Todd Nief's Show
117 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsQuick Note: I'm currently doing a Master's degree in Computer Science, so my release schedule will be intermittent depending on my coursework.
Todd Nief is the owner of downtown Chicago's #1 CrossFit gym and the coach to multiple CrossFit Games athletes. He has been featured by Men's Fitness, WGN Radio, and NBC Chicago among others. His background in chemical engineering and as a musician in multiple death metal bands gives him a unique lens with which to unpack the models that people use to solve problems in complex areas like fitness, business, nutrition, music, economics and psychology.
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Paul Bearer (Sheer Terror | Joe Coffee)
September 27, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBPaul Bearer is the vocalist for one of the most influential and underrated New York Hardcore bands of all time: Sheer Terror. Sheer Terror came out of the very strange New York Hardcore scene of the 80s — before the music became codified into the metallic, bouncy mosh parts we think of as NYHC today. While Sheer Terror is certainly no stranger to blending metal and punk, their sound is much more Tom G. Warrior plus Oi! rather than syncopated, single-string riffs. Nothing against bouncy mosh ...
Christopher M. Russo (Mercatus Center) on Monetary Policy, The Fed, and Inflation
September 15, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBMonetary policy is confusing. What even is The Fed? How do they control interest rates? Is The Fed different than the Treasury? Why do different cities have different feds? And, most importantly, do people with laser eyes on Twitter actually know anything about inflation? These are all things that I've wondered about — fortunately, my friend Chris Russo is a post-graduate research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an expert on monetary policy. And, he lifted some...
Spenser Mestel on Voting Rights, Election Reform, and Writing a Book with Mat Fraser
July 23, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBI first encountered Spenser’s work through his writing for the Morning Chalk Up, and at some point I clicked on enough links to realize that the majority of his work is on voting rights and election reform. I’ve been a subscriber to Spenser’s voting rights newsletter, so I wanted to get his take on how things went with New York City’s experiment in ranked choice voting in their Democratic mayoral primary. While election fraud and voter suppression are hot-button culture war issues, there...
Dave Bland (Full of Hell | Jarhead Fertilizer)
June 18, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 35.3 MBDave Bland is one of the most creative drummers currently playing extreme music. While technical wherewithal with blindingly fast blast beats is always appreciated, the ability to adapt to the varied styles present on Full of Hell records as well as the more straightforward death metal of Jarhead Fertilizer requires much more perspicacity. I first met Dave over 10 years ago when he was a high school student who left to go on tour with Full of Hell without his parents’ permission. Since the...
Matthew O. Jackson, PhD on Human Networks and Microfinance
June 01, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 98.4 MBHumans have an intuitive sense for who is important and well-connected. We like knowing “movers and shakers,” and we regularly engage in complicated social machinations — conscious or otherwise — to position ourselves close to the seat of influence. But what about the formal study of the spread of information through human networks? Matthew O. Jackson is a professor of economics at Stanford, and his book “The Human Network” is a fantastic primer on the complex dynamics of human relationshi...
Kayhan Vaziri (Yautja)
May 21, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBYautja plays lurching, uncomfortable music, so it is fitting that their new album is called “The Lurch.” I first met Kayhan back in approximately 2010 when I was on tour with Weekend Nachos and we stayed at Kayhan’s place in Birmingham, Alabama. At the time, Kayhan was in a band called Legion (funny enough), and since then has gone on to play in several excellent hardcore and metal projects like Coliseum, Die Young, and — of course — Yautja. Yautja’s most recent record is fantastic, so I w...
Simple Solutions to Complex Problems [Solocast]
May 04, 2021 09:00 - 22 minutes - 14.7 MBI’ve often spoken on the Legion Strength & Conditioning podcast about the desire for “simple solutions to complex problems.” I figured I’d reframe and refine that discussion for a solocast based upon the cynefin decision-making framework, Julia Galef’s great new book “The Scout Mindset,” and some marketing intuition from years of running a small business. Over years of creating content for a fitness audience, I’ve learned that the things that resonate with people are often not the things...
