How Good Can It Get

I built the thing I most needed, and in this episode I finally lay it all out for you.

There is a version of exhaustion that sleep does not fix. You can leave the job, take the vacation, change the boss, and finally close the laptop at 5:00, and the experiences still go around and around in your head. You still hear the criticism from that meeting. One email lands and your whole body snaps back into alert....

I really wish someone had handed me this one question earlier in my career, back when I was climbing and striving and sure that the next title would finally make me feel like myself.

How good can it get?

I say it all the time on this show, and coming back from the most wonderful summer, I realized I've never fully explained what I mean by it. So this episode goes back to basics. This phrase st...

I really wish someone had told me this earlier in my career: working harder isn't necessarily what moves you forward.

For so many of us, especially women, we inherited a simple formula. Keep your head down, do great work, and eventually someone will notice. But as Giselle Marcus and I talk about in this conversation, career growth has an invisible side that many of us were never tau...

Some of the most powerful work we can do isn't changing what's happening around us. It's changing the story we're living inside.

Kyle Smith and I recorded this conversation a year and a half ago, and that idea has stayed with me. So many of the patterns I see in my clients come back to the stories we quietly repeat about who we are, what we're capable of, what we're allowed to want,...

When this conversation was first recorded almost 2 years ago, I thought we were talking about career pivots. Listening back now, I realize we were talking about identity. About the quiet moment when you start wondering whether the life you've built is actually one you chose.

This episode explores:

• why so many of us confuse achievement with alignment

• the hidden "rulebook" that shapes our career decisions without us realizing...

Two years ago, I recorded this conversation before I'd fully connected the dots between visibility, work, and opportunity.

Looking back, I realize this episode isn't really about LinkedIn. It's about something much bigger: the courage to let people see your work before you know exactly where it will lead. Whether you're building a business, growing your career, or simply wondering w...

Two years ago, I recorded this conversation before I had fully articulated what Work Recovery really meant.

Looking back now, I can hear so many of the ideas that have become central to my work today. This conversation isn't simply about leadership. It's about questioning the systems we've accepted as normal and asking what becomes possible when we build workplaces around humans ins...

Two years ago, I recorded this conversation before I had language like Work Recovery.

Looking back, I can see the ideas that were quietly shaping everything I believe today.

This episode explores:

• why being told "it's just stress" can disconnect us from ourselves
• the relationship between chronic stress, trauma...

This week's episode is another special reshare from the vault—one that feels just as relevant today as it did when it first aired. Bree sits down with entrepreneur and business coach Ina Coveney to explore what happens when you're forced to rethink your career, your identity, and the stories you've been telling yourself about success.

After being passed over for a promotion wh...

This week's episode is a special reshare from the vault — and one of the most listened-to conversations in the show's history. Bree sits down with Christy Bowman-White, who went from middle school dropout and teenage parent to principal of a Distinguished School in Washington state... and then burned out completely.

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