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The Second ShiftLive with Patrick LaRose - The Second Shift and Cyndi Bennett - Resilient Career CoachPatrick sits down with Cyndi Bennett, career coach, founder of the Resilient Career Academy on Substack, for her very first Substack LIVE. Together they explore how childhood trauma follows us into the workplace. The safety protocols we learned as children still make career choices for us as adults. They kept us safe once. Now they keep us small. From the nurse at the station wondering how much longer she can do this, to the CNO shrinking at the executive table, this conversation names the patterns, honors the strengths hiding inside them, then lights a path forward one small step...
2026-10-2653 min
The Second ShiftWhat If Your Safety Is Keeping You Small? (with Cyndi Bennett): E#19This week The Second Shift steps outside its usual format. Patrick sits down with Cyndi Bennett, career coach, founder of the Resilient Career Academy on Substack, for her very first Substack LIVE. Together they explore how childhood trauma follows us into the workplace. The safety protocols we learned as children still make career choices for us as adults. They kept us safe once. Now they keep us small. From the nurse at the station wondering how much longer she can do this, to the CNO shrinking at the executive table, this conversation names the patterns, honors the strengths hiding...
2026-10-2555 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow Trauma Shows Up at Work When You’re a NurseHave you ever sat in your car after a grueling twelve-hour shift as an emergency room nurse and just couldn’t move?The fatigue hits hard once you leave those doors and finally sit down without someone needing you.The day was chaotic. Perhaps it was a full moon.Critical patients were everywhere. You barely had a chance to go to the bathroom. Lunch was a quick pass through the break room to inhale the food you brought.And a young child, the same age as your son, did not survive a...
2026-10-2212 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettIntroduction to CPTSD in the WorkplaceImagine spending years building something you’re proud of. You’ve invested your time, developed your skills, earned the trust of others, and created a career that means something to you.Then, seemingly without warning, things that once felt manageable become overwhelming.A meeting you would have walked into confidently now fills you with dread. A conversation with your manager leaves you questioning your abilities. You sit down to complete work you’ve done hundreds of times before, but your mind won’t cooperate.You know how to do your job. You’ve proven tha...
2026-10-2019 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettReturning to Work After a Sabbatical: What Five Weeks Away Helped Me See | Newsletter #13Have you ever stood over an open suitcase, trying to decide what absolutely needs to go because you are not paying for another piece of luggage?You run through the trip in your head.What’s the weather supposed to be? Will you need a jacket? How much walking will you be doing? Can one pair of shoes work for everything?You’ve figured out what you need for the daytime outings. But what about the evenings?What are you going to do when you get back to the hotel room at n...
2026-10-1704 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWho Am I When My Career Is No Longer My Identity? | Newsletter #12“I wish I would’ve started earlier.”That is the thought that ran through my head before my husband and I reluctantly met with our Financial Advisor to see if we were prepared for retirement.He was turning 65 this year, and things, like Medicare, had to be done by a certain time.We put this meeting off for years because we were afraid we would be told we couldn’t retire until we were 80.The regret of not starting my 401K until a few years into my career was palpable, because at the t...
2026-10-1014 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWho Am I at Work When I’m Not Trying to Prove Myself?Do you remember learning how to ride a bike?Maybe you started with training wheels. And with those training wheels on, you could ride. You weren’t thinking about balance or wondering whether you could stay upright. You climbed onto the seat, put your feet on the pedals, and took off.Maybe you rode up and down the sidewalk or raced the other kids in the neighborhood. You learned to steer around cracks in the pavement and how hard you had to push the pedals to climb a hill. You might have even go...
2026-10-0825 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettTrauma-Informed Career Development: What Kind of Work Would Jazz You? | Newsletter #11When was the last time you thought about what kind of work jazzes you?Not what you’re qualified to do.Not what someone would hire you to do.Not what you’ve already spent 10, 15, or 20 years doing.I’m talking about the kind of work that makes something in you come alive.The problem you can’t resist trying to solve. The conversation you could have for hours. The thing someone asks for your help with and, instead of feeling drained afterward, you find yourself thinking about three more thi...
2026-10-0317 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Does My Boss Trigger Me? CPTSD, Authority, and the WorkplaceHave you ever had a reaction to your boss that felt much bigger than what was actually happening in the moment?I have. I had been with the company for almost 22 years when a manager told me she wanted me to start accounting for my time.By that point in my career, I was a tenured senior leader. I knew how to manage my workload. I knew how to get my work done. No one needed me to account for how I spent every hour of my day before.But my response to...
2026-10-0135 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettCPTSD at Work: When Being Capable Becomes Part of Your Armor | Newsletter #10Do You Remember Darth Vader?From the moment Darth Vader appears in Star Wars, there is no question that he is someone to be reckoned with.He doesn’t have to announce his power. You can feel it.The black helmet. The cape. The mechanical breathing that lets you know he’s coming before he even enters the room.He is intimidating. Commanding. Driven. Powerful.He walks into a room and people respond.He doesn’t appear uncertain. He doesn’t appear overwhelmed. He certainly doesn’t look like...
2026-09-2615 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWorkplace Triggers: Why Do I Get Triggered So Easily at Work?Sometimes the hardest part of the workday isn’t the work.It’s the deadline that suddenly gets moved up.The meeting where you’re expected to present without much notice.The manager who checks on your progress for the third time today.The project that changes direction after you’ve already spent hours getting it right.The performance review sitting on your calendar next week.The disagreement with a coworker you can’t stop thinking about.The vague announcement about “organizational changes” that leaves you wondering...
2026-09-2325 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettCPTSD and Entrepreneurship: How Complex Trauma Can Show Up in the Businesses We Build| Newsletter #9Have you ever thought, “Maybe I should just work for myself”?Maybe it came after another difficult interaction with your boss.Or after leaving a workplace that had become unbearable.Maybe you were exhausted from constantly managing triggers, personalities, expectations, office politics, and trying to hold yourself together while still doing your job.Maybe you lost a job and couldn’t imagine putting yourself through another workplace like the one you’d just left.And somewhere in all of that, entrepreneurship started to look like an answer.If I wor...
2026-09-1914 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhen CPTSD Makes You Question Everything, Including Your Career| Newsletter #4Last week I had a discovery call with a man who has spent almost three decades in the financial sector. He's the kind of person people trust in a room. Steady. Reliable. The one everyone assumes has it together.He was diagnosed with CPTSD last year.He told me that in the months since, nothing has felt safe. Not the people he works with, not the meetings he used to walk into without a second thought, not even his own reactions. He’s fo...
2026-08-1313 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettThe Question Every Manager Skips Before a PIP"He's been a little fussy lately," the mom said, handing her baby over to me in the church nursery like it was nothing.I’ve rocked six grandbabies to sleep over the years, so by the time she passed him to me, I was confident I could handle it. I know the bounce that works, the hold that works, the lullaby that buys me another ten minutes. And this baby was normally the calm one, the one who’d smile at you from across the room before you even picked him up. So...
