Molly Graham talks with executive recruiter Ify Walker about the "work twisties," the destabilizing loss of purpose and self-trust that can follow grief, burnout, or a career that no longer fits. Their conversation traces how Walker rebuilt her inner compass and why radical honesty matters in hiring, leadership, and figuring out where you actually belong.

In a live TED conversation, Molly Graham makes the case for careers built through risky leaps rather than orderly promotions, arguing that fear, awkwardness, and reinvention are often signs of growth. She reflects on scaling fast-moving companies, the value of asking naive questions, and the need for leaders to build environments where people can do their best work.

A former Facebook executive revisits the company’s famous ethos of moving fast, arguing that its real aim was rapid learning rather than reckless breakage. The conversation traces how psychological safety, technical guardrails, and a founder’s temperament shape a culture that can scale without turning failure into blame.

Molly Graham talks with former Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson about the hidden chaos inside celebrated careers and breakout companies, where outages, doubt, and bad bets sit alongside growth. Their conversation turns on how to tell the difference between a difficult stretch worth enduring and a situation that demands an exit.

Molly Graham and Ashley Murphy field workplace dilemmas that resist tidy business-book answers, from how to disagree with a CEO without losing integrity to when a company’s culture is simply a reflection of its founder. The conversation also traces the difference between coaches, therapists and advisors, and argues that so-called generalists are really specialists who need sharper language for the problems they solve.

Molly Graham reflects on walking away from the executive roles she was built to excel at and the longer, messier search for work that actually made her feel alive. In conversation with Anne Morris, she treats purpose less as a grand calling than as a practical process of noticing what energizes you, what proves draining, and what kind of impact feels close enough to matter.

Mark Rober talks with Molly Graham about resisting the churn of the creator economy by treating YouTube less like a slot machine than a long game. The former NASA engineer traces his success to calculated risk, obsessive quality control, and a stubborn commitment to building work, money, and ambition at a pace he can actually sustain.

Caroline Wanga traces a career built less on certainty than on curiosity, describing how a series of self-made maps helped her test roles, recognize her strengths and know when it was time to move on. The conversation widens into a candid philosophy of work, urging people to trade personal branding for personal purpose and to treat failure and doubt as material for growth.

Molly Graham talks with Manoush Zomorodi about building a career in media while every platform, business model and job description keeps changing underfoot. Their conversation turns disruption into a working philosophy: hold fast to the craft, experiment relentlessly and remember that the body, not just the mind, pays for life on screens.

Molly Graham talks with Instacart co-founder Max Mullen about the gap between AI hype and actual utility, tracing her own skepticism to the moment a chatbot became a credible writing collaborator. Their conversation lands on a practical case for experimentation: the tools are improving fast, best used on mundane tasks, and still bounded by the need for human judgment.

Molly Graham talks with former Facebook executive and Sundial co-founder Julie Zhu about treating risk as a craft rather than a personality trait. Their conversation moves from everyday acts of candor and feedback to the manager’s job of creating trust, shared values, and enough safety for people to make bets and learn from being wrong.

Molly Graham talks with former Microsoft executive and Gates Foundation founding CEO Patty Stonecipher about the personal mission statement that has guided decades of career choices, from high-profile yeses to disciplined noes. Their conversation turns work into a question of values, asking how ambition, love, justice, learning and humor can shape a life rather than merely a résumé.