One Knight in Product Podcast Starter Pack

If you're not going to listen to them all, at least listen to these!

I’m making an important change to the newsletter. I’ve always kind of smooshed my own thought pieces together with podcast episode announcements, but this isn’t ideal, and also I write thought pieces less often than putting podcast episodes out. I also realise that not everyone wants a post about every podcast episode, so I’m splitting the newsletter into two sections:

1. Podcast episode announcements and related updates.

2. My product management thought pieces on what I’m seeing out in the field.

You can update your notification settings in the Substack app, and opt in (or out) of the different sections.

Whenever I release a new podcast episode, I’ll send a “Podcast Episodes” post, and anything else will be an “Articles” post, and you have full control over what you want to see. For reference, this post you’re reading now is a “Podcast Episodes” post.

Podcast Starter Pack

You’ll be delighted to hear that I’m not going to post 227 posts about old episodes, but I’ve released a lot of podcast episodes, and you might not have listened to all of them. Inspired by Bluesky (come and find me there!), I’ve put together a starter pack of themed episodes that I believe will be interesting. Check them out:

Product Fundamentals

• Episode 202 - Build Better Products at Scale with Product Operations (with

  Melissa Perri
  and Denise Tilles)

• Episode 200 - Transforming your Organisation to the Product Operating Model (with Marty Cagan)

• Episode 172 - Is Product-Led Growth Really For You? (with

  Leah Tharin
  )

• Episode 161 - OKRs: The Gateway Drug to Agility & Good Product Management (with Jeff Gothelf)

• Episode 159 - Practice Makes Perfect: Embracing the Messy Reality of Product Management (with Matt LeMay)

• Episode 156 - The Five Dysfunctions of Product Management Teams (with Saeed Khan)

• Episode 114 - Adventures in Product Management (with Dan Olsen)

• Episode 48 - Treating your Career as a Product & Making a Wicked Impact as a Product Leader (with

  Gibson Biddle
  )

• Episode 41 - Building Your Product Muscles & Developing Strong Product Teams (with Petra Wille)

UX & User Research

• Episode 198 - Standing up for User Research... and User Researchers (with Debbie Levitt)

• Episode 193 - Making Sure You Make an Impact through User Research (with Steve Portigal)

• Episode 78 - How to Deploy Empathy to Truly Understand User Needs (with Michele Hansen)

• Episode 71 - Getting into the Habit of Continuous Discovery (with Teresa Torres)

Product Development & Tech Teams

• Episode 179 - Build Better Products Faster by Embracing Continuous Delivery (with Dave Farley)

• Episode 157 - Helping Tech Teams Get Closer to "The Business" with Effective Conversations (with

  Douglas Squirrel
  )

• Episode 140 - The Role of Product Management on Truly Agile Development Teams (with

  Allen Holub
  )

B2B Product Management

• Episode 133 - Build Products Businesses Want with the Lean B2B Pyramid (with Étienne Garbugli)

• Episode 129 - Mapping your Way to B2B Product Success (with Daniel Elizalde)

• Episode 84 - Fighting Fires in B2B Product Management (with

  rich mironov
  )

Marketing

• Episode 175 - Moving to Customer-Led Growth by Forgetting the Funnel (with Claire Suellentrop &

  Georgiana Laudi
  )

• Episode 134 - Getting Customers to LOVE your Product with Great Product Marketing (with Martina Lauchengco)

• Episode 105 - Getting Your SaaS Pricing & Packaging Right (with Dan Balcauski)

• Episode 43 - Aligning your Positioning & the Myth of Product Market Fit (with

  April Dunford
  )

Early Startups

• Episode 226 - Solving the Growth Equation to Derive Product/Market Fit (with

  Andy Budd
  )

• Episode 189 - Nailing your Product/Market Fit Strategy by Focusing on the Mission Critical (with

  Maja Voje
  )

• Episode 154 - Learning the Bedrock Skills of Innovators & Entrepreneurs (with Bob Moesta)

• Episode 164 - Valentine's Special! A Love Letter to Problems, not Solutions (with Uri Levine)

SaaS Sales

• Episode 190 - Creating the Perfect Sales Pitch (with

  April Dunford
  )

• Episode 144 - Beyond the Challenger Sale Part 2: Focus on Value & Make your Product Easy to Buy (with Brent Adamson)

• Episode 143 - Beyond the Challenger Sale Part 1: JOLTING Customers out of "No Decision" (with Matt Dixon)

Management & Leadership

• Episode 151 - Team Change is Inevitable - What's Important is How we Respond to It (with

  Heidi Helfand
  )

• Episode 135 - Measurably Improving Managers to Help People do Great Work... and be Totally Psyched Doing It (with Russ Laraway)

• Episode 99 - Product Leadership is Hard - Let's Get Better At It (with Ebenezer Ikonne)

Diversity & Inclusion

• Episode 132 - Coming Out as Transgender at Work and How We Can All Be Better Allies (with Saielle DaSilva)

• Episode 92 - Digital Pollution & The Product Hippocratic Oath (with Radhika Dutt)

• Episode 52 - Defeating Bias, Prejudice and Bullying in the Workplace (with Kim Scott)

Career Development

• Episode 222 - How to Present Yourself (And Why You Should) (with Danielle Barnes &

  Christina Wodtke
  )

• Episode 177 - Landing That Perfect Role by Finding Your Inevitable Edge (with Erika Klics)

• Episode 107 - Getting Strategic to Land Your First Product Management Job (with Crystal Parker)

Surviving Product

• Episode 213 - Our Stakeholders Are Just Doing Their Jobs & Product Managers Need To Understand Them Better (with Rina Alexin)

• Episode 204 - John Cutler's Hot Take - The Instagram-ification of Product Management is Driving us Crazy (with

  John Cutler
  )

• Episode 100 - How to Manage Imposter Syndrome in Product Management (with Phyllis Njoroge)

Of course, don’t assume for a second that an episode isn’t good because it’s not here. I love all my episodes and all my guests ❤️

Cheers for reading and listening, and I’m looking forward to continuing our journey of discovery together.

Onwards!