027 Four Roles We Play in Workplace Conflict
Nikhil Wadhera joins Metsy and J to explore four workplace conflict roles and how product and UX professionals can turn silence, tension, disagreement, and directness into healthier collaboration.
026 Turning Product Conflict Into Productive Friction
Nikhil Wadhera joins us to explore product conflict, roadmap trade-offs, difficult conversations, curiosity, and healthier decisions.
025 When Work Never Feels Finished
Whitney Schreck joins Metsy and J to explore how product and UX professionals can close the stress loop through completion, movement, play, connection, and small moments that help us move toward life.
024 Self-Trust Is a Career Skill
Whitney Schreck joins Metsy and J to explore self-trust as a career skills, workplace relationships, and how assessments like DISC and TriMetrix can become useful career tools instead of one-time exercises.
023 Product Strategy: Are You Allowed to Ask Why?
We explored Frederic Laloux’s culture framework as a different way to evaluate workplace culture: observe it the same way you would observe a product experience. The culture around your team can either fuel great product strategy or get in its way.
022 Workmares: Workplace Culture Follows You Home
Metsy and J share real “workmares” from their careers and explore what happens when workplace stress follows you home. We examine how the culture employees actually experience can matter far more than the values a company claims to have.
021 What Your Team Actually Needs From You
Anita Barraco, UX Manager at Goosehead Insurance, joins Metsy and J to explore what product and UX teams actually need from their leaders. We discuss impactful mindset shifts to help your people do their best work.
020 Remote, Hybrid, or Office: What Actually Works?
Anita Barraco joins us to explore the realities of remote work, return-to-office expectations, and hybrid teams. This is a thoughtful conversation about designing work around how people actually function.
019 Burnout, Belonging, and Better Work
Dana “DeltaDana” Akins-Adeyemi joins us to explore burnout prevention and recovery. We also examine how bias, exclusion, and toxic environments intensify burnout for marginalized professionals, making supportive communities, allies, and workplaces where people genuinely belong even more important.
018 Burnout After Layoffs: The Cost of Staying
Layoffs do not eliminate work. Explore survivor burnout, AI-era job anxiety, unequal cognitive load, and the hidden human cost for product and UX teams.
017 When Everything Is Priority One
Explore how unclear priorities, constant realignment, context switching, and AI-driven urgency contribute to burnout in product management and UX design.
016 Networking in the AI Job Market
Shane Ward, Manager of Product Design at Storable, joins us to explore AI-era hiring, life after a layoff, authentic networking, and why trusted communities can advocate for product and design professionals in ways AI cannot.