2026-08-1207 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettStuck At Work? Here's How to Plan Your Next Move on PurposeSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett uses a simple but honest metaphor to open the conversation: the moment you realize the house you loved no longer fits. That same tension, loving where you are and knowing you have outgrown it, is exactly what a lot of people are feeling in their careers right now. Cyndi gets personal here too, sharing what hitting the ceiling of her own knowledge with this podcast taught her about effort versus strategy, and walking through the three-step process she used to move forward on purpose rather than out of panic. The Pause...
2026-08-0414 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow To Advocate For Yourself At Work When You're Tired Of Being OverlookedSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett gets honest about something she lived herself: building an entire program management office from scratch, watching new hires with bigger titles walk into the room she built, and waiting for her manager to speak up for her. She didn’t. This episode is built around the question that moment forced Cyndi to ask herself, and that she now asks every client who comes to her with some version of the same story: are you waiting to be noticed, or are you willing to build a case to be seen? Cyndi names th...
2026-07-2812 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow to Stop One Bad Manager From Defining How You See Yourself at WorkSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett gets personal. She shares what it was like to leave a difficult manager behind and still spend hours reviewing work before sending it to a new one who never once suggested anything was wrong. This episode is about what happens when one relationship, one loud, repeated, authoritative voice, becomes the lens you view every workplace interaction through afterward. Cyndi names what is actually happening when that old voice shows up in new rooms, why the reaction is not a flaw but a survival skill that outlasted the environment that built it...
2026-07-2114 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow To Know Who You Can Actually Trust At WorkSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett tackles something most networking advice completely skips over: what it actually looks like to identify safe people at work when the broader culture does not feel safe to begin with. The standard advice about building relationships and getting face time assumes trust is the default setting. For anyone who has come out of a workplace where it was not, that advice can feel almost naive. This episode is a different approach. Cyndi walks through five specific signals that tend to separate someone who is genuinely trustworthy from someone who is just...
2026-07-1411 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow To Write A Resume That Reflects Your Real Value After A Difficult ExitSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett gets practical. No deep processing today, just the specific thinking that goes into building a resume when the job you are describing stopped being the job you agreed to take. Most resume advice assumes a clean, stable role with a clean exit. This episode is for everyone whose role shifted underneath them, whose responsibilities changed without support, or whose last chapter closed in a way that is now making it hard to find words for what they actually did there. Six concrete ways to build a resume that reflects your real...
2026-07-0708 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow To Make Big Career Moves When You're Second-Guessing EverythingSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett speaks to everyone who has ever stood in front of a real opportunity and had absolutely no idea what to do with what they were feeling. The problem is not a lack of information. It is not knowing whether to trust the signals coming from inside, because for many trauma survivors, that trust was worn down long before this decision ever arrived. This episode breaks down what is actually happening when your brain and your gut are pulling in different directions, offers a four-layered framework for evaluating an opportunity when internal...
2026-06-3013 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy You Are More Qualified To Lead Than Your Resume ShowsSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett names something most leadership development never teaches: the specific, functional capacities that come from navigating hard things professionally, not despite your history, but because of it. While formal programs are built around frameworks, competencies, and idealized organizations, there is a category of professional knowledge that can only be acquired through lived experience. Cyndi breaks down four specific capacities this kind of experience builds, and makes the case that these are not consolation prizes or things to manage quietly. They are real career assets, and learning to name and use them deliberately...
2026-06-2311 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow To Ask For What You're Worth When You've Been Taught To Be Grateful Just to Have a JobSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett digs into the very specific kind of silence that shows up right before you ask for more money. The moment you have done the research, rehearsed the words, and then something tightens and a voice says, “Who do you think you are?” This is an honest exploration of where that voice comes from, what is happening physiologically in those moments, and how to build the capacity, on both a cognitive and somatic level, to ask for what you are worth and mean it. Whether the message you received was about survival, grat...
2026-06-1622 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow To Stay Professionally Visible When You Want to DisappearSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett talks about something she sees constantly: talented, capable people doing genuinely good work who are still being passed over, overlooked, and left out of conversations where they belong. The reason, more often than not, comes back to visibility. Or more specifically, to the ways that being seen feels like a threat. This episode is an honest look at why the pull toward invisibility makes complete sense for trauma survivors, what it actually costs when we go quiet in our careers, and what it can look like to stay professionally visible in...
2026-06-0916 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow to Job Search When Burnout Has Stalled Your MomentumSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett speaks directly to the people who know they need to do something about their job situation and yet cannot seem to make themselves start. This is not an episode about productivity hacks or applying to more jobs. It is an honest look at what is actually happening when burnout meets a job search, why the standard advice feels almost absurd when you are in it, and how to start moving again in a way that honors where you actually are. If the momentum has stalled and you have been blaming yourself...
2026-06-0216 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhat To Say When Your Career History Is MessySummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett tackles something that most career advice completely misses: what happens in your body when an interviewer asks you to explain a gap, a difficult departure, or a stretch of time you are still making sense of. This is not an episode about polishing your talking points. It is an honest, practical conversation about why narrating a complicated career history is genuinely harder for trauma survivors, what the freeze, the spiral, the performance, and the avoidance are actually telling you, and how to build a relationship with your own story that is...
2026-05-2615 min
Voice of the VoicelessTrauma In The Workplace w Cyndi BennettMost people don't realize that trauma doesn’t turn off when you clock out — it lives in your body, shadowing your career and mental health. If you’ve ever felt trapped in a cycle of retraumatization at work or wondered why burnout hits so hard, this episode is your bravest step forward.Meet Cindy Bennett, a trauma survivor turned trauma-informed career coach who’s on a mission to change how workplaces handle mental health. From growing up with attachment wounds and childhood abuse to navigating dissociation and DID in her professional life, Cindy’s lived experience fuels her advocacy. She’s breaking t...
2026-05-2345 min
Pete Vs Anxiety!!!!!Voice of The Voiceless: Trauma In The Workplace w Cyndi BennettThe conversation delves into the impact of trauma in the workplace, the experience of living with DID, and the effects of trauma on one's career. It explores the challenges faced by trauma survivors in the workplace and the importance of addressing trauma to prevent its negative impact on mental health and career success. The conversation delves into the challenges of workplace stress, the importance of setting boundaries, and the need for self-advocacy in the workplace. It highlights the impact of trauma on work life and the strategies for managing and addressing these challenges.Takeaways...
2026-05-2345 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettPower Was Never Meant to Be Used This WaySummaryIn this solo episode, Cyndi Bennett takes on a topic she has been sitting with for a while: power, and what happens when someone gets it and uses it the wrong way. This is not a political episode or a narcissism episode. It is an honest, grounded conversation about what misused authority actually looks like in the workplace, what it costs the people around it, and why, for trauma survivors, those environments can feel so painfully familiar. Drawing from her own study of leadership and her work with trauma survivors navigating their careers, Cyndi also paints...
