 You're so loud! Do not come in and out! This is really good. We're putting the pork broth in it. Fantastic, you guys should try it. Oh, it's Dr. Nancy Lee, director product from DrNancyD.com. I help people transition from worker B to product manager and business leader to learn the most effective way to become a product manager and you should subscribe to this channel and hit the bell button be notified every time when publishing a new video on Wednesday. Today, this video is so different as you can see the background, the environment and how I look. Also, it's very different was because today I'm inviting you to see the behind-the-scenes story what my day and life looks like as a director product and especially recently I'm pregnant. Also, my audience asked me this question, how did you even balance work life and especially as a director you should have way more stress and you also have a YouTube channel, you also have lots of students and getting offers every day. So what does it look like? Now let me tell you what the different kind of day-to-day tasks I do as a director product. Then you can make decision whether moving into the director position and also climb out the career ladder is really aligned with your career goal and vision. Every morning I wake up at 7 30 a.m. and my favorite wake-up song is Game of Thrones by two channels. I recommend all of you guys check it out. I usually do not wear makeup when I work from home during COVID and even if I turn the camera I just I'm lazy and also feel like I don't want to impress anybody. I just make sure I have glasses on with my hair straightened so that's my casual look. Every week I will wake myself and also carefully track it because I've been gaining weight during COVID. A bit embarrassing and on top of that my doctor also suggests me to track my weight during my pregnancy. No! I usually have European yogurt or oatmeal for breakfast but my favorite thing for breakfast is not about the food it is the plants. I love gardening so I just grew some new flowers from the seeds so they are so pretty I'm so excited they are all Germanizing soon as I move them to the garden. Every morning I try to find 15 minutes to do a quick meditation. So now we are getting started at 9 a.m. so usually at my day start 9 a.m. sometimes start at 8 30 so it depends on the needs of the meeting so usually start at 9 so my first block of my calendar is my quiet time I call that relationship development time so usually the way I do it is as a director not just we do the day-to-day prime management operations we also need to focus on working in a larger cross-functional team so therefore right now is my quiet time to figure out who do I need to send an email to catch up and who I need to even send a thank you note and also do a planning of the entire week and actually I have a planner you can see the old notes I took before that helps me to plan on my day what I need to do so that I can be more efficient and productive I also do lots of planning like g-ra board for myself in this quiet time from 9 a.m. to 9 30 guess what so let me show you my to-do list especially I have lots of things about what I do for my teaching business my students and each different type of task I put in a different color then I move it so we have sessions specialized in improving the student experience or sessions regarding how to make youtube videos and what topics I need to make I really enjoy this and make me feel so productive so I hope all of you guys can try this out and comment down below and let me know if you feel more productive using this strategy or not and here's this is my desk and actually my computer is right here and usually in the morning I will during this quiet time want to schedule it besides using my book scheduler I will also put things on my calendar to see any like time I have in between meetings I can do some work so now it's time for me also to check my emails get back to think just get the whole day organized a few moments later now it's 9 30 I am getting ready for my first customer meeting so recently we're about to launch a new product we're really in the very early customer discovery stage and trying to figure out who are the early adopters so therefore there's a lots of pitch I need to do with our customers and the upcoming meeting is the customer pitch meeting so I will be eating invited customer to do this virtual type of COVID type of Zoom meeting with us and they will open up the meeting and I will directly do a pitch to hear about what the needs and concerns and also see if the interest in pursuing this opportunity by purchasing our product as early adopters is really listening to the market and also in this meeting besides myself I have our technical team and BD team and sometimes my boss will also be in the meeting and trying to just everybody figure out who is going to play what part in pitching the new product idea to the customer as you can tell when you work from home you can hear lots of noise in the background that's my husband so we are getting to the COVID place and actually as a product manager not only you need to like do the general ticket and write down what your day to day tasks and communicate with engineers when you move to the end stage of your product launch you need to have this kind of presentation communication skills to quote sell your product to early adopters so if you want to learn one of the eight different skills required for product managers you can check out this video I usually have back-to-back meetings throughout the whole day and barely have few half an hour break so I want to make sure my meetings are very productive so the way to make it productive is I always trying to have the agenda set ahead of time and make sure right people will be invited to those meetings if it's not a productive meeting I will just call it out early and have someone else to prepare and redo the meeting so my next meeting is a review meeting which is internal meeting the way we have this is a kind of month's meeting and all the directors or different teams need to present to our exactly level of the company usually the C level of the company tell them about what's the product update was new and what have you learned and usually not just me there will be a lot more different kind of directors or exact directors presenting to our C suite so that's important meaning I need to focus and also every team in this case only have like 10 minutes sometimes 20 minutes so depends on how big your scope is for your presentation so we really need to get ready so I'm going to focus