Serious Business

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Synopsis

Make creativity, career, family and fun work better together. Join your decidedly unserious hosts Mike Morrow and Toni McLellan as they discuss creative work, life in the sandwich generation, and being a person.

Episodes

  • 19 You're a Digital Tool

    15/01/2015 Duration: 01h06min

    Mike and Toni have cabin fever, but take the opportunity to discuss the origins of nostalgia, getting organized, digital vs analog tools, using systems to categorize priorities and living intentionally. Lots to think about from this episode!

  • 18 Greasing the Slide

    08/01/2015 Duration: 50min

    In and around superhero shows, Mythbusters, and Larry Sanders, Toni and Mike talk transitions, getting okay with being lazy, overcoming inertia, and making small changes that can affect big plans for the new year.

  • 17: I Wasn't Listening, I Was Thinking of Something Else

    01/01/2015 Duration: 54min

    Surprisingly jam-packed episode with insight into kicking off the new year. Also: Owning a big phone, liking old music, money & happiness, cracking the code for thriving in your life, planning the year ahead, & change as a series of small steps. PLUS, The Very Important reveal of a new segment: "Dan Reads Yelp Reviews.”

  • 16: Sensory Consumer Perfection Assault

    18/12/2014 Duration: 41min

    The approaching Winter Holidays and the resulting overload of emotions, commitments and expectations. Your Christmas won't be perfect. We're here to help.

  • 15: Hemingway's Cats

    11/12/2014 Duration: 43min

    How does one make their way and, dare we say, innovate in a world of binary opinions and blueprints? How do we trust ourselves? Oh and the Star Wars trailer.

  • 14: Freezerful of Butter

    04/12/2014 Duration: 46min

    The approaching winter, family games, Indiana Jones, Amanda Palmer and asking for help, hard conversations, being right or being happy, believing your thoughts.

  • 13: Hygge Yourself

    27/11/2014 Duration: 24min

    Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving from Serious Business. We talk holidays, hygge, gratitude, warmth, slowing down and pregaming for the long winter ahead.

  • 12: Crashing Into the Forest

    20/11/2014 Duration: 54min

    Our most serious and inspirational business yet. Toni and Mike talk about handling change and work—asking what's possible, callings vs. careers, what else is out there, leaps of faith, sticking to it vs. instant gratification, advice for writers, Julia Child, and being a novice.

  • 11: Snackmaster General

    13/11/2014 Duration: 52min

    This week there's something wrong with the waffles. We prepare for winter by talking Crocs, vanity URLs, appliance shopping, handling change and transitions, purging and what if god is a possum.

  • 10: My Furnace Wears Suspenders

    30/10/2014 Duration: 01h02min

    It's an extra spooky Halloween episode! Discussed: Kid Halloween vs. Adult Halloween, Toni's birthday, toe socks, personal flamethrowers, the Hulk's student loan debt, motivation and being on The Track. We also cover experiential learning, the value of hard work and changes of scenery to unlocking creativity. Of course there's also a fart story or two.

  • 9: My Garlicky Grandma

    16/10/2014 Duration: 50min

    Discussed: Adventure Time, Doctor Who, binge watching, and garlic! We also cover the mind-body connection, being a germaphobe, passing on your anxieties, depression and medication, Space Ghost, Weezer, nesting dolls of yoga teachers, why Toni's not doing a Zombie Run but IS biking to the ends of the earth, fear, and the ivory tower of "what if."

  • 8: Everything's a Sex Chair

    09/10/2014 Duration: 50min

    Feeding your dang picky family, flaccid versus crispy bacon, gallows humor, inclusion, political robocalls, yearly plagues and panics du jour, pop-up camping disasters, methy campgrounds, Jerry Taft, the immortal dumpster in Mike's driveway, and what prompted Toni to smell it. "That was audible! It ties in!"

  • 7: I Would Hug a Bison

    02/10/2014 Duration: 55min

    Drinking, in particular Coors Light and vinegar. Acupuncture. Being super reactive to mammals. Damp body types. Sugar makes mucous. Listening to your gut, literally, in both eating and cooking. Personality assessments and owning our labels. Something something iPhones and Apple Watches. That's as stupid as it sounds.

  • 6: Google Codpiece

    25/09/2014 Duration: 42min

    Discussed: Fussy coffee, why we can't have nice things, living for the present, gender bias, field trips to Google, soup, App Camp For Girls, the Henry Ford museum, and an extended riff on technology in the classroom. We also say "on the regular" on the regular. We recorded this episode before being part of Misfit Radio, so pardon our blatant disregard for our beloved patron network and ignorant pre-iPhone-6 tech punditry.

  • 5: Post-Ibsen Stress Disorder

    18/09/2014 Duration: 35min

    Serious Business has officially joined Misfit Radio! Toni and Mike discuss peak pumpkin spice, No-Mustache-Daddy and the complexities of facial hair, worst first-date movies, and some of Toni's favorite movies.

  • 4: A Murder Van on Every Corner

    11/09/2014 Duration: 35min

    Toni and Mike riff on zip-lining grandmas, the local news, political sportsball, and distractions before getting deep about gratitude, mindfulness, and the pursuit of happiness.

  • 3: It’s Considered Normal and Healthy

    04/09/2014 Duration: 43min

    Discussed: This is what Obamacare is going to feel like Yoga for beginners, tight guys and better digestive health Social media engagement strategies Being the weird neighbors A turtle with an inappropriate name

  • 2: Pause and Bear Witness

    28/08/2014 Duration: 41min

    Mike and Toni share their thoughts on the death of Robin Williams and the foundational role humor plays in developing your personality.

  • We Are Not Scientists

    31/07/2014 Duration: 47min

    In this very first episode of the Serious Business podcast, Toni and Mike make things up as they go along.

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