C-Suite Unscripted with Maggie McGrath

Maggie McGrath has been covering women in business at Forbes for long enough that her interviews feel less like press junkets and more like two smart friends trading notes after a long week. That is the energy of C-Suite Unscripted. The guest list pulls heavily from the Forbes 50 Over 50 and Most Powerful Women lists, which sounds intimidating on paper but plays out as refreshingly candid on tape. A Fortune 500 CFO talks openly about the stretch assignment she almost turned down. A founder walks through the board meeting where she had to fire her co-founder. A Cabinet-level appointee explains what actually changes when you move from private sector to public service. McGrath is a reporter first and a host second, and you can hear it. She pushes back on tidy origin-story narratives and asks the follow-up questions other interviewers skip, usually about money, power, or the specific moment someone screwed up and what it cost them. Episodes run roughly 35 to 50 minutes, about right for a commute or a long walk. If you are tired of leadership shows that treat every executive as a genius-guru, this one has a healthier dose of skepticism built in. It will not hand you a five-step framework for running a company. It will give you a better sense of what the job actually feels like from inside a corner office, which is arguably more useful.