WORKLiberated

Margaret Graziano

WORKLiberated is your go-to podcast for organizational transformation, team resilience, and leadership agility—designed for leaders who want to live and work with purpose. Through inspiring conversations and practical insights, this podcast supports your journey toward becoming the captain of your own ship, where you get to live your ideal, self-actualized life. Hosted by Margaret Graziano, one of Silicon Valley’s Top 100 Women Leaders and author of Ignite Culture, a 2023 Wall Street Journal, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble bestseller. A powerful voice in women’s leadership, Margaret brings decades of experience helping organizations thrive through team agility and values-driven leadership. WORKLiberated explores how leaders and teams can build resilient cultures, navigate change, and elevate performance—whether through online learning at your own pace via her seminar-series, virtual live training, or remote workshops. Margaret has helped hundreds of organizations transform their cultures and empowered leaders to increase effectiveness and impact in every area of life. Tune in to learn how to lead with clarity, strengthen team agility, and design a life and career you truly love—aligned with your highest purpose and values.

  1. 2d ago

    Burnout Isn't the End. It's the Turning Point

    In this episode, Bina Bendale shares her journey from trauma nurse to transformational coach and how years in healthcare, parenting a child with autism, and facing workplace burnout led her to a deeper calling. Through Personalized Executive Coaching, Bina now helps professionals and caregivers move from survival mode to empowered leadership.    She introduces her powerful Energy Barometer framework, explores emotional regulation in both parenting and professional life, and discusses how working parents can reclaim balance while supporting neurodiverse families. This conversation offers practical insights on overcoming silent struggles, preventing burnout, and creating healthier, more connected environments at work and at home.   Burnout isn’t something you fix by pushing harder — it’s something you outgrow by leading differently. If you’re ready to move beyond burnout and intentionally create what you want next, personalized executive coaching can help you regain clarity, choice, and momentum.   Join Evolve the Leader Within to transform how you lead — and how you live.   👉 Choose breakthrough. https://margaretgraziano.com/evolve-the-leader-within/   Reclaim Your Vitality Webinar - https://www.keenalignment.com/reclaim-your-vitality 🔗 Connect with Bina Bendale:  Instagram: @nursecoachbina Website: www.binanursecoach.com   💬 Ready to take your team or event to the next level? Book Margaret Graziano today and bring a spark of inspiration to your audience. margaretgraziano.com   #WorkLiberated #BinaBendale #ParentingWithPurpose #BurnoutSupport #EmotionalWellness #NeurodiversityAwareness #NurseCoach

    Burnout Isn't the End. It's the Turning Point
  2. Sep 1

    The Leadership Skill That Builds Real Partnership

    Join Margaret Graziano as she explores revolutionary leadership approaches with Dr. Abraham Khoureis, Certified Visionary Leadership Coach and adjunct professor. Discover how Personalized Executive Coaching can unlock the seven levels of compassionate leadership—from cultivating self-compassion to embracing servant leadership. Dr. Khoureis reveals practical strategies for integrating humanity into capitalism while addressing critical workplace challenges like quiet quitting and employee disengagement. Learn how mindfulness, self-awareness, and accountability form the foundation of transformative leadership that drives both organizational success and social impact. Leadership doesn’t deepen through control — it grows through connection. If you’re ready to strengthen partnership, trust, and influence by developing the inner capacity of leadership, join Evolve the Leader Within — a leadership seminar series designed to help you lead from awareness, compassion, and clarity. 👉 Evolve how you lead. Build the partnerships that matter. https://margaretgraziano.com/evolve-the-leader-within/ High-Performance Teams Checklist - https://www.keenalignment.com/high-performance-teams-checklist 🔗 Connect with Dr. Abraham Khoureis: https://drabekhoureis.com/   💬 Ready to take your team or event to the next level? Book Margaret Graziano today and bring a spark of inspiration to your audience. margaretgraziano.com #Leadership #CompassionateLeadership #ConsciousCapitalism #MindfulLeadership #BusinessSuccess #DrAbrahamKhoureis

