HeyJaredBreaking Rank
Breaking Rank is a bold leadership podcast redefining what it means to lead with authenticity, courage, and identity in today’s workplace.Hosted by Diana Lauritson, a seasoned business development leader, storyteller, and advocate for authentic leadership, Breaking Rank…
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 3, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 9, 2026
Latest episodes
Leading From the Margins: Neurodivergence and Emotional Intelligence (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Leading from the margins looks like this: curriculum and human development strategist Ly'chel Carmichael joins Breaking Rank to talk about dyslexia, ADHD, and why emotional intelligence beats any system. Ly'chel Carmichael was a non-reader until almost the 9th grade. Undiagnosed dyslexia and dysgraphia, three years of failing the same grade, and a brain injury that finally led to the right diagnosis and the right support. She graduated on time, went on to earn five degrees, and became a special
Cheerleading Without Competition: Why There's Room for Everyone (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Megan Senese gave everything to Big Law. When the review that called her work the best they had ever seen came with the smallest raise they could offer, she decided to build something that belonged to her. In this episode of Breaking Rank, Diana talks with Megan Senese, co-founder of stage and co-host of So Much to Say: A Legal Podcast for People, about leaving the firm and going to market as her full self. Megan started building her visibility before anyone knew she was leaving Big Law, launche
Queer or Called: One Reverend's Refusal to Choose (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Black. Queer. Reverend. In this episode of Breaking Rank, Rev. Don Abram refuses to choose between the parts of himself the world keeps asking him to separate. Don grew up in a hand-clapping, toe-tapping Baptist church on the South Side of Chicago, raised by a Jamaican Patois-speaking grandmother who dragged him to service every Sunday. He shares the story of a recurring dream that called him to the pulpit, and the moment his grandmother told him she couldn't interpret it for him, because only h
The Only One in the Room: Disability, Dignity, and Leadership (opens the original)
Read excerpt
What if we looked for the remarkability in people instead of the disability? July is Disability Pride Month, which marks the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, so there is no better time to share this conversation. In this episode of Breaking Rank, the podcast where we lead without permission, I sit down with Roxy B. Rocker, a disability advocate, consultant, and broadcaster, and the founder of Embracing Disability. Roxy has lived with disability her whole life, and she has spen
From Outsider to Leader: On Her Own Terms (opens the original)
Read excerpt
What does it take to stop proving your worth to everyone else and finally live on your own terms? In this episode of Breaking Rank, I sit down with my longtime friend Nicole Steiner, someone I've watched grow over 20 years of friendship into one of the most driven and authentic leaders I know. Nicole grew up as a brown girl in a white family in Oregon, then spent her early adulthood chasing every external marker of success: the master's degree at 23, the six-figure income, the house, the titles.
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.