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Loud & Lifted
Loud & Lifted is a women’s leadership and career podcast for ambitious women navigating growth, visibility, workplace dynamics and the pressure to figure it all out alone.
Hosted by former CEO Betsy Hamm, the show goes beyond surface-level advice and empty “women supporting women” slogans to have honest conversations about what it really takes to grow, lead and succeed at work.
Through candid interviews and 10-minute Quick Lift episodes, Loud & Lifted covers the real challenges women face in…
Episodes
Loud & LiftedHow to Speak Up When You Feel Awkward—and Build Trust with Henna Pryor
Worried you’ll sound awkward if you speak up? You don’t need to feel confident first—but you do need to know how to recover and make your message land. In this…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Stop Micromanaging and Help Your Team Grow
You want to support your team—but could you be micromanaging without realizing it? Being in every meeting and making every decision might be keeping your…
Loud & LiftedHow to Stop Micromanaging and Be a Better Boss with Lia Garvin
Spotify You don’t want to be a micromanager. But if every meeting, decision and deadline needs you, could you be getting in your team’s way? We’ve talked a lot…
Loud & LiftedWhat Happens After You Break the Glass Ceiling?
You got the promotion. You earned your seat. So why do you still feel like you have to prove you belong? In this Quick Lift, I’m sharing key takeaways from my…
Loud & LiftedWorkplace Bias After the Glass Ceiling: Walking on Broken Glass with Shannon Nutter
What happens after a woman breaks through the glass ceiling—and finds herself walking on broken glass? Shannon Nutter is a longtime financial services…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: The Good Girl Rules You're Allowed to Break
So many women were taught to be nice, helpful, agreeable and easy to work with. Those qualities aren’t bad—but they become a problem when they keep us quiet…
Loud & LiftedPeople-Pleasing at Work: Unlearning Good Girl Conditioning with Michelle Minnikin
Were you taught to be nice, helpful, agreeable and easy to work with—only to end up overworked, undervalued and quietly resentful? In this episode, Betsy talks…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Stop Being the Default Person at Work and Home
Episode Overview: If you’re the person everyone relies on, it can start to feel completely normal to carry way too much. In this Quick Lift, I’m breaking down…
Loud & LiftedBurnout for High-Achieving Women: Why Your Old System Stops Working with Cherylanne Skolnicki
At some point, being the woman who can handle everything stops feeling impressive and starts feeling exhausting. In this episode, I’m talking with Cherylanne…
Loud & LiftedPerimenopause Is Not a Career Decline: What to Know and What to Do
You are exhausted. You cannot sleep. Your anxiety feels higher. Your focus is off. And suddenly you are wondering why things that used to feel manageable now…
Loud & LiftedYou’re Not Losing Your Edge: Perimenopause, Work and the Pressure to Power Through
Perimenopause often arrives during the exact years women are leading teams, running businesses, pursuing promotions and managing enormous responsibilities at…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Speak Up When You've Learned to Stay Quiet
Silencing yourself does not always mean staying quiet. Sometimes it means agreeing when you have a different opinion, putting everyone else’s needs ahead of…
Loud & LiftedWhy Successful Women Stop Speaking Up at Work with Elaine Lin Hering
What if you are not struggling to speak up because you lack confidence—but because you have spent years learning to stay silent? Elaine Lin Hering, author of…
Loud & LiftedWhat to Do When Another Woman Is Undermining You at Work
What should you do when another woman is excluding, undermining, or damaging your confidence at work? In this Quick Lift, Betsy shares the key takeaways and…
Loud & LiftedWhy Women Undermine Other Women at Work
We talk a lot about the boys’ club. But what happens when the person making work harder for a woman is another woman? In this honest and thought-provoking…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Navigate a Messy Career Pivot
Career pivots sound exciting until you are actually living through one. The uncertainty. The second-guessing. The loss of routine or identity. The pressure to…
Loud & LiftedHow to Make a Career Pivot Without Losing Yourself
Career pivots can look exciting from the outside. A new job. A new business. A fresh start. But behind the announcement is often fear, uncertainty, financial…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: The Hard Conversation You're Avoiding (and How to Have It)
Sometimes we’re not stuck on the decision. We’re avoiding the conversation that comes after it. In this Quick Lift, Betsy breaks down one of the biggest…
Loud & LiftedHow to Make Big Career Decisions: The Head, Heart, Gut Test with Kasey D'Amato
Most of us don't actually have a decision problem — we have an avoidance problem. There's one conversation, with one person, that we keep dodging, and it's the…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Set Boundaries at Work (Scripts From a Former HR Leader)
