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09/01/2026

Do you know the real reason your team is checking out? It's not what your HR training tells you.

It's not compensation. It's not “culture fit.

It's trust, and most leaders never find out it's missing until someone hands in their notice.

Tune in as I talk with talk with Kevin “KP” Patrick, founder of Trinity One Consulting.
Kevin spent 15 years inside ERP systems implementations before he figured out the real reason companies lose people, not just software projects: the people doing the work never get a voice in it.

He walks me through the Dream Manager methodology - a model built on investing in what your employees want for their life, not just their job and the math behind why it works.

One client: a 58% turnover rate in a single sales department, 200+ people a year, tens of millions in cost once you count recruiting, ramp time, and lost tribal knowledge.

My favorite moment: Kevin describing a construction company CEO in Bozeman, Montana who called him for one thing and left the conversation asking for something else entirely, because the numbers made the real problem obvious.

If you lead people and you've ever wondered why your best ones leave even when the paycheck is right, check it out now. Watch now.

08/25/2026

Real growth doesn't fail because the work wasn't real.
It fails because nothing was built to survive the first bad week that follows it.

Or, because the work was stalled or halted when change wasn't seen or felt immediately. A common mistake that costs even more time, money, and employee growth.

Change requires investment of patience, grace, time, and often budget.

If you want to maximize your training, coaching, and overall professional development of team members, you need to provide the space and time for decades of wiring to be rewired.

Today's episode breaks down the exact loop that makes change permanent instead of fragile.

Debbie Longo didn't soften this one, and I appreciated that she didn't.Employees will start quitting or asking for a ch...
08/19/2026

Debbie Longo didn't soften this one, and I appreciated that she didn't.

Employees will start quitting or asking for a change of team if the experience they have is tearing them down or even just not allowing them to grow and feel valued.

Control feels like leadership while it's working. But you can guarantee it won’t work forever.

Because the leader can't see their own behavior clearly, they see the fallout as everyone else's fault. The team getting lazy, the market getting tougher, or the culture getting soft.

Meanwhile the exits keep happening, quietly, one resignation letter at a time, until it isn't quiet anymore.

Maybe folks don’t leave, but the support dwindles, responsiveness slows, or the attitudes sharpen.

Control is actually the fastest way to lose your best people and your numbers.

Have you seen this play out on a team you were part of?

08/18/2026

“I changed my thinking, and everyone around me changed.” — Debbie Longo

That was a major insight from our guest, , executive behavioral coach, who names the leadership blind spot draining trust, and how to fix it fast.

Episode Summary
Most executives think their team's problems are personality clashes.

Debbie argues it's almost always behavior, and that the most common, most resistant behavior she coaches out of leaders is control and manipulation.

In this conversation, Debbie breaks down how thought becomes behavior, why real change requires a leader to actually see themselves, and the simple nightly habit that builds that self-awareness fast.

Chapters
01:00 – Why behavior, not personality, drives leadership effectiveness
04:00 – The mindset-shift example: catching a bad outcome before it happens
05:00 – The "cancel" technique — treating a bad thought like hitting delete
07:00 – What hitting bottom actually looks like (divorce, job loss, losing a house)
08:00 – Why HR and managers underestimate how long real change takes
10:00 – The message to HR leaders and hiring managers: patience over pace
14:00 – How control and manipulation actually develops
16:00 – Why controlling leaders can't see it in themselves
18:00 – Accountability chains: corporate/HR-driven pressure
20:00 – "I change myself... everybody around me changes" — the ripple effect
22:00 – How Debbie tells a client they're not actually changing
24:00 – The #1 tip: the nightly self-inventory exercise
26:00 – Wrap-up and where to find Debbie

About the Guest
Debbie Longo is an Executive Behavioral Coach, speaker, and podcast host with more than 24 years of experience helping leaders improve communication, accountability, and performance by changing behaviors that drive results. She equips executives and business owners with practical strategies that strengthen leadership, culture, and long-term business success.
Website: www.debbielongo.com

Podcast library: https://balloffirecoaching.com/podcast

Your team can see it before you can.That's not a knock, it's just how self-awareness works. It's never obvious from the ...
08/18/2026

Your team can see it before you can.

