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.
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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.
AI in Product & Design
015 The Rise of AI Builders
Metsy and J sit down with Shane Ward, Manager of Product Design at Storable, to explore AI builders, product design roles, decision-making, quality, and why human judgment still matters as AI accelerates product and UX work.
014 When Product and Design Roles Blur
We explore how AI is blurring product and design roles, why trust matters more than ever, and how curiosity, communication, and feedback help teams move faster without losing perspective.
Creative Work & Career Growth
013 Build Your Network Before You Need It
Metsy Rose, J Schuh, and Brian Sullivan explore authentic networking, community building, introversion, career resilience, and why product, design, research, and strategy professionals need to get out of their bubbles.
UX Research & Product Strategy
012 UX Research to Product Strategy in the AI Era
Metsy Rose, J Schuh, and Brian Sullivan explore stakeholder empathy, UX research, product strategy, and why AI can surface signals, but human judgment still drives meaningful product decisions.
Human-Centered Leadership
011 Empathy at Work: The Hidden Pressures of Product and Design
Metsy Rose and J Schuh explore empathy in product management and UX design, including trust, emotional intelligence, team systems, design pressure, product playbooks, and cross-functional collaboration.
Modern Work
010 Unicorns, Humans, and the Future of Creative Work
Metsy Rose, J Schuh, and Kirsten Rourke explore the myth of the “unicorn” professional, the rise of AI in product management and UX design, and why deeply human skills remain essential for creative leadership and collaboration.
Modern Work
009 When the Plan Breaks: Trust, Pivots, and Real Leadership
What happens when good ideas hit organizational resistance? Metsy Rose, J Schuh, and Kirsten Rourke explore authenticity, emotional intelligence, trust, and leadership in product management and UX design.
Creative Work & Career Growth
008 Unicorns, T-Shapes, and the Myth of Mastery
Metsy Rose and J Schuh explore the pressure to become a “unicorn” in product management and UX design, why collaboration beats impossible mastery, and how real expertise develops through experience, failure, and human-centered teamwork.
AI in Product & Design
007 Signal Over Noise: Designing with Intention in an AI World
Metsy Rose and J Schuh explore AI in product management, UX design, product strategy, and human-centered design, examining how thoughtful leaders can cut through AI hype and build meaningful customer experiences.
AI in Product & Design
006 Don’t Let AI Do Your Thinking
This episode offers a thoughtful and practical conversation about AI fluency, professional pressure, and why human-centered thinking still matters more than ever.
AI in Product & Design
005 Designing at the Speed of AI: Part 2
Metsy Rose, J Schuh, and Preston McCulley explore practical AI workflows for product managers and UX designers, including automation, iteration, adaptive experiences, and AI-powered product strategy.
AI in Product & Design
004 Designing at the Speed of AI: Part 1
Preston McCauley joins us to explore AI orchestration, dynamic roadmaps, UX design evolution, and how AI is reshaping product management and digital product development.