The Messy Parts
New career advice and messy stories, every Monday. Whether you’re at the top, or striving to get there—you may have noticed the one thing people rarely talk about: how hard it is to achieve success. The Messy Parts is th...
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On the show
- Kim Hastreiter2 eps
- Gary Vaynerchuk2 eps
- Blake Mycoskie2 eps
Also: Sari Botton, Bonnie Hammer, Samantha Bee, Parul Somani, C. Finley, Patrick Steel, Shelley Huff, Susie Banikarim, Katrina Markoff, Melissa Ben-Ishay, Sojin Lee, David Ko, Joanna Coles, Kerry Docherty, Assia Grazioli-Venier, Belle Burden, Bevy Smith
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Total monthly reach
Based on 1 signal.
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- 🇺🇸United States · CareersHOME#30124K to 655K
- 🇬🇷GR · Careers#28.5K to 45K
- 🇭🇺HU · Careers#35300 to 1.6K
- 🇨🇦Canada · Careers#195147 to 779
- 🇵🇭PH · Careers#96134 to 708
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
133K to 705K🎙 Weekly cadence·62 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
267K to 1.4M🇺🇸93%🇬🇷6% - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
147K to 775K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/26/26 |  “The Psych Ward Was the Best Place I'd Ever Been”: Emi Nietfeld on Hoarding, Harvard & Rewriting Her Story (Part 1) | “The psych ward was the best place I’ve ever been.” Not because it was good, but because home was worse. Emi Nietfeld grew up in Minneapolis in a house so full of her mother’s hoarding that the first rule was “don’t open the door” when the social worker came. Then her dad came out as trans. By 13, Emi was in a psych ward for the first time. On the way to Harvard she lived in a foster home, stayed on sofas and in a shelter, and slept in her car. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Emi sit... | 24m 20s | ||||||
| 10/19/26 |  How Eliza Reid Went From Laid Off to First Lady of Iceland | One night in 2016, Eliza Reid was cooking dinner for her four young kids when a stranger called the family landline and asked if her husband would consider running for president. Within 24 hours, a tsunami of messages followed. Eliza, a Canadian immigrant, Oxford graduate, and freelance writer, never planned to become the First Lady of Iceland. On this episode of The Messy Parts, Maryam sits down with Eliza, author of “The First Lady Next Door,” for a candid conversation about that unexpected... | 37m 26s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 |  "This Job Is Beneath Me" — How Being the Secretary for a Billionaire Launched a Global Career | Vote for The Messy Parts! We're nominated for Signal Awards in TWO categories. You can easily vote for us by clicking on the links below. Thank you! Individual Episode - Business: "'Who The Hell Do I Think I Am?' Melissa Ben-Ishay on Running Baked by Melissa While Doubting Herself" - VOTE NOW Shows - Conversation Starter: The Messy Parts - VOTE NOW "I was kicking and screaming, but I didn't have a choice." That's how Maha Abouelenein describes accepting a job as a billionaire's secretary, a r... | 36m 41s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  Rosebud Baker on Chasing Her Dreams: “It Gets Worse With More Success" | "If your goal is to feel completed by success, it's gonna get worse and worse the more successful you get." Comedian and former SNL writer Rosebud Baker joins Maryam for a conversation that goes everywhere — sobriety, motherhood after IVF and miscarriage, growing up the granddaughter of Secretary of State James Baker, and a surprise divorce announcement that even Maryam wasn't expecting. Rosebud talks candidly about learning to operate outside of chaos, what burnout actually feels like once y... | 40m 45s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  Jake Barton Designed the 9/11 Memorial. One Photo Still Makes Him Cry. | Jake Barton worked on the 9/11 Memorial Museum for 8 years. One photo still makes him cry: a young firefighter in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, headed toward the towers, in what turned out to be the last picture ever taken of him alive. Jake joins Maryam on the blue couch to talk about the radical choice at the heart of that museum: letting the people who ran out of the burning buildings speak for themselves instead of being spoken for. And about the messier parts of his own story — an outcast... | 42m 46s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 |  Aged Out, Broke, Homeless at 50: How Ron King Became “Donkey King” | He ran Southern Living and top Time Inc. titles with no college degree — then got fired, and calls it a gift. What followed was darker: broke, aged out of media at 50, and homeless. Ron King, now known as "Donkey King," rebuilt his life running a sanctuary that rescues donkeys from slaughter — 220 of them and counting. In this episode of The Messy Parts, Ron opens up to Maryam about hitting rock bottom twice, the hustle that built (and rebuilt) his career, and the simple mindset shift — "thin... | 38m 20s | ||||||
