Season 10 of Girls folks at Work Begins October 21

We’re support with one other season! How are females utilizing GenAI to rework their work? What can we learn from the listeners who establish as “AI vitality customers” regarding the appropriate technique to enhance our productiveness, creativity, and self belief?  Why is working whereas parenting a teen so powerful tougher than Amy Gallo anticipated, and how can she and pretty heaps of moms navigate this emotionally annoying half of motherhood? Whereas you’re mid-occupation and brooding about switching industries, what might per chance well merely mute you already know sooner than making the leap?

These questions are at the center of a pair of of the conversations the Amys are having this season. As always, they’ll raise you skills, experiences, and recommendation.

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AMY BERNSTEIN: Amy G, we’re regarding the 10th season of our podcast on October 21.

AMY GALLO: Kind of can’t imagine it. Ten seasons, it’s gigantic. We’ve been provocative at work placing collectively eight episodes that consult with both the sensible and emotional aspects of females’s experiences at work.

AMY BERNSTEIN: Let’s speak our listeners about a pair of of what’s rising.

AMY GALLO: I’d love to realize that. OK, so, in our first episode of the season, we’re asking the question, What wouldn’t it indicate for those of us in the U.S. to have a girl as president for the very first time? We wanna perceive what at work we stand to have or lose in phrases of yell, vitality, self belief regarding the longer term, social policy

AMY BERNSTEIN: We’re also engaged on an episode about how females are utilizing GenAI to rework the means they attain their jobs.

BARBARA: This implies that custom GPT, I now arrange to resolve technical concerns that sooner than have been, love, exclusively exterior of my skills. I believe, truthfully, it’s very empowering.

ERIN: Formatting, you already know, it will merely compose things drift. So, at work if we are doing a day-to-day stand-up, and we’re making an strive to transfer over our project administration, we can urged it, speak it what we’re doing and how we would like to realize it and who’s fervent, then merely dump our notes into it, and it’ll format the entirety for us, which is merely fabulous,

ANDREA: Rule of thumb: if I’m at peril of overthink it, I’m going to generative AI.

JULIE: It wrote me every single piece of code that I wanted, told me where to place it, told me the appropriate technique to shut it, helped me fetch intention up with GitHub, I obtained Google Analytics. I did all of that with my fraudulent group on Claude.

AMY BERNSTEIN: One girl created an entire committee of AI folks with moderately heaps of views for exercise in product building. Totally mindblowing. They so impressed me that this weekend, I all of sudden remembered I needed to write a speech, and writing a speech for me can like hours and hours of agony. I passe CoPilot, and it took me 20 minutes and then one other 20 minutes of editing.

AMY GALLO: That’s fabulous.

AMY BERNSTEIN: Yeah, rather horrifying, nonetheless in the 2d, so awesome.

AMY GALLO: I’ll be unfamiliar to demand if that speech goes higher for you than moderately heaps of speeches.

AMY BERNSTEIN: You know what, it took yell so fast, and without any dismay, and for that alone I’m so grateful.

AMY GALLO: Yes. I in fact became once impressed too, and I’m gonna manufacture a custom AI, an Amy bot, and piece what I realized as piece of the formulation.

AMY BERNSTEIN: Will she be our third co-host?

AMY GALLO: She’ll be your wonderful co-host.

AMY BERNSTEIN: Totally no longer.

AMY GALLO: I’m gonna trail lay on a seashore.

AMY BERNSTEIN: I reject that.

AMY BERNSTEIN: We’ll also discuss to a pair of our listeners and some experts about how dismay problems have affected them and how they’ll fetch success at work.

AMY GALLO: There is an episode that is terribly non-public to me, which is set why parenting childhood whereas working is so powerful tougher than anticipated, or completely tougher than I anticipated.

So, we introduced support friend of the prevailing Danna Greenberg, Babson College professor, and Danna validated my overwhelm and frustrations and uncertainty regarding the appropriate technique to be available to my 17-365 days-venerable who calls and texts me around the clock regarding the relaxation and the entirety.

DANNA GREENBERG: And that availability we know is on the total provocative with childhood and young adults, like minded? On story of they’ve these moments where they wish to chat. And they wish to chat in that very 2d. And it is most likely you’ll per chance’t philosophize, Oh, let me produce this presentation. I’ll name you support in a half hour. The 2d has left .

AMY BERNSTEIN: And then we also flip to the self-discipline of mid-occupation: How can mid-occupation females navigate the challenges of switching sectors whereas leveraging their abilities and building new networks?

There’s mute time for listeners to contribute to that episode, so for folks that’re considering changing industries mid-occupation, email womenatwork@hbr.org with any questions you’d love me to ask the guests.

AMY GALLO: All like minded, so, starting up October 21, you’ll hear from us every Monday for the next couple of months. We’re hoping that, by the terminate of those eight episodes, you’ll feel extra assured, geared up, and supported, personally and professionally.

AMY BERNSTEIN: And for folks that haven’t already, be conscious the prevailing—love, click the “be conscious” button on no matter app you’re utilizing like minded now. That means you won’t omit any of the experiences, the conversations, and life like guidelines that we’re placing collectively for you.

All like minded, Amy, announcing goodbye unless episode one.

AMY GALLO: Discover about you all then.