Are good networking groups really few and far between? Does your city have to be young and cool for networking to be possible? How do you find a good networking group when you get to a new town?

Vanessa & Holland know the answer: great networking groups are found at the intersection of cool people and cool places. Here’s how to narrow it down and find a networking group that works for you.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

It’s only a matter of time before successfully quarterbacking short-term special projects turns into adding a “dotted line” manager to your reporting structure.

…and that’s a good thing. Handle this dual reporting structure well, and you have an opportunity to catapult above everyone else in your organization.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

Wondering how to ace your performance review?

First, remember that not everything in life is testing your ambition. Even for women who want more out of corporate America, performance reviews are basically a pulse-check: are you alive? Are you doing your job?

Report on what you’ve done, give your manager what they need to submit a glowing review to HR, and set some 90-day goals. Above all: don’t overthink it.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

There are hard skills and there are soft skills. And no, soft skills are not being the funniest person in the room or a social butterfly in the corporate cafeteria.

You may have a proclivity toward one or the other, but both are learnable. Just know that once you’re valued for not only for your hard skills, but your soft skills, too, that's when you’ll get promoted.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

With what feels like every company rescinding job offers, it’s hard not to worry about whether or not your job offer is safe.

But there’s no need for concern if you take the Ask Your Work Wife approach: never stop interviewing, always have three or four offers in hand, and only ever stay loyal to you, your career, and what you want.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

We all know that one a$$hole who *does* networking. People like that make networking look bad because they’re not approaching networking the Ask Your Work Wife way. 

In this episode, Vanessa & Holland discuss their approach to networking: make genuine connections and just. Be. Chill. 

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

Temporary? Temp-to-perm? Probationary? If you’re considering a new job that’s described this way, you have questions to ask.

But it also behooves you to take a step back and remember that corporate America doesn’t care about you, your company will lay you off in an instant, and that you should always have an exit strategy.

So let corporate America do whatever the fuck it wants. If you're prepared to treat every job as a temp job, you're going to win. 

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

There are a million reasons your manager might be frustrated with you, and not all of them are within your control. But if you start by doing your job, and improving over time, you’ll be able to better handle the situation, even if she’s just hangry.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

Everyone hates corporate travel, but what if you could use it to see the country, network, make your next three moves, and have some fun, all on your company’s dime?

This is how Vanessa — and soon, Holland! — do corporate travel. In this episode, the Work Wives teach you how to make the most of traveling for work, so that for your next work trip, the answer to “Is this for business or pleasure?” is YES.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

If your manager’s eyes glaze over every time she has to make a decision, you’re probably giving her too much information.

Part of managing up is understanding how much information your manager really needs. At the end of the day, she wants to hear your recommendations, not every single detail you’ve gathered along the way. That’s what gets you promoted.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife!