Work is Weird Now

Work is Weird Now
Podcast Description
Welcome to Work is Weird Now—the podcast that explores the mysteries and oddities of work in the modern age. If you’re at a mid-career impasse, questioning your career choices, looking for inspiration, or just wondering what on earth is going on —you're in the right place.Meet your hosts: Alice Phillips: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-phillips-17847b7/Dan Emery: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-emery-08869b3a/
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Content Themes
This podcast covers a plethora of themes related to modern work dynamics, including AI's impact on employment, the rise of mass entrepreneurialism, gender dynamics in leadership, and mental health in the workplace. Notable episodes explore topics like the biases in AI affecting women and the significance of neurodiversity in fostering inclusive workplaces.

Welcome to Work is Weird Now—the podcast that explores the mysteries and oddities of work in the modern age. If you’re at a mid-career impasse, questioning your career choices, looking for inspiration, or just wondering what on earth is going on —you’re in the right place.
Meet your hosts:
Alice Phillips: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-phillips-17847b7/
Dan Emery: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-emery-08869b3a/
Guest: Chris Budd — founder of Ovation Finance, author of The Eternal Business and The Financial Wellbeing Book, and founder of the Institute for Financial Wellbeing.
If you’ve ever been told to “fix your money before you fix your life,” this episode flips that script. Chris Budd argues that true financial wellbeing isn’t about spreadsheets or savings goals—it’s about aligning your money with meaning. As he puts it: “The relationship between financial wellbeing and happiness… there isn’t one. It’s the same thing.”
We explore why most of us start in the wrong place (chasing more instead of understanding enough), how to reconnect your finances to your purpose, and what great financial wellbeing actually feels like—when money stops shouting for attention.
You’ll learn:
- Why “money first” thinking keeps failing
- How to identify what really gives you wellbeing
- Simple habits that make your finances work for you (not the other way around)
- What leaders can do to make financial wellbeing part of real employee engagement
This is money talk without the jargon—a conversation about happiness, purpose, and the quieter kind of wealth that lasts.

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