Hosted by Dr. Jen Fry · 🇺🇸 us · EN-US · 72 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
Five with Fry is your go-to podcast for understanding conflict—where it comes from, why it shows up, and how to handle it with clarity and intention. On each episode, Dr. Jen Fry breaks down the moments we avoid, the reactions we default to, and the skills it takes to move through conflict without blowing things up or shutting down.
Dr. Jen Fry hosts Five with Fry, a society show with 72 episodes published.
Most of what a sports parent does has nothing to do with sports. It's gear. It's scheduling. It's "did you remember your cleats" texted at 6:45 in the morning. Parents get so good at the doing that the harder question al
A retreat can feel productive while it is happening. People talk more honestly. The tension lowers. The team gets a little space from the pressure of the regular schedule. But if leaders have not named the real problem b
A retreat can give people enough space to finally say the thing out loud. That matters. But naming the conflict is not the same as resolving it. In this episode, Jen talks about what happens when teams come back from a r
A retreat can’t carry everything leadership has been avoiding. When leaders wait until everyone is in the room to finally name the real issues, the retreat starts from defense instead of honesty. People are surprised. Th
Calling a retreat a safe space is only the beginning. If leaders have not decided what accountability looks like inside that space, people are being asked to trust a promise that may not hold once someone gets uncomforta
Most retreats promise alignment and come-home energy, yet teams often return to the same old friction by Monday. We open the curtain on why that happens and make a bold case: conflict isn’t a problem to avoid at an offsi
You can learn a lot about a team from the second after somebody says the thing everybody has been avoiding. That pause tells the truth fast. Somebody usually tries to rescue the room, smooth it over, or move on before an
You can build a retreat around laughter, bonding, and a packed schedule and still come back to the exact same tension. That is the problem Jen names here. When teams keep asking how to make the retreat fun before they na
Everybody usually knows why the retreat is happening before the retreat ever starts. The problem is that teams often build the agenda around relief instead of clarity. So people leave with photos, a few good moments, and
This season kept coming back to the same place: leadership starts with self. Not with strategy. Not with authority. With your patterns. Conflict does not come out of nowhere. Your responses were shaped long before this r
Repair is where leadership gets exposed. Not when things are smooth. Not when the meeting goes well. After you interrupt someone. After you dismiss a concern. After you get it wrong. Most leaders don’t struggle with sayi
Leaders love to say their door is always open. That sounds generous. It also keeps you comfortable. Power doesn’t disappear because you’re approachable. It shows up in who has to walk toward you. It shows up in who speak
There’s a moment that happens in feedback conversations all the time. Someone asks a question or tries to explain their perspective, and the response is, “You’re being defensive.” The label lands, and the door closes. Wh
Do you do this, too? Something feels off, and before you say a word, your brain writes a full script about what the other person meant, why they did it, and how it’s probably not great. I call this the “shower lawyer” ha
Conflict doesn’t break relationships. What breaks them is unmanaged emotion. The moments where we shut down, get sharp, avoid the conversation, or expect other people to absorb what we haven’t dealt with ourselves. This
Some words hit harder than they should. A comment like “calm down” can flip a switch in your body before your brain has a chance to weigh in. In this episode, I’m talking about what happens when you get triggered and wha
Most leadership problems show up in moments of tension. Not the dramatic blowups, but the everyday heat in meetings, feedback conversations, or decisions that carry weight. This episode is about what you do with yourself
Leadership gets clearer when you stop avoiding the hard parts and start asking where your habits came from. In this episode, we dig into conflict roots. Those early lessons taught you whether to speak up, shut down, smoo
Fresh starts are overrated. What actually changes us are the layers we’re willing to look at honestly. This season, Five with Fry is narrowing its focus to one thing: conflict. Not the dramatic kind—the everyday moments
We’re not doing “new year, new me.” We’re doing new year, same person—just less exhausted and more honest . 2025 was a lot. And pretending it wasn’t doesn’t set you up for a breakthrough—it sets you up to quit by Februar
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
To pitch Five with Fry, visit https://jenfrytalks.com/ for contact information, then craft a tight one-paragraph hook that ties your expertise to a gap in their recent society coverage.
Five with Fry is hosted by Dr. Jen Fry. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 72 episodes.
Five with Fry has published 72 episodes.
Five with Fry regularly covers society, culture. It sits in the society category, with a culture focus.
Five with Fry is accessible for guests with genuine society expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
Five with Fry hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of Five with Fry average 6 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates Five with Fry's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 10 days ago.
