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Inspired by her immensely popular newsletter, author Anne Helen Petersen turns her attention to the wild world of work in Work Appropriate. Featuring guest appearances by the smartest people...

Episodes

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Culture Study Presents: Why Do Clothes Suck Now?

*Be sure to subscribe to our new feed wherever you get your podcasts!* For the maiden voyage of the Culture Study podcast, we’re taking a ha...

42:21Dec 6, 2023

Introducing: The Culture Study Podcast

Everything is interesting . That idea has guided the tremendously popular Culture Study newsletter, and it’s at the heart of the Culture Stu...

3:09Nov 29, 2023

Signing Off with Melody Rowell

It's Work Appropriate's 50th episode, one-year anniversary episode, and last episode, all rolled into one. Producer Melody Rowell joins host...

56:57Oct 25, 2023

How to Create Remote Culture with Chase Warrington

From terse Slack messages to Zoom happy hours, the culture of remote workplaces can be frustrating to navigate. But it can also be an opport...

46:13Oct 18, 2023

Am I Too Old For My Job? with Debbie Millman

If all my coworkers are younger than me, am I still relevant? How can I stay motivated and engaged until retirement, when I've been working...

50:55Oct 11, 2023

Is A Good Boss Too Much To Ask For? with Melissa & Johnathan Nightingale

We wanted to tackle some of the most complicated management questions that listeners sent in, so host Anne Helen Petersen turned to our favo...

54:21Oct 4, 2023

The Worst Parts of Job Searching with Phoebe Gavin

We've done episodes on pivoting careers , on starting over , on starting a new job -- and now it's time to talk about the absolute slog that...

51:37Sep 27, 2023

Will Social Media Cost Me My Job? with Rachel Karten

Are hiring managers checking out your Instagram stories? Is it okay to tweet about the NSFW writing you do on the side? Should you expose th...

40:42Sep 20, 2023

Should I Cover Up My Tattoo? with Greta Johnsen

We usually create Work Appropriate episodes around a theme, grouping similar questions together. But over time, we've amassed a collection o...

37:16Sep 13, 2023

Actually Following Through on DEI with Sameera Kapila

So your company put out a statement about its commitment to DEI (or DEIB, or IDEA, or whatever your workplace calls it)-- now what? Efforts...

54:10Sep 6, 2023

Getting Unstuck with Josh Gondelman

Sometimes the job is fine, the pay is fine, the schedule is fine, but you still feel stuck. It's a miserable feeling, like no matter what yo...

53:50Aug 30, 2023

Making Internships Worthwhile with Alice Wilder

Of all the roles you can have at a workplace, "intern" is one of the most vulnerable. Alice Wilder , writer of the Starting Out newsletter,...

38:37Aug 23, 2023

My Industry is Failing: Tech Edition with Ifeoma Ozoma

Ifeoma Ozoma joins host Anne Helen Petersen for a much-requested episode about the trials and tribulations workers face in the tech industry...

57:33Aug 16, 2023

Whiteness at Work with Garrett Bucks

Is considering diversity in hiring actually reverse racism? What if advocating for my colleagues of color means I lose my job? What do I do...

52:00Aug 9, 2023

Grief at Work with Dina Gachman

As the saying goes, death is a part of life. So why are workplaces so ill-equipped to provide employees with compassionate and expansive ber...

48:16Aug 2, 2023

Making Caring Professions Sustainable with Dena Simmons

What do you do when your job is burning you out, but you can't really * care less * about it? When children need teachers and vulnerable pop...

50:52Jul 26, 2023

Sneak Peek: Mobility, a novel by Lydia Kiesling

A sneak peek of the first book from Crooked Media Reads, Mobility, by Lydia Kiesling. Mobility is a gripping coming-of-age story about navig...

12:13Jul 20, 2023

Big Working Parent Questions with Lydia Kiesling

Lydia Kiesling , author of Mobility , joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about the amorphous intersection of pare...

47:26Jul 19, 2023

Disability at Work with Rebecca Cokley

Rebecca Cokley , program officer for the Ford Foundation's first-ever U.S. Disability Rights program, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answ...

54:41Jul 12, 2023

Is It Too Late To Start Over? with Ailsa Chang

There's a persistent idea that when you finish high school or college, you pick a career and then do that one thing for the rest of your lif...

43:33Jun 28, 2023