🎙️New Tech Threads X Utah Product Guild Episode: Networking and AI! 🎙️

I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with Kyle Olson, Senior Product Manager at MoveDocs, to talk about networking and AI.

In this episode, we discuss:

✅ Building a network in a new space

✅ The power of the Utah Product Guild

✅ Being curious and overcoming the fear of connecting.

✅ Ways to network and help others

✅ Product Manager portfolios

✅ Ways to level up as a product manager

✅ How Product Managers are using AI

This conversation was packed with insights, career wisdom, and real-world experiences that anyone interested in product management can learn from. 🚀

🎧 Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

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I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with John Fontenot, a VP of Product at Terlumina and Co-Founder of Path2Product, to talk about breaking into product management.

In this episode, we discuss:

✅ Breaking into product management

✅ How to get product management experience without being a PM

✅ How to be taken seriously as a PM job candidate

✅ Finding PM mentors

✅ What a high value product portfolio looks like

✅ How AI is changing the way people can get into product management.

This conversation was packed with insights, career wisdom, and real-world experiences that anyone interested in product management can learn from. 🚀

For more content from John, check out his podcast Lessons In Product Management found on Spotify Podcasts.

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