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Welcome to Work is Weird Now—the podcast that explores the mysteries and oddities of work in the modern age. If you’re at a mid-career impasse, questioning your career choices, looking for inspiration, or just wondering what on earth is going on —you're in the right place.
Meet your hosts:
Alice Phillips: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-phillips-17847b7/
Dan Emery: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-emery-08869b3a/
Update frequency:
every 12 days
Average audio length:
40 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
68 episodes
since May 9, 2025
episodic
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Is the MBA still relevant in a world where AI can analyse information, build financial models and do much of what business education traditionally taught?
This week, Alice and Dan are joined by Dr Richard Longman, Head of The Open University Business School, to explore what an MBA should actually …
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What happens when work stops being about having a person in a seat and starts being about delivering an outcome?
This week, we’re joined by Giselle Gonzales, founder of Equal Reach, to explore a different way of thinking about how work is structured. Drawing on her experience connecting businesses…
LinkedIn feels a bit weird right now. Reach is down, feeds are filling up with AI-generated content and even the people who have built careers on the platform are questioning whether the effort is still worth it.
So we asked Ash Jones, founder of Great Influence and In Good Company, and one of the …
Graduate hiring is falling, the first rung of the career ladder is disappearing, and the deal many of us grew up with, work hard at school, get qualifications, go to university, get a good job, suddenly feels a lot less certain.
So, what on earth are we supposed to tell our kids?
Oliver Pickup, hum…
What Now? Series wrap-up
Every so often, work asks you a question you didn't plan for. The family you imagined doesn't arrive. The country you live in changes. The job disappears. And you're left with the same two words: what now?
In this solo episode, Alice and Dan wrap up the What Now? mini-serie…
The third episode in our "What Now" mini-series, exploring the questions people are really asking themselves when the old rules of work and life no longer apply, tackles redundancy. This week's guest, Emy Cragoe, co-founder of Ori, a new platform rethinking how people understand themselves, navigat…
Continuing our "What Now" mini-series on the questions people are really asking themselves when the old rules of work and life no longer apply, this episode turns to place. This week's guest, Christer "Chris" Berggren, a Swedish senior project and production professional, community builder and advo…
For generations, adulthood came with a promise: work hard, progress in your career, buy a house, start a family. This episode kicks off our new "What Now" mini-series, digging into the questions people are really asking themselves when the old rules no longer apply. Our first guest, strategist and …
Dan and Alice took an AI agent called Dinah to a conference at Meta's Kings Cross HQ — and let her challenge a room of 100 senior leaders live on stage. In this episode they unpack what happened, what surprised them, and what it actually feels like to work alongside AI. Then they hand the mic to Di…
What’s today’s best career advice?
In this solo episode of Work is Weird Now, Alice Phillips and Dan Emery unpack the career advice that no longer fits the reality of modern work — from climbing the corporate ladder and staying loyal to one company, to following your passion at all costs.
Instead, …
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