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Hosted by Tara McMullin · business · EN-US · 435 episodes
Work is central to the human experience. It helps us shape our identities, care for those we love, and contribute to our communities. Work can be a source of power and a catalyst for change. Unfortunately, that's not how most of us experience work—even those who work for themselves. Our labor and creative spirit are used to enrich others and maintain the status quo. It's time for an intervention. What Works is a show about rethinking work, business, and leadership for the 21st-century economy. Host Tara McMullin covers money, management, culture, media, philosophy, and more to figure out what's working (and what's not) today. Tara offers a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to deep-dive analysis of how we work and how work shapes us.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWork is central to the human experience. It helps us shape our identities, care for those we love, and contribute to our communities. Work can be a source of power and a catalyst for change. Unfortunately, that's not how most of us experience work, even those who work for themselves.
What Works is hosted by Tara McMullin. The show has published 435 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "I Gave Myself a Short Assignment" (18 June 2026, 18 minutes), "We're Not Late (Or, Rethinking the Long-Term)" (4 June 2026, 21 minutes), and "Rethinking Social Media" (28 May 2026, 15 minutes).
What Works publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 435 episodes.
Booking probability for What Works is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. What Works requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. What Works's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for What Works are Business & Management Consulting. What Works has a business audience.
Tara McMullin hosts What Works, a business show with 435 episodes published.
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If you're like me (and frankly, you probably are), you're easily overwhelmed by the sheer scope of your ideas. Not so much because they're so grand or world-changing, but because you see all the connections that could...
<p>Today, I'm resharing an episode from last spring but with a fresh introduction about the feeling (too) late and some timely advice for my daughter, who graduates from high school tomorrow. It might be a good one to...
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<p>"No matter how hard you post or what sites you do it in it’s never going to be 2019 again." — Amanda Mull on Bluesky</p><p>I'm thinking about getting back on social media. Weird, I know. But (1) I have a distribution...
<p>Eight months before ChatGPT launched to the world, I wrote about "the eggbeater effect," or the tendency for labor-saving tools to create new labor. Four years later, I'm revisiting that idea. Remember: just because...
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<p>You can always rely on me to channel my righteous indignation at shoddy data analysis into a lengthy podcast episode. </p><p>Footnotes:</p>Read the essay version of this episode."How Short-Form Clips Took Over the...
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<p>Another episode featuring HBO's The Pitt? You know it. This time: finding your course of action in the space between personal challenges and systemic and structural failings.</p><p>Footnotes:</p>Read the essay...
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<p>On March 11, the 5-time World’s Best Restaurant, Noma, began a 3-month Los Angeles residency. The vanguard establishment of New Nordic Cuisine, was finally available to Americans without an international flight...
<p>To the uninitiated, "being your own boss" sounds pretty nice. Of course, the moment you go into business for yourself, you realize the wide variety of skills it requires—skills that you yourself do not possess...
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<p>I live for people explaining how they approach analysis and critique. I desperately want to know how other people think about things so I can learn to think in new ways. I want a compelling intellectual or...
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<p>So a couple of weeks ago, I downloaded Final Cut Pro and committed to learning how to use it. Despite logging hundreds, if not thousands, of hours in other video editing software, this is a big challenge. I took some...
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<p>You’re going along, minding your own business, and then it hits you: “Wait, what?!” Your expectation or assumption bumps against the facts. Things aren’t the way you thought they were. It’s not always a life-altering...
<p>It's no secret that one of my, let's say, special interests is higher education. The reasons for this are at least threefold. First, I have a kid heading off to college next year. Second, I have past regrets and...
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<p>A brief meditation on grief at the loss of one's future self and how often that loss passes unacknowledged.</p><p>Footnotes:</p>Read the essay version of this episode.“10:00 am” (Season 1, Episode 4) The Pitt on...
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<p>How often do you revisit old work? Do you have systems for circling back to what you've created in the past to see how you could improve upon it or take it in a new direction? </p><p>In this episode, I consider the...
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<p>I've had all the various parts of this episode swirling in my head for months—from The Paperclip Maximizer to The Great Feminization to Meta's Masculine Energy to mind-body dualism to the AI industry's role in what I...
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<p>Have a big decision on your mind? Trying to choose between a bunch of good options?</p><p>Today, I'm talking about decision-making… not so much how to choose, but the context of our choices. No decision gets made in...
<p>Here we are at the tail end of 2025. I just "opened" my Spotify Unwrapped... And after 3 years of burnout recovery, I’m finally ready to figure out what getting my shit together in the shadow of everything I’ve...
<p>How do you get people to care about what you care about?<br><br>It's a marketing question. A movement-building question. A question at the heart of the attention economy. And in one form or another, it's the question...
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<p>If you’ve ever chosen an ambitious, unconventional, or deeply meaningful aim only to see your plan devolve into something far more run-of-the-mill, this one is for you.</p><p>Footnotes:</p>Read the essay version of...
<p>Try as we might, many of us can’t shake the overwhelming sense that we're just too damn busy—that feeling that there’s something we’re forgetting about, somewhere we should be, some person we should be checking on...
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