The Gossip Office

This week we are talking to Marianne, a life and business coach. For more than 10 years, Marianne has coached her clients to find their direction in life. She knows all about how to arrive at your dream life, and how to set accurate goals that will get you there. In this episode, we express our doubts and our insecurities when it comes to thinking about the future, and what we want it to look like...

Goals, goals, goals... Today we're talking goals with a newly found friend of ours, who happens to be really good at setting ambitious goals and working towards them. 10 years ago she said she was going to be on the front page of Sweden's largest business magazine and now she's aiming to become fully financially free by 35. Wendela Spelmans is a business woman, former tech startup empl...

With the amount of thinking and talking about our lifes that we do (and that we expose you to...) it is easy to believe that we have a clear multi-year plan and concrete goals to get to whatever destination it is we have in mind. And yet... goal setting is not something that comes natural to us. Corporate goals, however? Easy! Hit us with those kpi's and we'll run with them. In this new th...

We are wrapping up this theme by sharing some very personal stuff. What major life decisions did we already do? Why did we make them? And what do we think they have led us to? We're talking childhood, health, relationships and why we think we ended up where we are right now. Join in. Contact us on: amanda@famacommunications.com roos@famacommunications.com Follow us on @the_gossip_office on Tik...

In the third episode of our theme on how our background influences our life choices we invited Fatima Essaidi. Fatima is the author of the book "we are the children of immigrants" in which she, together with her 22 co-authors, shares her story about growing up between two cultures. She shares the story of her own parents with us, as well as patterns and behaviors she recognizes in herself that hav...

We continue to explore how our upbringing influence our life choices and career paths. Today we have a super interesting guest to talk about how educational choices start already in preschool. Tove Klaesson is doing her PhD on the topic of educational inequalities and the role of preschool. We talk about segregation and how that affects how children grow up to see the world and the possibilities....

After (a very long) summer vacation with episodes being a little all over the place, we are back with our theme based episodes! We're kicking it of on the topic of how your upbringing and background affect your life choices. As we have been very active in advocating for women in STEM, we have looked at our field, and what brings people there/keeps them out through a rather gender coloured lens. In...

Roos is back from the monastery and we (Amanda and you) of course have a lot of questions. Why did she go back after 10 years? Was it as she had expected it to be? Do you have to be spiritual to do such a thing? We also talk about spirituality in our own lives and how it has played an important role in form of religion growing up. Tag along! Here is the monastery if you want to look into it: https...

Apparently we're not completely real adults just yet, because neither of us ever attended any friends' weddings... But, we have experienced the wedding hype online! How can everyone afford to get married and attend so many bachelorette parties in their 20s? Why does it seem like everyone is having the exact same wedding? And what do we even get to say about this topic? Follow us on Instagram and T...

Last week we touched upon our weekend together with our new friends during which we workshopped around how we want our life to look in the future. But how do you actually get to that future? However cliche, working towards a different type of life starts with making small changes to your day-to-day. In this episode, Amanda and Roos discuss what habits they want to include in their daily life, and...

And we're back (sorry for the unannounced break)! In this summer episode we recap our thoughtful weekend with some new friends. We then go into how we all seek support from different people in our lives regarding different manners. Why is it so important to have different people of different "purposes"? Tag along and please share your own thoughts on the topic! Follow us @the_gossip_office on TikT...

In the middle of life crisis and asking yourself why you're doing what you're doing we've come to realise that your childhood friends will always have the "real" view of who you are. They never saw you as a corporate worker or that you working in an office was a given, so why should you? For this summer episode we go a bit deep into how we're thankful for these relationships in different ways. Hop...

The poem The essay The song This week we are opening up about some more personal matters. Amanda shares about how she has struggled to work with something where she has not felt interested in the skills she was learning, nor in the industries she worked in. She asks the question how do you choose your job? Do you choose it based on what it teaches you, or the industry you're in? For her, neither o...

We conclude the theme of AI with live updates from Almedalen, where our dear friend Mattias Akke (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattias-akke-40a83219a/?locale=en) spent a lot of time talking AI with decision makers. How are they adopting to AI? And most importantly, how will they make sure that their organisation, and the society, benefits from the AI development? Tag along! Amanda also stresses out...

... It's just a hypothetical question, chill out! No but seriously, in this episode we try to dive into a subject we're very new to - finance. We've both gotten information from different sources and we're trying to gather our thoughts about how the rapid tech development, and the distribution of wealth that it leads to, affects the world. Next week we'll get a glimpse from Almedalen and how AI an...

In this episode we invite Paulina Modlitba, AI expert, lecturer and author, to share her thoughts and takes on AI in the workplace. We ask her if it necessary to keep up to date about everything and anything that happens inside the AI bubbel, how to best adjust to all the changes, and how to use AI in a positive way in your own work life. If you want to hear more from Paulina make sure to subscrib...

If you're not running 50+ AI agents, vibe coding your way through the workday AND building the next unicorn app on the side - what are you even doing with your life? Oh, and you should probably be the one implementing the AI that replaces you as well. In this episode, which marks the start of a new theme, we "pop the AI bubble" and ask the real questions: who's actually using this stuff, which job...

Almost exactly one year of our podcast anniversary, and therefore also our anniversary of getting dumped, we are dumping... EACH OTHER!? In today's episode we're going back to basics, and you can kind of see it as a little "filler episode", since we're taking a break in our normal series based episodes. Today we're getting much more personal, talking about our living situation and asking the milli...

In the last episode on the theme "can everyone be an entrepreneur" we will answer your questions! We saw a theme in the questions: money. So we decided so share our own experiences with how much financial knowledge you need to have before starting a company. Spoiler: not that much! So much you can learn as you go. Speaking of finances, Amanda gossips about the raise she got at work and shares that...

We are still on the theme of entrepreneurship, and this series would not be complete without a visit to Founders House. Founders House is a hub for AI start-ups where they can co-work, create a network, get in touch with investors and build Stockholm's start-up climate. We talk to Sara and Ella, who are in the founding team at Founders House and run the every day logistics. They get in touch with...

Yup, you heard it right. Malin runs Daya Ventures, a venture studio focused on closing the gender health gap, that works in a very novel way. We're talking to Malin about what qualities you need to become an entrepreneur and the importance of willingness vs a great idea. Of course we're also brining in some gender perspectives. Check out Daya here: https://www.daya.se/ Don't forget to follow us he...

It is time for a new theme! During the next episodes, we dive into the world of entrepreneurship. In this introductory episode Amanda and Roos explore some statistics about starting a business, ask the question if only software companies succeed these days, and look at biases when it comes to funding. Follow us on @the_gossip_office on TikTok & Instagram Contact us: roos@famacommunications.com...

This is the final episode on the theme of "How to define a successful career", and in this one we wrap things up by answering YOUR questions. We dive deep into what our own definition of success is and our career goals in 3, 10, and 20 years time. The podcasts Roos' talked about: Psychology of your 20s  279. The psychology of career jealousy  https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dqXyf34ZenU...

On the topic of what defines a good career, today Amanda has talked to Olof who has had a 20+ year long career at the same bank. He speaks about starting out his career in consulting, and keeping a consultant mindset even when he was employed. How he evaluated his opportunities outside of the bank on a three to four year basis, or whenever he would round off a project. He also shares his views on...

The theme of "How to define a successful career" continues, and today we have spoken with one of our greatest inspirations - Cecilia Borg. Cecilia was determined to stay no longer than 3 years in her first job, yet ended up remaining there for 10 years. Since then, she has built a career for herself in which she spends at most 12 months at each company, working as an interim CTO. How has her defin...