Allie Trimble Lozano

09/08/2026

🚨 CULTURE WARNING SIGN #10: “WE HAD NO IDEA.”

When an organizational problem finally becomes a crisis and executive leadership says “we didn’t know,” ask another question:

Did nobody know—or did nobody feel safe telling leadership?

Because when employees, frontline managers and teams have known about an issue for months while senior leadership remains unaware, you may be looking at much more than poor communication.

You may have a leadership accessibility and psychological safety problem.

Information gets filtered as it travels up organizational hierarchies.

Bad news gets softened.

Employee concerns go nowhere.

Leaders become disconnected from frontline operations.

Employees who speak up get labeled difficult.

Eventually, people learn that silence is safer than honesty.

And that’s how leadership gets blindsided by problems the rest of the organization saw coming.

Strong company culture requires more than an open-door policy.

It requires leaders who are visible, accessible, curious and safe to tell the truth to—especially when the truth isn’t flattering.

🩺 Allie’s Diagnosis:

If everyone knew except leadership, it’s not a communication problem. It’s an accessibility problem.

Before your next executive leadership meeting, ask:

“What does our organization know right now that we don’t?”

Then make it safe enough for someone to answer.

💬 Leaders: How do you make sure you’re hearing what you NEED to hear instead of what people think you WANT to hear?

09/07/2026

If you’re an accomplished professional looking for your next job right now, I see you.

Apply. Apply. Apply.

Rejected. Ghosted. “Overqualified.”

Or my favorite, just absolutely no response at all. Then wake up tomorrow and start applying all over.

For people who have spent decades building successful careers, executive leadership roles and professional identities, unemployment or a major career transition can be incredibly disorienting.

Because when you’ve always known yourself as the executive, leader, CEO, VP, director, professional, problem solver or high achiever…

Who are you when the title disappears?

I’ve had to remind myself:

❌I’m not my job.
❌I’m not my résumé.
❌I’m not my former title.
✅I’m Allie.

And while finding the next professional opportunity matters, I’m trying to remember that there’s an even bigger question:

What kind of LIFE do I want to build next?

Because there’s a difference between building a successful career and building a life you actually want to live.

If you’re navigating unemployment, executive job searching, career transition, midlife career change or simply questioning what success means to you now, give yourself some grace in the messy middle.

You’re not a résumé waiting for someone to approve you. You’re a whole person deciding what comes next.

This question of identity underneath our titles is also part of the work we explore inside The Unfiltered Leader. My next cohort is enrolling now, and if you’re an accomplished woman ready to get intentional about how you want to live AND lead in your next chapter, you can book an Allie-vention Call through the link in my bio.

Don’t build another career just because it looks good on paper and garners applause.

Build a life you actually want to be living. And let me help you do it!

09/04/2026

🚨New Podcast Episode🚨

2.13 Hustle Culture Is Burning Women Out |@ Lopez, Mija Yes You Can

Hustle culture told us to fill the calendar, say yes to everything, and rest when we're dead. Iris Lopez calls that what it is: A trap.

I sit down with El Paso radio personality and nonprofit founder Iris Lopez, the woman behind Mija, Yes You Can. Iris went from a shy kid who was too nervous to sing in front of a crowd, to local TV news, to out of work during COVID with food stamps and exactly six months of rent in the bank. That's where she built a nonprofit that has since put more than $50,000 in scholarships into the hands of women and girls.

But the part that sticks with you comes at the end. Iris names the belief she had to let go of to become who she is now: Don't get so busy building a legacy that you forget to live the life you're actually in.

If you're the woman who says yes when she means no, who wears "busy" like a badge, and who's quietly wondering when all this work is finally going to be enough, this one's for you.

In this conversation:
• Why waiting tables might be the best leadership training there is
• What COVID cracked open for both Iris and Allie
• Why Mija, Yes You Can welcomes mijos too, and why dads keep reaching out
• The Simon Sinek line that will permanently change how you ask for help
• The man in the suit who laughed in her face, and why she's grateful he did
• Why learning to say no is the most underrated career skill women have

Catch Iris on the morning show at KISS FM El Paso.
📣📣The 6th annual Mija Market is September 12 at Cowtown Boots: Vendors, lowriders, music, and a whole lot of El Paso.

Hustle culture told us to fill the calendar, say yes to everything,...

