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Bad Boss Confessional is the podcast where entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders fess up to their most cringeworthy management moments—the times they micromanaged, blew up in meetings, or simply got it dead wrong.
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57: The Storm That Made a Better Leader (opens the original)
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In this episode of Bad Boss Confessional, Beth Fahey sits down with Michael Hennon, former CIA analyst, bank technology executive, and EOS implementer based in Durango, Colorado. Michael's confession comes not from the boardroom but from a sailing dock in Annapolis, where he was managing 18 instructors and hundreds of kids on the water when a storm rolled in fast.His instinct was to get loud, bark orders, and project control. It made everything worse. The conversation explores what happens when
56: The Untouchable Employee Who Was Destroying the Culture (opens the original)
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In this episode of Bad Boss Confessional, Beth Fahey sits down with Matt Dusa, former firefighter, paramedic, and CEO of a family-owned private fire department business that he helped grow to 140 employees before a successful exit. Matt's confession centers on a top salesperson who was generating most of the company's biggest contracts and making everyone around him miserable.The conversation explores what happens when a revenue generator becomes untouchable, why documentation matters more than
55: Conflict Avoidance Has a Price Tag (opens the original)
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In this episode of Bad Boss Confessional, Beth Fahey sits down with Patrick Van Abel, lifelong entrepreneur and EOS implementer whose family has been welcoming guests in Hollandtown, Wisconsin since 1848. Patrick's confession isn't about one dramatic moment. It's about a pattern: watching the culture he built start to drift and saying nothing.The conversation explores what conflict avoidance actually costs a business over time and why the hard conversation you keep putting off is rarely as painf
54: Overcorrection Is Not a Strategy (opens the original)
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In this episode of Bad Boss Confessional, Beth Fahey sits down with Troy Schuette, expert EOS implementer and former business owner who spent 23 years building, growing, and eventually selling his own company. Troy's confession spans nearly a decade and swings between two extremes: the micromanager who made people afraid to fail, and the checked-out owner who handed over the keys with no training, no tools, and no real support.The conversation explores what fear does to a leader's management sty
53: When Friendship and Leadership Collide (opens the original)
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In this episode of Bad Boss Confessional, Beth Fahey sits down with Mark Henderson Leary, expert EOS implementer and host of Practice Freedom. Mark's confession goes back to his early days running an IT services company, when a close friend and trusted colleague joined his business, and things quietly started to unravel.Mark watched him struggle, said nothing, and eventually laid him off when the business took a hit. The conversation digs into what it actually means to set clear expectations, wh
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