Coming April 28, 2026: WorkLife with Molly Graham
4/14/20262 min
Coming April 28th, 2026: WorkLife with Molly Graham
The world of work is changing, fast. The full range of human emotion can happen on the job: ambition and failure, joy and burnout, confidence and self-doubt. Company builder and new host of WorkLife, Molly Graham, knows all about those messy feelings – and she believes they can actually be the roadmap to a meaningful career. On WorkLife, Molly will sit down with all kinds of people – founders and operators, entertainers and creatives – to explore how to build a career without losing yourself. Each week, she’ll uncover the messy stories behind the shiniest successes, and share the real lessons about work that no one ever posts on LinkedIn.
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First 90 secondsMolly Graham· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Work is where we spend most of our waking lives. It's where we build things, where we test ourselves, where we succeed, and where we quietly fall apart. So what are we actually doing with all of that time? I'm Molly Graham. I've spent my career inside fast-growing companies, from Google and Facebook during their rocket ship years, to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to startups trying to hold everything together while they scale. And if there's one thing I've learned, work is messy for everyone, from those that are just starting out to established leaders in big, fancy jobs. This season on WorkLife, a podcast from TED, I'm talking with some really thoughtful leaders about the inner life of work.
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:51
Some really hard stuff happens when you're trying to build a company.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:55
You kinda have to be trying the riskiest, most interesting, most fringe things that you can.
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:00
Whenever there's this feeling of like, "I'm not sure I can do it", that's the feeling I'm starting to lean into a little bit more.
Molly Graham· Host1:05
We'll talk about the moments no one puts on LinkedIn, the quiet doubts, the trade-offs, the leadership mistakes, which, by the way, I've made most of more than once. Every week, one conversation, honest, reflective, practical, about what it means to be alive in work.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:26
And get ready, because it's gonna get even weirder.