No BS Guide for Professionals

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Formerly known as the No BS Guide to Product Marketing, we're now the No BS Guide for Professionals. We will host subsequent series on topics including Career Development, Public Speaking, Product Management, Entrepreneurship, and more!

This podcast is for young professionals starting their career or for working professionals looking to make some enhancements to their professional footprint.

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No BS Guide for Professionals episodes:

06.02.2021
Entrepreneurship: Women Entrepreneurs Part 2
Today we’re talking to Tara Williams, founder of Dreamland Baby. We want to know what got her motivated to start her company, the good, bad, and ugly shit that came with making their vision a reality. In addition, we also...
05.19.2021
Entrepreneurship: Women Entrepreneurs
We’re starting off our series in the same way we just ended our Career Development series, talking to badass women who know what’s up. Today we’re talking to Nishita Deka, co-founder of Sonera Magnetics. We want to know what got...
05.05.2021
Career Development: Women in the Workplace
In today’s episode, we are closing out the series with a hot topic - Women in the workplace. We are going to dig into the challenges, the successes, and the sometimes painful truth of being a woman in today’s workforce....
01.28.2021
Career Development: Career Coaching
Today, we are taking a different angle and talking to a coach. A career coach to be exact. We will learn about career coaching, how it works, and why it matters from tenured life coach Elaine Davis of YouMakeitHappen.com
01.28.2021
Career Development: Advocating Yourself
Last week we spoke with Amanda Healy about the practice of Personal Branding. Today, we're speaking with a long-time friend of the podcast, Bill Connolly, on how to execute your Personal Brand by Advocating Yourself.
01.28.2021
Career Development: Personal Branding
Today on the No BS Guide to Professionals Christen and I begin our series on Career Development with a lesson on Personal Branding from a nationwide speaker and expert, Amanda Healy. Amanda is the Head of Brand Marketing of IOT as...
01.28.2021
No BS Guide: Pivotal Moment
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01.06.2021
Career Development: Mentoring
It's always a good thing to have a mentor in your professional career and to reciprocate for those looking to be mentored. On this episode we spoke with Don Graumann, an experienced leader and mentor of 25+ years in Data...
12.09.2020
Career Development: Growth in the Workplace
This week we continue our Career Development series and discuss the importance of Growth in the Workplace with Austen Chen of Orihon.
12.02.2020
Career Development: Advocating Yourself
Last week we spoke with Amanda Healy about the practice of Personal Branding. Today, we're speaking with a long-time friend of the podcast, Bill Connolly, on how to execute your Personal Brand by Advocating Yourself.
09.30.2020
Playbook Scenario: New Product Launch
Last episode we continued our series of Playbook Scenarios as Christen advised everyone on how to create and execute a Playbook for Positioning. Today we conclude our Playbook Scenario series on a crucial topic: New Product Launch. To help us...
09.23.2020
Playbook Scenario: Customer Journey & Positioning
Last episode we started off our series of Playbook Scenarios and spoke with Saadi Muslu on how to execute a Gap Analysis Playbook as a new PMM. Today we’re going to continue the series by talking about building a Playbook...
09.16.2020
Gap Analysis: Let's close this B!&#$
Last episode we spoke about data and research firms, and how they can help determine strategic directions and gain insights for decision making. Today we’re going to pivot to scenario planning that new PMs are familiar with when they’re the...
06.03.2020
Product Marketing + Market Research: Turning data into Insights
Last episode we started digging into the data and understanding how to think about your own data for telling the best story. But if you are about to launch a new product or enter a new market or identify a...
05.14.2020
Product Marketing + Data Science: Show me the MF Numbers!
Product marketing decisions should be both quantitative and qualitative. That is why it is important to buddy up with the person who knows how to run the numbers and derive insights from them. Someone in analytics.
04.29.2020
Product Marketing: Your Favorite Tools
Over the last 12 weeks we have been asking our guests, what are the tools they use in their day-to-day that they can’t live without. Some of them are tools you’ve never heard of, but should know them. Some of...
04.24.2020
Bonus Episode: Pivot THE SH*T Out Of It
We're seeing more companies pivoting in this difficult time to stay afloat and provide added value to their loyal customers. In this special bonus episode, Christen and Bill ranked their top 5 businesses that have adapted really well to the...
04.22.2020
Product Marketing + Customer Success: Getting Critical Feedback
Last week we spoke with an expert product designer on how to bring a story to life through a strong user experience. Now we are spinning off and talking to someone in the role that should be every product marketer's...
04.19.2020
Product Marketing + Design: Expecting F#$%ing Unicorns
To date, we have been talking to a lot of people in the roles that work closest with Product Marketing. However, there are the unsung heroes of the companies that Product Marketing shouldn’t forget about. Within the product org there...
04.16.2020
Product Marketing + Design: Expecting F#$%ing Unicorns
To date, we have been talking to a lot of people in the roles that work closest with Product Marketing. However, there are the unsung heroes of the companies that Product Marketing shouldn’t forget about. Within the product org there...
04.15.2020
Product Marketing + Design: Expecting F#*%ing Unicorns
In the product org there's a key role responsible for implementing the front-end design, which can make or break your user experience - our friends the product designers. On today’s episode we are excited to bring you our next guest, Brittany...
04.01.2020
Product Marketing + Business Development: Enabling the Sh!t out of Partners
Last week we talked about Growth Marketing and how it plays a role is sending the right message to the right person at the right time. This week we’ll turn our focus to Strategic Partnerships on the Business Development side...
03.25.2020
Product Marketing + Growth Marketing: The right message for the right audience
Growth marketing can mean a lot of things, but at it’s core it is about using data to tell a compelling story. Weather the title exists or not, if your company has a function of marketing it is likely they...
03.11.2020
Product Marketing + Content Marketing Part 2: Telling the Right Story
This week we continue our conversation with Bill Connolly in Part 2 on Content Marketing. We talk about storytelling, failure, and one of Bill's favorite topics, the meta. Bill Connolly's website: TheBillConnolly.com
03.04.2020
Product Marketing + Content Marketing Part 1: Telling the Right Story
Last week we talked about how the role of Product Marketing enables sales. This week and next we are going to talk about content marketing and how it helps Product Marketing tell the story. We enlisted the help of an expert...
02.26.2020
Product Marketing + Sales Enablement: What DOESN’T work
Last week we talked to Sales to get a different perspective on how Product Marketing and Sales interact. This week we are going to talk more specifically about how Product Marketing enables sales. And to help us better understand this topic,...
02.19.2020
Product Marketing + Sales: Closing Deals
Last week we spoke with Jenny Song, a Product Manager with a lot of experience working with Product Marketers at B2C orgs. Now, this week we are going to speak with someone from Sales, and get their take on how...
02.12.2020
Product Marketing + Product Management: Going to Market
We’ve mentioned before that Product Marketing, Sales and Product Management are interconnected when it comes to GTM strategy. However it is no easy feat getting all three to play well in the sandbox. So we are going to talk to...
02.05.2020
Product Marketing - The Good, Bad, and Ugly Sh!t
Last week we talked about what the f@#k Product Marketing even is and our experiences with getting into this career. Today we are going to talk to Saadi about her experiences in the battlefield and share the good, the bad,...
01.29.2020
WTF is Product Marketing
Let’s kick this podcast off the right way by asking the proverbial question “What the F@#% is Product Marketing?” In our first episode of the No BS Guide to PMM, we’ll answer this question and talk about why we started this...
01.22.2020
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What's No BS Guide for Professionals about?

