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Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Solo Episode: Job Interviews Gone Wrong & Horrible Bosses

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Episode 157: Natalie is on the mic solo this week for a light-hearted, fun episode about horrible bosses, startup fails, job interviews gone wrong, and work horror stories. She shares some of her worst experiences while on the job hunt and when she began pitching Rella to investors. Natalie also pulls up a few horrifying stories from Reddit that will floor you. Maybe this is the episode that makes you realize your job isn’t all that bad, or maybe you relate way too much to these stories and this motivates you to leave that toxic work environment. Make sure to send us your work-related horror stories as we have only scratched the surface. Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: DOONEY & BOURKE - For 20% off your first order, visit Dooney.com/REAL and use the code REAL before April 30, 2022. METABOLIC REDS – Go to getreds/real to unlock your offer of a free Metabolic Greens with your purchase of Metabolic Reds. TAILOR BRANDS – Go to www.tailorbrands.com and use the code realreel40 for 40% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

0:05.0

Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of

0:16.4

entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.

0:21.5

I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it. I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it. Hello, hello, hello everyone. Welcome back to the Real

0:35.0

real podcast. I'm your host Natalie Barboo and today we're doing a solo

0:39.2

episode. I really enjoy doing these solo episodes because I actually get to sit down and talk to you, share my opinions, share my thoughts, and I just think it's really entertaining and I don't really get to do that when I'm, you know, interviewing a guest guest as much besides my little like five second

0:54.5

intros and I wanted first to kind of recap my week because this week has been a week where I feel like I've been doing kind of a lot.

1:01.3

I've gone to a lot of events as an influencer content

1:05.2

creator which has been always really fun and I love that you know now that it's kind of

1:08.9

getting warmer out here Miami is hosting more events but it's also been stressful because obviously I have

1:15.7

Rella and I'm doing that full time and so I have to pick and choose what I go to but

1:20.8

luckily a lot of them have been on the weekends or after work and so it hasn't been too too bad but I am trying to kind of figure out you know how to balance full-time founder and full-time content creator. It's been easy on the how to be full-time

1:35.7

rela, you know, full-time founder because I spend like all my time doing that, but then when it comes to

1:41.2

content I'm kind of doing it after work at six o'clock seven o'clock like I mean I'm

1:45.0

recording this at 530 when the day is done already and this is like it's due today this

1:50.5

podcast like I have to record this today so you know things are just a little

1:54.6

hectic and it's just trying to find that balance but I don't want to be like oh poor

1:59.6

me I have so much going on like I am so grateful for my job I love my job I love what I do I have zero complaints about it I'm just being honest with you and kind of you know talking you like I would talk to my friends so that's kind of what I wanted to share and obviously I am so grateful like I said for what I do and

2:17.2

today's episode especially makes me even more grateful because I'm about to read some job horror stories, some interview horror stories,

2:25.6

career fails, startup fails, I kind of looked up a broad topic on Reddit

2:31.1

because I recently have been obsessed with listening to those

2:36.1

podcasts that do like the Am I the Asshole and they read Reddit threads or you know I

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