Bossed Up
Episodes
The Gender Wage Gap is Trending in the Wrong Direction
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do to help turn the widening gender pay gap around? For 20 years, American workers watched as the discrepancy between menâs and womenâ...
Disability Accommodations: What All Leaders Need to Know
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As managers and employees, how can we ensure that we support equitable disability accommodations for everyone? The Americans with Disabilities Act (AD...
Reframe Career Compromises as Success
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you find contentment in the face of career compromise? So many of us want to âhave it all,â but the weight of trying to be it all is crushi...
Start Planning Your First Mini-Retirement
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How would a one-month mini-retirement benefit your mental health? I know Iâm not alone in feeling burnt out these days. And while the idea of four w...
America's Job Cuts are Hitting Women of Color the Hardest
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we advocate for equity amidst federal policy changes that actively widen gender and racial gaps?Since April, a record-low unemployment rate for...
The Double Tax: What It Really Costs Women of Color to Succeed
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We tell women to negotiate harder, lean in, and ask for what theyâre worth. But what if the system was designed to make that impossible? Economist A...
Resisting Despair: Coping Tools for a Declining Democracy
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are you dealing with our nationâs constant onslaught of frightening news? Witnessing democracy itself under attack has me feeling despair more o...
Overqualified? How to Repackage Your Years of Experience
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you push back against the âoverqualifiedâ label in interviews when youâre an experienced leader? The job search is daunting today, to say...
What Our 2025 Community Survey Reveals About Women, Work, and Burnout
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whatâs your biggest work challenge right now? If burnout, job security, or work/life balance are in your top three, youâre definitely not alone. T...
Know Your Aptitudes to Direct Your Career with Confidence
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when your career stops captivating you? These days, more and more of us are dragging ourselves through work rather than feeling energiz...
In a Tight Job Market, Job-Hugging is on the Rise
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you staying at your job because you love it or because you donât believe thereâs anything better out there right now? If youâre in the latte...
Using AI in Your Job Search: What You Need to Know
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can you leverage AI to help you choose, prepare for, and land your next great job? A lot of you are planning or in the thick of the job search rig...
How to Ace the Interview with an AI Agent
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you let your humanity shine in the job interview when your interviewer isnât human? Employers have gone beyond tasking AI to scan for buzzwor...
How Millennial and Gen Z Leaders are Changing What it Means to be in Charge
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What kinds of changes are you seeing from Gen Z and Millennial leaders? Workforce demographics are shifting these days, as more and more Baby Boomers ...
What to Say at Work When You Truly Donât Know
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When youâre hit with a daunting question in a meeting, how do you reply? In this common situation, itâs normal to panic or blurt out an uninformed...
The Power Pause: Rebranding the Stay-at-Home Mom
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Letâs explore identity and ambition through the lens of caregiving and career.Iâve talked a lot this year about settling into my âbaby-making er...
How to Re-Inspire Yourself Out of a Career Slump
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When inspiration slumps, how do you get it back? On those days (or weeks) where you just arenât feeling it, you might find yourself considering a to...
Leverage Power and Pressure to Become the Leader You Want to Be
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you transition from team member to team leader without letting the pressure and power turn you into a bad boss? I interact so often with well-m...
New Law Offers NICU Family Leave
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do new parents balance limited paid leave and a newborn who has to spend weeks in intensive care? Becoming a NICU family is heart-wrenching enough...
Your Emotions Around Money Matter More Than You Think
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the uncertain state of the economy right now, money is on most peopleâs minds. Now is the perfect time to explore why our finances are so much ...
The Engagement Crisis Impacting Young Workers
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a leader, how can you tackle disengagement on your team? Employee engagement is in crisis, and itâs costing more than just morale. According to G...
Directional Living for Aligned Fulfillment
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What would happen if you stopped pursuing a career destination and focused instead on the best direction? Too often, we find ourselves checking the â...
How to Think Like a Leader, Not Just a Manager
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What separates a good manager from a great leaderâand why does it matter for your career? The important difference between these two mindsets is oft...
Autism in the Workplace: Inspiring More Inclusivity
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can you or your organization do to make the workplace more inclusive for people with autism?Recently, RFK Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and H...
The SAVE Act Threatens Womenâs Ability to Vote
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How could the SAVE Act send us tumbling back to the Suffragette era? This bill thatâs pending review in the Senate could jeopardize voting access fo...
