HitEnter: Stories from the Inbox

Have you ever had to reinvent your career, or wish you could? In today’s episode, we explore the topic of career reinvention. People re-entering the workforce after an extended absence find it challenging to overcome certain stigmas with career gaps. While others dream about changing careers, but can’t fathom starting all over. We hear from people who are re-entering the paid workforce after years of caregiving, and their personal experience joining a paid mid-career internship. We also hear...

We explore the common underlying psychology behind deception by looking at email fraud, a cult, sex trafficking, and mystery shopping. Deception is as old as the human race, so why do humans continue to fall for scams and fraud? What are the human traits scammers take advantage of? Our guests include Beth Bruno, Caron Schwartz, Jennifer Beaumont, Liz Dennison, and an anonymous couple who joined a cult.

Inspired by Google’s “undo send” feature, we explored a few situations that touch on the human desire to undo something. Like, how does a company undo organizational memory loss? Or how do email marketers undo a very public mistake? We even asked a few of our colleagues at Return Path to tell us about their undo nightmares. Our guests include: Professor Mark Ackerman, Justine Jordan, and Jessica Best.

Welcome to HitEnter’s first episode! Our theme is welcomes and introductions. We look at how greetings are conducted across a variety of settings and cultures and explore the key elements of a successful welcome. Our guests include: Bobby Stuckey, Pamela Dennis, Eric Davis and Lindsey Pointer.