Carbon Based Business Units
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 6 years ago -Stop trying to balance work and life, and start living it as a whole person. You are not half a human in your business and half in your personal life. We talk about entrepreneurial life - the whole life - from starting and running a business, to having friends, family, and fun, and how all those things are part of the human journey.
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Ralph And Carol Lynn Try To Get To The Bottom Of A Marketing Scam
February 14, 2018 05:00 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBHappy Valentine’s Day! Today, [insert husband name] is very much in love with [insert wife name] even though there is much talk of second wives and same-sex lovers. That’s all I’ll say about that, so if you really want in on the joke you’ll have to listen. Jessica Evans Makes An Introduction Ralph loves being in the middle of the drama, so when he recently received an apparent spam email from someone named Jessica Evans, introducing him to someone named Donna, he decided to play along....
Ralph And Carol Lynn Ask You, For The Love Of God, Learn To Delegate
February 07, 2018 05:00 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MBIn Which I Take Issue With Chris Curran Our loyal listeners may have noticed that our opening drumbeat, courtesy of our good friend Chris Curran, features Ralph’s name. But I want to know why Ralph gets top – and only – billing? Is this the Ralph show? I think not. So I issued a challenge to Chris to work my name into a drumbeat. Creatively. Let’s see what we get. Another Apology Last week Ralph apologized to various people and today I have to issue my own apology, to the great nat...
Ralph And Carol Lynn Tally The Expenses Of A Location Independent Entrepreneurial Life
January 31, 2018 18:08 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBApologies And Statements Ralph has a few things to clear up before we jump into this episode, and it begins with apologizing for mispronouncing the name of one of the co-hosts of Social Media Unscrambled. Of course, next week he will apologize for calling it “Social Media Scrambled” in this episode. He also takes umbrage with Janet Johnson, one of the hosts of Business Growth Time, whose marketing campaign had a typo, but who didn’t respond when Ralph pointed it out. Mostly, he wants to ...
Ralph And Carol Lynn Chat About Working From The Road
January 24, 2018 05:00 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBThe best podcast on earth is back on air! We’re talking about Social Media Unscrambled, hosted by our friends Chris Curran and David Deutsch, masters of the mic and all things unscrambled. They were on hiatus for a long time but it’s great to have them back. You know, hiatus. A thing we would never do around here. Except for that first one. And then this last one. Well, we’re back too, after several months and a 10,000-mile cross country trip during which we planned to podcast and neve...
#193: Ralph And Carol Lynn’s No BS Guide To Transitioning From Employee To Business Owner
August 07, 2017 04:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBFirst, Housekeeping. We’re actually, really leaving for California in a week! And we’re taking two weeks off from podcasting to get there and attend Podcast Movement. We’ll be back with lots of new stuff and hopefully some good travel stories soon. In the meantime, would you be kind enough to leave us a rating and review on iTunes or Stitcher? We had some great feedback on the Web.Search.Social podcast but those reviews didn’t come with us when we switched to the new feed. We’d love an...
#192: Ralph And Carol Lynn Don't Follow Their Own Advice
July 31, 2017 15:12 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBOur Trip, Plan B. Or Maybe C. A few weeks ago we said we'd be leaving for California. Yet here we still are, and probably not leaving for a few more. Why? Business decisions, that's why! We've made some bad ones, and that has led to a lot of mistakes. But we rethought, reworked and figured out a better way so that we can keep moving forward. The most important thing is launching our Podcaster's Toolbox product. And on further reflection, we realized that spending four weeks driving c...
#191: Ralph And Carol Lynn Piece Together The Puzzle Of Purrfect Productivity
July 24, 2017 04:00 - 29 minutes - 41 MBA Puzzling Mystery Solved In our last episode, we talked about how right before we went on hiatus from podcasting last year, the official Web.Search.Social puzzle was left in the hands of Alisa Meredith. So we called on Alisa to get back in the game and start recirculating the puzzle among listeners again. And then we heard from Alisa. Turns out, at the same time that she got the puzzle, she also adopted a stack of kittens. And it appears that in the game of Kittens vs.Puzzle, kittens ...
#190: Ralph and Carol Lynn On Business Partnerships: They’re Good. Until They’re Not.
July 17, 2017 04:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBGet Back In The Game! Long ago and far away when Carbon Based Business Units was the Web.Search.Social podcast, we had a jigsaw puzzle that we started to circulate among listeners. Each person solved the puzzle, took a photo then sent it to another listener. Then we went on hiatus, and somewhere around that time, very sexy friend of the show Alisa Meredith took possession of the puzzle. And there is disappeared. We assume she’s not actually holding it hostage, so Alisa, it’s time to get ...
