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The Power of Oxygen 1st
Dot Rock
100 episodes
1 week ago
Firing done right doesn’t fracture a business, it restores oxygen to it. I am reframing one of the most avoided leadership moments: termination. Drawing from real experiences guiding CEOs through difficult conversations, Dot shares why firing isn’t cruelty, it’s clarity. When handled with compassion, structure, and truth, letting someone go can realign a team, stabilize energy, and free both parties to move forward. This episode explores what actually happens when leaders stop avoiding hard c...
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Firing done right doesn’t fracture a business, it restores oxygen to it. I am reframing one of the most avoided leadership moments: termination. Drawing from real experiences guiding CEOs through difficult conversations, Dot shares why firing isn’t cruelty, it’s clarity. When handled with compassion, structure, and truth, letting someone go can realign a team, stabilize energy, and free both parties to move forward. This episode explores what actually happens when leaders stop avoiding hard c...
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Self-Improvement
Education,
Business,
Entrepreneurship,
Health & Fitness,
Mental Health
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The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 99: Why Firing Isn’t Cruel, It’s Clarity: Fire With Grace™ Series
Firing done right doesn’t fracture a business, it restores oxygen to it. I am reframing one of the most avoided leadership moments: termination. Drawing from real experiences guiding CEOs through difficult conversations, Dot shares why firing isn’t cruelty, it’s clarity. When handled with compassion, structure, and truth, letting someone go can realign a team, stabilize energy, and free both parties to move forward. This episode explores what actually happens when leaders stop avoiding hard c...
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1 week ago
12 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 98: Grow or Go: When Choosing Yourself Changes Everything
You don’t need to earn your right to breathe. And yet so many of us are doing exactly that—at home and at work. In this episode, I continue the grow-or-go conversation by sharing a deeply personal reflection from my own life, including lessons from my second divorce and how those same patterns showed up in my leadership and business. I talk about what it looks like to stop justifying your needs, stop over-functioning, and stop accepting breadcrumbs as love, support, or leadership. This episod...
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2 weeks ago
19 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 97: Turning Annual Reviews Into Powerful Grow or Go Moments
Annual reviews don’t fail because they’re broken — they fail because we approach them from fear instead of alignment. In this episode I’m talking about why annual reviews create so much tension in businesses and how we can turn them into true grow or go moments. I share what I’ve learned from sitting on both sides of the table as a CPA, HR leader, and executive advisor, and why reviews themselves aren’t the problem.. the approach is. I explain the three biggest reasons reviews fail: talking a...
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3 weeks ago
18 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 96: Goodbye 2025: Shedding Old Selves, Speaking Truth, and Building a Life That Feels Like Oxygen
Some years don’t just change you, they strip you down to the truth of who you are. This episode offers a gentle exhale, a closing ceremony for the year that asked more of you than you expected and revealed more strength than you knew you had. 2025 was a shedding year. A raw year. A year of truth-telling, boundary-setting, and becoming. In this love letter and goodbye letter, I am sharing the deeply personal moments that defined my most transformative season: moving cities, protecting myself a...
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1 month ago
19 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 95: Ego vs. Instruments: What JFK Jr. Teaches Us About Self Trust
A lie your body tells in the dark can feel louder than truth until you learn to trust the instruments that keep you steady. In this episode, I take you into the cockpit with me during my private pilot training: the night my instructor blindfolded me, tilted the plane, and taught me one of the most powerful lessons I’ve ever carried into real life. When our inner world is disoriented, our bodies can send signals that simply aren’t true. And just like a pilot in the dark sky, we have to learn h...
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1 month ago
20 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 94: The Others: Finding Family Beyond Blood with Anjilee Ferguson
Family isn’t always the people who share your last name. Sometimes the deepest healing comes from the “others” who choose you, love you, and hold space for the life you actually have, not the one you imagined. In this tender, heart-forward episode, I share the concept of “the others," the unexpected parents, children, mentors, neighbors, and friends who become our chosen family. I open up about my own story of longing for a big family, navigating divorce, solo parenting my son, and grieving t...
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1 month ago
42 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 93: The Art of Letting Go: Release What Drains Your Energy and Step Into Your Role as Chief Energy Officer
What if the very thing you’re holding onto is the reason you feel stuck, exhausted, or uninspired? In this episode, I am exploring the art of letting go in business, leadership, and life. From releasing employees who no longer align to ending relationships or routines that drain your energy, I am sharing my powerful Grow or Go method for compassionate, clear, and effective release. You’ll learn why letting go isn’t failure, it’s leadership. This episode is especially for those stepping fully ...
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2 months ago
22 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 92: Letting Go: The Courage to Make Space for What’s Next
I’m back and it feels so good to finally say that. After moving across Colorado, going through a divorce, and restructuring my business, I’ve learned firsthand what it means to let go and start again. In this episode, I’m sharing a very personal story about the $100 gym cancellation that taught me a much bigger lesson: sometimes the cost of alignment is worth every penny. Letting go isn’t giving up—it’s how we create space for what’s meant to come next. I’ll walk you through: How...
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2 months ago
16 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
Trailer: The Power of Oxygen 1st
Welcome to The Power of Oxygen 1st, the podcast that helps you stop running on empty and start leading your life and business with intention, joy, and energy. Hosted by Dot Rock, a CPA turned Chief Energy Officer, solo mom, and firm believer that burnout is not a badge of honor, this show is your permission slip to slow down, breathe, and do things differently. Each week, Dot shares real stories, honest conversations, and practical tools to help you refill your tank, delegate with confid...
