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Colleagues for Life is a podcast for curious, thoughtful humans who care about how we work together. Each episode features conversations with exceptional colleagues. People you’d want on your team in any season.
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Side Chat: I Got in trouble for Bad Spelling. (opens the original)
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Have you ever noticed the right side of my face moves differently than the left? On this episode of Side Chat, host Megan Hunter opens up about the 2022 head injury that changed how her brain — and body — work, and the diagnoses that came after: ADHD and a cognitive processing disorder. Megan shares what it was like to hit her head on a sharp metal edge while camping with her one-year-old, the recovery that followed, and the moment she saw herself on camera and realized something had shifted for
Side Chat | The Career Mistake I Didn't See Coming: Trust vs. Reliance (opens the original)
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Megan's making a confession this episode: a career mistake she made — and one you've probably made too, without realizing it. It's the difference between trusting a leader and relying on one. They sound the same. They are not the same. And mixing them up quietly builds complacency, kills psychological safety, and creates the exact bottlenecks leaders say they're trying to avoid. In this Side Chat solo episode, Megan unpacks what it actually means to trust someone to be human (including yourself)
Side Chat | Ted Lasso vs. Gordon Ramsay: Which One's Actually Making You Better at Your Job (opens the original)
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Gordon Ramsay yells. Ted Lasso believes in you. Both win. So which leadership style is actually working — and which one's quietly costing you your best people? In this Side Chat solo episode, Megan breaks down two leadership archetypes we all recognize (and maybe low-key copy) — the Hell's Kitchen approach and the Ted Lasso approach — and asks the real question: does how we lead matter as much as what we produce? This one covers shame vs. guilt, why "tough love" isn't always the flex it looks li
Origin Stories | Reclaiming Yourself with Daena Douglas (opens the original)
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Meet Daena Douglas of Cadence Wellness Consulting — creator of Reclaimed, a healing program for corporate women who've achieved success but still feel disconnected from themselves. In this Origin Stories episode, Megan and Daena dig into people-pleasing, perfectionism, nervous system regulation, and why healing isn't about eliminating your patterns — it's about choosing when they serve you. A raw, real conversation about burnout, identity, and reclaiming the woman underneath the coping strategie
Side Chat: Yours, Mine, Ours: The Skills of a Good Colleague (Megan's List) (opens the original)
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Nobody has ever described their favorite colleague as "the one who never makes typos." In this Side Chat solo episode, Megan breaks down what actually makes someone a colleague for life — pulled straight from the Origin Story series. Kate and Megan realizing they both had 500 copies of a children's book sitting in their basements, and turning it into a collab instead of a competition. The colleague who taught her "ubuntu" — I am because we are. And Kolbi, the director who could tell Megan "this
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