The Corporate Burnouts Podcast

This week on The Corporate Burnouts, we're back with part two of our personality test conversation—and this time, we're going even deeper. We're joined by culture strategist, leadership coach, and DISC-certified practitioner Amy Nunn, who helps leaders decode communication breakdowns and build feedback-driven teams that actually work.

We cover how to read and apply DISC assessments at work, what “adaptive vs. natural” be...

In this episode of The Corporate Burnouts Podcast, Mandy and Mandy dive headfirst into one of their favorite topics: personality tests. From DISC to Myers-Briggs, the Predictive Index, the Four Color Personalities, and even the 5 Love Languages (in the workplace!), they explore how knowing yourself—and your teammates—can drastically improve communication, reduce workplace stress, and help prevent burnout.

You’ll hear them laugh thro...

Is Gen Z redefining the future of work, or just refusing to play by the rules we were taught to follow? In this lively and thought-provoking episode of The Corporate Burnouts, Mandy and Mandy unpack the generational tension brewing in today's workforce. From job hopping to unapologetically setting boundaries, Gen Z might just be onto something, and it’s challenging everything we thought we knew about “professionalism.”

We dive i...

We loved this episode with our awesome guest, Heather Swan, owner of YarnCom. It was so interesting to hear her corporate story and how she lived through and got caught up in a toxic workplace. What we loved most was what she learned from it and how she took those lessons and started her own business with amazing culture.

Once again in this episode, we have another guest talking to us about boundaries. Set your boundaries in the wor...

Did you know that your social media presence can potentially alienate employers and clients? We have always known this but have learned a lot recently about how deeply people can dig to see all of your activity online.

In this episode, we discussed some surprising ways that potential and current employers can track you online, including being able to see all the comments you make on others' social media posts. This was wild to learn...

We loved this episode with our guest, Kelli Risse! Kelli is a peak performance executive coach, professional speaker, and author, whose mission is to help overworked, overwhelmed, and overstressed high-achievers shift into peak performers to avoid or recover from burnout. She is so full of knowledge about burnout and we learned so much!

Kelli walked us through the steps to go from being a high achiever to becoming a peak performer. ...

Attention corporate and ex-corporate besties - you need to hear this! Your coporate career wasn't a waste. There are so many skills and processes and experiences that you can take with you into your future endeavors, whether it's starting a business or working for a smaller company. You will definitely have a leg up on the competition.

We loved having Annie Callaway on the podcast this week! Her experience in corporate was v...

We needed a light episode for this week and playing "Would You Rather?" was so fun for us! We found out that we have a lot of triggers still from corporate. We also had some great friend conversation and loved it. Come laugh with us!

And for anyone watching who noticed Mandy Alt's jump scare, we don't know what happened either while watching it back. 😂 It's a true mystery.

We would love to hear in the comments ...

We're so excited to introduce our guest for this episode, Miranda Malone, owner of Essential Rejuvination Medical Esthetics and founder of Elley's Hope. Her integrity while in corporate and after she left is inspirational and a huge reason why she is perfect to run a non-profit.

Miranda's corporate story is tough, but she has come out on top and is a successful business owner today! She also runs a newer but also success...

This episode was cathartic for us! We dug all the way into the feelings we had leaving corporate. The identity crisis was wild. Who am I without the job that was such a huge part of my life? The imposter syndrome, the major change in lifestyle/social life and routines, and the chaotic, hot mess of starting something new are so real for a lot of people.

We hope that everyone who may be struggling post-corporate knows that it's ha...

Welcome to our 13th episode, with special guest Alana Lerch. We love her story about how and why she left corporate, and what she did next. 

Her experience after leaving her job was incredible. She spent 8 months finding herself, her passions, and what she wanted to do next. It isn’t something everyone can afford to do, but it was so inspiring to hear how she figured it all out. 

We dig in with Alana about burnout, of course, and a...

This week we decided to keep it light and commiserate about some lingo and behavior that is sooooo corporate. From absolutely wild corporate policies to passive agressive emails and triggering corporate buzzwords, this episode is a compilation of corporate cringe that you don't want to miss.

We loved our conversation about crazy team building exercises. Please tell us your favorite or least favorite team building experience from...

On this week's episode about high performers, The Mandys find out that they are high performers! We found out from a video we found from a creator on TikTok - High Performer Coach. If you don't know if you're a high performer, you will find out after watching this video we played.

We really dig into the pros and cons of being a high performer, signs that being a high performer are leading you to burnout, and how to balan...

In this episode of The Corporate Burnouts Podcast, we have a special guest, Caleena Karstens. Caleena is a fellow corporate burnout with a backround in hospital administration. It was crazy to hear her stories about 2020 in the hospital setting and her dismissal from a job that was making her sick.

We loved the conversation with Caleena about things you can do to manage your stress while in corporate and rid your body of the trauma ...

This week our episode digs into what it's like to be a woman in gas and oil or male dominated industries in general. We had a great time with our guest, Kristen Hogue, hearing her experience. She went through her entire career in oil and gas and shared her business, Scout Guide Abilene, with us.

Kristen's journey through oil and gas was a bit of a roller coaster because climbing the corporate ladder didn't lead where sh...

Welcome to the podcast, Dena Woulfe, former nurse turned holistic nurse. It was incredible to hear her "corporate" story about her time working in a hospital, the biggest greed machine there is, and what led her to leave and start her own thing. It's crazy to be doing a job that you don't believe in and we are so proud of what she accomplished after leaving.

Dena shares with us that she built her entire business by...

We started this episode introducing our amazing guest, Angel Magasano. Her story about her years in corporate will make you angry for what she had to go through. And her experience with raising kids while in corporate is all too familiar to so many. She shared her experience being a stay at home mom and how she accidently started her first business.

It was really interesting to hear how Little Black Book started in 2012 and how much...

This week, we talk about how much fun we had during our week together. Our first in person podcast, with our first guest was awesome, our branding shoot for the podcast was awesome and our time together, when we never see each other in person, was of course awesome! We had the best first guest and the best photographer. If you are looking for a photographer in the St. Louis area, we recommend Abbie Rudolph aka Abbie Takes Pictures....

For the first time ever, we’re recording in person together—AND we’re welcoming our very first guest, Bre K.!

Bre K. is a fourth-generation small business owner who escaped corporate life after enduring a toxic boss who banned office friendships, insane levels of nepotism, and coworkers so miserable they were literally crying at their desks but felt trapped by the paycheck. Now, as an operational strategist, Bre helps small busines...