Hard Calls with Trisha Price – Details, episodes & analysis

Every product leader has to make them: the high-stakes decisions that define outcomes, shape careers, and don't come with easy answers.

The Hard Calls podcast, hosted by Trisha Price, features candid conversations with product and tech leaders about the pivotal decisions that drive great products and the pressure that comes with it. From conflicting priorities and unclear success metrics to aligning teams and navigating executive expectations, you will hear compelling stories and best practices that drive business outcomes and help you make the Hard Calls.

Real decisions. Real stakes. Real leadership.

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In the premiere episode of Hard Calls, host Trisha Price sits down with her longtime mentor, Founding CEO and Executive Chairman of the Board for nCino, Pierre Naudé, for a deeply personal and practical conversation about what it really takes to make hard decisions as a product and business leader. Trisha and Pierre share their lived experience scaling nCino from a scrappy startup to a public company, recounting the pivotal product, technology, and people decisions they made along the way.

Trisha reflects on the most important lessons she learned working alongside Pierre: from making platform bets and scaling org structures, to defining “whole product” thinking and knowing when to evolve your team. Whether you're leading your first team or preparing for your company's next inflection point, this episode is packed with honest insight and tactical wisdom.

Links & Resources

• Companion read: Enter Blog Article Title Here → Trisha’s LinkedIn article to be published day before episode airs [Insert Link]

• Follow Pierre Naudé on LinkedIn →  https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierrenaude/

• Connect with Trisha Price on LinkedIn →  https://www.linkedin.com/in/trisha-price-3063081/

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In this episode of Hard Calls, host Trisha Price sits down with legendary product thinker Marty Cagan, partner at Silicon Valley Product Group and author of Inspired, Empowered, and his latest book, Transformed.

Marty shares one of the hardest calls of his career and the lessons it taught him about how users respond to change. From there, Trisha and Marty explore what it means to truly transform a product organization from the inside out. It’s not about processes or giving people new titles. It’s about building trust, developing product sense and defining what a successful product operating model looks like for your organization.

You’ll learn:

• Insights from Marty’s time leading product teams at eBay
• The real reasons why you can’t run products like projects.
• Why your sales reps may be your best source of product insight
• How to build trust and product sense to make better, faster decisions

Whether you’re a product leader at a Fortune 500 or a startup founder scaling your team, this conversation will challenge your assumptions—and give you a framework for action.

📚 Grab Marty’s book Transformed
🔗 Learn more at svpg.com

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 Explore more insights at pendo.io or connect with Trisha Price on LinkedIn.

In this episode of Hard Calls, host Trisha Price sits down with Jessica Soroky, product operations leader turned Chief of Staff to the CEO at Engine. The two discuss the symbiotic relationship between product operations and a successful product organization. Their conversation offers an inside look at what operational excellence really looks like and the hard calls it takes to achieve it in your company.

A few highlights from the episode:

• The hard call Jessica had to make to let go of a well-liked team member in order to get her team operating at the next level.
• How  product operations, when done well, can get more out of your product organization without having to add additional heads. 
• Shifting the product shipping mindset from “done” to “delivered” using the product development lifecycle to make sure that the products built are as successful as possible.

Love the episode? Subscribe to Hard Calls in your favorite podcast app, drop us a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, and share this episode with a teammate who’s staring down their own hard call today. Every subscription and review helps more product leaders find the show—let’s build better products together!

👀 Connect with Jessica Soroky on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicasoroky/
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📬 Follow Trisha Price on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/trisha-price-3063081/