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Leadership After 5 is the podcast that says what most leadership content won't. This is the conversation your mentor would have with you behind closed doors. Honest, direct, and built for leaders who are ready to do the real work. In each episode host Kim brings you unfiltered talk about what it actually takes to lead. The loneliness nobody warns you about. The trade-offs nobody prepares you for. The culture problems nobody wants to name out loud. No platitudes. No performance. Just truth. Leadership After 5 is coming soon. Follow the show so you don't miss the first episode. Find me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kim-perkins-436ba21b Email me: [email protected]

Recent Episodes

A Fight Nobody Wants to Come Armed To

People love to say "that's not the hill I'm willing to die on." For me, there's always a hill. That's what happens when you're that convinced about the work you do. In this episode, Kim talks about what it feels like when the work you believe in gets called the soft stuff. The quiet kind of depletion that doesn't show up as a breakdown, just as small things that total up until you're sitting in your car asking why am I even doing this. What it costs to keep bringing the clear answer to people...

15 MIN

Metacognition with Lance Lamoreaux

This is the first Leadership After 5 episode recorded with a guest. Kim sits down with Lance Lamoreaux, a leadership professor who recently completed his doctorate in organizational development and leadership, to talk about metacognition, or thinking about your own thinking. Lance makes the case that the leaders who operate at an elite level are not the ones who react fastest. They are the ones who can pause, notice what they are thinking, and choose what happens next. Lance walks through fou...

27 MIN

"I'm At Capacity" (And What You Should Actually Do About It)

A team member sits down and says three words: "I'm at capacity." Watch what happens in your body in the next three seconds, because that reflex is the whole problem. Most leaders do one of three things. They clear the plate before understanding what's on it. They agree, sympathize, and then change nothing. Or they quietly decide it's a performance issue. All three skip the only step that matters: diagnosis. In this episode, Kim breaks down why "at capacity" is a symptom rather than a verdict,...

18 MIN

There's Never a Good Time

There will never be a good time to hold a problem employee accountable. Not next quarter, not after the reorg, not once things calm down. But that's not usually why we wait. In this episode, Kim tells the story of an employee she knew was a problem, documented as a problem, and still did not confront. The reason wasn't cowardice. It was evidence. She had never once seen accountability actually work in that organization, and she drew the rational conclusion. She also corrects the ending she's ...

21 MIN

Not Worth the Risk

You keep getting left off the invite, and it's not an accident. In this episode, Kim goes deeper on professional FOMO, the need some leaders have to be in every meeting, every conversation, every room. But this one isn't really about the invite. It's about why the invite never comes. Kim breaks down what the research actually says: workplace FOMO is less about missing information and more about the fear of relational exclusion. It runs hottest in people whose sense of identity and belonging i...

19 MIN