Working Folk Podcast

A day late, but not a dollar short! Here's Jean and Karin's conversation with Breanna. Breanna is an investment banker with a twist. Please listen to find out how an artist from Star, Idaho became a badass babe working for one of the top international banks in the world, right here in Boise, Idaho! Thanks for joining us, Breanna, and we look forward to having you back for more! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you're listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

On this episode, Stephanie and Karin sat down with Steph's dad, Dave! We had so much fun in this conversation with our own one-man-Village-People. Dave's done a little of *everything* and we had such a blast getting to hear about all of his adventures. (This man is DEFINITELY a Griffyndor!

Jean and Karin sat down with their friend, Naomi, to talk all things therapy and we are diving DEEP. Get ready to get educated and be enthralled by the history and process of EMDR, how to get a job at the VA, the benefits and difficulties of working from home and more! Thanks for joining us, Naomi, and we look forward to having you back for more! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you're listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

We are sooooo excited to introduce you to Rich, a pastry chef friend of ours working here in the Treasure Valley baking up yummy treats at Crave Kitchen & Bar. We are sorry to say, you can't eat through a podcast speaker, because you're all going to wish you could after hearing about Rich's love for the bread and pastries he makes. Listen to our chat here, then go visit Crave to taste the goodness! Thanks for joining us, Rich, and we look forward to having you back for more! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you're listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Join Stephanie and Karin as they chat with Angela, Karin's longtime friend, about her life as the daughter of a funeral director, working there in high school, and growing up in the industry. Reminisce with Karin as she fondly recalls that time she dropped the guy. Find out the best and worst things about walking through this often difficult time in the lives of survivors. Thanks for joining us, Angela, and we look forward to having you back for more! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you're listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Welcome to Season 2 of Working Folk Podcast. This season we are introducing you to more voices, beginning with this first conversation with our friend Karey. Karey has an incredible story, a wicked work ethic, and a phenomenal personal brand she carries into her work life with seemingly zero effort. Listen as she schools Jenna and Karin on the power baton, how to promote one sister while simultaneously firing another, and more! You will not want to miss this episode. Thanks for joining us, Karey, and we look forward to having you back for more! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you're listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Today, the Working Folk welcome Bryana, a Spanish professor at the local University, to talk about how she got there, what she loves about her work, and what she would do if teaching wasn't her passion. Join us as we discover: how did a kid who wanted to be on Broadway become a professor? How many languages has she studied? What's her super-hero power? What's the most misunderstood part about being a college professor? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Who would win in a fight between Andy Dwyer and Dwight Shrute? Is there anything else we really need to talk about? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

That's it, we quit! Jkjk lol of course we're not talking about quitting the podcast, Silly! We're talking about quitting jobs! We've all had to do it, we're all going to do it again someday. What's the best way to quit? Have any of the Working Folk had an epic, viral-video-worthy experience quitting a job? Who's done it the most recently, and how? Is there a best way to quit a job, or is it just a free-for-all? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

In this episode Jenna, Karin, and Naki solve all the worlds problems. Or maybe not, but we sure have fun trying! What is the solution for people who aren't interested in the "management track"? How many times can Naki and Jenna blow Karin's mind in one episode? Does everyone need to "advance" in their work in order to find fulfillment? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Naki's back with Karin and Jenna today for a delightful discussion about core values, and how important it is to recognize them at work. There also may have been an impromptu therapy session... What are the core values we esteem highest? What does it mean when a supervisor pays attention to their employees values? How do we share our values at work and have it mean something? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Today we continue our very professional and insightful look at working basics: how to interview. You've created your perfect resume, based on last week's episode, now it's time for the interview. What do you wear? Is now the right time to show off that hot new fuschia number from VS? What time do you show up? We know being late is a big no-no, but how early is too early? Is "what breakfast cereal would you be and why?" the most epic interview question or the absolute worst? Which Working Folk answer to that question surprises you the most? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Join us today as we go back to our Working Folk roots and discuss how to build the perfect resume. What are the most important things to include? What not to include? Is sailing around the world considered a skill or an experience? Do you include it if it has absolutely nothing to do with the job you're applying for? Where do you put Tetris, as a skill or a volunteer experience? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

You asked for a dad, we found you a dad! Although... that's not really what we talked about... Stephanie and Karin got to know Jaime Lima in today's episode. He's a dad. He's a lover of mimosas. He's a man with a plan... or many of them... And damnit, he loves his hat. Will we get him to reveal what he really does with his extra stay at home dad time? Or, like Batman in his secret Batcave, will his secrets be kept safe behind a veil of, well, secrecy? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

The Working Folk tackle the good, the bad, and the ugly regarding Social Media. Do we need it in our working roles? Is using social media for work an excuse for just killing time or do we really need it for marketing? Whatever happened to MySpace? Which social media accounts do we follow? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

