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The Promotion Gap: What No One Teaches You About Moving from Doer to Leader with Femi Corazon

July 02, 2026

We all start our careers as doers, or individual contributors. This means we make the widgets; we do the grunt work; we execute the strategy of management. Then, at one point, we may get very good at being a doer and are tapped for management. The issue is that there is no class for leadership. So many people that move from doer default into manager. And as you may have seen in the memes online, there is a distinct difference between a manager and a leader. Here are some differences:A ma...

Unmasking: How to Step Off the Achievement Treadmill with Alicia Zielinski Straub

June 25, 2026

Let’s start with two quotes today. Honestly, I couldn’t decide between the two, so you get both.Carl Jung: "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."Brené Brown: "Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."Often, we don’t let ourselves be seen as Brene Brown says. We put on masks of perfectionism, performance, people pleasing, and more. I know about these masks because I’ve done ...

The Brave Shift: From Stress and Overload to Soul Success with Meghan French Dunbar

June 18, 2026

When I burned out back in 2019, I felt like I was duped. I did all the “right things” – went to college, worked very hard, climbed the ladder, got married, had kids. And then, after doing everything the way I thought I was supposed to do, I burned out anyway. During that period, I was disillusioned and felt like I had no foundation. I had to find a new foundation, and this podcast was part of it, so thank you again for being here.What I learned about in my conversation with guest, Meghan Fren...