Office Affairs with Ashley Madison's Isabella Mise

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Yep, we're going there. Today's episode features a conversation with Ashley Madison's Senior Director of Communications, Isabella Mise. We're sure you've heard about Ashley Madison: the site bills itself as the number one "married dating site" with 80 million users worldwide. You might be wondering, why Ashley Madison, Girlboss? A few months ago, Girlboss producers received an email from Ashley Madison's PR team, and one particular line stood out to us: Ashley Madison considers the workplace—and not other dating apps—their number-one competitor. We knew we wanted to do an episode dedicated to office romances, and hold a nuanced, compassionate and curious conversation about infidelity and the future of monogamy. The office affair is an all-too-common trope, but what drives to develop crushes and pursue our coworkers? Is the risk of professional and emotional fallout even worth it? What does Ashley Madison's in-depth research have to reveal about the driving factors of infidelity? There is a lot to unpack in this one, pour some wine and settle in. New episodes of Girlboss Radio drop every Tuesday. Never miss an episode by subscribing here: girlboss.com/pages/girlboss-radio-subscribe. Girlboss’ very first course, Spark Your Career Renaissance, will help you unlock your differentiator to go from stuck to success. Learn more and enroll at course.girlboss.com/courses/spark-your-career-renaissance. Sign up for Girlboss Daily, our must-read morning newsletter, at girlboss.com/newsletter. You'll get A+ career advice, dream job postings, free coffee every Friday and a few emojis (because we’re fun like that), delivered right to your inbox. Looking for your next dream employee? Post your open role on our Girlboss Job Board at jobs.girlboss.com.

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0:00.0	Have you ever had an office crush? What about a work wife or a work husband or how about a full-blown office romance I have there's something
0:16.2	about that fluorescent lighting stale coffee and stuffy cubicles it just
0:20.0	turns people on apparently as always always, it's Avery.
0:23.8	I'm your host, and today I'm joined by Liz,
0:26.2	GirlBoss's general manager, and Victoria,
0:28.2	GirlBoss's senior writer to talk about workplace affairs.
0:31.6	The coordinated forums, over 60% of people have had a workplace romance at some point in their career.
0:36.7	In fact, today's guest who works at Ashley Madison told us their biggest competitor for
0:41.1	budding affairs is the workplace.
0:43.2	So the pipeline from work romance to this infamous dating website is something we are going
0:47.5	to unpack today.
0:48.7	And I mean, I guess it can be hot sneaking around, stealing kisses in the elevator, and sharing spicy glances across the boardroom.
0:55.0	Absolutely. It is definitely one of our juicier episodes. So I'm guessing you've heard of Ashley Madison. Of course you have. They're the number one married dating site
1:04.2	with more than 80 million members worldwide since 2002.
1:08.2	I thought I read that stat wrong.
1:09.6	80 million members.
1:11.4	It's available in 52 countries and in over 15 languages. I'm sure you remember
1:16.4	their 2015 data breach where more than 9.7 gigabytes of company data was publicly
1:21.7	released,
1:22.5	including information on 32 million users.
1:25.5	It caused quite a riff in many marriages.
1:28.0	So I'll tell you a bit of the backstory of how this happened.
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