Leadership After 5
Leadership After 5 is the podcast that says what most leadership content won't. This is the conversation your mentor would have with you behind closed doors. Honest, direct, and built for leaders who are ready to do the real work.
In each episode host Kim brings you unfiltered talk about what it actually takes to lead. The loneliness nobody warns you about. The trade-offs nobody prepares you for. The culture problems nobody wants to name out loud.
No platitudes. No performance. Just truth.
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Episodes
17 episodes
Not Worth the Risk
You keep getting left off the invite, and it's not an accident. In this episode, Kim goes deeper on professional FOMO, the need some leaders have to be in every meeting, every conversation, every room. But this one isn't really about the invite...
The Cards-to-the-Vest Problem: Insecurity in Leadership
You have been in the room where everyone knows the right call and nobody will make it. That is not a process problem. That is insecurity, wearing a business suit.In this episode, Kim breaks down what insecurity actually looks like at the...
The Trust Deficit
Look around right now. The trust is low and the fear is high, and you can feel it everywhere from the headlines to your own hallway. In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim takes the trust deficit we're all sensing in the wider environment a...
My Own Pair of Safe Hands
Nobody warns you about this part. When the mentor who guided your whole career retires, the hard part isn't that they can't help you anymore. It's that you realize you never built your own judgment. In this episode, Kim gets honest ...
Their Next Story
The better your work gets, the more people show up wanting a piece of it. Most of them mean well. Some of them don't, and the hard part is they can look exactly the same.This episode is about the opportunist. The person who studies how t...
The Pitbull on the Chain: What Political Capital Actually Costs
Most leaders don't hold back because they lack vision. They hold back because they've read the room and understood the consequences of going too far.In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim introduces one of the most underexplored and ...
Consider the Source: How to Deal With the Problem Employee Nobody Wants to Talk About
Most leaders don't avoid problem employees because they don't care. They avoid them because they don't know if they'll be supported when they do something about it.In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets honest about one of the h...
Sunday Scary: What It's Telling You and What You Owe Your Team
The Sunday scary is real. And leaders get it too.In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets honest about her own Sunday scary. What it looks like, what it's actually pointing at, and why it has almost nothing to do with not liking t...
Green Flags: What Great Leadership Actually Looks Like
We spend a lot of time talking about what leadership gets wrong.Today we are celebrating what it gets right.In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim flips the script and names the green flags. The real, observable signs that tel...
Proximity To Power And The Culture It Creates
Have you ever watched someone completely transform the moment power walked into the room?In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim opens with a scene from a church hallway that never left her, and unpacks what it revealed about one of t...
The Host Never Forgets They're the Host: Leadership, Access, and Protecting Your Character
Someone on your team used your own words against you. Not because you did something wrong. Because you did something human.In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets honest about one of the most painful and least discussed realities...
Everybody loves the blueprint. Nobody talks about the dust.
In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets honest about what it actually feels like to shift culture in an organization that isn't ready for it. The resistance. The moments you question whether the change was even necessary. The unexpected...
You didn't get to pick these people. But they are yours now.
In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets honest about one of the least discussed realities of stepping into a leadership role, inheriting a team you didn't choose. The resistance. The uncertainty. The employees who had already made up th...
Are you leading, or are you just trying to be liked?
In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets direct about people pleasing in leadership and why it doesn't stop with new managers. At the executive level it gets quieter, more sophisticated, and more dangerous. Kim explores the fine line bet...
Who are you outside of your title?
It’s a question most leaders never stop long enough to answer. And the longer you go without answering it the more the role starts to answer it for you.In this episode of Leadership After 5, I’m getting honest about something I exper...
You can have it all. Just not at the same time.
You've been told you can have it all. And maybe you believed it. Until you were sitting in a leadership role, missing a recital, and wondering how everyone else seems to be holding it together.They're not. They're just quiet about it.
