HeyJaredAgile Unemployment: Normalizing the Way We Talk About Being Out of Work
Agile Unemployment, host/author/employment expert Sabina Sulat provides a safe place to talk about all topics regarding being out of work.
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Repivoting: Reading Friction as Information, Not Failure (opens the original)
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Episode Summary Most pivots don't begin with a dramatic exit — they begin with friction. Something that used to work stops working the same way, and the instinct is to blame yourself instead of asking whether the strategy still matches the system. This episode breaks down how to read that friction, the five signs it might be time to explore a pivot, and the difference between pivoting with agency and reacting with panic. Sabina also shares, for the first time on the show, where her own pivot fro
Replaying 9 to 5: What the Cry for Agency Still Sounds Like (opens the original)
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Episode Summary When the news came of Dolly Parton's passing, the tributes wrote themselves — genius, generous, belonged to everyone. All true, and all said already. This episode goes somewhere else: into what she and 9 to 5 actually built, and why a comedy from 1980 still diagnoses the modern workplace more accurately than most of today's employee-experience language does. In This Episode What she actually pulled off — how a toe-tapping, singable melody turned workplace exhaustion into an anthe
Redrafting the Map — What Got You Here Won't Get You There (opens the original)
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Four years into Agile Unemployment, the core of unemployment hasn't changed — the emotion, the objective. But the terrain underneath has shifted materially, and most job seekers are still navigating with an old map. This episode breaks down what's changed, why organizational indecision (not candidate quality) is stalling so many searches, why chasing the algorithm backfires, and what actually works now. Key Talking Points Reflecting on 4 years of the show; what's stayed the same vs. what's chang
Re: Building: Four Years, One Podcast, and the Future of Work, The Agile Unemployment Anniversary Special (opens the original)
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On the show's fourth anniversary, Sabina steps out from behind the guest chair to trace how a podcast about unemployment became a body of work about agency — and to lay out where work is headed next: for individuals, for Gen Z, for the résumé, and for the world beyond the U.S. Episode Description Four years ago, Agile Unemployment started as a place to say a word most people wouldn't say out loud. One hundred episodes, more than thirty guest interviews, and listeners in over 70 countries later,
Re: Sponse: The Wait, The Offer, and the Boundaries You Set Before Day One (opens the original)
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Episode Summary Everyone braces for rejection in a job search. Almost no one braces for silence — or for a yes. In this episode, Sabina breaks down the two moments in a job search that quietly cost people their agency: the wait between applying and hearing back, and the offer itself. She makes the case that the first boundaries of a new job aren't set on Day One — they're set in unemployment, long before an offer ever arrives. What You'll Learn Why the waiting period is never neutral — and what
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