2026-05-1914 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy A Narcissist Coworker Feels So Familiar To YouSummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett gets personal. She shares what happened after she did the hard work of getting regulated and reached out to repair things with a difficult coworker, and what his silence taught her. Drawing from her own experience and a conversation with mentor and dear friend Kimberly Weeks from episode 51, Cyndi walks through five specific behaviors that show up in narcissistic coworkers and explores why, for many trauma survivors, these patterns feel so familiar. Because for some of us, they are. This episode is not about diagnosing anyone. It is about learning to...
2026-05-1212 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhen Leaving Was the Only Way, With Jenny GardnerIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett sits down with Resilient Career Academy member Jenny Gardner, a 30-year social work veteran who reached her breaking point and made the brave decision to choose herself.This is a candid, heartfelt conversation about what happens when a toxic workplace finally takes everything you have left, and what the road back to yourself actually looks like. Jenny's story is not just about leaving a job.It's about survival, recovery, and slowly rediscovering who you are when the noise finally stops.Key Thoughts* Carrying 30 years of unprocessed...
2026-05-051h 13
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhat Nobody Warned Me About Building a Business After TraumaNobody warned me that building my own business wouldn't automatically feel safe. 💙If you left the traditional workplace to build something of your own — or you're planning to — this episode is for you. Cyndi Bennett names the four specific ways trauma shows up in entrepreneurship that nobody in the business world is talking about.🎙️ What You'll Learn:✅ Why visibility feels genuinely unsafe for trauma survivors✅ Why undercharging isn't a confidence problem — it's a safety response✅ How people pleasing follows you from the workplace into your business✅ Why the "stay...
2026-04-2815 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Knowing Your Triggers Is the First Step to Taking Back Your CareerIf you are a trauma survivor navigating the workplace, you already know that triggers don’t announce themselves. They show up in the middle of a meeting, in the tone of an email, in the way a manager’s voice drops when they’re displeased. One moment you’re present and productive; the next, you’re somewhere else entirely: flooded, shut down, or just trying to hold it together until you can get to the bathroom.This is the reality of working while carrying the legacy effects of trauma. And it is far more common than most workplaces...
2026-04-2205 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhat I Found When I Finally Looked at What Wasn't Working Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, Episode 53Are you building your career or business the way YOU actually want to? 🔍Cyndi Bennett gets radically honest about the audit she'd been avoiding — and what she found when she finally looked. If you've ever stayed too busy to ask whether what you're building is actually working, this episode will resonate deeply.🎙️ What You'll Learn:✅ Why trauma survivors avoid honest self-assessment✅ How "the cost of being wrong" triggers a threat response✅ Why hypervigilance creates decision fatigue in your career✅ How learned distrust of your own perception blocks progress✅ W...
2026-04-2113 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettI Don't Know What I Want — And That's Not Your Fault | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 52"I don't know what I want" — What if that's not a flaw, but a survival response? 💙If you've ever gone completely blank when someone asks what you want to do with your life, this episode is for you. Cyndi Bennett gets deeply personal about why trauma survivors feel disconnected from their own desires — and why it was never your fault.🎙️ What You'll Learn:✅ Why trauma survivors struggle to identify what they want ✅ What fawning is and how it silently shapes your career ✅ Why standard career advice fails trauma survivors ✅ How survival mode di...
2026-04-1415 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettNarcissism in the Workplace with Kimberly Weeks | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 51Have you ever walked into a work meeting and suddenly felt like a child again — shrinking, people-pleasing, or reacting in ways that surprised even you? You're not imagining it. Narcissistic workplace dynamics can mirror the family systems many trauma survivors grew up in, and your nervous system knows it even when your conscious mind doesn't.In this episode, I sit down with Kimberly Weeks — narcissistic abuse recovery coach and co-founder of the Global Trauma Institute — for a deeply honest conversation about how narcissism shows up at work, why it feels so familiar, and what you can do about...
2026-04-071h 09
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhen Work Gets Ugly: Righting Your Emotional Ship as a Trauma Survivor | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 50Have you ever been triggered at work so badly you couldn't function? 😔 You're not alone.In this raw, real, and deeply personal episode, trauma-informed career coach Cyndi Bennett takes you behind the scenes of a workplace blowup — and walks you step-by-step through how she got herself regulated in under 24 hours.This is Episode 1 of a 3-part series on navigating conflict in the workplace as a trauma survivor. 🎙️ What You'll Learn:✅ What happens in your nervous system when you're triggered at work✅ Why trauma survivors default to self-blame —...
2026-03-3137 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettTurning "Failure" Into Fuel: What Your Setbacks Are Actually Telling You | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 49When something goes wrong in your career, your nervous system doesn't just feel setback — it feels proof.When something goes wrong in your career, your nervous system doesn't just feel setback — it feels proof. Proof that you're not enough, not ready, not cut out for this. And for trauma survivors, that voice has a history behind it.In this episode, I'm continuing the conversation from last week — where I issued a public apology to my community after leaving a coaching program that wasn't trauma-informed — and getting real about what happens after accountability. Specifically: how do you stop...
2026-03-2421 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy I Quit the Program Everyone Said Would Work | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 48Did you follow a program perfectly… and still fail? You're not alone. 💔In this raw and honest episode, trauma-informed career coach Cyndi Bennett shares the story of how she invested thousands of dollars into a business coaching program, followed it exactly as instructed — and watched it fail. Not because she did anything wrong, but because the program was never designed for trauma survivors.If you've ever trusted someone else's system over your own instincts, this episode is for you.🎙️ What You'll Discover in This Episode:✅ Why mainstream business and m...
2026-03-1714 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Saying "NO" Feels Dangerous (And What It's Really Telling You) | Trauma & Career Ep. 47Does your chest tighten the moment you think about saying no? Do you automatically say yes — even when your body is screaming the opposite? You're not weak. You're not dramatic. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it learned to do.In this episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, trauma-informed career coach Cyndi Bennett unpacks why saying "no" feels threatening for trauma survivors — at work, in relationships, and even in therapy itself. She introduces the concept of fawning (the 4th trauma response most people never talk about) and what it's quietly costing you in your professional life....
2026-03-1011 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhen Building Your Business Becomes the New Trigger | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 46You left the workplace because it was too triggering to survive. So why does building your business feel just as dysregulating? For a lot of trauma survivors, entrepreneurship isn't a passion project — it's an exit strategy. And when your business is your only way out, the urgency to make it work fast can activate the exact same threat responses you left employment to escape. In this episode, Cyndi names the structural tension that nobody in the business coaching world is talking about, and explores what it actually looks like to build something sustainable when your nervous system is part of...
2026-03-0332 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettComing Out as a DID System at Work | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 45What happens when a trauma-informed career coach comes out publicly as a DID system — and what it means for everyone navigating their career while healing?In this raw, unscripted episode, Cyndi shares three big life updates: coming out as a DID system on Monica Ostroff's Healing My Parts podcast, attending the Healing Together Conference in Orlando, and the upcoming launch of the Empowered Leader Coaching Intensive. If you're a system trying to figure out how DID shows up in your career — or you're just tired of hiding who you are at work — this one's for you.In thi...
