The Messy Parts

Maryam Banikarim

alerner@maryambnyc.com

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Booking Overview

The Messy Parts pairs career guidance with deeply personal, unfiltered stories from accomplished women—plus practical takeaways about leadership, resilience, and pivoting. PR value: it’s a credibility-forward platform for founders, executives, authors, and investors who can speak honestly about the messy human side behind big professional moves.

Metrics

Episodes: 51

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.8k subscribers

Instagram: 4.1k followers

Contact Information

alerner@maryambnyc.com

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Host

Maryam Banikarim - Maryam Banikarim is the host of The Messy Parts and a transformative leader with more than 20 years in C-suite roles across media, hospitality, and tech. Her experience includes leadership at compa...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Accomplished women with public-facing professional credibility (C-suite/execs, founders/co-founders, investors/VC leaders, bestselling authors), and/or leaders with compelling lived experience (health, infertility, trauma, divorce) that directly shaped a career pivot or leadership approach.
Required Achievements:  
Founded/co-founded a company, Published a bestselling book, Led or built a fund/investment platform, Held senior executive roles (C-suite leadership), Launched initiatives tied to women’s health or empowerment

Recent Guest Discussions

Kerry Docherty - Building A Business With Spouse/family; Navigating Emotional Labor And Marriage; Secrets And Personal Growth; Reclaiming Self-prioritization

Assia Grazioli-Venier - Dyslexia And Confidence; Pivoting From Early Career Disruptions Into Tech/vc; Fundraising Mindset For Women; Womens Healthcare Gaps; Ai-proofing Careers; Resilience Through Cancer/infertility

Belle Burden - Radical Honesty After Personal Upheaval; Generational Silence; The Emotional Cost Of Staying Composed; Professional/layoff Parallels; Writing And Identity

Recent Topics

Career, Leadership, Resilience, Women, Fundraising

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Messy Parts
:

Bonnie Hammer Gave Her Boss the Finger. It Changed Her Career.

June 15, 2026

Bonnie Hammer ran 10 networks and two studios at NBCUniversal — but her career didn't start in a corner office. It started cleaning up dog poop on a kids' TV set. In this episode of The Messy Parts, Bonnie gets radically honest with Maryam about the moments that actually shaped her career: being passed over for the top job at NBC, negotiating her way into her own studio, saying yes to WWE when every instinct said no, and building one of the most collaborative cultures in a notorious...

Ed Sheeran, Pizza Rat & Getting Hacked: Rick McGuire on Running Subway Creatures and Loving New York

June 08, 2026

What does it take to build one of New York City's most recognizable social media brands — from scratch, in secret, while working a day job? Subway Creatures founder Rick McGuire tells Maryam the whole story: from working at VH1 and MTV while quietly building Subway Creatures on the side to Pizza Rat, Ed Sheeran, and a very public account hack that brought him to tears and nearly took everything. Rick gets honest about the chaos of entrepreneurship, learning to value your own work, and wh...

"I Don't Know How to Balance All of This": Faherty Co-Founder Kerry Docherty on Business, Marriage, and Choosing Yourself

June 01, 2026

Kerry Docherty is a co-founder of Faherty, the surf lifestyle brand she built alongside her husband, his identical twin brother, and her mother-in-law. But behind the sun-soaked brand was a woman quietly carrying the weight of secrets — from childhood, from marriage, and from a business that nearly broke her. In this episode, Kerry opens up to Maryam about growing up in an Irish Catholic household where hard things went unspoken, what it really means to work with your spouse, the emotional af...

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