In Episode 290 of Work from the Inside Out, Tammy Gooler Loeb speaks with Margaret Andrews, author of Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding. A seasoned executive leader, Harvard instructor, and founder of the MYLO Center, Margaret shares why leadership is not just a skillset, it’s a craft that begins within. From her early career in consulting to running MBA and executive programs at MIT and Harvard, Margaret’s journey has been guided by curiosity, risk-taking, and deep reflection.

Margaret explains why self-awareness becomes increasingly important as we move into leadership roles. One of her most powerful insights? We judge ourselves by our intentions, but others judge us by our behaviors. That gap can undermine even the most well-meaning leaders. She shares how understanding our formative influences, values, and definitions of success allows us to close that gap and lead with greater clarity and impact.

In a world reshaped by post-pandemic workplace shifts, hybrid culture debates, and rapid change, Margaret reminds us that there is no silver bullet in leadership, only thoughtful, intentional navigation. If you’re contemplating your next move, leading a team, or striving to grow into your next level, this conversation offers practical frameworks and reflective questions to help you truly work from the inside out.

In this week’s Work from the Inside Out podcast, learn more about:

• Why leadership is a creative craft and not just a position
• The difference between intentions and behaviors, and why it matters
• How curiosity shapes career transitions
• The role of risk-taking in professional growth
• Why self-understanding is foundational to leading others
• The paradox of hybrid work and organizational culture
• How leaders can close the intention–behavior gap
• Why slowing down leads to better long-term decisions
• The importance of modeling learning and vulnerability
• Practical reflection strategies for your next career move

Learn more about Margaret:

• Visit The MYLO Center
• Read: Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding
• Follow Margaret on LinkedIn: @margaretcandrews
• Visit MargaretAndrews.com

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In this episode of Work From the Inside Out, Tammy Gooler Loeb sits down with entrepreneur and leadership innovator Addie Swartz, CEO of reacHIRE. Addie shares the remarkable throughline of her career, from selling apple pies at age 12 to founding multiple mission-driven companies, all rooted in a belief that talent, confidence, and potential exist everywhere, even when they’re overlooked.

Throughout the conversation, Addie reflects on pivotal moments that shaped her path, including her time at Bain, Disney, and Lotus, and the personal experiences that inspired her to build businesses supporting women, girls, and professionals navigating career transitions. From creating positive role models for young girls through The Beacon Street Girls to helping experienced professionals return to meaningful work, Addie illustrates how life’s disruptions often reveal powerful opportunities.

Addie also discusses the evolution of reacHIRE and its leadership platform, Aurora, which help individuals grow, re-enter, and advance within organizations by focusing on strengths, confidence, and intentional support. Her advice for anyone facing a transition is both reassuring and practical: lean into your potential, stay curious, and don’t go it alone. This episode is a powerful reminder that every stage of life holds the possibility for growth and reinvention.

In this week’s Work from the Inside Out podcast, learn more about:

• How early entrepreneurial experiences can shape lifelong leadership instincts
• Why confidence, and not capability, is often the biggest barrier during career transitions
• The hidden cost of sidelining experienced talent after career breaks
• How strengths-based leadership development drives engagement, growth, and retention
• Why meaningful careers are built through curiosity, courage, and support at every stage of life

Learn more about Addie:

• Follow Addie on LinkedIn: @addieswartz
• Visit the website: reachire.com
• Explore Aurora



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What happens when life strips away certainty—health, finances, identity—and asks you to rebuild from the inside out? In this powerful episode, Tammy Gooler Loeb sits down with Matt Paradise, financial wellness speaker, award-winning author, and living example of resilience. Matt shares his extraordinary journey from homelessness and addiction to a decades-long career in financial counseling and ultimately, to redefining what true wealth really means.

Matt reflects on growing up between two vastly different worlds, grappling with addiction as a teenager, and becoming sober at 18. His story unfolds through mentorship, purpose, and a growing understanding that money is rarely just about math. It’s about identity, meaning, and hope. Along the way, Matt explains the critical difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, why comparison is the thief of joy, and how unaddressed inner struggles often show up in our financial lives.

The conversation takes a profound turn when Matt shares his experience surviving a rare bile duct cancer diagnosis and liver transplant. Out of that pain emerged clarity—and his book, Financially Capable: A Friendly Guide to Building Whole-Health Wealth. This episode is an invitation to pause, reflect, and ask: What does “enough” really look like and how do we build lives that support our whole selves?

In this week’s Work from the Inside Out podcast, learn more about:

• Why financial stress is rarely just about money
• The difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
• How addiction, debt, and overwork share common emotional roots
• What it means to build Whole Health Wealth
• The role of mentorship in personal and professional transformation
• How serious illness can clarify purpose and priorities
• Why “done is better than perfect” when life is uncertain
• A practical five-step framework for meaningful change
• Reframing “have to” into “get to”
• Why hope matters—even when it’s not a strategy

Learn more about Matt:

• Read: Financially Capable: A Friendly Guide to Building Whole Health Wealth
• Visit mattparadise.com
• LinkedIn: @mattparadise
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In this episode of the Work from the Inside Out podcast, I’m joined by executive coach and author of The Visibility Factor, Susan Barber. A former Fortune 500 IT Director, Susan helps business leaders who want to leverage their leadership strengths, increase their visibility, and elevate their impact in the workplace. Susan specializes in working with quiet, high-achieving leaders who want to step into the spotlight in authentic ways, so they can be seen, valued, and influential at work.

Susan shares her journey working for 25 years in various leadership roles at Kraft Heinz to entrepreneurship, including the moment she received career-changing feedback that she “wasn’t visible enough.” That feedback, despite years of strong performance, forced her to confront imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and the subtle ways leaders unintentionally hold themselves back.

We discuss what visibility really means, why it’s not about bragging or being the loudest voice in the room, and how leaders, especially introverts, can reframe visibility as service, clarity, and responsibility. Susan also shares insights from her recently published Your Journey to Visibility Workbook and offers practical guidance for people navigating career growth, and professional transitions.

In this week’s Work from the Inside Out podcast, learn more about:

• Why visibility ≠ self-promotion
• How imposter syndrome quietly limits career growth
• The difference between being busy and being visible
• Why introverts often struggle with visibility and how to reframe it
• How feedback (even painful feedback) can become a career-defining gift
• What it really means to “do the job before you get the job”
• Practical ways to show up more intentionally without changing who you are

Learn more about Susan:

• Read: The Visibility Factor: Breakthrough Your Fears, Stand In Your Own Power And Become The Authentic Leader You Were Meant To Be
• Read: Your Journey To Visibility Workbook: A Proven Action Plan to Achieve Career Success
• Listen: The Visibility Factor podcast
• Visit: SusanMBarber.com
• LinkedIn: SusanBarberCoaching



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This week, Tammy welcomes back author and executive coach Jacqueline Wales, whose new book Fear Intelligence: A Practical Framework for Leading Beyond Fear offers a powerful, compassionate roadmap for understanding how fears shape our lives and our leadership style. Drawing on her two plus decades of coaching executives, professionals, and creatives, Jacqueline explains how fear, often misunderstood or ignored, offers a deeply influential emotional signal that calls for our attention.

In the conversation, Jacqueline shares the evolution of her work, beginning with her early books The Fearless Factor and The Fearless Factor at Work, and leading to her latest framework, a four-part acronym: Face It, Explore It, Act on It, Rise with It. She and Tammy discuss how fear shows up in our behaviors, especially as avoidance, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or over-functioning, and how intergenerational stories can quietly shape our sense of safety and self-worth. Jacqueline illustrates how fear often runs “in the background,” like a CPU, until we learn to pause, question, and explore what it’s actually signaling.

