The Impact List
The Impact List is a podcast for founders and leaders about the people side of building a company: hiring, leadership teams, pay, culture and the hard conversations that usually happen behind a closed door. There’s a day every founder hits. You look around your own company and realize you don’t know everyone’s name anymore. Host Laurie Fainer, founder and CEO of Dynamic Alchemy Advisors and a former Chief People Officer, spends her days inside other founders’ hardest people decisions. On the show, she sits down with founders and the advisors who work beside them to talk about what really happens when a business outgrows the way it started. Expect real conversations about: The hard people calls founders put off, then have to make anyway Pay structures made up along the way, and what happens when they catch up with you The leadership team that got you here but can’t take you further Making your first HR hire, and what it should fix Building a team where people actually speak up before problems get expensive What has to change in the founder before the business can Leading a team inside a bigger company? You’ll recognize most of this. Expect rapid-fire questions, straight answers and more laughing than you’d think. Nobody here is telling you to wake up at 5 a.m. and dream bigger. The Impact List is for founders and business owners who’ve built something real, from real estate teams to trades to service firms, and are figuring out how to lead the people who help them grow it. New episodes twice a month YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Brought to you by Dynamic Alchemy Advisors. We help growing companies build the team they’re meant to build. Learn more about how we can help your team at dynamicalchemyadvisors.com Connect with us: Dynamic Alchemy Advisors: dynamicalchemyadvisors.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dynamicalchemyadvisors/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dynamicalchemyadvisors/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61592450590459
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There’s a day every founder hits: you walk through your own company and realize you don’t know everyone’s name anymore. That’s where this show lives.
I’m Laurie Fainer. I’m a founder, and I spend my days inside other founders’ hardest people decisions. Twice a month on The Impact List, I sit down with founders and the advisors who work beside them to talk about the stuff that never makes the...
Over the past six months on The Impact List, Laurie Fainer, founder of Dynamic Alchemy Advisors and leadership advisor to founders, sat down with fourteen leaders and asked them to go past the polished version. Nine of those conversations surfaced a moment that shifted something. Not a framework, not career advice, but the kind of honest leadership stories that don't make it into a keynote or a LinkedIn caption.
This episode pulls t...
You know the person who changed the direction of your career without ever raising their voice.
That is quiet leadership, and it works through listening rather than volume. Most workplaces still reward whoever speaks first and loudest, which means the people quietly redirecting careers rarely get named for it, rarely get promoted for it, and often do not see themselves as leaders at all. Jillian Perkins is one of them, and she ...
Stop asking for permission is the practice of trusting your own judgment enough to act before someone signs off on it, and it is the idea running underneath this conversation with executive recruiter Angela Bond, Partner and Head of the Real Estate Practice at Odgers.
If you have spent years explaining a decision you already knew was right, or softening a call so nobody can push back on it, this episode names where that habit ...
AI change management is the work of leading a burned out team through disruption it did not choose, not just rolling out new tools.
If your organization is asking people to adopt AI while they are already stretched thin from years of restructuring, budget cuts, and shifting expectations, this episode is for you. Resistance to change rarely means people reject the technology itself. It usually means they do not understand why t...
What if resilience was never about becoming who you were before?
Most leadership advice treats recovery as the goal. Get through the hard thing, return to baseline, pick the plan back up. Lauren Posesorski's experience says otherwise.
In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer, Founder and CEO of Dynamic Alchemy Advisors sits down with marketing leader Lauren Posesorski, a marketing leader with seventeen years of experience bu...
Most bad hires aren't skill problems. They're fit problems. In this episode of The Impact List, host Laurie Fainer, Founder and CEO of Dynamic Alchemy Advisors, sits down with Amber Johnson, CEO of Forge Performance Group. Amber has spent over a decade helping companies in energy, construction, oil and gas, and healthcare hire and keep strong teams, and she breaks down why chasing the resume instead of the person is where most hiri...
Intentional leadership is not a framework you learn in a course. It is a decision you make every single day about how you show up, who you trust, and what you do with the time you have. This episode is about what that actually looks like in practice.
Robin Bailey, Managing Partner of Aria Benefits, host of the award-winning Success Leaves Clues podcast, and the person who, about a year ago, looked at Laurie after she had been a gues...
You know that leader who does it all - makes every decision, holds every piece, approves everything before it goes out the door?
This week on The Impact List, Laurie sits down with Debbie Lariviere, the founder and head coach of Monter Coaching and host of the Real Estate Leadership Unlocked podcast.
They talk about what it costs to keep doing everything yourself, how to tell the difference between delegating a task and actual...
You know the person who's working against you? The one where the tension is real, the dynamic is off, and neither of you is saying it out loud?
Michael Murphy was that person for Laurie. And instead of letting it become permanent, they named it. What happened next shaped the kind of leader Michael became and the kind he now deliberately builds around him.
Michael Murphy is a Partner and AI Operating Model Lead at ADAPTOVATE, a global...
What if the most powerful thing a leader can do... is stop?
In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Caroline Baird, HR executive, leadership strategist, and holistic coach with more than 30 years of experience inside some of the largest organizations in North America. Caroline has held senior HR leadership roles inside multi-billion dollar companies, sat at the table for complex culture challenges, and now r...
Most leaders are trained to treat a stall as a failure signal - something to push through, smooth over, or explain away. Numrah Irfan sees it differently.
In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Numrah Irfan, founder of Wren Ave Consulting and former Deloitte leader with over two decades of experience inside large-scale transformation. Numrah makes a case that the moments where progress seems to stop are oft...
The best leaders don’t have all the answers, and the ones who think they do often hold their teams back.
In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Hannah Yardley - who has spent two decades advising Fortune 500 companies, leading people strategy at a global SaaS platform, and earning a seat at some of the most consequential executive tables in tech - to explore the leadership mindset shift from exp...
What if you’re not burnt out… you’ve simply outgrown the life you built?
In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Simona Costantini, Founder and CEO of VOLT Productions, to talk about what it actually looks like to build a business rooted in values - not as a mission statement, but as a daily operating decision.
Simona's values are kindness, care, and connection. She doesn't just say that. S...
What if the strongest leaders aren’t the loudest… but the most grounded?
In this episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer sits down with Nadia Caira, Co-Founder of Beacon Talent Group, to explore what grounded leadership actually looks like in practice — inside the high-pressure, high-stakes world of executive search.
Nadia brings a coaching lens to everything she does. She asks better questions before offering an...
What happens when you stop blending in… and start building something that actually reflects who you are?
In this solo episode of The Impact List, Laurie Fainer shares the story behind the show and the turning point that led her to leave corporate and step into entrepreneurship.
After years in executive HR and Chief of Staff roles, Laurie found herself asking a different question. Not “what’s next?” but &ldquo...
The Impact List is a leadership podcast for professionals who want more than soundbites and surface-level advice.
Hosted by Laurie Fainer, CEO of Dynamic Alchemy Advisors, The Impact List features candid conversations with leaders shaping the future, not by titles, but by how they show up. Each episode explores the real moments behind leadership, the decisions made under pressure, the conflicts that demand clarity, and the practices...
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