2026-02-2417 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettTrauma-Informed Leadership for Front-Line Workers | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 44Front-line workers—healthcare providers, emergency responders, therapists and counselors, social workers, teachers, and service workers—face unique challenges that leadership models often weren't designed to address. When you're constantly exposed to others' trauma and distress as a job requirement, your nervous system pays a price.In this episode, we explore what trauma-informed leadership actually looks like for front-line workers. Not therapy, not lowering standards—but understanding how nervous systems respond to chronic crisis exposure and building support into the work itself.We also acknowledge the impossible balance leaders face: organizational demands for metrics and documentation alongs...
2026-02-1720 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettTrauma-Informed Leadership: Nervous System Leadership | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 43She'd been through every leadership program. She could articulate leadership principles beautifully. Her evaluations were excellent. So why did her team still seem anxious? Why did people hesitate before speaking in meetings?Because traditional leadership training misses something crucial: leadership happens at the level of the nervous system, not just words and policies.In this episode, I break down what traditional leadership training gets wrong and what actually works when you understand nervous system dynamics:The three critical misunderstandings of traditional leadership trainingNervous system fundamentals every leader needs to understandWhat leadership looks like at...
2026-02-1020 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettLeading as a Trauma Survivor: Insights From Both Sides | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 42"Just create psychological safety by telling your team it's okay to make mistakes!" Everyone nodded. I felt my stomach tighten. Because I remembered being that employee - the one whose manager said all the right things, then subtly punished every misstep.When you've been on both sides of the desk - both the employee hoping for safety and the leader trying to create it - you have a perspective most leadership development programs don't address.In this episode, I explore what it's like to lead as a trauma survivor, including:The gap between what leaders...
2026-02-0320 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettTrauma Informed Leadership: Team Recovery from Toxic Leadership | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 41Three months after the toxic executive left, Maya had hired an excellent replacement and implemented new policies. So why were her strongest performers resigning? Why was the team angrier than ever?Because she didn't understand the real timeline for healing from toxic leadership.In this episode, I break down the actual phases teams go through when recovering from toxic leadership - and why things often get worse before they get better. This is essential information for any leader navigating team recovery.We explore:* Month 1-2: Shock and suspicious relief (and why...
2026-01-2918 min
Healing My Parts: Real Talk on Dissociative Identity Disorder and Complex TraumaBusiness Boundaries & Being Plural with Cyndi BennettIn this episode, our guest, Cyndi Bennett, speaks publicly about their system for the first time and shares parts of their personal journey before turning toward their work supporting trauma survivors in professional spaces. We talk about business boundaries, nervous system capacity, internal consent, and what it means to navigate careers and leadership as a plural system. This conversation is for systems thinking about work, sustainability, and how to make decisions that honor more than one internal voice.⏱️ Timestamps * 00:02:15 – Cyndi introduces themselves and their plural system* 00:06:45 – Building a coaching practice as a system...
2026-01-291h 14
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettTrauma Informed Leadership: Recognizing High Performer Burnout | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 40Sarah arrives at 7 AM every morning, stays past 7 PM most nights, and delivers ahead of schedule. Marcus stays calm during every crisis. Both are high performers. Both are also quietly struggling with trauma responses that masquerade as professional excellence.In this episode, I break down how fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses disguise themselves as your most valued workplace behaviors - and what leaders need to understand about the difference between authentic excellence and survival-based performance.We explore:* When intensity reads as leadership (but is actually hypervigilance)* When productivity masks avoidance through...
2026-01-2015 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettThe Role of Peer Support in Professional Spaces w/ Jade Miller | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 39Ever wondered what makes peer support different from therapy—and why it matters for your career? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Jade Miller, a peer support worker specializing in dissociative experiences, to explore how peer relationships create unique healing spaces that traditional approaches often miss.Jade shares why the power dynamics in peer support matter so deeply for trauma survivors, how to start building authentic professional connections when you're barely making it through your workday, and the real truth about "bringing your whole self to work" (spoiler: they don't actually mean that).We...
2026-01-1932 min
Transit UnpluggedInside the Next Transit Reauthorization with Bennett ResnikAs Transit Unplugged kicks off 2026, host Paul Comfort sits down with Bennett Resnik, Senior Vice President in the Critical Infrastructure Group at Venn Strategies, for a wide-ranging conversation on the federal forces shaping public transportation in the year ahead.This episode marks the first installment in a multi-part State of Transit series, offering listeners a clear, insider perspective from Washington, DC. Bennett brings deep experience from Capitol Hill to break down what transit leaders should be paying attention to right now — and what’s coming next.In this episode, we explore:The upcoming Surface Tran...
2026-01-0725 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi Bennett2026 Word of the Year: Collaboration | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 38What happens when you stop protecting your progress and start sharing it? This episode explores the powerful shift from building community to co-creating through collaboration—and why this matters deeply for trauma survivors navigating career development.If you've spent years learning to trust yourself, the idea of sharing control can feel revolutionary or terrifying. But collaboration isn't about losing your authentic identity—it's about bringing your full self to the table and allowing what you create together to become more than you could protect alone.I share my personal progression from "unhindered" (2023) to "connection" (2024) to "comm...
2026-01-0615 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhen the World Celebrates and You Clock In | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 37If you're heading into work while everyone else is opening presents or sitting down to holiday meals, this episode is for you. We're talking about the invisible weight shift workers carry during the holidays—and why it's completely valid whether you're missing celebrations you wish you could attend OR feeling relieved to have a legitimate reason to skip triggering family dynamics.I'm breaking down what makes holiday shift work particularly challenging for trauma survivors, how to create meaningful moments on your own terms, and the professional strengths you're building (even if it doesn't feel like it right no...
2025-12-1614 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Performance Reviews Trigger Trauma Responses | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 36Traditional performance management wasn't designed for the 61% of employees who've experienced trauma. In this episode, we explore why annual reviews, feedback sandwiches, and stretch goals often backfire with trauma survivors - and what trauma-informed performance management looks like instead.⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Hook: Why performance reviews trigger trauma responses01:30 - The hidden trauma-performance connection03:45 - Why traditional approaches backfire03:45 - #1: The annual review trap06:00 - #2: The feedback sandwich fallacy07:00 - #3: The stretch goal problem07:30 - #4: One-size-fits-all metrics08:00 - What trauma-informed performance management looks like09:00 - Principle 1: Predictable, frequent connection...
2025-12-0919 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettDecision Paralysis or Trauma Response? | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 35Are you stuck on a business decision, unable to tell if you're being strategic or if your nervous system is activated? In this episode, we explore how to distinguish between strategic thinking and trauma responses that disguise themselves as due diligence. You'll learn the specific characteristics of each, which types of decisions are most likely to trigger trauma responses, and practical strategies for moving forward when you're stuck.This episode is essential listening if you find yourself circling the same decisions endlessly, requiring certainty that doesn't exist, or feeling frozen when it's time to take action in...
2025-12-0221 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettTaking a Career Break for the Holidays Permission Granted | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 34If you're exhausted just thinking about the holidays while everyone else seems to be celebrating... this one's for you.In this episode of Your Trauma Wise Career Guide, I'm giving you explicit permission to take a career break during the holidays - not because you're failing, but because it might be the most strategic career move you can make right now.What We Cover:🎯 Why career breaks feel forbidden for trauma survivors (and why your nervous system makes rest feel dangerous)🎯 What a "career break" actually means during the holidays (hint: it's not quitti...