That's not a knock, it's just how self-awareness works. It's never obvious from the inside. It just feels like being right.

Here's what makes it expensive: that gap doesn't show up as a complaint. It shows up as quiet erosion - less trust, less respect, less benefit of the doubt.

By the time turnover shows up on a report, your credibility is shot.

The leaders who catch it early do one specific thing differently: they ask their team, not just their peers, about how they're actually showing up.

Peers see your polish. Your team sees your pattern.

Our free Leadership Gap Diagnostic is available if you want a faster read than asking around.

When's the last time you asked the people who report to you; what experience do I create for you?

"You'd be surprised how little others think of you."I heard that sentence twelve years ago, and it rearranged how I saw ...
08/11/2026

"You'd be surprised how little others think of you."

I heard that sentence twelve years ago, and it rearranged how I saw my entire career and personal outlook.

Most of the exhaustion in leadership isn't the workload, it’s the second job of managing what everyone thinks of you. And, that’s on top of actually doing the work.

Here's the part almost nobody says out loud: the people you're performing for are mostly not thinking about you at all. They're managing their own version of the same exhausting second job.

This week's episode is about what happens after you finally stop performing for others, and the actual foundation you have to build once that old story is gone.

For many professionals, feeling free of that burden was never the goal. It was the ability to create something of themselves with that freedom.

What would you create in place of the effort you have been putting out performing the way others expect of you versus how you want to lead?

08/11/2026

You did the work and you let go of the old story, the fear, the pattern that kept you stuck. So why does it still feel like nothing's actually changed?

In this episode, I am breaking down the mistake nearly every leader makes right after a real breakthrough: mistaking the relief of letting go for the finish line.

We'll walk through the five-part foundation — trust, integrity, motivation, empowerment, and results that turns genuine growth into an actual new career, plus the 4 specific moves to build a new identity on purpose instead of by accident.

This is Episode 4 of the five-part From Stuck to Leading series, following Discover, Confront, and Shed.

What We Cover
● 0:00 — Why relief isn't the finish line, and the exact point most people quietly stop building
● 8:00 — The foundation that makes growth actually stick: trust, integrity, motivation, empowerment, results
● 14:40 — "You'd be surprised how little others think of you" — the sentence that changed how she leads
● 21:30 — The 4 moves to build a new identity on purpose
● 30:00 — The networking party story: 40 friends down to 5
● 35:00 — The coaching question, the dare, and what's next in Episode 5
Key Quote

"
You'd be surprised how little others think of you." — Bernadette Boas
Links Mentioned

● Listen to Episode 1-3: balloffirecoaching.com/podcast
● Free Leadership Gap Diagnostic: balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in
● Book a 30-min Discovery Call: coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall

● Website: balloffirecoaching.com

About the Show
Shedding the Corporate B***h is a weekly leadership podcast for executives ready to stop performing and start leading from who they really are.
About the Host

You cleared the space. Now what are you building in it?That's the question I've been sitting with all week, because I've...
08/11/2026

You cleared the space. Now what are you building in it?

That's the question I've been sitting with all week, because I've watched too many genuinely capable leaders do the hard part of releasing an old story, an old fear, a version of themselves that kept them stuck where they are and then just stop there.

Sure, they’re relieved and feel lighter, but six months later, they’re back where they started.

Feeling different isn't the same as being different.

Tomorrow's episode is all about the part nobody talks about: what actually has to get built once the old pattern, behavior, or belief is gone, so the change you’re making actually sticks instead of fading.

What step do you take to ensure a change you make sticks? ⬇️

You can't keep business and personal separate, you bring all of yourself to work, habits and all.So why not treat the wo...
08/09/2026

You can't keep business and personal separate, you bring all of yourself to work, habits and all.

So why not treat the workplace as exactly what it is: a lab for your professional growth, not a place to hide any rough edges, gaps, or insecurities.

What has work taught you about yourself this year?

Laura Berman Fortgang learned this phrase the day she coached on Oprah's stage in front of twenty million viewers.It's ...
08/08/2026

Laura Berman Fortgang learned this phrase the day she coached on Oprah's stage in front of twenty million viewers.

It's four words, and it'll change how you walk into your next room with someone more senior than you.

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