Bodily Reviews

The founder really drives the culture, and unfortunately has made it incredibly toxic - intimidation and bullying is the daily norm. Staff are vastly underpaid and overworked, and the founder can't keep anyone around more than a few months. I still wish them success because the mission in fantastic, but unfortunately the founder might be what hinders its growth. I would highly recommend you avoid working here - your sanity and mental health are not worth risking.

They say rot starts at the head, and Bodily is a textbook example. The CEO struggles to make clear decisions, leading to a lack of direction for the team and a constant swirl of priorities, which means nothing can effectively get done and everything is always a fire drill. She insists on having her hands in every small detail of the business, down to the copy on social media posts, meaning everyone is always stuck waiting for her (ever-changing) approval while being criticized for not moving fast enough. There is ZERO work-life balance, and she regularly burns through people within months. One of her strengths is hiring incredibly smart, driven, capable women under the guise of the company's mission, but the minute she feels threatened by their talents or incensed by them questioning her opinion, she begins a systematic dismantling of their confidence by embarrassing them in front of the team, setting them up for failure, discrediting them behind their back, cutting them out of expected projects/workflows with no explanation, and generally making their life hell until they leave as a shell of their former selves. Rarely does she fire anyone. Instead, she bullies them into leaving, and almost everyone I've known at the company has done so in tears. Beware.