Bryan James, PhD on Alzheimer’s and Epidemiology
April 19, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBAt some point in the last year or so, I started listening to the Epidemiology Counts podcast. I was thrilled to learn that the host, Bryan James, is a Chicago local at Rush University — and he’s a CrossFitter at Goose Island CrossFit. Bryan and I recently collaborated on an article for BarBend about controlling the spread of Covid in gym, as well: COVID In Gyms: What The Research Says About Mitigating Spread. In his day job, Bryan’s research focuses on the epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disea...
James Pligge (Harm's Way) Round II
April 05, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBJames Pligge is back by popular demand. This time, we talk about some of the many misconceptions that people have about James and Harm’s Way — as well as James’s ill-fated attempt to make a protein shake with Coca-Cola. To be honest, talking about making a protein shake from Coca-Cola probably doesn’t do a lot to correct any of those popular misconceptions about James… Either way, this is a hilarious conversation. James explains why Harm’s Way is more influenced by The Jesus Lizard than ...
John Caution (Weekend Nachos)
March 22, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBI feel like I say this about a lot of my friends that I have on the podcast, but John Caution is one of the weirdest and funniest people I know. I’m happy to talk to John endlessly about funny things that people we both know did 15 years ago, but, in this interview, we talk about the legacy of Weekend Nachos. We talk about the trolling instinct, the impulse to create — either in riff form or otherwise, and being in a band that defined the identity of a lot of angry but funny social misfits...
Matt Parlmer (General Fabrication)
March 11, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 125 MBSpeaking with Matt is like being blasted with a firehose of information. He is entwined in the worlds of politics, database engineering, and 3D printing, and he speaks in dense, reference-laden paragraphs. This is thrilling to me, since I love information. I also feel empathy for folks who have been subject to my own tendencies to speak in dense, reference-laden paragraphs, since it’s not always easy to keep up. While infrastructure isn’t exactly a sexy topic, we’ve seen a lot of instituti...
Andy Nelson (Bricktop Recording | Like Rats | Sourmouth)
February 25, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBAndy is one of the most talented musicians I know. Some people think of musical talent as a preternatural gift for shredding through neoclassical riffs on guitar or ripping through Chopin concertos as a pre-teen. In Andy’s case, this talent manifests itself as incredible taste and intuition for songwriting and audio production. When you hear a song written by Andy — whether it’s the, uh, powerviolence of Weekend Nachos or the alt rock throwback of Sourmouth — you know it’s an Andy song. Fo...
Jeff Kolar
February 12, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBJeff edits many of these podcasts…and now it is time for him to speak! Jeff is a prolific musician and artist — creating in a variety of genres and formats. His works appear as stand-alone albums, as complements to performance art, and on pirate radio stations. I’ve long been a fan of Jeff’s music, and, in 2020, he released two of my favorite albums of his: Ditch and Scale with Zeena Parkins. I wanted to talk to Jeff about the differences between creating for “the art world” vs creatin...
Preston Weippert (Of Feather and Bone)
January 29, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBOf Feather and Bone put out one of the best records of 2020 with Sulfuric Disintegration, so I was really excited to speak with drummer Preston Weippert. Like Rats played with Of Feather and Bone in Baltimore a few years back, and I was very impressed with them. Since then, they’ve released two albums and dropped any pretense of being anything other than a death metal band. Fascinatingly, they compose most of their music through improvisation and jamming, which is not typical for most de...
The Sloshing Social Information Ecosystem
January 15, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBLike many, I am deeply concerned with the impact social media has had on our brains, our attention, and our society. I have a slightly different take on what the root of the problem is, though. While those worried about distraction, polarization, algorithms, and censorship all have a right to be concerned, I think the real issue is deeper and more fundamental. By creating a hyperconnected network for information flow, we seem to have kicked off a negative ratchet that leans on several compou...
James Pligge (Harm's Way) [Repost]
December 29, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBThis episode with James from Harm's Way is one of the most consistently downloaded episodes of the podcast, so figured this would be a good time to revisit it. If you haven't seen the Harm's Way Running Man memes that offered a much needed moment of levity this summer, then spend some time giggling right here. And, the original show that sparked the memes from hate5six's YouTube channel is absolutely fantastic as well. Check that out here. New shows will return in January 2021. If yo...
