Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors

Dawn Andrews & Elsa Barbi

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.

  1. May 8

    Meet the Author of 'The Myth of the Fearless Leader'

    Fear shows up in every career, even when your title says “leader.” We sit down with Dr. Tonya Jackman Hampton, Ph.D. PCC, an organizational development practitioner, executive coach, and former chief human resources officer whose career runs from early teen jobs to building ethics programs, shaping workplace culture, and leading change inside major organizations. Her story is full of real turning points: mentorship that redirects her into HR, a merger that triggers a layoff while she’s pregnant, and the hard-earned confidence that comes from learning how to land on your feet again and again. The heart of the conversation comes from her book, 'The Myth of the Fearless Leader,' and the research behind it. She explains how her doctoral dissertation explored leaders’ relationship with fear, and how her own breast cancer journey pushed the work from theory into something urgently practical. You’ll hear her EASE fear transformation method (Engage, Explore, Execute) as a clear alternative to fight, flight, or freeze, with ideas you can apply to personal decisions, team dynamics, and organizational transformation. If you care about leadership development, change management, HR credibility, coaching standards, and building healthier workplace relationships, this one gives you language and tools you can use right away. Subscribe, rate, and share, then send us your take: where are you feeling fear at work right now, and what would “execute” look like for you? Send us Fan Mail Want to be interviewed? You can remain anonymous. Voice distortion now available. Email or Text us!

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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.

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