Lead With Confidence

About Lead With Confidence

You're the Boss, Now What? is a leadership podcast about team emotional intelligence, for managers and HR leaders who want a team that feels safe to speak up and too invested to leave. If you are a manager of people, this podcast is your playbook for the real challenges of leadership. Most emotional intelligence work focuses on the individual. Your host, Desiree Petrich, starts with the whole team, which is where people open up and the honest conversations actually happen. She guides teams to strengthen their own emotional intelligence, so people stop holding back and start saying what needs to be said. Because team emotional intelligence belongs to the whole team, this show is for team members too. If you're on a team, or getting ready to lead one, you'll hear the conversations that make a team stronger from any seat. In each episode, you'll get practical ways to: - Handle conflict at work before it turns into drama - Make hard conversations easier, for you and for your team - Build trust and respect as a confident, credible leader - Hold employees accountable without micromanaging - Fix a toxic culture and create a team that takes ownership - Lead team meetings where people actually speak up Desiree brings in tools like DISC, Working Genius, and The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team to help your team understand each other, and she shares quick takeaways from bestselling leadership books so you can skip the fluff and apply what works. Every other week, Desiree is joined by a new co-host, a fellow expert who brings their own stories and questions to a shared conversation about leading people well. It sounds like two people who do this work comparing notes over coffee. Whether you're leading two people or two hundred, you'll learn how to create better communication, deeper trust, and a workplace people actually enjoy showing up to. Desiree Petrich is a keynote speaker on team emotional intelligence, founder of Intentional Action, and the bestselling author of Taking Intentional Action. Learn more at desireepetrich.com. Popular Topics Include: One-on-one meeting frameworks, handling team conflict, addressing passive-aggressive behavior, rebuilding trust after drama, navigating difficult employees, setting expectations without micromanaging, improving accountability conversations, fixing toxic communication patterns, leading effective team meetings, delegation strategies for overwhelmed managers, increasing team buy-in, coaching underperforming employees, giving feedback that lands, managing impostor syndrome at work, and creating a healthier, more human-centered culture.

Publisher

Desiree Petrich - Intentional Action

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2023

Latest episode

3 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

41 of 197 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Leadership Tips | Stop Trying to Fit In

   Desiree Petrich explores how fitting in hinders true belonging, offering insights into embracing authenticity for genuine connection.

2. 

   30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Secret Behind Every High-Trust Team

   Desiree Petrich, leadership and team development expert, reveals a three-part approach to building high-trust teams, starting with a surprising first step to re-engage your team.

3. 

   27 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Leadership Tips | Share Your BHAG

   Host Desiree Petrich shares how speaking her Big Hairy Audacious Goal aloud sparked the creation of the Intentional Leader Summit, inspiring listeners to share their own ambitious visions.

Inside a recent episode

Leadership Tips | Stop Trying to Fit In

Published 3 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It depends on who are we with. Do we feel safe? Do we not feel safe? And if you're reading a room and molding yourself into it, you are ultimately getting smaller. You are becoming what someone else wants you or maybe doesn't even want you to be, you just think that they want you to be. So that's what fitting in is. It doesn't feel good. It's ultimately not going to get us to where we need to go. And it's not a good long-term strategy if what you want is to build confidence in your leadership. Belonging, on the other hand, it's internal and it's unconditional. Dare I say it might even be a little bit unapologetic because it doesn't require you to change who you are. […]

Who has been a guest on Lead With Confidence

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Liz Carlson
• Kristen Miller
• Jacob Brown
• Drew Moldenhauer
• Greg Kettner

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

74 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

51 ratings

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Does not typically book guests

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