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- 🇺🇸US · Careers#7730K to 100K
- 🇸🇪SE · Careers#20100K to 300K
- 🇫🇷FR · Careers#9510K to 30K
- 🇳🇿NZ · Careers#513K to 10K
- 🇬🇷GR · Careers#733K to 10K
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77K to 240K🎙 ~2x weekly·41 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
154K to 479K🇸🇪63%🇺🇸21%🇫🇷6%+7 more - Active Followers
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61K to 192K
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She Kept Hearing "No." At 60, Sari Botton Finally Found Her Audience.
Jun 22, 2026
36m 35s
Bonnie Hammer Gave Her Boss the Finger. It Changed Her Career.
Jun 15, 2026
43m 43s
Ed Sheeran, Pizza Rat & Getting Hacked: Rick McGuire on Running Subway Creatures and Loving New York
Jun 8, 2026
40m 09s
"I Don't Know How to Balance All of This": Faherty Co-Founder Kerry Docherty on Business, Marriage, and Choosing Yourself
Jun 1, 2026
39m 48s
She Was Called “Dumb.” Now Assia Grazioli-Venier Invests Millions in Women’s Health.
May 25, 2026
42m 51s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/22/26 | She Kept Hearing "No." At 60, Sari Botton Finally Found Her Audience. | "No just means not right now." That's the philosophy that kept writer and Oldster founder Sari Botton going through decades of rejection before building one of Substack's most beloved magazines — at age 60. In this episode of The Messy Parts, Sari gets honest with Maryam about the messy middle: the identity searching, the failed attempts, the mean girls that never quite went away, and the moment she finally stopped contorting herself to fit someone else's story. She also shares the writing st... | 36m 35s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | Bonnie Hammer Gave Her Boss the Finger. It Changed Her Career. | Bonnie Hammer ran 10 networks and two studios at NBCUniversal — but her career didn't start in a corner office. It started cleaning up dog poop on a kids' TV set. In this episode of The Messy Parts, Bonnie gets radically honest with Maryam about the moments that actually shaped her career: being passed over for the top job at NBC, negotiating her way into her own studio, saying yes to WWE when every instinct said no, and building one of the most collaborative cultures in a notoriously cutthro... | 43m 43s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | Ed Sheeran, Pizza Rat & Getting Hacked: Rick McGuire on Running Subway Creatures and Loving New York✨ | entrepreneurshipsocial media+3 | Rick McGuire | Subway CreaturesVH1+1 | — | Subway CreaturesRick McGuire+5 | — | 40m 09s | |
| 6/1/26 | "I Don't Know How to Balance All of This": Faherty Co-Founder Kerry Docherty on Business, Marriage, and Choosing Yourself✨ | businessmarriage+3 | Kerry Docherty | Faherty | — | Fahertybusiness+5 | — | 39m 48s | |
| 5/25/26 | She Was Called “Dumb.” Now Assia Grazioli-Venier Invests Millions in Women’s Health.✨ | dyslexiacancer+4 | Assia Grazioli-Venier | — | — | dyslexiacancer+5 | — | 42m 51s | |
| 5/18/26 | Her Mother and Grandmother Said Nothing. Belle Burden Broke the Silence.✨ | radical honestyfamily dynamics+3 | Belle Burden | Strangers | — | radical honestyfamily+5 | — | 46m 33s | |
| 5/11/26 | Bevy Smith Climbed the Ladder, Looked Around — and Jumped Off✨ | career changepersonal growth+3 | Bevy Smith | BravoAmazon Prime+2 | Central Harlem | career transitionBravo show+3 | — | 45m 30s | |
| 5/4/26 | Joanna Coles: The Career Advice Feminism Never Gave You✨ | career advicefeminism+4 | Joanna Coles | CosmopolitanThe Daily Beast | — | careerfeminism+5 | — | 41m 08s | |
| 5/2/26 |  Rapid Response: The "Most Stressed" Wellness CEO, with Calm's David Ko✨ | mental healthwellness+3 | David Ko | Calm | — | CalmDavid Ko+5 | — | 34m 22s | |
| 4/27/26 | Parul Somani Was Holding Her Newborn When the Doctor Called with a Cancer Diagnosis. Then Came the Layoff.✨ | cancer diagnosislayoff+3 | Parul Somani | breast surgeon | — | cancerlayoff+4 | — | 37m 51s | |
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| 4/20/26 | She Wanted to Be a Supreme Court Justice. Until One Class Changed Everything.✨ | identitycareer change+3 | C. Finley | — | — | Supreme Courtartist+3 | — | 40m 04s | |
| 4/13/26 | From Fax Boy to CEO to Billion Dollar Sale: Patrick Steel Was Terrified (But Showed Up Anyway)✨ | career pivotsleadership+3 | Patrick Steel | PoliticoClinton White House+1 | — | CEObillion dollar sale+3 | — | 40m 05s | |
| 4/6/26 | “Flooded with the Feeling of Sudden Death” Shelley Huff on Panic Attacks, Bankruptcy, Getting Fired, and Life After the Title✨ | panic attacksbankruptcy+4 | Shelley Huff | WalmartSerta Simmons Bedding+1 | — | panic disorderbankruptcy+5 | — | 43m 23s | |
| 3/30/26 | Paper Magazine’s Kim Hastreiter Wasn’t Satisfied. So She Built Her Own Amazing World.✨ | cultural trailblazerNew York City+4 | Kim Hastreiter | Paper MagazineSoho Weekly News | — | Kim HastreiterPaper Magazine+4 | — | 39m 03s | |