Listeners will gain a fresh understanding of fear as data, not destiny. Jacqueline emphasizes that growth is not about becoming fearless, a myth she debunks. Becoming fear intelligent means choosing honesty over avoidance and conscious action over self-sabotage. Practical tools, reflective questions, and stories from her coaching practice illuminate how anyone can begin clearing the “old stories” that block their potential and open up space for the life they truly want.

In this week’s Work from the Inside Out podcast, learn more about:

• What Fear Intelligence is and why it matters for leaders and professionals
• The four-step F.E.A.R. Framework: Face It, Explore It, Act on It, Rise with It
• How fear shapes behavior through avoidance, perfectionism, and people-pleasing
• Why fear is often intergenerational, and how those stories get passed along
• Viewing fear as data rather than danger — and how that shift empowers action
• How to identify the stories that quietly reinforce “I’m not good enough”
• Why uncertainty is unavoidable, and why choosing discomfort can open new paths
• Jacqueline’s personal journey from hardship to transformation
• Tools, exercises, and real-life examples from her new book Fear Intelligence
• How to begin building a more honest, compassionate relationship with yourself

Learn more about Jacqueline:

• Read: Fear Intelligence: A practical framework for leading beyond fear
• Visit JacquelineWales.com
• Visit fearintelligence.co
• LinkedIn: Jacqueline Wales



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In this week’s episode of Work from the Inside Out, Tammy welcomes longtime friend and mission-driven leader Steve Zuckerman, whose multifaceted career spans private equity, economic justice work, and co-founding Stroke Onward, the nonprofit he founded with his wife, author and professor Debra Meyerson. Steve shares how his grounded upbringing, infused with values of service and perseverance, informed the choices he made throughout his professional and personal life.

Steve walks us through his career journey, from his entry into consulting, to private equity, to becoming a stay-at-home dad during a major life shift, and eventually pivoting to non-profit leadership. He describes his ‘strategically opportunistic’ mindset which developed over time. Steve reflected on how this approach enabled him to see opportunities beyond conventional pathways and engage with both planned and unexpected situations.

In 2010, the unexpected occurred when Steve’s wife, Deb experienced a life threatening stroke Debra, leaving her with a paralyzed right side and no speech at all. We discuss her continual recovery efforts, limitations imposed by her aphasia, and their collaborative mission to expand the conversation around identity loss and rebuilding after stroke. Steve shares how this experience reshaped his career priorities, leading to the founding of Stroke Onward and the second edition of Deb’s book Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke. Their goal: transform how the medical and rehabilitation systems support the long-term emotional journey of recovery.

In this week’s Work from the Inside Out podcast, learn more about:

• How Steve’s childhood values shaped his lifelong commitment to service and purpose-driven work.
• Why he turned down traditional career pathways in favor of roles aligned with his values.
• The philosophy of being “strategically opportunistic” and how it can guide career decisions.
• The year-long Mediterranean family sailing adventure that changed their perspective on life.
• Deb’s stroke, her life with aphasia, and how Steve supports her identity rebuilding.
• How the book Identity Theft evolved into a second edition and the founding of Stroke Onward.
• The systemic gaps in stroke recovery and why emotional healing needs long-term support.
• Steve’s advice for making career decisions rooted in clarity, compassion, and self-awareness.

Learn more about Steve:

• Learn more about Stroke Onward
• Follow on Instagram: @strokeonward
• Follow on Facebook: Stroke Onward’
• Follow Steve on LinkedIn
• Subscribe on YouTube: @strokeonward
• Read: Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke
• Listen to the audiobook: Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke
• Read: Identity Theft: Second Edition



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This week on Work From The Inside Out, I am joined by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ken Corigliano, known widely as Air Force Ken. His story is one of extraordinary contrast: early years filled with love and community, followed by intense personal upheaval, homelessness, and loss. Ken’s path could easily have gone in a very different direction, but a pivotal encounter with a sharp-eyed recruiter and the devastating death of his sister sparked an internal shift that changed everything. What followed was a relentless commitment to service, personal responsibility, and rebuilding himself from the ground up.

