{"podcast":{"title":"Is This Working?!","slug":"is-this-working-7581836","podcast_index_feed_id":7581836,"rss_url":"https://rss2.flightcast.com/wbxvf8vgyotuwkiuw1711u1r.xml","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://files.flightcast.com/workspaces/tv31t1erpjv2lb9jp39i59ra/01KCWAXQJ3EJEHSVQ63PH27KW8/final_square_cover__1_.jpg","author":"Connor Diemand-Yauman","episode_count":19,"summary":"What if the most interesting thing about work isn’t what we do—but what it does to us? Is This Working?! dives into meaningful work and the messy humans who do it. As AI reshapes industries and upends old definitions of success, social entrepreneur and Stanford GSB lecturer Connor Diemand-Yauman talks with extraordinary people about both sides of the story: the outer work (what they built, how they pivoted, the tactics that actually worked) and the inner work(the therapy, the doubt, the failure) it took to get there. Because when the world is changing this fast, maybe these stories are the only way to know if any of this is actually working.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T12:18:39.044702+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-working-7581836"},"episode":{"title":"Why Real Leadership Feels Like Crap — Farmgirl Flowers Founder Christina Stembel","slug":"why-real-leadership-feels-like-crap-farmgirl-flowers-founder-christina-stembel","published_at":"2026-05-27T17:51:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-working-7581836/why-real-leadership-feels-like-crap-farmgirl-flowers-founder-christina-stembel","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-working-7581836","url":"https://episode.flightcast.com/01KSMA5CBP4S5TYMJP5AAGX1NE.mp3","audio_url":"https://episode.flightcast.com/01KSMA5CBP4S5TYMJP5AAGX1NE.mp3","summary":"Christina Stembel started Farmgirl Flowers in 2010 with $49,000 in her bank account, no college degree, and no VC funding. Sixteen years later, it’s a $35-million-a-year company. \"We joke at Farmgirl that we're like cockroaches. You can't get rid of us. You just get stomped on, you just keep going.\" In this conversation, Christina and Connor talk about: the costs of building a company without the credentials the 28-hour test that saved the company during the pandemic why leaders can't always stick to their values why real leadership means feeling like crap most of the time If you're sick of leadership platitudes and hungry for the story of someone doing the hard work, against the odds, this conversation is for you.","meta_description":"Christina Stembel started Farmgirl Flowers in 2010 with $49,000 in her bank account, no college degree, and no VC funding. Sixteen years later, it’s a $35…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2988,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/is-this-working-7581836/episodes/why-real-leadership-feels-like-crap-farmgirl-flowers-founder-christina-stembel/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-working-7581836/why-real-leadership-feels-like-crap-farmgirl-flowers-founder-christina-stembel.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}