What do you do when your manager asks you to be their reference and the nicest thing you can honestly say is... fine?

This week on Not All Business, it's Casual Friday with Heather, Blakely, and Clay. No guest, no filter, and definitely no shortage of opinions. Two listener sticky situations: one is a workplace reference dilemma with no clean exit, and the other is from an educator asking a question that applies to every workplace: how do you hold people accountable when accountability doesn't actually exist at the top?

Then rapid fire gets spicy. Hot takes on friending your boss, mandatory fun (Heather has strong evidence in favor), and the surprisingly divisive topic of whether to tell someone they have food in their teeth.

Also: Heather has been failing her eye test at the DMV for years. Strategically.

Key Takeaways:

• How to Give a Reference You Can Stand Behind (Without Lying)

• A Trick for Getting Your Manager to Write Their Own Reference Soundbites

• When to Be the Change vs. When to Protect Your Energy

• Hot Take: Should You Friend Your Boss on Social Media?

• Why Mandatory Fun Is Actually Just... Fun, With Waivers

  
  

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Everyone's talking about GLP-1s. But do they know how they actually work?

This week on Not All Business, we sit down with Dr. Linda Shapiro Manning, a physician with both an MD and a PhD who has been working in obesity medicine since before GLP-1s were a household name. She was in the room when the first GLP-1 drugs were being developed and has watched them go from a clinical tool to a cultural phenomenon.

Dr. Linda doesn't just explain how these drugs work. She takes on the hard questions: the body positivity backlash, the shame around weight, the rise of compounding pharmacies, and whether society is just trading one quick fix for another.

Key Takeaways:

• How GLP-1s Actually Work (And What They're Really Doing in Your Body)

• Why Hollywood's Use of These Drugs Is Setting Back the Body Positivity Movement

• The Compounding Pharmacy Risk

• Do You Have to Stay on GLP-1s Forever? The Honest Answer

• How GLP-1s May Impact Alcohol, Addiction, and Dopamine-Driven Behaviors

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AI is reshaping hiring faster than most people realize, and if you're job searching right now, you need to know the rules of the new game.

This week on Not All Business, we sit down with Jessica Titko, CEO of StaffPad, a recruiting firm on the front lines of how AI is transforming the hiring process. Jessica has seen it all: candidates using AI earpieces to get through interviews, bots submitting fake resumes, and algorithms rejecting strong candidates for not checking every box.

Key Takeaways:

• The AI Red Flags Recruiters Are Actually Watching For

• How to Show AI Proficiency Without Getting Yourself Rejected

• Why Employers' Own AI Is Filtering Out Good Candidates

• The Job Search Move That Still Beats Everything Else

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• StaffPad: www.thestaffpad.com

Links & Mentions:

• LinkedIn's New AI Interview Screening Tool: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-tests-out-ai-powered-interview-screening/814636/

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