What Jan’s Story Teaches Us About Survival, Silence, and Support There are some conversations that are difficult to hear, and there are some stories that are even harder to tell. The latest episode of The FEMCAST is one of those stories — raw, courageous, and deeply important. Jan Cruickshank’s experience of workplace sexual harassment and…
The Hidden Trauma of Workplace Bullying Workplace bullying is still too often dismissed as personality clashes, office politics, or “just part of professional life.” But what if it is far more serious than uncomfortable working relationships? What if workplace bullying is actively changing how the brain functions? What if the exhaustion, anxiety, and loss of…
When the Dream Job Becomes a Nightmare: Survival, Science, and Sovereignty What happens when your “dream job”, the one with the pay raise, the great perks, and the perfect location, turns into a psychological battleground? In our latest episode of The FEMCAST, we sat down with Amy Gionnotti, an environmental scientist turned leadership strategist,…
Kelly Donovan and the Staggering Cost of Integrity In a world that claims to value transparency, we often treat whistleblowers like heroes in movies, but like pariahs in reality. This week on The FEMCAST, as part of our Gaslit Brain series, we sat down with Kelly Donovan. Her story is not just a critique of…
… and Why It’s Costing Women Their Lives When we talk about workplace bullying, most people picture an overbearing boss or a toxic colleague making life miserable. What we don’t picture is a 28-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police, a counter-terrorism officer, a senior professional trusted with national security, being systematically bullied, gaslit, and pushed…
How Narcissism is Shaping Our Workplaces, Politics, and Lives Ever met someone who feeds off admiration, but feels nothing for anyone else? Someone who can ruin lives and still play the victim? Have you ever worked with someone who seemed magnetic — confident, charming, persuasive — until you saw what lay beneath? The…
Following in the Footsteps of Greatness – Connolly Carries the Torch from Michael D Michael D. Higgins leaves behind an extraordinary legacy, a hard act to follow by any measure. For fourteen years, he led with empathy, and profound humanity. His lifelong advocacy for social justice, vision, equality, and the arts reshaped this nation. It…
When the Workplace Becomes a Warzone What happens when manipulation becomes a management style? When truth-telling is punished, and chaos is the language of control? In this week’s episode of The Gaslit Brain, we share a real story from a listener who endured severe psychological abuse and gaslighting in her workplace, a…
When Empathy Wins This weekend, empathy won. We voted in a president whose leadership is grounded not in power, but in empathy. Catherine Connolly’s calm courage, her compassion, and her clarity of thought give us hope — hope that humanity, empathy, and integrity still have a place at the head of the table. And it…
Integrity Won. Smears Lost. Ireland Has Spoken. Today, Ireland chose calmness over chaos. Compassion over cruelty. Class over smear. At the heart of that choice stands President Catherine Connolly, a woman who has shown that leadership can be bold and gentle, principled and accessible, courageous and kind. Catherine brings steadiness. She has…