2025-11-2516 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettRedefining Success: A Trauma-Informed Approach | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 33What if the success you're chasing was never designed for someone like you?During one of my recent open houses, someone asked me: "How do you define success?" It's such a simple question, but the answer is anything but simple—especially for those of us who've been through trauma.Most success metrics we see in the professional world weren't created with trauma survivors in mind. They measure achievement without accounting for the energy it takes just to show up. They celebrate advancement without honoring the healing journey that makes sustainable growth possible.In th...
2025-11-1813 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettCareer Building: What Does Being Trauma Wise Mean? | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 28What if your healing journey has already given you some of the most valuable professional skills most people spend years trying to develop?Welcome to Your Trauma Wise Career Guide, where we explore how trauma survivors can build authentic, sustainable careers that honor both their ambitions and their healing needs.In this episode, we're breaking down what it really means to be trauma-wise in your career building—and why it's completely different from traditional career advice.🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:✨ The difference between being trauma-informed and trauma WISE in your career✨ Why your nerv...
2025-11-1511 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettLeading Through Change: A Trauma-Informed Approach | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 29What if the very experience of surviving trauma has given you exactly what you need to lead others through organizational change?In this episode, we're exploring trauma-informed change management – and why trauma survivors often make the most effective change leaders. If you've ever felt like your heightened awareness of how change impacts people makes you "too sensitive" for leadership, this conversation will completely shift your perspective.We'll talk about:* Why your trauma-developed pattern recognition is a strategic advantage in change initiatives* The hidden costs of traditional change management that ignores nervous system responses
2025-11-1520 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow to Verify LinkedIn Connections Safely | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 30If you've ever stared at a LinkedIn connection request for 20 minutes trying to decide if it's real or a scam, you're not overthinking it—you're being smart. Your distrust of LinkedIn isn't paranoia; it's intelligence.In this episode, I'm sharing a systematic approach to verifying LinkedIn connections and job opportunities that honors both your need for safety AND your need for professional connections.🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:• How your two assessment systems (intuitive and analytical) work together• The 4-step profile authentication framework• Red flags to watch for in messages and job opportunities• How to create...
2025-11-1512 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettThe Hidden Cost of Unprocessed Trauma | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 31If you're working twice as hard as your colleagues but getting half the recognition, your trauma responses might be costing you more than you realize. In this episode, we're diving deep into the hidden career costs of unprocessed trauma and what it really takes to move from survival mode to sustainable success.🎯 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:* The three main ways unprocessed trauma shows up in your career (and why they're so hard to see)* Why hypervigilance, people-pleasing, and perfectionism are costing you recognition—even though they look like strengths* The "invisible load" that...
2025-11-1517 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhen Workplace Relationships Break Rupture & Repair | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 32It took you six months to believe your coworker was safe. It took six seconds for your nervous system to decide they weren't.Building professional trust when you carry trauma isn't casual—it's architecture. The patient, anxious work of constructing something you desperately want but have every reason to believe will eventually collapse. And when that carefully built relationship experiences a rupture? The trust doesn't just crack—it shatters.In this episode, I'm breaking down why workplace ruptures feel so catastrophic for trauma survivors, what's actually happening in your nervous system during these moments, and the...
2025-11-1521 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettEntrepreneurship As A Trauma Survivor Pt 2 | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 27Entrepreneurship As A Trauma Survivor Pt 2 | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 27What does it really take to build a business while healing from trauma? In this vulnerable follow-up episode, I'm getting real about the messy middle of trauma-informed entrepreneurship.After our first attempt at recording this episode where a protective part showed up and wouldn't let me be vulnerable, I came back to try again - this time with full transparency about what it's actually like to run a trauma-informed business as a trauma survivor.In this episode, you'll hear:
2025-10-0720 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi Bennett3 Signs Your Trauma is Sabotaging Your Career | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 26Are you talented and hardworking but still struggling to achieve the career success you deserve? If you're a trauma survivor, the barriers to your professional growth might be more invisible than you think.In this episode of Your Trauma Wise Career Guide, I break down three common ways trauma can sabotage your career - and more importantly, how to transform these responses into professional superpowers.What You'll Learn:✨ Why trauma survivors often struggle with workplace visibility (and how to reframe it as service)✨ How perfectionism becomes a career trap and what to d...
2025-09-3012 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettStop Doing It Alone | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 25Stop Struggling Alone: Why Trauma Survivors Won't Get Help for Career-Blocking SymptomsAre you battling anxiety, perfectionism, or triggers at work in isolation? Staying up until 2 AM researching solutions instead of getting professional support? This episode reveals why trauma survivors refuse help for the very symptoms keeping their careers stuck.In this episode, you'll discover:* Why trauma survivors isolate when career symptoms flare up* How attachment wounds prevent you from seeking trauma-informed support* The hidden costs of managing trauma responses alone (burnout, stagnation, missed opportunities)* Why "doing it...
2025-09-2314 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhen Your Business Triggers Trauma Entrepreneurial Overwhelm | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 24Are you a trauma survivor entrepreneur feeling overwhelmed by business challenges? Discover why traditional business advice fails trauma survivors and learn trauma-informed strategies for sustainable entrepreneurial success.In this episode, we explore:✨ Why entrepreneurship hits differently for trauma survivors✨ The three hidden patterns sabotaging your business (hypervigilance trap, perfectionism paralysis, people-pleasing business model)✨ Essential strategies to redefine success on your terms✨ How to build early warning systems for overwhelm✨ When to pause, pivot, or push through challenges✨ Why nervous system regulation is your secret business strategyKey Topics:* Trauma...
2025-09-1606 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Ratio - Based Jobs Burn Out Trauma Survivors | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 23Why Ratio-Based Jobs Burn Out Trauma Survivors | Trauma-Informed Career AdviceIf you're a trauma survivor working in childcare, healthcare, social services, or other ratio-based roles, this episode is for you. Discover why these essential jobs can be especially challenging for trauma survivors and learn practical strategies to build a sustainable, fulfilling career.What You'll Learn:✨ What ratio-based work is and why it affects trauma survivors differently✨ How to transform your trauma responses into professional superpowers✨ The hidden impact of secondary trauma in helping professions✨ Practical nervous system regulati...
2025-09-0907 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettEntrepreneurship As A Trauma Survivor | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 22Think leaving your corporate job will solve your workplace trauma triggers? Think again. Your trauma doesn't stay behind when you become an entrepreneur – and that's exactly what we need to talk about.🚨 REAL TALK ALERT: This episode didn't go as planned, and we're sharing it anyway.In this raw, unfiltered conversation, trauma-informed career coach Cyndi Bennett gets interviewed by Holly Dillon about the harsh realities of entrepreneurship as a trauma survivor. What was supposed to be a vulnerable deep-dive turned into something completely different when Cyndi's protective parts showed up to the recording.Here...
