Kundra
Kundra
Podcast Description
Kundra — reimagining workplace gender equality through stories we don’t usually hear.The podcast explores the realities of gender at work through the voices of women, working moms, leaders, and changemakers.What began as customer research for a B2B SaaS — by Theresa Gschwandtner, FinTech exec turned Founder — quickly revealed stories too powerful to keep private.This is a public journey of product discovery, filled with honest conversations, practical takeaways, and proof that equality drives success.Sign up for the betahttps://www.kundra.ai/
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on gender equality in the workplace, with episodes tackling topics such as the challenges of returning from maternity leave, hidden struggles women face in high-performance jobs, and the importance of equity in organizational success, exemplified by episodes like 'From Top 1% Sales Rep to New Mom: What No One Tells You About Coming Back' that dives deep into the personal experiences of working mothers.
Kundra is a podcast about workforce continuity at pivotal moments: leaves, returns, restructures, and team redesigns triggered by AI.
Through honest conversations with founders, leaders, and working parents, we explore what happens when teams change shape, and how the best ones redesign work rather than absorb the load.
What began as research on parental leave revealed a bigger pattern: every team transition is also an opportunity.
Hosted by Theresa Gschwandtner, Kundra surfaces frameworks (including Build, Borrow, Bot) and best practices used across modern companies.
https://www.kundra.ai/
When something is missing on your team, the reflex is to hire for it. It is rarely your only option, and often not the best one.
If you have been listening, you know we keep coming back to how you redesign a team's work in the age of AI, instead of just adding headcount or adding tools. This is the most practical version of that, and it comes at the right moment, just when teams start budget planning for next year.
In this episode of the Kundra Podcast, Theresa sits down with Carmen Valtierra, VP of Product at Tremau. She was asked to hire a product marketer, Carmen took the role apart task by task and decided, for each piece, whether to keep it human, grow someone into it, borrow it, or let AI take it. Most of it she did not need to hire for. The one thing she actually did need to hit her business objectives was company wide, strategic product positioning, which she brought in from outside.
In this episode, you will learn:
- the real resourcing question behind every gap: hire, upskill, borrow, freelance, or automate
- the build, borrow, bot framework, applied task by task
- how to spot what AI can take, and the one skill you still need to bring in
- why anything AI does has to be documented so it outlives the person who built it
- how this changes your budget conversation, from a headcount request to a distributed plan
Chapters:
- 00:00 Meet Carmen
- 02:43 The problem: a strong product no one could see
- 19:33 Borrow, and how it evolves
- 22:56 Where AI fits, and why it has to be documented
- 27:50 The map becomes a system
About Kundra
Kundra keeps teams strong at the pivotal moments like budget planning, reorganizations, long leaves, and AI mandates. We help companies redesign how the work gets done, so teams keep performing and come out stronger. This podcast is part of how we learn: conversations with leaders, founders and experts about what really happens when teams change shape, and what the strongest companies do differently. If this resonates and you want to see how Kundra works in practice, email [email protected].
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