Name: #GirlsWhoProduct with Sabrina Rzepka, Co-Founder @ Product Professional by Productized Podcast
Duration: 40 min 13 s
Description: Meet Sabrina Rzepka, Lead PM In-Car Commerce at BMW and Co-Founder of Product Professionals. In this interview, you'll be able to understand the difference between project and product management: How do you know which way is right? Where should be your focus? If you want to become a PM and don't know where to start, listen to this interview. You won't regret it!

Paul is the ex-Chief Product Officer at Joyn.de, the streaming platform launched in Germany in June 2019. Paul has experience building and growing teams and products (from 0 to 10M+ MAUs) at Rocket Internet, namshi.com, and joyn.de and managing products at scale at the Play Store and on Google.com Search. Paul's background is mostly in consumer (e-commerce), media streaming, and search, with experience using ML to practically unlock user value.

Paul Debahy - Unlock user value

Teresa Torres teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She’s coached hundreds of teams at companies of all sizes, from early-stage start-ups to global enterprises and has taught over 6500 product people core discovery skills through the Product Talk Academy. She’s the author of the upcoming book, Continuous Discovery Habits and blogs at ProductTalk.org.

Teresa Torres - How to Identify and Test Your Solution Assumptions

[02:07] Covid's impact on Gibson's work and routine.
[4:10] Ask Gib - Gibson's new creative endeavors.
[4:38] Self-improvement opportunities Gibson found on a climbing expedition in Alaska. Climb Mount Hayes, which is a 14,000-foot peak in the middle of Alaska
[5:10] Lesson 1 from the climbing expedition
[7:11] What Led Gibson's Career Toward Product?
[9:05] Six key ideas of Leadership
[10:44] "Don't worry too much about your weaknesses. Companies are hiring you for your superpowers, those two key skills that really make you special."
[11: 55 ] Hacking your product leader career Masterclass with Gibson Biddle
[15: 29 ] Personal board of directors - a collection of mentors and peers that you can talk
[18: 35 ]How to build my personal board of directors?
[24: 00 ] Advice for people aspiring to become VP of Product
[26: 12] Cross-functional leadership
[28: 12] "The job of a product leader is to delight customers in hard to copy margin, enhancing ways and margin Hanson just means make money"
[33:57] Netflix culture
[35:17] Product management strengths and or disruptions for this year and next year
[39:24] How do you discover your superpowers?
"What are you so passionate about that you think about it two in the morning and that will drive your intellectual curiosity, your persistence. That's what makes people great at their job!"
[45:55] "How do I feel about my relationships, community, and social?
How do I feel about the degree that I can set my own course for autonomy?
How do I feel about the opportunity for mastery and learning in my job? How do I feel about my opportunity and doing my job to provide purpose and meaning?"
[47:10] How to Define Your Product Strategy

Gibson Biddle - Hacking Your Product Leader Career

Kandis O’Brien the co-founder of The SIX, a strategy and innovation consultancy that empowers enterprise clients like Google, Salesforce and Cisco and pioneering startups like Alucio to ideate, collaborate and execute quickly and efficiently for sustainable growth. Kandis is passionate about helping organizations build better products, services and organizational cultures. She helps to leverage human-centred approaches including Design and Vision Sprints. She is also the organizer of Design Sprint NY City, the official Google Design Sprints Global Chapter community for practitioners and facilitators.

Show Notes: 
How is Kandis O’Brien dealing with the Covid’ pandemic impact on work and routine - [1:30]
Work- Life Balance? Absolutely not! But people have found ways to be kind to each other and to be more flexible about schedules and interruptions - [5:05] 
Running the NY City Marathon- [6:56]
What led Kandis to enter the world of Product Management? From Marketing to Product - [7:54]
Kandis Experience in her company The SIX - [10:55]
What have you learned about your leadership style – strengths or weaknesses – and how do you use those insights to be better? - [13:40] 
What is the most common problem, you see on a daily basis? - [16:00] 
Customer and market insights  to make strategic decisions - [18:54]
What MVP is going to allow you to deliver value quickly, to test your assumptions and to gain directional Insight? - [21:17]
Difference between B2B Products and B2C Products - [23:33] 
Designing  digital products vs physical products - [28:00] 
Redesign Your Organization for Innovation - [31:59]
Kandis Bucket List - [36:00]  
Q&A: How does Design Thinking and Sprints help build scalable Products? Do these techniques apply to Platform Products? - [37:17]

Kandis O'Brien - Redesign Your Organization for Innovation

Lauren Isaacson is a market and user experience research consultant from Vancouver, British Columbia. She began her career doing research and brand strategy for digital ad agencies in Los Angeles, California, but left that world behind and gravitated towards a career in research after moving to Canada in 2009. Since then, she has been an in-house research team of one for Motion Canada and TELUS Digital, an interim leader of the market research department of BC's hydroelectric utility, a subcontractor for agencies such as Blink, Macadamian, and Applause, and a direct consultant for small start-ups, national organizations, and anything in-between.

