook, Put Your Big Girl Panties On

Connect with Jane Lovas on her website: https://www.lovasconsulting.com/

Email Jane at jlovas@lovasconsulting.com to get a copy of her ebook, Put Your Big Girl Panties On!

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

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Episode 326 - “Through losing everything, I found everything.”

After decades of climbing the corporate ladder, I had a wake up call that changed my entire life. What happened next was a journey of self-discovery that led me to write my book, Shedding the Corporate Bitch.

I spent years chasing after accolades and power that had turned me into someone I didn’t recognize. In this episode, I share what I learned about myself and business after losing the job that had taken over my life, including how to be an effective leader and the importance of authenticity. Listen to the end to take my test to evaluate yourself as a leader, and then use your answers to take action towards change!

It’s been 12 years since I wrote my book, but the lessons are still relevant and important. Tune in as I reflect on them, and offer up more advice for female leaders!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• How my childhood led me to a corporate career
• The illusion of success and happiness
• Why getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me
• Lessons from my book that are still relevant today
• My advice to female leaders
• Personal growth and authenticity
• Evaluating yourself as a leader with my Corporate Bitch Test
• Taking action

Get your copy of my book, Shedding the Corporate Bitch: Shifting Your Bitches to Riches in Life and Business, on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Shedding-Corporate-Bitch-Shifting-Business/dp/1600379400

Have you become someone you don't want to be in pursuit of your career or life ambitions? Do you need help to discover exactly who you are and who you're meant to be?
Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette

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https://www.twitter.com/shedthebitch

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The journey to an executive level position is far from easy, especially for women. It’s a great achievement to finally reach that goal, but what happens if when you get there, the blinders come off and you see that your values don’t align with your company?

In this episode, I’m speaking to Allison Frye about her experience climbing the corporate ladder. Her story exemplifies a few issues we’ll be discussing today, including discrimination against women in the workplace and toxic company culture.

Allison and I examine the true role of a leader, and how many leaders are lacking key skills like empathy and vulnerability. We also talk about the importance of self-discovery, and Allison’s free Guide to Psychological First Aid — a guide that EVERY leader needs.

Join our conversation on the challenges women face in corporate, and how to overcome them while staying true to yourself!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Allison’s career journey to the executive level
• Hardships faced by women in the workplace
• Why she quit her corporate job
• Advice to women in similar circumstances
• Defining empathy and how to apply it
• An example of how to show empathy as a leader
• Finding yourself and staying authentic
• Allison’s Psychological First-Aid Guide

Get Allison Frye’s free Guide to Psychological First Aid: https://www.allisoninwonderland.com/pfa-2/

Are you struggling to learn what it is you really want and how to get it so both your career and life are complete? If so, BOOK A CALL with me and let's discuss it while leaving you with an action plan for moving forward.
https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette

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Episode 324 - The rise of quiet quitting and The Great Resignation are trends that resulted from the pandemic, but the underlying issues have long been around. People are now looking for roles within a company that fosters a culture of inclusivity and communication, and it’s pushing organizations to start making changes.

Joining me to talk about this topic is Karolin Helbig and Minette Norman, authors of “The Psychological Safety Playbook: Lead More Powerfully by Being More Human.” They’re experts on psychological safety, and their book breaks down how leaders can build trust and get results by being more human.

During this episode, we go over the negative impacts of not having psychological safety in the workplace and why it’s become such a hot topic. Karolin and Minette also go over the benefits of psychological safety and how you can start implementing it as a leader.

