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Why Does the Status Quo Still Rule Workplaces?

Token CEO

Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of WORK, Erika dives into the real struggles of breaking the status quo at work and why it’s so hard to change what’s clearly broken. From finance frustrations to startup standoffs, this candid talk is for anyone trying to create real change within their organization.

Plus, we spotlight the return of Ty Haney to Outdoor Voices - a comeback story filled with lessons in resilience, leadership, and founder identity. Erika also chats with bestselling author Mita Mallick about her book The Devil Emails at Midnight and the fine line between tough bosses and toxic ones.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:05.7

Welcome back to work. I'm Erica. This is the podcast where we talk about work, everything to do with work, who you are at work.

0:12.1

We have an awesome episode. We're going to talk about outdoor voices, which I am very excited to see Ty Haney is back.

0:19.1

And outdoor voices will hopefully become very, very successful.

0:22.6

And it's great to see a founder reemerge in a business. So we'll talk about that.

0:26.1

We'll talk about breaking the status quo. We have an awesome author with us. Her name is

0:30.7

Mehta Malik. She was in marketing. She was in HR. She's just written a book called The Devil

0:36.1

Emails at Midnight.

0:38.3

And I think that's enough for today.

0:41.8

Is that all we're doing?

0:42.8

I guess all we're doing.

0:43.6

So that's it for today.

0:44.4

First thing we're starting with is tips and tricks, which is a funny title for this.

1:00.3

But I've been thinking about this.

1:02.5

The thing I'm thinking about, which I had a large rant on my phone this morning after talking to my chat GPT.

1:09.9

But one of the things that I think we

1:12.6

struggle with at work, I struggle with, I don't think I struggle with it a lot. I think I struggle

1:18.7

with it a little bit. I think a lot of people struggle with this in different proportions and at

1:23.7

different times is the status quo. And one of the things that I think is really,

1:30.2

really challenging in the workplace and in working with a group of people is when the status

1:37.7

quo doesn't work and when the status quo is defended. And there is something really hard,

1:45.4

especially in a startup situation,

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