F'ing Up – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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In this episode, we unpack the complicated relationship between ambition, identity, and personal fulfillment. From workplace burnout to the challenges of navigating toxic cultures, and from grappling with misaligned goals to the pressures of leadership, this episode dives into the hard truths of career “success” and what it really means to thrive.


Episode Takeaways:

• Burnout and the Cost of Overwork: The early-career grind can feel like a rite of passage, impacting personal life and well-being. 
• Challenges with Acquisitions: The cultural mishaps that can follow after an acquisition.  
• Advocating for Yourself in the Workplace: The risks of speaking up, the label of being “overeager,” and knowing when it’s time to move on.  
• The Lonely Reality of Leadership: experiencing isolation in leadership. 

About Aimee:

Aimee Gindin is a leadership coach, keynote speaker and author of dozens of published business and lifestyle articles. With a background as both a former mental health clinician and a C-Suite executive, she combines her passion for personal growth with her business and leadership experience to create actionable steps for professionals looking to make positive changes in their lives and in their careers.

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Tyler Schmoker brings a wealth of experience in operations management and supply chain strategy, having developed his expertise through a progressive career in the military and paramilitary sectors. In this episode, Tyler candidly shares the challenges he's encountered throughout his journey, including navigating corporate landscapes, accepting that he may not always be the most popular figure, and managing the constant uncertainty of potential deployments looming ahead.

ABOUT Tyler Schmoker

Tyler Schmoker is a retired Army Combat Arms Senior Noncommissioned Officer, former Paramilitary Advisor, and Strategic Projects Consultant to Fortune 500 companies. Tyler has worked in Corporate Security, Strategy, Project and Program Management, and Tech. 

Tyler is an avid Alpine Climber and Endurance Athlete. 

Tyler is the Founder & Principal at Winsly LLC, a High-Performance Coaching, Consulting, and Advisory Services Firm. When the going gets tough, the tough choose Winsly. 

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Laila Ghambari knows success. She worked her way up in the coffee world, from Barista to Executive, all without a college degree. She even competed in the US Barista Championship in 2014 and won. Though she worked her way to the top, her journey did not come without challenges, with experiences such as poor work culture and burnout. 

About Laila Ghambari

Laila Ghambari has nearly 20 years of specialty coffee experience. She won the prestigious title of United States Barista Champion in 2014 and was an elected member of the Executive Council for the Barista Guild from 2012-2016. Her expertise is in running multi unit retail operations, training and education, as well as team and organizational leadership. 

Most recently, she founded by Laila Ghambari, her coffee business consulting company that supports coffee companies with operations, education, growth, and profitability.

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Hunter Smith has experienced rocket ship success, both in the world of music and craft beer. Most recently, he built a brewing company and hospitality group that soared, until COVID hit. He found himself holding the pieces of a wildly successful venture that suffered the effects of something unexpected. 

About Hunter Smith

Hunter Smith is the founder and former President of Champion Brewing Company and Champion Hospitality Group. 

Hunter attended Northeastern University for Music and performed as a musician in the north east before returning home to Virginia in 2009. 

Hunter completed a BS in Business Marketing from the University of Phoenix, as well as a Certificate of Brewing Technology from the Siebel Institute in Chicago and started Champion Brewing Company in downtown Charlottesville in 2012. Hunter has also become an active member in the Charlottesville community as a board member for the Music Resource Center, Piedmont Housing Alliance, New Hill Development Company, and in June of 2018 was appointed to the City of Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review by City Council. 

Hunter also works in an advisory role at his family's winery in Nelson County and as Co-Chair of Government Affairs for the Virginia Craft BrewersGuild. 

Hunter is often recognized as the grandson of C. Ray Smith, a long-tenured professor and interim dean of UVa's Darden School of Business. 

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Arielle Kilroy is a successful CEO, spending time growing her career at companies like Sierra Club, Mozilla and Small Improvements. Though she has achieved the ultimate title, she didn’t have an easy road getting there. She encountered many bumps which taught her hard lessons, shaking her belief system at times.

About Arielle Kilroy

Arielle Kilroy is a co-founder and CEO at Dado, an Employee Experience Management startup. Previous to founding Dado, Arielle has been a Webby Honoree Product Leader at a variety of different orgs from Epic Records to Sierra Club to Small Improvements. She's a conference speaker and mentor as well as a trainer at Practical Product.

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Scott Landers grew up on a farm in Texas, forced to grow up quickly and tend to the needs of the farm. Some days that meant driving the tractor and some days that meant ditching the broken down tractor to walk 40 acres back home. This early education prepared Scott for hard work with grit and determination, but it didn’t come without its challenges as there was a learning curve when it came to working with others as opposed to always “cowboying it” on his own.

