Work In Progress

A woman discovers her cranium-tingling voice is the stuff of YouTube stardom; a visually impaired man happens upon his special sightseeing abilities at night. What happens when your senses become your super-powers at work? Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories This episode also features Slack customer "The Fighting Unicorns” - they are a kick-ass all-girls robotics competition team from Ohio.

A Wall Street trader's climb to the top proves too gut-wrenching to continue; a classical pianist grapples with a career-ending injury. What happens when you're suddenly physically incapable of doing your job? Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories This episode also features Slack customer Gigmit - Europe's largest gig and artist database.

A prison superintendent ordered to oversee two executions struggles with his beliefs that the punishment doesn't fit the crime and a former Vegas drug dealer finally finds his place in the high life--sober. Sometimes the only way to find your true calling is to pull a complete 180. Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories. This episode also features Slack customer Bump Boxes - a subscription service for mom and baby that covers every stage of pregnancy to your little one's first birthday.

To gain credibility in a case, a police officer reveals his identity as a practicing pagan. After 30 years of performing as a man, a veteran comic takes the stage for the first time...as a woman. This week, two enlightening stories of people who took big risks to bring their true selves to work. Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories. This episode also features Slack customer Daily Bits Of, a delivery service for bite-sized learning on just about any subject to your inbox.

Sometimes, the way to find out who we really are is to become someone else. Like the struggling author who’s already sold millions of books and the Vietnam war vet who carries out a do-or-die promise by becoming Santa Claus. Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories. This episode also features the ever persistent team at Scout Military Discounts - they created an app to help service members and veterans save money.

A nun chooses solitude over social work and a highfalutin Wall Street recruiter quits the corporate life to work with former felons. Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories. This episode also features Georgetown's Chaia - serving up plant-based tacos in a stylish and casual setting.

A historian recounts the tale of an escaped slave who launched Toronto’s first taxi service and a loyal London Black Cab driver takes to the radio to unite his industry in revolt. Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories. This episode also features the fit folks (and tots) at Hike It Baby - dedicated to getting families outside.

Sometimes the most profound things we say and do at work happen when we don’t say anything at all. This week: A librarian's shushing earns her superhero status and a young hospital chaplain learns that sitting in silence brings great comfort to ailing, ageing patients. Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories. •This episode also features back-to-basics magazine publisher Dance Studio Life whose mission is to be at the forefront of dance and education.

Every job has its freedoms and limitations, but sometimes all you need to endure the ups and downs is a noble purpose. This week: A man who saves airline passengers from errant wildlife and another who's made it his life's work to build a country for the nationless. Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories. • This episode also features Hilmar California's Wickstrom Dairy - they've been milking cows for 76 years.

Parents have high hopes for their children, many wish their progeny will follow in their footsteps. This week: A son trades in building new towns for building software and a college graduate contemplates her fateful career slinging smoked fish with her legendary family. Follow along at slack.com/podcast and @slackstories. • This episode also features Asheville North Carolina's Talking Book - a gutsy and innovative indie audiobook publisher.

This week: career breakthrough moments. A 17-year-old female baseball player faces off against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. An architect takes on the daunting task of rebuilding Sandy Hook Elementary after one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. Follow along at slack.com/podcast or @slackstories.

From working in finance to servicing HVAC units, prosecuting despots for war crimes to pursuing life as a bootstrapping standup comedian...our careers can take some sharp left turns. Follow along @slackstories or slack.com/podcast

When it comes to envisioning what we want to do with our lives, we set our sights high. In episode 2 of Work in Progress, we hear two very different stories of a dream (job) coming true, whether by a random stroke of luck or through decades of perseverance. Follow along @slackstories or slack.com/podcast

Some people know exactly what they want to do when they grow up, while the rest of us take a different approach—flying by the seat of our pants, dipping in and out of jobs not giving too much thought to any master plan because frankly, it doesn’t exist. Going with the flow can change your life forever and take you to some pretty unexpected places—whether backstage with David Bowie or onto the set of one of TVs’ biggest sci-fi thrillers. Welcome to the debut episode of Work In Progress, Slack’s new podcast about the meaning and identity we find in work. Hosted by Dan Misener. Follow along @slackstories or slack.com/podcast

Behind every working human, there’s a story. Work in Progress is Slack’s new radio show about the meaning and identity we find in work. Each week, join host Dan Misener for stories of personal ambition and debilitating insecurities, great successes and abject failures, the plans we make and the luck that…happens. Hosted by Dan Misener, produced by Slack. Follow along @slackstories or slack.com/podcast