Episodes
S1E4: Driving Success in Your Startup with Adam Strong
What does it really take to say no to a huge deal and mean it? In this episode, Karl sits down with Adam Strong for a candid, thoughtful conversation about the messy reality of product work and careers that rarely follow a st...
S1E3: Customer Success Helps Focus Product Direction with Amy Taylor …
What if your product problems are not really product problems at all, but expectation problems? In this episode, Karl and Danielle talk with Amy Taylor Mitchell and Trevor Mishler about what actually happens to young companie...
S1E2: Navigating the Challenge of Product Market Fit with Bob Handlin
What if being ten times better still is not enough? In this episode, Karl and Danielle talk with Bob Handlin about the hard lessons that only show up once a product meets the real world. Bob shares a story from his time worki...
S1E1: The Art of Revealing Customer Needs with Jennifer Scalf
What if the most important thing you can do with customer feedback is slow down and really listen? In this episode, Karl and Danielle are joined by Jennifer Scalf, someone who has spent nearly two decades living in the space ...
S0E4: Product Manager as Coach
What can ice hockey teach you about being a better product manager? In this episode, Karl and Danielle explore the idea of the product manager as a coach, drawing inspiration from the fast, physical, and surprisingly strategi...
S0E3: Zizzer-Zoof Seeds and Product Market Fit
What if you are working incredibly hard to sell something that nobody actually needs? In this episode, Karl and Danielle unpack the now infamous Zizzer‑Zoof Seeds, borrowed from a Dr. Seuss poem and uncomfortably familiar to ...
S0E2: The Pickle Jar
What happens when you join a team full of smart, capable people… and you grab for the jar they’ve already tried everything to open? In this episode, Karl and Danielle talk candidly about the realities of being a product manag...
S0E1: What Does It Mean To Be a Product Manager?
What if the best way into product management is never planned at all? In this inaugural episode of Productly Speaking, Karl and Danielle start where most product careers actually begin: by accident. They share the very human ...
Show Trailer
What happens when two people from opposite sides of the Atlantic realize they’ve been asking the same product questions all along? This short trailer introduces Productly Speaking, a podcast hosted by Karl Abbott and Danielle...