The Portfolio Career Lab

For a long time, our corporate jobs offered us more than just a paycheck. They offered us a promise: work hard, and in exchange, you would be given an entry ticket to a certain place called the middle class. But that social contract is now fraying. And as the safety net bundled with the 9-to-5 erodes, millions of knowledge workers are now being pushed into an unfamiliar, unrecognizable job market with no map and very little floor.

The Portfolio Career Lab is a podcast that explores this phenomenon: the reasons so many professionals are polyworking today and the myriad of inventive ways they are closing the gap between how they actually want to work and live and how our social safety net was actually designed.

Each episode, host Brie Abramowicz, author of the bestselling book Polyworker, sits down with professionals choosing to live and work differently, from fractional operators and creators to economists, researchers, policy wonks, activist, athletes, and artists.