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"the good work talk show" with mallory contois
"the good work talk show" is a deeply honest exploration of work and how it can be a tool for discovering and becoming your best self.
Hosted by mallory contois, each episode is a conversation with someone whose career you may have admired from afar, without knowing the full picture. mallory and her guests get into the real decisions, detours, and tradeoffs they made along the way.
Season 01 is presented by Granola.
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Episodes
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 09 - caitlin crosby
Caitlin turned a hotel room key she wore as a necklace into The Giving Keys, a pay-it-forward movement that has sold more than three million keys and employed…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 10 - ruffin mitchener
Ruffin was the quiet kid who'd rather take a B than raise her hand, then became an accountant everyone assumed would stay one. Now she reaches more than…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 07 - emily kramer
Emily built marketing from scratch at four startups, including Asana and Carta. Then she started a newsletter she thought of as lead gen, and it quietly became…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 08 - tyler palmer
Tyler knew at 16 that he wanted to help artists make a living. It took four swings to find the one that worked, and then he spent 10 years helping build…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 05 - max schneider (aka @max4cracks)
Max taught himself motion design on YouTube, turned it into a career, and then built an audience of 258,000 on TikTok mostly by making things he thinks are…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 06 - grace mccarrick
Grace made $18K her first year in business. Today she teaches soft skills to teams at companies like Spotify, Amazon, and DoorDash, and it all started with a…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 03 - marcus buckingham
Marcus has spent decades studying what makes people exceptional at work, and his answer starts somewhere most of us never look: what we love. Why I wanted…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 04 - toni cowan-brown
Toni spent two decades in tech and politics, then turned a 74-page Formula 1 guide for a friend into an entirely new career. Why I wanted Toni on the show…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 01 - jean luo
Jean spent 15 years building the kind of career most people would never walk away from, then walked away from it anyway. Why I wanted Jean on the show: as much…
"the good work talk show" with mallory contoisthe good work talk show | ep. 02 - molly graham
Molly has never had a plan, and that's exactly how she ended up helping build Google, Facebook, and Quip. Why I wanted Molly on the show: Molly's "Give Away…