💼👧's 🔍: Ty Haney is back, Boomers won't stop working, and I'm back from Cabo (déjà vu)

Ty Haney is back at OV, I’m home from another bachelorette, and Demoted has been demoted (sad!).

Let’s get into it.

Ty Haney is “doing things” again at Outdoor Voices

Remember when Ty Haney was ousted from Outdoor Voices after the company peaked at a valuation of $110 million, then plummeted to $50 million in 2020? Well, dust off your polka dot TechSweat because she’s back at OV, baby, with a brand new collection. We have legacy prints (hi, helios), we have court skorts in new colors like baby pink, and a somehow already sold out bedazzled “Doing Things” sweatshirt that’s giving very much Juicy Couture in 2004. The activewear world is crowded (Vuori, Alo, Set Active, Lulu are huge, obvi), but OV has always had loyal fans…so let’s see what happens!

Boomers can’t / won’t stop working

The fastest-growing group in the workforce? It’s not fresh grads and it’s not newly minted AI specialists. It’s…workers over the age of 75? For many of these boomers, refusing to retire or reentering the workforce is a financial decision. But for a surprising number of white-collar workers with healthy retirement accounts, the decision has nothing to do with the cash: they want to stay in the office because they simply enjoy their jobs. In fact, workers over 65 are more satisfied with their jobs compared to younger workers and are more likely to say they find their work “enjoyable and fulfilling.” Goals, honestly.

Kim K made shapewear for your face (apparently it doesn’t work)

The new SKIMS Seamless Sculpt Face Wrap is sold out (whaaa?) and apparently doesn’t work. According to one derm quoted in an article for Cosmo, “There’s no data to suggest that wearing a face wrap or tight bandages like these around your face will reduce sagging. You’d probably have to wear it for years and years to see any moderate changes.” I’ll probably stick to sleeping nude-above-the-shoulders, personally, but go off queens!

Should I move to Cabo at this point? Anyone have a home they want to offer me?? But seriously, no complaints that all my friends are having their bachelorettes in sunny Mexico. Back from another fun weekend, in which I re-wore this dress for our 'Summer Sequins' theme night and bought duty-free Patron shots for all the gals the second I landed (a huge hit!). The 18 of us stayed in a "compound" as their website calls it — highly recommend for your next group trip, and if you do book it, motion to ask them to add a zipline??

Back to the basics with these mega on-sale pants, and of course, my FAVORITE new flats. The top feels like a pajama shirt (shoutout to me for designing it, good job Natalie). FYI on sizing: I think these run a tad big (I’m wearing a 4 here, but typically take a 6).

I kind of hate cooking. But can get on board with assembling. So here’s what I’m into lately (especially after my Sweetgreen was stolen… real ones know about the Salad Debacle of Last Week)

• Step 1: keep a bunch of stuff in bins in the fridge (arugula, chickpeas, store-bought tabbouleh, pre-pitted olives, hummus, crumbled feta)

• Step 2: throw it together

This healthy and surprisingly delish meal requires cooking, zero chopping, and zero cleanup. And brings me back to the Mediterranean Sea (if only).

We laughed, we cried, we wrote LinkedIn endorsements. It’s the Demoted season FINALE, and we’ve got some hard-to-deliver news, plus one last corporate confession to soften the blow. Ross and I kick things off with an end-of-quarter blowout involving a questionable "implementation partner,” then recap the journey that brought us here, and finally, exchange some heartfelt LinkedIn endorsements. How cute! Finally, we take a trip down memory lane in a round of Promoted or Demoted featuring fatherhood, getting canceled, and the world’s least welcome calendar invite: a prostate exam. Listen to the LAST episode here.

Thanks for reading!