Tune in to explore the concept of psychological safety, and steps YOU as a leader can take today!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Defining psychological safety in the workplace
• Why companies are becoming more aware of this concept
• How leaders can start embracing psychological safety
• Communicating courageously and effectively
• What leaders “being more human” looks like
• How to measure psychological safety in an organization
• The effects of a lack of psychological safety
• Creating psychological safety in a remote work environment

Grab Karolin Helbig and Minette Norman’s book, “The Psychological Safety Playbook: Lead More Powerfully by Being More Human,” here: https://www.thepsychologicalsafetyplaybook.com/

Connect with Karolin and Minette on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karolin-helbig-33048abb/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/minettenorman

What is your biggest challenge ensuring your people are speaking up, contributing, and creating openly with you and others, to drive the business forward? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

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https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

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Think of a time your manager asked you to complete a task, and even though you didn’t have enough information to do it correctly, you didn’t tell them. Or, imagine a situation where you forgot to ask your team for their reports before a stakeholder meeting, and now you’re walking in empty-handed.

Did you lie and blame it on an employee, or own up to your own mistakes?

In other words, did you take accountability?

During today’s episode, we go over the meaning of personal accountability and its role in the workplace. You’ll learn what accountability looks like, how it impacts a team’s success, and the responsibility of leaders.

Join the conversation as we break down the skills and traits you need to inspire personal accountability, and be a powerhouse leader!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What accountability means in the workplace
• Why accountability is a crucial skill for leaders
• Assessing our personal accountability
• Mastering trust with your team
• How leaders can encourage personal accountability

Do you struggle to hold others or even yourself accountable?
Keep in mind, your people are looking to you to set an example.

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me and let’s talk! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.com

Connect with Bernadette:

https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com

https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich

https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette

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Have you ever had a boss that took credit for one of your projects and you let them do it?

It’s a common situation when you’re new in your career, and one that led today’s guest to find her voice where she developed a program for others like her to be able to create their own corporate footprint.

Julie Riga is an executive leadership development coach, TEDx and keynote speaker, author, trainer and facilitator. She’s joining me on this episode to share her acronym, PRINT, which she uses to teach others how to become a powerhouse leader and find purpose in their career.

Listen in to learn how you can set yourself up for success by investing in your own development, building relationships inside and outside your company, and just like any goal — make a plan. You’ll also find out what you should have in your corporate toolbox, and tangible steps you can take to get started.

If you want to be the type of leader YOU always hoped for in the workplace, this episode is for you!

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

• Writing her father’s legacy in her book, “Stay on Course”
• Creating her own footprint and the PRINT acronym
• How to deal with leaders who don’t encourage your growth
• The importance of authenticity and networking
• Making a game plan and planning for leadership

Grab Julie’s Riga’s book,Stay on Course: The Life and Legacy of Ennio Riga, “Chef to the Stars” on Amazon to learn about her father’s fascinating life!

Get a copy of Julie’s free eBook, The Course To LeadershipeBook, on her website!

Find out where to listen to her podcast, Stay On Course: Ingredients for Success, here!

What challenges do you have creating influence, building relationships, or getting your point across powerfully? Book a call with me here and let’s talk!

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here!

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Do you find yourself leaving meetings dissatisfied, like you didn’t get your point across or were unprepared to answer tough questions? This is a sign that you’re not communicating with intention, and most likely need the guidance of my 6 P’s of Powerful Communication.

Powerhouse leaders are defined by the ability to execute, handle conflict, and influence.

In this episode, I’ll explain how to plan, prepare and practice communication so you can be a confident leader that inspires those around you. You’ll learn why each step is unique and necessary for reaching your desired result, whether it’s in the workplace or in your personal life.

Then, I break down strategies to present your information, process key takeaways, and pursue those goals. From active listening to dealing with anxiety over addressing tough topics, I’m sharing tips that will transform how you become an effective communicator.

Regardless of your current skill set, this episode is a must-listen for all leaders!

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why communication is so important
• Making a game plan
• Preparing yourself and content
• The practicing phase
• Presenting and being present
• Evaluating yourself and learning lessons
• Following up and making new goals

Have questions beyond our discussion about how to become a powerhouse leader? Book a call with me here and let’s talk!

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here!

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After last week’s interview with Barbara Teicher of PropelHer® Influence, I spent a lot of time thinking about the three imperatives she says leaders need: insight, influence and impact. These are important skills to have, of course, but moving forward is fruitless without self-awareness and accountability.