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2 months ago

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 91: Writing Letters to New Beginnings
Have you ever paused during a major life transition to really honor what it means to you? In this heart-opening episode, I share a deeply personal ritual that's helping my family navigate our move from Durango to Fort Collins, Colorado. The decision to leave our home wasn't made lightly. After feeling increasingly unsafe in Durango, we embarked on a search for a place where we could rebuild and feel secure again. What drew us to Fort Collins wasn't entirely logical—every time I visited, I fe...
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6 months ago
11 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 90: Finding Peace in Transition
Sometimes the most powerful moments of clarity come when we're surrounded by chaos. In this deeply personal episode, I take you along on my journey of packing up our home for a major move while reflecting on the incredible transformation my son and I have experienced over the past year. The simple act of pausing my packing frenzy to journal revealed insights I hadn't fully processed until putting pen to paper. I share the raw, unfiltered journal entry that flowed out—a testament to how our l...
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6 months ago
15 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 89: The Sacred Balance of Motherhood, Business, and Breathing Room
What happens when the buck stops entirely with you as a parent? When there's no tag-teaming school mornings, no every-other-weekend off, and every decision—from lunch packing to therapy scheduling—falls squarely on your shoulders? This is the reality of solo parenting that goes far beyond just being single. Drawing from my personal experience raising my son Dominic, I dive deep into the critical distinction between single and solo parenting, exploring how carrying the full mental, emotional,...
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6 months ago
17 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 88: What Happens When We Start Parenting Through Brutal Honesty?
The moment when honesty breaks through darkness can change everything. After watching my son battle depression for nearly two years following a traumatic divorce and multiple hospitalizations for a toxic appendix, I witnessed a profound transformation sparked by one brutally honest conversation. Standing on the sidelines of a baseball tournament, seeing my 12-year-old son struggle with strikeouts and limited playing time, I faced a parental crossroads: comfort with platitudes or speak the di...
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6 months ago
17 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 87: How To Release What No Longer Serves You
Letting go is never just about the physical act—it's about honoring what was while creating space for what's next. In this deeply personal episode, I open up about the emotional journey of selling the home that held me through divorce, single motherhood, and profound personal transformation. The house that witnessed my son's childhood, epic nerf gun battles, and my own rebirth has been on the market for eight weeks, bringing up feelings of frustration mixed with the understanding that divine...
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6 months ago
9 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 86: What If Gratitude Is the Most Powerful Therapy?
Gratitude transforms us in ways we rarely recognize. While we often think of gratitude as a polite expression of thanks, its power runs much deeper – it's actually a potent emotional detox that lifts heaviness from our souls and raises our vibrational frequency. In this episode, I share a deeply personal gratitude project that helped pull me from a dark emotional place. After postponing sending obituaries to the children of a father figure who passed away two years ago, I finally created a m...
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7 months ago
15 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 85: Remembering Who You Really Are - The Journey Back to Your Truest Self
Have you ever wondered what happened to that fearless, authentic version of yourself from childhood? The one who didn't apologize for taking up space, who followed curiosity without hesitation, who led with heart instead of fear? This episode takes you on a deeply personal journey of remembering and reclaiming your most authentic self. We explore how returning to our essential nature isn't about becoming someone new after hardship or transition—it's about remembering who we've always been be...
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7 months ago
15 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 84: Don't Wait Until You're Drowning To Breathe
Struggling to keep up with the endless demands of entrepreneurship? You're not alone. In this powerful episode, we dive into the heart of what truly holds business owners back—not lack of hustle, but lack of support. As entrepreneurs, we often wear 47 hats while eyeing that 48th one, convinced that delegating is harder than doing it ourselves. This deeply ingrained belief system doesn't just exhaust us—it fundamentally limits our businesses and our lives. When you're the only one holding eve...
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7 months ago
10 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 83: What People ACTUALLY Need During Grief
The moments that test our limits rarely need solutions—they need presence. After weeks of hospital stays with my son Dominic, I've been reflecting deeply on what it means to truly support someone through crisis. That well-intentioned question we often ask—"What can I do to help?"—places the burden of instruction on someone already drowning in overwhelm. True support looks different. It's my book club friends who gathered money to stock a refrigerator with healing foods when one member's son ...
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7 months ago
16 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 82: How To Rise From the Ashes When Life Interrupts
Life has a way of interrupting our best-laid business plans. Just when things seem to be getting back to normal, the universe throws a curveball that changes everything. That's what happened to me recently when my son went from enjoying a beautiful Mother's Day dinner to being critically ill in the hospital within hours. The experience was terrifying - his fourth or fifth hospitalization in eight months. As I stayed by his side for days, exhausted yet present, I was reminded of a profound tr...
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7 months ago
11 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 81: Divine Whispers, Earth Angels, and the Will to Receive"
Magnetic energy flows when we align our actions with our vision. This episode reveals how operating as your future self—the one who has already achieved the success you desire—transforms your business strategy and results. When we live in alignment, clarity emerges naturally. Your decision-making accelerates because you stop outsourcing your authority to trends and outside opinions. Your marketing becomes genuinely magnetic because you fully believe your own message. This isn't about wishful...
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7 months ago
20 minutes

The Power of Oxygen 1st
Firing done right doesn’t fracture a business, it restores oxygen to it. I am reframing one of the most avoided leadership moments: termination. Drawing from real experiences guiding CEOs through difficult conversations, Dot shares why firing isn’t cruelty, it’s clarity. When handled with compassion, structure, and truth, letting someone go can realign a team, stabilize energy, and free both parties to move forward. This episode explores what actually happens when leaders stop avoiding hard c...