Leadership After 5 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:05:12 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2613527 en-us © 2026 Leadership After 5 yes 5536aee3-3f95-54d6-9e2c-a268ba4d09ef kim@thekpadvisorygroup.com Kim episodic false 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: Kim@thekpadvisorygroup.com

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Kim kim@thekpadvisorygroup.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/6s8i582xxg0w1hj9dxyz856ydjyp?.jpg Leadership After 5 You didn't get to pick these people. But they are yours now. You didn't get to pick these people. But they are yours now. In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets honest about one of the least discussed realities of stepping into a leadership role, inheriting a team you didn't choose. The resistance. The uncertainty. The employees who had already made up their minds about you before you walked through the door.

Kim breaks down why inherited team dynamics are harder than anyone prepares you for, what to do in those critical first weeks, and the honest truth about what happens when you do everything right and some people still don't come around.

]]> In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets honest about one of the least discussed realities of stepping into a leadership role, inheriting a team you didn't choose. The resistance. The uncertainty. The employees who had already made up their minds about you before you walked through the door.

Kim breaks down why inherited team dynamics are harder than anyone prepares you for, what to do in those critical first weeks, and the honest truth about what happens when you do everything right and some people still don't come around.

]]> Kim Buzzsprout-19100507 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0400 674 full false Are you leading, or are you just trying to be liked? Are you leading, or are you just trying to be liked? In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets direct about people pleasing in leadership and why it doesn't stop with new managers. At the executive level it gets quieter, more sophisticated, and more dangerous. Kim explores the fine line between good leadership and approval seeking, the parenting analogy that reframes it all, and why the leaders who are remembered aren't always the ones who were liked, but the ones who were trusted.

]]> In this episode of Leadership After 5, Kim gets direct about people pleasing in leadership and why it doesn't stop with new managers. At the executive level it gets quieter, more sophisticated, and more dangerous. Kim explores the fine line between good leadership and approval seeking, the parenting analogy that reframes it all, and why the leaders who are remembered aren't always the ones who were liked, but the ones who were trusted.

]]> Kim Buzzsprout-19099128 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:00:00 -0400 579 1 3 full false Who are you outside of your title? Who are you outside of your title? It’s a question most leaders never stop long enough to answer. And the longer you go without answering it the more the role starts to answer it for you.


In this episode of Leadership After 5, I’m getting honest about something I experienced firsthand: what happens when your identity and your leadership role become the same thing. The blind spots it creates. The connections it costs you.

The quiet question underneath it all: am I enough outside of this role?


This one is for the leader who has ever felt naked outside of work. Who has struggled to relate to people when the corporate conversation stops. Who has built so much of themselves around the title that they’ve forgotten who they are without it.

You are more than the role. Let’s talk about it.

]]> It’s a question most leaders never stop long enough to answer. And the longer you go without answering it the more the role starts to answer it for you.


In this episode of Leadership After 5, I’m getting honest about something I experienced firsthand: what happens when your identity and your leadership role become the same thing. The blind spots it creates. The connections it costs you.

The quiet question underneath it all: am I enough outside of this role?


This one is for the leader who has ever felt naked outside of work. Who has struggled to relate to people when the corporate conversation stops. Who has built so much of themselves around the title that they’ve forgotten who they are without it.

You are more than the role. Let’s talk about it.

]]> Kim Buzzsprout-19086897 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:00:00 -0400 540 1 2 full false You can have it all. Just not at the same time. You can have it all. Just not at the same time. You've been told you can have it all. And maybe you believed it. Until you were sitting in a leadership role, missing a recital, and wondering how everyone else seems to be holding it together.

They're not. They're just quiet about it.

In this episode of Leadership After 5, I'm having the conversation nobody prepares you for; what it actually feels like to lead while mothering. The trade-offs that don't get easier. The guilt that doesn't go away. And the truth about what that seat at the table actually costs.

This one is for the mother who fought to get there and is now wondering how to stay.

]]> You've been told you can have it all. And maybe you believed it. Until you were sitting in a leadership role, missing a recital, and wondering how everyone else seems to be holding it together.

They're not. They're just quiet about it.

In this episode of Leadership After 5, I'm having the conversation nobody prepares you for; what it actually feels like to lead while mothering. The trade-offs that don't get easier. The guilt that doesn't go away. And the truth about what that seat at the table actually costs.

This one is for the mother who fought to get there and is now wondering how to stay.

]]> Kim Buzzsprout-19080816 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0400 616 1 1 full false Trailer: Welcome to Leadership After 5 Trailer: Welcome to Leadership After 5 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.

]]> 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.

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