During today’s episode, I’m sharing 5 key steps you can take RIGHT NOW to become an empowered powerhouse leader. You’ll walk away understanding what self-awareness and accountability means, and how to achieve it. Plus, discover the power you’ll feel in taking responsibility for your success and failures, and how that can aid in your continual growth.

If you want to be an empowered leader but don’t know how to get there, this episode is for you!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Defining self-awareness and accountability
• Bernadette’s story of self-discovery
• Why it’s important to know who you are
• Making changes within yourself and your surroundings
• The final steps to becoming an empowered leader

Are you struggling to understanding the impact you are making in your leadership role? What questions Book a call with me at coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall, and let's talk!

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On today’s episode, I am welcoming a very special guest!

Barbara Teicher, from PropelHer® Influence helps women in business focus on three pivotal priorities that can propel both their careers and the bottom line, leading to: Emotional intelligence, more profitable and engaged teams, supportive corporate cultures and influence with impact.

We will be discussing why some women just aren’t getting promoted, gaining influence, and achieving their career ambitions.

We are taking the time to dig deep into why it is that women aren’t, as Barbara says, propelling, in their career.

So, join us as Barbara teaches us about the dangers of assuming, what is causing your career to be stagnant and how you can propel!

Here are the highlights

(01:42) Propelling - what do we mean by that?

(07:07) A French bike accident

(09:46) Getting that influence

(14:30) Knowledge is power

(17:23) The view from the top of the ladder

(21:19) Personalities and Communication

Find out more

You can find Barbara’s book here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23434797-it-s-how-you-say-it

Book a call with me here and let’s talk!

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here!

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If you knew how to achieve 80% of your results from just 20% of effort, would you want to know?

This episode is all about just that: tips, techniques and strategies to help you get focused, clear, organized, and empowered to generate more while doing less.

Highlights of the episode include:

• Using the Pareto Rule to gain sanity in your life
• How to say No, even to the boss, client or peer
• How to become a Time Manager that will set you up for massive results

Today we are going to get focused, clear, and organized so you can move from chaos to clarity as you pursue your daily tasks and your overall goals.

So, join me to find out how you can accomplish far more than you are right now, by actually doing less.

Connect with Bernadette

Do you need tips or advice on how to be a powerhouse leader, book a call – https://calendly.com/balloffireaccelerator/discovery-call?month=2023-01

Download my E-book – 3 Must-Have Myths for Success – https://balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in/

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Let's connect and get to know each other better so we can support each other through this crazy journey called life.

So, I'm sharing a bit about me answering a variety of questions touching on both my personal and professional life, and inviting you to do the same on our Shedding the Corporate Bitch Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages.

Join in and let's build a community together of powerhouse leaders working to create riches in our work and life.

A few questions answered:
- What pisses you off or stresses you out?
- What is the biggest challenge you have overcome?
- What are you passionate about?
- Who is your greatest influence?
and more.

Learn more about me and our mission at Ball of Fire Coaching at www.balloffirecoaching.com

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What are you goals for the new year?
Have you documented them yet or do you simply keep them in your head and not on paper?
What if you could achieve 30X greater results by simply having SMARTY goals?

Highlights of this episode includes:
- The benefits of goal setting to your career and life
- A simple method for turning your dreams into powerful, results-focused goals
- Steps you can take to stay focused, clear, persistent, determined, and passionate about your goals

Make 2023 your best year yet with Bernadette and her Goals to Riches SMARTY method. Learn it right here.

Need to discuss your goals?
SCHEDULE some complimentary time to discuss, strategize and lay out your top priority goals.  Go to www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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I am so excited to be talking today to Kristine Conway, all about how many of us, well-meaning leaders, parents and partners are fixated on solving the problems of others.

Are you the type of person who swoops in to save the day, or have you considered that you could be doing more harm than good by doing so?

