Workplace truth with lived-experience clarity.
Living Corporate treats workplace culture as personal, political, and practical. Through long-form conversations, it connects HR, DEI, leadership, storytelling, rest, body image, and community care to the lived experience of people navigating institutions.
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Living Corporate is a workplace culture show with a clear point of view: what happens at work cannot be separated from race, gender, class, health, grief, money, or community. Its interviews are conversational, but the questions are rarely small. A discussion about HR can become a lesson in documentation, privilege, and how Black employees are expected to carry risk differently. A conversation about DEI can turn into a deeper argument about systems, capitalism, and whether fairness work is allowed to challenge the structures that created the harm. The show does not treat inclusion as branding. It treats it as a daily condition that affects how people move through meetings, leadership decisions, career pivots, and moments of public violence. There is warmth in the room. There is also impatience with euphemism. Zach often frames guests through relationship and gratitude before steering toward sharper questions about their work, their choices, and the pressures around them. Recent episodes move from workplace fairness with Sandra Sims-Williams to HR and culture with Celeste Warren, coalition building with Dr. Janice Gassam Asare, and Black storytelling through Eddie Griffith’s film Baldy. The feed also makes space for wellness conversations, including body dysmorphia, eating disorder recovery, rest, sleep deprivation, and the needs of women, people of color, and LGBTQ plus communities. That breadth can feel unusual for a business show, but it is the point. Living Corporate understands work as one place where broader social patterns become visible. It is practical when it needs to be, especially on HR, change management, and navigating resistance. It is personal when the subject demands it. The result is serious, affirming, and plainspoken, built for listeners who want more than a sanitized culture conversation.
Made for: Best for listeners who care about workplace equity, HR, leadership, DEI, employee experience, and the real emotional costs of professional life. It especially fits people who want business conversations grounded in identity, community, and practical survival.
What sets it apart: Living Corporate stands apart by treating workplace topics as inseparable from lived experience and social power. Its long, relationship-based interviews allow nuance that faster business shows often flatten.
Living Corporate's flagship podcast of the same name spotlights a variety of executives, activists, entrepreneurs, elected officials, authors, artists, and influencers at the intersection of lived experience and work.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
On the TV & Film shelf, Living Corporate connects workplace power to lived questions of identity, safety, health care, money, and community.
Living Corporate treats workplace culture as something lived rather than filed away in policy. Zach leads guest conversations from code-switching and health insurance to change management, coalition building, and power inside institutions.
This is the show that makes your HR vocabulary answer for the power beneath it.
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Jacksonville, HR, and the pressure on leaders to respond with care and specificity.
Living Corporate frames Jacksonville as a reminder that words and actions from civic and political leaders carry real weight, especially for Black and brown employees waiting to see what follows.
Celeste Warren turns workplace talk into a discussion of systems, power, and the people inside them.
Living Corporate frames Celeste Warren's conversation with Zach as a link between employee experience and go-to-market effectiveness. The episode keeps an interview-first cadence as Warren reflects on leaving a very senior executive role at a global pharmaceutical company for…
A grounded conversation about coalition building, privacy, and staying connected.
Dr. Janice Gassam Asare returns to Living Corporate in a conversation that starts on familiar ground and then turns more serious. The episode sits with disconnection, coalition building, and the pressure to sort people into rival camps, while Zach and Janice keep coming back to…
A grounded change-management conversation about money, identity, and what it takes to step away.
Living Corporate is sharpest when it stays with the personal cost of a change practitioner's transition. Nubiana Abin returns as a familiar presence around the show, and the conversation follows how she prepared for a sabbatical: trimming everyday spending, protecting the plan,…
Code switching opens into a clear look at work, care, and the systems around both.
Living Corporate uses Cassandra Rose's discussion of code switching to trace the link between work, identity, and the systems that sit between them.
A grounded conversation asks whether resilience can mean healing instead of surviving what should never have been normalized.
Crystal Johnson's conversation reframes resilience for Black women as healing, safety and release, not just endurance. The episode traces how the word can quietly reward emotional suppression, reluctance to be vulnerable, constant caregiving and survival through adversity.
A career pivot opens into a clear-eyed conversation about DEI, power, and workplace outcomes.
Living Corporate centers a career pivot in a workplace conversation about HR, culture, and work, bringing Celeste Warren into a discussion of moving from a senior executive role at a global pharmaceutical company into authorship and consulting.
Canarian community radio for poetry, justice, education, and democratic culture.
Care, systems, survival, and social change.
Lectionary reflection with pastoral depth.
Crystal Johnson hosts the first live episode of We Ain't Dying for This, featuring wellness consultant Lauren Dike.
Celeste Warren, former chief diversity inclusion officer at Merck, discusses her transition to consulting and authorship.
Zach opens on Jacksonville and keeps the grief plain.
Zach opens by welcoming Celeste Warren and framing the conversation around employee experience and go-to-market effectiveness.
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This episode features an interview with creative writer and director Eddie Griffith discussing his passion for storytelling, his journey in film, and the connections between employee experience and market effectiveness.
A panel discussion with therapists Brittany and Ray explores body dysmorphia, its triggers, coping strategies, and support for individuals and families.
This episode features a conversation with Tara Turk-Hayes about connecting employee experience to go-to-market effectiveness, with personal reflections on career development and gratitude.
A panel discussion on the importance of rest and well-being, featuring experts from The Good Lounge and NAPBAR, focusing on resources for women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community.
Living Corporate host Zach interviews Nubiana Abin, a change management consultant and founder of Form and Signal, about her 12-year career at Accenture and as a director of change and integrated planning before taking a sabbatical after simultaneous personal and professional collapse — layoffs, a relationship ending, and what she calls 'the worst haircut of my life.' Nubiana built Form and Signal around a product called the Friction Radar, an organizational assessment that maps observable resistance signals to specific friction categories, attaches P&L impact estimates, and provides conversation scripts enabling executive sponsors to communicate consistently with the C-suite, project teams, and impacted employees.
Zach opens by tying the show to employee engagement and go-to-market effectiveness.
This episode features an interview with disability advocate Imani Barbarin, exploring how ableism connects to broader systems of oppression and its impact on employee experience and corporate effectiveness.
This episode features an interview with Alfred Edmond Jr.
This episode features an interview with Emanny from the Joe Budden Podcast, exploring the intersection of creative work, employee experience, and corporate effectiveness.