If you work in product management and sometimes feel like the job is way messier than people admit, pull up a chair on the porch. The Product Porch is a podcast about product management, product leadership, and career growth for product managers who want practical advice they can use. Hosted by Joe Ghali, Ryan Cantwell, and Todd Blaquiere, the show takes everyday product challenges and talks through them like experienced product people would: clearly, honestly, and without the usual buzzwords. This podcast is for product managers, product owners, associate product managers, senior product managers, group product managers, directors of product, and first-time product leaders trying to get better at the real work of the job. It is for internal product managers, hardware product managers, and software product managers doing the work outside the San Francisco Bay bubble. That includes product strategy, product discovery, roadmap decisions, stakeholder management, customer research, prioritization, product sense, executive communication, influence without authority, cross-functional leadership, and product career growth. A lot of product podcasts sound like they were made by Silicon Valley influencers for other Silicon Valley influencers. The advice is polished, the stories are tidy, and the problems somehow always seem to happen at companies with endless resources, famous logos, and teams built around the latest trend. That is not most product work. Some shows make product management sound neat and linear. It rarely is. Product work is full of tradeoffs, hard conversations, unclear authority, competing priorities, and decisions that matter. One day you are trying to validate a customer problem. The next day you are managing up, navigating product politics, translating strategy for stakeholders, or figuring out how to tie product decisions to business outcomes. That is the kind of work we cover. The Product Porch is built for people who want to become stronger product managers and better product leaders. Maybe you are trying to grow from PM to Director. Maybe you are learning how to influence executives. Maybe you are trying to improve your product discovery process, tell better stories, lead your team more effectively, or figure out how AI is changing product management and product team structure. Maybe you are job searching and trying to understand what hiring managers actually care about. Maybe you are simply trying to make smarter product decisions and have a bigger impact. Each episode explores real product management scenarios with grounded conversations, relatable examples, and actionable takeaways. We talk about how to become a better product manager, how to build trust with leadership, how to navigate stakeholder alignment, how to avoid feature factory thinking, how to shape product culture, how to connect product work to business results, and how to grow your product management career without getting trapped by empty advice or Silicon Valley theater. This is not a podcast about sounding impressive. It is a podcast about seeing product work clearly, especially if you build and lead outside the bubble. So if you are looking for a product management podcast that covers product strategy, leadership, discovery, communication, career progression, and the real-life challenges of building useful products with real teams, welcome to The Product Porch. Settle in with Joe, Ryan, and Todd for practical conversations on product management and career growth that help you think better, lead better, and do the job with more confidence.
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Signup to Generate a PitchIf you work in product management and sometimes feel like the job is way messier than people admit, pull up a chair on the porch. The Product Porch is a podcast about product management, product leadership, and career growth for product managers who want practical advice they can use.
Recent episodes include "Is an AI Reckoning Coming?" (27 October 2026, 30 minutes), "PM Power Skills - Building Comfort with Ambiguity" (29 September 2026, 38 minutes), and "Revisited - Does Industry Experience Matter?" (15 September 2026, 40 minutes).
The Product Porch publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 40 minutes.
Booking probability for The Product Porch is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Product Porch requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Product Porch's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #62
Is the AI spending spree about to come back and bite product managers? Companies are encouraging teams to experiment with AI, but who's keeping track of the costs, and is all that investment paying off? In this episode...
Join us on the porch for our series on Product Manager Power Skills. These are the skills that help good product managers become great ones. They stay valuable across tools, processes, and product types, and building...
Episode #59
Does industry experience really matter when you’re trying to land your next product role? In this episode, Joe, Todd, and Ryan revisit one of their earliest debates and find themselves in a slightly different place...
Episode #57
Ever leave a meeting thinking you were crystal clear, only to find out everyone walked away with a different interpretation? In this episode, Joe Ghali and Ryan Cantwell dig into why communication is one of the most...
Does knowing how to use AI make you better at product management, or just better at using another tool? In this episode, Joe Ghali, Ryan Cantwell, and Todd Blaquiere dig into what AI competency should really look like...
Episode #55
Join us on the porch for our series on Product Manager Power Skills. These are the skills that help good product managers become great ones. They stay valuable across tools, processes, and product types, and building...
Why do so many teams still misunderstand what product management is actually for? In this episode, Joe, Ryan, and Todd take on a question that keeps showing up in the age of AI: if engineering can build faster than...
Episode #53
How do you get leaders to keep backing AI exploration when they’ve already invested, but the biggest upside still isn’t fully clear yet? In this episode, Joe Ghali, Ryan Cantwell, and Todd Blaquiere dig into a listener...
Episode #52
Join us on the porch for our series on Product Manager Power Skills. These are the skills that help good product managers become great ones. They stay valuable across tools, processes, and product types, and building...
So now you have defined the starting point and the ending point. Check out Part 1, “Decisions in Uncertainty (Part 1): When ‘Go Build This’ Is All You Get.” What do you do next? In part two of this conversation, Todd...
Have you ever been told to “go build this” and felt that little pit in your stomach because you were not totally sure what success even meant? In this episode, Todd Blaquiere and Ryan Cantwell dig into one of the most...
Episode #49
Why does it feel like every time product managers start to catch up on AI, three new tools, five new hot takes, and twelve new newsletters show up? In this episode, Joe Ghali and Ryan Cantwell sit down with Dean Peters...
Have you ever tried a new framework, only to find the meetings changed, but the results didn’t? In this episode, Todd Blaquiere, Joe Ghali, and Ryan Cantwell dig into product culture and why it shapes roadmap decisions...
AI is accelerating product development faster than ever—but product roles haven’t caught up. Todd Blaquiere, Ryan Cantwell, and Joe Ghali tackle the question teams are avoiding: what happens to product managers and...
AI is making it easier than ever to build faster. Features ship overnight, prototypes spin up in hours, and suddenly everyone assumes experience and expertise are optional. But almost nobody's asking the harder...
When did product management turn into running for office? In this episode, the guys dig into the reality of product management politics and what it really takes to influence without authority. They debate whether great...
Why are so many product managers saying, “I’m a perfect fit on paper… so why am I not getting interviews?” In this episode, we sit down with veteran product recruiter Heidi Ram to talk about what’s really happening in...
Ever feel torn between wanting the impact and scope of a VP or CPO role and worrying about what you might lose along the way? If you’ve been reading job descriptions, Reddit threads, or career advice that all seem to...
What do they never tell you about becoming a product leader? In this episode, we talk about the parts of moving from PM to Director that catch most people off guard. The quiet loss of being the hero. The awkward shift...
Product managers don’t just bring new products into the world. They move the needle on the business. In this episode, Todd Blaquiere and Ryan Cantwell sit down with multi-time Chief Product Officer David Nash to unpack...
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