Working Through Hurt Feelings at Work
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you deal with feelings of betrayal and resentment in the workplace?Chances are, you have experienced hurt feelings at work. The problem is, muc...
Can Public Policy Encourage Women to Have More Babies?
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How might public policy positively impact our drastically declining birth rate?President Trump has suggested that all new parents receive a one-time $...
Girl Power and the Faux Feminism of the 1990s
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Were the 1990s really the âgirl powerâ era of womenâs empowerment we remember?If you were âcoming of ageâ or raising young girls 30 years ag...
Pivot from the Public to the Private Sector
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you leverage your public sector experience to pivot into the private sector?More than 216,000 government employees were laid off last month. If...
When Your Career Is Your Whole Identity, What Can Go Wrong?
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when your career becomes your whole identity?Passion for our careers can drive us to achieve great things. But a laser focus on the job c...
4 Best Practices to Navigate Layoff Anxiety & Uncertainty
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you manage the stress of looming layoffs? Last month, layoffs across the U.S. rose an astonishing 205% compared to March of last year, for a to...
How to Stand Out in a Competitive Job Market
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Job searching in the current âwhite collar recessionâ can be truly daunting. Today, Iâm joined by Dr. Kyle Elliott, a career coach and mental he...
How to Inclusively Celebrate DEI Holidays & Heritage Months at Work
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can your workplace do to celebrate holidays like Womenâs History Month the ârightâ way? Whether youâre proud of how your organization sho...
The Case for the âGood Enoughâ Job
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can you reclaim your power in a job thatâs just âgood enoughâ?It turns out The Perfect Job isnât nearly as common as the LinkedIn posts wo...
Where Have All the Good Friends Gone?
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Feel like youâre the only one keeping your friendships going? Recently, I received a letter from a listener about an extremely relatable issue: how ...
Mindsets and Methods for Managing Up
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get what you need from the people in charge?Itâs not just people managers who need to be good at influencing conversations; anyone who in...
New Prenatal Leave Law Benefits Pregnant Workers in New York
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Youâve heard of paid family leaveâbut what about paid prenatal leave? Todayâs episode highlights good news for women, workers, and families in ...
Matrescence and the Transformation of Motherhood
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you know about matrescence? Most people will agree that everything changes with parenthood, and thatâs what this term covers: the process of...
Reporting In From Maternity Leave
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Todayâs episode marks my return from maternity leave, and a lot has happened in the world since I was last behind the mic! Iâm kicking off my retu...
The Power To Work Happier
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can positive psychology help curb burnout? Weâre a bunch of overachievers here in the Bossed Up community, and burnout is a pretty common thread...
Debunking Imposter Syndrome as a Women's Issue
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When did you first experience imposter syndrome? So many people resonate with feeling like frauds who sweet-talked their way into their positions and ...
How Do We Unlearn Silence and Voice Our Worth?
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it so hard to remember that we deserve to be heard? Staying silent in our professional lives can feel like the safe choice, but it can have uni...
How the Cost of Childcare Has Become a Workforce Issue
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We need to talk about the impact of the childcare crisis on the workforce! Some people may wonder why this topic matters beyond its impact on families...
Talking Menopause at Work
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How much do you know about menopause? Though itâs as natural as puberty and affects almost everyone with a uterus, this life stage has long been a t...
Create a Compelling Vision for Your Life in the New Year
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What would change if you decentered your career from your identity? Decentering your work from your identity might seem a counterintuitive topic for a...
How Parents Can Help Kids Navigate Their Job Search
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can you support the young adult in your life as they embark on the first steps of their career? Gen Z is coming of age in a strange new world, and...
How to Move Past Taking Things Personally at Work
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you deal with a mistake or criticism at work? If you find yourself starting to spiral into anxiety, overthinking everything youâve ever done ...
Stop Self-Sabotage to Actually Reach Your Goals
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you struggle with imposter syndrome, limiting beliefs, or self-sabotage? How can you rewire your subconscious to start seeing actual progress on yo...
Can You Be Friends At Work?
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Where do you draw the line between work and play when it comes to office friendships? Itâs hard to make friends as adults, so itâs no wonder we ge...
What Women Leaders in Nonprofits Need to Know
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you ensure you get what you need when youâre called to work in the nonprofit sector? Working for a nonprofit differs in many ways from the co...
