ExpertLinked Weekly is the Sunday podcast companion to the ExpertLinked.in professional development column. Each week, career strategist Jackson Rodriguez and leadership expert Olivia Bennett sit down to unpack everything they published Monday through Saturday — and everything they almost published.
Jackson covers the strategic and analytical side: career frameworks, labor market signals, the deep dives, and the monthly briefings. Olivia covers the human side: workplace dilemmas, leadership psychology, and the personal career stories that resist easy categorization. In conversation, their approaches collide productively — data meets lived experience, frameworks meet feeling, and the result is usually something neither of them would have written alone.
The format is simple. They start with the work. They dig into the notes — the research that complicated the story, the data point that didn’t quite fit, the doubt they chose not to publish. And they end with an honest reflection on what they’re watching next.
No guests, no filler, no “great question” theater. Two professionals who spend every weekday thinking hard about careers and work, and one conversation every Sunday where they tell you what they actually think.
Jackson and Olivia spend the week on a single question: who gets to define your AI value before a dashboard or a stalled labor market does it for you? They unpack the mid-year proof memo, the June jobs report’s still-frozen hiring mechanism, the compliance theater of tool mandates without workflow redesign, and a practitioner story about turning one redesigned bottleneck into a promotion signal.
