• 9 to 5ish with theSkimm

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9 to 5ish with theSkimm

By: theSkimm
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  • The work advice you need, from women who’ve been there. Every week, join the co-founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, as they help you get what you want out of your career by talking to the smartest leaders they know.
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Episodes
  • Build-A-Bear CEO Sharon Price-John on Why Defining Values is Key to Achieving Goals

    Build-A-Bear CEO Sharon Price-John on Why Defining Values is Key to Achieving Goals
    Oct 30 2024
    Early in her career, Sharon Price-John literally put pen to paper and wrote what she dubbed her “price values.” AKA: the qualities that guided her in work and life. She reasoned that if she had time to write a grocery list, she could take a second to define what was important to her. Although her price values have inevitably evolved as she got older, Sharon shares that defining her values made the path to achieving her goals a lot clearer. In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Sharon shares: The brownie points she scored from her kids being a toy company exec Why she follows the age-old advice “love what you do” What influenced the changes to her “price values” list How she managed to bring Build-A-Bear its three most profitable years ever after COVID The difficulties of succeeding a founder-led business, and how she overcame them
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    31 mins
  • Jenny Slate on Finding Peace with Herself through Motherhood

    Jenny Slate on Finding Peace with Herself through Motherhood
    Oct 23 2024
    Through her twenties and thirties, comedian Jenny Slate couldn’t find peace. By all accounts, she was succeeding. She earned a spot on Saturday Night Live, and became recognizable through her on-screen appearances next to actors like Amy Poehler and Nick Kroll. But she still felt stuck in a cycle of self-criticism and a pressure to always be on. Then she became a mom and it all clicked. Listen as Jenny shares why becoming a mom made her feel less desperate to get jobs, please others, and “perform her tricks”. In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Jenny shares: Why living in Massachusetts instead of Los Angeles is helpful for her creative work What traits her parents were most concerned about in her upbringing How leaving Saturday Night Live led her to a major learning about success Why perfection isn’t worth aiming at, and how she unlearned doing that How the unconditional love she feels for her kid helped heal her own inner child A skimm of her new memoir, “Life Form”
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    35 mins
  • NFL Reporter Erin Andrews on Addressing the “Shelf Life” of Her Career

    NFL Reporter Erin Andrews on Addressing the “Shelf Life” of Her Career
    Oct 16 2024
    Erin Andrews has become one of the most recognizable sideline reporters in the sports industry. She started out at ESPN in her early twenties, and eventually moved to Fox NFL where she continues to give fans updates on their favorite players and coaches. While Erin’s worked in the biz for nearly two decades, she says she knows there’s a “shelf life” to her job. But the only way she’ll stop is if they drag her off the sidelines – and Erin says, it ain’t gonna be pretty. In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Erin shares: The news junkie side of her, and how it’s ruined family vacations How she’s proactively addressing the “shelf life” of her on-camera career The trauma she endured after being stalked, and how it informs her boundaries today How she’s built genuine relationships with her colleagues and the people she covers Why work became such a safe haven for her after going through her cervical cancer diagnosis and IVF treatments PS: Check out Erin Andrews podcast, Calm Down.
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    37 mins

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