Think about the relationships that matter most to you and treat them like they are part of your happiness infrastructure. Protect dinner where phones stay facedown. Call the person who steadies your nervous system instead of refreshing your inbox when stress spikes. Work will fill your calendar. But your humans will keep you upright.More
Tag Archives: mental health
205: The daily infrastructure behind sustainable careers (50 Operators share the systems that keep them happy, part 1)
Last year, I spoke with 50 people working in martech and operations about how they stay happy under pressure. Today we start with part 1: stability through routines, boundaries, and systems that protect the body and mind.More
198: Pam Boiros: 10 Ways to support women and build more inclusive AI
Pam delivers a clear, grounded look at how women learn and lead with AI, moving from biased datasets to late-night practice sessions inside Women Applying AI. She brings sharp examples from real teams, highlights the quiet builders shaping change, and roots her perspective in the resilience she learned from the women in her own family.More
197: Anna Leary: The Art of saying no and other mental health strategies in marketing ops
Anna built systems to keep marketing running smoothly, but the real lesson came when those same systems failed to protect her. In this episode, she shares how saying no became her survival skill, why visibility is the antidote to burnout, and how calm structure (not constant hustle) keeps teams sharp and human.More
192: Angela Vega: Expedia’s Martech leader on ADHD, discernment, and the art of picking battles in martech
Angela built her ADHD tech stack as a way to survive the noise in her own head, turning distraction into design. Her workflow (Offload, Shape, Prototype, Loop, and Anchor) channels restless thought into motion through AI tools like Whisper and GPT. After her second pregnancy and a diagnosis that reframed her chaos, Angela stopped fighting her wiring and built systems that worked with it.More