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Search & Replace Episode S01E09: Danielle Louis
When you finally get your dream job and it turns into a mental health nightmare, what do you do? She found the mental health challenges first responders endure a major public health issue and decided to take the system head on.
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Search & Replace Episode S01E08: Madison Taskett
What if one experiment could mean the difference between leading an extraordinary life and being stuck in ‘the spiral of doom’? Madison Taskett is no mad scientist, but she isn’t afraid of a adding few small experiments.
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Search & Replace Episode S01E07: AJ Bruno
AJ Bruno and his wife found themselves upending their schedules during a government-imposed stay-at-home order that lasted throughout much of March, April, and May 2020. As business owners and parents of three young children, the lockdown forced them to think about priorities for themselves and for their community.
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Everything We Found Episode 1: Tracey Welson-Rossman
Tracey Welson-Rossman runs marketing for Philadelphia-based technology company Chariot Solutions. Many other folks know her as the founder behind TechGirlz — with a Z — a nonprofit that develops free technology workshops that help inspire middle school aged girls all over the world to explore careers in technology. She was also a founding member of Philly Startup…
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Search & Replace Episode S01E06: Tracey Welson-Rossman
Tracey Welson Rossman founded TechGirlz, a nonprofit that develops free technology workshops that help inspire middle school aged girls all over the world to explore careers in technology. She’s been exploring the idea of what she calls an “itchy brain,” and what happens when you feel like you’ve just got to scratch that itch.
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Search & Replace Episode S01E05: Samie & Ryan Roberts
Samie and Ryan Roberts faced a big decision when they were working in New York City — she was in corporate public relations, he was in corporate sales. And they started feeling the itch to take a little more control over their careers. And like most couples, that realization didn’t hit them at the exact…
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Search & Replace Episode S01E04: Daniel Tobon
Daniel Tobon’s been a startup founder, a general counsel, a COO and a CEO. A group of his fellow combat veterans that noticed that things weren’t quite right with Daniel’s work/life balance.
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Search & Replace Episode S01E03: Kolina Cicero
Author Kolina Cicero wasn’t really looking for any advice on habit tracking. However, a gift from a friend enlightened her to how much time she wasn’t spending doing the things she thought were central to her well-being.
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Search & Replace Episode S01E02: Nick Darlington
South African writer and business consultant Nick Darlington tells us about the Pomodoro Technique, named for a tomato-shaped kitchen timer.
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Search & Replace Episode S01E01: Melissa Alam
Melissa Alam took the extreme step of removing email from her phone entirely. However, she tells us getting more productive time during her workday wasn’t her original goal.
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Essential Small Business Management Tools
Update (5/4/2022): Since I first wrote this post and granted this podcast interview, some major changes happened at Basecamp that caused me to change my mind. Tara and Shannon from the excellent What Works podcast (and from the What Works Network, of which I’ve been a member for years) rounded up a crew of folks…
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The Build #44: Stretch
Managing change isn’t always easy. For industrial engineer and climate change policy expert Shannon Binns, the need to manage change became apparent when he moved to fast-growing Charlotte, North Carolina and observed a major lack of planning in the city’s sustainable growth plans. This observation inspired Shannon to start a journey of a thousand one-on-one…