Shedding the Corporate Bitch
Welcome to Shedding the Corporate Bitch — the podcast where executive leadership gets real. Hosted by executive coach, strategist, and unapologetic truth-teller Bernadette Boas, this show is built for senior leaders, CHROs, and HR executives who are done with surface-level leadership advice and ready for the conversations that actually move the needle. Drawing from 25 years in corporate — including being fired — and over a decade coaching leaders at the highest levels, Bernadette delivers the raw insights, honest dialogue, and practical strategies you won't find in a leadership textbook. Each episode tackles what's really happening in today's organizations: toxic cultures, burned-out teams, leadership gaps, talent retention crises, and the fear, doubt, and imposter syndrome that quietly undermine even the most accomplished executives. Joined by world-class leaders, HR innovators, and organizational experts, Bernadette doesn't just identify the problems — she hands you the tools to solve them. This is the podcast for leaders who are ready to shed what's holding them — and their organizations — back, and build something that actually works. Follow now. Your next level starts here.
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Do you experience Sunday-night dread, sleepless nights, or simply unmotivated to go the extra mile? How is it impacting your effectiveness on the job?
Driven leaders push through all of it, and that's exactly how drift takes the wheel and controls how you show up each day, and more importantly how your team experiences you.
I sat down with Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer who shows you how to sp...
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ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
After more than 400 executives coached, I have found one common attribute of those executives who successfully transforms: they were truly coachable.
Most executives aren't.
They think they're open-minded, they say they take feedback, they insist they want to grow, but the moment feedback is given to them that makes them uncomfortable, they start defending, e...
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Breathwork isn't wellness. Learn the 60-second nervous system reset executives use to reclaim clarity, presence, and leadership influence.
About This Episode:
Most executives don't realize they're holding their breath through back-to-back meetings. Your nervous system stays in overdrive, your thinking fogs, decisions that should take five minutes take thirty, and your p...
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Your high-potential just hit a ceiling she can't see. Your strong contributor is running a toxic sub-team and you're not sure how to course-correct without losing him. Your new promotion deserves better than a "good luck" and a handbook.
Executive coaching is the $20 billion industry you're underusing.
Most HR leaders and hiring managers know coaching works; the ROI is proven, engagement l...
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Most leaders treat employee turnover like a compensation problem or a market problem.
Kevin Patrick of Trinity One Consulting spent 15 years inside ERP systems implementations before realizing it's neither; it's a trust problem, and it's fixable.
In this episode, Kevin walks through the Dream Manager methodology: a model built on the idea that people give a comp...
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You've done the work. You've discovered who you are, confronted the fears running your leadership, shed the old story, and started creating something new.
So why does one bad day, one hard conversation, one piece of sharp feedback still have the power to send you right back to where you started?
In the final 5th episode of the From Stuck to Leading series, Bernadette Boas breaks down...
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Most leaders assume their team's friction is a personality clash.
Executive and business coach Debbie Longo says it's almost always behavior, and the leadership blind spot she runs into most is control and manipulation.
In this episode, Debbie walks through how a single thought becomes a behavior, why some leaders need to hit a “bottom” before they...
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You did the work and you let go of the old story, the fear, the pattern that kept you stuck. So why does it still feel like nothing's actually changed?
In this episode, Bernadette Boas breaks down the mistake nearly every leader makes right after a real breakthrough: mistaking the relief of letting go for the finish line. She walks through the five-part foundation — trust, integrity...
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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 beco...
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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 p...
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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 fi...
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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 ...
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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 mat...
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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 th...
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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 a...
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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+ exe...
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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%...
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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 y...
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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 De...
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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...
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