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Did you know people are more afraid of public speaking than spiders, heights and death? In this episode Natalie and Corp discuss how they have overcome their own fears of public speaking. They’ll also talk about their first times giving speeches in high school and how they’ve evolved to now speaking professionally in fireside chats, panel discussions and keynote addresses.
You will hear great advice on how to capitalize on your next public speaking opportunity, as well as some bad advice that is sure to result in public shame should you follow it. They also read a couple more horrible boss confessions from listeners that were too wild not to include. Stay tuned for a behind the scenes look at wild west commercial shoots, a desperate plea for an invite to a yacht party, and a tale of four brave women’s battle against an eight-legged monster.

Are you coming to the Demoted conference? Ross and Natalie dive deep into the world of corporate conferences; the good, the bad, and the virtual. You’ll get a crash course of the do’s and don’t’s of conference etiquette. They also plan out the perfect Demoted Conference complete with a swimsuit chic dress code, hot tub round tables, and a workshop on tastefully sexting your colleagues.
Get ready for some wild conference confessions from our listeners featuring top-performers kissing clients and an overpaid account executive snorting sheetrock (yes, you read that correctly). Stay tuned for complex coffee orders, a debate on strong-grip handshakes, and what it’s like not being cool enough to live in LA.

What does B2B Sales and proposing to your girlfriend have in common? You might be surprised. As connoisseurs of LinkedIn cringe, Ross and Natalie dissect recent outrageous posts and give advice on how you can craft your own cringe on the platform. Ross tells the story of how he was banned from LinkedIn and Natalie reads his departing rage post.
They also answer classic listener submitted questions such as, “What do I do next as a top performer?” and “How do I ask my coworker about their cult?” Stay tuned for travel highlights from Ross’s trip to Portugal and his swashbuckling OOO message.
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To return or not to return? Natalie and Corp discuss the pros and cons of returning to the office and working from home. They reminisce about adjusting to work from home while sharing a living space with others, creating content from quarantine, and dealing with a sudden lack of inspiration. Ross answers a listener submitted question about whether he would recommend pivoting to a career in Sales. While championing the sale profession, he thoroughly explains why it’s not the career for everyone. Stay tuned for a desperate plea to recruit female soccer players, advice on road tripping with your boss, and a follow-up story of Ross getting ill from an underground bathhouse.

Corp and Natalie are back with more terrible boss stories! This time they are reading through Ross’s followers’ submissions. And if we know anything about his predominantly sales audience, we know these stories are going to be epic. The episode also unpacks a spicy sales love-triangle scandal exposed in the most unlikely of places - LinkedIn. Stay tuned to find out what it's like to have Ross and Natalie as your boss. We hear first-hand accounts from their employees telling tales of sweet treats, fart noises, firing directors, and method acting in sketchy hotels.

You might not always see eye to eye with your boss, but after hearing the terrible confessions in this episode, you will be glad they're nothing like these nightmare bosses. Corp and Natalie read through a gauntlet of listener submitted stories uncovering rampant demeaning, violent and misogynistic behavior by managers and so called “leaders”. Stay tuned for a founder dinner fiasco and a light debate on title-only promotions.