Juliet Starrett on Excellence in Operations at San Francisco CrossFit [Repost}
December 14, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBThis conversation is a repost from the From Coach to Business podcast that I did with my friend Brandon last year. With the recent announcement that San Francisco CrossFit is closing their doors, I wanted to revisit this conversation since there were several key takeaways on operational excellence. In the best of times, running a functional fitness gym in a major urban environment is already a grueling, low-margin business. When a global pandemic devastates the entire fitness industry...
[Repost] Scott Young (Author of Ultralearning)
November 30, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBThis is a holiday repost, which pairs very nicely with the recent episode with Cedric Chin discussing tacit knowledge, expert intuition, and deliberate practice. If you enjoyed that episode, you will hopefully also find Scott Young's work fascinating—since he distills research-based best practices in learning and skill acquisition into highly actionable strategies and tactics. Here's the original episode post: I’ve long been a Scott Young fan from my early days of reading blogs (miss you...
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) on Tacit Knowledge and Learning from Experts
November 16, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBCertain clusters of nerds on the internet can find it very frustrating when successful people say a lot of incorrect stuff ("Just focus on your passion and be yourself!") about how they found success in their field. To be clear, I am such a nerd. Cedric Chin has researched and written extensively about the academic literature on skill acquisition and expertise—and has made these concepts extremely practical for knowledge workers looking to improve their career skills at his Commonplace b...
Leonard Suryajaya on Humor and Confrontation in Photography and Growing up in Indonesia
November 04, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBLeonard Suryajaya creates lush, harrowing, and hilarious images in his photography, and I was fortunate enough to be a part of his process for his recent work with The New York Times. While I initially wanted to talk to Leonard about his creative process, I couldn’t help but indulge and take a detour into the history of Indonesia. Leonard’s story of immigrating from a repressive culture in Indonesia to a theater department in California is fascinating, as are his insights about American...
John Nerst (Everything Studies) on Decoupling vs Contextualizing and the Tilted Political Compass
October 19, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBJohn Nerst, in some sort of bizarre ascetic practice, enjoys studying people disagreeing online. While online discourse is a cesspool of bad intentions, bad faith, and, of course, bad arguments, John is able to divine some deep insights about the fundamental nature of human disagreement. In this interview, we discuss how the abstractions we use let us down when we are trying to be precise in moral arguments, how the “decoupling vs contextualizing” axis explains how smart people with good...
John Nerst (Everything Studies)
October 19, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBJohn Nerst, in some sort of bizarre ascetic practice, enjoys studying people disagreeing online. While online discourse is a cesspool of bad intentions, bad faith, and, of course, bad arguments, John is able to divine some deep insights about the fundamental nature of human disagreement. In this interview, we discuss how the abstractions we use let us down when we are trying to be precise in moral arguments, how the “decoupling vs contextualizing” axis explains how smart people with good...
Albert Kao, PhD on the Wisdom of Crowds and Hyperconnected Networks
October 06, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 96.8 MBAlbert Kao of the Santa Fe Institute has been researching collective behavior in animals — including really crazy things like using their own bodies as a bridge to invade a wasp nest. As we mention in the podcast, this absolutely needs to be made into a horror movie if it hasn't already. In addition to animal behavior, Albert has also created some really insightful models that find that smaller groups do a better job of converging on accurate information in complex environments — contrary ...
Todd Talks: Productivity and Prioritization (2020 Edition)
September 21, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBI’m often asked “how I handle it all,” and — while I think the true answer may have something to do with several deep flaws in my fundamental personality, I do think I have a framework that helps me get a good amount of stuff done. I tend to manage too many projects at once pretty much all of the time — which is actually probably not very good for my mental health nor my overall effectiveness. Still, I’ve developed some systems that enable me to keep things moving along. The biggest up...
