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EPISODE 114: Calculation of Culture with Rick Miller

We begin this week with no funny fanfare or comedic cuteness because this week’s special guest deserves nothing but our utmost respect and your undivided attention, as the Best Friend of the Pod and OG Sponsor Rick Miller returns once…

michaelNovember 10, 2023

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EPISODE 113: Game Plan For Setting Expectations with Chris May

Stop us if you’ve heard this one - A life insurance agent was meeting with his client about the policy coverage for her husband. The agent asks if she knew the present value of her husband’s policy and she didn’t…

michaelOctober 31, 2023

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EPISODE 112: Why Every Business Needs An Integrator with Forrest Derr

What do you know about the state of Delaware? That it was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and join the United States? That it only has three counties? That the state has more corporate entities than it…

michaelOctober 24, 2023

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EPISODE 111: Parenting in Management

Danny Tanner. Heathcliff Huxtable. Jason Seaver. Edna Garrett. Harriet Winslow. What do all of these beloved TV characters have in common? Why, the topic of this week’s Overlap Podcast, of course… Without the colorful sweaters, zany plotlines, Stamoses and Alan…

michaelOctober 17, 2023

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EPISODE 110: What Are You Optimizing For?

Other than being a cracker-jack Scrabble word that utilizes some high-point tiles and stretches across some valuable board territory (Triple Word Score, baby), the word “optimization” is tough to deal with, define, understand or turn into a jokey, pop-culture laden…

michaelOctober 10, 2023

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EPISODE 109: Make Your Majors Major and your Minors Minor

Admittedly, the writing staff was tempted to go a lot of different ways for the intro to this week’s episode, potentially riffing on former British Prime Minister and Thatcher successor John Major, the Charlie Sheen helmed baseball comedy “Major League,”…

michaelOctober 3, 2023

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EPISODE 108: Brad Israel: Overcoming Adversity

While the world of business and commerce likes to borrow phrases from and encourage references to the realm of war and battle when talking about itself, the stakes differ wildly between those two worlds, right? As much as you might…

michaelSeptember 19, 2023

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EPISODE 107: Why Enneagram Matters with Kerry Flowers

This is normally where the writing staff tries to be cute and make some sort of weird pop culture reference that vaguely ties into the weekly subject for that podcast episode, but this week, honestly … the writing staff doesn’t…

michaelSeptember 12, 2023

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EPISODE 106: Transitioning People Out

“It’s sad to think we’re not gonna make it and it’s gotten to the point where we just can’t fake it. For some ungodly reason, we just won’t let it die because … neither one of us wants to be…

michaelSeptember 5, 2023

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EPISODE 105: Why We Read

For this week’s Overlap Podcast, we ask a simple question: what do actor LeVar Burton, former First Ladies Barbara and Laura Bush, and Drag Queen Supreme RuPaul Andre Charles all have in common? Answer: they all know that “Reading is…

michaelAugust 29, 2023

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