Time Notes: 

[1:58] How is Lauren taking adventures during this crazy year 
[3:12] 1% for the Planet: Lauren's a mission with the Environment
[5:40] From the advertising world to Research
[7:05] "I love what I do because I am good at it"
[7:12] The birth of Curio design
[8:00] What are the main needs of companies? Do you feel a big difference between small and big companies?
[13:30] "People don't get how difficult it is to get get the right people, especially in B2B" 
[15:46] The difference between physical and digital products
[18:12] Latest research trends and innovations 
[19:30] Chasing Rabbits - Turning Research Insights Into Informed Decisions.
[21:50] Passions and projects, travels 
[22:20] Lauren's Bucket list Trip
[23:58] "It's hard to have a good Work-Life when you love your job"
[24:50] Plans for the future.
[25:10] Q&A: What are the essential characteristics that someone who wants to start a business needs to have?

Medium Post 👉 https://productized.medium.com/podcast-with-lauren-isaacson-875b5ed9f894

Lauren Isaacson - Research Insights Into Informed Decisions

Meet Sabrina Rzepka, Lead PM In-Car Commerce at BMW and Co-Founder of Product Professionals. In this interview, you'll be able to understand the difference between project and product management: How do you know which way is right? Where should be your focus? If you want to become a PM and don't know where to start, listen to this interview. You won't regret it!

#GirlsWhoProduct with Sabrina Rzepka, Co-Founder @ Product Professional

Mihaela Draghici is a Product Manager at Volkswagen Digital Solutions. She is a Marketing woman that turned into a Tech woman. Mihaela is known for her passion, professionalism, and changemaker attitude both within her work and personal life. She is a strong advocate for gender equality and inclusive work environments in tech industries.
What does Mihaela do when she’s not in the office? She is passionate about travelling, outdoors cycling, hiking and yoga.

#GirlsWhoProduct with Mihaela Draghici, Product Manager @ Volkswagen Digital Solutions

Although Outsystems is an example of Low Code, the focus of the company is not on code but on PRODUCTIVITY. Creating platforms that have an impact on teams, Low code is one way to achieve this goal but during the interview, Gonçalo showed us other strategies from AI to software automation.

Gonçalo Gaiolas -  VP Product Outsystems

Do you want to start in the Tech industry and looking for a piece of advice? Listen to this podcast and get to know Carey Jenkins, CEO at Substantial. Carey went from journalism to CEO of a Tech Company. She is originally from Louisiana, spent formative years in New York and New Orleans before finding a home in Seattle. That's where she becomes a Tech woman. Carey is a people-focused CEO, she believes that healthy relationships are the foundation of any successful team project. She cares about ethics and Technology and the intersection between them. She also published a framework for more Ethical Innovation. Carey believes in the importance of focusing on Growth. And that's her main goal in her career that she focused on. And if she is not in Substantial, she is spending her quality time with her husband and daughter. Find out more about her and her path to becoming a Tech woman in our podcast. Enjoy!

Carey Jenkins - Ethics & Technology

Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions as a result of the products she built; two of these were companies she founded. She advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies and speaks at conferences around the world. She founded Radical Product Thinking as a movement of leaders creating vision-driven change and is the author of an upcoming book titled Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. It's scheduled for launch in September 2021. She speaks nine languages while learning her tenth. Her work as a product leader is also heavily influenced by my having lived and worked around the world. Radhika has lived in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. In her book, Radhika will bring this global perspective. 

Check Her Masterclass: https://bit.ly/3tVafJj

Radhika Dutt - The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter

Productized Talks Podcast is about finding the right answer when asking "How to create great products?". Our main focus is on products at the intersection of digital and physical, on software, web and mobile, created by startups as well as big companies.

#GirlsWhoProduct with Sabrina Rzepka, Co-Founder @ Product Professional

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