Talk Therapy

What happens when two friends start a media business?

Feb 26, 2021

#59 - Goals vs Virtues

Returning from a well-earned week off, Dan takes Nathan through his return to Superorganizers: a look at My First Million cohost Shaan Puri'

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

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

May 22, 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

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

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

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

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

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

Jan 29, 2021

#54 - Paradigms ‘R’ Us

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jun 23, 2020

#7 - The Last Chip with Chris Bosh

Dan and Nathan talk about helping Chris Bosh launch a newsletter: The Last Chip.

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

Jul 31, 2020

#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

Mar 6, 2021

#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

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

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

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

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