and talk to you guys later in some meetings I'm not presenting and I will be multitasking finishing some emails and also start to write some kind of ideas of the next thing I want to do as you guys can tell presentation is a very important skills for all the product managers to advance to the next level you can learn how to improve your presentation skills by watching this video okay I have another back to back meeting I have another vendor meeting hopefully this is short to be honest once you reach your direct level there's so many people want to sell yourself it's crazy so the meetings during covid are usually very very long and when I'm not presenting I love to walk around my garden and listen to other people's ideas oh this is so soothing I also understand right now my garden is empty that's why I'm growing my seeds and soon we're gonna move them into my garden just imagine there'll be lots of flowers and those are the flowers we've seen last year here comes the lunchtime so let me show you my kitchen but I still have meetings going through lunchtime as well I'm just keeping myself on me on zoom but still cooking my favorite chinese noodle soup you'll see let's go now it's lunchtime let's make my favorite chinese noodle soup if you follow my instagram you should know by now I love chinese noodle soup and the 10 different ingredients going into it is all very organic and healthy and the smell feels like so distressed during the busy workouts all right our chinese noodle soup is finally ready usually when I have lunch I will create computer in the background because people always schedule meetings throughout the entire day I will no lunch break so I'll be listening to meetings and answer questions if necessary and cook my chinese and usually the best part of chinese noodle soup is you will put on grandma hasas and tangsusas but because I'm pregnant so this is called for a year and I can only do this and you see the differences keeping my husband's bowl and he has a lot of chinese hot sauce in it and my bowl is so plain but anyway I love chinese noodle soup you know that go to my instagram I post chinese noodle soup pictures all the time all right so let's continue and enjoy the meeting pay really good so after lunch I'll also do my email cleanup I have a specific set schedule helps me to use my time more efficient so I usually do not respond to email right away when I receive it I search my inbox and check it out at 9 a.m we're doing my choir time and then I will check again during lunchtime or after lunch this is just right now it's after lunch and then I will check later this afternoon about three o'clock or five o'clock so I have a set time that I respond to email in bulk and then come back to zoom in into things I really want to do so right now it's two o'clock we're going into the customer interview stage so when I do customer interview actually I have the sheet basically the customer interview sheet the way I do it is that when I interview them I will leave the sheet open in front of me but I will still show my face to gain some trust and at the same time I will follow the specific interview question framework but I will also deviate when I deviate the new things I add in it's always about why why you do this why you make these decisions and this really can drive way much more customer insight as well so I recommend all of you guys learn how to do customer interview and let me know if this one of skills you want to learn a comment below down the video and I can make a separate video teaching you how to do it as well also this customer interview is one hour long and usually in cooperation because we sell B2B product and usually it's one hour long but if you do like B2C type interview or like my friend or my students doing the product portfolio and they can do a shorter interview like half an hour as well so really depends on your topic if you want to learn more about product portfolio you can check out this video now so many meetings crazy so um the next meeting I have is a partner meeting and to be honest I've been in meetings all day um I wish I can take a break but in this case the partner meeting I think I can multi-pass a little bit at five o'clock in that noon I will usually stop working and do my pregnancy walk so it's very important to keep my baby healthy and I live very close to water so I always walk around the water of course I need to watch out about the coasters in Boston oh the executive want me to submit some documentation um it'll be very quick okay I'll be back two thousand years later okay I'm back all right and submit kind of code I'll hit up later hey guys that's what's going on the chief whatever officer just needs something and whenever I ask them when you need it it's always now or yesterday well this is what it is you want to go you guys want to see the behind the scenes secret that's the reality yes all right hit on my seven really good today we're doing office hours so once you get here the first question is build an app store for senior users for age 50 so how to address this so who is the first volunteer to answer this yeah go ahead a few moments later so I just had our office hour today is Wednesday so usually on Wednesdays we have office hour that's usually between one hour and two hours and today is about two hours because we did Q&A session beginning also did the mock interviews so I'm very excited helping my student get offers guess what well actually this week we got five offers um so that's my day in life and right now is already 10 o'clock in Boston guess what there's still something I need to do do some email or some kind of work for my company my full-time job so usually it takes about an hour or so or wrap it up um to be honest sometimes my boss and others will just message me at around 8 o'clock 10 o'clock sometimes 11 o'clock at night so I just need to respond and get back my emails get some drop down that's a long day but this is typical and so this is day in life as a director and if you want to learn more about my coaching program feel free to check out my free training right here so if you like this kind of behind the scenes videos please let me know you know it's all behind the scenes I didn't even have enough makeup but it's okay all for you guys so I really appreciate if you hit the like button subscribe and make sure to comment down below let me know if you want me to make more videos of the behind the scenes stories and feel free to let me know as well all right I'm gonna see you next time this is 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