2025-09-0236 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettRegulation Practices for Shift Workers: Before, During & After Your Shift | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 21Are you a shift worker who feels stuck in fight-or-flight mode at work? If you're a nurse, CNA, healthcare worker, or anyone doing shift work where you can't just step away to regulate, this episode is for you.After getting feedback from a listener in childcare, I realized most career advice is tailored for office environments - but what about those of us who work in hospitals, emergency rooms, manufacturing, retail, or other shift-based roles where you're "tied there" and can't easily get away when triggered?In this episode, you'll discover:✨ Why sh...
2025-08-2607 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhen Work Triggers Your Past: Surviving Trauma Time | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 20Ever felt completely professional one moment, then found yourself crying in your car because a meeting triggered something deep inside you? You're not imagining things—you might be experiencing "trauma time."In this episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, I break down what happens when your nervous system gets stuck responding to current workplace situations as if they're past traumatic experiences, and most importantly, how to find your way back to the present moment where your actual power lives.🎯 What You'll Discover:✅ The hidden signs of "trauma time" in professional settings✅ Why your...
2025-08-1910 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Being Seen Feels Dangerous: The Cost of Staying Invisible | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 19Why Being Seen Feels Dangerous: The Cost of Staying InvisibleDo you have expertise that could change lives, but find yourself hiding when it comes to visibility? You're not alone.In this episode, Cyndi shares her personal struggle with visibility and reveals why being seen feels terrifying for trauma survivors - even when it's exactly what we need to grow.What You'll Learn✨ Why trauma survivors struggle with visibility in unique ways✨ The "stone face wound" and how it shapes our relationship with being seen...
2025-08-1213 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettExecutive Presence: Why Authenticity Beats Performance | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 18🎯 Stop performing your way through your career! If you're a trauma survivor who's mastered the art of "executive presence" but feel completely disconnected from your authentic self, this episode will change everything.What You'll Learn:✅ Why traditional executive presence advice is retraumatizing for trauma survivors✅ The 3 trauma-informed shifts that create authentic leadership presence✅ How to leverage emotional intelligence as your professional superpower✅ Strategic authenticity: being real without oversharing✅ Why vulnerability creates stronger leadership than performanceThe 3 Game-Changing Shifts:Shift #1: From performing confidence → embodying radical honestyShift #2: From suppressing emo...
2025-08-0511 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Work-Life Balance Fails Trauma Survivors (Try This Instead) | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 17Why Work-Life Balance Fails Trauma Survivors: Embrace Career-Life Harmony InsteadIf you're a trauma survivor struggling with traditional work-life balance, this episode is a must-watch. Host and trauma-informed career coach, Cyndi Bennett, shatters the myth of compartmentalizing work and personal life, presenting a revolutionary concept: career-life harmony. Tailored specifically for trauma survivors, learn why common productivity advice often fails and discover real, actionable steps to manage your career and healing journey harmoniously. With insights from the Resilient Career Academy, you'll explore energy-based planning, flexible boundaries, and the science behind trauma and productivity. Transform your work-life...
2025-07-2911 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettLeading as a Trauma Survivor | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 16Leading with Trauma: Empowering Leadership for Trauma SurvivorsIn this insightful episode of 'Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide,' host Cyndi Bennett dives into the often overlooked intersection of trauma and leadership. Cyndi, a trauma survivor and informed career coach, alongside returning guest Holly Dillon, explores how trauma history can shape and influence leadership styles. They discuss the unique strengths and challenges trauma survivors bring to leadership roles, such as resilience and empathy, as well as potential pitfalls like micromanaging and people-pleasing. The conversation covers critical topics including how to recognize when trauma is a...
2025-07-2256 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Your Slow Progress is Actually Perfect Progress | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 15Your Perfect Progress: Redefining Career Success for Trauma SurvivorsDo you feel like you're lagging behind at work while others are excelling? In this eye-opening episode, trauma-informed career coach Cyndi Bennett redefines what progress means for trauma survivors. Learn why your cautious approach is your secret weapon and how to embrace your authentic journey toward sustainable success. Cyndi explores the impact of trauma on career navigation, debunks harmful mindset blocks, and introduces a free Workplace Survival Toolkit designed to help you thrive. Discover how to stop apologizing for your pace and start celebrating your unique...
2025-07-1509 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi Bennett5 Signs Trauma Survivors Should Stop Playing Small | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 14Are you a trauma survivor who's built a solid career foundation but feels stuck between playing it safe and stepping into your power? This episode reveals the 5 readiness signals that most high achievers with trauma histories completely miss.What You'll Learn:✅ The 5 specific readiness signals that tell you when you're ready to stop playing small✅ Why your nervous system might be keeping you small even when you're ready to go big✅ A practical framework for taking strategic risks that honor your healing journey✅ How to work WITH your nervous system instead of against itT...
2025-07-0809 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow to Build Strategic Visibility Without Self Promotion| Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 13Unlocking Trauma-Informed Career Success: Advanced Visibility Strategies RevealedWelcome to Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide! In this transformative episode, host Cyndi Bennett tackles the Strategic Visionaries Visibility Paradox that many trauma survivors face. Discover advanced visibility strategies tailored specifically for trauma survivors, ensuring you can be seen and heard without compromising your authentic power. Learn about the four pillars of trauma-informed strategic visibility—Mission-Driven Magnetism, Wisdom-Based Thought Leadership, Generous Authority, and Strategic Relationship Building. Cyndi explains why traditional visibility advice often fails trauma survivors and offers a concrete action plan to help you emerge from the shadows as an...
2025-07-0110 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow To Be A Trauma-Informed Manager | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 12Episode Description: How to Be a Trauma-Informed Manager: Leading Employees with Trauma BackgroundsAre you a manager struggling to support employees with sudden performance changes or unexplained workplace behaviors? This episode reveals how to become a trauma-informed leader who creates psychological safety while maintaining accountability.Hosts Cyndi Bennett and Holly Dillon explore critical skills every manager needs to recognize trauma responses and respond with compassion and effectiveness.What You'll Learn:How to distinguish trauma responses from performance issuesWarning signs managers miss: hypervigilance, people-pleasing, emotional dysregulationCommunication...
2025-06-251h 06
The Resilient Career with Cyndi Bennett5 Signs You're Ready to Take the Next Step | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 115 Signs You're Ready to Take the Next StepHave you ever wondered if you're truly ready to advance your career after trauma, or if you're just pushing yourself too hard? Trauma-informed career coach Cyndi Bennett reveals five subtle but powerful signs that indicate you're moving from survival mode to genuine readiness for career growth.What You'll Learn:The invisible transition from survival to stability most people missWhy traditional career advice fails trauma survivors5 signs you're ready for your next career step: Energy extends beyond daily survivalCan sit with discomfort without d...
