Talk Therapy

#62 - How to take time off—and actually relax

It's Nathan's turn to take a break. After going over his plans with for a week of relaxing and cooking, he and Dan open up about why it can

3 1 Mar 6, 2021

#31 - Talk Therapy is a mission focused podcast

Dan and Nathan process Coinbase’s decision to disengage from any political issues outside their core focus. What were they trying to do? Wha

#13 - Disruption and its discontents

Dan interviews Nathan about his forthcoming series of Divinations essays that explore critiques of the traditional theory of disruption. In

#76 - Introducing Executive Editor Rachel Jepsen!

Dan and Nathan celebrate Rachel Jepsen's official introduction as Every's Executive Editor! Since last year, Rachel has been working with Ev

3 May 10, 2021

#1 - The Bundle Digest

Dan and Nathan start out discussing the concept of Talk Therapy: a place to talk about the process of building a media business as it happen

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

Dan and Nathan are joined by Talk Therapy's inaugural guest host, Every community member (and investor!) Freia Lobo—who's also an avid liste

2 May 13, 2021

#66 - If the relationship works, the business works

This one goes deep. Recalling their first days working together, Dan and Nathan discuss the ways their relationship has evolved over the pas

2 Mar 30, 2021

#82 - Celebrating Every Day

Commemorating the one-year anniversary of incorporating Every, Dan and Nathan reflect on those early, stressful days when their audience was

2 Jun 15, 2021

#43 - The Power of Constraints

Nathan walks Dan through the ideas and strategy behind his new Divinations series, Three Shorts. How do you get from the Zone of Ignorance t

#16 - Should you follow your heart?

Nathan and Dan discuss his latest Superorganizers essay on the framework he developed to help him follow his heart — and filter for the best

#2 - Work/Life Harmony

Dan and Nathan discuss balancing meetings with getting writing done. They also discuss balancing living a happy life with trying to put out

#6 - Art vs. Science

Dan and Nathan discuss the art and science of starting a newsletter business. And how they’re probably more on the art side than you might g

#89 - Introducing the Talk Therapy Ted Lasso Recap

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

2 Aug 3, 2021

#29 - Casey Newton goes independent, what does it mean?

File this one under “the unbundling of media”:  Veteran reporter Casey Newton has left his job at The Verge and is launching his own Substac

#12 - It’s Disruption Week!! (part 1)

Dan and Nathan are both writing about Clay Christensen’s iconic theory of disruption, so we decided the second week of July every year is go

#91 - Handling your colleagues’ emotions

In reflecting on a recent gap in their respective enthusiasm towards a new chapter for Every, Dan and Nathan discuss how coworkers and colla

2 Aug 21, 2021

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

(Spoilers, as usual!) In the this episode of Ted Lasso, Higgins decides to take Coach Beard aside and ask him whether he really thinks it's

#63 - Creative obsession: a gift and a curse

Returning from a weeklong vacation, Nathan fills Dan in on the thinking he's been doing about burnout and its causes. They discuss how to te

2 Mar 18, 2021

#3 - How do you choose who to work with?

Dan and Nathan discuss an existential question for any creative and ambitious person: How do you choose to work with someone or on something

#70 - Nathan Screwed Up (an honest post-mortem)

After their last conversation about Jungian therapy and how "Shadow Work" can help us get a better look at the more difficult parts of ourse

2 Apr 10, 2021

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

Nathan got himself a new fitness tracking device—and promptly found himself using it to track something unexpected: emotions. Returning to a

2 Jul 26, 2021

#79 - Is Nathan unmanageable?

Dan had a dream about Nathan. In this episode they unpack it together to try to figure what it means. It turns into a conversation about per

2 May 22, 2021

#92 - Ted Lasso Recap: S2 Episode 4

Dan, Nathan, and Rachel compare their differing reactions to Ted Lasso's seasonably questionable Christmas episode. Is it a repreive from co

1 Aug 22, 2021

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

Dan, Nathan and Rachel reunite to discuss the second and third episodes of Ted Lasso's sophomore season, which they much prefer to the premi

1 Aug 18, 2021

#61 - Designing our unsubscribe flow

Using a current work in progress—the exit survey page for departing subscribers—as an example of their differing communication styles, Dan a

1 Mar 4, 2021