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✅ Today’s Checklist:
🗓️ Wed 2/25 9AM PT: Recap emails, follow-ups, and documenting next steps can quietly eat up hours each week. This session will show you a simpler way to stay on top of everything. Register here.
📉 For the first time, women are less interested in getting promoted than men (and the reason isn’t what you’d expect).
📚 The career books we’re adding to our TBR.
💰 Investing feels intimidating until someone makes it make sense.
🛠️ Trying to juggle it all? These project management tools can seriously help.
Takeaways:
If you’re still collecting availability in DMs, posting screenshots, and playing “who can cover?” every week, When I Work is the calmer way to run schedules.
It’s built for real-world teams: employee scheduling + team messaging + time & attendance in one place. You can publish schedules in minutes, approve shift swaps and time-off requests without side chats, and use an in-app time clock (with options like geofencing).
Bonus: it connects with other tools (payroll/POS/HR integrations are available).
Do this (and you’ll save your sanity):
Do set an availability cutoff (no “btw I can’t work” surprises).
Do use shift swap + open shift workflows instead of group chats.
Do keep schedule changes + messages in one app.
Do track time consistently before payroll.
Don’t do this (if you enjoy peace):
Don’t rely on screenshots as “communication.”
Don’t let coverage run on first-come, loudest-text rules.
Don’t make managers the human switchboard.
Takeaways:
Takeaways:
You already did the hard part. You showed up, recorded the podcast, ran the interview, shared the insight.
Now you’re staring at 90 minutes of footage thinking… when did I sign up to become a video editor?
That post-recording spiral is real. The scrubbing. The trimming. The captions. The “I’ll just clean this up quickly” that somehow turns into three hours.
Riverside takes that weight off your plate.
You can record in studio quality from anywhere, and then edit the video the same way you’d edit a Google Doc.
With Riverside’s text-based editor, you can:
It’s less about fancy features and more about protecting your time.
One recording can turn into YouTube uploads, short-form clips, promos, and reels without you living inside a timeline all afternoon.
You’ve got better things to do than drag clips around a timeline.
Let AI handle the tedious stuff so you can get back to the part you actually like.
Takeaways:
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