About Scott Landers

Scott Landers began his lifelong fascination with water and food in Northeast Texas, where he was born and raised on the sixth-generation Landers Family Farm. He has since worked as a civil engineer, product director, and independent consultant to water and food organizations.

Scott is Co-Founder and CEO at Figure 8. Since 2019, Figure 8 has worked with over 300 restaurants across the country to build more sustainable food delivery systems. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering from MIT and lives in New York City.

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Kit Campoy has a successful career in retail, working for well known brands such as Anthropologie, Lucky Brand Jeans, Old Navy, and Tilly’s. She worked her guts out in each of her roles - dedicated to the core. With that level of dedication came a realization that working hard and long doesn’t always pay off. There were some tough realities she had to face in her journey.

About Kit Campoy

Kit Campoy spent 24 years leading teams in retail stores. In 2022, she threw her store keys in the safe and left the career she loved to write full-time. She now writes, reads, and talks about leadership daily. She advocates for frontline leaders on LinkedIn and through her newsletter, The Voice of the Frontline. Her book, The Retail Leader’s Field Guide - How to Run a Kick Ass Store Where Everyone Wants to Work, is available on Amazon.

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Rita Cidre’s resume is impressive, her career trending up and to the right. She steadily worked her way toward the top however, once there, she had an identity crisis. She found it hard to find the joy in herself and her every day work. Everything she wanted was in her lap yet she struggled to feel successful and satisfied. Listen to Rita’s F’ing Up story to hear the full details!

About Rita Cidre

Rita Cidre is a marketer, professor and entrepreneur. She has 15 years of experience working as a marketing leader for brands such as Zillow Group, Qualtrics, Time Inc and NPR. Currently, she's a marketing consultant and the chair of the Digital Marketing Department at Podium Education, where she develops and teaches courses to thousands of college students around the world. Rita is also a published author, founder of a super cool Puerto Rican ecommerce brand, developer of top-rated courses on Fiverr, and president of her children's bilingual daycare in Vienna, Austria, where she currently resides with her family.

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Carly DeFilippo has spent her career supporting companies through copywriting, marketing and brand strategy. Though she was fortunate enough to work for household names, Carly spent periods in her career where she felt stuck, not doing what she truly enjoyed, in unsupportive cultures.

About Carly DeFilippo

Carly DeFilippo is the co-founder of Cognoscenti Creative, a Denver-based branding and creative studio. Her career has spanned the fields of copywriting, marketing and brand strategy, with a particular focus on the food and hospitality sectors. 

After earning a Master’s degree in Paris—studying French culture and culinary criticism—she spent a decade in New York City, leading content marketing efforts for the Institute of Culinary Education and The Dinex Group (Chef Daniel Boulud). After several years immersed in the world of award-winning chefs, sommeliers and service professionals, she pivoted to an e-commerce start-up environment, leading B2C brand creative for food product design company W&P. 

In 2015, she co-founded Cognoscenti Creative (with her sister, Lauren, a graphic designer and photographer) with the goal of offering comprehensive branding and brand storytelling services at a scale more accessible to entrepreneurs.

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Liam Darmody is the kind of employee you want on your team. He’s driven, passionate, and has an appetite to learn. Despite this, Liam has experienced some unexpected twists and turns in his career journey that will take you by surprise. Listeners will be relieved to hear just how normal he is and how he, too, has experienced trials and tribulations in the workplace.

About Liam Darmody

After nearly two decades scaling operations at startup and mid-market technology companies, Liam Darmody jumped head first into entrepreneurship by founding Liam's Brand Stand, a consultancy through which he helps founders & leaders build magnetic personal brands that attract clients, talent, and opportunity on Linkedin. 

Prior to hanging his own shingle, Liam held leadership positions such as 

• Director of Employer Branding & Talent Marketing at WillowTree (acquired for $1.2B by Telus International), 
• Director of Revenue Operations at Homesnap (acquired by CoStar Group for $250M), 
• Director of Customer Experience & Product Operations at AddThis (acquired by Oracle for $300M), 
• Market Manager at Getaround and Hired, 
• Director of Sales Planning and Enablement at LivingSocial, where he was the 20th employee, 
• Operations Manager at Revolution Health Group, and 
• Recruiter at Ettain Group (his first job out of college), and waiter at Chef Geoff's during college (he swears everyone interested in business should wait tables in their lifetime at some point). 

In his free time, Liam can be found smoking bbq low n' slow, collecting craft hot sauce for his collection, and geeking out over the latest innovations in technology. 

He resides just outside of Raleigh, NC with his wife, Megan, and two kids. 

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