Should I get my Master's? Should I get my PhD? Should I go to Business School? When you've been in the workforce for a few years and a lot of your friends are going back to school to pursue an additional degree, you might be wondering whether you should do the same. The external pressure is real. On this week's episode, Ada Aka, Doctoral Student in Marketing & Psychology at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about how to figure out whether pursuing a PhD is the right professional move. Ada sheds some light on the differences between the undergraduate and the graduate school experience and shares some valuable tips on how to best approach the application process.

"Other people's urgency is not your emergency."On this week's solo episode, our host Thamina is getting real about how she manages her time, juggling a demanding 9-5 job in tech sales and Femme Hive while also trying to have a social life, maintaining a long-distance relationship and practicing self-care.Thamina highlights the importance of aligning your time management with your energy management and how setting boundaries has made her more successful. Most importantly, Thamina introduces us to the Eisenhower Matrix, which has become a great tool to help her prioritize based on importance and urgency. Make sure to check out our newly launched blog. And if you've been benefiting from this podcast and our free resources, please consider donating a slice of pizza to Thamina so she can keep producing more episodes.

Rolanda Evelyn was working in a role that many would consider a dream job: product marketing at YouTube in New York City. And while she was thriving professionally, Rolanda had always dreamt about working in fashion. In February 2020, Rolanda left Google to wholeheartedly pursue that fashion dream. Little did she know that a global pandemic was awaiting that would have a significant impact on the retail industry. After months of uncertainty, Rolanda finally landed her dream role: Product Marketing & Customer Strategy Manager at Rent the Runway - a true full-circle moment after she had served as an on-campus ambassador for the company while she was still in college and had always admired Co-Founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman. On this episode, we talk about how Rolanda's passion, tenacity, and convictions allowed her to manifest her dream of working in fashion. She shares some great advice on how you can increase your own odds of lading your dream job. We also chatted about how Rent the Runway pivoted amidst the global pandemic and about Rolanda's side venture "Other Cards", which produces greeting cards that are more inclusive towards minorities and help erase stigma around topics like menstruation, abortion, and sex.

Your credit score is your adulthood GPA. But why is it so important to have a credit history in the first place? In this week's solo episode, our host Thamina explains how a good credit score or the lack thereof can impact many aspects of our day-to-day lives, most notably interest rates on loans. Working on establishing good credit can save you tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thamina talks about the do's and don'ts and highlights why not only Americans but also Europeans should care about their credit history. In addition to the US model, we also take a look at how credit works in the UK and Germany.

Reaching out to older, more experienced people can be pretty daunting to young professionals. We are oftentimes intimidated by individuals who are very accomplished on paper and are wondering what value we can even add with our limited life and work experience. And yet everyone around us keeps stressing the importance of having mentors. But how to find them? This week, we are joined by Sanyin Siang, Executive Director of the Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and adjunct associate professor with Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. Sanyin is currently ranked as the world's #1 Executive Coach by Thinkers50 and she is the author of the Launch Book. Sanyin is not only an incredible mentor herself but also loves debunking some common mentorship myths. On this episode, she shares advice on how to best approach potential mentors and how to be a good mentee. Sanyin strongly believes in the power of paying it forward and shares some beautiful anecdotes on how her mentees have added a lot of value to her life. This episode also features some endearing moments as our host Thamina admits her "girl crush" on Sanyin and how she had been admiring her from afar for years. Don't miss out on a touching exchange between the two women as Sanyin offers Thamina some incredibly kind words of encouragement.

Most women hate self-promoting themselves because we live in a society where women talking about their accomplishments is still frowned upon. Unfortunately, accomplishments do not speak for themselves and if we women don't speak up, we risk falling behind our self-promoting male peers and missing out on job opportunities. On this week's solo episode, Thamina is emphasizing the importance of self-promotion at work and is running you trough an interactive exercise to help you become more comfortable talking about your achievements.

Did you watch Marie Kondo's show or The Home Edit on Netflix? We sure did. So if you find color coded bookshelves and drawer dividers highly satisfying, then this episode is for you. This week, Thamina is talking to Lucy Milligan Wahl, Founder of LMW Edits, a professional organization company based in San Francisco. Lucy's mission is to bring common sense organizing solutions to modern urban living and has a lot of clients in their 20's who are fed up with the way they're living. On this episode, we find out how an organized home can be the foundation of a beautiful life that prioritizes the relationships, activities, and commitments that matter to us the most. Lucy also talks about the most common mistakes people make when trying to get organized and how we can set up a great "Working from Home" workspace.

Bad luck with dating? You are not alone. Our host Thamina has had her fair share of bad experiences with love interests, including emotional and physical abuse. Fortunately, she has been in a very happy and successful (cross-continental long-distance) relationship over the past 2.5 years and has become her female friends' go-to person for relationship advice. On this week's episode, Thamina tells us how to identify whether someone you are seeing is actually interested and what qualities to look for in a good partner.

What role do you want to play in this world? Many young professionals have absolutely no idea how to answer that question. And how would they in a world where our education systems are driving us towards specific professions rather than teaching us how to have an impact? Not knowing your purpose in life can cause a lot of frustration and overwhelm to people in their 20s, for some it might even lead to an existential crisis. To help us get closer to finding our purpose, we are joined by Dr. Leanne Armitage this week. Leanne’s mission in life is to inspire people to be the best version of themselves. She is doing so by sharing her story of the obstacles she has overcome in order to walk in her purpose. With The Armitage Foundation, Leanne is helping to increase diversity across UK medical schools and for her incredible work she was awarded the 2018 Queen’s Young Leaders award by Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. On this episode, Leanne and Thamina talk about social mobility and how one traumatic childhood experience changed the trajectory of Leanne's life, allowing her to set course on becoming a doctor.

Have you been lacking motivation at work and elsewhere lately? If so, you are not alone. After a year-long pandemic it is completely normal to experience a low. This week our host Thamina is opening up about her motivation slump over the past couple of weeks where she even considered changing jobs but a perspective shift helped her regain her motivation. Thamina vulnerably talks about a tough start to 2021 and shares some tips that have allowed her to get back on track. If you want to indulge in some shared misery or need a bit of a pep talk this week, hit play.