New Podcast Office Real Talk with Tas Shares the Unwritten Rules Holding Ethnic Minority Women Back in their Corporate Careers

At a time when women in corporate are quitting and burning out in record numbers and instead are building side hustles whilst dreaming of escape, Tasneem Bhamji, a Corporate Exec in Financial Services & Career Strategist, is doing something different, she’s staying put. Not because the system is perfect (far from it) but because she knows exactly how it works, and Tas leans in to what it takes to win a system that is flawed, on your own terms.

As Instagram sells us the hustle of being a girl boss, Tas is the insider helping you grow your career from within. Her new weekly podcast Office Real Talk with Tas is released each Wednesday to get you over the mid week hump. Episodes are short and direct and Tas will expose the unwritten rules of corporate life that most ethnic minority women never get told. 

With over a decade inside major banks, having managed thousands of people, and leading complex, large-scale digital transformation programmes across the UK financial services sector, Tas has sat in the rooms where the real decisions get made. Now she’s sharing what she sees holding people like her back at work.

Speaking on the launch, Tas says: “The corporate world has always had an inner circle and for a long time, that circle wasn’t built for people like me. A brown woman, raised on free school meals, living with ADHD, sitting in rooms I was never supposed to be in. What I’ve learned is that the people who make it don’t just work harder. They understand how the system works. This podcast is what I wish someone had handed me on day one. The stuff that actually gets you in the room, keeps you there, and helps you bring others with you.”

Office Real Talk delivers frank, strategic, insider insight into how corporate organisations actually operate: who gets promoted, how pay is decided, what visibility really means, and what the people at the top know that most ethnic minority employees never get told.

Episodes include:

• Why You’re Feeling Stuck in Your Corporate Role: Tas breaks down the unspoken patterns that keep high performers parked at the same level for years, including the perfectionism trap and how organisations quietly sideline ambitious employees without ever saying so. 

• How to Negotiate Your Salary Like a Corporate Boss: Tackles the mindset shifts and practical tools needed to stop undervaluing your own worth, covering not just base salary but everything on the table. 

• Visibility and Self-Advocacy: What Actually Gets You Noticed at Work: Draws the distinction between being busy and being seen, and why you need both working together to move forward. 

• Why You’re Not Getting Promoted: Goes inside the room where promotion decisions actually get made, laying out the four things that determine who gets the nod and why performance alone rarely cuts it. 

• No More Imposter Syndrome: Tas argues that what most people call imposter syndrome is actually a rational response to environments that weren’t designed with them in mind.

Tas speaks directly to professionals who have historically been underserved by mainstream career advice: women navigating the double standard of ambition, professionals of colour managing systemic bias, those with ADHD or neurodivergent conditions who lead differently, and anyone who’s ever felt like the only one in the room and privately wondered whether that was ever going to change.

Office Real Talk is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TikTok, and Instagram, with new episodes every Wednesday.