
Fearless Product Leadership
Being a product leader is not for the meek. Join Hope Gurion, product leader coach at Fearless Product, as she interviews experienced product leaders in B2B & B2C, start-up, growth and mature companies. In each episode she asks for 5 perspectives on how product leaders handle a tough responsibility of the role. If you're a new product leader, or just want to hear how other product leaders fearlessly tackle the challenges you're facing, this is the podcast for you.
Latest episodes

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Oct 24, 2023 • 15min
Resource Allocation Antipatterns: What can go wrong? (7/7)
Jonathan Ber, experienced product leader, joins the hosts to discuss antipatterns in resource allocation decisions. The episode covers challenges faced in transitioning to a product-operating model, avoiding common resource allocation anti patterns, and the importance of not blindly imitating successful companies. They also explore challenges in decision-making and transitioning to a product-operating model.

Oct 23, 2023 • 34min
Resource Allocation's People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where? (6/7)
Jonathan Bertfield, Senior product leader, discusses how to decide on resource allocation by choosing the right people for the task, maintaining team durability, aligning goals, building trust, and focusing on attributes needed for projects in different stages.

Oct 22, 2023 • 14min
Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? (5/7)
Barry O'Reilly, experienced product leader, and Hope Gurion discuss how to develop an initial resource allocation plan. They emphasize the importance of dedicated teams, highlight the challenges in allocating resources, and explore the benefits of effective resource allocation for scaling and growth.

Oct 21, 2023 • 30min
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? (4/7)
Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions.
In the fourth episode, we continue to weigh the options for
allocating resources to products at various life stages as we answer the question: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore or Invest?
In it, you’ll hear perspectives from:
Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.
Barry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody Studios
Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer
and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com)
Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries:
Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest?
Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan?
People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?
Antipatterns: What can go wrong?
Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast
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Oct 20, 2023 • 12min
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? (3/7)
Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode
miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions.
In the third episode, we continue to weigh the options for
allocating resources to products at various life stages as we answer the question: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain?
In it, you’ll hear perspectives from:
Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer
Adrian Howard, Coach, Quietstars
and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com)
Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries:
Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest?
Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan?
People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?
Antipatterns: What can go wrong?
Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast
Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.
Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on Linkedin or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Oct 19, 2023 • 40min
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being sunset? (2/7)
Experienced product leaders discuss how to allocate resources to products being sunsetted, including the importance of investing in sunsetting, reallocating resources, and prioritization. They also address the challenges of managing essential projects, creating a durable team, and making difficult choices when sunsetting products.

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Oct 18, 2023 • 44min
Resource Allocation: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation? (1/7)
Experienced product leaders share effective techniques for resource allocation in a 7-episode miniseries. Topics include triggers for reevaluating resource allocation, evaluating organizations, challenges and fallacy of sunk cost, and different approaches to resource allocation.

Oct 17, 2023 • 9min
How do you make Resource Allocation decisions for products and teams?
Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions.
In it, you’ll hear perspectives from:
Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.
Barry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody Studios
Adrian Howard, Coach, Quietstars
Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer
and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product
(www.fearless-product.com)
Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries:
Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain?
Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest?
Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan?
People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?
Antipatterns: What can go wrong?
Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership
Podcast
Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you in a review.
Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on Linkedin or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

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Jun 22, 2021 • 39min
How Do You Nurture Product Discovery as a Leader? Interview with Teresa Torres
Are you a product leader seeking to improve the discovery practices of your teams? Do you want to create a culture and leadership team that values discovery-based, customer-centric product roadmaps over executive-only ideas? In this episode of Fearless Product Leadership, Teresa Torres of ProductTalk and I discuss how product leaders can nurture product discovery in their organizations.
Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She has taught over 7,000 product people discovery skills through the ProductTalk Academy. She’s the author of the book Continuous Discovery Habits.
Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast
Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Jun 7, 2021 • 20min
What Was Your Defining Moment as a Product Leader? Part 2: People
When it comes to problems leaders face, they tend to fall into two main categories: people and process. In this episode, Part 2 in a two-part miniseries, we learn from four deeply experienced product leaders. They reflect on an epiphany that dramatically improved the way they approach the people part of their role.
Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos:
Nicole Brolan, Chief Product Officer, Redbubble, previously Executive GM – Global Services, Xero
Polly Howden, Chief Product Officer, Roleshare
Marc Abraham, Head of Product – Engagement at ASOS
Audrey Cheng, Chief Product Officer at SnapComms
and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com)
Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.