In this episode of Beyond Product Management, Heather sits down with her friend and fellow Pittsburgh entrepreneur, Alex Yargeau, CEO of Yargeau and Co. (@yargeauandco), a marketing agency that helps women-owned businesses shine online. Together, they dive into the power of visibility, why every woman entrepreneur needs a hype girl, and how collaboration—not doing it all alone—is the real key to business growth. Alex shares insights from her recent Visibility Challenge, the launch of her new program The Visibility Vault, and practical strategies to show up authentically on Instagram and beyond. Whether you’re struggling to stay consistent with content or looking for a supportive community, this episode will leave you inspired to step into the spotlight and find your tribe.

Also mentioned in this episode is Beyond Boss (Pittsburgh’s hub for ambitious women entrepreneurs.) IG: @beyondboss_

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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Back-to-school season always brings chaos — new routines, endless forms, and if you’re like me, fundraisers stacked on fundraisers. Add business goals and client work into the mix and suddenly you’re wondering how you’re supposed to keep it all together.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt swallowed up by the comparison trap — looking at your never-ending to-do list, comparing yourself to “past you” or to what everyone else seems to be doing, and feeling like you’re not enough.

Here’s the truth: your to-do list will never give you credit for what you’ve actually accomplished. That’s why I brought back one of my favorite tools — the done list. It’s simple, it’s grounding, and it’s exactly what you need when overwhelm is winning.

In this episode, I share:

• Why even the best-laid plans sometimes crumble (hi, August).
• How I reframed my crazy weeks with a done list.
• The surprising wins hiding in plain sight on your busiest days.
• Why comparison is especially dangerous for entrepreneurs and solopreneurs.
• A simple practice to help you feel accomplished, even in the chaos.

If you’re heading into this season feeling stretched thin but still craving structure, this one’s for you. Grab your notebook — we’re about to reframe how you measure progress.

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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Think you have a delegation problem? You probably don’t. You likely have one of four delegation breakdowns—patterns that feel totally logical in the moment but quietly keep you stuck doing work you should have handed off months ago.

In this episode of Beyond Product Management, I share the exact four breakdowns I see with founders, product leaders, and entrepreneurs again and again:

1. The Efficiency Trap – “I’ll just do it myself, it’s faster.”
2. The Context Gap – “They don’t know all the background.”
3. The Vision Disconnect – “They won’t do it the way I imagine.”
4. The High-Stakes Fear – “This is too important to risk.”

We’ll dig into:

• Why your brain gives you perfectly reasonable excuses not to delegate.
• How each breakdown shows up in real life (yes, I’ve been guilty of all four).
• Simple, practical ways to spot—and fix—your biggest delegation roadblock.

If you’ve been feeling maxed out, this conversation will help you reclaim time, reduce overwhelm, and start scaling without losing control.

🎧 Listen in, then pick one task to delegate this week—and watch how much space it creates in your day.

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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Welcome to Feature Factory Rehab.

You know that moment when you walk into a house and it’s not dirty, but there’s just stuff everywhere? Every surface covered, every room doing double duty? That house is your product — and it’s time for an intervention.

In this episode of Beyond Product Management, we’re staging a strategic cleanup.

Whether you're a founder, a product leader, an engineer, or even just a passionate user — if you've ever found yourself overwhelmed by too many features, bloated roadmaps, or that one “urgent” stakeholder request that derailed your whole sprint... this one's for you.

We’re talking about:

• What the “Feature Factory” trap really looks like — and why it’s so common
• How saying yes to everything is hurting your product (and your users)
• How to say no without being a jerk
• Why feature requests are love letters — and how to read between the lines
• The real job of a product leader (spoiler: it’s not appeasement)
• The radical power of subtraction
• Actionable frameworks for cleaning up your product and keeping it focused

You’ll walk away with real tools to shift from chaos to clarity — and build products that people don’t just tolerate, but love.

✨ Because your product wasn’t meant to be everything to everyone. It was meant to be excellent at what matters most.

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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In today’s episode, I’m talking about something that’s been personally real for me lately…

✨ How do you share your wins without spiraling into self-doubt or feeling like a fraud?

If your instinct is to deflect, downplay, or hide your accomplishments altogether, you’re not alone — especially if you're a woman or someone from an underrepresented group. We’ve been taught that confidence might come off as arrogance. That humility means shrinking. But what if your wins aren’t just about you?

In this episode, we’ll unpack:

• Why so many of us minimize our success — even when it’s clearly earned
• How our inner critic sabotages our visibility
• Why comparison is the quickest way to kill joy
• Four powerful strategies to share wins without feeling fake or boastful
• The power of creating your own win circle to shift your inner and outer narrative

Because every step forward — big or small — deserves to be seen.

🎧 Whether you just launched something new, got a shoutout in a meeting, or finally remembered to eat lunch before 3pm — this episode is your permission slip to own it.

📣 Take Action:

This week, share one win with someone you trust. Notice how it feels. Want someone to celebrate with? DM me on Instagram or LinkedIn — I mean it. I’m here for it. 🥂

And if this episode hit home, I’d love it if you shared it or left a review. Let’s build a world where sharing success is normal, not nerve-wracking.

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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In this episode of Beyond Product Management, Heather sits down with storytelling expert and content strategist Lindsay Murray to unpack why storytelling isn’t just for selling—it’s essential for teaching, leading, and building great products.