Kristine is going to help you find out if your so-called fixing is the real problem to solve.

We will also be tackling the question many of you ask her, which is,

“Why aren't I getting the results I expect?”

Highlights From This Episode:

(01:33) Kristine Introduction

(03:00) When nobody questions

(05:37) Avoiding questions and whispers

(11:43) The way we present

(14:03) Not an overnight phenomenon

(18:22) Emotional Intelligence is key

Find out more about Kristine here https://effectivefocusinc.com/

Follow her on Linked in here https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristineconway/

What questions came up for you during this discussion?

Book a call with me here and let’s talk!

Download my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have’ Myths for Success, here!

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In today’s episode we are diving deep into understanding how leaders are the hub for setting up trust and changing habits in an environment that then allows their folks to tap into their intuitive side.

This ultimately leads to less stressed out, burned out, and unproductive employees.

That’s got to be a win, right?

Our guest today is Terry Wildemann, founder of Intuitive Leadership, and she's going to help us look at which habits are creating distrust, stress, and burnout for both leaders and their teams.

Highlights From This Episode

(01:33) Terry’s background

(03:24) Confidence and Credibility

(05:07) They’re not robots

(07:04) Intuitive Hits

(09:09) Quickshift

(14:36) Shifting to the positive

Terry’s links:

http://www.QuickShiftZone.com

http://www.intuitiveleadership.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrywildemann

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Organizations need leaders who know how to GET LIT and build vibrant cultures.

Leaders must LEAD with clarity. Leaders must INTEGRATE integrity and Transcend the ordinary.

Our guest, Nicole Greer, of Build a Vibrant Culture, will answer a key question many leaders have;

HOW DO I MOTIVATE MY TEAM?

In this episode, Nicole Greer shares Strategies, Systems, and Smarts to help everyone SHINE.

Learn the IRP method. Meet your leader self and take away applicable tools to enlighten your teams!

Other topics we discuss are:

• Learn more about Nicole and her passion in this subject
• How to lead with clarity by giving 'amazing' feedback
• How HALT can transform you as a leader
• Her SHINE process for creating a vibrant culture
• and more...

Learn more at www.vibrantcoaching.com

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Whether you have 4 weeks or 4 days left of the year, it is not time to stop pushing and acting on your goals.

In this episode of Ask Me Bernadette, I am asking a question I get a lot this time of year - What can I still be doing to close the year out with a bang, when everyone else is winding down?

First off, that's a myth. December is an awesome month to close business, find a job, secure a raise or promotion and much more.

In this episode we discuss:
- What both corporate and entrepreneur professionals should focus on as they close out the year
- The opportunities that still are out there to bring in new business, get a job, and much more
- The activities leaders, HR managers, and customers are doing themselves this time of year
- How the 'potential' for a recession is not an excuse to stop pushing
- Steps you can take beyond work to close the year out with a bang

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Oftentimes when we talk about more women becoming leaders in business, we measure their new roles to the standard of the “old boys club.”

What if instead of expecting women to lead the same way, we let them take their seat at the table and do things their own way?

Women exhibit certain soft skills that are crucial to the success of a company, and research shows that their high level of collaboration and empowerment can be more beneficial than the old-school authoritative style. Discussing just some of the benefits of women-led companies on the podcast today is Dawn Andrews, founder of business strategy consulting company, Free Range Thinking, and the Female Leadership Accelerator.

Dawn and Bernadette also talk about the many critical skills that every leader needs and how leadership training can help develop them, as well as why “fake it ‘til you make it” may be an outdated philosophy.

Get inspired to find your voice in business or join the conversation as an ally by tuning in to this episode!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Dawn on her background and journey to starting Free Range Thinking
• Defining “hard one knowledge”
• The rise of vulnerability and empathy in leadership
• What does “Free Range Thinking” mean?
• Ways to create your own table
• How should men be included in the conversation?
• Benefits of women being in key leadership roles
• Women who don’t support other women in business
• Shifting attitudes in the field of HR
• Changes Dawn has seen in female leadership and leadership training
• Teams, tools, and opportunity
• Dawn’s advice for becoming a leader or reaching their goals
• Topic of Dawn’s book, Brave Conversations Workbook

Learn more about Dawn Andrews’ company, Free Range Thinking, and her Female Leadership Accelerator program here!

