Episodes
EP 395: Self Help, LLC: Instagram, the Algorithm, and Personality Typ…
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 Patri…
Who do you trust with improving your life?
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?
EP 391: How do human decisions shape the economy? with Stacey Vanek S…
What even is the economy really? How does economic news impact my daily life? And what would prompt two humanities majors to go a…
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…
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 outsid…
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 u…
At the end of 2021, I stepped away from my business: left our community, off-boarded my employee to another company, and focused …
EP 380: When does overdelivering become overcompensating? with Alliso…
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…
EP 379: Why do we choose squeezing more in over taking time off? (Tim…
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…
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. S…
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…
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 j…
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 create…
EP 374: How do you measure quality time? with Elisabeth Jackson (Time…
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…