Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors

Meet an Electrician

Midnight bank remodels, vault alarms, and a run-in with eight LAPD officers are only the beginning of this anonymous guest’s work story.  This week on Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors, we sit down with a career electrician and electrical contractor who started earning money in sixth grade, found his way from selling car stereos to the jobsite, and spent 45 years learning how power really moves through buildings and through people. We dig into what a trade career actually looks like: mentorship, on-the-job training, and the slow build of judgment that keeps you safe around live electricity. Along the way, we talk jobsite hierarchy, teaching the next generation, and why “I can do my own wiring” is one of the most dangerous myths in home improvement. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s career-curious, and leave a review so more listeners can find Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568525/fan_mail/new] Want to be interviewed? You can remain anonymous. Voice distortion now available. Email or Text us!

Meet an Insurance Industry Expert

Insurance is everywhere in our lives, yet most of us only learn how it works when something goes wrong.  This week on Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors, we sit down with an anonymous guest who has done nearly every job in the insurance industry, from claims adjuster to underwriting leader to corporate trainer, and now runs her own Medicare insurance agency. What she brings is the rare skill people actually want: the ability to explain complicated coverage without “dumbing it down,” so smart, capable clients can finally feel confident about what they are buying. If you like smart career stories, real workplace drama, and genuinely useful advice, hit subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568525/fan_mail/new] Want to be interviewed? You can remain anonymous. Voice distortion now available. Email or Text us!

Meet the Founder of Glo Health Center in Nicaragua

You can feel the difference between wellness that’s marketed and wellness that’s lived, and Grace Van Berkum is firmly in the second camp.  This week, on Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors, we talk with the founder of GLO Health Center in northern Nicaragua about what it really takes to build a detox and nutrition retreat from absolute scratch, keep it going for 10 years, and guide people through a seven-day reset that actually changes their day-to-day life.  Her core belief is simple but sharp: food is medicine, but the real transformation comes when you slow down enough to let your nervous system settle and your habits catch up to your goals. Grace shares her path from early addiction to becoming a registered holistic nutritionist, then “breaking up with winter” and finding her home in the tropics. We get into the surprising parts of running a wellness retreat program. She also calls out diet culture myths. The most powerful story is deeply personal: bringing her father with Alzheimer’s out of a care home, taking care of him in Nicaragua, and witnessing changes that challenged what she’d been told was possible.  Listen now for a grounded, story-driven look at holistic nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and what a real reset can look like. If it resonates, subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a breather, and leave a review so more listeners can find us. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568525/fan_mail/new] Want to be interviewed? You can remain anonymous. Voice distortion now available. Email or Text us!

Meet a Midwife in Training

A home birth that was nearly “not allowed” in Iowa planted a seed that never stopped growing, and our anonymous guest follows that seed all the way into a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) apprenticeship.  Along the way, she takes a real detour, walking away from midwifery hierarchy, studying linguistics, working jobs like Starbucks and publishing, and spending years raising and homeschooling kids.  Then a visceral dream pulls her back toward birth work, and we talk through what it really takes to return to a calling with more maturity and a clearer sense of the costs. We get specific about the difference between a doula and a midwife, what each role does during labor, and how midwifery training works in the home birth setting.  If you care about home birth, midwifery care, doula support, patient advocacy, and the real meaning of informed decision-making, listen through to the end. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s expecting or supporting someone who is, and leave a review so more people can find these behind-closed-doors work stories. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568525/fan_mail/new] Want to be interviewed? You can remain anonymous. Voice distortion now available. Email or Text us!

Meet a Lawyer Turned Healthcare Business Leader

One photo can change a life, and sometimes it rewires an entire career.  This week, we sat down with an anonymous C-Suite executive who started out making holiday gifts with his mom. At 23, he was thrown into management at the Four Seasons. Then he walked away to join the Peace Corps. And that's just the beginning. From there, the path gets even wilder: Guatemala, emergency response, becoming an EMT, and eventually making the call to go to law school and build a long in-house career in healthcare and life sciences.  We talk honestly about what it means to lead beyond the legal department when you are also responsible for HR, compliance, privacy, cybersecurity, environmental health and safety, and culture. You will hear why he says the “lawyer part” can be the easiest piece and why the hard part is earning trust, coaching people, and clearing the roadblocks so the team can deliver. Subscribe for more anonymous workplace stories, share this with a friend who loves career pivots and leadership lessons, and leave a review so more listeners can find us. What is the boldest professional choice you have ever made? Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568525/fan_mail/new] Want to be interviewed? You can remain anonymous. Voice distortion now available. Email or Text us!