#189: Ralph And Carol Lynn Chat With Jessica Rhodes About Ambition, Profit, And Getting Out Of Your Own Way
June 26, 2017 04:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBGet Your Fizz On! Today we've got lots of good takeaways about how to start, grow and scale a business. We talk with Jessica Rhodes of Interview Connections, a company that helps people find guests for their podcasts or get booked as a guest on other podcasts. At the time we recorded this in February, Jessica had just moved into a new and bigger office. As she was in the middle of the move, running her business, raising her kids, and taking care of her family, we saw her at Podfest where...
#188: Ralph And Carol Lynn Chat About Moral Outrage With Daniel J. Lewis
June 19, 2017 04:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBPolitics, Religion And Sex That’s what today’s episode is about. Yes, it’s safe for work! This is one of the episodes we recorded in February at Podfest and it’s with Daniel J. Lewis, host of the Audacity to Podcast. The conversation was precipitated by a controversial Facebook post where Ralph called out Daniel, who is a Christian, and asked him to explain how it’s possible to reconcile President Donald Trump’s behavior with Christian values. That wasn’t the controversial part, though...
#187: Ralph And Carol Lynn Chat About Podcasting, Potatoes And F#@%able Dads With Jennifer And Thor
June 12, 2017 04:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBOur First Mobile Podcast Yes, we’ve been mobile podcasting for a bit, but this episode is actually our first official one. We recorded this back in February as we drove down to Podfest in Orlando. We recorded a bunch, actually, and we’re finally ready to start releasing them. This one was recorded with Jennifer Crawford, host of the JellyVision Show and organizer of DC Podfest, and her husband Thor, who is an up-and-coming podcaster. We recorded in the lobby of the Hyatt where we were st...
#186: Ralph And Carol Lynn Critique Nick Snapp’s Autoresponder
June 05, 2017 04:00 - 30 minutes - 68.9 MBWe Get An Autoresponder After sending Nick Snapp an email and getting an autoresponder back, we decided to critique it. Couple of reasons… First, Nick is a big productivity guy. And he’s big on accountability. On his podcast, the Make It Snappy Productivity Show, he asks his listeners to hold him accountable. So in the interest of holding him accountable, and sharing some insights into auto emails in general that everyone can learn from, we decided to rake him over the coals and tell him...
# 185: Ralph And Carol Lynn Riff On Good Business Deals And Bad Ones
May 22, 2017 12:57 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBPodcasting From The Car We just got out of a business meeting where we closed a new client and decided that we’d podcast our way home. So we hit record and, in spite of having a script, ended up doing what we do, which is talk. A lot. About stuff that isn’t on the script. So next time we tell you what we’re going to talk about on the next episode, don’t listen to us. Closing The Deal With Confidence In a prior episode we talked about a new electric toothbrush that we got and how it’s ...
#184: Ralph And Carol Lynn Reflect On Death And Spin Class
May 15, 2017 12:51 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBNothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes We were going to talk about Carbon Based investing today but decided to record a short episode because we recently lost a friend to a heart attack. His name was Ed, and in addition to being our friend, he was a doctor, avid cyclist and husband. So today we wanted to talk about the thing that nobody ever really wants to talk about – death. How Much Runway Do You Have Left? In the startup world, “runway” usually refers to how much time you have ...
#183: Ralph And Carol Lynn Say: Hyphens Ain’t The Boss Of Us!
May 08, 2017 04:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBGenius In A Bottle We started this episode with an overview of the few things we wanted to talk about. But before we jumped in I had a brilliant idea to share with Ralph that I wanted him to hear for the first time while we were on mic. The other day as I was working out on the elliptical and listening to the Make It Snappy Productivity Show with Nick Snapp, I noticed that Nick refers to his listeners as “Snappy Nation.” And that’s when it struck me that you, Fred, are rulers of a very s...
#182: Ralph And Carol Lynn Break Up With A Client And Get Emotional
May 01, 2017 16:10 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBGreeting Carbon Based Humans! Also known as Fred… It’s an exciting episode today because we’ve added our first official Carbon Based Title to the roster. It goes to Nadia Bracken, who is now officially our self-designated Carbon Based Critic. She emailed us after last episode to let us know that our intro wasn’t quite chipper enough. Not only that, but we also noticed that we made an egregious error by failing to mention YOU, Fred. For shame! So we re-recorded it and hope you like it. Kn...
#181: Ralph And Carol Lynn Get Kicked Out Of A Restaurant
April 20, 2017 16:35 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBWelcome to the first episode of Carbon Based Business Units! Also known as episode 181, but we’ll get to that in a minute. If you’re joining us from the Web.Search.Social Podcast, we’re so happy you’re back after our extended hiatus. If you’re a new listener, we’re equally happy that you’re here and look forward to meeting you. If you haven’t listened to the last episode of the Web.Search.Social Podcast, you can do that here. It will provide some context for this next phase of our journe...