Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors
Hosted by best friends Dawn and Elsa, the podcast blends decades of experience across very different industries. Dawn spent 25 years as an employment lawyer investigating workplace drama from the inside out. Elsa built a long career in the beauty industry as a brand educator, with a few TV cameos along the way. Together, they’re unapologetic extroverts who meet new people everywhere—and always want to know how they got their jobs, what they love about them, what they can’t stand, and what really goes on behind closed doors.
Equal parts informative and titillating, Workplace Confessions serves up all the tea while honoring the incredible, complicated, often messy work people are doing across industries and across the map.
Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors
Latest Episodes
Meet a GenX Expert Turned Author
Someone finally said the quiet part out loud: burnout can make you do weird things, like faking an emergency on Zoom just to escape a meeting. This week, we’re joined by La'Tonya ("LT") Rease Miles, author of "Smart Girl," adjunct f...
Meet a Chief Drama Slayer
Workplace investigations are supposed to reveal the truth, but most companies accidentally design a process that breeds silence, fear, and repeat drama. We’re joined by Patti Perez, a former employment lawyer turned HR leader and third-party in...
Meet a Bartender Turned Dominatrix
A bartender gets pneumonia, misses work, and the message lands hard: you can give everything to a job and still be treated as disposable. That turning point sends our guest, Lady Ruby Rebel, in an unexpected direction, toward a second career as...
Meet a Career Soldier Turned Event Planner
A scud missile flies over your base in broad daylight, the alarm never sounds, and you realize you might not have the extra 30 seconds you trained for. That’s one of the memories our anonymous guest shares, and it’s the kind that doesn’t fade j...
Meet a Paralegal Turned Workplace Investigator
Ever leapt through a gas station window to stop a drive-off? Our anonymous guest did—then broke barriers in the Army and now uncovers truth at work. Hear how ethics, grit, and empathy power real investigations. Listen now and tell us your wilde...