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The Careering Podcast.
Slow, honest conversations about career, ambition, purpose and life, with women navigating the real thing.
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Ep.23 - Career Challenges & Strategic Lessons
In this episode, we reflect on navigating unexpected career shifts, building resilience, and practical steps to align your daily work with long-term ambition.
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Ep.11 F Series: The F Word
This week we're kicking off our F Series. If you're a regular listener, you know we're not afraid of an F bomb so to expand our vocab further than our creative uses of the word F**K, we're diving into a whole F word series.
Ep.12 F Series:Failures & f**k ups
Welcome back to our F Series. If you're a regular listener, you know we're not afraid of an F bomb so to expand our vocab further than our creative uses of the word F**K, we're diving into a whole F word series.
Ep.13 F Series: F**king fun quad pod
We're super excited to have Jen and Jane from Jen and Jane's Excellent Adventure joining us for our first ever Quad Pod! The four of us are continuing on with our F word series with this week's topic... FUN. Join us as we chat/giggle our way through a discussion on why fun at work is so important, how to have more of it and most importantly, why 'to do lists' can suck it.
Ep.14 F Series: All things finance quad pod
Jen and Jane from Jen and Jane's Excellent Adventure are back with us this week for a deep dive on all things finance. As part of our F word series, we're discussing how we talk about money as women in Aotearoa, our emotional responses to the convo and the importance of spending, saving AND investing.
Ep.15 F Series: F&*^ing feelings
We're continuing our F Series this week with a discussion on those pesky things we all experience - feelings. Join us as we talk about our experiences dealing with a range of emotions at work, how men and women are often treated and judged differently when displaying emotions, the unspoken workplace "feeling rules", and Kelsie's leaky eye syndrome.
Ep.19 F Series: Fishbowl Q&A
In our final F Series episode, we're digging deep into the fishbowl of career questions, also affectionately known as the 'crystal salad bowl of things that are hard to answer'.
Ep.16 F Series: Family, familia, whānau
In this week's F Series, we're talking about the impact of family at work. Join us as we dive into the topic from all sides including the impact on people with children, those without and those that are responsible for other dependents like elderly parents. As always, we'll talk about our experiences whilst also looking at the gender bias through the lens of care and unpaid labour.
Ep.10 Goals, goals, goals
Following on from our episode about defining success, we're tackling goals and goal setting. Buckle up and settle in as we deliver our longest rant yet, working through our thoughts, feelings and reckons on fuzzy goals, hustle culture and the impact of setting goals through the lens of dieting.
Ep.9 Bad Boss Bingo
This week we're tackling the topic of bad bosses. Join us for a chat about our experiences with a spectrum of bad, how to deal with them and a cheeky game of bad boss bingo.
Ep.8 Job market reckons
With low unemployment across New Zealand, now's the time to go after that job you've always wanted. On this week's episode of Careering, we're giving our reckons on the Aotearoa job market, skill shortages and the future of jobs.
Ep.7 Misogyny at work
This week we're diving in the deep end and talking about our experiences with misogyny at work. Overt, covert and casual, we're discussing it all and how to deal with it when you come face to face with it.
Ep.6 Getting personal with branding
This week we're getting ranty about personal and business branding. Join us for our reckons on harnessing your personal brand for good, reasons why brand is so important for businesses and of course, a fair bit of swearing.
Ep.5 Feedback vs Criticism
Join us this week for a big ole discussion on the differences between feedback and criticism. We cover everything from car jams, multi-verse Kelsies, our experiences with criticism, how gender bias plays into it and top tips for giving and receiving feedback.
Ep.4 Finding your way of working
This week we’re delving into different ways of working and discussing the pros and cons of freelancing, contracting, permanent employment and being a founder. Join us as we share a bunch of our own experiences, discuss freelancing tips and find out why ballet and patience will never appear on Melissa’s resume.
Ep.3 Screwing the Crew
We’re getting a bit scandalous this week and diving into the good, the bad and the ugly of office hookups. Join us for a few laughs and a chat about the right way to have an office romance and where NOT to have office sex.
Ep.2 - Negotiating a Pay Rise
In this week's Careering podcast episode we’re tackling all things pay rise - asking for them, giving them and all the money we lose not negotiating them. Join us for a chat about our own experiences and some practical tips for having robust, fact-based salary conversations.
Ep.1 - Defining Success
In the first ever episode of the Careering Podcast, we kick straight into the big topics. Join Melissa and Kelsie as they discuss what success means to them, how it's changed over the years and the impact of the word 'should'.

