What Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse can teach us about the perils of Gaslighting Bosses, and how to deal with working for one.

The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We’re also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.

Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader’s Digest. She’s had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master’s in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. 

Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.

For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political  'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!

If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief’ on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. 

Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com

The Gaslighting Boss | Bad Boss Brief - 06

The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We’re also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.

Bob Iger’s return to Disney inspired Episode 7 of the Bad Boss Brief. What about those Bosses who are brought in to Turn Things Around? Will all of them be like Iger and cut 7000 jobs? What do you do if you work at a place with a Turn Around Boss? Stephanie’s got a story, Eugene has thoughts, join us!

Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader’s Digest. She’s had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master’s in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. 

Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.

For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political  'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!

If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief’ on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. 

Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com

The Turn Around Boss, aka: "The Assassin" | Bad Boss Brief - 07

The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We’re also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.

Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader’s Digest. She’s had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master’s in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. 

Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.

For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political  'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!

If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief’ on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. 

Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com

The Micromanager Boss | Bad Boss Brief – 08

The Over-Promising Boss | Bad Boss Brief - 09

“What’s the actual cost of sexism? We look behind the numbers of the Goldman settlement to find out.”

The Bad Boss Brief is MOVING TO SUBSTACK! Simply go to: badbossbrief.substack.com and you can find all of our shows in both audio and video formats.

PLUS - coming soon... an all new Bonus Segment for our paid subscribers entitled "sub rosa", which is our confidential Q & A segment straight from the mail bag. 

We will still be able to be found on other podcast platforms, but YouTube and SoundCloud will be going away.

The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We’re also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.

Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader’s Digest. She’s had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master’s in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. 

Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.

For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political  'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!

If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief’ on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. 

Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Wednesdays a month at 5:30/2:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com

The Cost of Sexism | Bad Boss Brief - 10 // WE ARE MOVING TO SUBSTACK!

NOW AT BadBossBrief.Substack.com // Bad Boss Brief: a strategic guide on how NOT to be an asshole at work…

What can an executive and an executive coach tell you about bad bosses, how they can be less so, and how to tell if you ARE one? 

Everything. 

With over a combined half century of time in the trenches at Intel, Apple, Adobe, Publicis, Nikon ad badbosseum, we’re imminently well suited to do so.

We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.

The Over-Promising Boss | Bad Boss Brief - 09

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