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#98 - Talk Therapy returns! (With our actual therapist, Dan Tarplin!)

Jan 10th, 2022 1h

Hey friends! It's been awhile! We figured, what better way to come back than with a conversation with Dan and Nathan's actual therapist: Dan Tarplin. Every Wednesday for almost two years we've been seeing Dan to work on our relationship with ea

#97 - Our reactions to the Ted Lasso S2 Finale

Oct 26th, 2021 38m 52s

What does it mean to crave admiration and respect? How can we handle it if we feel we're not getting it? The usual Ted Lasso gang (Dan, Nathan, Rachel) convene to recap the finale of season 2. Of course we talk about everything that happened wi

#96 - Ted Lasso Recap: What’s Nate’s Deal?

Oct 11th, 2021 36m 22s

(Ahoy, there! Spoilers ahead!)This week, the gang obsesses over Dan’s galaxy brain theory connecting Nate’s downfall with Sam’s courtship by the Ghanaian billionaire. Questions include: should Nate be fired? What do you do when forgiveness do

#95 - Ted Lasso Recap S2, Ep 7 & 8: How our parents affect us

Sep 18th, 2021 32m 9s

(Spoilers, as usual!)In this special double-header, the crew discusses some of the biggest episodes of the season so far. What is going on with Nate? What did Jamie's confrontation with his father unlock in Ted, and why? How do our parents af

#94 - Ted Lasso Recap S2 E6: How to tell a friend you're worried about them

Sep 7th, 2021 46m 39s

In the this episode of Ted Lasso, Higgins decides to take Coach Beard aside and ask him whether he really thinks it's a good idea to get back into a relationship with Jane, because the last time they were together it was pretty tumultuous. We a

#93 - Ted Lasso Recap: Season 2 Episode 5

Sep 1st, 2021 35m 6s

Dan, Nathan and Rachel, discuss what is perhaps the low point of a season that has already had its share of peaks and valleys. Why does the latest installment of Ted Lasso feel untrue to both the spirit of the show and the world beyond it? List

#92 - Ted Lasso Recap: S2 Episode 4

Aug 22nd, 2021 32m 59s

Dan, Nathan, and Rachel compare their differing reactions to Ted Lasso's seasonably questionable Christmas episode. Is it a repreive from contrived plotting? Or a symptom of a followup season that hasn't decided on its core conflict yet?

#91 - Handling your colleagues' emotions

Aug 21st, 2021 17m 8s

We're partnering with Amazon this week to let our listeners know you can listen to Talk Therapy with a simple Alexa command!Just tell your Alexa speaker to play Talk Therapy—it's a great way to listen.

#90 - Ted Lasso Episode Recap: S2 Episodes 2 & 3

Aug 18th, 2021 43m 43s

Dan, Nathan and Rachel reunite to discuss the second and third episodes of Ted Lasso's sophomore season, which they much prefer to the premiere. From deeply-felt thematic throughlines about mentor/mentee relationships, to the funniest gags in t

#89 - Introducing the Talk Therapy Ted Lasso Recap

Aug 3rd, 2021 47m 28s

It's a very special time of year—a new season of Dan and Nathan's favorite show on management, positivity and leadership is starting back up. That's right, it's Ted Lasso time—and for the Apple show's second season, Talk Therapy will be welcomi

#88 - Why your emotions don't always mean what you think

Jul 26th, 2021 12m 55s

Nathan got himself a new fitness tracking device—and promptly found himself using it to track something unexpected: emotions. Returning to a recent management misunderstanding with Dan, he explains how the device alerted him to what he was feel

#87 - How Joshua Ogundu found a therapist

Jul 22nd, 2021 36m 12s

Nathan and Dan welcome Joshua Ogundu, a fellow member of the LA tech community, to the podcast for an open and insightful conversation about the benefits of therapy, and why it's never too late to begin. Take it from Joshua, whose openness abou

#86 - Ali Montag on why The Narrative isn't worth chasing

Jul 19th, 2021 41m 3s

Read Ali's Divinations piece, "The Inner Ring of the Internet."

#85 - Understanding the cofounder relationship through...Game Theory?

Jul 12th, 2021 18m 37s

Hot off a week spent brushing up on the finer points of game theory, Dan tells Nathan why a study in human behavior—specifically, cooperation—has conclusions that put cofounder relationships into a fresh new context. It turns out that just beca

#84 - Working late is lately working

Jun 25th, 2021 16m 55s

Nathan's been staying up to write into the wee hours of the night. Talking with Dan about how he balances sporadic work habits with a cohabitating relationship, he drills down on a larger question: how do we decide what's important? As the cofo

#83 - Managing burnout by...working more?

Jun 18th, 2021 19m 44s

Nathan's working more than ever, but it's also paradoxically helped to solve his burnout. In this episode, Dan and Nathan explore Nathan's experience with ADHD, and how working on things he's excited about—rather than things he thinks he *shoul

#82 - Celebrating Every Day

Jun 15th, 2021 19m 29s

Listen to Talk Therapy #5 from last year, in which Dan and Nathan reflect on how adding Tiago Forte to the bundle defied their growth expectations, and what they learned.

#81 - Confronting a panic attack

Jun 8th, 2021 16m 19s

After talking with previous guest Alex Lieberman about panic and anxiety, Dan and Nathan walk through their memories of a panic attack that Dan experienced. In an effort to make peace with something that was deeply troubling at the time it happ

#80 - Alex Lieberman opens up about his move from CEO to Executive Chairman of Morning Brew

Jun 5th, 2021 47m 17s

“I would say the last 3 months have been probably the most anxious months of the last 6 years for me.”Alex Lieberman’s identity for the past 7 years has been almost entirely about being the co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew. He created it fr

#79 - Is Nathan unmanageable?

May 22nd, 2021 18m

Dan had a dream about Nathan, and in this episode they unpack it together to try to figure what it means. It turns into a conversation about perfectionism, managing different zones of responsibility, and one of Dan’s deepest fears: is Nathan un

#78 - We got to record an episode in person. What's next?

May 20th, 2021 15m 23s

Celebrating their first (!) episode recorded on the same microphone, Dan and Nathan reflect on the birth Talk Therapy—and Every—amidst the pandemic, and wonder about the future of working remotely and in person. Will Every buy a house for writi

#77 - Under Talk Therapy's hood, with guest host Freia Lobo

May 13th, 2021 19m 17s

Dan and Nathan are joined by Talk Therapy's inaugural guest host, Every community member (and investor!) Freia Lobo—who also happens to be an avid listener. Answering Freia's questions about their podcast's near-yearlong journey, the cohosts an

#76 - Introducing Executive Editor Rachel Jepsen!

May 10th, 2021 32m 7s

Dan and Nathan celebrate Rachel Jepsen's official introduction as Every's Executive Editor! Since last year, Rachel has been working with Every writers—and hosting her own show, The Long conversation. Now, she talks to Nathan and Dan about her