Episodes

What even is the economy really? How does economic news impact my daily life? And what would prompt two humanities majors to go a…

After finding myself frustrated, exhausted, and burnt out, I had to ask: Are the goals I set making my life better?

How do you prepare your small business for economic ups and downs?

How has our relationship with ourselves changed since we started to put so much effort into emphasizing the most marketable parts…

Can work be valuable even if you're not making money with it? What role do hobbies and personal pursuits have in our lives outsid…

Vibe check: does positive thinking get in the way of recognizing real limitations and structural challenges?

How can we think more strategically about the way we get paid as business owners & independent workers?

Do you spend more of your time working for internet companies than for yourself or your clients?

Is loving your work all it's cracked up to be? And is the work you love meeting your needs?

Has individualism made it harder to navigate the 21st-century economy?

Does your refund policy help you make sales... or do right by your customers?

At the end of 2021, I stepped away from my business: left our community, off-boarded my employee to another company, and focused …

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 gi…

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 sh…

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. S…

The systems we operate in all have different incentive systems: our business models, the social media platforms, our economy, the…

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 j…

I’ve been talking about the “new economy” since about 2010. But more and more, I recognize that the economic possibilities create…

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 s…

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 expecta…

“Time is money.” Ben Franklin gave us that chestnut in 1748—and ever since, we’ve been trained to think of our lives as opportuni…

Emotional labor is an under-appreciated, under-compensated type of work. But it’s essential for navigating the 21st-century econo…

What is the creator economy? And why are so many creators… miserable? Mighty Networks founder Gina Bianchini was the first 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.…