2025-06-1811 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettCareer Pivots & Entrepreneurship with Dr. Adrian Fletcher | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 10Career Pivots & Entrepreneurship with Dr. Adrian Fletcher | Your Trauma-Wise Career GuideWhat happens when the career path you've mastered no longer serves your highest purpose? How do you pivot from healing others one-on-one to creating systems that transform thousands of lives?In this inspiring episode, I sit down with Dr. Adrian Fletcher—licensed psychologist, keynote speaker, and author with a master's from Columbia University. As a survivor of familial child trafficking with lived experience of dissociation and complex trauma, Dr. Fletcher transformed her deepest wounds into a mission extending far beyond traditional therapy....
2025-06-1059 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Your Achievements Don't Speak for Themselves | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep. 009Unlocking Your Career Potential: Trauma-Informed Achievement DocumentationIn this episode of 'Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide,' host Cyndi Bennett discusses the challenges trauma survivors face in articulating their professional achievements. She introduces the RISE method, a trauma-informed framework for documenting accomplishments that honors personal growth and resilience. Learn why capturing both visible and invisible achievements is crucial for self-advocacy and career development. Cyndi also shares practical tips to make the process less overwhelming and more sustainable, helping trauma survivors transform a critical career skill into a healing practice. Tune in to discover how t...
2025-06-0313 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettThe Six Pillars of Trauma-Informed Management with Holly Dillon | Your Trauma-Informed Career Guide Ep. 008The Six Pillars of Trauma-Informed Management: Creating Psychologically Safe Workplaces with Holly Dillon | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep. 008Have you ever received feedback that left you feeling shattered for days? Or watched a workplace change send colleagues into anxiety spirals? In this comprehensive episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, I'm joined by trauma-informed leadership expert Holly Dillon to explore why traditional management approaches often re-traumatize employees—and what leaders can do instead.We dive deep into SAMHSA's six proven pillars of trauma-informed management that transform workplace dynamics and create environments where everyone can th...
2025-05-2751 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Traditional Mentors Fail Trauma Survivors (And How to Find One That Won’t) | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep. 007Why Traditional Mentors Fail Trauma Survivors (And How to Find One That Won't)Have you watched colleagues advance through powerful mentorship while you struggle to form these critical connections? In this revealing episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, I explain why this happens to trauma survivors and why it's not your fault.As someone who once wore armor at work, keeping potential mentors at a distance because it felt safer, I share why traditional mentorship models fundamentally fail trauma survivors. These conventional approaches ignore our trust barriers, risk retraumatization, lack trauma-informed guidance, and...
2025-05-2011 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettNavigating Workplace Dynamics with the ANCHOR Framework | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep. 006Trauma and Team Dynamics: The 6-Step ANCHOR Framework for Workplace HealingDo you find yourself withdrawing during team meetings despite having brilliant ideas? Does a simple comment from your team lead send your heart racing? In this powerful episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, I reveal how these aren't random reactions—they're invisible threads connecting past trauma to your current professional relationships.As both a trauma survivor and trauma-informed career coach, I share how unaddressed trauma responses lead to career stagnation, burnout, and isolation in workplace teams. You'll discover my proven 6-step ANCHOR framework that ha...
2025-05-1313 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettHow to Network Without Triggering Your Anxiety | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep. 005SAFE Networking for Trauma Survivors: A Gentle Approach to Professional ConnectionsIn this episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, I tackle why traditional networking advice often fails trauma survivors and can trigger overwhelming anxiety and avoidance. As someone who's navigated this challenge personally, I share how trauma fundamentally reshapes our experience of professional relationship-building.Discover my exclusive SAFE networking framework developed specifically for trauma survivors:* Setting Boundaries that honor your nervous system's needs* Aligning with Your authentic Strengths rather than forced interactions* Finding Safety Anchors in networking environments* Engaging on Your Own...
2025-05-0608 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettUnderstanding Trauma-Informed Management | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep.004Transforming Workplaces with Trauma-Informed LeadershipWhy does your talented colleague suddenly miss deadlines? Why do organizational changes trigger profound anxiety? In this episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, I explore the hidden prevalence of trauma in workplaces and its powerful impact on professional performance and well-being.As a trauma survivor turned trauma-informed career coach, I reveal why traditional management approaches often feel disconnected for employees carrying trauma histories. You'll discover the comprehensive SAMHSA framework for trauma-informed leadership that transforms workplace dynamics and creates environments where healing and resilience can flourish.Key insights include:
2025-04-2912 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettThe Awakening of Forgotten Strengths for Trauma Survivors | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep. 003Reconnecting with Your Natural Strengths: A Trauma-Informed ApproachIn this episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, I explore how trauma obscures your inherent strengths and why trauma survivors often struggle to recognize their authentic talents. As a trauma-informed career coach, I share a gentle framework for awakening forgotten strengths while honoring your healing journey.Discover how to:* Differentiate between authentic talents and survival strategies by examining energy impact* Break through the normalization barrier that hides your natural abilities* Overcome trauma response confusion that masks your true strengths* Move beyond the survival...
2025-04-2216 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettThe Hidden Triggers of Workplace Micromanagement | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep. 002Navigating Micromanagement: Trauma-Informed Strategies for the WorkplaceIn this episode of Your Trauma Wise Career Guide, I discuss how constant monitoring and control at work can activate trauma responses for survivors, turning workplaces into challenging environments. Join me, Cyndi Bennett, trauma survivor turned trauma-informed career coach, as I share strategies to reclaim your power in micromanaged situations. We'll explore practical tools to ground yourself, document your work, seek clarity on expectations, and establish boundaries with care. Hear stories of others who've successfully navigated these dynamics and remember that recognizing and honoring your needs is essential in your...
2025-04-1513 min
The Resilient Career with Cyndi BennettWhy Trauma-Informed Career Development Matters | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep. 001Welcome to Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide: Navigating Professional Success with a Trauma-Informed ApproachIn the inaugural episode of 'Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide,' host Cyndi Bennett introduces the podcast's mission to reimagine career development for trauma survivors. Sharing her personal journey from burnout and trauma triggers to becoming a successful trauma-informed career coach, Cyndi discusses the inadequacies of conventional career advice for trauma survivors. She outlines the five-step success path offered by the Resilient Career Academy, designed to help trauma survivors thrive professionally while honoring their healing needs. The episode also promises future content focused on managing...
2025-04-0815 min
The Storytelling LabBeyond Followers: Creating a True Community Around Your Brand with Cyndi Zaweski"Social media isn’t just a tool; it’s an opportunity to co-create stories with your audience. They don't need more information. They need insights, emotion, and most importantly, connection." - Cyndi ZaweskiBuilding a supportive community as a solopreneur, artist, or small business owner can feel overwhelming—especially if you’re an introvert. In this episode of The Storytelling Lab, Rain Bennett sits down with storytelling expert Cindy Zaweski to explore how sharing your authentic journey online can create deeper connections and real relationships, not just followers. Cindy shares her path...
2025-03-1759 min
Keeping Her Keys: At The Crossroads of Modern Life and the Deeper WorldHecuba: What The Tragic Queen Can Teach Us NowCyndi Brannen and Christen Bennett delve into the tragic story of Hecuba, the Queen of Troy, exploring themes of power, grief, and the divine feminine, and why she has much to teach us right now. They discuss Hecuba's transformation from a powerful queen to a symbol of loss and rage, examining the implications of her story in the context of modern life. The conversation highlights the importance of empathy, the role of women in mythology, and the reclaiming of Hecuba's narrative as a means of empowerment.Join The Witches Hour of Rebirth...
