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
Why Growth Alone Won't Change Your Career: Part 4
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You did the work and you let go of the old story, the fear, the pattern that kept you stuck. So why does it still feel like nothing's actually changed?
In this episode, Bernadette Boas breaks down the mistake nearly every leader makes right after a real breakthrough: mistaking the relief of letting go for the finish line. She walks through the five-part foundation — trust, integrity, motivation, empowerment, and results that turns genuine growth into an actual new career, plus the 4 specific moves to build a new identity on purpose instead of by accident.
This is Episode 4 of the five-part From Stuck to Leading series, following Discover, Confront, and Shed.
What We Cover
● 0:00 — Why relief isn't the finish line, and the exact point most people quietly stop building
● 8:00 — The foundation that makes growth actually stick: trust, integrity, motivation, empowerment, results
● 14:40 — "You'd be surprised how little others think of you" — the sentence that changed how she leads
● 21:30 — The 4 moves to build a new identity on purpose
● 30:00 — The networking party story: 40 friends down to 5
● 35:00 — The coaching question, the dare, and what's next in Episode 5
Key Quote
"You'd be surprised how little others think of you." — Bernadette Boas
Links Mentioned
● Listen to Episode 1-3: balloffirecoaching.com/podcast
● Free Leadership Gap Diagnostic: balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in
● Book a 30-min Discovery Call: coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall
● Website: balloffirecoaching.com
About the Show
Shedding the Corporate B!tch is a weekly leadership podcast for executives ready to stop performing and start leading from who they really are.
About the Host
Bernadette Boas is an executive leadership coach, speaker, and author, and the founder of Ball of Fire Coaching, with 25+ years of corporate leadership experience and 16+ years coaching 400+ executives across Fortune 500 and high-growth organizations.