| 9/14/26 |  “The Value of Your Values" — Why Jeff Jones Quit Uber & Left Millions on the Table | Jeff Jones spent his career as one of the most respected CMOs in America — Coca-Cola, Gap, Target — before making the leap to run Uber's global ride-sharing business under founder Travis Kalanick. Seven months later, at the height of Uber's pre-IPO valuation, he walked away from it all: no job lined up, no stock, no plan. On this episode of The Messy Parts, Jeff sits down with Maryam on the blue couch for his first real interview about what actually happened inside Uber during one of its most... | 40m 01s | ||||||
| 9/7/26 | career developmentbusiness leadership+3 | Mindy Grossman | NikeHSN+1 | — | Mindy Grossmancareer+8 | — | 39m 57s | ||
| 8/31/26 | careerpersonal stories+4 | Mickey DrexlerSamantha Bee+6 | — | — | careerpublic relations+5 | — | 10m 00s | ||
| 8/24/26 | credit cardsentrepreneurship+4 | Brian Kelly | The Points Guy | — | credit cardfrequent flyer points+5 | — | 39m 37s | ||
| 8/17/26 | burnoutpodcast industry+3 | Laura Mayer | ABC NewsTryhard | — | burnoutwork culture+3 | — | 36m 09s | ||
| 8/10/26 | career advicemanagement training+3 | Samantha Bee | The Daily ShowFull Frontal | — | careermanagement+3 | — | 38m 25s | ||
| 8/3/26 | entrepreneurshippersonal struggles+4 | Julie Gaines | Fishs Eddy | New YorkBowery | Julie GainesFishs Eddy+6 | — | 41m 54s | ||
| 7/27/26 | basketballidentity+3 | Megan Griffith | ColumbiaColumbia women's basketball | SwedenFinland+2 | Megan GriffithColumbia basketball+3 | — | 40m 52s | ||
| 7/20/26 | founder identitymental health+3 | Blake Mycoskie | TOMS | — | Blake MycoskieTOMS+5 | — | 38m 03s | ||
| 7/13/26 | journalismimposter syndrome+3 | Susan Dominus | The New York Times MagazineYale | — | Susan Dominusimposter syndrome+3 | — | 42m 36s | ||
| 7/6/26 | forgivenessfear+4 | Gary Vaynerchuk | — | — | forgivenessfear+6 | — | 49m 16s | ||
| 6/29/26 | career changecelebrity chef+3 | Ayesha Nurdjaja | — | Brooklyn | Ayesha Nurdjajacelebrity chef+5 | — | 49m 54s | ||
| 6/22/26 | rejectionidentity+3 | Sari Botton | Substack | — | rejectionwriting+5 | — | 36m 35s | ||
| 6/15/26 | career developmentleadership+3 | Bonnie Hammer | NBCUniversalWWE | — | Bonnie HammerNBCUniversal+5 | — | 43m 43s | ||
| 6/8/26 | entrepreneurshipsocial media+3 | Rick McGuire | Subway CreaturesVH1+1 | — | Subway CreaturesRick McGuire+5 | — | 40m 09s | ||
| 6/1/26 | businessmarriage+3 | Kerry Docherty | Faherty | — | Fahertybusiness+5 | — | 39m 48s | ||
| 5/25/26 | dyslexiacancer+4 | Assia Grazioli-Venier | — | — | dyslexiacancer+5 | — | 42m 51s | ||
| 5/18/26 | radical honestyfamily dynamics+3 | Belle Burden | Strangers | — | radical honestyfamily+5 | — | 46m 33s | ||
| 5/11/26 | career changepersonal growth+3 | Bevy Smith | BravoAmazon Prime+2 | Central Harlem | career transitionBravo show+3 | — | 45m 30s | ||
| 5/4/26 | career advicefeminism+4 | Joanna Coles | CosmopolitanThe Daily Beast | — | careerfeminism+5 | — | 41m 08s | ||
| 5/2/26 | mental healthwellness+3 | David Ko | Calm | — | CalmDavid Ko+5 | — | 34m 22s | ||
| 4/27/26 | cancer diagnosislayoff+3 | Parul Somani | breast surgeon | — | cancerlayoff+4 | — | 37m 51s | ||
| 4/20/26 | identitycareer change+3 | C. Finley | — | — | Supreme Courtartist+3 | — | 40m 04s | ||
| 4/13/26 | career pivotsleadership+3 | Patrick Steel | PoliticoClinton White House+1 | — | CEObillion dollar sale+3 | — | 40m 05s | ||
| 4/6/26 | panic attacksbankruptcy+4 | Shelley Huff | WalmartSerta Simmons Bedding+1 | — | panic disorderbankruptcy+5 | — | 43m 23s | ||
| 3/30/26 | cultural trailblazerNew York City+4 | Kim Hastreiter | Paper MagazineSoho Weekly News | — | Kim HastreiterPaper Magazine+4 | — | 39m 03s | ||
| 3/23/26 | career journeycultural identity+5 | Susie Banikarim | — | — | high-powered careermessy moments+5 | — | 52m 12s | ||
| 3/16/26 | burnoutidentity loss+4 | Katrina Markoff | chocolate empire | — | Katrina Markoffburnout+5 | — | 33m 41s | ||
| 3/9/26 | startup successimposter syndrome+3 | Melissa Ben-Ishay | Baked by Melissa | — | Baked by MelissaMelissa Ben-Ishay+5 | — | 40m 49s | ||
| 3/2/26 | forgivenessfear+4 | Gary Vaynerchuk | — | — | forgivenessfear+6 | — | 49m 16s | ||
| 2/23/26 | fashion industryentrepreneurship+4 | Sojin Lee | Net-a-Porter | — | fashionstartups+5 | — | 50m 09s | ||
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Chart history for The Messy Parts
Peaked at #2 in GR, top 10 in 1 of 12 tracked markets, currently #2 in GR.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| GR | — | #28 | #28 | — |
| United States | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| HU | — | #35 | #35 | — |
| Ireland | — | #90 | #90 | — |
| South Africa | — | #92 | #92 | — |
| PH | — | #96 | #96 | — |
| CZ | — | #99 | #99 | — |
| Norway | — | #107 | #107 | — |
| HK | — | #164 | #164 | — |
| SA | — | #178 | #178 | — |
| Canada | — | #195 | #195 | — |
Chart Positions
12 placements across 11 markets.
Chart Positions
12 placements across 11 markets.