Change, Toxic Work Cultures & the Warning Signs We Ignore - Hugo Meets Debbie

Change, Toxic Work Cultures & the Warning Signs We Ignore - Hugo Meets Debbie

June 30, 2026 · 57 min · Season 1 · Episode 12

About this episode

Debbie Longo discusses the importance of behavior over mindset in coaching and the signs of toxic work cultures.

Most coaches talk about mindset. Debbie Longo starts somewhere else entirely — with behavior. And the distinction, she'll tell you, changes everything. In this episode, Hugs sits down with Debbie Longo, founder of Life in Bloom NY, executive behavioral coach with over 20 years of experience, and host of both the Behavioral Profit Show and the Internal Shift Show. After 19 years of coaching clients alongside her spiritual teacher and mentor, Debbie launched her own practice in 2021 — just as the world was still finding its footing after the pandemic — and hasn't looked back since. Debbie breaks down why behavior has to come before mindset (you can't plant the plant without planting the seed first), how toxic work environments almost always start at the top, and why the number one thing she notices across every single client — no matter the industry or the crisis — is negativity. Not the kind people talk about. The kind people don't even realize they're carrying. They also dig into why Debbie refuses to do cookie-cutter coaching packages, what her Internal Shift Show is really trying to do for the person too scared to take the first step, and the one truth she wishes her younger…

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