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The Weirdest Job in the Company

Token CEO

Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of WORK, Erika breaks down what it means to take over a business you didn’t start, and the difference between ownership, leadership, and cleanup. She gets into why the chief of staff role is one of the weirdest jobs, how companies get stuck in admin spirals, and why most meetings aren’t actually work. The episode also looks ahead at the jobs of the future, and what happens when AI starts managing our digital lives.

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.0

All right, so welcome back to work.

0:07.0

We have a new episode.

0:09.0

We have Christina, my MBA chief of staff intern.

0:13.0

We're going to get into what is a chief of staff,

0:15.0

and more importantly, my opinions on a chief of staff.

0:18.0

So we're going to talk about that.

0:20.0

Christina's awesome. We're so happy she's here. We're going to go through current events. So we're going to talk about that. Christina's awesome.

0:21.9

We're so happy she's here.

0:23.9

We're going to go through current events.

0:28.1

I'm going to give you an update on what's happening at Food 52 and Schoolhouse.

0:32.7

And then we'll probably do some strategy and some other good stuff.

0:35.4

So I'll give you a work like a girl and a rework update.

0:37.3

And then we'll send you on your way.

0:58.4

All right. So let's start with the Food 52 update. So it is June. We are almost halfway through the year. We have a lot going on. We've added a lot of people.

1:04.5

I want to say for the people who I work with most every day, I have the longest tenure here.

1:10.0

And I've been here a year. So just to give you a sense of like new team, new people, new perspectives, new energy. We are trying to get to profitability

1:14.7

as like far and fast as we can climb. We are seeing the kind of seeds that we're sewing are

1:21.4

working. We have an awesome team in Portland at schoolhouse that's like lighting up

1:26.0

incredible things, creating opportunities we've

1:29.4

never had before. Alicia, who's like a firecracker, she's our new chief commercial officer,

1:34.2

is awesome. So we just have like a lot of good things brewing and building. We also have a lot of

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