S2 Ep1: Your Family’s Conflict Style Is Running Your Meetings
Leadership gets clearer when you stop avoiding the hard parts and start asking where your habits came from. In this episode, we dig into conflict roots. Those early lessons taught you whether to speak...
13 Jan 5min
Season 2: New Year, New Focus
Fresh starts are overrated. What actually changes us are the layers we’re willing to look at honestly. This season, Five with Fry is narrowing its focus to one thing: conflict. Not the dramatic kind—t...
6 Jan 4min
51: We Don’t Need A New Me To Have A Breakthrough Year
We’re not doing “new year, new me.” We’re doing new year, same person—just less exhausted and more honest. 2025 was a lot. And pretending it wasn’t doesn’t set you up for a breakthrough—it sets you up...
30 Dec 20255min
50: Cookie Decorating Broke Me, And That’s Okay
Some holidays don’t feel festive. They feel quiet in a way that echoes. If this is your first holiday alone, your kids are somewhere else, you’ve moved, divorced, or lost someone, the pressure to “mak...
23 Dec 20255min
49: How Politeness Standards Can Stall Innovation At Work
If your meetings are polite and nothing is changing, that’s not a culture win. It’s a warning sign. In this episode of Five with Fry, we talk about how “being nice” often becomes a way to avoid tellin...
16 Dec 20254min
48: Why The First Boundary Is Easy And The Fifth Is Brutal
The first “no” is brave. The fifth “no”? That’s the one that tells people you’re serious. In this episode, we dig into a very real holiday scenario: you set a simple boundary—if grandpa uses slurs, I’...
9 Dec 20255min
47: Stop Sugarcoating. You’re Not A Bakery.
What actually happens when you stop tiptoeing around someone’s feelings and start telling the truth with care? In this episode, we dig into the real work of hard conversations: be clear, be kind, and ...
2 Dec 20255min
46: Therapy Was Going Great… Then Auntie Showed Up
The holiday glow can flip into a pressure cooker the second you step through a familiar door. In this episode, we dig into why even steady healing can wobble at home, how old family dynamics reactivat...
25 Nov 20255min