How to Get Motivated To Start Your Job Search
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you motivate yourself to start your job search? There are a lot of Bossed Up episodes about the job search process, but they all assume that yo...
How To Be Intentional About Taking Time Off From Your Career
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you create a practical plan for taking a career break? We talk a lot on this podcast about high achievers, burnout, and work/life balance becau...
Americaâs Parents Are Not Okay
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Caregivers: whenâs the last time you didnât feel stressed out? In August, the U.S. Surgeon General released an advisory, titled âParents Under P...
How Managers Can Practice Daily DEI and Create Equitable Work Cultures
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can managers navigate the ever-changing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging landscape? While most people grasp the overall intention of DE...
The Impact of State Abortion Bans on HR Policies
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How will the various abortion bans across the U.S. affect HR policies? When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, federal protections on abortion cease...
Co-Creating Gender Equality in Leadership
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Men comprise over 90% of the CEOs in the U.S.âso how do we help them become allies in the vital pursuit of workplace equality? Rather than dismissin...
Why Non-Competes Are Back From the Dead
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, the FTC put forth a ruling that would ban non-compete agreements nationwide. But last month, a Texas federal court blocked this end...
Cultivate a Culture of Growth Within Your Organization
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growth mindset is a hot topic these days. We hear a lot about how important it is to approach life and work open to learning, changing, and growing. T...
When Your Promotion is Actually a Glass Cliff
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you think of when you hear the term âglass cliffâ? I have been pondering this concept for a while, especially in light of the upcoming ele...
How We Get Over Overwork to Build a Better Life
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What individual, organizational, and policy changes will help us transform the daily grind into the good life? The conversation around work-life balan...
How To Process Being Passed Over For a Promotion
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you handle the sting of being passed over for a promotion? Unfortunately, for ambitious women, this frustrating experience tends to be part of ...
Grief in the Workplace: Support, Empathy, and Healing
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you navigate grief in the workplace in an empathic and supportive way? We all experience loss, and we might default to assuming the only place ...
Surprising Trends Impacting Women at Work
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Deloitte recently released their 2024 Women @ Work report, which surveyed 5,000 women across 10 countries. In this episode, I highlight three unexpect...
Disrupting Elder Care: We Need To Talk More About Working Daughters
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you balance caring for your aging parents and your career without burning out? We organize so much in our lives, from our workdays to our child...
How to Handle Negative Reactions When You Speak Up
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our world is still conflicted about whether or not it likes assertive women. In recent months, I have received both positive and negative feedback abo...
How Gen X Navigates Career Change
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gen Xers have a wealth of experience and talent to offer the workforce, and yet Millennials and Baby Boomers tend to receive the majority of the media...
What Kamala's Candidacy Means for Women Leaders
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The last weekâs historic political events warrant a totally new, unscripted episode. On July 21st, the news that President Biden would no longer pu...
Set Better Boundaries To Manage Relationships in Work and Life
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Content warning: this episode briefly touches on alcoholism, substance abuse, and abusive relationships.Why does setting boundaries sound so simple, a...
A Different Approach to My Second Maternity Leave
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do differently the second time around? Iâm getting the chance to dig deep into this question as I prepare for my second maternity lea...
Understand Pay Transparency and Your Rights as a Job Seeker
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Initiatives to address pay gaps are spreading across the country. My home state of Colorado is a trailblazer in this quest, and people like todayâs ...
3 Tips For When Public Speaking Doesnât Go As Planned
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whatâs the wildest thing that has happened to you at a presentation or workshop? Whether in the audience or on the stage, most of us have experience...
Balancing Work with a Complicated Pregnancy
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you manage a complex pregnancy while continuing to manage your career? Pregnancy can be complicated, and people who experienced prior reproduc...
Why Non-Compete Agreements Can No Longer Derail Your Career
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How has your life been affected by a non-compete agreement? Whether youâre painfully familiar with these contract clauses, know someone who is, or j...
Establishing Your Personal and Professional Network in a New City
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you move cities without totally starting over? Relocating to a new place causes can leave you feeling totally uprooted and lost. Who better tha...
How To Explain Your Layoff in a Job Interview
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How should you address a layoff in a job interview? This year of job market flux has seen more than 80,000 layoffs in the tech industry alone, on top ...
