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Hosted by jeffpelaccio · business · EN · 245 episodes
Interviews with successful leaders and company founders sharing stories of their career journey, great leadership, and not-so-great. It will help you become a better leader while poking fun at all the crazy shit that happens in corporate America. Hosted by Jeff Pelaccio who has over 40 years of leadership experience for every t-shirt size company - Small (4 employees) to XL (over 1 million employees). Listen, learn, and laugh each week to learn from great leaders from all walks of life.
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Signup to Generate a PitchInterviews with successful leaders and company founders sharing stories of their career journey, great leadership, and not-so-great. It will help you become a better leader while poking fun at all the crazy shit that happens in corporate America.
Recent episodes include "No Perfect Information: Leading Under Pressure with Jeremy Boss" (19 October 2026, 61 minutes), "Jay Abbasi: Stop Chasing. Start Serving" (11 October 2026, 67 minutes), and "Back on the Couch: Help Me Think Through This with Mary Messner" (5 October 2026, 42 minutes).
The Corporate Couch: Work Stories I Only Tell My Friends publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 62 minutes across 245 episodes.
Booking probability for The Corporate Couch: Work Stories I Only Tell My Friends is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Corporate Couch: Work Stories I Only Tell My Friends requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Corporate Couch: Work Stories I Only Tell My Friends's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Corporate Couch: Work Stories I Only Tell My Friends are Business & Management Consulting. The Corporate Couch: Work Stories I Only Tell My Friends has a business audience.
The Corporate Couch: Work Stories I Only Tell My Friends is a business show with 245 episodes published.
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Episode #246
Jeremy Boss (bio below) has spent much of his career making sense of situations most of us would prefer to watch safely from our couch. China. Afghanistan. Yemen. The Houthis. Gray-zone conflicts. And apparently...
Episode #245
Jay Abbasi (see bio below) spent years doing what ambitious people are supposed to do. Work harder. Say yes. Keep moving. Chase the next thing. At one point, that meant working midnight to 8 a.m., going to graduate...
Episode #244
Mary Messner is back on The Corporate Couch. Again. At this point, she may need her own parking space. Mary returns with her new book, Help Me Think Through This ( https://a.co/d/06Af484P ), built around a simple idea...
Episode #243
George Brooks (bio below) built Crema almost by accident. Then, 18 years later, he did something that may have been even harder: He left it for two months. Completely. No email. No checking the pipeline. No “just one...
Episode #242
Steve Jorgenson (see bio below) has had an interesting career. Law school. An MBA. Government contracts. Staffing and recruiting. Entrepreneurship. Hockey. Rugby. Remote work around the world. And more than a few bosses...
Episode #241
Diankha Linear’s career (see bio below) did not exactly begin with a polished five-year plan. It started with a red hope chest, a flight from Seattle to Washington, D.C., and the discovery that she had forgotten to...
Episode #240
Milford “Beags” Beagle (bio below) has spent his life getting over hurdles. Sometimes literally. Before he became a senior U.S. Army leader with a 35-year career, Beags was a kid from small-town South Carolina who...
Episode #239
DJ DiDonna (see bio below) believes time off can change your life. Not “check your email from a beach chair” time off. Real time off. In this conversation, Jeff talks with DJ about his new book, Big Time Off: The...
Episode #238
Jessica Grossmeier (see bio below) has spent more than 25 years helping organizations understand what it really takes for people to thrive at work. And no, it is not just a fitness challenge, a meditation app, and a sad...
Episode #237
Dr. Matthew Naylor (see bio below) grew up in Melbourne, Australia, making billy carts from rubber factory wheels and learning early lessons about independence, possibility, and the common good. Today, he is the...
Episode #236
Britney Valas (see bio below) has lived enough chapters for three memoirs, two Netflix docuseries, and possibly one CrossFit workout no one should attempt without medical supervision. In this episode, Jeff talks with...
Episode #235
Shari Noonan (see bio below) has built a career by stepping into complexity and figuring out how to move it forward. In this episode, Jeff talks with Shari, CEO and co-founder of Rialto Markets, about a career that...
Episode #234
Anna Redmond’s story starts with a mountain lion in her yard. Seriously. Before Jeff and Anna (bio below) get into entrepreneurship, physical security, challenge coins, blockchain, Harvard, venture capital, and...
Episode #233
In this Special Edition episode, Jeff welcomes friend and Kansas City connector Noorah Nachbor, founder of Palm and Light ( Her Website ) and The Leap, for a conversation about career pivots, energy, intuition, healing...
Episode #232
Jeff welcomes his friend, former Sprint PCS colleague, and fractional CMO Lori Wiles (see bio below) to The Corporate Couch for a conversation about career pivots, marketing strategy, leadership, AI, and finding new...
Episode #231
Dave Patrick was one of the earliest guests on The Corporate Couch, appearing way back on episode seven. More than 200 episodes later, he returns to the couch to go deeper on one of the topics that made our first...
Episode #230
What happens when your podcast guest hands you a 15-page dossier about himself before the interview starts? You know you’re in for a different kind of conversation. Jeff recorded this episode in person at Kendall...
Episode #229
In this Special Edition episode, Jeff reconnects with Ed LeBeau, founder of Heartland Golf Schools ( Website ) and one of the most influential teachers in Jeff’s own golf journey. Jeff first met Ed in 2003 while...
Episode #228
Maki Moussavi is back, and she officially becomes the first guest to return for a full-length episode. No pressure, Maki. Just podcast history :-) In her first conversation, Maki talked about career journeys...
Episode #227
What happens when three guys with almost no retail experience decide to open a local goods store? In Keith Bradley’s case, you get Made in KC. Keith, co-founder of Made in KC, shares the story of how a 300-square-foot...
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CFP® and partner, Searcy Financial
founder, Golf Digest + New York Times
author of The Africa Cup of Nations: The History of an Underappreciated Tournament, Innovative Payments Association
award-winning stager and designer, The UCSD Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research
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