The Warrior Heart — Why Your "Dumpster Fire" Day is a Leadership Win By Laura Brazan Episode 107 Featured Guest: Nancy Lasater This is a dyslexia leadership guide for kinship caregivers. If you are a kinship caregiver or a grandparent raising gr…
What is the Return on Investment (ROI) for a life spent in the "Second Cradle"? As the Invisible CEO of a kinship family, we often measure our success by the "Fix." We want to fix the trauma, fix the behavior, and fix the broken system that landed t…
The Bear in the Bathroom Mirror In the corporate world, trying to run modern, high-speed software on an outdated motherboard leads to a total system crash. In the world of the Invisible CEO, we face a similar crash when the "Old-School" parenting m…
In the quiet of a Tuesday evening, have you ever felt the weight of a silent resentment? You’re standing in the kitchen, tracking the "emotional motherboard" of your home—the trauma triggers of a grandchild, the complex legal schedules, the delicat…
The Architecture of the Village: Mastering Emotional Regulation with Bonnie Butler In the boardroom of kinship care, the most dangerous threat isn't the legal system or the financial strain—it’s Dysregulation. When a child’s trauma meets a grandpar…
The Power of Play: Building a "Lickity Pop" Legacy with Ellie Moss In the high-pressure world of the Invisible CEO, we often spend our energy on the "Big Three": Legal, Medical, and Financial. But there is a fourth department that is just as critic…
Leading Through Grief: How to Integrate Family Crisis and a Professional Vision with Brad Hoffman What happens to your professional vision when your personal world is dismantled by grief? How do you lead an organization with clarity when your heart…
The Centennial Milestone: Refusing to Let the Pain Go to Waste with Ruth Hankin One hundred episodes. For some, it’s a digital metric. For the Invisible CEO, it’s a "Centennial" marker of a journey that has been paved with equal parts struggle and …
A Grandmother’s Journey: Reclaiming Dreams While Raising Three Granddaughters with Ruthie Sophie What happens to your personal mission statement when your life is suddenly redirected by a phone call? For many in the 2.7 Million, the arrival of gran…
Moving from Suffering to Love: Emotional Healing for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren with Dr. Anthony Silard Being an Invisible CEO is often a solo mission. You are managing a high-stakes "turnaround" of a family unit, often while grieving the l…
The Attachment Audit: Navigating the Grandparent-Grandchild Bond with Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst In the corporate world, we call it "onboarding." In the Second Cradle, we call it Attachment. When a grandchild enters your home unexpectedly, they aren't…
Building the Bridge of Resilience: Nurturing Hope Through Trauma with Dr. Dale Atkins How do we hold a child's hand through their trauma when our own hands are shaking? In this pivotal episode, Laura Brazan sits down with renowned psychologist Dr. …
From Foster to Forever: Leading Through the "Warrior Heart" of Adoption What happens when a "temporary rescue mission" becomes a lifelong commitment? In this episode, Laura sits down with Rachel Fulginiti, who spent a decade navigating the fracture…
The 2.7 Million Manifesto: Trading "The Retirement Version" for a Mission What happens when the life you planned suddenly vanishes, replaced by a second cradle you never expected to rock? We are often told that raising our grandchildren is a "sacri…