🤑 Penny’s fantasy company perks 

🙋🏽 ...and she talks to herself

💅🏽 Brittni wants a massage 

🎱 How much work time do you spend doing life admin? 

✈️ Take your holidays!!!!!!! 

👀 WTF is workism? 

🔥 Avoiding burnout 

💦 The 80/20 rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle  

💩 Yucky sexual advances and what to do about them 

Our resource(s) of the week: how to deal with sexual harassment 😬 

 https://www.manrepeller.com/2017/10/how-to-deal-with-sexual-harassment.html

https://leanin.org/sexual-harassment

https://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/legal-resources/know-your-rights-at-work/workplace-sexual-harassment/employees-guide/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/style/sexual-harassment-work-advice-lawyers.html

Plus, if you see someone being harassed at work: https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/money/a12843978/how-to-stop-sexual-harassment-workplace/

Big thanks to our podcast producer and sound designer, Max Gosford. If you’d like Max to work on your podcast, you can get in touch with him here - [email protected] 🍣 

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected] Follow us on social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore and Penny is also on Twitter @penelope_noir :)

Does anyone actually read these notes? Say "hell yes" if you do and completely ignore this text if you don't. This week, we talk about interns and how they can be stressful, and also, the golden ticket....how to be good at your job!!

Show Notes

🙋🏻Penny’s a freelancer now!

😢Is business development thankless?

💿Swedish DJ Adam Beyer 

👸 Brittni is now a feedback queen (Feedback special coming!)

💪Situation Behaviour Impact Feedback Model

💡Ben Franklin Effect

📱Brittni’s always instagramming

📋 How to manage an intern (resource of the week!) 

Big thanks to our podcast producer and sound designer, Max Gosford. If you’d like Max to work on your podcast, you can get in touch with him here - [email protected] 🍣

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected]

Follow us on social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore and Penny is also on Twitter @penelope_noir :)

It's hard to figure out when to earn, when to learn, and when to do something else entirely. This week, we share ideas on how to advance your career with and without changing roles or companies, as well as how to address that tricky issue of sharing your salary expectations before you've even interviewed. Tune in, it'll be fun!!

💥 Do we need a new definition of self-made?!

🌈 The Skimm - https://www.theskimm.com/ 

☕️ How do you avoid distraction at work?

👜 What to do if someone asks you to specify your salary expectations in an application

🐰 Payscale, not to be confused with greyscale https://www.payscale.com/

🏃🏽 In what situations should you take a step backwards in your career?

💦 Let’s make it juicy

🙏🏼 You are allowed to relax sometimes and enjoy your life!!

🏌 Don’t fuck up your cold emails

👀Check out our resource of the week! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zCBbK8B6p-gRujnBpbpTS2YK47HAvFf7HZDr2ck3VMw/edit?usp=sharing 

Big thanks to our podcast producer and sound designer, Max Gosford. If you’d like Max to work on your podcast, you can get in touch with him here - [email protected] 🍣

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected]

Follow us on social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore and Penny is also on Twitter @penelope_noir :)

Ok, yes, we’re a little tipsy in this ep, but that makes it even more fun. This week is all about gathering some gosh-darn confidence baby! Time to stop beating yourself up and start bringing in the bacon. We talk about what to do if you're feeling the dreaded IMPOSTOR SYNDROME! We also discuss how to position yourself as leadership material, even if people don't see you as a manager right off the bat! Enjoy!

Shownotes

🎈Max, our Podcast Producer, has a lovely deep baritone

🌈 Getting Curious with JVN, we love him: https://www.earwolf.com/show/getting-curious-with-jonathan-van-ness/

💅🏽 Penny is outraged that she never knew about Brittni’s hand modelling career

🤔 Psychological safety - we wanna know what you think!

🏅 How to motivate yourself to get to the OLYMPICS (note: sarcasm)

⏲ Giving your mind some time out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY

🌤 And a useful article about the benefits of daydreaming: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-benefits-of-daydreaming-170189213/

🐦 What are birds going on about?! We’d love to know. 

👯 The wonder of interspecies friendships

👽 Dealing with the dreaded imposter syndrome! http://time.com/5312483/how-to-deal-with-impostor-syndrome/

💯 Penny is alarmingly confident and is gonna teach you how to be too

🏈 What does a leader look like?

🙋🏽 Society is geared towards extroverts: https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352153

✏️ Please just write us a cute letter, please! For fun!

