Talk Therapy

What happens when two friends start a media business?

Mar 26, 2021

#65 - Introducing Glassy, with special guest Taylor Majewski

Dan and Nathan welcome Taylor Majewski to the podcast to celebrate the launch of her brand new Every newsletter, Glassy. A weekly study of t

Oct 16, 2020

#35 - Tricking Nat Eliason into joining the Bundle

Nat Eliason talks to Dan and Nathan about Almanack, his brand-new Bundle newsletter exploring everything it takes for you to live a life tha

Jul 26, 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

Apr 23, 2021

#73 - Talking anxiety

After listening to an anxiety-centered episode of Ezra Klein's podcast, Dan and Nathan dive into their own past and current experiences with

Jun 11, 2020

#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

Jul 22, 2020

#14 - Focus pocus

As the Everything bundle grows, Nathan’s focus seems to have disappeared. Dan helps him troubleshoot, and by the end of the episode, we deci

Jun 16, 2020

#5 - The Results

Dan and Nathan look back on how the Tiago Forte launch went, and learn an important lesson: before you start troubleshooting, make sure the

Sep 1, 2021

#93 - Ted Lasso Recap: Season 2 Episode 5

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

Apr 1, 2021

#67 - What kind of thinking do we want to cultivate?

Hot off the latest all-hands meeting, (or "Every One," in company parlance), Dan and Nathan reflect on the beauty of having created a space

Sep 23, 2020

#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

May 20, 2021

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

Celebrating their first (!) episode recorded on the same microphone, Dan and Nathan reflect on the birth Talk Therapy—and Every—amidst the p

Apr 16, 2021

#71 - Re-introducing Napkin Math, with special guest Evan Armstrong

Dan & Nathan welcome Evan Armstrong, Every's new Napkin Math lead, to the show. Walking through Evan's path to joining the collective, t

Nov 1, 2020

#40 - Engagement is the ice cream, polarization is the vegetables

Taking a hard look at Substack’s top ten after yet another chaotic week for media (and for everything else), Dan and Nathan dig into the Pub

Feb 4, 2021

#55 - Why Raise Venture Capital for a Media Company?

Taking to Clubhouse for their first-ever live episode of Talk Therapy, Dan and Nathan attempt to answer a question they've gotten a lot sinc

Nov 8, 2020

#42 - Keeping Up…with the News (and Work)

Weary of Election Discourse? Dan and Nathan are, too – but they also think there’s some use in paying attention to the world outside of work

Jun 13, 2020

#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

Apr 3, 2021

#68 - Going deeper on conflicts—and solutions

Taking stock of the positive feedback they've received on the last few episodes, which have taken raw, unfiltered looks and the bumps and pe

Jan 29, 2021

#54 - Paradigms ‘R’ Us

What do you do with your revolutionary idea when everyone else has one, too?

Feb 28, 2021

#60 - Comfort with Chaos

Nathan and Dan discuss their differing approaches to writing, and wonder how they can manage to still be effective sounding boards for each

Apr 9, 2021

#69 - Shadow Work

Taking a listener's recommendation to do some "shadow work"—a therapy technique culled from a New Yorker article about an unconventional Hol

Mar 4, 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

Feb 17, 2021

#58 - We switched from Slack to Discord, and we’re loving it! Here’s why.

Listen NowNathan and Dan reflect on their first week spent using Discord instead of Slack, and lay out their reasoning for making the jump t

Mar 30, 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

Mar 19, 2021

#64 - Do you respect me?

Co-founder relationships require respect, but what happens when one co-founder falls down on the job? How do you manage around it without lo