Bernadette BoasExecutive Leadership Coach, Trainer and Speaker, Ball of Fire Coaching · Become the Leader Everyone Wants to Follow and No One Can Overlook.

Interview and Tips - Bernadette Boas of Shedding the Corporate Bitch - What Have You Learned?

28 Nov 2010 · 2 min

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In this interview, Bernadette Boas reflects on the personal lessons she gained while writing her book, "Shedding the Corporate Bitch." She describes the process as a deep journey of self‑discovery, revealing who she truly is beyond the persona she previously presented. Boas acknowledges the difficulty of writing, credits seasoned authors, and emphasizes the importance of taking full accountability for her past actions and interactions. She apologizes to those she may have hurt and commits to making amends and paying it forward. Boas explains how she will leverage the book’s story and the insights she’s gained in her work as a business coach, consultant, speaker, and trainer, targeting audiences of all ages and genders. She outlines the core message she will convey: living authentically, applying that authenticity to business, relationships, family, divorce, and other life challenges, and embracing the philosophy that "it is what it is" without unnecessary upset. The interview highlights her shift from a defensive stance to one of acceptance and purposeful action.

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What have you learned from writing this wonderful book with this wonderful title? Oh my goodness. Oh, thank you. What I've learned is, and I'm still learning, truly who I am. And we all are. Yes. It's an ongoing process. No, it is. You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. So I learned that. I also learned writing's really hard. Amen. Yes, I credit all of those who have authored books, and especially multiple ones, because it's not easy. Yes. I also learned how to really take accountability and responsibility for what I do, how I live, who I interact with, how I interact with them, because I thought I was very responsible most of my life. But writing this book, and it really is kind of telling— saying I'm sorry to anyone who had interacted with me for many years, that I apologize that that wasn't really me. You know, and I'll make it up and pay forward. So I've learned a great deal just about who I am and what I really want to contribute to the world as opposed to take out of it.
Mm-hmm. That makes sense. Yeah. And so you'll be using this story to help other people?
Absolutely. I already, as a business coach and consultant, I already try to help individuals and businesses change their lives. This is one of those perfect opportunities and a perfect message to go to young people, old people, men and women, and, and try to help them through coaching, through public speaking, through writing, through training programs, through audios and CDs, as to what it really means to live in your authentic self, so to speak, and apply it to business, apply it to life, apply it to family and relationships, to divorce, to all the different areas of our lives that people bitch about or angst about. And yet if they just let it go and it is what it is, and if they accept that life is what it is, which was a huge lesson I've learned over the past couple years and especially since writing this book, is I've come to a point where I'm like, you know, it is what it is, and I don't get upset about it anymore. And trust me, Many people, when they hear this, that know me will be like, "I need to see it to believe it."