Let’s Fix Work Episode 79 I want to share a story with you this week. It starts out like this: a long time ago, I took an HR Advisor job for a well-known company, and the job sucked. It sucked the life out of me and it sucked my energy. It was downright horrible. And…
The recent episode of Let’s Fix Work was an exciting and different one for me. I welcomed my husband, Ken, to the show! It was wonderful to have a conversation with him about art and culture and to openly discuss that people do not need to agree on everything to get along. When different perspectives…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 78 One of my biggest professional regrets in the world of HR was not having a mentor. I’m not alone. Many of you don’t have mentors either and I know it because you email me and ask me questions about how to find a mentor. Or you ask what to do…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 77 This week, my guest is someone very special to me: my husband, Ken. Today we have a fun conversation about a 1998 trip we took to California and how we could not agree on modern art. Through this, we discovered how people don’t always agree on art and culture; and…
On a recent episode of Let’s Fix Work, I had the pleasure of speaking with Julie Zhou. She was the first intern employed at Facebook, and now she has worked her way up to VP of Product Design. She is the author of the new book, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 76 This week on the podcast, we are going “meta” because my podcast producer Danny Ozment of Emerald City Productions is my special guest. If you are wondering what podcasting has to do with work, well, I often get asked questions about individual podcasting and enterprise podcasting. Questions like, “How do…
As the anniversary of September 11th draws near, I wanted to introduce you to Claudia Martinez Foster. Claudia Martinez and Curt Foster were married in October of 2000. She was talking about starting a family. She loved children. She loved makeup. She had a fun life, and she had a job on the 105th floor…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 75 This week I’d like to introduce you to Julie Zhuo. Julie is the VP of Product Design at Facebook and the author of the new book, The Making of a Manager: What To Do When Everyone Looks to You. Julie was also the first ever intern at Facebook in 2006.…
I don’t know when the word hustle emerged in our lexicon as a good thing. It is not a good thing. It is not a proper way to live your life. It’s not a proper way to be connected to the people you love. And it certainly isn’t a good way to run a business. …
Let’s Fix Work Episode 74 We talk about and “remember” 9/11 in America in a very callous way, without truly remembering that nearly 3,000 people died at work. Nearly 3,000 people. A lot of people have memories of 9/11, but my memory of that day started a week or so before when I began my…