Kim Essendrup and Kate Anderson
Who We Are

Frank Talk.
Real Answers.

PM Happy Hour is the podcast and community for project managers who are tired of textbook theory and want straight answers to the stuff nobody warned them about.

Kim Essendrup and Kate Anderson have been doing this for 8 years. They're not here to sell you a certification or a framework. They're here because the real problems have real solutions, and most people just never hear them.

50+ Years Combined Experience
8 Years Podcasting
100+ Episodes
100s of PMs Helped
Meet the Hosts

The Two People Behind It All

PMP · PMI-ACP
Kim Essendrup
The Strategist

25+ years managing projects across industries, from scrappy startups to Fortune 500 boardrooms. Kim has seen every flavor of stakeholder meltdown, scope creep, and impossible deadline. He's got the battle scars and the solutions to match.

When Kim isn't on the podcast, he's running 1:1 coaching sessions and helping PMs figure out how to handle the stuff that keeps them up at night. Relentlessly practical. Zero fluff.

PMP · CSM
Kate Anderson
The Communicator

25+ years turning chaos into clarity. Kate specializes in the human side of project management: navigating office politics, building trust with skeptical teams, and getting buy-in from executives who already think they know better.

She wrote the book on difficult conversations, basically. The hard questions about sponsors who won't engage, meetings that go nowhere, and career moves that feel risky. Unapologetically direct. Surprisingly funny.

They Were Tired of Both Camps

Most PM training falls into one of two places: expensive corporate workshops teaching theory nobody uses, or free content that's either too basic or completely outdated. Neither one answers the question you're actually Googling at midnight.

So Kim and Kate started a podcast. Frank, honest, occasionally salty. Practical advice from people who've lived through the same situations. Each episode is also a PMI-approved class, so members earn PDUs automatically just by listening.

Eight years later, it's grown into a full community of PMs helping each other figure out the things nobody taught them in their certification program.

Kim and Kate

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