Heather and Lindsay compare notes from their very different worlds—product management and social media marketing—and discover that they’ve been using the same powerful tool all along: story.

Whether you're trying to rally a dev team, craft a compelling Instagram post, or gain executive buy-in, this episode will help you:

• Understand how storytelling activates attention and memory
• Use personal experiences and analogies to connect more deeply
• Communicate your vision more clearly and confidently
• Create content (and conversations) that flow more naturally and take less time

✨ Bonus: Hear real-world examples and analogies that work for both product managers and business owners alike.

Lindsey's Bio:

Lindsey Murray turns overthinkers into action-takers. Through her social sales framework, she helps women generate daily sales online without living on social media. 

Her "stop waiting, start selling" approach has helped thousands of entrepreneurs turn their Instagram accounts into sales machines. With a community of over 300,000 followers and multiple 6-figure businesses built through imperfect action, Lindsey proves that success comes from doing, not planning. Her clients don't just learn – they implement, generating leads daily while spending less than 30 minutes on social media.

Website: 5 day storytelling challenge: https://www.lindseysmurray.com/Story-To-Sold?

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindseysmurray/

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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In this episode of Beyond Product Management, Heather is joined again by her co-founder (and husband!), John Miller, for Part 2 of their ongoing conversation about AI in real-world product environments—this time with a focus on security risks and corporate responsibility.

They dive into:

• Why data exfiltration is a serious concern in generative AI tools
• The risks of using public AI models vs. enterprise-grade tools
• What AI hallucinations can cost your company (yes, even legally)
• Real-world examples including a Canadian airline and Microsoft’s EchoLeak
• How hackers are using AI to improve phishing, malware, and more
• Why being cautious isn’t being paranoid—it's just smart product leadership

Whether you’re a founder, product manager, or tech leader navigating AI adoption, this episode gives you a grounded, pragmatic lens to evaluate your tools and policies.

🔐 AI isn't going anywhere—but your IP shouldn't either.

💬 Got thoughts or questions? Continue the conversation with Heather on LinkedIn or Instagram.

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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In this deeply personal episode of Beyond Product Management, Heather opens up about her own experience with burnout—not just the professional kind, but the emotional and physical toll of misalignment over time.

From 12-hour days and volunteer overload to pandemic parenting and launching a business, she shares how burnout crept in, what it looked like, and what finally broke the cycle.

You’ll hear:

• The subtle signs of burnout (before the crash)
• Why “rest” isn’t always the solution—and what to try instead
• How she redefined her boundaries and reconnected with what actually matters
• Why burnout isn’t always doing too much… but doing too much of the wrong things

Whether you’re a founder, a product leader, or a high-achiever trying to “do it all,” this is your reminder that rest isn’t a reward—it’s a requirement. You don’t have to wait for the breaking point to make a change.

Mentioned in this episode:

• What burnout actually looked like behind the scenes
• Personal stories from 2015–2021, including parenting during the pandemic
• Her Monday canoe trip that taught a surprising lesson about real rest

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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In this episode of Beyond Product Management, Heather Miller sits down with Ben Mosior, founder of Hired Thought and co-creator of Strategy Tactics, for a conversation about what it really means to lead—especially when you’re not “in charge.”

Ben shares how intent-based leadership and facilitative leadership help teams align around purpose, not just process. Together, Heather and Ben explore the role of storytelling in building executive presence, the importance of clear intent, and how anyone in a product or leadership role can drive strategic clarity from wherever they sit.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Why command-and-control and chaos aren’t your only options
• How storytelling fuels alignment and engagement
• What it actually looks like to influence without authority
• The leadership move that starts with “Who is this for?”
• A real-world example of how sharing the why changed a developer’s mindset

Whether you lead a team or lead by example, this episode offers actionable insights and frameworks to help you show up more clearly, more strategically, and more effectively.

🔗 Resources & Mentions:

• Explore Ben’s work at strategyteaming.com
• Connect with Ben on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/benjaminmosior

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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In this personal-yet-practical episode, we're diving into a topic that doesn't get nearly enough attention: Paid Time Off (PTO). Specifically—how to plan for it, how to return from it, and how to truly disconnect without derailing your career. (Spoiler: you don’t have to earn rest by overworking on both sides of your break.)

You’ll hear:

• A few stories from my own less-than-glamorous PTO moments (board games, rainouts, and ER Slack messages included)
• A step-by-step checklist for prepping your handoffs and out-of-office with clarity
• How to avoid inbox chaos and meeting pileups when you return
• Tips from the amazing women at Beyond Boss for making the most of your time off (without the guilt)
• And a reminder that if your team can’t function without you for a few days, the problem isn’t PTO—it’s culture and structure.

Whether you’re heading to the beach or just catching up on doctor’s appointments, you deserve to log off and come back refreshed—not frazzled.

✨ Let’s normalize rest for product people.

PDRM Consulting's mission is to help businesses reduce risk, specifically in the fields of Cybersecurity and Product Management.

Heather bridges the professional development gap in the corporate space by empowering growth-driven product managers to transition into strategic, results-oriented leaders. By focusing on enhancing key skills and decision-making capabilities, she helps them accelerate their leadership journey, achieve measurable outcomes more quickly, and excel in driving product success. Her approach ensures they thrive in their roles and unlock their full potential as impactful servant leaders within their organizations.

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