About this podcast
Nat and Kristen are on a mission to amplify your impact - think of us as your personal cheerleaders. We’ve been there and done that and are open-sourcing the career playbook. Filled with actionable insights and entertaining commentary, each episode will equip you with the confidence and skills to shape your career on your terms. Find out more at www.powrsuit.com.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 191 episodes
- Ep 190: Do you pick up everyone else’s slack at work? · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 190Remember the group project where you did most of the work and everyone got the same grade? At work, it can be more of the same, whether it’s a collaborative project or even a…
- Ep 189: Should you do the job before you get the promotion? · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 189Ask someone chasing a promotion whether they should work at the next level before they get it, and plenty say no thanks. Ask the person doing the promoting and the answer’s…
- Ep 188: How do you back yourself in meetings? · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 188We've noticed a trend lately: Powrsuiters sharing that they want to back themselves more when under pressure. Getting the words out is the first step, but it’s the uncertain…
- Ep 187: Not sure what to do next in your career? · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 187The usual advice when a job ends is to work out what you want first, then make a move. Kristen has given that advice to plenty of Powrsuit members, and in this ep of Powrup, Nat…
- Ep 186: How to Disagree at Work in a Polarised World · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 186Neutrality used to cost you nothing but now it costs reach. We start with the flashpoints doing the rounds: Ed Sheeran, Sydney Sweeney, Meghan Markle, Jacinda Ardern, return to…
- Ep 185: Why Women Can Be Harder on Other Women · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 185Queen bee syndrome is when senior women pull the ladder up behind them. It's real, it's been studied, and the research points to structure rather than personality. We start with…
- Ep 184: Are People Getting Ruder? · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 184Are people ruder now, or have the norms just shifted under our feet? Speakerphone conversations in the airport lounge, QR code ordering when you've just paid close to a hundred…
- Ep 183: Are you past, present or future focused? · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 183Your brain has a default time zone: Past, present or future. Kristen found out about it at a dinner party, went home and got AI to test her, and ran a shorter version on Nat…
- Ep 182: Calendar management: do's and don'ts for sanity · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 198Your calendar probably isn't a plan. It's a receipt for everything other people asked you to do. We've heard a few common ways people run a calendar. As a receipt, where it's…
- Ep 181: How to work a room when you'd rather hide in the toilet · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 181Networking is the thing most of us dread, so here's how to actually work a room without wanting to hide in the women’s toilet. We start with the liking gap - the research showing…
- Ep 180: Quiet quitting is back (in the worst economy for it) · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 180Quiet quitting is back - and it makes no sense. Jobs are at an all time low, unemployment all time high, and yet work disengagement is off the charts? Nat and Kristen dig into…
- Ep 179: Criticism disguised as feedback (and what to do) · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 179There's a difference between feedback and criticism, and often what we get is the latter dressed up as the former. So we pull the two apart: feedback is clear, actionable and…
- Ep 178: Dating apps are broken (so where do people go?) · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 178Nat and Kristen get into why dating apps have got so bad - and general swipe fatigue (the same friction-removing tech logic has leaked into job hunting), and why Gen Z are…
- Ep 177: Are you the drama? Victim, villain, hero at work · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 177Nat and Kristen turned up in matching green tops to talk about the roles we all slip into when things go sideways - victim, villain and hero. Kristen owns up to being a chronic…
- Ep 176: The first 90 days (and why you're allowed to not know things) · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 175A Powrsuiter put her hand up for a stretch role, got it, then froze - terrified that asking questions would make her look stupid. Nat and Kristen unpack why that's textbook…
- Ep 175: How to talk to sceptics (without needing to win) · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 175Kristen got cornered at a party by a guy insisting women are outstripping men on every metric, and spent the weekend rarked up about it (now officially in the Oxford English…
- Ep 174: Allyship and Man Flu · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 174Nat and Kristen dig into allyship after an event where the allies in the room got an actual rule sheet - turn up, listen, don't take up space. One of them still found a moment to…
- Ep 173: Why Your Managing Up Isn't Landing · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 175A Powrsuiter came to us with a familiar problem: she's scheduling one-on-ones, building rapport, sending proactive updates - and her manager's response is... nothing. Not…
- Ep 172: Why No One Asks the Obvious Question · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 172Nat and Kristen get into why the most useful question in any meeting - the basic, obvious, 'dumb' one - is almost always the one nobody asks! Turns out 70% of people are holding…
- Ep 171: Stop Waiting to Be Noticed · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 168Nat and Kristen take a quiz to find out what kind of follower they actually are (Nat's a recovering chaos-agent, Kristen's an eye-roller with a popcorn habit). They get into the…