09/02/2026

📣New Blog Posted📣

Here’s an uncomfortable little truth for all of us strong, capable, “don’t worry, I’ve got it” women:

Sometimes we’re pi**ed off about a life we helped create. 😬 Oof. I know. That one stung!

During a recent Unfiltered Leader session, I asked the women what would change if they actually put themselves at the TOP of their own priority list.

One woman said:

“My resentment.”

Well, s**t. Because how many times have we silently taken on one more thing?

One more project.
One more favor.
One more problem to solve.
One more person to take care of.

Nobody held us at gunpoint.
We said yes.
And yes.
And yes.
And then one day we’re exhausted and wondering why the hell everyone expects so much from us.

Maybe because we’ve spent years convincing them we can handle everything.

We hear, “You can’t pour from an empty cup,” but some of us get three damn drops in there and immediately start passing them out. And by some of us I definitely mean the old Allie 🙋🏼‍♀️😂

That’s not the point. Your cup is supposed to be FULL. You give from the overflow. Putting yourself first isn’t selfish. Saying no isn’t selfish. Admitting you’re overwhelmed isn’t weakness.

And maybe some of the resentment we’re carrying toward everyone else is actually an invitation to finally ask ourselves:

Where have I been abandoning myself while waiting for someone else to notice I need help? Whew.

I wrote more about this one because that conversation stuck with me.

My newest blog is “The Resentment We Build Ourselves.”

If you’re the woman everybody counts on—the fixer, the doer, the one who always figures s**t out—I have a feeling this one might hit a nerve.

Go read it at the link below and share it with others!And then put your own damn oxygen mask on. ❤️

There was a moment during one of my recent Unfiltered Leader sessions that stopped me in my tracks and I felt deserved a blog of its own.

09/01/2026

🚨 CULTURE WARNING SIGN #9: THE UNTOUCHABLE HIGH PERFORMER

Your highest performer may also be one of your organization’s biggest culture risks.

That’s the conversation more executive teams need to be willing to have.

When an employee, manager, executive, salesperson, physician—or any other “superstar”—produces exceptional results but is allowed to disrespect colleagues, intimidate employees, ignore organizational values, or operate under a different set of standards, leadership sends a message to everyone watching:

Performance matters more than behavior.

And that has consequences.

You may see great individual numbers while simultaneously experiencing:

→ employee turnover
→ declining psychological safety
→ disengagement
→ burnout
→ poor teamwork
→ loss of trust
→ leadership credibility problems
→ other high performers walking out the door

That’s why measuring employee performance requires more than asking what someone accomplished.

Healthy organizational cultures also ask:

What happened to the team while they accomplished it?

Your company values matter most when enforcing them is inconvenient.

🩺 Allie’s Diagnosis:

If someone’s results excuse their behavior, your values aren’t values. They’re suggestions.

🔥 And sometimes the person leadership believes it can’t afford to lose is the reason everyone else is leaving.

Now I want your opinion:

Should exceptional performance EVER earn someone more tolerance for bad behavior?

Yes or no—and tell me why.

08/31/2026

“I was wrong.”

Those three words don’t diminish your authority as a leader.

They might actually strengthen it.

I used to tell my teams that I’d probably screw something up every single day. My responsibility wasn’t to somehow achieve perfection.

It was to OWN IT.

Apologize when necessary.

Learn from it.

And try really damn hard to pick something different to screw up tomorrow. 😂

Because mistakes are inevitable in leadership.

Hiding them shouldn’t be.

I wanted the people I led to know they could bring me the mistake, the bad decision, the thing that didn’t work and the problem they didn’t know how to solve.

Then we’d put it on the table and figure out a better path forward together.

I use the same philosophy as a mother.

Authority doesn’t require perfection.

It requires accountability.

Great executive leadership isn’t about always having the right answer. It’s having enough self-awareness, confidence and humility to say:

“I was wrong.”

“I’m sorry.”

“I changed my mind.”

“Let’s figure this out together.”

That’s courageous leadership.

And it’s the kind of leadership identity work we explore inside The Unfiltered Leader.

My next cohort is currently enrolling. If you’re an accomplished woman ready to become more intentional about how YOU want to lead, you can book an Allie-vention Call through the link in my bio to learn more.

Until then…

Go screw something up tomorrow.

