Ep. 15 — The Workplace Trust Playbook: How to Stop Tolerating the B.S. at Work with Minda Harts

We spend more time at work than we do with our families. So why do we tolerate things from our employers — broken trust, withholding information, being told everything's fine when it clearly isn't — that we'd never tolerate from a partner?

In this episode of Unbehaved, Meghan French Dunbar sits down with bestselling author Minda Harts, bestselling author ofTalk to Me Nice and The Memo, to ask why workplace trust is so often broken, why we accept it, and — most importantly — what to actually do about it.

If you're a leader trying to build a team people want to stay on, or someone navigating a workplace that doesn't feel safe, this conversation gives you a real toolkit.

What you'll walk away with:

• A new framework — the Seven Trust Languages — for understanding what trust actually means to you and the people you work with
• The data that proves trust isn't a "nice to have" but a measurable business advantage (74% less anxiety, 24% higher productivity, $344 billion lost to turnover every year)
• Three trust-breakers to stop doing immediately (micromanaging, unnecessary CCs, AI-generated emails)
• A reframe of people-pleasing as something that erodes — not protects — your trustworthiness
• The smallest, most effective trust-building move you can make this week (hint: acknowledgment over feedback)
• A new definition of success that has nothing to do with money or title

Whether you manage five people or five hundred, lead a startup or work inside a Fortune 500, this episode reframes one of the most under-talked-about elements of work into the actual business imperative it's always been.

If you've ever sat in a meeting smelling smoke that no one else was acknowledging — this episode is for you.

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