Work with Erika Ayers Badan
WORK Podcast offers real, and relatable insights into work, leadership, and culture from someone who’s been there and done that (mistakes included). Through interviews, commentary, and listener questions, Erika provides a funny, unfiltered and unapologetic look at how to be yourself and be successful. erikaayersbadan.substack.com
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WORK Conversations: Emily Tisch Sussman
<p>Hi! Happy Friday! It’s sunny out on the East Coast which feels great. If I were in college right now I’d be wearing flip flops and shorts despite it being 40 degrees. Full spring energy. </p><p>Speaking of, meet Emily Tisch Sussman. She’s fun, smart, fearless and not afraid of a big job, nor a pivot. She’s the owner of Gotham FC, a strategist and the host of She Pivots - a podcast about harnessing change and creating a life (and work) that works for you.</p><p>Give us a listen on your way home fro...
WORK Unsolicited Advice: More Money More Problems
<p>This episode is about the stuff people don’t say out loud. The resentment when your partner makes less than you. The panic before asking for a raise. The isolation of being the only woman in a room full of men.</p><p>These questions come from the Work Like a Girl Slack - a community of professional women asking the real questions women are grappling with at work.</p><p>If you've ever felt stuck asking for what you want, resentful about who does what, or exhausted trying to fit in where you don't belong, this one will fe...
WORK Conversations: Meet Danielle Fette
<p>Meet Danielle Fette. She’s the co-founder and CEO of FetTech, a medical device company. She and her husband got fired from their last job, used the settlement money to start their own company, and now they’re inventing products that help people heal naturally.</p><p>If you’ve ever wanted to leave a company that doesn’t put the things that you value first, or wondered what it takes to actually do it, this one’s worth your time.</p><p>This is WORK. Conversations.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to WORK at erikaayersbadan.substack.c...
WORK Net/Net: Always Be Closing
<p>First of all, Go Patriots. </p><p>In today’s episode, we respond to David Rubenstein’s comments on being a great fundraiser. </p><p>IMHO the fundamentals of being a great fundraiser are the fundamentals of being a great seller (and a great partner). </p><p>Listening. </p><p>Being solution oriented. </p><p>Knowing your customer (or your audience). </p><p>Having a point of view. </p><p>Following up. </p><p>Being present. </p><p>Being willing to do the work to get things done. </p><p>Fundraising is not magic. It is effort, clarity, and pers...
WORK Underlined: Narrative and Numbers
<p>Today we are talking about narrative and numbers. And the tension between the two.</p><p>“Narrative driving numbers early in the life cycle and numbers driving narrative later.”</p><p>From Narrative and Numbers by Aswath Damodaran.</p><p>The idea is simple and also hard to live by. Narrative drives numbers early. Numbers drive narrative later. And that back and forth never really stops.</p><p>I think in narratives. I like numbers, but I like narratives better. Narrative is another way of saying vision. Or purpose. Or the dream. It is what you tell yourself. What you...
WORK Conversations: It's All A Mess - Meet Emily Kirkpatrick
<p>Search traffic is down, referral traffic is drying up, platforms are changing their rules, people are evaluating what to do…and what’s next.</p><p>Emily Kirkpatrick is one of these people. She left a big, recognizable job in dramatic fashion, went fully independent, and built a real living on Substack and YouTube. No ads. No corporate overhang. Just her voice, her point of view, and a direct relationship with her audience.</p><p>We talk about the economics of independence. What happens when traffic disappears. And why so many writers, creators, and journalists are fleeing big institutions in f...
WORK Net/Net: Gen Z Says Take Your Work Emergency and Shove It
<p>Gen Z is resisting the workplace emergency and honestly, they are not wrong.</p><p>On today’s episode, we talk about Gen Z and their refusal to get wrapped up in manufactured chaos of work. </p><p>No all nighters. No dropping everything. No pretending every problem is catastrophic. Their perspective is simple: Nobody is dying from this.I love a problem at work and a get down into the trench - there’s only one way out of this - type situation. I find them intense and invigorating and an opportunity to be a part of something hard...
WORK Unsolicited Advice: You Are The Problem (and the Solution)
<p>This is an episode for people grappling with how to manage and how to embrace AI. </p><p>Good managers in the future will seamlessly balance being human, creative, fallible, empathetic and visionary with tools, systems and services which automate all that isn’t differentiated nor distinct.</p><p> Managers and people who refuse to adapt and evolve will be extinct in a workplace soon to be fueled by agents (and not the good looking Hollywood kind).Good managers use AI to buy time and insight. </p><p>Bad ones either ignore it or dump garbage prompts into it an...
WORK Conversations: Why Suffer At Work?
<p>Meet Selena Rezvani. She is a leadership coach, four time author, and someone who spends a lot of time thinking about why work feels harder than it needs to be.</p><p>We talk about suffering at work.</p><p>We talk about why people are suffering at work and what suffering at work even means.</p><p>We talk about side hustles and life rafts.</p><p>We talk about the loss of trust and optimism.</p><p>We talk about Gen Z (obviously).</p><p>This is WORK. Conversations.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to WORK...
WORK Net/Net: Mother F*ucker
<p>The most vibrant channel on Work Like A Girl’s slack is the working mom channel. It’s also the most honest, acute and to the point. It goes something like this:</p><p>One woman says - I need help.</p><p>The others say - I got you.</p><p>In this episode of Net Net we talk about the politicization of the mom brand and the idea of motherhood - namely: Motherhood as a proxy for what women should want, do and be.</p><p>Being a parent is hard. It takes patience, sacrifice, energy, and rest...