💥 Resource of the week: https://hbr.org/2017/08/high-performing-teams-need-psychological-safety-heres-how-to-create-it 

Big thanks to our podcast producer and sound designer, Max Gosford. If you’d like Max to work on your podcast, you can get in touch with him here - [email protected] :D

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected]

Follow us on social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore and Penny is also on Twitter @penelope_noir :)

This week’s episode is a delightful ramble-fest full of excellent and random resources, Netflix recommendations, and terrible reading-out-loud. We’ll cover how to make an impact in your workplace when you’re relatively low in the pecking order, and how to build a brand spanking new network. It’s gold, join us!

Shownotes:

🕯 Hygge - pronounced hu-ggeh - get acquainted

👗Beyonce’s Netflix special 

💯 How come you're not following Michelle Obama on Instagram yet?!

🐰 Emma Gannon’s episode of Control Alt Delete with Bruce Daisley

🏃🏽 Fast vs. slow thinking 

💪🏽 What's the best way to hire a millennial?! 

💅🏽 Coaching = less advice, more guidance 

🛠 Peter Thiel’s Zero to One

⛱ Trying to positively influence your workplace when you’re not so influential

🎈 Giving great feedback.....but make sure your input is **welcome** 

📗 Reading is very hard

🙃 Is Susan the direct opposite of Brittni?!

🌇 What is the process for building a network in a new town, city, or industry?

🙌🏾 Penny’s daily burp 

💰 ALWAYS! BE! CLOSING!! 

🔮 Our resource of the week: Stop being lonely at work

❤️ Finally, thank you SO much for all the 5-star reviews!

Big thanks to our podcast producer and sound designer, Max Gosford. If you’d like Max to work on your podcast, you can get in touch with him here - [email protected] :D

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected]

Follow us on social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore and Penny is also on Twitter @penelope_noir :)

Everybody, Penny’s feeling a little un-fresh in this episode because it was her birthday picnic a few days ago and she still hasn’t really recovered. But luckily, as usual, we both have loads to talk about and share with you. We’ll chat about when it's a good idea to make your hobby your job and when you probably shouldn't, as well as how to quit a job the right way. Don’t forget to rate, review, subscribe and ENJOY!!

Shownotes:

💁Brittni in full form is truly something to behold

🌳The life-changing effects of NATURE

🐥Twitter’s Jack Dorsey works his ass off 

💎The danger of wealth - an experiment 

🏄🏻When do you turn your hobby into a full-time gig

💘Macarons = WORK

😳Brittni and Penny split their pants

💩Is following your bliss a mechanism of the patriarchy?!

🌴Choosing a path AND a lifestyle

🙋🏻Penny gives our reader a series of tasks 

🙌🏾How to quit well

🍻Getting the feedback balance right

💞Is the situation reconcilable?

✈️Maybe you just need a holiday!!!! 

💰The Golden Handshake vs. Gardening Leave

💃It’s always Maria!!

Big thanks to our podcast producer and sound designer, Max Gosford. If you’d like Max to work on your podcast, you can get in touch with him here - [email protected] :D

Our resource of the week is an absolute killer. Please, use and enjoy: When to Quit Your Job!

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected]

Follow us on social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore 

We’re thrilled to be back in Penny’s kitchen (for the last time, we promise) this time a little tipsy and loving life. Have you ever lost sleep fretting about office politics? And what even ARE office politics?! You’ll be thrilled to know that Penny thinks there could actually be a good side to the whole office gossip thing! And also...is there such things as being too pumped about a job interview?! This and much, much more. You can’t hold us down! 

Show notes:

🍷 We share one of life’s greatest pleasures

🏈 Brittni is ALWAYS thinking about goals

😂 One Britt’s all-time favourite comedians

🛍 Penny needs to get off Net-A-Porter

🇫🇷 We are going to Paris!!

👽 What if your job “doesn’t exist”?

💩 You truly cannot please everyone, and nor should you try

🌵 Penny is not chilled

📗 Proclivity = tendency towards

📘 Verbose = likes to use fancy words

🔪 Urgh, office politics. Is this for real?!

↑ In Australia we say “it rots from the top”

🤓 Getting a little **too** excited about your next role 

Big thanks to our podcast producer and sound designer, Max Gosford. If you’d like Max to work on your podcast, you can get in touch with him here - [email protected] :D

Our resource of the week is an absolute killer - a proposal template that you can use for new clients or internal projects. Please, use and enjoy!

