the old girls club digest

August 29, 2025

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mallory contois
August 29, 2025 • est. reading time:8 minutes

Happy Friday!

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The list

The community-recommended good stuff. Never sponsored.

Member recs: this brand for finding your perfect pen, these delightful tiny treats perfect for gifting (or for yourself), this ai-powered webcam with alllll the bells and whistles, these industry-best clothing steamers, this addictive (just me?) productivity app that gives you a bean friend to focus with (it’s giving neopet), this lip balm with SPF that doesn’t taste like sunscreen, this aesthetic tupperware set, this bird call identifying app that I’m personally newly obsessed with, this travel crib for adventures with your little one, this collapsible paper lamp, these packing cubes for staying organized, these fancy but affordable hand sanitizers, this daily self-care journal app, this company providing healthcare specifically for midlife women, this library of very cool virtual backgrounds for video calls.

Some resources: this map of bathrooms in NYC, this post with 20+ job boards to check out, this account for a fresh take on productivity advice, these exercises for developing your career vision & plan, this list of AI productivity tips for small business owners, this H1 2025 salary benchmarking report, these free resources for mastering meta ads, these North Star journaling prompts for finding your way, this OGC roundtable on GEO vs SEO, this OGC session recording on how to develop a podcast concept, this video on overcoming inertia, this podcast episode on how to explain what’s important to you.

A good read: ‘How Social Media Shortens your Life’ by Gurwinder

And it’s not just the warnings of the dead you should heed; it’s also the warnings of the unborn. Genetically, there are far more people that could’ve been born instead of you than there are atoms in the universe. And yet, you are one of the mere 8 billion of us that are here now. To be alive is to possess an unfathomably rare gift; treat your time in this world with the gratitude it deserves.

Seneca once wrote, “Life is short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.” Social media makes you do all three. But you have the choice to do the opposite, and to expand time, for living long is not just about maximising the days in your life, but also the life in your days.

This moment is the youngest you’ll ever be. It’s a moment your future-selves will wish they could have back. Don’t waste it scrolling through posts you won’t even remember tomorrow.


[read the full essay here]

A newsletter or podcast rec: Becoming You by Suzy Welch

Tune in every week to laugh, learn, get riled up, get calmed down, and basically get closer to becoming you, joyfully, in this crazy, upside-down, scary, messy, and altogether beautiful world we share.

Open roles w/ warm member intros available

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All roles below were shared in the past 14 days.

  • Senior Manager, Campaigns (Project Management) @ REI [JD]

    • $125k - $213k

  • VP Product @ Crunchbase [JD]

  • Founding Head of Marketing @ Beam [JD]

  • eCommerce Manager @ Cornbread Hemp [JD]

    • $80k - $95k

  • Director of Growth Marketing @ Flock [JD]

  • Programmatic Buyer @ Wingman Media [JD]

    • $120k - $130k

  • Product Manager @ Corpaxe [JD]

    • $160k - $200k + bonus

  • Senior Safety Manager @ Clark Construction [JD]

  • Senior Director of Events @ Media and Events co [JD]

    • $180k

  • Staff Product Manager @ Solv Health [JD]

  • Strategic Content Lead @ Ficomm Partners [JD]

  • Strategic Lead @ Ficomm Partners [JD]

  • Engineer @ Veeam [JD]

    • $104k - $148k USD

  • Marketing Strategist @ Madison [JD]

    • $70k - $80k

  • Account Manager @ PG&Co [JD]

    • $60k - $85k

  • Sales Development Manager @ Chalk [JD]

    • $200k - $250k OTE (65/35 salary to variable)

  • Sr Account Manager & Growth Marketer @ Future Digital [JD]

  • Growth Marketing Manager @ Sunfish [JD]

    • $110k - $140k

  • Head of Marketing @ Zoe Financial

    • $180k – $235k + bonus + options

  • Director of Demand Generation @ Spark [JD]

    • $180k - $200k base + 20% variable

  • Revenue Operations Manager @ Solv Health [JD]

  • Digital Designer @ Osmo [JD]

  • VP of Marketing @ Osmo [JD]

  • Vice President of Human Resources @ Mission Critical Group (McG) [JD]

  • AI Operations Specialist @ EliseAI [JD]

    • $70k - $90k

  • Head of Finance (Fractional or FT) @ New Co [JD]

  • Senior Brand Marketing Manager @ Grocery TV [JD]

    • $138k - $151k

  • Senior Technical Recruiter @ Twill [JD]

    • $80k - $176k

  • Head of Ops and Enablement @ First Round Capital [JD]

Discounts of the week

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❤️ Mallory & the OGC team