What Works

What Works


Latest Episodes

EP 389: Context Clues: Does everyone need a personal brand?
July 05, 2022

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
June 28, 2022

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?
June 21, 2022

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

EP 386: Extra Context: Getting Paid
June 14, 2022

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?
June 07, 2022

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?
May 31, 2022

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
May 24, 2022

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

EP 382: Context Clues: What makes for a fair refund policy?
May 17, 2022

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?
May 10, 2022

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 next 4 months, I wrote a book and thought

EP 380: When does overdelivering become overcompensating? with Allison Davis
April 05, 2022

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 self-exploitation? When does overdelivering