A Podcast & Community for Women Who Lead

Some moves
don't come with
a roadmap.

Every remarkable career has a chapter no résumé can tell.

This is where those stories are finally told.

Your Host

Mary Mehr

Executive HR Leader • Leadership Strategist • Speaker

Helping leaders navigate the conversations that shape careers.

After years leading HR through complex organizational challenges, I created Bold Moves to explore the conversations that shape leaders long before success is visible.

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Honest conversations with founders, executives, innovators, and changemakers who chose courage over comfort.

C-Suite

Executives

Founders

& Entrepreneurs

Featured Conversations

The conversations that change how you lead.

Episode 01

Featured

Touraj Parang

President & COO, Serve Robotics (Nasdaq: SERV)
Author, Exit Path (McGraw Hill)

What does it actually take to build, scale, and exit a company? Touraj shares lessons on leadership, optionality, and navigating uncertainty when the stakes are highest.

Startups & Exits Leadership Robotics & AI

"Build deliberately. Scale intelligently. Exit on your terms."

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Your Host

Mary S. Mehr
has been in the room
when careers change.

Mary Mehr has spent more than fifteen years sitting at the intersection of leadership, organizational change, and human behavior. After advising executives, building organizations, and navigating her own reinventions, she created Bold Moves to explore the conversations most leaders have behind closed doors — but rarely in public.

She believes the most important leadership lessons come not from the moments we planned, but from the ones we didn't.

Director of Human Resources, Sourcewise

Founder, Orange Cat Coffee

15+ years of senior HR leadership across manufacturing, tech, and nonprofit sectors

M.A. in Human Resource Management, Webster University

Why Bold Moves?

Every leader has a story that never appears on LinkedIn.

The difficult decision.

The failed venture.

The career reinvention.

The moment everything changed.

Bold Moves exists to tell those stories.

Featured Guests

Leaders from across industries
telling the stories that matter.

Technology • Healthcare • Finance • Entrepreneurship • Nonprofits • Media

Touraj Parang

President & COO, Serve Robotics

Coming Soon

C-Suite Executive

Coming Soon

Founder & Entrepreneur

What Listeners Say

"One of the most authentic leadership conversations I've heard. Mary asks questions most interviewers avoid."

Listener — San Francisco, CA

"Bold Moves doesn't feel like a podcast. It feels like the conversation you've been waiting to have with someone who actually gets it."

Listener — New York, NY

"I've recommended this to every woman on my team. This is the kind of honest, human leadership content that actually changes how you think."

Listener — Austin, TX

Bold Moves Table — An Invitation-Only Fine Dining Experience

An invitation-only
dinner series for women
who believe meaningful
conversations deserve
more.

An invitation-only gathering where accomplished women build trusted relationships through meaningful conversation — not transactional networking. Because the best leadership insights happen away from the spotlight.

8 Seats per dinner

1 Table per event

Bay Area restaurants

0 Agendas, pitches

Each member pays her own check ($150–$350 per person)

A small reservation fee confirms attendance and helps keep every seat filled

We believe the best conversations happen when everyone is fully present

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"Food and wine are exceptional. Conversation is the reason we gather."

Bold Moves Table — Bay Area

Why Bold Moves Exists

The most important leadership lessons are rarely found in résumés
— they live in the difficult decisions leaders make along the way.

Bold Moves was created because those conversations almost never happen in public. The pivots, the failures, the moments of doubt before the breakthrough — they stay behind closed doors. This podcast opens that door.

Courage over comfort.

Every guest chose the harder path. We explore what that cost — and what it made possible.

No polished narratives.

We skip the rehearsed version. Our conversations go where most podcasts won't.

Built for leaders.

Founders, executives, operators — people making real decisions with real stakes.

What You'll Leave With

Every episode is built to change how you think.

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Courage to make difficult decisions — even without a roadmap.

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Practical leadership insights from people who've done it.

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Honest conversations about career reinvention and what it really takes.

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Inspiration to take your next bold move — whatever that looks like for you.

"Leadership isn't measured by titles. It's measured by the courage to make the next bold move."
— Mary Mehr

Be a Guest

Your story
belongs here.

Bold Moves is built for women with something real to say. If you've led through uncertainty, rebuilt after a setback, or made a move that didn't come with a playbook — we want to hear from you.

Some moves don't come with a roadmap.

The conversations that change how you lead.

Mary S. Mehr has been in the room when careers change.

Real stories.No filter.

Leaders from across industriestelling the stories that matter.

An invitation-only dinner series for women who believe meaningful conversations deserve more.

Leadership storiesworth reading.

The most important leadership lessons are rarely found in résumés — they live in the difficult decisions leaders make along the way.