Your Future Realized
Work Smarter, Feel Lighter—The Your Future Realized Podcast is your unapologetic permission slip to ditch the grind and rediscover what makes work matter. With Laura Malinowski, you’ll get straightforward strategies, fresh experiments, and tiny wins that create practical shifts you’ll notice right away. Designed for operations leaders and their teams. Find out how to connect with your people, build steady, resilient habits, and sharpen your focus—so every workday feels more rewarding. Each episode is like having a coach in your corner, bringing you proven tools to handle anything that comes your way, strengthen what works, and keep making progress—day after day.
Episodes
112 episodes
111: How to Escape the “Only I Can Fix This” Trap in Leading Ops
Find the full transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/111.Every leader I know is saying the same thing: The world’s just getting messier, faster, and less predictable every day. Ops leade...
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Episode 111
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110: How to Tune Up Your Internal Operations
Find the full transcript, and more resources for operations executives, at yourfuturerealized.com/110.For all the talk about company and team dynamics, we rarely talk about the culture...
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Episode 110
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109: How to Stay Centered when Chaos Takes Over Operations
Find the full transcript, and more resources for operations executives, at yourfuturerealized.com/109.Back when I ran a PMO, our team basically tripled fast just to keep up with work p...
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Episode 109
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108: How Ops Leaders Build the Peer Networks They Actually Need
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/108.Networking is a bit different for ops execs. Most connections happen inside the company as you keep things humming along. You han...
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Episode 108
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107: 3 Rules of Micro-Recognition Every Ops Exec Needs to Prevent Team Burnout
Find the full transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/107.Leading operations means balancing precision with people—and that’s not always easy.I know an ops leader in a fast-growing...
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Episode 107
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106: 3 Steps to Break Free from Micromanaging and Start Trusting Your Ops Team
Find the full transcript at: YourFutureRealized.com/106.When was the last time you truly left your phone alone for a whole hour? No peeking at Slack, or email? Does anyone do that anym...
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Episode 106
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105: Stop Chasing Perfect Info and Start Making Smarter Ops Decisions
Find the full transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/105.Ever have one of those days where even the smallest decisions feel impossible? Even the best ops leaders can freeze up, not for l...
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Episode 105
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104: How to Guard Your Reputation in Operations
Find the full episode and transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/104.Have you ever led a team and realized—maybe a little too late—that something was off? On the surface, everyt...
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Episode 104
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103: How to Make Neurodiversity Work in Operations, with Rachel Radway
Find the full episode, and more resources for operations executives, at yourfuturerealized.com/103.Ever notice someone on your team seems to operate on an entirely different wavelength...
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Episode 103
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102: What to Do When Your Ops Playbook Needs a Mindset Shift
Find the full transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/102. I want to tell you about Sam. Sam is an operations leader at a small business that’s growing and changing fast. He’s very u...
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Episode 102
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101: 3 Steps Ops Execs Take to Stay Ahead in a Changing World
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/101. How many of your meetings truly move the needle? I recently worked with someone whose days were full of urgent ...
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Episode 101
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100: What I’ve Learned About Operations Leadership After 100 Episodes
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/100.I’ve struggled with running for years. I’d push through 5ks, only to crash hard afterward, wiped out, knees spent, quitting for m...
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Episode 100
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99: How One Curious Habit Builds Resilience in Ops Leaders
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/99. Last week, I was chatting with a creative powerhouse of an ops leader who's been juggling a global team around the clock. She...
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Episode 99
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98: Hey Ops Exec, Stuck Spinning Your Wheels? Here’s How to Break Free and Gain Traction
Find the full transcript at: yourfuturerealized.com/98.Operations execs often tell me they’re running full tilt but are unable to make meaningful progress. Days packed with back-to-back...
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Episode 98
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97: How Ops Leaders Can Turn Conflict into Their Team’s Competitive Edge
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/97.At a successful, growing company, the sales ops team was split into two, to form dedicated sales and ops teams. It looked like the ...
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Episode 97
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96: How to Strengthen Stakeholder Relationships as an Ops Exec (and Become the First to Know)
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/96.You know what it’s like when you’re juggling a dozen urgent things, and suddenly a project just… stalls? Out of the blue. Later, yo...
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Episode 96
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95: How to Lead Operations When You Don’t Have All the Answers
Find the full transcript for this episode at yourfuturerealized.com/95.I’m looking at a little photo of a bluebird on my bulletin board, with a saying that’s stuck with me. It goes,...
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Episode 95
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94: Should Operations Executives Trust Their Gut?
Find the full transcript for this episode at yourfuturerealized.com/94.How often do you find yourself in a meeting, the conversation swirling, and suddenly everyone’s looking to you for...
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Episode 94
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93: 1 Simple Practice Every Ops Exec Needs to Take Back Their Day
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/93.You know that feeling when you log on in the morning, and before you’ve even had your first sip of coffee, the Slack pings start ro...
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Episode 93
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92: Navigating the Messy Middle and the Human Side of Operations, with COO Josh Renicker
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/92."I don't have the answers... I'm the guy that asks more questions." That's Josh Renicker, COO of Energy Access...
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Episode 92
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91: The Most Dangerous Habit in Operations Leadership
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/91.Ever been the only lifeguard at a packed pool? You’re perched up high, scanning every corner, whistle ready, always on alert. ...
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Episode 91
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90: 1 Simple Way to Make Your Value Visible in Operations
Find the full transcript at: yourfuturerealized.com/90.Have you heard this old joke?: “What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians? A drummer.” It always ...
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Episode 90
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89: A Guide to Accountability Conversations for Ops Leaders
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/89.“Ugh, I know I need to have this conversation. But I don’t want to sound harsh or make them defensive.”If your ops ...
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Episode 89
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