{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Lonely at the Top","title":"Leaving Corporate to Find Self-Compassion with Fernanda Brasileiro","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3029,"description":"Fernanda Brasileiro spent 20 years in global operations leadership, working in corporate supply chain planning for companies like Krispy Kreme, and serving major clients including McDonald's, Starbucks, and Chick-fil-A. After leaving her full-time corporate role, Fernanda now offers consulting, workshop facilitation, and coaching for supply chain analytics and leadership development.\nThis episode of Lonely at the Top is about the hidden costs of corporate leadership, the challenge of psychological safety, and learning to build self-trust after years of chasing external validation. Fernanda opens up about leading teams that ranged from 20 to 50 people, the thankless, unmeasured work of being a nurturing leader, and a psychological safety workshop that fell apart so badly it felt like an episode of The Office. She also shares candidly about the zero boundaries she held with work at the height of her career, the toll it took on her health, and how she's since redefined success through self-compassion and internal validation rather than proving her worth to others.\nEpisode Highlights\nFernanda's experience leading teams of 20 to 50 people across corporate supply chain planning and the invisible, thankless labor of being a nurturing leader\nWhy she pushed for psychological safety training at a company where leaders were quietly criticizing employees in real time during meetings, and how the resulting workshop fell apart\nThe zero boundaries she held during the peak of her career, working 50 to 70 hours a week while managing her household, three kids, and her hobbies\nHow chasing external validation and trying to \"prove herself\" led to declining health, and what shifted once she discovered IFS (Internal Family Systems)\nWhy she now tells corporate employees to invest in their own development rather than waiting for their company to approve or pay for it\nConnect with Fernanda Brasileiro\nWebsite: Fernanda Brasileiro\nNewsletter: Passion for People Development (on LinkedIn)...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AWb6cTNX_EC5EtuSFgIW2n-AHJMBK7iGs2MbRUvK6EY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMzA3/MjU5NGYxMTFjOGU0/NWE2NDU5MjRkOGJk/YmExYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}