Leadership and business expert Natalie Dawson was a recent guest on Steven Bartlett’s The Diary Of A CEO podcast. During the conversation, she mentioned that she had laid off two of her employees at Cardone Ventures for allegedly cheating on their partners. While discussing leadership, she sought to create an environment where everyone could thrive and succeed. Dawson mentioned an incident, saying:“And one of the things I've gotten so much criticism of online was when I publicly shared a TikTok about firing somebody because I found out that she was cheating on her significant other and the other person also had a significant other. And as soon as I found out about it, I terminated both of them immediately. And it's so shocking to people.”Bartlett asked her to clarify if the persons were from her company, to which she agreed. Natalie Dawson then said:“As soon as I caught wind of it, wasn't even like a split-second decision. Well, I guess it technically was a split-second decision. Was like, I can't have this in my environment, especially somebody close around me. People trust me and should trust any leader to help them make their success easy. Am I making people's success easy by putting inside that environment people who are going to erode the values of the group? No.”Natalie Dawson said that success does not mean parting ways with their significant others. According to her, it was more about balancing her professional, financial, and personal lives.Natalie Dawson explains why she can’t have cheaters in her workplaceDawson explained that she wouldn’t want her husband to work in an environment where cheating on their partners would be considered normal. Also, she said she wouldn’t want a similar environment in her workplace. Bartlett commented:“One would say that's none of your business what they're doing when they go home.”Natalie Dawson replied:“It is my business first of all because it was with each other.”Bartlett commented that they were not doing anything at work. Without delving into the details, Natalie Dawson said that there was some work-related incident. Despite everything, she said she would fire the person for cheating. According to her:“I can't have cheaters. If they're going to cheat on the person that they're supposed to spend the rest of their life with, do you think that they're cheating on their work? Do you think that they're going to cheat on our clients? Do you think that they're going to have the ethics and morals and judgment to not be so distracted with their own personal ethics situation that they can actually focus and do a good job?”Natalie Dawson said that such a person would be a liability. She said that people starting a business should focus on where they have the best chance to succeed, not just on what they already know. She explained that since AI was new to everyone, it could give people equal opportunities. If she had started a business in 2025, she would have focused on helping companies use AI to solve real problems and earn more money.Also Read: Matt Walsh assures followers that law enforcement is handling "graphic" threats made against his family