All Episodes

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.

Dr. Iris Crawford never spent a day in high school and became a physician. Why your labs come back normal when you know something is wrong.

Erica Rooney played the put a finger down game and ended with zero fingers up. Why this sticky floor runs your life and the four things that break it.

Ruby Hamacher built a whole DEI strategy on top of her real job. They would not create the role, so she left. It took two people to replace her.

Erica Rooney hit every item on her vision board and felt nothing. What the arrival fallacy is, why it hits high achievers, and what to chase instead.

Whitney Paronish won wrestling matches because boys forfeited rather than face a girl. Now she is a patrol officer carrying the weight of an entire gender.

Ninety days left in the year and most goals quietly die here. Erica Rooney's three pillar check in, built for candy season and no perfection required.

Sasha Purpura went from software engineer to CEO of a nonprofit moving 8 million pounds of food a year. Why culture fit is not a soft problem.

Erica Rooney answers the question she gets most as a CPO and mom of two. The honest list of what she actually does, and what she lets drop.

Gaylan Sankey dropped college algebra four times to avoid math, then built a career on data. On the beliefs we inherit and the selves we hide at work.

My brain runs like a browser with 50,000 tabs open. Here are the working mom tips and tricks I actually use, and the ones I refuse to feel guilty about.