Ethan Lee McCarthy (Primitive Man | Many Blessings)
September 08, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBIt doesn’t always work well to try to corner artists who you like and make them explain how they do the thing that you enjoy about their work. Sort of like getting a comedian to explain their jokes. Maybe not the best thing for your ongoing enjoyment of humor. Still, I will not be deterred, and I wanted to get Ethan from Primitive Man on the podcast to pressure him into explaining how he thinks about the dissonant soundscapes he creates not just for Primitive Man, but for all of the musi...
John Murphy (Young Horses Games) on influences and innovation in video game design
August 24, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBAs I mention in the intro to this podcast, I know John Murphy as the pilot of a 90s era Pontiac Trans Sport — aka the “Egg Van.” The world, however, knows John as co-founder and gameplay designer at Young Horses, the indie games collective responsible for the much beloved hit Octodad. As a lad, I was an obsessive and nerdy player of role-playing games for the Super Nintendo. Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Chrono Trigger…as well as “also rans” like Breath of Fire and I...
Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth)
August 10, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBDirk Verbeuren has played drums on more extreme metal releases than is reasonable or appropriate for any single human. He took over for Chris Adler as the drummer for Megadeth in 2016, but that hasn’t stopped him from continuing to release underground release after underground release — including material with the recently revived Cadaver. Dirk not only has freakish technical skill, but he also has the ability to deploy that skill as an improvisational master, an incredible mimic, or a d...
Courtney Kelly (Strength Ratio | Ethos Alchemy) on optimality theory, trade-offs in fitness, and copywriting
July 27, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBFiguring out how to prioritize in any sort of complex system is really, really difficult. We see this all the time in working with athletes. A simple, linear mindset results in athletes trying to do more, more, more training — and expecting to get more, more, more results. In reality, there are trade-offs involved in any sort of training plan. These are not just the trade-offs between the zero sum competition between training time and ability to adapt, but fundamental trade-offs betw...
Todd Jones (Nails)
July 13, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBIn this episode of "Between Two Todds," Todd Jones discusses his songwriting process for Nails and why he thinks of himself more as a "music fan" than a "musician." Todd has a public perception that is often totally out of alignment with his actual personality. Some of this is likely a side effect of being the front man of one of the most aggressive bands currently playing in metal and hardcore. However, we get to see Todd as an introspective and curious fan of music on his new podcast c...
Sarah Sentes (Manager Tools) on managing in industries that resist management
June 29, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBEvery small business that has any level of success hits a tipping point where the fact that business is going "kind of well" becomes the most stressful thing to the founders. I vividly remember hitting this point with South Loop Strength & Conditioning several years ago. The gnawing worry that we were missing something or doing something wrong with our business was replaced with a constant feeling of suffocating in emails, meetings, coaching, and duct taping together the cracks splitting apa...
Wayne Banks (KIPP Academy) on remote learning, protests, and race in CrossFit
June 15, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBWayne is the principal in residence at KIPP Team Academy in Newark, New Jersey. I’ve wanted to have Wayne on the show for awhile to talk about education since I’m endlessly fascinated with learning, learning about learning, teaching, teaching others to teach, and basically every other possible recursion and iteration of the words "teach" and "learn." Given the climate in the world right now, we discuss Wayne’s expertise through the lens of suddenly transitioning into remote learning due to C...
John Wooley (Make WODs Great Again) on the essentialness of CrossFit gyms
May 28, 2020 23:39 - 1 hour - 97.2 MBI recently wrote a controversial oped for the Morning Chalk Up on why my CrossFit gym isn’t an essential business. John Wooley, from the regularly hysterical CrossFit satire account @makewodsgreatagain, wrote a thoughtful response disagreeing with my claim that CrossFit gyms are not essential. I figured it would be interesting to have a recorded conversation where we hash out where we agree and where we disagree. While John and I don’t completely agree on everything, I think this is a compli...
Jeff Wang (Modern Asian Kitchen | Yum Dum Truck) on COVID-19's impact on restaurants
May 18, 2020 09:00 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBWhen people think of the culture of a country or a city, food is one of the first things that comes to mind. But, with the economic disruption caused by COVID-19, a lot of folks - myself included - have serious concerns about the ability of restaurants to make it through to the other side of an extended shutdown. As a fan of regional ethnic cuisine, I’m concerned that a big chunk of my “to try” list is going to be wiped out - and for the implications on the families that run these restaurant...
Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation)
May 04, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBBrad Stulberg has a list of accomplishments that would make most authors drip with envy. Hundreds of thousands of books sold. A regular column in Outside Magazine. Contributions to publications like The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and Wired. A blue checkmark on Twitter and tens of thousands of followers. A lot of Brad’s message is about avoiding the trappings of chasing external validation - yet, he remains acutely aware of the necessity of playing the status game in order to create t...
Jon Callahan (The Great Unlearn)
April 20, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBCal spent a long time chasing money, social status, and all kinds of external validation. And he didn’t just chase it. He was good at getting it. As an interest rate trader in Chicago, he had checked a lot of the boxes that people think will make them happy. (Including playing golf with Michael Jordan - crazy, right?) Cal was in the audience at the Route 91 Festival shooting in Las Vegas, and - since then - his priorities have changed. Through his podcast, The Great Unlearn, Cal hopes to sha...
Ian Kaplan (Hybrid Performance Method)
April 06, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBSo, what’s the deal with chiropractors? Are they all just full of it? Ian Kaplan is the COO of Hybrid Performance Method (Stefi Cohen’s training company) and soon to be doctor of chiropractic, and he’s also one of the most thoughtful and skeptical people in the fitness space. In this conversation, Ian breaks down how he thinks about uncertainty and providing treatment options when a lot of the research shows that most things that we talk about in the fitness and rehab space - well - don’t ac...
Jason Collins, PhD on Loss Aversion and Ergodicity Economics
March 23, 2020 14:38 - 1 hour - 118 MBPeople are predictably irrational, right? We have a poor intuitive understanding of statistics, we leap to drawing cause and effect relationships where none exist, we don’t understand exponential growth very well, and we gorge ourselves on junk food and junk television. We’re broken! While there are all kinds of quirks to our built-in reasoning hardware, some of those quirks might not be as irrational as they seem. Jason Collins has a PhD in economics and evolutionary biology, and he’s long ...
Joshua Becker, PhD on Polarization, Collective Intelligence & Social Tipping Points
March 09, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBJoshua Becker studies computational social science - particularly collective intelligence and tipping points. Joshua has recently published some papers on polarization showing that the grim headlines about an increasingly fractured society unable to agree on basic facts about the world might not be quite right. Joshua also discusses the way that societies hit "tipping points" and how the networked relationships of human beings interact to create change. Check out the full episode to find out...
Jason Crawford (The Roots of Progress)
February 24, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBJason Crawford studies the history of innovation on his blog The Roots of Progress with detailed case studies on things like the invention of the bicycle, the invention of steel, and how we decided between alternating and direct current. In this conversation, we discuss why my skeptical and argumentative 16-year-old self was misguided about the nature of progress and what Jason has learned through his studies of historical progress. We also discuss possible causes of stagnation in economic g...
Brian Speronello (Accelerated Conversions)
February 10, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBBrian Speronello is a copywriter who runs a boutique copywriting shop called Accelerated Conversions. He works closely with a handful of clients - including The Ready State (formerly MobilityWOD). Brian was recently involved in the rebranding of MobilityWOD to The Ready State, so he shares some of the copywriting lessons that he’s learned over the years of writing high-converting sales pages - as well as how he applied those lessons to a tangible project like working with the Kelly and Julie...
Jessica Danger (Morning Chalk Up | A Fresh Cup of Fitness)
January 27, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBJessica Danger is a creative writing professor, an editor at the Morning Chalk Up, and a co-host of the "A Fresh Cup of Fitness" podcast. I’ve been writing #content for well over a decade now - starting with a polemical high school zine - and I haven’t put too much thought into my writing other than just vomiting ideas out. I was eager to get the perspective of an actual writer, editor and professor on how to improve writing, and I found many of her tips to be both super insightful and actio...
