The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low

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156. The Tiny Brave Steps Method: How to Take Action When You're Still Afraid (Bernice McDonald)

2026-10-1132:03

After 24 years of marriage, Bernice McDonald left with no template for who she was outside the roles she'd been performing since childhood. She grew up in a rules-based home where being "good" felt impossible to achieve, and where that constant falling-short curdled into a lifelong sense of not being enough. In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, Bernice shares how she moved from that place into what she now calls the Tiny Brave Steps method — a way of taking action on fear witho...

155. Discernment and the Art of Making Big Life Decisions (Stephanie Peirolo)

2026-10-0428:03

A woman describes what she feels in her own body to a doctor and is told she isn't a reliable narrator of her own experience. It happens so often that she stops noticing, and she carries that same distrust into every decision after. Executive coach Stephanie Peirolo has watched this pattern in her clients for a decade and named it in her book The Saint and the Drunk: A Guide to Making the Big Decisions in Your Life. On this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, Peirolo joins Serena Low to unp...

154. It’s Always Too Soon To Quit: Jay Setchell On Rebuilding After Catastrophic Loss

2026-09-2755:22

A Marine Corps ambulance driver is pinned in a burning car, his heart stopped, watching from the ceiling as three doctors walk away. He is seventeen years past a farm accident that nearly took his leg, and decades away from a swimming pool dive that will break his neck in four places and leave him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Jay Setchell — Marine Corps veteran, serial entrepreneur, inventor, and author of The Strength Within You: It's Always Too Soon to Quit — has now survived 73 surge...

153. Work Is Not Family: Boundaries, Burnout, and Toxic Workplaces (Katie Hadiaris)

2026-09-2038:14

What happens when we expect our workplace to meet emotional needs that it was never designed to meet? In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, I speak with Katie Jean Hadiaris, founder of Work Is Not Family, about the hidden expectations we bring into our careers—and how those expectations can leave us vulnerable to burnout, overwork and workplace harm. Many of us were taught that being a good worker means being productive, helpful, agreeable and willing to go the extra mile. For women e...

152. The Skills That School Never Taught Quiet Achievers (Rob Heller)

2026-09-1329:29

There is a particular kind of dread that shows up around a first performance review, a first networking event, a first job where nobody hands you a manual. For introverted professional women who spent years being praised for grades and credentials, the workplace often demands a different currency entirely — people skills, self-advocacy, the ability to connect without performing extroversion. Nobody taught this. It was never on the syllabus. That is the gap Rob Heller has spent two decades try...

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The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low