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#95 April Koh | Founder & CEO @ Spring Health

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - October 24, 2022 14:36 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, April Koh discusses her journey to starting Spring Health, a precision mental healthcare platform. April is the youngest woman at the helm of a unicorn (Spring Health was valued at $2 billion dollars when April was just 29) and is tirelessly working to innovate mental health in ...

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Penpot has big news

The Product Design Report - October 18, 2022 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Watch the first episode of the Product Design Report where we talk about working remotely as a designer, Penpot's big announcement about a round of funding, the Abstract show on Netflix, and the new Spark app for Mac. Links Article about in-demand remote jobs: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/05/t...

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#94 Ty Montague | Chairman and Chief Purpose Officer @ co:collective

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - October 17, 2022 11:21 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, we feature our first ever solo male guest, Chairman and Chief Purpose Officer at co:collective, Ty Montague. Ty sits down with WIN’s very own Global Development Lead, Lizzie Azzolino, to discuss purpose-driven innovation and business models, and opine on what it takes to success...

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#93 Jennifer Smith | CEO & Founder @ Scribe

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - October 03, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Zoia Kozakov sits down with Jennifer Smith, Founder & CEO of Scribe, who raised over 30 million dollars to battle the innovation antithesis: over-indexing on processes. Jennifer shares her start-up founder journey and her trajectory to building and launching her product, which i...

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#92 Nicole Centeno & Elise Densborn | Co-CEOs @ Splendid Spoon

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - September 28, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Zoia sits down with the two co-CEOs at Splendid Spoon, Nicole Centeno and Elise Densborn, to talk about what it means to share a leadership role while staying agile in a start-up environment. The two leaders discuss how their own lived experiences have inspired the trajectory of...

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#91 Latoya Tucciarone & Ruthie Berber | Amazing Women in eCommerce (powered by Yotpo)

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - August 17, 2022 11:15 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Zoia sits down with Latoya Tucciarone, CEO & Founder of SustainAble Home Goods and Amazing Women in eCommerce 2022 honoree, and Ruthie Berber, Head of Community at Yotpo and Program Director at Amazing Women in eCommerce. The conversation discusses the current state of affairs i...

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#90 Victoria Young & Ravi Mehta | Co-Founders @ Scale Higher

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - August 01, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Zoia hosts Victoria Young and Ravi Mehta, co-founders of Scale Higher, a company reinventing how people learn and grow through its development courses and coaching platform. Victoria and Ravi are both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, who have launched and worked on world-class p...

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#89 Kirin Sinha | CEO & Founder @ Illumix

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - July 25, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Zoia sits down with Kirin Sinha, CEO & Founder of Illumix, a leading augmented reality (AR) technology, and media company, focused on developing immersive experiences. They discuss the value of the metaverse and AR and the opportunities for women to create and innovate in hard s...

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Introducing: The Interface by UX Content Collective

Writers of Silicon Valley - July 15, 2022 00:03 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
The Interface—a podcast by content designers, for content designers The Interface is a monthly, can’t-miss group chat for everything happening in content design and UX writing. The Interface has industry updates, deep conversations, and other helpful resources. Listen wherever you get your po...

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How Product Marketers Lead As Company Quarterbacks with Kimberly Biddings, BIO-key International

Better Product - June 28, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Product marketing is at the intersection of many teams in a product company. The work of a product marketer supports the wider product team, sales, marketing, executive stakeholders, and most of all, buyers. It’s for this reason product marketers tend to play a quarterback role, says Kimberly Bi...

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Why Your Positioning Should ‘Pick a Fight and Take a Stand’ with Catherine Spence, Microblink

Better Product - June 21, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
One of the fundamental strategies product marketers must lead is positioning. It’s what determines how you’ll talk about your product, your company, and your brand as you scale. So why do so many people get it wrong? Catherine Spence, VP of Global Marketing at Microblink, joins Leanna to share h...

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#88 The Innovator’s Mindset: How The Most Impactful Innovation Leaders Navigate Leadership

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - June 15, 2022 13:02 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Zoia sits down with Lizzie Azzolino, the founder of Until Now, a coaching & culture transformation design and consulting practice and WIN’s very own Global Development Lead to talk about all things innovation mindset, actionable takeaways for aspiring (and current!) innovation l...

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Product Marketing’s Essential Purpose with Martina Lauchengco, Author of LOVED

Better Product - June 14, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
In today’s world, building a great product isn’t enough. You have to master your go-to-market strategy by telling a story that will leave a lasting impression on your audience. Product marketing gets you there, according to long-time product marketer and Costanoa Ventures partner Martina Lauchen...

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Trailer: Unlock Product Marketing

Better Product - June 09, 2022 09:30 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Product marketing is the foundation for better product. It should play a strategic role in your business from day one. It's a product discipline to master and respect—not just a list of jobs to be done.  But product marketers continue to struggle with recognition. Because the discipline is sti...

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The Power of Your Positioning

Better Product - May 31, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
How you position your product can help you connect with the people who most need it, unlocking rapid growth for your company. But first, you need a solid foundation. Today, Christian and Meghan discuss what product leaders get right vs. wrong when positioning their products. Led by Meghan’s insi...

