Career courage with emotional clarity.
Finding Brave is an earnest career-and-life conversation led by Kathy Caprino, built around personal turning points and practical reflection. Recent episodes move from money fears and job-search mistakes to team stress, negotiation, authenticity, AI marketing, and the emotional cost of being misunderstood.
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Finding Brave is a warm, interview-driven show about courage in work, leadership, business, and personal reinvention. Kathy Caprino frames career development as something that happens through both strategy and self-understanding. The conversations are practical, but they rarely stay on the surface. A discussion about money becomes a look at fear, independence, family messages, nervous-system patterns, and the stories people treat as truth. A conversation about life purpose turns toward spiritual language, shutdown, judgment, and the risk of saying the wrong thing in a professional room. Episodes about leadership and stress look closely at teams, not just individuals. They ask what is working, what is not being said, and why a leader's version of reality may differ from what people share privately. The job-search material is more direct. It urges truthful confidence, clearer resumes, and less hiding behind humility when the task is to show the value a person can bring. Negotiation and communication episodes treat power as relational. The show is interested in the impact people have on teams, organizations, and trust, including when they do not notice that impact themselves. Recent marketing conversations bring AI into the mix, but the emphasis remains human: specific situations, emotional buying decisions, and language that makes someone feel recognized. The tone is intimate and encouraging. Caprino often follows a guest's idea with a clarifying question, a personal example, or a gentle push for the next layer. That gives the show a guided quality, closer to reflective coaching than debate. It also makes room for vulnerability without abandoning usefulness. Finding Brave fits listeners who want business and career advice that acknowledges stress, confidence, purpose, money, gender perception, respect, and authenticity as part of the same working life. Its recurring promise is not that bravery is loud. It is that naming the pattern can create enough room to act differently.
Made for: Suited to professionals, leaders, coaches, entrepreneurs, and career changers who want practical growth advice with a reflective, emotionally literate tone. It especially fits listeners drawn to confidence, purpose, stress, money, communication, and authentic leadership.
What sets it apart: Finding Brave blends career tactics with guided self-inquiry, letting resumes, negotiation, AI marketing, and team leadership share space with fear, identity, respect, and old belief patterns. The show feels less like a tips feed and more like a thoughtful coaching conversation.
Finding Brave with Kathy Caprino helps listeners access the courage they need to honor their true passions, talents, and values in life and work, and leverage them for more success and happiness. Listen in as Kathy and her inspiring, top-level guests share a wealth of strategies and tips for building a braver, more rewarding life and career.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kathy Caprino connects practical career and business questions to the beliefs, relationships and power dynamics that shape decisions at work.
Finding Brave turns questions about career progress and business performance into conversations about the beliefs and relationships underneath them.
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A grounded look at how money fears become protective beliefs, and how listeners might begin questioning them.
Finding Brave treats money fear as something that gets filtered through the body, nervous system, and brain before it turns into belief. Kathy Caprino and Katherine Morgan trace how parents, religion, social media, educational systems, and lived experience can shape what feels…
A warm, candid episode on bravery, empathy, and how spiritual language can land at work.
Finding Brave treats courage as an active choice, not a quality to admire from a distance. The episode is strongest when it connects bravery to practical emotional intelligence: reading a room, sensing what people are carrying, and entering a stalled moment with enough…
Amy's one-on-one interviews can reveal a view of the team that differs from its leader's.
A leader can think a team is doing well while its members see something quite different. Kathy Caprino and Amy explore that gap through Amy's approach to assessing teams. She starts with a pulse check: where the team is, where it wants to be, and what stands in the way.
Marketing gets sharper when a business names the situation behind the problem.
Finding Brave's marketing discussion settles into a practical point: people usually connect with situations they can recognize, not with abstract problem statements.
A practical argument for making care and capability visible together when respect is on the line.
Finding Brave takes up a familiar workplace tension: how a person can stay generous and humane while making competence unmistakable. Kathy Caprino and Alison shape the conversation around two linked signals, caring and capability, and show why respect often depends on both.
A snowy climb helps Claude Silver explain how she changed the way she talks to herself.
Kathy Caprino and Claude Silver talk about the pressure to act like someone else. Silver recalls struggling up a snowy peak in the cold when an instructor asks what is going on in her head. She tells him the song she has been singing to herself.
A grounded look at difficult workplace behavior, from bulldozers to credit stealers, and the context that can fuel it.
Finding Brave looks at workplace friction through Kathy Caprino and Tessa's discussion of difficult behavior at work, with the strongest sections centered on the bulldozer and the credit stealer.
Manuela Nicolosi explains how a referee stays focused after a mistake while play continues.
Manuela Nicolosi describes what a referee has to do after a missed call: acknowledge it, leave the analysis for later and follow the game. Dwelling on one decision, she says, can draw attention away from the next and lead to another error.
Career power without apology.
Career confidence with a leadership edge.
Career clarity with backbone.
Kathy Caprino interviews Tessa West, a psychology professor at NYU, about her book 'Jerks at Work.' West explains why conflict is not inherently bad and outlines seven types of toxic coworkers, including the kiss up/kick downer, bulldozer, credit stealer, free rider, micromanager, neglectful boss, and gaslighter.
Kathy Caprino interviews Manuela Nicolosi, the first woman to referee a men's European soccer final.
Kathy Caprino introduces her podcast Finding Brave and discusses how shame is internalized from childhood through relationships with caregivers.
April Rinne shares how losing both parents in a car accident at age 20 shaped her understanding of uncertainty and led her to develop a 'flux mindset' for navigating the future.
Kathy Caprino introduces her podcast Finding Brave and announces the upcoming launch of Kathy AI, a digital clone offering career and leadership guidance.
Kathy Caprino introduces her podcast and announces her new AI coaching clone, then discusses how lack of confidence can harm your career.
Kathy Caprino interviews Chris Cooper on Finding Brave episode 334 about elevating people and amplifying good.
A filter changes everything.
Kathy Caprino speaks with Jeffrey Allen, a Mindvalley author, energy healer, and former software engineer who says he introduced more than 1 million people to energy work.
Amy Lennecker says her research found that 79% of working Americans need joy to do their best work, and the number rises to 89% for executives.
Kathy Caprino introduces her podcast and coaching program, emphasizing the importance of showcasing your best self in job applications.
Kathy Caprino introduces a podcast episode about negotiating success in work, relationships, and career with guest Scott Tillema.
Kathy Caprino interviews marketing expert Alan Stern on "Finding Brave" about using AI to help solopreneurs and small businesses market with limited budgets.
Kathy Caprino interviews organizational psychologist Alison Fragale, a University of North Carolina professor and author of "Likeable Badass," about the science of status, power, and respect at work.
Kathy Caprino interviews Claude Silver, VaynerX’s chief heart officer, about her book Be Yourself at Work and the practical meaning of workplace authenticity.
Kathy Caprino discusses why networking is more effective than traditional job search methods and how to make it easier.