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Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This episode marks the end of a show that’s meant so much to us. Amy Bernstein and Amy Gallo say goodbye, answer two last Ask the Amys questions, and reminisce with founding producer Amanda Kersey. HBR’s Maureen Hoch, who came up with the original idea for the podcast, joins to share how it all began.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. We have some sad news to share. This is going to be our last episode of Women at Work.
0:10.9	Yeah, this is a tough one, and it's a decision that I made purely for business reasons, but this was really hard because this podcast has been a big part
0:26.1	of my life for a long time and has given me enormous joy. I got a lot of gratification out of it.
0:35.2	And for much of the last eight years, I guess, it's been the most
0:41.3	fun thing I get to do. So this is a very sad day for me. Yeah, it is. And this show has been such a big
0:50.5	part of our lives. And I know it's been a big part of our listeners' lives. So we wanted to
0:57.2	take this episode to really talk about what the show has meant and what we are leaving you
1:04.5	with, because we're not disappearing. But we want to invite Amanda, Cursey, who you hear from occasionally, but what you don't know, I don't think we've ever done justice to the role she plays in this show.
1:18.7	She has been, from the very first episode, from the very first trailer, she has been behind the show deciding who to bring on the show, what episodes we're doing.
1:31.0	She shapes those episodes.
1:32.3	She shapes those episodes. She coaches us.
1:34.5	Oh, my gosh. Is that what it's called?
1:37.0	She tortures us.
1:38.1	She scripts me.
1:40.8	Hi. Yes, I'm the person who bosses you two around.
2:19.1	Yeah. This is a difficult end. We knew it would end one day, of course. And we've built a legacy, I'd say. We really have through, it's not just a podcast. In the literal sense, you know, I'm looking at our books, the Women Network book series right in front of us. We have a newsletter, Amy, do that you write, that I used to write, that Nicole Torres wrote before me. We have done events, Women Network Live events. We, what else have we done? Newsletter books. Well, we have one of the most active inboxes that you all write us. We write you back. We love it. I'm actually going to read from
2:25.9	some of them. I'm going to, let's play like the crying game. So you make you cry. It doesn't take
2:31.3	much for me. Because I do want to draw attention to the impact that the show has had.
2:37.0	And some of the praise that we've gotten, I've called it listener love in our Slack channel, our Women Not Work Slack channel.
2:42.3	Oh, I love your listener love emails.
2:44.7	The beginning of the week. I tried to do it or the end of the week.
2:47.9	Some piece of praise to motivate us and just to share what I was hearing.
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