My conversation with Kim Meninger on The Impostor Syndrome Files https://www.kimmeninger.com/rewriting-the-stories-that-hold-us-back “I don’t deserve this job.”“My colleagues are better than me.”“If they find out, they’ll let me go.” You know that voice. Maybe you heard it this morning. Most of the people I work with are smart. Accomplished. They have the title, the track record, the proof. And yet. The voice doesn’t care about proof. Kim invited me to talk about where that v

My conversation with Maurice Chism on That Will Never Work From the outside, your life looks like a 10. The title. The house. The family. The results. And inside? It feels like a 7. You have it pretty good. You know that. You even feel a little guilty saying it out loud. So you don't. When I ask new clients how their life feels out of 10, most of them say 7. Not 2. Not 4. Seven. Successful people who tell me: "I shouldn't complain. Maybe I shouldn't even be here." I talked ab

My conversation with Andre on the Business Transformation Journey podcast, episode 11 One day the phone rings. Someone wants you to lead the transformation nobody else could pull off. Come be the hero. It feels like recognition. Often, it is. And still. Before you say yes, get curious. Why wasn't this done before? Who is really on board, and who isn't? What resources will you actually have? What happens once the transformation is done? You would never buy a company without du

My conversation with Rick Coluccio of Raymond George Consultancy on the Recruiting EQ podcast, episode 108: The Power of the Unconscious in Executive Coaching Some of my clients come to me with a very specific request. "Help me with my anxiety symptoms. But not all of them. They're what made me successful. If I lose them, I lose my edge." I never argue. We work on the symptoms. And as they quiet down, something becomes visible: the belief that those symptoms were the recipe.

My conversation with Deborah on Deals with Heels You know the boundary you need to set.The habit you need to change.The role you've outgrown. You could even explain, in detail, why you keep repeating the same pattern. And yet. You still do it. That's what Deborah and I explored on Deals with Heels: the gap between knowing and becoming. Why insight alone rarely moves us. And what actually does. Knowing is only the tip of the iceberg When clients tell me they're stuck, I usuall

The Day My Calendar Emptied Out I was David's guest on The Flipped Story — the show where every guest tells the story they flipped. Here's mine. For twenty-five years, my calendar was booked a year ahead. Then I walked into a meeting room for an exit interview. Mine. The restructuring wasn't a surprise. The empty calendar was. One conversation, and the year that had been full went blank. That blank terrified me. Three days later I sat in an interview for a VP role at a major

Two conversations this week circled the same idea: the legacy you leave is already being written. The only question is whether you're the one holding the pen. For most people, legacy is a end-of-life word. A promise of continuity. But continuity of what, exactly? What you leave when you go. The letter, the foundation, the name on the building. What you plan for later, after the sale, after retirement, when there's finally time. So it waits. It waits for the transaction to clo

I Knew Every Answer. I Froze Anyway. I sat down with Dr. Caroline Biesalski on the Inspired Podcast to talk about the coat we leave at the door and why legacy keeps getting postponed until it's too late to mean anything. Three days after my role was eliminated, I was in an interview for a VP HR job at a bank. I knew the answers. Twenty-five years reading other people's resumes. I knew exactly what to say. I froze. Nothing intelligent came out. I walked home and understood wh

My conversation with Vince Warnock on Chasing the Insights. You spend years building it. The team. The clients. The reputation. The 60-hour weeks nobody sees. And then one day, you sell. The bank account fills up. The calendar empties out. And a quiet question arrives that no advisor prepared you for. Who am I now? You have a finance team. A tax team. Consultants. Every one of them has a stake in how the deal turns out. Not one of them is simply there for you — to sit with th

A conversation with Shannon on the Career Growth for Working Women podcast. You know exactly what to do. You still don't do it. That gap — between what you know and what you actually do — is where I spend most of my days. Shannon and I sat with it for a whole episode, and I want to tell you what lives inside it. It isn't a lack of information. You already have the information. You've read the books. You've been in the rooms. You could coach someone else through this in your s

A conversation with Cassandra Crowley Mayo on her podcast Is Your Way In Your Way? You don't notice the coat until you take it off. For 25 years I wore my employer's brand like a second skin. Their voice. Their colours. Their calendar, booked a year in advance. Then a restructuring ended it — on someone else's terms. And the calendar emptied overnight. That's where most people expect the story to get hard. The empty calendar. The lost title. The question of what comes next. F

You've read the books. You've done the work. You understand your own patterns better than anyone. And still, you can't move. That gap — between knowing and doing — is where I live. It's the thing almost nobody says out loud. And it's the heart of my conversation with Stacy Tlemi on Follow the Advisor. I know that gap from the inside. For twenty-five years I was a senior HR executive. The last stretch at Deloitte. I coached hundreds of people through career transitions. I knew

A new conversation on the Story Warrior Podcast with Gideon Fukuay — and why I'd love you to listen. Every entrepreneur fights two kinds of fires. The visible ones are loud. Payroll. Logistics. Getting the product out the door. Finding the next client. The invisible ones are quiet. And they're often the ones doing the real damage. Self-doubt. Procrastination. Distraction. The pull of an old habit. The slow loss of your why. And the one almost no one says out loud: how lonely

https://youtu.be/DH3i6UIgw04?si=jQCXOv8zec8uYRTT A new conversation on the On The Brink podcast with John Brink — and why I'd love you to listen. Two people sat down for this one. One of us came off a bus in northern British Columbia with $2,547, no job, and barely a word of English — and built a lumber mill, a life, and a body of work that's still going at 86. The other learned English selling encyclopedias door to door across Western Canada, spent 25 years climbing the corp

https://youtu.be/g_UG9mJzM4M?si=voSbMSIOg2iCK9sc A new conversation on the Skin Talks podcast — and why I'd love you to listen. Have you ever looked around at your life and thought: this is good… so why doesn't it feel the way I imagined it would? You're not ungrateful. You can see how fortunate you are. You wouldn't trade it. And still — something sits just slightly off. Something you can't always name. I call it the 7 out of 10 life. The 10 is what it looks like from the ou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0xw9YVyMmY&t=203s A new conversation on the Give A Heck Podcast — and why I'd love you to listen. You already know what to do. You've known for a while. And still — something holds you in place. That gap, between knowing and doing, is where I spend my days now. It's also where I stayed stuck myself, for longer than I'd like to admit. For twenty-five years I was a senior HR executive. Eight of them at Deloitte. I read rooms for a living. I walk

Two weeks before I got fired, I went to an ashram in the Bahamas. I told a friend: "I need a vacation where I don't come back more tired than I left." So I went somewhere with no alcohol, no coffee, no agenda. Just meditation and yoga and space. I came back grounded in a way I hadn't been in years. Four days later I walked into a meeting, saw my boss had flown in from Toronto, looked at the expression on her face — and I knew. They were restructuring. My role was being elimin

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