Ask Your Work Wife

There’s a very simple way to tell when it’s time to fire someone — which also shows you whether or not a team is functioning effectively. Here’s the test, and what to do about the results. 

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

If you’re planning for a full quarter’s worth of work in Q4, plan again — Q4 is Corporate America’s shortest quarter.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

Internal promotions are the best kind of promotion inside Corporate America, so if you've just received an invitation to interview internally, take it, because the invitation is basically a job offer, the new role is basically a stretch project, and the interview itself is just a leveling-up meeting.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

When it comes to changing careers, you gotta start at the bottom. You can learn, burn, and level up quickly, and the best way to do that is in a small market (red feather boa optional).

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

A.k.a. know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, and never forget what you want.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

Is your co-worker really your co-worker if they don’t actually…work? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t matter. Focus on keeping the main thing the main thing so you can make opportunity out of the chaos that is Corporate America.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

Vanessa’s only here for the blooper content, and it shows.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife’s 100th episode, and happy (almost) 2nd birthday to us! Our gift to you: more behind the scenes than you may have bargained for. You’re welcome.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

We’ve talked about how to handle vendors that won’t leave you alone (see Episode 96, a.k.a. Vanessa’s rant about “breakup emails”), but how do you let down gently a great vendor you just can’t work with right now?

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

Went to a networking event and connected with an exec who wants you on his team? Well done! That’s why you go to these bullsh*t things! Here’s how to follow up.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife! 

Here’s just the TL;DR on executive communication (because that’s all that higher-ups care about): answer the question quickly, concisely, and with only as much context as they asked for.

Hint: it’s giving Miranda Priestly.

Welcome to Ask Your Work Wife, a new podcast where Vanessa & Holland answer your real questions about real work in corporate America. Covering topics from quitting to interviewing to negotiating to resumes and meetings. It’s about knowing the rules of the game so you can get what you want.

Email us your questions at [email protected] and listen for a new episode every Wednesday. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @askyourworkwife!