Nick Disabato
Val GeislerPast Episodes
Episode 10:What Now?
So, what next?
Notes
- The Artist’s Way, where the idea of “morning pages” comes from
Episode 09:Therapy
Everyone needs to heal, especially right now. What have we done to work on ourselves over the past few years? What has worked for us, and what hasn’t? And what does that mean for you, and how you should move going forward?
Notes
- Crisis Text Line: https://www.crisistextline.org
- Better Help
- Finding a therapist: https://www.psychologytoday.com
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Episode 08:Delegating & Serving
The instant you add a single other person to your team, you need to think about how to work with them. What are the biggest pitfalls that people tend to experience when running a store, and how can we overcome them?
Notes
- Lara Hogan’s blog
Episode 07:Finding Your People
No matter how introverted you are, or how specific your problems are, we all need human connection to survive, grow, and prosper. In this episode, we’ll talk about what you can do to find your people, adapt over time, and get what you need to succeed.
Notes
- Good Chemistry by Julie Holland
- Get Together by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Kai Elmer-Sotto
- Community tools: Slack, Discord, Mighty Networks
- Run your own social by Darius Kazemi
Episode 06:Self-Care
Self care is not a noun, it is a verb – and a state of being. Why is self-care important, and how can we incorporate its principles into our lives as honestly as possible?
Notes
- How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
- Million Dollar Maverick by Alan Weiss
Episode 05:Long-Term Thinking
What’s the difference between short-term & long-term thinking? What’s the relationship between long-term thinking & fear? And what can you do to ensure the long-term viability of your business?
Episode 04:Managing Fear
We can all agree that fear isn’t great. It sucks to feel fear, and it sucks even more to act on fear. In what ways does fear manifest in business ownership, and how can you work with your own sense of fear to move forward carefully & rationally?
Notes
- "Company of One" by Paul Jarvis
- Insight Timer
Episode 03:Cognitive Biases: Why Everything?
What are cognitive biases, and where do they come from? What are the biggest ones that business owners tend to experience, and what can we do about them?
Notes
Episode 02:Business Mindset
Before we talk about what to do next, we first have to talk about the mindset that you need to get into. What makes a business mindset different from the mindset that you’ve cultivated over the rest of your life, and what can you do to cultivate a business mindset going forward?
Notes
- Finding Clarity’s survey (fill this out! still!)
- The Personal MBA
- Value-Based Design
- Catastrophic thinking, or: viewing every tiny threat as a fire
- Swimming pools
Episode 01:The Problem at Hand
What are we talking about? What are our first principles? Where can you start learning all of the spoilers to the rest of the podcast?
Notes
- Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
- Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication by meenadchi, less focused on the privileged perspective of white dudes
- Definition of gaslighting
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, about how trauma and pain are felt in the body – and what to do about it
- Insight Timer, our favorite meditation app
- Definition of executive function
- How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- The Nap Ministry: an activist advocacy of rest as resistance
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
Episode 00:Setting Intentions
What is this? Why are we here? Why are you here?
Notes
- Finding Clarity’s survey (fill it out!)