Shedding the Corporate Bitch
Welcome to Shedding the Corporate Bitch — the podcast where executive leadership gets real.
Hosted by executive coach, strategist, and unapologetic truth-teller Bernadette Boas, this show is built for senior leaders, CHROs, and HR executives who are done with surface-level leadership advice and ready for the conversations that actually move the needle.
Drawing from 25 years in corporate — including being fired — and over a decade coaching leaders at the highest levels, Bernadette delivers the raw insights, honest dialogue, and practical strategies you won't find in a leadership textbook. Each episode tackles what's really happening in today's organizations: toxic cultures, burned-out teams, leadership gaps, talent retention crises, and the fear, doubt, and imposter syndrome that quietly undermine even the most accomplished executives.
Joined by world-class leaders, HR innovators, and organizational experts, Bernadette doesn't just identify the problems — she hands you the tools to solve them.
This is the podcast for leaders who are ready to shed what's holding them — and their organizations — back, and build something that actually works.
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Shedding the Corporate Bitch
Your Calendar is Lying: The TIMER Leadership Framework
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Your calendar isn't a time problem. It's a leadership leverage problem.
In this solo episode, executive leadership coach Bernadette Boas introduces the TIMER Leadership Framework — a five-phase operating system designed for leaders who re ready to stop surviving their schedule and start leading with intention.
What you'll learn:
- Why 63% of professionals are burning out from lack of protected thinking time
- How to shift from time manager to attention manager
- The 3-day audit that exposes your biggest time leaks
- How to design your ideal week around your golden hours
- Why only 19% of managers delegate well and the 4-step map to fix it
- How AI is creating "atrophied reasoning" in leadership teams
- The re-energizing habits that sustain high performance If you've ever said "I just don't have enough time" — this episode will change how you think about that.
Key Timestamps
- [00:00] — Opening: Is your calendar reflecting your priorities or someone else's?
- [00:02] — Introducing the TIMER Leadership Framework
- [00:04] — The 4 leadership observations shaping time in 2026
- [00:08] — The delegation gap: only 19% of managers delegate effectively
- [00:11] — The reframe: from time manager to attention manager
- [00:15] — T: Track Your Time — the 3-day audit and time leaks
- [00:25] — I: Intentional Design — building your ideal week
- [00:38] — Your productivity profile and golden hours
- [00:45] — M: Master Your Focus — the timer method and distraction scheduling
- [00:50] — E: Empower Through Delegation — the leadership leverage problem
- [00:52] — Assigning an hourly value to your leadership work
- [00:55] — Building your delegation map and cross-training your team
- [00:57] — R: Re-energize — why this is the phase most leaders skip
- [01:03] — The 5 implementation steps to start this week
- [01:07] — Closing: Become a powerhouse TIMER leader
Resources & Links Mentioned
- Laura Vanderkam — Big Time (2026, most talked-about leadership book)
- Barry O'Reilly — Leadership research on "atrophied reasoning" (Fortune 1000 CEOs)
- DDI — Global Leadership Forecast 2026 (delegation gap statistics)
- 2026 South by Southwest Leadership Survey (fragmented schedule research)
- MIT Research — Over-reliance on automated decision tools
- Craig Groeschel — The principle of subtraction
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