Why We Do People-First Leadership (even though it has to suck first!)

You're Not Too Much · Apr 1, 2026 · 29m · transcript

In this episode, I talk about what it actually looks like when you prioritize people-first leadership — not the inspirational poster version, but the version where you're paying someone's salary while they're out sick, covering their workload yourself, and looking at your bank account like it personally offended you.

A friend called me — the kind who doesn't call unless there's a thing. He's running a business the right way, the people-first way, and he needed me to tell him he was doing it wrong so he could stop.

I couldn't do that for him. Because he wasn't doing it wrong. He was just 'in…