No One Told Me This
No One Told Me This is a podcast about leadership, teams, and workplace culture, not as they’re meant to work, but as they’re actually experienced.
Hosted by Paul, the show explores the unspoken realities of working with people, the assumptions we make, the tensions we avoid, and the things we often learn the hard way. Through solo reflections, candid conversations, and the occasional deep dive, it’s a space to make sense of how work really gets done.
From culture drift and team dynamics to decision-making under pressure, each episode takes a grounded, thoughtful look at what leadership looks like in practice, especially when things aren’t neat or predictable.
Because sometimes the most important lessons aren’t the ones we’re taught. They’re the ones no one told us… or maybe we just weren’t listening.
No One Told Me This
S02E01 - Values vs Valued
Most businesses have a list of values.
They’re often on the wall, or on the website..
But here’s the real question:
Are the people who live those values the ones being backed, listened to, and rewarded?
Or do we say we value one thing… while quietly valuing something else?
In this episode of No One Told Me This, I unpack the gap between what businesses say they value and what’s actually valued in practice, the behaviours that get rewarded, tolerated, and repeated.
We explore:
- why values often become vague or decorative
- how pressure changes what gets reinforced
- what “values vs valued” looks like in real small businesses
- why culture behaves more like a scoreboard than a belief system
- and what leaders can do to close the gap without rewriting their values from scratch
This episode is about culture as it’s experienced, not described, and why alignment lives or dies in everyday decisions, especially in small teams.
If you’ve ever felt a disconnect between the values on the wall and how work really gets done, this one’s for you.