Three Ears Media: Recent Episodes
Katrina Kibben
This is not a podcast about recruiting. It's a podcast about the people behind it. The people you call candidates. Their dreams. Their lives.
I recognize this role I play in friendships that fall short. It’s like a one man show where I play every part. It has to stop.
When I made the decision to stop fitting in, I found a life that actually felt worth living. It’s not as hard as it sounds and it pays off more than you imagine.
In my Grandmother’s house, cooking wasn’t just about food on the table. It was about creating a recipe for love that would last long after she was alive.
The most important job titles of all aren’t the ones we’re assigned at work or printed on business cards.
We give all the credit to hard work for transformation when they’re a consequence of the conditions we live through.
The ultimate cure for burnout might be some answer or some plan, but as a self-proclaimed expert in preparing for it all then watching it fall apart, I think the answer is less predictable.
My 17 year old self knew something more about road trips. Trusting the you that says yes, no, go left.
I’m just not a fan of the absolutes and acronyms in most of this category, so I wrote a leadership book I really love.
I like hiking, but I get lost. Even in the woods, it’s not all that different from when you feel lost in life.
As I think about ending van life, I’m realizing why I ended up here in the first place. I’m learning how to live calmly in the chaos.
Over time, I found myself simply feeling relieved when I had a big win. But life is pretty hard when you can’t celebrate your wins.
If hard work made you happy? If not being lazy earned rest? I would be one of the happiest, most well-rested people in the world. But that’s not the formula.
Van life helped me imagine the unimaginable - a life where I didn’t try to prove everyone wrong or live by a strict, predictable plan.
Just because you didn’t get it all right doesn’t mean you got it all wrong. You have to allow for some margin of error in your life.
I’m working to change how I think about money and evolve from that “good enough” mindset. Good enough isn’t good enough to have a life well lived.
This week after an altercation in the bathroom, I met a mother so proud during Pride that she reminded me of the good in this world.
What parents of queer kids show up for, what they pay attention to, will send a million messages to their children about what they can become. If they’ll be loved.
There’s some part of me, and so many trans people, that wonders every time we come out. Wondering, “will you still love me if I’m trans?” It’s a big question (and there’s an answer for allies).
It’s kind of crazy how a song can take you back to a time when you didn’t know how to follow your arrow, let alone what an arrow was.
Holding bad bosses accountable is rare. Too many companies value the bottom line over a baseline of humanity and it’s hurting us, the people who want to do great work.
You’re not invincible, but it’s easy to forget that the only thing that can destroy you? It’s you.
I feel so special when people come out to me, but it’s not just queer people. It’s their parents, managers, and friends. Thank you for coming out to me.
Do you feel burned out? I’m so burnt out, I swear I can smell the fire. But I have to rest, and so do you.
You can change everything in your life, but if you never change how you spend your time it’ll never feel different to be alive.
In honor of Trans Day of Visibility, I want to talk about my youngest role model and remind all of us to never age out of curiosity.
I want to tell you a story about my unpredictable van life and how it opened my eyes to the ways we can help each other. Strangers, too. We all have one thing in common: life is unpredictable.
The way I have been embraced into little families along my path has been a surprise and delight I never imagined in this van life. The healing was unexpected, too.
When we don't say gay, we say a lot without saying anything at all. That queer love is wrong. We can fix it - with education and love.
No matter how much flexibility you introduce into your culture, everyone has work trauma. How you communicate about it can change everything - for your team, your culture, and your customers.
Subtle cues - the harassment you can't report - aren't spoken about enough in this country. Neither are the cues that tell us we do belong.
It's the littlest things that remind me I'm trans in a binary world. But there’s joy, too. Joy in seeing minds change and questions asked.
What does it take to be happy? What does it take to break a career mold? Optimism, for one thing.
Every day, we try to make rules to be right. But who wants to be right? Do you want to be right or happy?
When we take big leaps in life, or out of a plane like I did, it’s easy to think it’ll feel like flying. But first, it feels like falling.
Curiosity won’t kill you, but waiting until you die to live might. I talk to people who do it every day. In this week's letter, I want to talk about our natural human curiosity when we see someone living a life so different from our own.