| 3/23/26 | “Why Can’t Mom Sit Still?” Maryam Banikarim on Why Busy Is Her Drug & the Messy Parts Are the Point✨ | career journeycultural identity+5 | Susie Banikarim | — | — | high-powered careermessy moments+5 | — | 52m 12s | |
| 3/16/26 | Fired from My Own Company — By My Husband: Chocolatier Katrina Markoff on Trusting Yourself and Making Bold Decisions✨ | burnoutidentity loss+4 | Katrina Markoff | chocolate empire | — | Katrina Markoffburnout+5 | — | 33m 41s | |
| 3/9/26 | “Who the Hell Do I Think I Am?”: Melissa Ben-Ishay on Running Baked by Melissa While Doubting Herself✨ | startup successimposter syndrome+3 | Melissa Ben-Ishay | Baked by Melissa | — | Baked by MelissaMelissa Ben-Ishay+5 | — | 40m 49s | |
| 3/2/26 | Fully Clogged: Gary Vee on Forgiveness, Living Fearlessly, and the Reality of AI✨ | forgivenessfear+4 | Gary Vaynerchuk | — | — | forgivenessfear+6 | — | 49m 16s | |
| 2/23/26 | Driven by Love and Addicted to “What’s Next”: Fashion Insider Sojin Lee✨ | fashion industryentrepreneurship+4 | Sojin Lee | Net-a-Porter | — | fashionstartups+5 | — | 50m 09s | |
| 2/16/26 | The Man Who Dressed America: Fashion Legend Mickey Drexler | Mickey Drexler built the Gap into a $15 billion empire, created Old Navy, helped redefine J.Crew, and shaped American retail culture. And then? He was fired. No warning. No thank you. Just a card, a sentence, and a door. In this episode of The Messy Parts, Maryam sits down with Mickey to talk about what actually happens when you do everything “right” and still get pushed out. They go deep on instinct vs. pedigree, why big companies break good people, how to recover from a public exit, and the... | 33m 53s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | From Fired to Fashion Powerhouse: Jeweler Marla Aaron | At what point does a side hustle stop being a hobby? On this episode of The Messy Parts, Marla Aaron tells Maryam the exact moment she realized she could no longer hedge her ambition. What began as a creative outlet eventually became a full-fledged business, but not without years of doubt, rejection, and financial anxiety. In this episode, Marla and Maryam explore the tension between security and risk, why waiting to feel “ready” is a trap, and how fear can coexist with clarity. They also tal... | 41m 36s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | Becoming the CEO of Me: Communications Icon Sally Susman | Is it possible to be successful, exhausted, uncertain, and stuck — all at the same time? In this episode of The Messy Parts, former Pfizer communications chief Sally Susman joins Maryam on the blue couch to get real about fear, ambition, burnout, and what it really takes to grow. From being told she’d never have a career after coming out, to leading Pfizer during COVID, to leaving corporate life behind, Sally shares the messy, human moments that shaped her leadership. She talks about the risk... | 48m 25s | ||||||
| 12/22/25 | The Best of The Messy Parts: Humor, Resilience & Rewriting the Rules | This week, we are looking back at some of the most powerful, hilarious, and vulnerable moments from The Messy Parts. We created this episode with Hark Audio, gathering the standout clips that define what this show is all about: embracing the chaos and finding strength in the struggle. Whether you are new to the podcast or a day-one listener, this compilation features the wisdom you need right now. We revisit these conversations and more: Negin Farsad on finding the humor in social justice and... | 43m 14s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | Katie Sturino on Building Megababe, Owning the Mess, and Dreaming Big (Re-Release) | We're going back to our first episode: Katie Sturino is no stranger to reinvention—from fashion PR hustler to viral dog-momager to founder of Megababe and author of the new romcom Sunny Side Up. In the premiere episode of The Messy Parts, she joins Maryam to talk about building a self-funded brand, the real struggles behind the Instagram gloss, and how letting the "messy parts hang out" can be your superpower. They talk all things Ozempic, Oprah, body image, revenge-fueled motivation, and wor... | 45m 33s | ||||||
| 12/8/25 | Ana Gasteyer Gets Real About Wicked, SNL, and the Hustle of Showbiz (Re-Release) | What does it really take to build a career across Saturday Night Live, Broadway’s Wicked, network TV, and music? In this re-release of one of our favorite episodes of The Messy Parts, Ana Gasteyer joins Maryam Banikarim to reveal the messy, unglamorous parts of showbusiness — like rejection, insecurity, and feeling like an outsider. Ana turned those realities into fuel for her creativity, and tells Maryam about the power of radical preparedness in auditions, why naming her goals out loud shif... | 45m 21s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
10 placements across 10 markets.
Chart Positions
10 placements across 10 markets.