Procurement

Teresa is cranky — and honestly? She has every right to be.

In this episode, Teresa and Petra go on a deeply relatable rant about the absurdity of modern corporate procurement processes. Teresa is simultaneously juggling seven speaking engagement contracts, and six of them have become a part-time job in themselves — think 80-page ethics policies, 800-question security forms, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) questions asked 17 different times. Meanwhile, the one company that just put her fee on a credit card? Scheduled, confirmed, and done in two weeks.

Petra chimes in with her own procurement horror story — filling out 12 identical Word document forms — and the two draw a bigger point from the chaos: broken vendor processes don't just frustrate consultants, they prevent organizations from getting the expertise they actually need.

If you've ever wondered why that training got canceled, why that speaker backed out, or why your company can't seem to bring in outside experts — this episode might answer that question.