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Pls Fix Thx18: We Don't Have Any!We're all out! We don't have any. We're backed up. It seems like no matter what you're looking for these days, there's a massive shortage. The supply chain is broken and shipments aren't getting in. Need food? We're out of ketchup, Chic-Fil-A sauce, and chicken wings. Need shelter? We're out of housing and even wood. Thinking about sleeping in your car instead? We can't make more of those because we don't have computer chips. Amidst all this we bet you didn't even notice we're running low on other random things like paper bags, chlorine, and tennis balls. In this...2021-10-0722 min
Pls Fix Thx17: Is It Ok To Step Outside?We’re back for Season 3 with more hard-hitting, thought provoking observations than ever before. In episode 1, we take on travel, discuss common mask-wearing techniques, and talk about our latest adventures. Raj goes broke traveling through Ohio, United Airlines still sucks, and the CDC...doesn’t? Join us as we try to make sense of traveling in the post-but-not-really-post-pandemic era.We’re changing up our format, shortening our episodes and condensing our takes. If you have feedback for us, hit us up on instagram: @pleasefixthx, twitter: @pleasefixthxpod, linkedin, or by emailing us at hosts@pleasefixthx.com. Rate, subscribe, and le...2021-09-2819 min
Pls Fix Thx16: The @mitraNYC Special (Pt. III) - Fixing Career Anxiety & More Hot Takes 🔥In our final installment of the Mitra NYC special, and our Season 2 finale, Anish shares his journey for figuring out what he wanted to do with his career and his life. He talks about his experience with the Hoffman Process and how it helped him pursue his passions. He’s got great career advice especially if you know what you’re doing now isn’t your dream job. We also banter about consulting vs banking and Anish recounts the story of how he got to fly on a private jet.
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Pls Fix Thx15: The @mitraNYC Special (Pt. II) - Being Brown in Corporate AmericaPart 2 of our conversation with Anish is an honest, real talk about race and our experiences as Indians in corporate America. Anish talks about growing up brown, going to Brown, and working with other brown people. We trade stories about navigating predominantly white universities and industries, while navigating predominantly brown family expectations and norms.
Share how you felt about the discussion and let us know if you’d like to hear more stuff like this or have ideas for future topics. Follow Anish @mitraNYC on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, and check out IPO and Chill. Reach out to...2021-04-2833 min
Pls Fix Thx14: The @mitraNYC Special (Pt. I) - Content Creation and Spicy TakesPlease Fix Thx is excited to welcome Anish K. “@mitranyc” Mitra to the show for what will be our second three-part series! Anish is a full-time content creator, bastion of the finance (pronounced fih-NANCE) meme ecosystem, and former VP at Goldman Sachs, and he sits down to talk about a wide range of topics. In part 1, we talk about his background, the banking industry, and what’s coming up in the MitraNYC content universe. Anish talks about his inspiration for @mitranyc, his characters, and why he got into the finance content game. If you’re interested in hearing raw honest i...2021-04-2755 min
Pls Fix Thx13: Switching Career Paths - Please Fix ThxBecome a Please Fix Thx listener today! Ideal candidates will have relevant podcast listening experience, a high degree of intellectual curiosity, a growth mindset, high levels of motivation to engage with content, and a willingness to have fun!
Just kidding! If you made it this far somehow without your eyes glazing over, we’re talking about the job application process (including confusing job descriptions like the one above), and how to successfully change career paths. We bring on our friend Samantha “Sam-yonce” Luu, a full-time talent acquisition specialist, to give us a recruiter’s perspective on the job appl...2021-04-0553 minPls Fix Thx12: The MBA - Please Fix Thx (Part 3)Whether it’s Star Wars, The Godfather, or our MBA series, we at Please Fix Thx love a good trilogy! To wrap up this series, we bring in our friend and colleague CJ John to talk about why he chose to not get an MBA and what he’s doing instead. CJ brings a different perspective than our first two guests, going into detail about how he began the application process for grad school before coming to the decision that it wasn’t right for him. We discuss when it is worth getting an MBA, and CJ shares his advice...2021-03-1629 minPls Fix Thx11: The MBA - Please Fix Thx (Part 2)We’re back for part 2 of our MBA discussion! If you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, we highly recommend you take the time to do so first. This time, we’re talking to Saam Alikhani, a recent MBA graduate from Stanford who works in the real estate industry in New York. He shares why he wanted to get an MBA after law school, how it helped him get to where he is today, and advice he has for those of us looking to get an MBA in the near future.
This was our first two-part episode and se...2021-02-1936 minPls Fix Thx10: The MBA - Please Fix Thx (Part 1)Getting an MBA is often seen as a necessary step to a successful career. If you’re in a field like consulting or finance, you might be thinking of getting an MBA yourself or at least know people who are. But with the rising cost of an MBA, we’ve been thinking, is it still worth taking two years off to get one?
In our first of a two-part series, we talk to our friend Jack Kerschner, a current MBA student at University of Notre Dame, about his motivations for getting an MBA and what school during a pa...2021-02-1242 minPls Fix Thx9: Streaming Wars - Please Fix ThxWe’re kicking off season 2 talking about streaming wars. Remember the quaint days of Netflix and chill? Now we got a dozen different platforms with more content than we could ever need, we’re paying as much as we ever were, and we’re so worked up about it we can’t even chill like we used to. We need to talk.