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected]

And here's where you can follow us on the social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore 💖💖💖

Sorry we're late this week peeps, it doesn't mean we don't adore you, but sometimes life gets in the way of your podcasting ambitions 😭

In this episode of Happy Hour, Penny made Brittni pasta at her apartment, but don’t worry, she’s not eating during the recording of the podcast.  That would be terrible. This week we can't help but chat about the lovely, and perhaps insane, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos fame. If you haven't watched the doco yet, then you'd better get to it!

We also try to figure out how you should go about asking for a job that doesn't yet exist, because, you know, how?!!! As well as giving tips on the question of what one does when things are getting snooze-worthy at work? Boredom is truly worse than death. But it doesn't have to be ;) This episode is all about reframing, so we hope you enjoy (and rate, and review, and subscribe)!!

Show Notes:

👯 Feeling more like Dolly and Pandora by the day

💉 The Theranos documentary is fascinating!

🔪 Is Elizabeth Holmes a sociopath?

👵🏽 Brittni tries to describe the  gaping abyss of adulting

💼 In Good Company with Otegha Uwagba and Emma Gannon

🇬🇧 Brittni really, really, loves London

🐘 The weird world of massive companies

🔮 How to create that elusive new role 

📕📗📘Penny freaking LOVES planning!

🙃 Being bored is the worst

🙅🏽 Check out No Hard Feelings - Embracing emotions at work

Resource of week! 26 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google Calendar could do on FastCompany

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected]

Follow us on social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore 

Brittni’s drinking again and Penny is happy about it. In this fiery episode of Happy Hour, Brittni and Penny discuss how to say no to your boss, especially when you’re someone who always says yes. They also dive into the controversial debate, do you need to manage women differently than men in the workplace? If so, how? This episode is packed full of actionable advice, podcast recommendations and books you should be reading! Don’t forget to rate and review the podcast, and more importantly, share it with your friends!

Show Notes

👧🏼Brittni’s first alcoholic drink in....a while

👧🏻Penny was missed in the office this week

🎙Podcast Recommendation: How I Built This, episode with Jen Rubio from Away Luggage

🎙Podcast Recommendation: Hello* Monday with Tim Brown

💕Eileen Fischer is PURE CLASS

📚Book Recommendation: The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo

👑How to know if you’ll be a great manager (Brittni reads an excerpt)

🎬Brittni’s content idea workshop

🚀The power of the co-creation effect

✅Always saying yes at work

📆The power of calendarizing your day

🙋🏽Should we manage women differently than men?

🦄 The meritocracy myth

🍌How to manage people who are more experienced than you

Resource of week! Ask a Boss from thecut.com

Got a question? Send us an email! [email protected]

Follow us on social medias! Instagram: @brittnibow and @vanta_blackmore 

*Penny called it Happy Monday, but it’s actually called “Hello Monday” 😁

One of us (we'll let you guess who) is skipping the drinks in this week's Happy Hour,  but that doesn't mean we didn't have fun! In this episode, we encourage a listener who is dealing with long-term unemployment, and give some practical advice on how to deal with those long hours at home. It's hard, we feel you Chris! We also receive a letter from someone using a fancy pseudonym to protect his anonymity....that's how famous we are ;) Richard (not his real name) is trying to figure out how the heck you can motivate and manage a colleague that is also your work BFF. 

We've also been given some really lovely feedback on the podcast so far. Thank you, we love you and hope that we're helping y'all to feel fabulous about your careers! 💜💜💜

Show notes:

✍🏽Oops! We have a correction ;) An update on our thoughts on brain picking

👵🏽Brittni turns 31 and there is no turning back!

🚀Continued education….it’s up to you baby

🔦Online courses and the boredom cortex

✨💕Julie Zhou's flipping fantastic blog for new managers, The Year of the Looking Glass and her new book The Making of a Manager

🏹Confidence: when you need it and when you need to earn it!!

🍀Looking after yourself if you're long-term unemployed 

💵Figuring out how to get the job that you want!

🙌🏾Managing friends, and people in general - how to not lose sleep at night

👻Plus, our resource of the week! Be Better at Networking: 6 things to say that will make your networking conversations less awkward

Please rate, review and share the podcast! It helps others find it and makes Brittni and Penny warm and fuzzy inside. 

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