Just pick something different. 😉

08/29/2026

A boss does not make a leader. A boss has authority and a title. A leader is made through their actions. By the manner in which they “boss” they’re trustworthy. They build those around them up. They’re respected, not feared. A leader doesn’t necessarily even have or need the title to lead. In some
Cases, the title is all a “boss” has.

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08/28/2026

📣New Podcast Episode📣

2.12 Leader vs. Boss: The Difference Nobody Tells You

A boss has a title. A leader earns one. In this solo episode, I break down the real difference between the two - and why I’ve gotten more selective about the word "leader" the more her platform has grown.
I also get real about what's actually going on behind the scenes right now: building the Unfiltered Leader coaching program, missing the part of corporate life I actually loved (leading a team), the "career lattice vs. career ladder" framing I picked up from guest Ginger Braun, and why I’m done pretending work-life balance exists.
This one's honest, unfiltered, and - fair warning - has a very vocal dog in the background.

A boss has a title. A leader earns one. In this solo episode, Allie...

08/27/2026

Congratulations. You proved you can handle everything.

Now everybody lets you. 😬

For a lot of high-achieving women, over-functioning isn’t what kept us from becoming successful. It helped MAKE us successful.

We became the fixer.

The problem solver.

The one who picked up the dropped ball.

The leader who could walk into chaos and somehow figure it the hell out.

And corporate America rewarded us for it.

More responsibility. Bigger teams. Promotions. Bigger problems to solve.

Until eventually being “the one who can handle it” stopped feeling like a strength and started feeling fricken exhausting.

Here’s the leadership reframe:

Stop asking “Can I handle this?”

Start asking “Should I be handling this?”

Because those are two very different questions.

Executive leadership isn’t about proving how much you can personally carry.

Sometimes leadership growth means delegating instead of rescuing, allowing other people to own their responsibilities, letting your team struggle long enough to develop—and separating your VALUE from how badly everyone needs you.

Maybe over-functioning helped get you here.

That doesn’t mean it deserves to come with you into your next chapter.

This is exactly the kind of leadership identity work we do inside The Unfiltered Leader, my leadership development program for accomplished women who are ready to examine how they lead, what they’re carrying and who they want to become next.

🔥 The next Unfiltered Leader cohort is enrolling now.

If you’re a successful woman in leadership who’s tired of carrying everything just because you’re capable of carrying it, book an Allie-vention Call through the link in my comments.

You don’t need to prove you’re capable.

You already did that.

08/26/2026

📣NEW BLOG POSTED📣

Nearly 20 years ago, I was a frontline nurse trying to convince a department that “we’ve always done it this way” wasn’t a good enough reason to keep doing it that way.

A woman named Betty Baxter gave me some advice I never forgot.

Then life happened.

I went from bedside nurse to CEO. I led teams and organizations. I challenged systems. I wrote a book. I lost the corporate career I’d spent decades building. And I started rebuilding a career—and myself—on my own terms.

Then last week, an 86-year-old Betty Baxter happened to sit next to one of my closest friends on a flight to El Paso.

Neither of them knew they had me in common.

The series of coincidences that brought Betty back into my life almost 20 years later is almost unbelievable. But sitting across from her at dinner the next night reminded me of something I think a lot of women in leadership need to hear:

Courageous leadership was never about becoming easier to manage.

It’s about knowing what’s worth challenging.
Knowing when to speak.
Knowing when to push.
And refusing to trade your voice, values, or identity for a seat at the table.

Maybe the goal isn’t to become less disruptive as we grow.

Maybe it’s to become wiser about how we use that disruption—and courageous enough not to lose it.

I wrote about Betty, the unbelievable way our paths crossed again, and what this full-circle moment taught me about the kind of leader—and woman—I still want to be.

👇 Read “Some People Come Back Around” below.

And if you’re a woman in leadership who has spent years learning how to make yourself more palatable, more agreeable, or less threatening in order to succeed, The Unfiltered Leader was built for you.

It’s about reclaiming your voice, trusting your leadership instincts, and learning to lead with courage without abandoning yourself in the process.

Because the world doesn’t need another generation of women who learned how to stay quiet enough to keep their seat.

It needs women courageous enough to use their voice once they get there!

A healthcare leader reconnects with the mentor who shaped her career 20 years ago, reflecting on courage, change, and integrity in healthcare.