WORK 2025 In Review: A Lot of Great Things Can Come Out of A Little Mess.

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Erika reveals how a messy year of podcast experiments led to finding their voice and launching new ventures.

The episode opens with Erika celebrating the podcast's year of experimentation, including moving platforms and launching new initiatives. She introduces a segment on EBITDA, featuring George Wells, who breaks down the financial metric with examples from Barstool Sports. Erika then shifts to a GPT tip, advocating for kindness to AI tools. Next, she interviews Max, who shares his career path from Princeton to tech startups, emphasizing that AI makes pure product managers less valuable. A humorous interlude involves a calendar mix-up about a concert ticket. Erika discusses client call strategies, stressing the importance of reading the room. She touches on rethinking work structures, predicting more external employees. The conversation covers Instagram as a trust-building platform and the challenges of change. Erika advises on job mindset, encouraging listeners to extract value from any role. She explores generational differences, noting friction between baby boomers and Gen Z over loyalty. The episode concludes with motivational advice on perseverance and embracing imperfection.

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A year-end mashup turns public experimentation, client-call instincts, and imperfect timing into practical business lessons.

Work 2025 In Review treats a year-end mashup as a practical look at a year spent trying things in public. The episode circles back through the launch of Work Like a Girl and a Substack, a podcast move, an experiment with Lemonada, and the slower work of finding a clearer voice,…

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You want a year-end reset where trying things starts to look like the lesson, not the mess.

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