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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 37 episodes
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Productly Speaking is a product management podcast featuring product managers and builders telling real product stories. We dive into the human side of product work, exploring lessons learned, challenges faced, and how people actually approach product strategy in the real world.
Unknown Host hosts Productly Speaking: Real Stories for Product Managers, a business show with 37 episodes published.
At some point in your career, you have to decide who you’re going to be when things are uncomfortable. In this episode of Productly Speaking, returning guest Reese Gifford joins Karl Abbott to talk about authenticity and
What if the moment everything tilts sideways at work could actually make you better at your job? In this episode, Rick Lewis sits down to talk about the messy middle of change, the kind that knocks the wind out of a team
Ever had one of those weeks where the roadmap is bursting at the seams, everyone wants one more thing, and you can practically feel your balance slipping through your fingers? This conversation with Katie Tamblin goes ri
Ever wonder how a punk‑rock kid hauling amps through Midwest basements ends up helping steer one of the world’s most widely used pieces of enterprise software? Yeah… us too. In this episode, Scott McCarty invites us into
Product management gets talked about like it’s all clarity, confidence, and momentum. But most of the time, it’s not. Season 5 of Productly Speaking explores the human side of product work — authenticity, balance, uncert
AI is supposed to feel magical. So why does it so often leave product teams confused, overpromised, or quietly disappointed? In this episode, Karl sits down with Dina Atia, a PM working on AI products at Microsoft, to ta
What if the thing you are closest to is actually what is blinding you? In this episode, Karl talks with Jake Bowen-Bate about the quiet, human challenges of building products in fast‑moving environments. Jake shares what
What happens when all the advice you followed turns out to be wrong for the job in front of you? In this episode, Karl talks with Katie Tamblin about the lived reality of building products inside what she calls “chunky c
Have you ever realized a mistake only after you hit send? In this episode, Karl sits down with Lee Fischman to talk about the very human side of product work, the part that rarely makes it into neat success stories. Lee
Welcome to Season 4 of Productly Speaking! In this short kickoff episode, host Karl Abbott introduces the theme for the season: Why do products fail and what can we learn from those failures? We’ll explore the hidden ris
Have you ever put something on a roadmap knowing, deep down, it probably was not going to happen on that date? In this episode, Karl talks with Janna Bastow about the uncomfortable truth behind most roadmaps and the mome
What happens when the people building your product do not work for your company, and still feel deep ownership over every decision? In this episode, Karl talks with Reese Gifford about the lived reality of building produ
What if being a great product manager had less to do with sounding smart and more to do with getting your hands dirty? In this episode, Karl talks with Ali Rakhimov about a product career that started far away from tech
What if your path into product management started behind a coffee counter, in the middle of a global pandemic? In this episode, Karl talks with Flora Taagen about a journey into product management that looks nothing like
What if you were already doing product work years before you ever heard the job title? In this episode, Karl talks with Adil Hussain about a path into product management that started with a teenage side project and quiet
What happens when the thing you worked so hard to build starts quietly working against you? In this episode, Karl talks with Kevin Bailey about the hidden cost of high‑growth success and what burnout really looks like wh
What really happens when sales and product have to sit in the same room and agree on what matters? In this episode, Karl talks with Richard Cawkill about the lived reality of working at the messy, often misunderstood int
What if the biggest risk to your product isn’t what you build, but how you talk about it? In this episode, Karl sits down with Austin Fuller to unpack the very human tension between product and product marketing, and why
Have you ever ended a workday exhausted, knowing you were busy all day, but unsure what actually moved forward? In this episode, Karl sits down with Keith Allen Johns to talk about the invisible weight product managers c
What happens when two product people stop chasing perfection and start talking honestly about the job? In this episode, Karl is joined by Evie Brockwell and Michael Palmer for a wide-ranging, refreshingly human conversat
Rick Lewis
keynote speaker, comedian, and writer · Write Hearted
2 appearances on this show
Janna Bastow
Mind the Product
1 appearance on this show
Adil Hussain
Product Manager · Brotherhood UAE
1 appearance on this show
Michael Palmer
Executive Director and Founder · Treeline Associates
1 appearance on this show
Dina Atia
Microsoft
1 appearance on this show
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Productly Speaking: Real Stories for Product Managers is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 37 episodes.
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