WorkLife is back — and entering a new chapter. The TED podcast is bringing in a brand-new host — community and company builder Molly Graham — to explore the lessons about work no one teaches you.
Molly Graham has spent nearly two decades inside fast-growing companies, helping them scale through messy, high-stakes moments of change. She led operations at organizations including Facebook, Quip and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and she’s known for coining the term “Give Away Your Legos,” which captures the identity shifts leaders face as organizations grow and roles evolve. In her TED Talk, Molly says excellent careers are not built by climbing — they’re built by leaps into the unknown.
We spend so much of our lives at work: doing it, thinking about it, worrying about it. And the full range of human experience shows up there, from ambition and failure to joy, burnout, confidence and self-doubt. Yet these realities often go unnamed, treated as distractions rather than what they truly are: part of the work itself.
On WorkLife, Molly starts from a different premise: that the messy inner life of work can be understood (and even harnessed) to help you build a more meaningful, more sustainable career. That idea echoes the themes of her TED Talk, where she describes how conventional ideas of success can trap people into believing that “self-worth is tied to your title, or your last performance rating, or your next promotion.”
In WorkLife’s new era, Molly will explore how to build a work life that actually fits you, rather than someone else’s definition of success.
Want to start listening? Our trailer is out now, and the first episode featuring a conversation between Molly and our past host, Adam Grant, will drop on Tuesday, April 28. Listen to WorkLife wherever you get your podcasts.