Brave Proximity Podcast: Leadership Conversations for People-Centered Leaders
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Every week we publish a new episode of truth telling, corporate real talk to help people-centered leaders find validation and support in navigating tricky corporate cultures.
S1 E17 | The Culture Heist: Small Acts of Rebellion That Change Everything
You don't need a posse to heist a culture. You just need to stop going to the meeting that wastes everyone's time. In S1 E17 of Brave Proximity, Marissa Green and Susan Page make the case that the most powerful organisational change doesn't start with a mandate from the top. It starts with one person, one small deliberate choice, and the 25 people watching who were waiting for someone to go first.
S1 E15: What to Do When Managing Up Becomes a Second Full-Time Job
"Managing up is just managing someone who thinks they're leading you." In this episode of Brave Proximity, Marissa and Susan tear open the real cost of managing up — when it morphs from legitimate feedback into a second, invisible full-time job with no title, no pay, and no credit.
S1 E12: You Can’t Handle My Whole Self At Work
We can't expect individuals to bring their whole selves if the organization isn't willing to put its own whole self out on the table ." In this episode, Susan and Marissa dismantle the corporate cliché of the "whole self," exposing the gap between idealized brand promises and the real, messy baggage that humans carry every single day.
S1 E8: Burnout is Not a Leadership Pipeline
If your best leadership pipeline is just the people too tired to say 'no,' you aren’t building a future; you’re just managing a 'wake of bodies.'”
In the season finale of Brave Proximity, Marissa and Susan unearth the dangerous fallacy of relying on burnout as a leadership strategy. We’re peeling back the layers of Professional Distance to understand why we treat exhausted high-performers as the logical succession plan—and how to stop the cycle of compliance before your 'Silent Heroes' burn out completely.
S1 E7: The Work No One Needs: The Real Reason We’re Drowning in Work That Doesn’t Matter
Are you busy, or are you just indifferent? We’re so caught up in the 'work about the work'—the decks, the updates, the performative spreadsheets—that we’ve lost proximity to the mission. In this episode, Susan and Marissa unearth the real reason we’re drowning in work that doesn't matter and why the most courageous thing a leader can do is delete the tasks that no longer serve a purpose.
S1 E6: When One Toxic Leader Destroys the Culture (And Still Gets Promoted)
Tired of corporate theater? If your measure of success for a promotion list is that nobody says ‘Are you kidding me?’—you’re already ahead of the game. In this episode, Susan and Marissa unearth the 'Secret Cycle of Promotion' that keeps toxic high-performers rising while the 'Silent Heroes' do the actual work of keeping the culture alive. It’s time to stop performing the compliance and start leading with real accountability.