For generations, our jobs offered us more than just a paycheck. They offered  a promise: show up, work hard, and in exchange, you could count on a certain measure of security: decent health insurance, a way to save for retirement, paid time off, and a clear pathway into the middle class. That social contract is  now fraying. As the safety net bundled with the traditional 9-to-5 disappears, millions of knowledge workers are now being pushed into an unfamiliar, unrecognizable job market with no map and very little floor.

The Portfolio Career Lab is a podcast about this phenomenon: Why so many of us are being thrust into self-employment, the various ways people are actually making this model of work fit into the rest of their lives , and how to begin closing the gap between how people actually work and how our safety net was originally designed.

Host Brie Abramowicz is a 5x Head of Product turned portfolio careerist and author of the bestselling book Polyworker. In each episode, she sits down with humans choosing to live and work differently, from fractional operators and creators to economists, researchers, policy wonks, activist, athletes, and artists. The conversations are intimate and always focused on the bigger picture. You’ll leave with a sharper read on where the working world is headed and hope and the inspiration to build a portfolio career of your own.