Your Working Life is an award-winning podcast series hosted by career and professional development author, speaker, and influencer, Caroline Dowd-Higgins. Featuring candid interviews with luminaries in the career, leadership, entrepreneurship, and wellness fields, listeners will benefit from wisdom about how to navigate life and career. Well-known personalities and industry experts including Tiffany Cross, Whitney Johnson, Guy Kawasaki, Melissa Daimler, and Marcus Buckingham give their personal…
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How do you keep climbing the corporate ladder while quietly panicking on the inside? Patty Azzarello knows firsthand. She became the youngest general manager in Hewlett-Packard's history at thirty-three, ran a billion-dollar business at thirty-five, and was a CEO by thirty-eight. In her new memoir, Why Is SHE Still Here? My Ungraceful Journey from the Playground to the Boardroom , Azzarello pulls…
What separates elite teams from average ones? According to psychologist Ron Friedman, it's not longer hours or more meetings, it's how teams manage energy, attention, and each other. Friedman, bestselling author of The Best Place to Work and Decoding Greatness , surveyed thousands of teams for his latest book, Superteams: The Science and Secrets of High-Performing Teams , drawing on real-world…
In this episode Caroline interviews Carrie Joy Grimes, the founder and CEO of WorkMoney, a nonprofit serving over 9 million Americans with practical financial guidance, and the author of the new book The Joy of Money: How to Do More With and Feel Better About Your Money No Matter How Much You Have . Drawing on her experience talking directly with everyday Americans about their finances, plus her…
In this episode, Caroline talks with Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard, author of the new book Power Reimagined: My Mission to Get It, Grow It and Give It Away , she draws on personal stories—from a discrimination lawsuit she won as a teenager to negotiating equal pay as a junior attorney—to challenge conventional ideas about who holds power and how it's built. She offers a framework for turning obstacles…
Gustavo Razzetti, culture strategist and CEO of Fearless Culture, has spent 25 years helping teams break through the conversations they keep avoiding. In this episode, he introduces the concept of "conversational debt", the hidden cost that builds when smart people stay silent, talk in circles, or mistake politeness for progress. Drawing on his new book, Forward Talk , Gustavo breaks down the…
In this episode of Your Working Life, Caroline Dowd-Higgins talks with Leidy Klotz about the power of our physical spaces. Klotz, a behavioral scientist and University of Virginia engineering professor, wrote the new book In a Good Place: How the Places Where We Live, Work, and Play Can Help Us Thrive . While most self-improvement advice focuses on what we do, Klotz makes a compelling case for…
Today, we have an appointment with the "Teamwork Doctor"! Liane Davey is an organizational psychologist, CEO advisor, and author of her forthcoming book Thoughtload: Manage the Madness and Free Your Team to Do Great Work . With over 25 years of experience advising teams at companies like Amazon, Google, and Walmart, Davey argues that today's workplace crisis isn't caused by oversized workloads —…
Today's guest is Caroline Maguire, an internationally recognized social-emotional learning expert, ADHD coach, and author of the groundbreaking new book Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults: A Guide for the Anxious, Uniquely Wired, and Easily Distracted . Caroline offers neuroscience-grounded strategies for a community too often left out of conversations about connection, belonging, and…
In this episode of Your Working Life, Caroline Dowd-Higgins speaks with Minette Norman, keynote speaker, former software executive, and award-winning author about her new book The Psychological Safety Playbook for Changemakers . Despite psychological safety topping the list of leadership priorities, Minette explains why it still isn't working in most organizations and why mission statements and…
In this episode, Caroline Dowd-Higgins is joined by Chris Dyer, whose new book Moments That Matter: See, Shape, and Scale What Counts offers a groundbreaking look at why we remember less than one percent of what we experience. Dyer reveals that the moments shaping our careers, cultures, and relationships rarely announce themselves, they happen in hallways, on quick phone calls, and in the first…
