Not All Business

Most of us know the feeling: hitting snooze, going through the motions, wondering if this is really it. This week on Not All Business, transformational coach Jayne Robinson joins from Australia, the show's first guest calling in from outside North America, to talk about the difference between your real inner voice and the fear-driven noise that tries to pass for it. Jayne knows the cost of sta...

What if all those years you spent at home — the ones that don't fit neatly on a LinkedIn profile — were actually building the best resume in the room? Heidi Calmus knows. Before she joined forces with her husband Taylor on the nationally recognized YouTube channel Dude Dad, she spent years managing outreach and emergency intake for homeless and trafficked youth. She ran an entire family operat...

Women have been legally allowed to get a mortgage for just about 50 years — and the gap that was created is still closing. This week on Not All Business, we sat down with Lane McLeod, founder of West Lane Lending, a mortgage brokerage built around one very clear mission: helping women build wealth through homeownership. Lane has watched the data play out in real time — single men buying homes in t...

When you can't give someone what they're asking for — and you know you might lose them — what do you actually do? And what happens when two great employees with totally opposite work styles are making each other (and their manager) miserable? This week on Not All Business, Heather, Blakely, and Clay take on two real sticky situations from the NAB community, then close out with a rapid-fire...

What do you do when the person who was supposed to love you unconditionally just... doesn't show up? If you're Kait Dinunzio, you build yourself from scratch — and then you spend the rest of your career helping other people do the same. This week on Not All Business, we sit down with Kait Dinunzio — executive coach, field operations leader, competitive bodybuilder, and author of Unbreakable . Kait...

Most businesses skip the foundation and wonder why everything feels muddy. Mission. Vision. Values. Purpose. Turns out there's a big difference between writing them down and actually knowing what they mean. This week on Not All Business, brand strategist Cindy Frigard of Yours Truly comes back for her second appearance and does something we've never done on the show before: walks Heather a...

Boundaries at work are complicated. Setting them is hard. Getting them crossed is harder. And knowing what to do when something happens faster than your brain can process? That's what this episode is about. This week on Not All Business, it's a Casual Friday sticky situations episode — no guest, just Heather, Blakely, and Clay diving into your real workplace dilemmas. The theme is boundari...

What happens when the very thing that got you to the top — perfectionism, over-preparation, the need to prove yourself in every room — becomes the thing you have to unlearn? This week on Not All Business, Bridget Winston, a 3x Chief Revenue Officer with over 20 years of experience scaling companies from early-stage disruptors to global brands, gets into all of it. From growing up in all-girls scho...

Your space isn't just where you live. It's shaping how you think, how you lead, and how you feel the moment you walk in the door. This week on Not All Business, we sit down with Leslie VanDerven, founder of Welcome Home Organizing, Staging & Feng Shui. Leslie is a certified feng shui practitioner, decluttering coach, professional organizer, and home stager with 18 years of experience —...

What does it actually take to say yes when you're not qualified, not expected, and not invited? This week on Not All Business, we sat down with Ginger Graham — former President and CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, former interim CEO at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Harvard Business School faculty, and founder of Ginger and Baker in Fort Collins, Colorado. Ginger has spent a career being the first an...

Most leaders think they're communicating. Their teams think otherwise. The gap isn't about words. It's about environment. This week on Not All Business, we sat down with Brittany Hart, Founder & CEO of Communiscape, a communication consulting and coaching firm built on the belief that most leadership failures aren't strategy failures - they're communication failures. After...

You think listening is about trying harder. It's not. It's about building the right habit. And Allison O'Brien is here to show you how. This week on Not All Business, we sat down with Allison O'Brien, a leading expert on LQ™ Listening Intelligence. Allison works with organizations of all sizes — from nonprofits and startups to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies — helping...

At 23, Amy Snider stood up in a room full of men and corrected the record on women's soccer. Nobody asked her to. She did it anyway. This week on Not All Business, we sit down with Amy Snider, Cornell soccer alum, co-founder of one of Colorado's longest-running women's semi-pro franchises, and the woman who was in the stands recently when 63,004 people showed up for the Denver Summit F...

