Shedding the Corporate Bitch

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 ...

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 wi...

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, w...

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 Ep...

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...

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 rec...

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
 • N...

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 leade...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 decis...

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-center...

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 preventabl...

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 intenti...

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 outweigh...

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...

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 ju...

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 unexami...