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Displaying episodes 91 - 120 of 373 in total
EP 395: Self Help, LLC: Instagram, the Algorithm, and Personality Types with Steph Barron Hall from Nine Types Co
Personality types are big business on Instagram. Why are we so hooked on ourselves?
EP 394: Self Help, LLC: The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise with Patrick Sheehan
Who do you trust with improving your life?
EP 393: Self Help, LLC: Selling Empowerment with Kelly Diels
Is this really what empowerment looks like?
EP 392: Self Help, LLC: Winners & Losers
Are we all in the self-help business now?
COMING SOON: Self-Help, LLC
Are we all in the self-help business now?
EP 391: How do human decisions shape the economy? with Stacey Vanek Smith
What even is the economy really? How does economic news impact my daily life? And what would prompt two humanities majors to go all-in on business and the economy?
THE BOOK: Do your Big-G Goals Serve You?
After finding myself frustrated, exhausted, and burnt out, I had to ask: Are the goals I set making my life better?
EP 390: Context Clues: Is a recession inevitable?
How do you prepare your small business for economic ups and downs?
EP 389: Context Clues: Does everyone need a personal brand?
How has our relationship with ourselves changed since we started to put so much effort into emphasizing the most marketable parts of our identities?
EP 388: Extra Context: Not Getting Paid
Can work be valuable even if you're not making money with it? What role do hobbies and personal pursuits have in our lives outside of work?
EP 387: Context Clues: Is there hope beyond positive thinking?
Vibe check: does positive thinking get in the way of recognizing real limitations and structural challenges?
EP 386: Extra Context: Getting Paid
How can we think more strategically about the way we get paid as business owners & independent workers?
EP 385: Context Clues: Who do you work for?
Do you spend more of your time working for internet companies than for yourself or your clients?
EP 384: Context Clues: Do you love your work?
Is loving your work all it's cracked up to be? And is the work you love meeting your needs?
EP 383: Extra Context: Rugged Individualism
Has individualism made it harder to navigate the 21st-century economy?
EP 382: Context Clues: What makes for a fair refund policy?
Does your refund policy help you make sales... or do right by your customers?
EP 381: What happens when you take a 4-month break from business as usual?
At the end of 2021, I stepped away from my business: left our community, off-boarded my employee to another company, and focused on my mental health. Over the n...
EP 380: When does overdelivering become overcompensating? with Allison Davis
I’m sure you’ve heard it before: underpromise and overdeliver. But is that really the best way to do business? Or does it just give us a permission slip for sel...
EP 379: Why do we choose squeezing more in over taking time off? (Time & Money 8)
I’m bringing our Time & Money series to a close this week by exploring why we choose squeezing more in over taking time off. I share how The Squeeze works, why ...
EP 378: How much time do you work? with Anne Ditmeyer (Time & Money 7)
A lot of the work we do today doesn’t much look like “work.” The divide between work-life and life-life is flexible and porous. So what does that mean for the w...
EP 377: What game are you playing? (Time & Money 6)
The systems we operate in all have different incentive systems: our business models, the social media platforms, our economy, the culture at large… And many of ...
EP 376: What Is Our Time Worth? With Keina Newell (Time & Money 5)
Most of us learn the value of our time in our first jobs. Even as we get more experience and our hourly jobs turn into salaried jobs or freelance projects, the ...
EP 375: Is this really a new economy? (Time & Money 4)
I’ve been talking about the “new economy” since about 2010. But more and more, I recognize that the economic possibilities created through the internet aren’t n...
EP 374: How do you measure quality time? with Elisabeth Jackson (Time & Money 3)
There’s more than one way to measure success—and there’s more than one way to measure time. How do you account for the time you spend working? And is it really ...
EP 373: Should we lower our expectations? (Time & Money 2)
We spend money on lots of tools designed to save us time and work. But all too often, those tools just end up raising our expectations. Why do work in less time...
EP 372: What Is Money? with Paco de Leon (Time & Money 1)
“Time is money.” Ben Franklin gave us that chestnut in 1748—and ever since, we’ve been trained to think of our lives as opportunities for making a buck. This we...
EP 371: How does emotional labor impact our work?
Emotional labor is an under-appreciated, under-compensated type of work. But it’s essential for navigating the 21st-century economy. Entrepreneurship almost alw...
EP 370: What is the creator economy? with Gina Bianchini
What is the creator economy? And why are so many creators… miserable? Mighty Networks founder Gina Bianchini was the first person I knew talking about the creat...
EP 369: Do your goals make you a better person?
The way we set goals often invites a load of comparison and competition. We can even create a moral hierarchy of more and better. In this episode, I explore the...
EP 368: What Does Growth Without Striving Look Like? with Rita Barry
“What does growth without striving look like?” Rita Barry posed this question 3 years ago, and it’s stuck with me ever since. In this episode, I talk with...