We know we should set boundaries at work. So why do so many of us keep saying yes when every part of us wants to say no? In this Loud & Lifted Quick Lift…
Loud & LiftedHow to Set Boundaries at Work Before Burnout Sets In with Carrie of Hey Work Friend
Women in leadership are often praised for being helpful, dependable, and willing to take on more. Until “more” turns into burnout. In this episode of Loud &…
Loud & LiftedHard Work Isn't Enough: 4 Career Truths to Act On This Week With Roxy Couse
You were sold a plan: do great work, stay dependable, don't make noise, and someone will notice. It doesn't work that way — and the conversation with Roxy…
Loud & LiftedCorporate Hard Truths: Why Hard Work Isn’t Enough with Roxy Couse
Roxy Couse has built a platform by saying the quiet parts of corporate life out loud. The career lies. The unspoken rules. The bad bosses. The pressure to be…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How Strength Training Rebuilds Confidence After Trauma
Rachel Druckenmiller was out for a run when she was hit by a truck. The crash fractured her spine — and it fractured something harder to see: her trust in her…
Loud & LiftedHow Lifting Rebuilt Her Confidence After Trauma with Rachel Druckenmiller
Rachel Druckenmiller is known for helping people get unmuted — to stop holding back, use their voice, and show up more fully in their lives and work. But this…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: What Young Girls Need Before the Workplace
Confidence does not begin when girls become women. It starts much earlier — in the small moments where they are learning whether their voice matters, whether…
Loud & LiftedHow to Build Confidence and Leadership in Young Girls
Confidence does not suddenly show up in adulthood. It starts much earlier — and so does leadership. In this episode, we sit down with Sharice Johnson, a youth…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How Women Build Confidence and Reinvent Themselves
Confidence rarely shows up first. It gets built in the smaller moments—through reps, discomfort, and the decision to move before we feel fully ready. In this…
Loud & LiftedReinventing Your Career in Midlife: Confidence and Courage with Jeannie Zappe
What happens when a woman decides it is not too late to do something bold? In this episode, we sit down with Jeannie Zappe — coach, speaker, lifelong swimmer…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: Managing Gen Z at Work | 5 Practical Takeaways for Leaders and Parents
Gen Z is getting a lot of attention at work right now — and not always for the right reasons. In this Quick Lift, we break down five of the biggest takeaways…
Loud & LiftedWhy Gen Z Is Struggling — and What Managers and Parents Need to Do Differently
Gen Z is getting talked about a lot right now — especially at work. But instead of just complaining about this generation, this episode asks a better question…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: The Exact Phrases to Ask for a Raise (And the Ones That Lose You Money)
The specific phrases that get the raise — and the common ones that quietly cost women thousands. Eight minutes of salary negotiation scripts you can use this…
Loud & LiftedHow to Ask for a Raise: The Salary Negotiation Playbook for Women
Women leave an average of $1 million on the table over a career by not negotiating. This episode is the salary playbook nobody handed you — exactly how to ask…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Stop Overthinking Decisions as a Leader
High-performing women are wired to fix things fast. But when something isn’t working, we often default to: “It’s me. I need to try harder.” In this Quick Lift…
Loud & LiftedHow Women Leaders Can Trust Their Intuition (and Stop Forcing It) with Kehla G
Kehla G joins us for a real-talk conversation on what it looks like to lead (and build) when the pressure is real—without spiraling into more hustle, more…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: The 6 Glass Walls That Stop Women's Careers (8-Min Tactical Guide)
The 6 hidden barriers that stop most women's careers — and the specific move for each one. Eight minutes, no filler. In this Quick Lift, we name the 6 glass…
Loud & LiftedGlass Walls at Work: Why Women Get Passed Over (And the 6 Hidden Barriers Nobody Warns You About)
You've heard of the glass ceiling. The glass wall is what stops most women long before they get there — and almost nobody is talking about it. In this episode…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Handle Pressure and Stop Comparing Yourself (Olympic Gold Mindset)
You can be the best in the world at something… and still battle self-doubt, comparison, and “do I belong here?” thoughts. In this under-10-minute Quick Lift…
Loud & LiftedHow to Stop Comparing Yourself: Lessons from Olympian Charlotte Worthington
Ever notice how the higher you achieve, the louder the expectations get? Olympic gold medalist Charlotte Worthington gets it—because she’s lived it in the most…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Be Liked and Respected at Work (Likeable Badass)
Episode Overview This quick recap pulls the most actionable ideas from my conversation with Dr. Alison Fragale, author of Likeable Badass—so you can earn more…
