The Messy Parts

Maryam Banikarim

Booking Overview

This is an interview show focused on career pivots, ambition, leadership lessons, setbacks, and the personal challenges behind accomplished careers, featuring candid conversations with prominent founders, executives, media figures, and sports leaders. Agencies could credibly pitch senior executives, entrepreneurs, authors, creatives, and athletes or coaches with distinctive career journeys and hard-won perspectives; booking difficulty is high because the show favors highly accomplished, recognizable guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 63

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 10.7k subscribers

Instagram: 7.4k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Maryam Banikarim - Transformative business leader with more than 20 years of C-suite experience across media, hospitality, and technology, including leadership roles at Hyatt, NBC, and Nextdoor.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Recognized founders, senior executives, creative or media leaders, authors, athletes, and coaches with substantial professional achievements and a compelling account of setbacks, pivots, or personal challenges.

Required Achievements:

Founded or led a prominent company or organization, Built a notable media, creative, sports, or consumer-brand career, Authored a book or achieved significant public recognition, Rebuilt an organization or career after a major setback

Recent Guest Discussions

Laura Mayer - Burnout, Ambition, Work Habits, Motherhood, Podcast-industry Economics, And Leaving A High-status Media Career.

Samantha Bee - Career Setbacks, Dream Jobs, Management, Self-doubt, Comparison, Hustle Culture, And Lessons From Leading A Large Creative Team.

Julie Gaines - Building A Beloved New York Business, Creative Collaborations, Hiring And Leadership, Divorce, Living With Multiple Sclerosis, And Resilience.

Megan Griffith - Career Setbacks, Identity And Belonging, Professional Sports, Rebuilding Organizations, Recruiting, Advocacy, And Coaching Leadership.

Blake Mycoskie - Founder Identity, Mental Health After A Major Exit, Entrepreneurship, Financial Success, Parenting, Healing, And Purpose.

Recent Topics

Career Advice, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Ambition, Resilience

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Messy Parts

Mindy Grossman Worked for Oprah, Barry Diller & Phil Knight — and Says She's Never Been 100% Qualified

September 07, 2026

Fired at 24. Turned down her dream job at Nike, then took it anyway. Walked into HSN as the eighth CEO in ten years. Mindy Grossman built one of the least likely careers in American business, and in this episode of The Messy Parts she tells Maryam how: leaving college at 19 to move to New York with $1,800, landing her first job by admitting she couldn't take shorthand, buying 2,000 Aeron chairs to prove a broken culture was changing, and converting 30,000 Weight Watchers meetings to virt...

Sex, Xanax & Naked Beaches: 20 Legends Drop the PR Filter

August 31, 2026

Behind every legendary career is an unfiltered human truth. In this special compilation, 20 of our most notable guests—including Mickey Drexler, Samantha Bee, Blake Mycoskie, Bonnie Hammer, Kim Hastreiter, Sally Susman, Sari Botton, and Baked by Melissa—reveal what happens when the PR guardrails come down. From Bevy Smith’s show-stopping mandate to "have sex, a lot of it," to surprisingly vulnerable confessions about daily tears, imposter syndrome, and surviving a crisis of confiden...

The Points Guy Couldn't Get His Own Credit Card: Then He Made $28 Million at 28 Years Old (Replay)

August 24, 2026

Brian Kelly (aka The Points Guy) has been obsessed with credit card and frequent flyer points since childhood. At age 12, his dad challenged him to book a family vacation using only points, and young Brian successfully got his entire family to the Cayman Islands for free. In this episode, Brian tells Maryam about the reality behind his meteoric rise: ruined credit, toxic friendships, launching The Points Guy as a side hustle, becoming a multi-millionaire at 28 years old - and the loneliness t...

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