Episode Details

🎙️ Episode Title: “Product Thinking for Life & Leadership – With Tami Reiss”

✂️ Summary:

Ever wonder how to influence without authority, scale your own career like a product, and still have time to build Lego bonsai trees? Meet Tami Reiss—executive coach, product thinker, and author of the cutest children's book ever written about what product managers actually do (yes, really).

In this episode, Tami joins Marnie and Nick to share:

🧠 How to lead with vision, influence, and joy—even if you're not the boss

📚 Why your career needs a pitch, not just a résumé

🪜 Her signature LEAD Framework:

• Look & Leap
• Excite & Empower
• Align & Activate
• Decide & Deputize

💥 And why “you can’t do it alone” might be the realest leadership rule of all

Plus:

• Turning bedtime stories into boardroom breakthroughs
• How to explain product management to your parents and your preschooler
• The difference between delegation and deputizing (hint: it’s about trust)

👀 Bonus: Tami shares how to treat yourself like the product—and your pitch like your North Star.

📍 Find Tami Reiss:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamireiss/

LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram — just don’t spell her name with two M’s, or you’ll get the WNBA coach (great hair, wrong Tami 😉)

🔗 Show notes and links to her book, blog, and brilliant insights: [insert link here]