Kerri Rosenthal is an artist, a businesswoman, a mom, not someone giving up her ambition (is that what we’re supposed to be doing at work these days?), someone who’s going for it.

I watched her this past Saturday stocking pots. I was stacking bedding.

I like a woman who doesn’t quit, who doesn’t quite fit in and who has a drive to make something. Kerri is one of those people.

Listen to what she has to say.

This is WORK What She Said.

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This headline somehow feels both shocking and completely unsurprising.

The McKinsey and Lean In Women in the Workplace study is out, and the takeaway is bleak. Fewer companies care about advancing women. Even fewer care about advancing women of color. And somehow, we are now talking about an “ambition gap” like women just collectively woke up and decided to want less.

Let’s be clear. Women are still paid less. Still underrepresented in the rooms that matter. Still doing most of the work at home. Still being asked to show up like nothing else changed after Covid, after MeToo, after the great return to office squeeze.

On this episode of Net Net, we talk about why this moment at work feels so brittle. Why job security feels fake. Why trust in the promise of work is eroding. And why more women are quietly asking themselves what all this effort is actually for.

This is not about one group winning and another losing. That zero-sum framing is part of the problem. The real work is opening the aperture. More voices. More paths. More people being given a real shot, and actually being supported when they take it.

If you work with people, lead people, or care about what work is turning into right now, this one is worth your time.

This is WORK Net/Net.

Hi! Ever felt like you’re on a Disney ride through every big-company headache imaginable?

Think lawyers, bankers, finance goons, stale conference rooms, staid conversations and the creeping sense that the machine is running you, not the other way around.

Big companies exist for good reason. They build real things - consistently. They deliver at scale.

But they also can suffocate the people who want to tinker, experiment, break stuff, and dream. The renegades. The builders. The ones who get hives at the prospect of OKRs, KPIs and strategery.

On this episode of Unsolicited Advice, we get into what it actually takes to keep creativity alive when the machine takes over. How small groups can save big companies. How to protect the spark from the process. How to build something real without getting crushed by the weight of everyone else’s need for control, accuracy and uniformity.

If you’ve ever felt yourself wither in a big org or wondered why your best ideas show up in small rooms, this one is for you.

This is WORK: Unsolicited Advice! Watch full episode on YouTube.