No One Told Me This
Paul Malatzky
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No One Told Me This is a podcast about leadership, teams, and workplace culture, not as they’re meant to work, but as they’re actually experienced.
Hosted by Paul, the show explores the unspoken realities of working with people, the assumptions we make, the tensions we avoid, and the things we often learn the hard way. Through solo reflections, candid conversations, and the occasional deep dive, it’s a space to make sense of how work really gets done.
From culture drift and team dynamics to decision-making under pressure, each episode takes a grounded, thoughtful look at what leadership looks like in practice, especially when things aren’t neat or predictable.
Because sometimes the most important lessons aren’t the ones we’re taught. They’re the ones no one told us… or maybe we just weren’t listening.
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S2E2 S02E02 - Who are we really?
Send a textWe all have a natural way of showing up.Some of us are steady and structured. Some are expressive and energised. Some are analytical and cautious, others are direct and decisive.But here’s…
S2E1 S02E01 - Values vs Valued
Send a textMost businesses have a list of values.They’re often on the wall, or on the website..But here’s the real question:Are the people who live those values the ones being backed, listened to,…
S1E14 S01E14 - The Non-Urgent Urgency
Send a textIt’s the same story every December:Everyone’s tired, everyone wants a break, and somehow everything suddenly becomes “urgent”… even when it absolutely isn’t.In this final episode of Season…
S1E13 S01E13 - Vertical vs Horizontal Relationships
Send a textAre people in your team going over heads, or across the room? In small businesses, relationships matter. But how those relationships form, vertically (up and down the hierarchy) or…
S1E12 S01E12 - Waste Factory (Part 6): Burn It Down or Fix It
Send a textWe’ve taken the full tour. Through the Time Furnace, the Rework Loop, the Silence Budget, and the Talent Skip Bin.Now it’s time to talk about what happens next.In this final episode of…
S1E11 S01E11 - Waste Factory (Part 5): The Talent Skip Bin
Send a textBehind the Time Furnace. Past the Rework Loop. Just near the skip bin.No, not the one for old chairs and monitors, but the Talent Skip Bin.It’s where good people get wasted.In Part 5 of…
S1E10 S01E10 - The Quiet Drift Away
Send a textThey don’t complain. They don’t warn you. They just stop coming back. In this episode of No One Told Me This, Paul looks at what really causes customers to drift away, quietly, slowly, and…
S1E9 S01E09 - Waste Factory (Part 4): The Silence Budget
Send a textYou’ve probably paid into it without realising.Welcome to The Silence Budget - Part 4 of Inside the Waste Factory.In this episode, Paul and Jason explore the quietest (and most expensive)…
S1E8 S01E08 - Waste Factory (Part 3): The Rework Loop
Send a textYou know the job. You did it. Then you did it again.Welcome to The Rework Loop – where time, trust, and morale quietly disappear.In Part 3 of Inside the Waste Factory, we look at the cost…
S1E7 S01E07 - The Truth About Trust
Send a textThey say trust is the foundation of every team…But what if it’s not?In this episode of No One Told Me This, I unpack why trust, at least the emotional, vulnerability-based kind, might not…
S1E6 S01E06 - You Can't Multiply Chaos
Send a textYou can’t multiply chaos and expect order. Yet that’s exactly what happens when businesses try to scale without the right foundations.In this episode of No One Told Me This, I dig into the…
S1E5 S01E05 - Waste Factory (Part 2): The Time Furnace
Send a textWhere did the week go?This is Episode 5 of No One Told Me This, and Part 2 of The Waste Factory — a six-part mini-series exploring the inefficiencies every business pays for (but no one…
S1E4 S01E04 - Waste Factory (Part 1): Hidden Costs You Don’t See
Send a textNo door. No sign on the wall. Just hours going in… and nothing coming out.This is Episode 4 of No One Told Me This, and the start of a six-part mini-series: The Waste Factory.In this…
S1E3 S01E03 - Trust vs Confidence (They’re Not the Same Thing)
Send a textWe say we want trust in teams, but what if that’s not really the issue?This episode flips the usual script and introduces a new lens: Trust and Confidence aren’t the same thing, and…
S1E2 S01E02 - Would You Follow You?
Send a textThree deceptively simple questions. That’s it. No frameworks, no buzzwords. Just an honest gut check about how you lead, how you work with others, and whether you’re actually someone…
S1E1 S01E01 – Doing the Thing: Why leading is messier than they told you
Send a textSo you’ve stepped up, spoken up, or been tapped on the shoulder… and now you’re supposed to lead?This episode is for the ones who find themselves doing the thing, leading a team, shaping a…
Trailer – Welcome to No One Told Me This
Send a textWelcome to No One Told Me This — a podcast about culture, leadership, teams, and all the tricky stuff that never makes the onboarding pack.This quick trailer gives you a sense of what to…
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No One Told Me This has published 17 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Business, Education.
No One Told Me This is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 17m.
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