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No BS Guide for Professionals episodes:

Entrepreneurship: Women Entrepreneurs Part 2

Entrepreneurship: Women Entrepreneurs

Career Development: Women in the Workplace

Career Development: Career Coaching

Career Development: Advocating Yourself

Career Development: Personal Branding

No BS Guide: Pivotal Moment

Career Development: Mentoring

Career Development: Growth in the Workplace

Career Development: Advocating Yourself

Playbook Scenario: New Product Launch

Playbook Scenario: Customer Journey & Positioning

Gap Analysis: Let's close this B!&#$

Product Marketing + Market Research: Turning data into Insights

Product Marketing + Data Science: Show me the MF Numbers!

Product Marketing: Your Favorite Tools

Bonus Episode: Pivot THE SH*T Out Of It

Product Marketing + Customer Success: Getting Critical Feedback

Product Marketing + Design: Expecting F#$%ing Unicorns

Product Marketing + Design: Expecting F#$%ing Unicorns

Product Marketing + Design: Expecting F#*%ing Unicorns

Product Marketing + Business Development: Enabling the Sh!t out of Partners

Product Marketing + Growth Marketing: The right message for the right audience

Product Marketing + Content Marketing Part 2: Telling the Right Story

Product Marketing + Content Marketing Part 1: Telling the Right Story

Product Marketing + Sales Enablement: What DOESN’T work

Product Marketing + Sales: Closing Deals

Product Marketing + Product Management: Going to Market

Product Marketing - The Good, Bad, and Ugly Sh!t

WTF is Product Marketing

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