Short Story Long: Life Lessons from Leaders, Coaches, and Entrepreneurs
Short Story Long shares life-changing stories of growth, resilience, and reinvention from leaders, coaches, and everyday people navigating pivotal turning points. Hosted by leadership coach Beki Fraser, each episode explores the moments that shaped someone's path and the lessons we can all learn.
Every other week, Beki follows up with a Skill Builder episode that breaks down insights from the previous story into practical tools, reflection prompts, and leadership actions.
Whether you're building a business, transitioning into a new career, or learning to lead with greater purpose, this podcast offers real stories and practical strategies to help you grow. New episodes every other week.
Short Story Long: Life Lessons from Leaders, Coaches, and Entrepreneurs
Latest Episodes
The Power Of Raising Your Hand — Barry Moline
The career moments that change us rarely arrive with spotlights. Sometimes they show up as an awkward pause in a staff meeting, a simple request for volunteers, and a quiet choice to raise your hand when nobody else will. Becky Fraser sits down...
Choose Your Own Career Path
A promotion can look perfect on paper and still feel wrong in your gut. That moment is where we start, with Theresa Gutierrez choosing sustainability over HR and Felicia MacDonald stepping from a large corporation into leadership at a very smal...
Lessons from Leading Large v. Small Teams — Felicia MacDonald's Story
A layoff list can change how you see leadership forever. I sit down with Felicia MacDonald, a steady, thoughtful leader who spends years in big corporate publishing, navigates a major digital transformation, and then hits the moment many profes...
Sense Making In Your Career
Career decisions don’t usually blow up overnight. They quietly form in the background, in the stories we tell ourselves about a changed meeting invite list, a new org structure, a shift in feedback, or a role that still “works” but suddenly fee...
The Power of a Career Reset — Shahnaz Broucek’s Story
A career can look successful on paper and still feel like it’s shrinking you. That tension is where Shahnaz Broucek's story lands: she helped build a mortgage and title company to roughly 55 employees, rode the boom years, then faced the housin...
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