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The Messy Parts is a podcast featuring career advice and messy stories. Whether you’re at the top or striving to get there, the show explores how hard it is to achieve success. Host Maryam Banikarim brings deeply honest, vulnerable conversations about the twists, turns, and pivots that shape extraordinary careers. Maryam has been a transformative leader across media, hospitality, and tech, with more than 20 years in the C-Suite at companies like Hyatt, NBC, and Nextdoor. She offers unparalleled access to her influential network, asking the questions on everyone's mind. The podcast reveals the real messy parts along the way.
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- 1 weeks ago40 min
“The Value of Your Values" — Why Jeff Jones Quit Uber & Left Millions on the Table
Jeff Jones spent his career as one of the most respected CMOs in America — Coca-Cola, Gap, Target — before making the leap to run Uber's global ride-sharing business under founder Travis Kalanick. Seven months later, at the height of Uber's pre-IPO valuation, he walked away from it all: no job lined up, no stock, no plan. On this episode of The Messy Parts, Jeff sits down with Maryam on the blue couch for his first real interview about what actually happened inside Uber during one of its most...
- 2 weeks ago39 min
Mindy Grossman Worked for Oprah, Barry Diller & Phil Knight — and Says She's Never Been 100% Qualified
Fired at 24. Turned down her dream job at Nike, then took it anyway. Walked into HSN as the eighth CEO in ten years. Mindy Grossman built one of the least likely careers in American business, and in this episode of The Messy Parts she tells Maryam how: leaving college at 19 to move to New York with $1,800, landing her first job by admitting she couldn't take shorthand, buying 2,000 Aeron chairs to prove a broken culture was changing, and converting 30,000 Weight Watchers meetings to virtual i...
- 3 weeks ago10 min
Sex, Xanax & Naked Beaches: 20 Legends Drop the PR Filter
Behind every legendary career is an unfiltered human truth. In this special compilation, 20 of our most notable guests—including Mickey Drexler, Samantha Bee, Blake Mycoskie, Bonnie Hammer, Kim Hastreiter, Sally Susman, Sari Botton, and Baked by Melissa—reveal what happens when the PR guardrails come down. From Bevy Smith’s show-stopping mandate to "have sex, a lot of it," to surprisingly vulnerable confessions about daily tears, imposter syndrome, and surviving a crisis of confidence, these ...
- 4 weeks ago39 min
The Points Guy Couldn't Get His Own Credit Card: Then He Made $28 Million at 28 Years Old (Replay)
Brian Kelly (aka The Points Guy) has been obsessed with credit card and frequent flyer points since childhood. At age 12, his dad challenged him to book a family vacation using only points, and young Brian successfully got his entire family to the Cayman Islands for free. In this episode, Brian tells Maryam about the reality behind his meteoric rise: ruined credit, toxic friendships, launching The Points Guy as a side hustle, becoming a multi-millionaire at 28 years old - and the loneliness t...
- Aug 17, 202636 min
The Truth About Burnout No One Wants to Hear | Laura Mayer
"I don't believe in burnout." That's Laura Mayer, podcast industry veteran and author of Tryhard, explaining why she's never really taken a break: not after a complicated pregnancy, not after quitting a stable executive job at ABC News, not ever. In this candid conversation with Maryam, Laura traces her try-hard tendencies back to a childhood spent tracking her mother's alcoholism, unpacks the false choice between "lean in" hustle and burnout culture, and explains why she walked away from a s...
- Aug 10, 202638 min
Samantha Bee: Your Dream Job Will Suck. Do It Anyway.
"Even your dream job sucks." That's not cynicism — it's the most useful career advice Samantha Bee has. On this episode of The Messy Parts, she tells Maryam what 12 years at “The Daily Show” and running “Full Frontal” actually taught her: that no one hands you management training before you're leading 75 people, that public setbacks feel enormous and matter less than you think, and that the comparison game — "looking in other people's food bowls" — is where careers go to stall. Her rule for a...
- Aug 3, 202641 min
No Plan, No Fear, No Quitting: Julie Gaines on Running NYC’s Coolest Store & Giving MS the Finger
She dug through filthy sub-basements in the Bowery looking for discarded restaurant ware — and built one of New York's most beloved stores. Julie Gaines, co-founder of Fishs Eddy, joins Maryam on the blue couch to talk about 40 years of messy parts: the husband who cheated and left for Florida (then Thailand), the three CEOs who didn't work out, and the MS diagnosis she now calls a "dignity thief." Julie doesn't sugarcoat any of it. She's blunt, she's funny, and she's still working through it...
- Jul 27, 202640 min
She Got Cut From Pro Basketball in Sweden. Now Megan Griffith Runs Columbia's Best Team Ever.
"They cut me from that team." That's how Columbia women's basketball head coach Megan Griffith opens this episode of The Messy Parts — and it's just the beginning of her story. Megan tells Maryam about growing up a Chinese American kid in a homogeneous Pennsylvania suburb, playing for four different coaches in four years as a student at Columbia, and deciding to pursue a professional basketball career across Finland, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Megan gets candid about identity, belonging, ge...
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About The Messy Parts
The Messy Parts is a podcast featuring career advice and messy stories. Whether you’re at the top or striving to get there, the show explores how hard it is to achieve success. Host Maryam Banikarim brings deeply honest, vulnerable conversations about the twists, turns, and pivots that shape extraordinary careers. Maryam has been a transformative leader across media, hospitality, and tech, with more than 20 years in the C-Suite at companies like Hyatt, NBC, and Nextdoor. She offers unparalleled access to her influential network, asking the questions on everyone's mind. The podcast reveals the real messy parts along the way.
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