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Worklife with Molly Graham

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The world of work is changing, fast. The full range of human emotion can happen on the job: ambition and failure, joy and burnout, confidence and self-doubt. Company builder Molly Graham knows all about those messy feelings – and she believes they can actually be the roadmap to a meaningful career. On WorkLife, Molly sits down with all kinds of people – founders and operators, entertainers and creatives – to explore how to build a career without losing yourself. Each week, she’ll uncover the messy stories behind the shiniest successes, and share the real lessons about work that no one ever posts on Linkedin. Follow Molly! Instagram: @molly_graham LinkedIn: @mograham Substack: Lessons Website: https://glueclub.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Aug 18
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Why you should give away your most valuable assets with TED Chairman Chris Anderson

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Jul 21
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Why faith has a place at work with Stacy Brown-Philpot

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Jul 14
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How to find your way when you feel lost with Ify Walker

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Why the smartest person in the room is asking the “dumb” questions | from TED Business

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#183 ▲ 12 Business US
#17 ▲ 4 Management US

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I’ve so enjoyed listening to Molly and her guests each week. I have found this podcast to be really helpful and have learned a lot (some of which I definitely would have benefited from in my last role). Thank you so much for creating this series. It pushes me to grow and reflect.

DoBetterTarget · Sep 2026

Molly brings such joy and authenticity to the new Worklife. In a world with so much uncertainty and ambiguity, Molly helps to pull out the insights from guests to help me reflect and create action.

AZNeal · May 2026

I listen to both Worklife and Rethinking. However, I really love worklife and feel more meh about rethinking. I’m just not as into interview shows. The problem for me is that these podcast feeds both have episodes of both shows and they aren’t labeled by which show they’re actually from. Instead, they’re labeled by which feed they’re in, which is not helpful! I took one star off in hopes of some attention to this poor feed organization. It might seem dumb, but I listen to a ton of podcasts, so duplicate episodes that aren’t clearly labeled really irk me- they waste time I don’t have!

listener_kc · Aug 2025

I enjoyed Linda Babcock as the guest speaker. She shared interesting research about women volunteering more to do tasks that others typically don’t want to do. I also loved that Adam supports women’s career advancement and wants to see a systemic change. We can never have too many allies for marginalized groups.

jny112 · May 2025

I loved when Adam Grant was the host. He was always very grounded and fact based in his analysis of work life. Now it has turned into a morning talk show with new host Molly Graham. Sounds like a high schooler having conversations with her bestie.

GoogleLove · Aug 2026

I wanted to support a female host and can understand Adam wanting to move onto other things (super excited about his new podcast!). Also agree that Molly should make this her own and not try to be Adam (no one can do that). But the change in format, tone, depth, content, quality of interview questions/conversation (basically everything) took a significant turn to the point where it doesn’t at all meet the same audience/intent. I’m not sure why they didn’t just end the podcast and give her her own podcast to start fresh; I guess they wanted to leverage the existing platform, but when it’s not at all the same podcast it seems an odd choice.

Eddieclimb427 · Jul 2026

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