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The Power of Your Positioning

Better Product - May 31, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
How you position your product can help you connect with the people who most need it, unlocking rapid growth for your company. But first, you need a solid foundation. Today, Christian and Meghan discuss what product leaders get right vs. wrong when positioning their products. Led by Meghan’s insi...

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Elon Musk, Twitter, and Ego in Product

Better Product - May 24, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
For better and for worse, ego follows us all into our work lives. But leaders must pay special attention to what role ego plays in building a product. Sometimes, ego can be the charisma an early-stage founder needs to get attention for what they’re creating. Other times, ego is a roadblock that ...

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When It's Time For A Product Glow-Up

Better Product - May 17, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Everything has to start somewhere. But in product and in life, the beginning tends to be awkward. We have room to grow, and glow, up. The real question isn’t about whether we’ll glow up, but when. Christian & Meghan walk us through their answers from working in UX, product marketing, and brand t...

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#87 Cassidy Fein | Director of Product @ Vimeo

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - May 16, 2022 10:54 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Cassidy Fein, Director of Product, Enterprise at Vimeo, talks about the power of video and the challenges and opportunities it brings when it comes to balancing launching innovative products to market while maintaining focus on the user. The conversation also dives deeper into p...

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How Product Research Limits Uncertainty and Helps Us Face Our Fears

Better Product - May 10, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Product research is a discipline that’s transformed in recent years. The days of waterfall testing are over. Today, research is happening at every stage of a product’s life cycle, and there are more tools than ever before to help. But how do product teams stay focused on what truly matters? How ...

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Experience-Driven Products for Relationship Wellness with the Founders of Ours

Better Product - May 03, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Today we’re talking about love—but not in the way you think. We’re looking at the intersection of product and a timeless human experience: falling in, and out, of love. Forget couples counseling as you know it. Ours co-founders Liz Earnshaw, Jessica Holton, and Adam Putterman are using their rel...

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Messaging Mix-Ups and How to Avoid Them

Better Product - April 26, 2022 09:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Messaging is the story we tell about our product. But how do we know if we’re telling the right story? To talk about your product, you need to learn from the audience you serve, while never losing sight of the bigger picture your market provides. Christian & Meghan will share their observations ...

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Episode 19, Tanya Netayavichitr: The Power of WE

Making UX Work with Joe Natoli - April 25, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratings
In both my previous experience working with her company as a consultant and this conversation, it becomes very clear very fast that Tanya Netayavichitr is someone who lifts every person she comes in contact with to greater heights. As you'll hear for yourself in the way she describes her experie...

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Harnessing Fast Feedback for Better Product Marketing with Peep Laja, Wynter

Better Product - April 19, 2022 09:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Product marketing is an evolving field with much left to define about what product marketers can actually measure and support. Peep Laja founded his company, Wynter, on the belief that product marketers do better work with swift, real-time feedback on their product messaging. In today’s conversa...

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#86 Vrinda Gupta | CEO & Founder @ Sequin

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - April 18, 2022 10:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Zoia is joined by Vrinda Gupta, CEO & Founder at Sequin a fintech behind the first debit card to build credit. Vrinda talks about how her mother’s fears around the financial system fueled her desire to build tools to empower women to better leverage and gain access to credit. Sh...

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The Skills You Need To Thrive In Product

Better Product - April 12, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Opportunities in product today are seemingly endless. But if you’re new to the industry or looking to break in, it can be hard to know what skills you need to succeed. Many roles don’t have precise requirements, and product itself is continuously evolving. Today, Christian & Meghan will share th...

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#85 Tui Allen | Product Director @ Shopify

WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - April 11, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
In this episode, Tui Allen talks about how adaptability and curiosity created opportunities for her career pivots, moving from consulting at EY and Disney to product management at Blackbaud and Shopify. She shares how growing up in Montreal with an entrepreneurial mother fed her desire to learn,...

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How Great Food & Personalized Perks Support People Ops with Mel Skochdopole, Parkday

Better Product - April 05, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
It’s the series finale of Power to the People Ops, and today, we’ve got a real treat. We’re speaking with Mel Skochdopole, co-founder of Parkday—a.k.a. “the Tinder of food.” Using the power of data, Parkday curates personalized workplace meals that are tailored to everyone’s food preferences. A...

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Designing Work to Fit People with Julie Jeannotte, Officevibe

Better Product - March 29, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Employee engagement is at the core of what keeps people motivated, productive, and happy at work. But unlocking what keeps people engaged is easier said than done. That’s why Julie Jeannotte, senior researcher at Officevibe by GSoft, is on a journey to create a product that measures and responds...

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Designing Work to Fit People with Julie Jeannotte, Officevibe

Better Product - March 29, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Employee engagement is at the core of what keeps people motivated, productive, and happy at work. But unlocking what keeps people engaged is easier said than done. That’s why Julie Jeannotte, senior researcher at Officevibe by GSoft, is on a journey to create a product that measures and responds...