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I'm a diamond. You can't beat me up. I'm rock solid… A diamond has facets and it can lean and glimmer, move backwards and forwards and side to side in order to feel heard.”

Carrie Arnold says this in today’s episode, where she talks to Bernadette about the empowerment women will find when they rediscover their voice in the workplace. You’ll hear words/phrases like “interrogation of work,” “kitchen table,” and “disinvite” — all crucial elements to understanding why women feel silenced and how to manage the symptoms that follow.

Carrie answers the questions - How do women recover from, and manage feeling silenced or sidelined at work? What is the impact of silencing women?

If this phenomenon is new to you, Carrie is explaining some of the ways women are made to feel silenced in the workplace, including microaggressions that are so subtle you may miss them. She’s also sharing how she helps coach women to find their purposeful voice, and important findings when doing research for her book, Silenced and Sidelined.

The world needs more self-aware, evolved leaders, so take a step toward making that change by tuning in and sharing this interview!

Carrie Arnold, author of Silenced and Sidelined: How women leaders find their voices and break barriers is the Principal for The Willow Group. She is a Master Certified Coach and has a PhD in Human Development.

She also serves as the program director for the evidence based coaching program at Fielding Graduate University

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How Carrie became passionate about women’s issues in the workplace
• What does it mean to be silenced, and what is its impact?
• Examples of what it means to be “disinvited”
• Are people the problem, or is it the system?
• The biggest hurdle in progress according to Carrie
• Surprise findings in Carrie’s research
• Physical and mental effects of being silenced
• 4 types of women and how they recover
• How Carrie helps women move forward in the recovery process
• First steps to take if you’re feeling silenced
• Carrie on her book and voice currency
• What is a purposeful voice for women in business?
• Carrie’s message to those struggling in corporate America

Learn more about Carrie’s coaching business, The Willow Group, here!

Don’t forget to check out her book, Silenced and Sidelined: How Women Leaders Find Their Voices and Break Barriers!

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Do you know that conscious leadership, a human-first approach to leading, is more than just supporting employees and fostering growth? Self-awareness is a major component of conscious leadership, you can’t lead and be collaborative with a team if you’re not in touch with your own self.

Today’s guest is Ryann Dowdy, founder of Be in the Room, a conscious leadership collective for women in business. She’s helping women have a voice in the workplace and become self-aware using various tools, including her 6 Self Leadership Principles.

She and Bernadette talk about the shifting leadership landscape, the lack of exemplary leaders in business, and what challenges women face in their careers. Ryann’s also sharing what she’s passionate about in business and life, and what to do when you feel “stuck” in your body and in life.

One of the first steps of having the job you want, or being the kind of leader other women can look up to, is defining your idea of success. Tune in for actionable ways to get started!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Ryann introduces herself and details her career
• What is conscious leadership and why should we care?
• Defining self-concept and why it’s important
• A pivotal moment in Ryann’s professional life
• Working with women who don’t know how to achieve their ambitions
• The biggest challenge facing women in leadership
• How Be in the Room is helping women address issues
• Self-awareness is key to conscious leadership
• 6 self leadership principles
• Explaining self trust and why some women lack it
• Discovering what you want is the first step
• Ryann’s view on quiet quitting
• Advice to women on finding their inner self to start progressing

Learn more about Be in the Room and download the FREE Self Leadership Principles eBook by Ryann Dowdy: https://beintheroom.org/

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If years of a pandemic have changed anything in our world, it’s that more people are craving and prioritizing a life-work blend vs a work-life balance.

Whether you’re working remotely or not, finding this blend is important for both personal and professional growth.

