Handled by The Y Variable
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Handled by The Y Variable, hosted by Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah — founder of workplace consultancy The Y Variable — bridges the generational divide at work. Each episode translates cross-generational perspectives into practical strategies, helping both seasoned managers and emerging professionals navigate communication, collaboration, and career growth together.
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Episode 21: Why Management Is a Lonely Job — And What to Do About It
Management looks and feels different when you're doing it alone. In the third part of the “Leading from the Middle” series, we're talking about something organizations rarely name: the fact that…
How to Manage Up When Your Boss Won't Listen (Middle Manager Guide)
In this episode of Handled by The Y Variable, we're tackling one of the more frustrating positions a middle manager can be in: you can see the problem, your team can see the problem, but the people…
When You’re the Youngest Leader in the Room: Managing Up the Age Ladder
You got the title and then you looked around the room during your first team meeting and realized: some of these people have been doing this longer than I’ve been working! This episode is for the…
New Manager? The 3 Things You Actually Control (That Nobody Tells You)
Getting promoted into management can be exciting, until you realize nobody actually told you what the job requires. Most new managers step into their new roles doing what got them recognized to begin…
The Ryan Coogler Playbook: Why the Best Managers Make Coffee
Ryan Coogler and the film, Sinners, just made history at the Oscars with 4 wins, a record 16 nominations, and a $100 million original film that wasn't a sequel, a franchise, or based on a comic book.…
Different Generations, Different Playbooks — Why Implicit Expectations Are Costing You
Picture this: A Gen Z employee asks a question in a meeting and their Boomer leader is offended. The Gen Z employee has no idea why. Neither person violated their understanding of respect, but they…
Your Workplace Became a Village (Whether You Planned For It Or Not)
If you're a manager who's running on empty — and you can't quite explain why — this episode names what's actually happening. The manager role has fundamentally changed. You're not just overseeing…
Why You're Not Getting Promoted (The Uncomfortable Truth)
"Pay me first, then I’ll do the work." It sounds fair, right? But in this episode of Handled by The Y Variable, Yaa-Hemaa pulls back the curtain on why this mindset might be keeping early career…
Career Transitions & Gen Z Workplace Dynamics | VP Shares Leadership Tips
Welcome to a special episode of Handled by The Y Variable! For the first time, host Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah sits down with a guest - Gregory Jack, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Ipsos…
What Managers Really Say About Gen Z Behind Closed Doors (Part One)
What are managers really saying about Gen Z when early-career professionals aren't in the room? In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on a conversation that's happening in leadership circles…
How Gen Z Can Get Noticed at Work (What Managers Wish You Knew) | AI, Visibility & Career Growth
You're doing great work. but is anyone noticing? In this episode, we're breaking down the untold rules of workplace visibility, especially in the age of AI. If you've ever finished a big project and…
How to Manage Up at Work: The Workplace Skill Nobody Teaches Gen Z
Did you know that part of your job is managing your manager? If you’re early in your career, in all likelihood, nobody told you this explicitly. Today, we're making this invisible expectation…
How to Find a Mentor at Work (And How to Be One) | Gen Z Career Advice
86% of Gen Z workers want mentorship, but only half of them have it. In this episode, we make the unspoken rules of workplace mentorship explicit: how to find mentorship without seeming needy, how…
How to Ask ‘Why’ at Work Without Sounding Rude (The Untold Rule)
Imagine this: you're three weeks into a new job. You receive a task from your manager, but it doesn't quite make sense to you. So you ask, "Why are we doing it this way?" Suddenly, the energy…
Decode Workplace Communication: Turn Vague Manager Speak Into Clear Actions
Every workplace runs on invisible rules. Phrases like "be proactive," "run with it," and "step up" make perfect sense to experienced managers, but can leave early-career team members guessing. The…
Gen Z: You Need to Learn the Lost Art of Small Talk
What's the most important skill for the workplace that Gen Z can learn according to renowned therapist Esther Perel? It's not time management; it’s talking to strangers. In this episode of Handled…
The AI Divide: Why Gen Z Leans on ChatGPT and Managers Don’t Trust It
This week on Handled by The Y Variable, Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah explores one of today’s biggest workplace questions: how should we use AI without losing trust, learning, or accountability? We talk…
How to Respond to Gen Z Saying “That’s Not My Job” (Without HR Drama)
A last-minute request. A firm “That’s not in my job description.” Now what? In this straight-to-camera episode of Handled by The Y Variable, I break down how managers can respond to Gen Z boundaries…
Feedback Literacy: The Career Skill Nobody Taught You
Feedback is one of the hardest conversations at work, especially across generations. What a manager might see as a quick bit of critique, Gen Z or an early career professional may hear as personal…
Why Gen Z Quits So Quickly and What Managers Can Do About It
Why is Gen Z quitting so quickly and sometimes within the first few months on the job? It’s not always about laziness, entitlement, or lack of commitment. A real issue? It's broken onboarding. In…
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Handled by The Y Variable has published 21 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Business, Careers.
Handled by The Y Variable is currently active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 11m.
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