Ken went on to become an award-winning enlisted Airman, a commissioned officer, an intelligence leader supporting Air Force One, a triathlete striving for the Olympics, and ultimately a decorated lieutenant colonel. But his journey was far from linear. A catastrophic accident derailed his athletic aspirations and left him with an undiagnosed traumatic brain injury that he quietly navigated for seven years while still serving. His recovery, physical, cognitive, and emotional, unfolded slowly and unexpectedly, culminating in breakthrough results from peptide therapy through Transcend, the company he now serves as an executive.

Today, Ken channels his life experience, scientific curiosity, and unmatchable resilience into helping others restore their health, energy, and quality of life. In this conversation, he opens up about trauma, service, rebuilding identity, the limitations of grit, and the importance of choosing the “hardest things” for the sake of becoming who we’re truly meant to be. His story is energizing, humbling, and an unforgettable reminder that transformation is always possible.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn more about:

• How early childhood shaped Ken’s belief in community, nature, and connection
• The unraveling he experienced during adolescence and the turning point that changed his life
• The recruiter whose tough honesty set Ken on a path of service and growth
• Ken’s rise from struggling student to award-winning Airman and commissioned officer
• His near-Olympic pursuit in triathlon and the extreme dedication behind it
• The life-changing accident that caused a traumatic brain injury—and the seven years he hid it
• How he navigated military service while dealing with cognitive and physical challenges
• His remarkable recovery through peptide therapy and why it transformed everything
• Ken’s work at Transcend and how advanced therapies are helping people regain their vitality
• The philosophy behind his “Seven Gates” leadership model and what drives his passion for hard challenges

Learn more about Ken:

• Read: State of Being by Ken Corigliano
• Watch Ken’s story on YouTube
• Watch the Ultimate Beastmaster on Netflix
• Visit: Transcend Foundation
• Visit: Transcend Company
• Instagram: @airforceken
• LinkedIn: Ken Corigliano

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This week on Work From the Inside Out, I had the pleasure of speaking with Casey Berman, a strategic advisor, writer, and career transition expert. Casey is best known for his platform, Leave Law Behind, which has helped countless attorneys move beyond the legal field into roles that truly meet their interests. Today, he extends that mission more broadly through CaseyBerman.com, guiding professionals of various backgrounds to discover their “unique genius,” the blend of skills and talents that makes them valuable.

Casey’s own story is one of persistence, pivots, and discovery. Though pushed into law school by well-meaning advice, he quickly realized the traditional path of practicing law wasn’t for him. After failing the bar exam once, and later passing, Casey’s career took an unexpected turn when he joined a startup during the dot-com era. There, he began to recognize and develop strengths he didn’t even know he had, communication, negotiating, and leadership. Casey saw how he could leverage those skills to shape a career beyond law.

Now based in Maui, Casey helps people identify their invisible strengths, what he calls Casper the Friendly Ghost skills, and bring them to life in both meaningful and sustainable ways. From founding his own businesses to launching an AI-powered coaching tool, Casey models what it means to embrace risk, trust the process, and build a career that truly fits.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn more about:

• Discover your unique genius — Your most valuable strengths may not be obvious; ask others what they notice in you.
• Don’t just do what you’re good at. Do what you enjoy. Success and fulfillment meet at the intersection of skill and passion.
• Redefine career paths as multi-dimensional. You don’t have to stay in one lane; your career can reflect many ways of creating value.
• Do it your own way. Frameworks and advice are useful, but the most authentic and sustainable path is the one that fits you.

Learn more about Casey:

• Website: www.caseyberman.com
• X: @caseyberman
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseybermansf/
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/caseybermansf

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