What I've Learned About Learning
January 13, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBI’ve put a lot of thought into learning over the last year or two - both in terms of learning things myself (like coding, improvisation on guitar, and assorted wide reading into too many different interests) and in terms of teaching coaches who I work with. Learning is a super power, since acquiring new skills allows you to quickly level up. In the case of an organization, if you can learn effectively and then teach effectively, you can compound your gains in skills. I don’t feel great about...
[From Coach to Business] Will Hoekenga (Copygrad)
December 30, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 92 MBThis is a cross-post from the From Coach to Business podcast. My friend Brandon and I both often get questions about starting and growing a coaching business - either online or in the brick and mortar space - so we put together a season with answers to some of the most common questions we get as well as some insight on the mistakes that we made while we were starting out. This episode is with Will Hoekenga from Copygrad. A few years ago, Will was pumping out some great content on copywriti...
Gretchen Leslie (GrowthLab)
December 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBGretchen Leslie is the Director of Operations for GrowthLab and I Will Teach You To Be Rich. I recently attended a live event that Gretchen and the GrowthLab team put on in New York, and I wanted to talk with Gretchen about her management philosophy and how she manages an entirely remote team. Gretchen has an extensive background in Six Sigma and large organizations, so - between that and her work with GrowthLab - she has deep insights from a wide variety of organizational scenarios. Anyone ...
Evan Peikon (Training Think Tank)
December 02, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBAnyone who has coached or competed in CrossFit for awhile sees things that kind of don’t make sense. Athletes with 15+ unbroken ring muscle-ups and a 6:30 2k row who are surprisingly bad at “metcons.” Athletes who can only do 5-10 unbroken strict handstand push-ups who are able to quickly chip away at a set of 50 and beat athletes who can do 20+ unbroken reps. Evan Peikon from Training Think Tank has done a lot of work with the Moxy unit on measuring muscle oxygen saturation and blood flow, ...
[From Coach to Business] Juliet Starrett (San Francisco CrossFit | The Ready State)
November 18, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBThis is a cross-post from the From Coach to Business podcast that we just launched. My friend Brandon and I both often get questions about starting and growing a coaching business - either online or in the brick and mortar space - so we put together a season with answers to some of the most common questions we get as well as some insight on the mistakes that we made while we were starting out. This episode is with Juliet Starrett, the co-founder of San Francisco CrossFit and The Ready Stat...
[From Coach to Business] Tiago Forte (Forte Labs)
November 11, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBThis is a cross-post from the From Coach to Business podcast that we just launched. My friend Brandon and I both often get questions about starting and growing a coaching business - either online or in the brick and mortar space - so we put together a season with answers to some of the most common questions we get as well as some insight on the mistakes that we made while we were starting out. I think this episode with productivity and digital organization expert Tiago Forte is applicable ...
[Repost] Adrian Bozman (Head Judge of the CrossFit Games)
November 04, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBWe're going back in the archives this week to last year with a repost of an interview with Adrian Bozman - the Head Judge of the CrossFit Games. You can check out the full show notes from the episode here. I've been hard at work finishing up the first season of From Coach to Business, which will be released in the next week or two. I'll be releasing an episode on this feed when the podcast goes live, so stay tuned.
Chris Mills (Harm's Way)
October 21, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBChris Mills is the drummer for Harm’s Way - and he’s also a clinical social worker for an addiction and mental health residential program. Many folks who are touring most of the year piece together random part-time jobs or have their hands in a few different pieces of the music industry (management, booking, merchandise, etc.). Chris, however, is a highly trained professional in an extremely difficult field. We dig into music nerd stuff about how Harm’s Way writes songs - and how they think...
Todd and Friel on Fundraising
October 07, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBFundraising for your business is often a stressful, opaque and time-consuming process. I’ve gone through it on a minor scale in order to take on a lease and build out a building for South Loop Strength & Conditioning - but my good friend John Friel is currently in the process of attempting to raise venture capital for his start-up Art in Res. Venture capital is a whole different animal, so we discussed the process of applying to Y Combinator, understanding the various incentives of differen...