By now, you may have listened to Monday’s episode and heard the news that it’s our last. This is also the last newsletter I’ll be sending.

In that episode, Amy B, Amanda Kersey, Maureen Hoch (the editor of HBR.org who came up with the idea for the show back in 2018!), and I talk about why the podcast is ending, how it started, how we’re feeling, and what the experience of working on this show has meant to us. In short, it has been one of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on, and it’s emotional to see it come to a close.

You all have generously responded to my many requests to contribute to the podcast. You’ve shared your stories with vulnerability and grace. You’ve shown me and the team love and appreciation and haven’t been afraid to tell us when we got something wrong. It’s been a joy to read your beautiful (and sometimes heart-wrenching) letters about what you were going through at work and in life and what you most needed help and guidance with.

This newsletter, like the show, has always been about transparency and connection—naming workplace challenges, sharing hard-earned wisdom, and learning from one another. Our founding cohost Nicole Torres started writing this newsletter during the show’s second season. Then our fearless producer Amanda took the reins for five years and introduced a few special series to the newsletter, including one of my favorites, “How’d You Get That Raise?” which featured stories of women who successfully negotiated a better salary for themselves or others. She passed the baton to me last year. 

One of our goals has always been to make sure every listener realizes that she’s not alone. Work can be dehumanizing, overly “professional,” and dismissive of emotions. I hope we can all continue to recognize the humanity in one another at work.

While the end is sad, the good news is that the show will live on in our archive, which will stay live in podcast feeds indefinitely. More on that and other HBR resources to support you and your career below. 

Episodes That Changed Me

As we’ve been preparing to wind down the show, I’ve been listening back to older episodes. I’ve learned something from every single one, truly, whether it’s an insight from an expert guest, a personal story from a listener, or a perceptive comment from one of my dear cohosts. 

I wanted to share five episodes that have profoundly shifted my thinking:

Sisterhood Is Power (2018). This conversation with Tina Opie and Verónica Rabelo challenged me to think differently about how I build relationships with women colleagues, especially those whose experiences differ from mine. Their insights on workplace sisterhood made clear that genuine connection requires moving beyond surface-level solidarity to truly understanding each other’s unique challenges, and that this deeper work, while sometimes uncomfortable, creates the foundation for real allyship and collective progress.

There’s More to Gender Than “Man” and “Woman” (2019). This was my first solo interview as a cohost on the show, with Lily Zheng. Lily became one of our regular guests and someone we consistently turned to for clear-eyed advice. They fundamentally shifted how I think about gender in the workplace—not just as something that affects trans and nonbinary colleagues, but as a system that constrains all of us. Their research on how expanding our understanding of gender gives everyone more freedom to show up authentically was genuinely eye-opening for me.

If We Want Equity, Work Needs to Be Less Greedy (2021). Economist Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize–winning research helped me understand why the gender pay gap isn’t just about overt discrimination—it’s baked into how we structure work itself, with those long, unpredictable hours that make it nearly impossible for both partners to advance their careers. What struck me most was how she showed that the gap emerges around 10 years post-graduation, when family responsibilities kick in, and her examples of industries that restructured work to create more equity gave me hope that real change is possible. 

Respect for Any Body Size (2022). This episode opened my eyes to the true extent of weight bias in workplaces; I knew it existed, but I was shocked by Grace Lemmon’s and Habibah Williams’s research showing the significant economic penalties women face, including substantial pay gaps. Their practical advice on creating more inclusive body cultures at work gave me concrete ways to be a better ally and colleague, and honestly made me examine my own unconscious biases too.

What to Share, What to Hold Back (2025). This episode was particularly meaningful because it allowed us to honor the late Kathy Phillips’s groundbreaking work on self-disclosure while exploring how much the workplace conversation around authenticity has evolved since she came on the show in 2018. Kathy’s longtime collaborators Tracy Dumas and Nancy Rothbard helped us understand that the risks and benefits of sharing personal details at work aren’t the same for everyone, and reflecting on our own experiences made me realize how much more intentional I’ve become about when and how I choose to be vulnerable with colleagues.

I’m including pictures from the past seven years so you can see some of the faces behind the show. 

From left: The late Kathy Phillips; cohosts Amy Bernstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, and Nicole Torres; and producer Amanda Kersey at our first live event in NYC in 2018. Photo by Matthew Septimus.

Maureen Hoch, editor of HBR.org, introducing our live show with Linda Hill at HBS’s Klarman Hall in 2019. Photo by Elie Honein.

Emily at our September 2022 live event at HBS’s Klarman Hall. Photo by Andy Robinson.

Associate producer Hannah Bates and Maureen at the 2023 Women Impact Tech event in Boston. Photo by Amanda Kersey.

Amy B, me, Nicole, and Amanda in our studio (aka “our safe space”) in 2019. Photo by Scott LaPierre.

Our former cohost Emily Caufield and our audio editor Tina Tobey Mack at Beaver Brook Reservation in Waltham, MA, in 2020. Photo by Amanda Kersey.

Host reunion in December 2022: all six cohosts and our producer! From left: Amy B, Sarah, Nicole (on screen), Amanda, Emily, and me. Photo by Andy Robinson.

Hannah interviewing our three guests for the “Should I Change My Last Name?” episode in 2023. Photo by Amanda Kersey.

The Women at Work team at Harvard Business Publishing’s 2023 holiday party. From left: Hannah, Maureen, Amanda, senior editor Erica Truxler, me, Amy B, and Tina.

Me and Amy B at our Women at Work Live virtual event in 2024. Photo by Elie Honein.

We still want to be a resource to you. Here are some ways we can continue to support you and your career: 

I’d love to stay in touch with as many of you as possible, so please connect with me on LinkedIn and check out my personal newsletter about how to have healthy conflict and positive, low-stress professional relationships.

A big, heartfelt thank you to the team that has worked tirelessly on this newsletter. Nicole and Amanda, who wrote and rewrote drafts to be sure they were what our readers needed. Erica Truxler and Holly Bauer, who have poured hours into editing those drafts to make each one as engaging as possible (and fixing every stray comma and apostrophe along the way). Kelsey Hansen, Cara Vaccaro, and Milo Goodman, who took our Google docs and magically turned them into emails that reached your inboxes.

And thank you to all of you, readers. We appreciate you listening, writing, and being part of Women at Work. We’re leaving with full hearts—and deep gratitude for your trust, your time, and your voices.

Amy G