When I first watched Ted Lasso, I couldn’t help but see the dozens of leadership moments in every episode — the triumphs, the face‑palms, and the beautiful recoveries. From Ted’s kindness to Rebecca’s evolution, Nate’s struggle, Roy’s gruff authenticity, and Keeley’s fearless confidence — it was a masterclass in human‑centered leadership.
That realization inspired me to launch the Ted Lasso Leadership Mastermind, where new and seasoned leaders came together to reflect, learn, and laugh about the art (and mess) of leading humans. After a while, one phrase kept echoing: “You should turn this into a podcast.”
So… I did.
🎙️ Big Boss Biscuits was born — a space where we talk about leading with heart, humor, honesty, and maybe a little swearing. Each episode dives into the lessons and leadership insights Ted Lasso fans love: trust, growth, failure, and the courage to believe in yourself (and your team).
Expect conversations that make you nod, laugh, and maybe rethink your leadership playbook — and definitely the occasional biscuit of wisdom you’ll want to savor.
Wes Love once swore he'd rather work twice as hard for less money than ever go back to school. Today he's a doctoral candidate in Business Psychology, an author, speaker, and educator who studies leadership, culture, trust, and the human side of work.
Wes and I talk about companies that say they care about their people and then cut training, development, and staff first when money gets tight. Wes defines workplace culture as the behaviors we accept and the ones we don't. He explains why leadership culture changes so slowly, and what he learned from Rockefeller's answer when someone asked him how much money is enough.
We also talk about generations at work, from the Great Depression to millennials who look at the corner office and decide to pass. Wes shares a personal story about an abusive boss and how long it took him to believe he deserved better. I'm grateful he trusted me with it.
At the end I asked Wes for one small step anyone can take this week. His answer was to say something while the problem is still small.
Wes's book, The Culture Catalyst, (https://amzn.to/4jWcnwC) is available now.
Follow Wes on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wes-love-ba9b66212/) or Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/j.wes_love).
Content note. This episode includes a story about verbal and physical abuse at work.
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1 Oct 2026
Put The Mask Down
A year ago Yas Longoria was a Director of Customer Success. Over twelve years she built and led support and success teams at Tableau, Nintex, Mitel, FastSpring, and Mitek Systems. At Mitel they managed 125 people and led a turnaround that set a company record for customer satisfaction. Their proudest metric: No team member left her teams. Ever. Unless they got promoted.
Then her wife passed away. When she tried to go back to work, they found they no longer had the energy to keep up the version of herself she'd been performing for years.
Today Yas works at CTL Corporation, a B Corp in the Pacific Northwest. She started there packing and shipping boxes. Within seven weeks, the company created a new role for them that combines customer experience and logistics.
In this episode we talk about what belonging feels like when you finally have it. We look at the energy people spend managing how others see them at work, and why companies can check every diversity and inclusion box without ever building belonging. We talk about grieving a career identity, the loss nobody sends flowers for. We share what it's like to be called too loud or too direct, and why safe teams built by managers in the middle so often fall apart at the top. We also ask how to fix a broken system, and we admit neither of us has a full answer.
Yas ends with the advice they'd give their younger self:
Put the mask down.
Learn more about Yas Yas runs Post Sale Labs, an advisory practice that helps B2B SaaS companies strengthen customer support, customer success and post-sale operations. She writes about grief, identity and belonging at work on Substack.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yaslongoria (http://linkedin.com/in/yaslongoria)
Post Sale Labs: yasminlongoria.com/post-sale-labs (http://yasminlongoria.com/post-sale-labs)
Substack: substack.com/@yaslongoria (https://substack.com/@yaslongoria)
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16 Sept 2026
Let's Be Brave, Not Perfect
What happens when being a “good” woman at work means being brilliant, confident, ambitious, kind, articulate, emotionally intelligent… and never too much of any of those things?
In this episode, Michelle DeKeyrel, Founder and CEO of Eutemia, and I talk about the impossible standards women face in corporate leadership, the double standards around confidence and ambition, and the ways imposter syndrome can convince even highly capable women to shrink themselves.
We get into speaking up, taking credit, being seen as “intimidating,” advocating for ourselves, and why women shouldn't have to choose between shining and helping others shine.
We also talk about self-leadership and the uncomfortable reality that imposter syndrome probably isn't going anywhere. Maybe the goal isn't to finally feel confident enough. Maybe it's learning to show up anyway.
Women have spent enough time being taught to be perfect.
Now it's time to be brave.
Michelle DeKeyrel is the Founder and CEO of Eutemia, a Leadership as a Service company built on a simple but powerful belief: you have to know yourself before you can lead anyone else. The name Eutemia comes from a Greek concept meaning the sense of your own path — and that philosophy runs through everything she does.
With a career rooted in healthcare and a deep commitment to developing leaders at every level, Michelle created Eutemia to give organizations and individuals access to high-caliber leadership thinking — human-first, right-sized, and built to last. She also founded Unboxed at Eutemia, a community for people ready to step out of the corporate box and find their own way forward.
Michelle is passionate about the inner work of leadership — the self-awareness, self-efficacy, and equanimity it takes to show up fully, especially in the moments that are hard. She believes the striving is the point.
You can find her at eutemia.com (http://eutemia.com/) or on Instagram @eutemia_makeitbetter.
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