Chief of Staff Confidential
The confidential truths behind the role.
Every executive has one. Almost nobody trains for the job.
Chief of Staff Confidential is a weekly interview podcast about the real work of chiefs of staff — the role behind the title. Each Monday, Maya asks the questions a chief of staff actually wrestles with, and Marcus answers from the chair: managing up, running the room, owning the calendar, coaching the principal, and making decisions land across an executive office.
No theory, no jargon. One question, one story, one idea you can use the same week — whether you're a first-time chief of staff or a seasoned one.
New episodes every Monday.
Recent Episodes
Everything Is a Project
Every chief of staff is running projects, whether they call them that or not. Project management as the hidden engine of the role: scoping the ambiguous, sequencing the urgent, and landing outcomes with no direct authority.
Own the Screen
The person who narrates the meeting owns the meeting. One idea, driven deep: how the chief of staff who runs the screen ends up running the room.
You're Not Alone
The loneliness of being the only chief of staff in the building, the invisible save nobody will ever see, and the truth that breaks people around month eight: your wins belong to your principal.
The Reading List
Five books every chief of staff should read — Extreme Ownership, Multipliers, The First 90 Days, High Output Management, and Essentialism — and the one takeaway from each you can use on Monday morning.
Take the Chair
The starter kit: multiply the principal, run the operating system, and build trust the only way it lasts — discretion about what you hear, candor about what you think.