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134: How to Land a $300k PM Role in 2026 with Mukhtar Kadiri
October 13, 2026 · 51 minWhat if the reason your project management job search is stalling has nothing to do with your skills? On average, about 300 people apply to a single opening, and the odds of being the one who gets the offer are slim. In that market, strong…
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133: The Introvert's guide to Communication for Project Managers
September 15, 2026 · 33 minWhy "over-communicating" isn't about saying more — it's about knowing exactly what your stakeholders need to hear, and when. What happens when a project manager goes silent? According to this episode of Project Management Happy Hour…
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132: Why Your Most Supportive Stakeholder is Ruining your Project, with Dawn Mahan
August 25, 2026 · 52 minProjects rarely fail from a lack of templates — they fail because of people. Author Dawn Mahan reveals the animal avatars that help you spot the cheerleader, the finicky fan, and the saboteur before one of them bites you in the ankle. Why…
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131: Don't be the PM everyone hates, with Rachel Losser
August 12, 2026 · 51 minYour worst project management habit might also be your superpower — the trick is knowing which one you're wielding, and when. What actually separates a great project manager from the one everyone dreads seeing on their calendar? It's…
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130: Rigged bids, fake deadlines, and going 181x over budget
July 29, 2026 · 39 minA $6.9 million estimate. A $1.25 billion catastrophe. How fake deadlines, a rigged bid, and a steering committee allergic to bad news turned a routine payroll migration into one of the biggest project disasters in Australian history. What…
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129: How Credibility Starts with Curiosity, with Noel Nicole Ransom
July 14, 2026 · 35 minWhy do perfectly logical, well-researched project plans still fail to win people over? It's one of the most frustrating forms of project failure—not a broken schedule or a blown budget, but a smart solution that nobody trusts. Kim and Kate…
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128: Your project can't possibly be as bad as working for Mr Beast, Part 2
June 30, 2026 · 33 minEver worked on a project that felt like a complete disaster... only for leadership to call it a huge success? In Part 2 of our Mr. Beast series, Kim and Kate dig into the reported chaos behind Beast Games—from weather disasters and safety…
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127: Your project can't possibly be as bad as working for Mr Beast, Part 1
June 16, 2026 · 29 minEver worked with a stakeholder who changes direction faster than your project plan can keep up? Then this episode may feel a little too familiar. Kim and Kate dive into the rise of Mr. Beast and the making of Beast Games through a project…
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126: "What's your AI Strategy?" Handling the Executive who wants AI in everything
June 3, 2026 · 39 minYou know the moment. Your project plan is solid. The scope is defined. The team is ready. Then an executive walks by and casually asks: "Can we just make this AI?" Suddenly you're no longer managing a project. You're managing…
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125: How to survive the AI landscape as a PM with PMI's Dr Kelly Heuer
May 20, 2026 · 59 minAI is changing work fast enough to give every project manager emotional whiplash. New tools, new workflows, new expectations… and somehow you're still expected to hit deadlines, manage stakeholders, and explain for the fifth time why the…
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124: Drowning in Tasks: How Successful PMs Organize the Chaos
May 6, 2026 · 57 minIf your to-do list is 47 items long, your Slack won't shut up, and you ended the day thinking, "Cool… but what did I actually accomplish?"—welcome. You're among friends. In this episode, Kim and Kate take on the very real, very unsexy…
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123 - Hungry Hungry HPPOs - managing loud personalities with Evan Unger
April 14, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minIf your weekly calendar looks like the loser in a state fair quilt competition - just solid blocks of mismatched colors with no room to breathe - this episode is for you. Today, we're joined by facilitation expert Evan Unger to talk about…
About the show
PM Happy Hour is the place for frank and honest discussion about real world issues in project management. We do it in a way that's not too dry, though it may get a bit salty from time to time.
Each episode, your hosts Kim Essendrup and Kate Anderson cover a problem faced in project management today, and share practical advice, real-life examples and the occasional project horror story.
Not only that, but every podcast is also an online class! Our host is a PMI Registered Education Provider, who has structured each podcast as an easy-to-listen-to lesson. To get credit, go to our web site at PMHappyHour.com, purchase your class, take the test (based on the content from our podcast) and you get your PDU certificate instantly!