When Your Boss Is the Problem (And You Can’t Quit Yet) | Kate Lowry

2026-02-27

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Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!Join Wendy and Christine Santos for Harness Your Morning, a live two-hour masterclass on March 4th. If you've ever felt behind before your feet even hit the floor, this practice may shift everything for you. You'll leave with a customized, sustainable blueprint to design a morning rhythm that fits your real life—one that supports your energy, your focus, and the direction you're heading. Register here.In this episode, Wendy sits down with Kate Lowry, CE...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

Join Wendy and Christine Santos for Harness Your Morning, a live two-hour masterclass on March 4th. If you've ever felt behind before your feet even hit the floor, this practice may shift everything for you. You'll leave with a customized, sustainable blueprint to design a morning rhythm that fits your real life—one that supports your energy, your focus, and the direction you're heading.

Register here.

In this episode, Wendy sits down with Kate Lowry, CEO coach and author of Unbreakable: How to Thrive Under Fear-Based Leaders, who wrote a book she didn't want to write. Kate would have much rather written about strengths-based leadership—but when she noticed that 7 out of 10 leaders were operating in high-control, hierarchical, "my way or the highway" styles, and her friends kept jumping from one toxic workplace to another, she realized something had shifted. And people needed tools to protect themselves.

They explore:

Why you can't leave a toxic job when you need health insurance or a steady paycheck—and how to protect yourself anyway
What it means to fill yourself to overflowing and give from the saucer (not pour from an empty cup)
How to create meaning from workplace adversity instead of letting it drain you

This is a conversation for women who need to stay where they are (for now) but refuse to lose themselves in the process. What if you could thrive even when your boss is the problem?

Connect with Kate:

Get her book, Unbreakable: How to Thrive Under Fear-Based Leaders

Instagram @kateunbreakablelowry

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Referenced in this Episode:

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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