We’re taking on subscription fatigue, the proliferation of streaming services, discussing why cable is not good enough anymore and telling you how as a society, we can fix this. Take a listen and let us know wh...2021-01-2938 minPls Fix ThxOut of Scope: Season 2 Kickoff!We’re back! Season 2 of Please Fix Thx is officially right around the corner, and we couldn’t be more excited! Like everything else in 2021, this promises to be better than the previous edition, so don’t miss out. In this Out of Scope episode, we talk about what we have and haven’t been up to over the holidays and reveal some season 2 topics. If you’re curious about what we’re fixing this time around, be sure to listen to this sneak preview.
If you haven’t listened to all of our Season 1 episodes, binge them before se...2021-01-2023 minPls Fix ThxEp. 8: Interviews - Please Fix ThxIn our season #1 finale, we’re coming after job interviews and the corporate recruiting process. You know, those things that you stay up all night stressing out about when you’re looking for a job? Companies are bad at evaluating talent, it turns out. Interviews are really ineffective and biased. Case interviews are even worse, and we’d like to see them go away completely. And why do we need AI in our interview process?! If you’ve ever been discouraged while job hunting or interviewing, we hope you’ll relate, and if you are in charge of a company’s...2020-12-0644 minPls Fix ThxMiniseries: Out of Scope #2Out of scope work always happens to find you right as you think you’re about to finish a project doesn’t it? Please Fix Thx isn’t immune to it either, but we try to have fun with it here. We’ll wrap up season 1 next week, but until then, please enjoy the second installment of our miniseries where we go rapid fire about a number of topics that don’t deserve a whole episode.
If you’ve ever wondered what a conversation between your favorite podcast hosts sounds like when the mics aren’t on, this episode i...2020-11-2028 minPls Fix ThxEp. 7: Advertising - Please Fix ThxWe took a two-week break between episodes but at least it wasn’t a two-week commercial break, right? Back to your regularly scheduled programming! We’re here to talk about advertising - why we’re sick of it, why there’s too much of it, and why it’s ruining our lives. We’re sick of freemium models, surreptitious data collection, and unethical, harmful, profit-driven marketing. We think you probably are too. So quit scrolling through your feed, taking your buzzfeed quizzes, and reading that sponsored content and listen to our latest ad-free episode of Please Fix Thx!
2020-11-1243 minPls Fix ThxEp. 6: Imposter Syndrome - Please Fix ThxWe’re probably not the most qualified people to talk about Imposter Syndrome, but we did it anyway. This episode is a bit more serious and personal than some of the previous ones that we’ve done, but we feel a lot better after having done it. And we hope you feel better after listening to it! We break down what imposter syndrome is, what all feelings are associated with it, and some tricks to help cope with this.
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https://www.nytimes.com/guid...2020-10-2843 minPls Fix ThxEp. 5: Paid Time Off - Please Fix ThxWe took a break last week, but we’re back...to talk about how we could all use another break. This week, we’re breaking down paid time off (or PTO) and how we neither get nor use enough of it. Americans are taking less time off than we were back in the 80s and our mental health is worse for it. We challenge the workplace stigmas surrounding PTO, talk about why unlimited vacation is a scam and discuss the occupational phenomenon that is burnout. Finally, we offer some helpful solutions to help us all take more time off work...2020-10-2232 minPls Fix ThxMiniseries: Out of Scope #1Welcome to the first episode of our new miniseries “Out of Scope”. We’re so used to doing out-of-scope work in our professional lives that we had to bring it to our podcast too! This miniseries is where we’ll talk about a smattering of current topics that wouldn’t be worth a whole episode by itself. In this episode, we discuss COVID life, Zoom calls, the next Mission Impossible movie and more.
Let us know what you think by emailing us at hosts@pleasefixthx.com or messaging us on LinkedIn or Instagram. If you have ideas for...2020-10-0933 minPls Fix ThxEp. 4: Side Hustles and Startup Culture - Please Fix ThxIf you aren’t hustling are you really living? The answer is yes. This week, we’re here to tell you we don’t have side hustles and it’s totally cool if you don’t either. We break down some of the biggest myths swirling around side hustles and the gig economy. Also, we bring in our first ever guest - Ayushi Patel, the co-founder and CEO of healthcare startup CenSyn to discuss her experience as a startup co-founder and help explain what the lifestyle and culture is really like. If you’ve come across some ridiculous hustles or been appr...2020-10-0140 minPls Fix ThxEp. 3: Get-Rich-Quick Schemes - Please Fix ThxHappy Tuesday! Do you want to unlock your ability to influence people? What if we told you we could offer you the secret to making truckloads of money in your spare time? Don’t you want to be in the best shape of your life? We don’t. And frankly, we wish people would stop asking us.
In our third episode, we’re talking about some of the schemes and scams that are everywhere around us. We’ll break down a few of the most popular types of “Get-Rich-Quick Schemes” and other scams that similarly prey on our insec...2020-09-2230 minPls Fix ThxEp. 2: Certifications - Please Fix ThxWelcome back! In our second episode, we discuss the rise and ubiquity of professional certifications. Maybe you’ve felt this way, but it seems like every time we look, there’s another certification we need to get to remain competitive in our field. On a related note, we’re also seeing a burgeoning cottage industry of meaningless certification courses that promise to make us more marketable or hirable (for a “small” fee of course!). If you’ve ever wondered what’s up with that, join us as we talk about how we got here, the scams we’re seeing and potential so...2020-09-1534 minPls Fix ThxEp. 1: LinkedIn - Please Fix ThxTo kick off Season 1, we’re talking about LinkedIn, the platform dedicated to connecting the world’s professionals. Well, we’re a couple of professionals who aren’t having a whole lot of fun being so connected and this week, we’ll tell you why. We share our experiences with the platform, why we feel like it’s been bad for our mental health, break down problematic user archetypes, and discuss ideas for how we can make the platform better. We hope you can relate.
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