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Project Management Happy Hour, 140 episodes. Page 1 of 2.

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134: How to Land a $300k PM Role in 2026 with Mukhtar Kadiri

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133: The Introvert's guide to Communication for Project Managers

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132: Why Your Most Supportive Stakeholder is Ruining your Project, with Dawn Mahan

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131: Don't be the PM everyone hates, with Rachel Losser

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130: Rigged bids, fake deadlines, and going 181x over budget

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129: How Credibility Starts with Curiosity, with Noel Nicole Ransom

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128: Your project can't possibly be as bad as working for Mr Beast, Part 2

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127: Your project can't possibly be as bad as working for Mr Beast, Part 1

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126: "What's your AI Strategy?" Handling the Executive who wants AI in everything

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125: How to survive the AI landscape as a PM with PMI's Dr Kelly Heuer

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124: Drowning in Tasks: How Successful PMs Organize the Chaos

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123 - Hungry Hungry HPPOs - managing loud personalities with Evan Unger

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122 - Kate puts Kim through the worst meeting hells our listeners could dream up: a PM HappyHour role play

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121 - Top Shelf Replay: Embracing the Escalation

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120 - How smart teams talk themselves into Failure, with Dr. Bill Brantley

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119 - TSR: They told me I'm 'too nice'??

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118 - PM Turf Wars: Sharing your projects with other Project Managers

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117 - Top Shelf Replay: Say No by Saying Yes

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116 - How to quit your job and completely fail as a PM contractor

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115 - Top Shelf Replay: Trust Bricks

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114 - Happy Hour Chatter: What PMs Really Do, Fear in Decision-Making, and Lessons from Going solo

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113 - Top Shelf Replay: Stage direction in the boardroom

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112 - Burnout: when a 500k job isn't worth it, with Norlander Wilson

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111 - Top Shelf Replay: How do you start a hard conversation?

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110 - Are you defining project success wrong? Most PM's do! With PMI's Dave Garrett

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109 - Top Shelf Replay: The Wolf - how to take over broken projects

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108 - Why Risk Management? Future You Will Thank You

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107 - Top Shelf Replay: The Closer - Avoiding Project Acceptance Exception

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106 - Finish Strong: Why the End of Your Project Matters Most

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105 - Top Shelf Replay: How to Deal with Stupid Executive Asks

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104 - The one meeting that will make or break your project

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103 - Lessons not Learned: State of Maine HR System Project Debacle

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102 - Kim's first day working for the Empire: Kate runs another Project Management role-play

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101 - The Project Behind: Not Impossible Labs with Mick Ebeling

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100 - Retrospective: Our 100th Episode

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099 - The Iron Triangle of Getting a PM Job, with PM Career Coach, Kayla Quijas

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098 - Don't Eat the Prickly Pears: Learning how to prioritize with James Louttit

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097 - PMO: Friend or Foe?

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096 - Design thinking: don't take things at face value or you will face plant, with guest Erik Rueter

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095 - The 5 Foundational Behaviors for Developing Informal Authority, with Kory Kogon of Franklin Covey

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094 - Agile vs Waterfall Smack-Down!

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093 - Rising from Tactical PM to Strategic Advisor, with Gregg Richie and Ralph Kliem

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092 - Goblins in the room! Managing meeting misbehaviors, with Rich Maltzman

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091 - The Perfect Status Report: How to measure percent complete

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090 - How to tell other people what to do

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089 - Reorgs and Restructurings: sailing the waves of organizational change chaos

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088 - The CHAOS Report: Measuring project failure

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087 - Creative decision making: do you have the right 4 voices in the room? with Teresa Lawrence

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086 - The project behind a Disaster Response, with the ITDRC

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085 - Deciding on how to make good Decisions, with Kandis Porter

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084 - OH, We Forgot About Change Management! What to do when you get caught with your ADKAR down, with Tim Creasey

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083 - The 30 Minute Executive Meeting: Make it count

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082 - The Project Behind a Tech Startup, with Pete Bernardo from Punchlist

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081 - The Project Behind an Emergency Covid Vaccination Site, with Aaron Bellinger, PMP

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080 - First PM on the Beach: How to succeed when you are the first Project Manager in your organization

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079 - Welcome to the Dungeon! Kate and Kim do Project Management RPG (D&D)

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078 - Recommending Change Without Getting Chased out the Door

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077 - Behavioral PM: the Feakonomics approach to project delivery with Dr. Josh Ramirez

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076 - Imposter Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment

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075 - Top Tips from a Project Management Coach, with Heather Gates

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074 - The Project Behind a Movie

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073 - A 12 Pack of Alignment Hacks with Tim Creasey - Part 2

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072 - A 12 Pack of Alignment Hacks with Tim Creasey - Part 1

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The Project Behind an Ironman Triathlon with Paul Huddle, Senior Regional Director for the Ironman Group

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070 - Change Management Mic Drops with Tim Creasey

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069 - Project Management in an Alien Environment

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068 - Interviewing PM's: Inside the Mind of a Hiring Manager with Matt Henderson

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067 - What the heck is ITSM? And how is it like Improv?

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066 - How to be a consultant: Dealing with customers without having a nervous breakdown

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064 - Getting into - or out of - Project Management, with Ben Aston of The Digital Project Manager podcast

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063 - Candid Conversations with a Project Management Recruiter, with Norma Gutierrez

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062 - Do I really need a PMO? (Part 2 of 2)

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061 - Do I really need a PMO? (Part 1 of 2)

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060 - Say-Do-Say: Fundamentals of Project Communication

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059 - Crying Happens

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058 - Shut-in but not Shut-down: Managing Projects and Teams from Home

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057 - ADKAR: It's not a trap! Change Management can save your mission

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056 Don't buy the bias! Managing bias in project management

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055 - A slice of Thankfulness from Kate and Kim

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054 - How to be a Project Manager: Kate and Kim get interviewed by a PM student about breaking into the field

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053 - What if I told you that you were a PM all along?

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052 - Who owns this baby when I'm done? Planning for deliverables handover

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051 - They told me I'm "Too Nice?!" Dealing with inactionable feedback

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050 - Project Financials 101: A quick and dirty overview of how money affects projects

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049 - How to Call BS without getting Sh#t upon

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048 - Brand Yourself with Sonia Mundra

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047 - Project Management at Burning Man: Managing Volunteers, with Kayla Glenn

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046 - Process, Data & Maturity: is it BS or does it really matter?

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045 - Entrepreneurial Project Management with Rolondo Talbott

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044 - Dear Project Diary: Project (b)logging to keep your head straight

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043 - How to be "The Wolf" - Taking over broken projects

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042 - The Closer: Avoiding Project Acceptance Exceptions

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041 - Witness me! Justifying Project Management

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040 - I'm a WHAT?! What's the point of personality assessments?

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039 - Burning Questions: A Trick or treat bag of listener mail

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038 - Charter? Huh! What is it good for? (absolutely every project)

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037 - Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader - with Naomi Caietti

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036 - PMO - What is it really? And how do I run one?

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PM Happy Hour Membership - Helping new PMs "How to PM"

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PM Happy Hour Membership - Painless, easy PDU's!