But what if your boss is not compassionate? Or, your values don’t align with the company culture?

Tanya Bugbee of Tanya Bugbee Coaching and Consulting is today’s guest, and she’s talking to host Bernadette about the struggles leaders are facing, including a workforce that craves this life-work blend, even during a tough economy.

She shares stories of her clients to explain the fear, lack of trust and compassion.

It’s not all bad news, though! Tanya discusses the progress many organizations are making to move the needle towards better leadership. She also talks about the power of mindset, and helping her clients nurture their superpowers to reach their goals.

You’ll want to tune in if you're interested in the coaching business, or a professional wanting to excel in their career or learn how to be a better leader and inspire loyalty!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Tanya’s life and career
• What Tanya hopes to accomplish
• Struggles many people faced through the pandemic
• The importance of having a positive mindset
• Compassion as a critical leadership skill
• Helping clients who have a boss lacking compassion
• The #1 challenge leaders are having right now
• Bernadette’s experience with survivor’s guilt
• Tanya shares examples of layoffs and how supportive leaders were
• How fear shows up in leadership and its effect
• The story of when Tanya quit her job during the pandemic
• Tapping into your superpowers
• What Tanya is excited about for her and her client’s futures
• Coaching vs. therapy
• Advice to professionals

Learn more about Tanya and her coaching business on her website: https://www.tanyabugbee.com/

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I lived with the secret for close to 25 years, and many leaders do as well, doing everything in their power to never reveal what it is.

Today, we are revealing that secret and discussing the impact it has on their people, business, and lives, and what one can do about it should they be holding onto this secret as well.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- The many challenges leaders are dealing with in the workplace
- The big secret many of them are working hard to never reveal
- The impact of holding onto the secret on their employees, business, and self
- Solutions for revealing the secret while continuing to perform and produce.

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Today, we address a question that many professionals have when they take on a new job, a new position, or even a new employer: how can I excel in a new role while also meeting my personal needs?

Kim Van Lue is the CEO, Talent Development Consultant, and Executive Coach of North Spring Leadership Consulting, where she works with leaders in large and small organizations to make their teams more effective.

In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Kim shares her advice for getting clear about what it is that you want from your job, how to find alignment between an organization's values and your own, and prevent dissonance when it comes to expectations.

There is a world in which you can take both business needs and your personal needs into consideration without sacrificing one for the other. Remember, no one has a bigger impact on your experience of a new role than you do!

By doing the self-discovery work to find out what you actually want and how you can best tend to your own needs, you can avoid the cycle of self-doubt and overwhelm that many high achievers fall into and turn your job into everything you want it to be (and more)!

Topics discussed in this episode:

● How Kim’s personal experience informs her coaching strategy

● Emphasizing relationship building and culture over action

● The value of a trusted partner to guide you through work transitions

● Why authenticity and vulnerability are easier said than done

● Tips for overcoming self-doubt

● Why imposter syndrome is more prevalent in women

● What failure looks like for high achievers

● Advice for aligning organizational values with your own

● Getting clear about what you actually want from your job

● How expectations can influence your experience

● The importance of trust, connection, and self-discovery work

● Why leaders sometimes struggle to care for themselves

● A case for empathetic leadership

● Tips for maintaining business needs and your personal needs

● Why high achievers are often overwhelmed in new roles

● Kim shares her take on “quiet quitting”

Learn more about Kim at www.northspringleadership.com

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What makes the difference between an effective leader and an average leader? According to Croft Edwards of CROFT + Company, the answer is flow. True leaders need to embody what they want from their employees, so they can bring the best out of their organization.

Croft Edwards helps leaders and organizations grow and produce high-performing team members with his unique methodology, called LeadershipFlow. He’s joining host Bernadette to discuss more ways that leaders fail to create a culture of effective communication, the biggest roadblock being leaders themselves.

