Stefanie Fackrell was laid off in 2023 and decided to bet on herself. The next two years tested that bet hard. Her brother, who was also her best friend, was killed by a drunk driver in 2024, and a year later she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She kept building her business through all of…
Laurie joined Meg Bear and Amy Wilson on their podcast, the Meg & Amy Show, for a conversation about work, money, and what’s actually breaking people right now. Much of it traces back to a period earlier in her career when she realized that if she wanted a different outcome, she had to make different…
Lisa Sterling said “absolutely not” when she was first asked to take a Chief People Officer role. Not because she didn’t care about people, but because everything she believed about organizational performance was at odds with what HR was supposed to be. She took the job anyway, with one instruction: get rid of all of…
David Barrett grew up watching his father make gravestones, run a late-night fast-food joint, and deal in licensed firearms out of the same rural Irish town. He called it “food-to-grave services.” What David took from it was: there are a lot of ways to make a living, and the best ones involve getting out and…
Twenty-six years in benefits gives you a particular kind of clarity. Rae Shanahan knows what the industry got right, and she’s direct about what it got wrong. Now Chief Strategy Officer at Businessolver, she comes to this conversation with research and the research tells a story most HR teams aren’t ready to hear. Businessolver’s annual…
Gemma Versace is Chief Client Officer at X-Team, where she works with organizations navigating the gap between what their AI talent strategy looks like on paper and what it looks like in practice. She comes to this conversation with research, and the research tells a story most organizations aren’t ready to hear. X-Team surveyed over…
Tameka Vasquez grew up in tech, absorbed the ethos of moving fast and breaking things, and assumed that was just how work operated. It took years of consulting outside the industry, with leaders in finance, real estate, and manufacturing, to show her how rare that tolerance actually was. Most leaders, she found, can handle “change”…
Andrew Norcross didn’t get pushed out of tech because he wasn’t good enough. He got pushed out because he refused to pretend that a pattern-recognition machine is a replacement for an experienced engineer. For 20 years, Norcross was the person companies called when the stakes were too high to get it wrong: NASA, the New…
Scott Eblin and I have known of each other for almost 20 years, and it took us this long to actually sit down and talk. Worth the wait. Scott is an executive coach, bestselling author of The Next Level and Overworked and Overwhelmed, and a former faculty member at Georgetown’s leadership coaching program. But what…
Amari Leigh runs Admin by Amari, a virtual assistant (VA) and social media agency that has worked with over 100 businesses across 17 countries and 19 U.S. states. Every client is sex positive and queer-affirming. That wasn’t a calculated brand decision. It’s just who kept showing up. She studied sociology, volunteered at sex worker charities…
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