This is Not Advice

Learn every aspect of how to do a job, from successful people in different occupations. Roy Bahat is a startup investor in the future of work, at the venture capital firm Bloomberg Beta, and an MBA professor. Listeners get to learn from the people who Roy gets to learn from.As usual with Roy, #thisisnotadvice… because the people who he’s speaking with have no idea what you should do in your career, only their own experiences.

This is Not Advice is a business podcast hosted by Bloomberg Beta, with 6 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Bloomberg Beta hosts This is Not Advice, a business show with 6 episodes published.

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  How to be a Rabbi, with Rabbi Noa Kushner

  Jul 13, 20261h 31mS0

  <p>In this episode, Roy talks with Rabbi Noa Kushner. She founded The Kitchen in San Francisco, a congregation that’s been studied by Jewish communities around the world for both meeting modern needs and fully engaging with traditional Jewish texts and ways.</p><p>Rabbi Kushner walks us through her journey, the inner life of a rabbi, what the role of a rabbi actually is, how to start by living a religious life, how prayer is supposed to work, how she built a congregation.</p><p>We learned that a community builds in some of the same ways a st...

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  How to be an author, with Eric Ries

  Jun 15, 20263h 10mS0

  <p>In this episode, Roy talks with author Eric Ries: software engineer, accidental blogger, initially-reluctant public speaker, and author. His first book was The Lean Startup, which gave the startup world its vocabulary. And his newest is Incorruptible, about how to help companies stay true to what they originally set out to do.</p><p>We learned that the writing comes last. Eric spent years trying out metaphors that fell flat, meetings that went nowhere, and typing out blog posts on a Palm Treo keyboard at a Starbucks on Sand Hill Road. This all happened before a single word of...

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  How to be a Litigator, with Doha Mekki

  May 4, 20263h 12mS0

  <p>In this episode, Roy talks with litigator Doha Mekki: history teacher, bioethicist, trial attorney, and Acting Assistant Attorney General. She has seen every corner of the law. And her testimony is that almost nothing about being a litigator looks the way you think.</p><p>Exhibit A: the courtroom is the last resort, not the main event. The real work is years of investigation, millions of documents, hundreds of depositions, and memos that account for every single sentence with a hyperlinked source. Exhibit B: every trial is a morality play. Exhibit C: the most important thing a litigator does...

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  How to be an Artist, with Kelsey Shwetz

  Apr 7, 20261h 53mS0

  <p>Roy Bahat talks with Kelsey Shwetz, a painter, and a professor at Columbia and Pratt, about what it's actually like to be an artist.</p><p><br></p><p>She traces her own path from Winnipeg to nearly becoming a psychologist, to the moment she decided to tell everyone she was a painter – and never looked back. Kelsey shares the parts most people don't see: how a painting actually starts, why she stages photo shoots with glass fruit and Zelda-screen composites, and what it means when a painting is "misbehaving." She talks art vs. commerce, how gallery relationships really fo...

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  How to be a Doctor, with Dr. Graham Walker

  Mar 2, 20264h 7mS1

  <p>Roy Bahat talks with Dr. Graham Walker, an emergency physician at Kaiser San Francisco about what it's actually like to be a doctor.</p><p>They cover the full arc: from deciding to go into medicine in the first place, to navigating the ER as a team sport, to the administrative grind nobody talks about. Graham gets real about whether medicine is still worth it, what makes a good patient, and how geography shapes the culture of care. They also get into medical research: who does it, who funds it, and why you don't need a PhD to publish...

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