Erika Ayers Badan Will share lessons from her seven-year term as CEO of Barstool Sports-which she lovingly called a “pirate ship” and other insights taken from her career in a new podcast series.
With the title Simply “Work”, Ayers Badan’s podcast premiere on Monday February 3, with new episodes that release every week on Mondays. It is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music (via This link). The show is produced by Indie Podcast Network Lemonada Media.
Fair Warning: “I will use the word” work “a thousand times in this thing, because I love to work, and I love to think about work and be at work and help people at work and talk about work,” Ayers Badan says in The show’s trailer (listen below). She will talk through topics like “what to do when your colleagues are idiots, what happens when you hate your boss and what do you do when you are stuck in a brawl.”
“Work” will also cover various topics including current events-as large companies that end dei programs, companies that order workers back to the office five days per week and “Revenge Quitting” plus real work challenges she has struggled with in the past as well as those she is currently facing. Ayers Badan’s guests on the podcast will include Lindsey Metselaar, host for dating podcast “We Mete at Acme”, and Benjamin Kraim, founder of Cannabis Media and Lifestyle Brand Weedfeed.
In addition, Ayers Badan will discuss the rear stories in Sundry Corporate Jargon, such as “Circle Back”, “Band Width” and “EBITDA” (which for the record stands for “revenue before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization”).
“This is an unfiltered, vulnerable look at work and what it takes to do it at work,” says Ayers Badan. “The work is not perfect and not people, but they can both be good. This show looks at what is happening in and around the subject work and offers perspective, advice and knowledge to those who try to do more or be more at work. “
It is not her first podcast -Rodeo: at Barstool she hosted “Token Ceo”, a series that gave a “insight into what is happening at Barstool HQ.” Ayers Badan left bar stoolthe bridge-focused media company, in January 2024. It came after bar stool founder Dave Portnoy bought the site back from casino and gaming operator Penn Entertainment for $ 1 (After Penn’s acquisition of $ 550 million). Ayers Badan, who runs bar stool during Penn’s ownership, wrote in a memo to the staff, “was a balance measure and a type of ferry in futility – tried to generate bets while protected a pirate ship while being subtly distorting to be slightly more predictable , Pacifiable and Projicible to match with a casino company. ”
In April 2024, Ayers Badan was appointed CEO of Food52, a food and commercial company, after serving as a board member and adviser since 2019. ”I have a brand-new job and what I wanted to do was to make a podcast for people who Want to get better at work and want to make work a way to change and make her life big, “she says in the” work “podcast trailer. She currently earns on the boards of Premier Lacrosse League and Public Safety Technology Company Axon Enterprise (manufacturer (manufacturer of Taser Weapons).
Ayers Badan is the author of “No one cares about your career: Why failure is good, the big plays injured and other harsh truths” published in June 2024. Before Barol, Ayers Badan had several older roles on the media and technology company, including president of BKSTG , Chief Marketing Officer for AOL, VP for brand at Yahoo and Senior Director for MSN Branded Experience at Microsoft.
Lemonada Media is an independent podcast network founded in 2019 by Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs. The company’s original program includes “wiser than I with Julia Louis-Dreyfus”; “Fail better with David Ducovny”; “Valord with Samantha Bee”; and “The Sarah Silverman Podcast.” It also recently announced Lemonada Books, a new impression and co -development partnership with Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.
Listen to the trailer for Ayers Badan’s “Work” podcast: