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Work Appropriate
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...
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20 of 54 episodesIntroducing: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...