No fluff. No corporate spin. Just the conversations that needed to happen a long time ago.
No One Tells You This
A Real Work Ready™ Podcast
The invisible operating layer of professional work. Finally made explicit.
Most professionals spend years navigating an operating system nobody ever taught them — the unwritten rules, unspoken standards, and invisible dynamics that actually determine who succeeds, who stalls, and who never figures out why.
No One Tells You This pulls that system into the light — through honest, unfiltered conversations with executives, managers, HR leaders, and professionals who finally decided to say what nobody said to them.
Podcast Listeners
Early Professionals
You're navigating the invisible system right now. This show gives you the language, the frameworks, and the reassurance that what you thought was your personal failing is a system problem nobody solved.
Managers and Leaders
You're on the other side — evaluating performance, giving feedback, exhausted by having to teach basics that nobody ever standardized. This show gives you language and validation too.
HR & People Leaders
You're responsible for solving this at scale. Every episode is a data point on the system problem — with frameworks and evidence that this is diagnosable, solvable, and worth investing in.
Every episode ends the same way.
The thing nobody told me — but that changed everything once I figured it out — was...
What Managers Actually See
The unspoken criteria.
How performance is really evaluated.
What happens in rooms professionals are never in.
How reputations are formed — and fixed.
The Invisible Rules of Organizations
How decisions actually get made.
How culture is shaped — and quietly eroded.
Why onboarding fails.
Why capable people plateau.
Why this is often a design problem — not a talent problem.
The Operating System Nobody Installed
The mechanics of professional execution.
Clarifying work. Managing up. Following through.
Communicating trust. Building signal.
The Manager’s Honest Confession
Leaders sharing what they wish they could tell their teams — but usually can’t.
Radical transparency from the other side of the table.
The Moment That Changed Work
The turning point.
The feedback that landed differently.
The mistake that reframed everything.
Every professional has one. Most never say it out loud.
Staying True to Yourself
Ambition without identity loss.
Adapting to power without becoming someone you’re not.
Growing inside the system without disappearing inside it.
The Themes We Explore
About the host
Laura Massetti is a former Fortune 100 executive and commercial leader with 15 years of experience hiring, managing, and evaluating professionals inside fast-paced organizations. She is the founder of Real Work Ready™ — the professional operating training program built from what managers evaluate but nobody teaches.
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