With a background as an ontological coach, he focuses on language, active listening and the body to start facilitating growth. In his book, LeadershipFlow Perfectly Square: Story About Learning to Lead and Transforming a Company, Croft details more of his methodology, plus how to let go of your ego and find vulnerability in order to be a great leader.

In this episode, he also gives insight on the importance of connecting with the body, and why practicing new skills in the body is the only way to build a better future for your company and train the next generation.

Tune in to hear all this and more, including how you can tap into your LeadershipFlow!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What is LeadershipFlow?
• Common mistakes of leaders
• What emotions tell you about how a team functions
• How technology like Zoom is affecting LeadershipFlow
• The biggest challenges facing Croft’s clients
• Ways Croft gets leaders to be vulnerable
• The body is the holy grail of leadership
• Cordial hypocrisy
• LeadershipFlow as a methodology
• How Croft is practicing self-mastery and being in his body
• Using the Army to explain an organization that creates high performing leaders
• Why training and development is essential
• Croft on his book, LeadershipFlow Perfectly Square: Story About Learning to Lead and Transforming a Company

Learn more about Croft Edwards at www.croftandcompany.com

You can also follow him on Linkedin and Twitter!

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How can I elevate not only being technology savvy and creative, but sincere, authentic, empathetic and honest when building relationship capital… so I stand out and make a difference in my work and life?

Our guest, Judy Herbst help you know your unique value, and your point of difference that sets you apart and build from there.

Judy is the Executive Director of Savvy Ladies.

She comes to Savvy Ladies with vast knowledge & experience working with women throughout her career. With over 20+ years of relationship-building experience working for the iconic brands’ Tiffany & Co, American Girl, and Worthy.com, Judy creates programs and campaigns that educate and speak to critical issues targeting women, parents, and families.

In March 2021, Savvy Ladies welcomed Judy to spearhead initiates designed to expand Savvy Ladies reach focusing on technology & scalability to serve more women, championing women’s empowerment through financial knowledge.

Judy brings her business acumen and creative, marketing & client relationship savviness along with her proven success record in developing, driving and executing scalable business growth initiatives.

She is innovative and a passionate thought leader with success in sales, project and event management, managing teams, hiring, start-ups, coaching, writing, and community building.

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Are you or someone you know going through a career or life transition and they're wondering what they need to do or how best is it to navigate the journey?

TAMA KIEVES, career coach and author answers the question: How you can I tap into unstoppable inner strength, and break through fears and obstacles so I can experience complete fulfillment in my work and life?

She has found that the reason most people don’t experience the life of their dreams is because they don’t know how to handle uncertainty. It can be overwhelming not to know which path to take.

Tama is a former Harvard-trained lawyer turned bestselling author and leading career and success coach, who has helped thousands of people make the most inspired decisions of their lives, often when they felt most insecure.

Whether you’re in a career transition, divorce, or just seeking your next step in life---this is your turning point.

Will you choose from strength or weakness?

Tama Kieves, is the bestselling author of Thriving Through Uncertainty!!! Check her out at www.tamakieves.comHave questions after this discussion? Book a call with Bernadette to talk about next steps in helping you to be a stronger, more confident you! http://coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

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Spending too much time looking for the perfect candidate for your company, just to end up hiring the wrong person again?

Effective recruitment is key to your success, but recruitment is more than just posting on job boards and asking general interview questions. No one knows this better than Andrea Hoffer, CEO and Owner of AHA! Recruiting.

It’s important to discover what skills and traits the specific role within your company requires, as well as the company’s needs and values. Other key factors like employer branding and learning from past hiring mistakes will also give you a better chance for success in the hiring process.

Andrea and Bernadette discuss how to locate the right candidate, the biggest issues faced by hiring managers, and how to make your company more appealing to candidates.

