OOO by Bridges

We're going out of office for the summer! Bella wraps up the season with an honest check-in on where she's at with work and life, plus the ambitious summer work she has planned. Think: auditing your finances, cleaning out your closet, getting your life together in the ways that actually matter.  She’ll cover everything you need to know about what's coming next for Bridges, including up...

Confidence isn't loud…it's strategic. In the second Unspoken Rules episode, Bella breaks down why confidence is the most underrated form of currency in corporate America.  She shares why most women were never taught how to use it and how you can build up your confidence starting today.  Fresh off one of the most intense work trips of her career she reflects on everything she learned from:...

If AI has you feeling behind, overwhelmed, or like everyone else already figured it out — this episode is for you. Bella sits down with Alyson Paine, Director of Microsoft 365 Consumer Apps & Services Marketing at Microsoft, for an honest conversation about what it actually feels like to lead through the AI era in real time. After more than a decade at Microsoft building teams from the ground...

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Sasha Leatherbarrow has seen your resume. She's also seen the thing that got it passed over before anyone finished reading it. As Director of Global Talent at Bansk Beauty - the PE firm behind amika, BYOMA, Ethique, and Eva NYC — Sasha has built her career on knowing exactly what separates candidates who get the call from the ones who don't. On this episode of Out of Office, she and Bella...

Bella Malvini goes solo for a full Ask Me Anything (AMA) episode. No guest, no filter, and no topics are off limits. She shares how she ​​builds confidence from the inside out, manages her time across multiple jobs, all while still making time to learn Greek at 5 AM! This episode goes into what it actually takes to run a social club, hold down a full-time tech job, and build a podcast from scratch...

Stephanie Doiron did not take the clean, linear path to SVP — and honestly, that’s exactly why this is interesting. She started as a seasonal employee at Old Navy, made her way through Parsons School of Design, grinded through 100-hour weeks at Saks Fifth Avenue, and eventually landed at Clare V.. After nearly a decade of building Clare V.’s digital and tech function from the ground up, she’s now...

Your career doesn't move forward because you work harder, it moves forward because you position yourself differently.  Bella Malvini, Founder of Bridges Social Club, walks through her full career journey: from getting rejected to applying to 375 jobs before landing a role.  She spills the advice that landed her a job at one of the most successful tech companies in the world, and why being told...

Financial advice was never designed with women in mind, and Karen Tom is here to fix that.  Bella sits down with financial advisor Karen (SIE, Series 6, Series 7, Series 63, CFP candidate) to break down what personal finance actually looks like for ambitious women.  They explore the realities of thriving in high cost-of-living cities, especially when your income is variable, your rent just doubled...

Bella Malvini shares the awful networking event that sparked a movement, and changed her life forever.  We’re taking it back all the way to the unexpected inception of Bridges Social Club.  You’ll learn how a single TikTok video (~70K views) generated 1,000 applications in one day, and the real reason most professional networking events fail women.  Bella will detail exactly what she’s learned abo...

You don’t need to fit into SF culture to win here, you need to design your own lane. Bella is joined by SF’s very own Carrie Bradshaw. Su Yardimci, the photographer, writer, and SF-based creator behind @andeverything__nice sits down on OOO for her very first voice reveal.  What started as a childhood obsession with San Francisco has turned into one of the city's most trusted local voices. Su opens...

Nobody hands you a playbook when you enter corporate America — but they do hand you a benefits package that quietly shapes your entire financial life. And most people never fully understand it. For her first solo episode, Bella Malvini — Founder of Bridges Social Club — introduces Unspoken Rules: a series built on the conversations we should have had earlier, but didn’t. This episode is about the...

You know that feeling when you leave a conversation and think, Why didn’t anyone tell me this sooner? That’s Out of Office. Hosted by Bella Malvini, Founder of San Francisco’s Bridges Social Club, this isn’t your typical career podcast. There are no LinkedIn buzzwords, no polished soundbites, and no one pretending the path was linear. Instead, this show is about what it actually takes to build a c...