Podcast Episodes List

A chief people officer's five steps after a layoff: file, dust off the resume, network, post it on LinkedIn, and refuse to be ashamed of any of it.

No word of the year, no visible progress, just the grind. Erica Rooney on why the middle is where growth happens and three ways to keep going.

Heather Monahan was fired three weeks after being named one of the most influential women in radio. She pitched TEDx 100 times before she heard yes.

Cornelia Shipley Berryman left corporate in 2006 to care for both parents and signed her first client 14 days later. On boundaries and accountability.

Erica Rooney made the C-suite before 40 and still tells people she is just in HR. Eight ways to celebrate your wins, big and small, starting today.

Cynthia Vadacchino documented the bullying, brought witnesses and went to HR. She was told she exasperated the problem, then quietly managed out.

Erica Rooney walked into a keynote speaker bootcamp knowing nobody and felt invisible. Here is exactly how she reframed imposter syndrome in real time.

Two rules: buy only what you need, and clear one space a day. Erica Rooney on why decluttering lowers your stress and makes room for what is next.

Amy O’Dell resigned the day she watched her son topple over at preschool. Fourteen years of one-on-one work later, Jacob’s Ladder serves 100 kids a day.

Sheila Akbar made someone else responsible for keeping her out of the weeds, and her inbox went from 300 emails a day to 20. On the zigzag career.

A chief people officer on the self-review: tying wins to company impact, framing failure as growth, and making your leader see what you did.

Lynn Power ran J. Walter Thompson New York, then left to bootstrap Masami. On the gravity inside big companies and ethical self promotion.

Erica Rooney’s three-tier goal system: big hairy audacious goals, one-year goals, and daily habits broken down small enough that you cannot skip them.

Loraine Martinez Bellamy is a lawyer and a coach at once, on purpose. On goals as hypotheses, perfectionism as procrastination, and borrowed belief.

Erica Rooney does not do teacher gifts, holiday cards or party food. The holiday boundaries that cut the mental load and what she protects instead.

Why the word accountability makes your stomach drop, and the one-word swap that changes everything. Erica Rooney on holding yourself capable instead.

Shauna Griffiths cold-called every NBA team until one hired her. On finding a way to win, the self doubt that kept her stuck, and finally asking for help.

Erica Rooney on the mean girl at work: what relational aggression actually is, five ways to shut it down, and why the trash always goes out on Tuesdays.

A Fiji water bottle sent MaryJane Connor across the world and rewired what she believes about worth. Two sticky floors that fight each other.

A gratitude practice literally rewires your brain. The neuroscience, the path in the woods, and the three things Erica wrote down on her worst days.