Say goodbye to bad hires and learn how to find the right applicant for your organization!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How Andrea founded AHA! Recruiting after hiring for her first business
• Finding out what you truly need from a candidate through the discovery process
• Building a candidate persona to create effective recruitment marketing campaigns
• Challenges hiring managers and employers are facing during the hiring process
• The shift in candidates valuing remote/flexible work and how businesses are responding
• Creating your ideal company culture in a virtual or in-person work environment
• Be proactive marketing your company culture and learn from Glassdoor reviews
• Echo the candidate persona and company culture in the job posting and interview
• Creating productive interview questions that ask for specific examples
• The importance of comparing candidates to a candidate profile and not other candidates
• When to stop searching for “someone better” and fill the position
• Build an online presence and utilize employee testimonials to attract candidates
• Candidates should keep a journal of their work and life experiences to make a portfolio of their career for future job interviews
• Andrea’s book, Hire Higher, is a practical step-by-step guide through the discovery process, recruitment marketing campaigns, interviewing, and onboarding

Download for FREE the first chapter of Andrea’s book, Hire Higher, here: https://bit.ly/ahofferfreechapter. In this free chapter, you’ll find six questions to ask yourself to uncover the perfect fit for your company and how to attract them!

Learn more about Andrea at www.aharecruitingexperts.com.

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What is keeping you stuck, feeling unfulfilled, and blocking you from taking the risks needed to be successful?

Our guest, Sohee Jun, shares her powerful + simple strategies to get unstuck and succeed at work.

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Dr. Sohee Jun is a Amazon bestselling author of “Mommytracked: How to Take Authentic Risks & Find Success on Your Terms” and an expert on the challenges that face working women in today’s complex world, as well as a sought-after executive coach, keynote speaker, and leadership development facilitator.

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Fear, insecurity, negativity and doubt are major contributors as to why certain people never achieve the success they want in their work and life.I was definitely one of those people... and through my shedding process I realized and gained the true riches in life I craved.In this episode, I share my story in order for you to relate and decide for yourself, which fears, doubts or negativity you want to shed once and for all, so you can create the riches you want and deserve.FOLLOW the show to get updates on all of our future expert interviews, topics, and more.#mindset #transformation #podcast #coaching #personalgrowth #fear #success #careeradvice

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Have you automated your financial future so you can concentrate on what really matters to you.Our guest, Barbara Friedberg, talks about how you can get a really easy plan, that incorporates sound science about investing, to secure your financial tomorrow, even if you don't have an interest in finance or investment management.ABOUT OUR GUEST:Barbara A. Friedberg, MS, MBA is a former portfolio manager and university investments instructor. She’s enjoying her dream with publishing credits on US News and World Report, Forbes, Investopedia, MSN Money and more. She helps others learn about personal finance and investing at BarbaraFriedbergPersonalFinance. and Robo-Advisor Pros. Her Encyclopedia of Personal Finance is a teaching tool for financial literacy.SUBSCRIBE to the show so you don't miss a single episode.

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Our guest, Nageen (Nyn) Riffat is answering the question - What are the predictors if I will be successful in my work and life?According to Nyn, 'Not education, not experience, not knowledge or intellectual horsepower. None of these are adequate predictor as to why one person succeeds and another doesn’t. The answer has to do with this concept called emotional intelligence. And while it is harder to identify and measure than IQ or experience, and certainly difficult to capture on a resume, its power cannot be denied. ABOUT OUR GUEST:For the past ten years, Nageen Riffat – also known as Nyn – has dedicated herself to empowering women and guiding them to embrace their potential. As a leadership consultant, author and speaker, she has helped thousands of women build a life of success, influence and positive impact, both within and outside of the USA. Not only does she run her consultancy business, Nyn’s Dreams LLC, from her hometown of Houston.Nyn’s book “#HerRhythm-You Are More Than Your Survival Story” has gained a lot of attention around the world. In its pages, Nyn bravely tells of how she escaped her abusive marriage, fought for custody of her two sons, and took refuge with them in the USA. Much of the motivation for her entrepreneurial work comes from her past experiences of abuse and repression, and it is her hope that her story and work will not only captivate those who need it, but inspire them to a life of more.