2025-01-2357 min
GenX Women are Sick of This Shit!Episode 10: The Mall, an ADHD Fever DreamIn THIS episode Megan and Lesley love bomb one another to make you a little uncomfortable and to bring some joy into the world. They also create the most akward segway into the begining of an episode ever. Was it "urban or rural (or the boonies)", Megan? We don't know? Does it matter? Actually, yes, yes it does.Do you know the history of The Mall? We didn't either! But now we know just enough to be dangerous "Gen Xpert/Not an Xperts" on THE MALL. Lesley and Megan intro The Mall, "BS and Hot Go...
2024-10-121h 19
GenX Women are Sick of This Shit!Episode 3: Hot Flash SummerIn this episode Megan and Lesley talk about how freaking hot they are in the way that only mid-century old women can. Hear reflections on the death of Donald Sutherland, Menopause and the "Take a Fan" suggestion and memorable live-action superhero's from the 70s and 80s. This episode was recorded on June 22, 2024 and released on July 6th, 2024. Sources: International Menopause SocietyThe North American Menopause SocietyDr. Jen GunterThe Band Orleans(Image Refrence) Orleans Album CoverDonald Sutherland IMDBDonald Sut...
2024-07-061h 00
Keeping Her Keys: At The Crossroads of Modern Life and the Deeper WorldThe Magick of Liberation: Exploring The Past Fifty Years of Goddess WitchcraftJoin me and Christen Bennett (she/they) - Coven Key Bearer as we review how Goddess Witchcraft has evolved over the past five decades and how we are creating our own religion, both as a movement and personally. I'm calling this The Goddess Liberation Movement, as the Spirit of Rixipyle has certainly liberated us spiritually.The Goddess Liberation Movement celebrates the freedom to practice spirituality without fear of punishment. It focuses on creating one's own religion and embracing personal spirituality. With a history spanning five decades, the movement has seen significant changes and progress. From the rise of f...
2024-03-0754 min
Keeping Her Keys: At The Crossroads of Modern Life and the Deeper WorldArtemis: Wild Mysteries of The MoonIt is nights like tonight,She finds me.Slipping in through a crack in the curtains.Riding on pale moonlight.It is nights like tonightThat I long to be her.To have no familiarityWith words like,“diagnosis,”“mortgage,”and “grief”.It is nights like tonightShe reminds meOf who I was before,And who I could be.Shooting her arrows into my heart,Putting the wild back in me.Artemis awakens much within us, shooting...
2024-02-081h 19
Keeping Her Keys: At The Crossroads of Modern Life and the Deeper WorldHekate's Torches: Exploring The Meaning And Connecting To Her Sacred FlameThere is a light so deep inside of meThat nothing can extinguish.It has burned through a thousand lifetimes, Always leading me back to Hekate's Cave.Christen Bennett (She/Her) - Coven Key Bearer, Coyote Mae (they/them) apGovannon Guide-Key of Lampadia and I sat down for an illuminating conversation about Hekate Lampadios, The Torch Bearer. Perhaps there is no more iconic contemporary symbol of Hekate than her torches. There are several references to Her torches in various ancient texts. In ancient rituals, spells and tales Hekate is seen as lig...
2023-12-1449 min
RECLAIM THE PRESENTTrauma Recovery Support In The WorkplaceColleen and Jay from Reclaim Team meet with Cyndi Bennett, MBA, M. ED., CTRC - I. Cyndi is a Certified Trauma Recovery Career Coach and owner of Cyndi Bennett Consulting. She is a trauma survivor with 20+ years in the Financial sector of corporate America and she understands the challenges survivors face in trying to build their careers while overcoming the long-term effects of childhood trauma.As a Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, Cyndi is dedicated to helping survivors overcome the effects of trauma on their career and professional goals. She is phenomenal and will provide her clients with...
2023-04-251h 38
Keeping Her Keys: At The Crossroads of Modern Life and the Deeper WorldCulinary Psychopomp: Hekate's Suppers, Soul Retrieval, and Kitchen WitcheryGather round the kitchen table with me and Christen for our conversation blending soul retrieval, kitchen witchery, and the ancient practice of Hekate's Supper.This chat is rooted in the Psychopomp chapter in Entering Hekate's Cave.We were both in the thick of wintry weather, so the warmth of the hearth was especially compelling, and our conversation reflects this.We discuss how we are culinary psychopomps, chatting about the the sacredness of food and how it can be a source of nourishment and connection to our ancestors. From family recipes...
2023-02-021h 11
The Sports-Casters24 Inch Podcast 6, The War to Settle the ScoreOn the sixth episode of the 24 Inch Podcast, Steve Bennett and Dave Rowlands take a deep dive into Hulk Hogan's victory over Roddy Piper at The War to Settle the Score.
At the top, Steve and Dave talk about the Super Bowl, snow storms, and the passing of Butch Reed and Rusty Brooks.
After the break, the guys explain the origin and history of the rock and wrestling connection. Also, they give biographies of Cyndi Lauper and Roddy Piper.
Steve reads the news from February of 1985 while Dave cracks wise and adds his thoughts on one of the coldest months...
2021-02-122h 12
Supercontext: an autopsy of mediaGirls To The Front: Kathleen Hanna's Activism Special guest Cristen Conger (Unladylike, Stuff Mom Never Told You) helps us unpack the activism of musician Kathleen Hanna. After the January 2017 Women's Marches we look at Hanna's methods of protest, including Riot Grrrl, articulation and disruption. iTunes direct link Google Play direct link Additional Resources: Cyndi Lauper Denounces Madonna's Women's March Speech: "Yelling Just Jacks People Up" Julie Ruin - Be Nice at The Wrecking Ball ATL Fest 2016 Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl Bikini Kill in the U.K. 1993 Kathleen Hanna @ Planned Parenthood Stand Up F...
2017-02-031h 34
The Sports-CastersSeason 6 Episode 18- Jason Concepcion, Steven HydenOn the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of The Sports-Casters hosts Steve Bennett and Don Russ welcome Jason Concepcion (The Ringer, After The Thrones) and Steven Hyden UPROXX, Celebration Rock Podcast). Starting the show with 3Things, Steve and Don look back at the NHL Draft, talk about two huge trades to kick off NHL free agency, update the two huge soccer tournaments, and doubt the retirement of Lionel Messi. The book club says goodbye to Steve Hyden's, "Your Favorite Band is Killing Me" and focusses on the new Frank Deford book. The show ends with Don talking about Orange...
2016-11-111h 43
The JV Club with Janet VarneyAlison BennettComedian and You’re the Worst writer Alison Bennett comes over for a sexily-lit evening of dissecting the strange magnetism of true crime, the wilds of rural Pennsylvania, and the appeal of a jacuzzi filled with chocolate pudding in episode 194 of the podcast. And watch out, Cyndi Lauper! You’ve got competition!
2016-04-071h 05