Productly Speaking: Real Stories for Product Managers · 50 min
Ever had one of those weeks where the roadmap is bursting at the seams, everyone wants one more thing , and you can practically feel your balance slipping through your fingers? This conversation with Katie Tamblin goes right into that moment. Katie shares the kind of stories product people don’t usually admit out loud. There’s the time she walked into a team with seventy‑two product “priorities” taped around the room like a horror‑movie timeline and had to help the organization face the truth about impossibility. And the moment she realized she was about to pass along the very harm she was receiving from an overwhelmed manager and had to ask herself, “What kind of leader do I want to be?” What follows is an honest, funny, and surprisingly comforting look at how balance, empathy, humor, and human limits shape the work we do. Katie talks openly about burnout, unreasonable expectations, why saying no is an act of care, and how creativity survives only when we give ourselves actual space to think. If you’ve ever felt stretched thin or stuck between competing demands, this one might feel a little too real in the best possible way.
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