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.
Creative Work & Career Growth
Explore how unclear priorities, constant realignment, context switching, and AI-driven urgency contribute to burnout in product management and UX design.
Creative Work & Career Growth
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
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.
Creative Work & Career Growth
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
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
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
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
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
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.