Human-Centered Leadership
Brandy Schade joins Metsy and J to explore how resilience develops through action, failure, career pivots, and community, and why navigating uncertainty requires more than individual determination.
AI in Product & Design
Dallas College educators Lisa Gabriel and Sandy Harris join us to explore what happens when technology makes it easy to skip the difficult parts of learning.
Creative Work & Career Growth
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.
UX Research & Product Strategy
Nikhil Wadhera joins us to explore product conflict, roadmap trade-offs, difficult conversations, curiosity, and healthier decisions.
Human-Centered Leadership
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.
Human-Centered Leadership
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.
UX Research & Product Strategy
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.
Creative Work & Career Growth
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.
Human-Centered Leadership
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.
Creative Work & Career Growth
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.
AI in Product & Design
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.
Creative Work & Career Growth
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.