A top-rated HR + leadership podcast with 80%+ listener retention.
A top-rated HR + leadership podcast with 80%+ listener retention.
Hosted by Kerri M. Roberts - HR consultant, leadership coach, and straight-talk strategist helping you lead with clarity in business and life.
New episodes weekly. Listen on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.
Real Conversations. Real Growth.
Leadership isn’t clean - it’s chaotic, complex, and deeply human.
Each week, I sit down with entrepreneurs, executives, and experts to talk about the moments that tested them most - and what they learned from the mess.
You’ll hear candid stories, practical strategies, and the kind of conversations that make you rethink how you lead, work, and live.
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Don’t Waste the Chaos was built on the belief that our hardest seasons can become our greatest teachers.
We feature bold leaders, HR pros, and entrepreneurs who bring raw, real stories of:
Leadership & business growth
Resilience, rebuilding, and clarity
Faith, purpose, and meaning
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Explore the Archive:
- All Episodes 88
- Burnout 1
- Career Transition 1
- Culture 4
- Culture & Accountability 1
- Culture & Performance 1
- DEI 1
- Engagement 1
- Entrepreneur 1
- Entrepreneurship 2
- Executive Advisory 1
- Executive Leadership 4
- Executive Strategy 1
- Executive Team Dynamics 1
- Executive Well-Being 1
- Faith 3
- Fractional CHRO Insights 1
- Guest Episodes 38
- HR Strategy 1
- HRLaw 1
- Identity & Reinvention 1
- Lead 1
- Leadership 11
- Leadership Alignment 1
- Leadership Risk & Infrastructure 1
- Management 1
- Mental Health 2
- Mindset 2
- Organizational Design 1
- Organizational Effectiveness 1
- Organizational Health 1
- People Operations 1
- People Strategy 3
- Personal Growth 3
- Personal Infrastructure 1
- Podcast 1
- Resilience & Recovery 1
- Scaling Companies 1
- Solo Episode 1
- Solo Episodes 50
- Top of MInd 1
- Trust 3
- Wellness 1
- Workplace Trends 1
- christian 1
- compensation 2
- employee engagement 1
- employee satisfaction 1
- faith 1
- management 1
Episode 74: Why Entrepreneurial Spirit Can Ruin Your Team
In this solo episode, Kerri dives into the hiring phrase “entrepreneurial spirit” and why it may be doing more harm than good. Drawing from her personal experiences and lessons as a founder, she explains how this phrase can attract the wrong candidates, disrupt culture, and lead to expensive hiring missteps. Hear what Airbnb’s Brian Chesky says about culture, discover surprising data on entrepreneur mental health, and get phrases you should be using in your job descriptions to foster alignment and creativity.