All Things Product with Teresa and Petra
Petra Wille & Teresa Torres
All Things Product with Teresa and Petra – Unfiltered, insightful, and straight to the point.
Join Teresa Torres and Petra Wille as they dive into the world of product management—one topic at a time. No long interviews, no fluff—just real conversations about the challenges, trends, and ideas shaping the way we build products.
Each week, we tackle a different topic in short, digestible episodes (15-30 minutes)—perfect for your morning commute or coffee break.
🎯 What to expect:
🔹 Curated randomness: We take turns picking topics, bringing fresh perspectives to each discussion.
🔹 Unscripted, authentic conversations: Personal experiences, opinions, and practical advice—without the corporate polish.
🔹 For product people, by product people: Whether you're a product manager or product leader, you’ll find insights you can actually use.
Expect deep dives into product thinking, decision-making, leadership, experimentation, AI, and more—plus the occasional spicy take.
💡 Got a topic you’d love us to cover? Send it our way!
🎧 Listen to All Things Product on your favorite podcast platform and join the conversation.
Join Teresa Torres and Petra Wille as they dive into the world of product management—one topic at a time. No long interviews, no fluff—just real conversations about the challenges, trends, and ideas shaping the way we build products.
Each week, we tackle a different topic in short, digestible episodes (15-30 minutes)—perfect for your morning commute or coffee break.
🎯 What to expect:
🔹 Curated randomness: We take turns picking topics, bringing fresh perspectives to each discussion.
🔹 Unscripted, authentic conversations: Personal experiences, opinions, and practical advice—without the corporate polish.
🔹 For product people, by product people: Whether you're a product manager or product leader, you’ll find insights you can actually use.
Expect deep dives into product thinking, decision-making, leadership, experimentation, AI, and more—plus the occasional spicy take.
💡 Got a topic you’d love us to cover? Send it our way!
🎧 Listen to All Things Product on your favorite podcast platform and join the conversation.
Episodes
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Nov 25, 2025 • 15min
Communities of Practice
Explore the vibrant world of communities of practice in product work. Discover the unique distinction between learning from others and learning with them. Dive into strategies for building your Personal Learning Network and personal knowledge management as essential skills. Hear how curiosity-driven learning can enhance your product intuition. Commit to courses, talks, or books for deeper insights. Plus, learn how to navigate local and curated communities to find supportive peers in your learning journey.
Nov 18, 2025 • 14min
Dealing With Setbacks
Setbacks are an inevitable part of meaningful work, both personal and professional. Grieving product failures is essential for long-term resilience. Leaders should create space for their teams to process failures, rather than rushing into post-mortems. The 10–10–10 framework helps reframe immediate frustrations. Healthy cultures embrace emotional honesty and reflection, normalizing setbacks as learning opportunities. Ultimately, decoupling performance reviews from short-term results encourages a more supportive and resilient environment.
Nov 11, 2025 • 10min
Global Invoicing
Small online businesses face a global invoicing nightmare, especially when popular platforms overlook EU tax compliance. Petra shares her experience with Squarespace's missing legal phrases, revealing how this can invalidate invoices. Meanwhile, Teresa discusses how Teachable's restrictive practices can hinder sales. They highlight the importance of understanding customer needs over mere compliance. Their switch to LearnWorlds and Ableify underscores the need for product teams to pay attention to regulatory details, ensuring they truly deliver value to clients.
Nov 4, 2025 • 24min
AI At Home And Work
Discover how personal AI experiments can boost confidence and build essential skills for both home and work. Learn practical uses of AI for meal planning, budget analysis, and creative projects, highlighting the lessons about context and bias. The conversation reveals how starting small at home can translate into effective workplace applications, emphasizing the importance of human oversight in automation. Tune in for insights on leveraging AI as a thought partner and the journey towards mastering an AI toolbox!
10 snips
Oct 28, 2025 • 17min
Context Is King
Explore how AI often stumbles due to lack of context and the vital parallels between educating teams and AI systems. Discover practical steps for product leaders to document decisions and create machine-readable contexts for efficient AI use. Learn to treat AI like a new intern, balancing the amount of context given to avoid overwhelming it while ensuring it can perform effectively. The hosts emphasize the importance of capturing organizational knowledge now to prepare for future AI integration.
Oct 21, 2025 • 27min
Moments That Changed Us
Discover how hitting personal limits can reshape your priorities as a leader. Teresa shares a pivotal moment that liberated her to take charge when everyone lacked answers. Petra's lessons on loyalty and burnout stress the importance of self-advocacy and boundaries. Hear about the transformative power of early user interviews at Starbucks, sparked by Marty Cagan, and the valuable reminder that product builders often miss their users' true needs. Laughter ensues with funny stories of user research blunders.
10 snips
Oct 14, 2025 • 17min
Product & Leadership Legacy
Explore the loaded concept of 'legacy' and discover alternative ways to frame your impact. The conversation dives into the difference between impact—what changes from your work—and craft, which satisfies intrinsic motivation. Learn how personal branding shapes colleagues' memories of you. Feedback gaps reveal blind spots, prompting proactive approaches to receiving honest input. Reflect on how well your values align with others' perceptions and gain practical prompts for personal growth as you head into Q4.
10 snips
Oct 7, 2025 • 13min
Deliberate Practice
Deliberate practice is unveiled as the key to mastering product skills. The hosts debate the benefits of cohort-based versus on-demand learning. An innovative AI interview coach offers tailored feedback to enhance the learning experience. They explore how microlearning and engaging problem sets can effectively build interviewing abilities. The discussion emphasizes that AI should complement, not replace, the vital human connections in discovery.
17 snips
Sep 30, 2025 • 28min
AI as a Strategic Thought Partner with UX Implications
Discover the innovative ways AI can enhance workflows as Petra shares her voice-first approach to maintaining consistency in her writing. Teresa reveals how Claude Code transforms coding by integrating project context, helping produce content faster. The duo explores the use of AI as a strategic editor through role-playing and sub-agents, balancing structure and tone in drafts. They also contemplate the future of personal agents in UX, reshaping how users interact with technology and potentially replacing traditional search methods.
26 snips
Sep 23, 2025 • 27min
AI Evals & Discovery
Dive into the world of AI evaluations, where evals go beyond mere quality checks. Discover the nuances between golden datasets, synthetic data, and real-world traces. Learn how to spot error modes and turn them into actionable evaluations. Uncover the importance of continuous maintenance and the concept of criteria drift. Explore the interplay of evals, guardrails, and human oversight, as well as the critical role of discovery practices in shaping effective AI product evaluations.