What do you do when your manager asks you to be their reference and the nicest thing you can honestly say is... fine? This week on Not All Business, it's Casual Friday with Heather, Blakely, and Clay. No guest, no filter, and definitely no shortage of opinions. Two listener sticky situations: one is a workplace reference dilemma with no clean exit, and the other is from an educator asking a qu...

Everyone's talking about GLP-1s. But do they know how they actually work? This week on Not All Business, we sit down with Dr. Linda Shapiro Manning, a physician with both an MD and a PhD who has been working in obesity medicine since before GLP-1s were a household name. She was in the room when the first GLP-1 drugs were being developed and has watched them go from a clinical tool to a cultura...

AI is reshaping hiring faster than most people realize, and if you're job searching right now, you need to know the rules of the new game. This week on Not All Business, we sit down with Jessica Titko, CEO of StaffPad, a recruiting firm on the front lines of how AI is transforming the hiring process. Jessica has seen it all: candidates using AI earpieces to get through interviews, bots submitt...

Three new sticky situations. Zero corporate spin. This week on Not All Business, it's Casual Friday — which means Clay's running the show and Heather and Blakely are back in the hot seat. Sticky Situations: A senior manager at a major tech company just turned down 18 months of severance. Smart or not ready to let go? A founder is moonlighting in his first corporate cubicle while keeping a...

What if the most powerful revenue strategy isn't your CRM, your cold outreach, or your pipeline velocity — it's the relationships you already have, but keep treating like transactions? This week we sit down with Sam Yarborough, former Chief Growth Officer, GTM and partnerships leader in the Salesforce ecosystem, co-founder of Arcadia, and co-host of Friends with Benefits.  Also: Blakely&#3...

Are you waking up at 3am and can't explain why? You're not alone — and it's not random. This week on Not All Business, we welcome Kristie Steinbock, traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and acupuncturist with 35 years in practice. Since early 2026, Kristie has seen an unprecedented surge of clients arriving with the same complaint: anxiety and insomnia. Her take? It's collective fear — and ou...

What does "business casual" actually mean? Apparently, nobody knows — and that's only the beginning. On this Casual Friday episode of Not All Business, Blakely and Heather tackle three of the messiest workplace questions out there: Is using dating apps to land job interviews genius or deeply creepy? What does "business casual" actually mean when you're a curvy woman in...

In the age of AI, authentic lived experience is your competitive advantage. This week on Not All Business, we welcome Julie Lancaster, CEO of Lancaster Leadership and author of Beyond Words: How Our Stories & Strategies Inspire Leadership Actions . Julie breaks down why all motivation is actually self-motivation (and what leaders can do about it), how to tell stories that influence and connect...

Most businesses are throwing content into the wind and hoping something sticks. But what if your social media strategy is moving you sideways instead of forward? This week on Not All Business, we welcome Eleisha Everett, social media strategist and host of Your Audience is Waiting . Eleisha breaks down why consistency beats virality, how to know if you're solving an execution problem or a stra...

Ever wonder why networking feels so... performative? That's because most people are doing it all wrong. This week on Not All Business, we welcome Baily Hancock, connection strategist and founder of Overlap Collective. Baily explains why that "open to work" badge on LinkedIn might be repelling opportunities, why you should stop separating your personal and work lives, and how to walk...

It's Casual Friday—which means we're answering the sticky situations and workplace dilemmas you're too afraid to ask about anywhere else. Today we're tackling: the fart noise that wasn't actually a fart (but you're still thinking about it once a month), getting contradictory feedback and constantly talked over as the only woman on your leadership team, and what to do when y...

We hit the top 1% of podcasts! 🎉 To celebrate our 21st episode, we brought back our celebrity guest star Lynda Harvey to tackle your messiest workplace dilemmas. Lynda has hundreds of thousands of followers across social media and hosts the podcast "In the Business of Humans." She's dedicated to helping people navigate their work landscape and make better choices so they're actu...