We've had a couple of deep and kind of heavy episodes, so we thought with this one we'd have some fun! Is fun a necessary element in the workplace? If you're not motivated by fun at work, are you a Boomer, or is that just Karin? LOL How do you balance productivity and fun? What are some ways to creatively make a stereotypically "boring" job into something that brings you more joy? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Yes, we are all moms, and no, you may not be one. But we still hope you listen to this episode. Remember that advocacy episode? You may hear something here that will help you advocate for others in your workplace or that may get you to thinking about the role of the working moms around you. This one is a hard one, as there is so much emotion wrapped in all aspects of this conversation. We know we are not representative of every story, and we're sorry we don't have more diverse voices of women who have different stories than ours. Please join the conversation on our Instagram page and tell us about your story. We want to hear you! Thank you so much for listening today and always. We love you!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Jean's back for a discussion today on learning styles and how they are important in a working environment. What are the four types of learners? How does trauma affect your ability to learn? What kind of honey would we have if it weren't for bees?! Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

This was a fun episode to record and we hope a fun one for you to listen to as well! We're talking creativity today, and what it takes to bring creativity into any working space. Has Naki figured out a creative way to free herself from the pod-shed? Can the working folk stop giggling long enough to record an episode of the podcast? Is it harder to be creative in a "creative" job than it is in a "professional" one? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Well, we have been keeping Naki trapped in the pod-shed for the last week and made her co-host today with Karin, Jenna, and Stephanie, since Jean wasn't available. Guess she should have learned how to advocate for herself to get out, huh? lols But in all seriousness, have you ever had to advocate for yourself or others at work? What is advocacy? How do you do it? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. And if you'd like to hear the story Karin butchers at the beginning of the episode about Valerie Jarrett advocating for herself and how that influenced Michelle Obama's advocacy, please go listen to Michelle's podcast here: Michelle Obama/Valerie Jarrett episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1DOjQtP8k7tdQybs7mYK49?si=Oi4kpqSyT_S1K6VmKqGgkQ&utm_source=copy-link --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Jenna and Karin take an opportunity to talk with their friend Naki this week. Can Karin get over her "issues" with management? How can we bridge the growing divide between law enforcement and the people? Is there a different definition of work-life balance that we missed in our previous discussion? Listen to find out! You can find Naki on Instagram at @brolanddeschain or her podcast/blog site @filteredthrufiction (give that podcast a listen, you maaaaay hear a familiar WFP co-host in the co-host seat there as well...) Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

What are the personal political beliefs of each of the Working Folk? Just kidding, we aren't going to tell you that... LOL... But we are going to talk about office politics, i.e. is it okay to hire or promote people based on just their connections? What if they can't follow through and actually do the job? When is it worth it to work "above" your pay grade, and when is it better just to toe the line and do only what's asked? Is there a benefit to both? What if people do bring up actual governmental politics? Is there a good way to avoid or shut down those kinds of conversations? Or is there a time and place to have them, even at work? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

What does mentorship mean in work and in life? Can you be a mentor without knowing? Can you be the one being mentored without realizing it? Who would the Working Folk ask to mentor them if they could ask anyone? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Have we been playing too much Among Us or are we talking about IMPOSTER SYNDROME today? Jean, Karin, and Stephanie hash through this topic on today's episode. How many of us struggle with this idea that we aren't good enough to deserve the success we've garnered? Why is it so hard for so many of us to believe we are good enough? Is there a way out of imposter syndrome? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

What is worklife balance? Is it attainable or even definable? Which of the Working Folk feels like they've got it all figured out, and... do they really? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Jean and Karin take an opportunity to talk with their friend Lindsay this week. Do you know anyone who chose their career at age 16 and is still doing it today? How much can a career change over the course of 20 years? How does work-life balance happen to someone in healthcare during a pandemic? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Are you a goal setter? Or a goal hater? Which of the Working Folk have strong feelings about goals? Is there a difference between a goal and a New Year Resolution? Is goal-setting a personality trait? Listen to this episode to hear our thoughts as we say goodbye to 2020 and welcome in the new year with a habit a lot of people look forward to every year! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

The Working Folk are sharing Christmas gifts in today's shorter, holiday-themed, episode. We hope you join us for some love and laughter, and we even manage to talk about work for a hot minute! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. And Happy Holidays! (PS we earn our explicit rating on this episode, so you better watch out, you better not cry, and you better not listen to this with sensitive ears listening!) ;) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

What do you want to be when you grow up? What does it even mean to *be* a grown up? Are you a grown up already or are you still figuring that out? What did the Working Folk want to be when they grew up? Whose grandma was a trick rider? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

On today's episode, the Working Folk talk about things to be thankful for, sometimes small victories, and the importance of celebrating even when it's tough. How do you celebrate during a pandemic? What if you're an eternal optimist who's having a bit of a pessimistic "moment"? How do we do this? Listen to find out! (Hint: there's a lot of self-care, building others up, and dancing involved...) Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

Who are the Working Folk? What do we do? What are our current working roles? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message

On this episode the Working Folk talk about our "firsts"... our first job that is, you pervs! Are child labor laws valid when it's your neighbor's farm? Does babysitting count as a first job? Who had the weirdest first job? Listen to find out! Please don't forget to rate and review our podcast on iTunes or wherever you're listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/working-folk/message