In this episode I chat with Richard Christiansen, the founder of Flamingo Estate. Richard shares his journey from running Chandelier, a high-end fashion and luxury advertising agency in New York City, to building a global lifestyle brand almost by accident. After facing severe burnout, Richard escaped to Los Angeles just as COVID-19 hit. What started as a chaotic effort to help a local farmer sell her vegetables out of his bookstore quickly transformed into a thriving bath, body, and agricultural empire.

What happens when you mix an ancient Chinese tile game with high-end design, a relentless wholesale strategy, and a zero-outside-capital mentality? You get Oh My Mahjong (OMM).

In this episode of Professional Jealousy, host Natasha Jakubowski chats with OMM founder and CEO Megan Trottier to dissect how she scaled a pandemic-era creative outlet out of her garage into a staggering $40 million business in 2025. Megan opens up about the power of the business pivot, using grass roots community building and education as a marketing vehicle, and navigating the roller coaster of rapid growth alongside her husband.

National politics gets all the glamour, but state legislatures hold all the power. In this episode of Professional Jealousy, host Natasha Jakubowski breaks down the mechanics of movement-building with Daniel Squadron (former NY State Senator and author of The Fourth Branch) and Melissa Walker (former young adult author turned activist). Together, they pull back the curtain on The States Project, an organization that inverted traditional top-down political structures into a hyper-effective grassroots engine. Discover how they use the "Giving Circle" model to turn fundraising from an intimidating chore into a simple, community-driven math problem, and how narrative-first communication can explain complex political infrastructure to spark real, systemic change.