Before They Leave

The resignation was not the first conversation. It was the last one. The first one happened weeks earlier, inside someone's head, and you were not in the room. In Episode 2 of Before They Leave, Jacq Holland goes inside the silent conversation that happens before someone quits. Gallup found 42% of people who leave say it could have been prevented, and 45% had no real conversation about their f...

Most leaders don't lose their best people suddenly. They lose them slowly. The check-ins get shorter. The energy shifts. By the time you notice, they're already gone. The foundation episode of Before They Leave names the framework underneath every quiet exit: the 3Rs Crisis. Three gaps that cost us people at work, in marriages, in families, in friendships. The Expectation Gap. The Motivati...

You can handle a no. A no gives you an answer. But ghosting? Your brain does not know what to do with silence, so it keeps replaying the story. Research HBR has cited shows social rejection lights up some of the same brain regions as physical pain. The pain was real. This episode names the four situations that produce ghosting and reframes it entirely. Ghosting is not what they did to you. It is w...

You have an opinion about quiet quitting. Maybe lazy. Maybe healthy. Maybe just a TikTok phrase. The last one is closest to true, but not the way you think. Gallup has measured this for decades. In its 2026 report, about 64% of workers are not engaged and another 16% are actively disengaged. Nearly four in five. Quiet quitting is not a trend. It is the baseline. This episode names the three stages...

Most leaders don't lose people suddenly. They lose them slowly. Before the resignation. Before the disengagement. Before the silence. This is the trailer for Before They Leave, hosted by Jacq Holland, founder of Impact by Jacq and creator of the 3Rs Crisis framework. The show uncovers the hidden gaps that cause employees, teams, customers, and relationships to drift long before anyone official...