    The Leadership Skill That Builds Real Partnership
  3. Aug 25

    The Invisible Weight Leaders Carry

    In this episode, Margaret Graziano speaks with Jeannine Rashidi, author of Abundance Beyond Trauma, about how past trauma shapes our mindset, relationships, and career paths. Through the lens of Emotional Intelligence and Leadership, they explore how self-awareness and presence help leaders break unconscious patterns and build healthier, more empowered workplaces. Discover practical tools for recognizing triggers, shifting from scarcity to abundance, and developing the emotional intelligence needed to lead—and live—with greater clarity and resilience. You don’t need to relive the past to lead differently — you need the space to reclaim yourself. If this episode resonated and you’re ready to break free from hidden patterns through the depth and care of personalized executive coaching, Ignite Your Power is a retreat designed to help you reconnect with your strength, clarity, and leadership presence.   👉 This is where healing meets power.   https://margaretgraziano.com/retreat/   From Friction to Flow Ebook - https://www.keenalignment.com/response-agility-ebook   🔗 Connect with Jeannine: 🌎 Website: https://goodbyetension.com 📩 Email: info@goodbyetension.com 📲 Social Media: @JeannineLRashidi   💬 Ready to take your team or event to the next level? Book Margaret Graziano today and bring a spark of inspiration to your audience. margaretgraziano.com #AbundanceBeyondTrauma #JeannineRashidi #WorkLiberated #SelfAwareness #TraumaRecovery #PersonalGrowth #WorkplaceWellness

    The Invisible Weight Leaders Carry
  4. Aug 11

    A Noble Cause: How Purpose Shapes Leadership

    In this episode, Margaret Graziano speaks with Andrea Mackenzie, General Manager of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, about conservation, community impact, and collaborative leadership. Through the lens of Women’s Leadership, Andrea shares insights from more than 35 years of protecting open spaces, wildlife habitats, and farmlands. Discover how leaders, businesses, and communities can work together to preserve natural spaces, support well-being, and create a more sustainable future.  The most sustainable leadership comes from alignment — not obligation. If you’re ready to build a career rooted in what you care about and lead with passion and purpose, Ignite Your Power is a women’s leadership experience designed to help you reconnect with what drives you and lead from that place.   👉 Lead from what you love. Join us.   https://margaretgraziano.com/retreat/   Ideal Future Visualization - https://www.keenalignment.com/your-ideal-future   🌎 Get Involved in Conservation: 🔹 Visit Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority: https://openspaceauthority.org 🔹 Check out Together Bay Area for job opportunities: https://togetherbayarea.org   💬 Ready to take your team or event to the next level? Book Margaret Graziano today and bring a spark of inspiration to your audience. margaretgraziano.com #Conservation #OpenSpace #Leadership #SantaClaraValley #EnvironmentalStewardship #NatureMatters #WorkLiberated

    A Noble Cause: How Purpose Shapes Leadership

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WORKLiberated is your go-to podcast for organizational transformation, team resilience, and leadership agility—designed for leaders who want to live and work with purpose. Through inspiring conversations and practical insights, this podcast supports your journey toward becoming the captain of your own ship, where you get to live your ideal, self-actualized life. Hosted by Margaret Graziano, one of Silicon Valley’s Top 100 Women Leaders and author of Ignite Culture, a 2023 Wall Street Journal, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble bestseller. A powerful voice in women’s leadership, Margaret brings decades of experience helping organizations thrive through team agility and values-driven leadership. WORKLiberated explores how leaders and teams can build resilient cultures, navigate change, and elevate performance—whether through online learning at your own pace via her seminar-series, virtual live training, or remote workshops. Margaret has helped hundreds of organizations transform their cultures and empowered leaders to increase effectiveness and impact in every area of life. Tune in to learn how to lead with clarity, strengthen team agility, and design a life and career you truly love—aligned with your highest purpose and values.