How Connection Can Cure What Ails Us
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our modern world, where isolation, loneliness, and stress are at all-time highs, how do we fend off the feelingsâand the medical symptomsâthat ...
How to Create a Sustainable Job Search Schedule When Youâre Unemployed
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you avoid making the job search your entire life when seeking employment is your full-time pursuit? Searching for a new job is stressful and ti...
The Patriarchy Within: How to Liberate Your Brain
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How has our patriarchal society structured your thoughts and how can you take them back? If youâve always considered âreprogramming your brainâ ...
Prioritizing Your Job Search While Holding Down a Full-Time Job
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you make time to job search while keeping a full-time job going? Finding a job these days feels a lot like a full-time job in itself, and itâ...
Redefining Success: Women and the Fight for a Fair Economy
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weâre in the midst of unprecedented times, where corporations prioritize short-term profits over the long-term health of their organizations, client...
The Impact of Return-to-Office Mandates on Working Moms
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all have our ideal working conditions. We might love working from home, enjoy a couple of sociable days in the office each week, or crave the daily...
Entrepreneurship vs. Employment: Building a Blended Career
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Community, connection, and collaboration: these are the keys to our survival as a species if you ask Baily Hancock, a community architect and strategi...
Your Cover Letter Is Better With Bullet Points
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Writing cover letters is stressful. If I surveyed a thousand job seekers about their least favorite parts of the job search, I bet most of them would ...
How To Become More Resilient as an Underrepresented Leader
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Resiliency is an important trait for any leader, but the systemic barriers that underrepresented professionals face, on top of persisting gender and r...
Job Search Success: How To Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile Skills Section
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does your LinkedIn Skills section look these days? Whether or not youâre currently on the hunt for new employment opportunities, this is your fr...
Cross-Cultural Communication in Leadership
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether an organizationâs teams are centered in a single city or dispersed across the world, cultural differences inevitably emerge. For leaders acc...
3 Tips For Managing Too Many Meetings
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How many meeting invites do you get each week? If your company is like many American organizations, itâs probably too many. Recent research shows th...
Are Pay Transparency Laws Working?
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pay transparency is one of our policy priorities at Bossed Up, and in this episode, I speak with a scholar who studies the subject: Zoë Cullen. An as...
How To Ask For A Reference During Your Job Search
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When you need a reference, whatâs the first thing you do? Almost everyone looking for a new job will need a reference or two, and a former employer ...
Navigate the Anxiety That Comes With A Promotion
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us have or will experience the classic post-promotion âfreakout.â This crushing crisis of confidence leaves us wondering how we got here a...
4 Steps to On-Ramp Back Into the Job Search After Taking a Career Break
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, a member of my HIRED Job Search Accelerator community asked a very important and relevant question: how do I get back into the job search af...
The Problem With Self-Help
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whatâs the last self-help book you read? These days, whatever life change youâre hoping for, thereâs a self-help guru and their associated memoi...
Dealing With Low-Ball Job Offers
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do if a job offer comes in with a low-ball salary? In this episode, I dig into a topic inspired by a listener's email that echoes the expe...
The Impact of Stress Reduction on Infertility
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Content warning: this blog post and podcast episode include mentions of pregnancy loss. Odds are, you either know someone or are someone who has expe...
The Succession Gap and the Growing Value of Your Leadership Aspirations
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you aspire to lead others? If yes, youâre in the minority. New research shows that fewer and fewer people are expressing the desire to take on le...
Leverage Your Fear to Fuel Your Growth
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Content warning: this episode includes mentions of pregnancy loss. Growing up, weâre often taught to deny or fight our fears. Fear is weakness, as y...
Grow Your Professional Network in the New Year
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How have you been making time for building connections? This is not an easy thing to schedule in around work responsibilities, family events, and hard...
The Economic Imperative of Affordable Childcare
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Raise your hand if being a mom and working away from home has you STRESSED! Most parents would agree: one of the biggest challenges you face in the ea...
3 Steps To Celebrate Your Wins
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What wins are you celebrating in 2023? Whether the past year was a breeze or the worst one yet, itâs time to pour yourself a glass of bubbly (or Bub...
Critical Conversations that Drive Inclusive Leadership
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can you bring more courageous conversations into your practice of inclusive leadership? In recent years, more and more leaders are seeking to unde...