productmanagHER: A Safe Space for Women in Product Management
If Product Management and girl talk had a podcast baby, it would be named productmanagHER. After over a decade in Product Management and five years as a Product Management Instructor, your host - Blair Presley - is a full-time Product Management Career Coach who helps professionals to leverage their existing skills into new Product careers. Listen in to learn the secrets of the trade and the experiences of other women in Product to help you navigate your pivot into tech. If you're an existing PM, tune in to hear how others are managing their careers in Product, too.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Passing The Mic: The Next Generation of Product Management Career Coaching
After five years of building a coaching business dedicated to helping product managers advance their careers, I’m passing the mic to someone who deeply understands the mission and is ready to take it…
How the SCALE Program Works
The SCALE Program is a 90 day, 1:1 Product Management coaching program designed as a performance enhancer for new Product Managers.
Imagine: you've spent three, six months or more trying to land a Pr…
How the SPRINT Program Works
If landing a Product were easy, the SPRINT Program wouldn't exist. Full stop.
When I started teaching Product Management in 2017, there were experiences of aspiring Product Managers that I didn't reco…
The counterintuitive thing you can do to aid your pivot into Product
Finding a new job is kind of the worst, if we're being super honest. Finding a Product Management job is just beyond. We tend to avoid all the things that cause us pain and inconvenience and, instead…
Vulnerable moment: How 2023 changed how I approach coaching
It's been one heck of a year in the Product hiring world, for sure. Listen in for my take on how 2023 changed everything, and LMK your thoughts on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairpresley
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What to include in your Product Management portfolio
"Help?! The job application has a spot for a portfolio. What do I put there?!"
Ah. The age-old question: how do I effectively demonstrate my Product Management ability and potential via a portfolio? …
Navigating Your Product Management Career Through Purposeful Job Application Strategies
Welcome back to the productmanagHER podcast! This episode is specifically for the folks who are interested in landing a new Product Management job. We're diving into the importance of having a solid …
Rising from the Ashes: Maximizing Every Moment After a Layoff
Continuing in our theme this season of finding your footing, we're discussing what to do after a layoff. I pivoted into Product after a layoff so I have a sweet spot for clients who know this vulnera…
Love and launch: How your product management job search and dating are oddly similar
If you know me well, you know that there are a ton of similarities between dating and finding a new job in Product Management. From waiting by the phone for a recruiter call to just how picky we beco…
Stop playing small in your Product Management job pivot
Listen into identify ways that you may be contributing to your own chaos without even knowing it, and LMK your thoughts on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairpresley
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Season 3 Trailer: Finding your footing in Product Management
Welcome back to season 3 the productmanagHER podcast. The theme for season 3 is #findingyourfooting focused on resiliency and stability as you navigate your career journey into Product Management. L…
How to tell if your role is adjacent and transferable to Product Management
While we know that there are several roles that are Product-adjacent and chocked full of transferable skills, it's still *really* hard to know how you fit, or even whether you will ever make the pivo…
Timing is everything: why now is the time to pivot into Product Management
QQ: How much money are you losing by not pursuing your career goal right now? Counterintuitive right? I know. Let's talk about it in this super quick episode. Listen in for my take and connect with m…
I recently landed my first Product Manager job. Now what?!
First, congrats! Landing your first Product Manager job can be a feat. The excitement, though, can soon become deep "WTF SOS". Listen in for my take on your next best steps and connect with me on Lin…
Two Mistakes You're Probably Making as You're Pivoting Into Product Management
Pivoting into Product is one doozy of a process. The process can be riddled with inevitable let-downs but also unforced errors. Listen to this quick episode to see if you're currently making these tw…
Building Customer Obsession and Best Advice for Early Career PMs with VP of Product, Dar Miranda
Listen in to hear a Product leader's perspective on building a career in Product. In this episode, Dar Miranda, VP of Product at DailyPay, shares her best advice for modeling customer obsession and…
Three Tips for Tackling Take-Home Assignments as a Part of the PM Interviewing Process
There's nothing worse than making it through two or three rounds of interviews and bombing at the take-home assignment stage. Here's one big highlight: they typically indicate that it "should take n…
Isha’s Story, Part Two: What surprised her about Product Management
Last week we heard the first part of Isha's story and how she got laid off four weeks into her first Product job. In this episode, we learned what she did next.
Be sure to follow Isha on LinkedIn:
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Isha’s Story, Part One: How she survived a layoff four weeks into her first Product role
Meet Isha and listen in to find out how she landed her first Product role last Fall and navigated being laid off in her first month. Such a fun and timely episode and I can wait to hear what you thin…
Should I take a course to pivot into Product Management?
Super common question and, much like the answer to most Product Management questions, it depends. Listen in for my take and connect with me to LMK your thoughts on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com…