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Career Growth for Women: The Likeable Badass Method to Build Influence
Women in leadership often get stuck in the likability vs. competence double bind—and it can stall career growth for women even when performance is strong. In…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Handle a Narcissist Boss (And Bullies, Micromanagers, and Other Toxic Managers)
The specific moves for each type of toxic boss — narcissists, bullies, micromanagers, and the credit-stealer. Ten minutes, no filler. In this Quick Lift we…
Loud & LiftedHow to Deal with a Toxic Boss (Micromanager, Narcissist & Bully Guide)
Bad bosses don’t just ruin your day—they can destroy your confidence and make you question your sanity. If you’re dealing with a toxic work environment, a…
Loud & LiftedRecap: Confidence, Personal Brand & Leadership Growth for Women
In this solo episode,we are looking back at Season 1 of Loud & Lifted and pulling out the big themes that kept showing up in every conversation with women in…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: Exact Phrases for Hard Conversations at Work (Feedback, Pushback, and Speaking Up)
The exact words to use in three hard work conversations: giving tough feedback, pushing back on a bad decision, and speaking up when you've been overlooked…
Loud & LiftedHow to Have Hard Conversations at Work: Tactful Truth-Telling with Sarita Maybin
The hard conversation you've been putting off — the one with your boss, your peer, your direct report — this episode is the script. Sarita Maybin on how to say…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: Mentorship That Multiplies — From Coffee Chats to Belonging
Episode Overview On this female leadership podcast mini, we distill Katherine Naylor Pullman’s playbook for women supporting women into quick, actionable…
Loud & LiftedWomen Helping Women: Mentorship and Bold Career Moves with Katherine Naylor Pullman
Join us for an inspiring conversation with Katherine Naylor Pullman as she shares her insights on bold career moves and the power of mentorship among women. In…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: Career Growth for Women: Build Your Roadmap, Lead Through Change
On this women in leadership Quick Lift, career strategist Sonja Price shows how to reinvent without “starting over,” build a market-savvy career roadmap, and…
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Career Growth For Women: Reinvention, Roadmaps & Leading Through Change — with Sonja Price
Episode Overview Women in leadership are navigating constant change—and thriving when they treat it like a wave to surf, not a storm to fear. In this female…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: Executive Presence Through Style (4 Wardrobe Power Moves)
Episode Overview In under 10 minutes, we turn Melanie Lippman’s image strategy into action you can use before your next meeting. You’ll learn how to build a…
Loud & LiftedExecutive Presence for Women: How Your Wardrobe Builds Your Brand with Melanie Lippman
On this podcast episode, Image Strategist Melanie Lippman helps women in leadership build executive presence and a memorable personal brand—without dressing…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: Leading Through Bad Bosses (and Not Becoming One)
In under 10 minutes, we pull the most actionable moves from Mita Mallick’s The Devil Emails at Midnight—so you can navigate bad-boss dynamics and sharpen your…
Loud & Lifted13 Types of Bad Bosses: Mita Mallick on Narcissists, Bullies & the Boss Who Emails at Midnight
There are 13 types of bad bosses. Bestselling author Mita Mallick has worked for most of them — and in this episode she names every one, from the…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: How to Lead Boldly in the Second Half of Your Career
In this Quick Lift for our female leadership podcast, Betsy recaps Patty Sibbach and Kathy Anderson-Martin’s “Triple Threat” approach for women in leadership…
Loud & LiftedAging Boldly as a Woman Leader: Authentic, Active & Ageless with Patty Sibbach and Kathy Anderson-Martin
In this high-energy conversation, Betsy welcomes powerhouse duo Patty Sibbach and Kathy Anderson-Martin—two leaders who have turned decades of corporate…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: Why Career Security Beats Job Security
In this Quick Lift, Betsy shares highlights from her conversation with leadership coach, podcast host, and author Lyndsay Dowd, who believes in building career…
Loud & LiftedCareer Security, Not Job Security: Heart-Centered Leadership with Lyndsay Dowd
What if we stopped chasing job security and started building career security? In this episode of Loud & Lifted, Betsy Hamm sits down with Lyndsay Dowd…
Loud & LiftedQuick Lift: The PIE Formula: Why Performance Alone Won’t Get You Promoted
In this Quick Lift, Betsy Hamm recaps her conversation with leadership strategist Linda Strange to break down one of the most important career lessons that too…
Loud & LiftedMastering Your PIE: The Secret Recipe for Career Acceleration with Linda Strange
Performance. Image. Exposure. These three elements—collectively known as the PIE model—can make or break your career trajectory. In this empowering…