Latest Booksandbrews Podcast Episodes
Constructive Criticism
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - January 31, 2019 16:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsPeepz on the podcast: Brandon, Bryan, Justin, Jason, and Faren Ohshitsnap! We derailed because of Cereal and other things. Money , you’re doing it wrong. “Fanny packs” are now the “front bums” Constructive criticism. Is it thinking of something further, as opposed to just thinking of it as ...
BONUS TRACK: Romcoms
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - January 28, 2019 17:57 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe go a little Crazy in this BBBBBONUS TRACK when we talk about Romcoms. The gang goes off the wall quickly.
I'll Show You Kevin Smith
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - January 24, 2019 15:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI’ll Show You, Kevin Smith! Peepz in the podcast: Brandon, Bryan, Justin, Jason, and Faren What do robots actually sound like? Probably not like us. WTF BRYAN, Autocorrect is a bitch! The podcast almost did a spit take. Say it out loud because you can’t tell me what to do, and look at me n...
Revenge is a Dish Best Served with Perseverance
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - January 21, 2019 17:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRevenge is a Dish Best Served with Perseverance Peepz in the podcast: Brandon, Bryan, Justin, Jason, and Faren We went in super warp speed because we started at 3:30 PM and because we can, that’s why. Hypocritical to go orders. Shaq? Shaft? Flash?-AHHHHH… no one knows besides Justin. HS M...
Return On Investment AKA ROI
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - January 17, 2019 17:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsPeepz in the podcast: Brandon, Bryan, Justin, Jason, and Faren No one calls Jason Snake Eyes… still. Where is our Books & Brews T-shirt Gun? When you become pals with your coworkers, they punch out and you haven’t done a dang thing all day. “Welp, guess I have to do work now.” We discussed ...
Garth Brooks Got The Midas Touch
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - January 10, 2019 22:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsPeepz on the show: Jason, Bryan, Brandon, Faren, & Justin Nicknames Jason still thinks he’s Snake Eyes. Bryan thinks he’s the Mic Spiker. He’s actually Wario Old Business “We cheap fucks refuse to spend bucks!” Bryan bullies old ladies. No one has phone books. “Angel’s Advocate” Brand...
No One's Ever Called You Snake Eyes
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - January 03, 2019 14:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe podcast crew tries out some new nicknames with little success. We go through Old Business at a record pace. We shout out to law schools, and being the Angles Advocate in New Business. When it comes to Art In Your Face, we "NAILED IT". Lastly we beef on parents, Theybies and AC Adapte...
Business is Hard Mode
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 22, 2018 17:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode, the gang talks about how a business is the video game hard mode of life, and it gets crazy with Art In Your Face.
Do Your Job and Shut Up Already
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 15, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSometimes we like to make high-level requests of our employees here at Books & Brews to see if the staff can rise to the challenge: punch in, do your job, punch out. How do you think that goes? Not good, y'all, not good. You want to open a business? Start realizing that those three simple steps ...
Are You an Innovator or an Idiot?
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 15, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"First come the innovators then come the imitators then come the idiots." ~something Mark Cuban said once on Shark Tank to the best of my memory. Here's a point that Mark didn't cover - today's innovators can quickly become tomorrow's idiots if they don't continue to innovate. Just because you w...
Be the Villain People Think You Are
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 15, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"You Want Crazy? I Got Your Crazy." ~Britney Spears, Toxic. What can the gang learn from Britney's immortal, best-selling words? Knowing this group, probably nothing. Here's is the point that is attempted to make: sometimes when people try to pin you into a corner with who they think you are, th...
Be the Villain People Think You Are
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 15, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"You Want Crazy? I Got Your Crazy." ~Britney Spears, Toxic. What can the gang learn from Britney's immortal, best-selling words? Knowing this group, probably nothing. Here's is the point that is attempted to make: sometimes when people try to pin you into a corner with who they think you are, th...
Defense Doesn't Win Championships
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 15, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOne of the biggest misnomers in all of sports is that defense wins championships. And it's the same in business. Going on offense (revenue generation) always trumps great defense (limiting expenses). And normally you can't do both at the same time. The gang discusses this topic but the bulk of t...
Adulting Isn't That Hard After All
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 15, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang reacts as Jason comes in with the hot take that the kids these days saying, "Adulting is hard," is really ridiculous. How dare he? Amiright? Seriously, though, Step Brothers: The Movie is not funny in real life. It's not out of line to expect your employees to grow up - but it's your jo...
The Best Guerrilla Marketing Campaign of All-Time
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 15, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe greatest marketing campaign of all-time was accomplished accidentally by a video game called Contra by the original Nintendo Entertainment System. What did they do? How did they do it? How can you apply these tactics to your business or workplace? I guess you have to listen and find out. Plu...
Why You Suck at Communicating
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - December 15, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOn your really on the same page with your staff and/or co-workers? How do you know? The gang pontificates upon misunderstandings in the workplace and how the smallest of miscommunications can fester and lead to huge problems. Then we talk about movies and other dumb stuff. And cuss a lot, as nor...
The Owner's Job Description
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - October 02, 2018 03:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang is back after a bit of a delay to let you know that if you want to own a business you need to know the owner's job description - you're going to have to deal with the worst bits of owning a business at all time. Brandon informs the crew on the current status of The Undertaker, Jason's G...
Building Community and Empowering Champions
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - September 20, 2018 19:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang comes back with their usual business shenanigans and the conversation quickly divulges into the future cyborg olympics. Jason talks about how Books & Brews uses community building and the empowerment of "champions" to develop niches within niches, Bryan loses Stump the Brewer under leag...
Why Being in Business Means Arguing With Everyone Always
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - September 13, 2018 15:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang is back with their usual shenanigans, explaining why all being in business means is fighting with people about everything all the time always. Bryan gives his tips for making telemarketers mad, Komal returns from Canada and talks about her glacier water purchase (and Bryan gets jealous)...
Being the Boss - Be Careful What You Wish For
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - September 06, 2018 18:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSorry for the patchy audio at parts in this episode everyone, we got some background noise that we can remove. Womp Womp. In this episode...the gang is back with no special guest but lots of fun as they discuss reverse engineering being a people person, the principle of "it's not what you say ...
What Goes Around Comes Around
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - August 30, 2018 16:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsKevin from Out Here Having a Pint Podcast joins the gang (link below) and immediately mesmerizes us with the details of his rap career. Jason interviews Kevin about his relationship as an investor in helping start Rusted Silo Southern BBQ & Brewhouse, Brandon beefs on Facebook listening in our c...
Wu Tang Clan and First Who, Then What
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - August 22, 2018 04:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang talks about the Jim Collin's theory from his book, "Good to Great," that when building a company the "who" is more important than the "what." Jason talks about Mark Roberts, the world's most famous streaker, Bryan beefs on the fast food industry, Brandon beefs on the internet listening ...
Taylor Swift and How Haters Hate Hate Hate Hate
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - August 09, 2018 12:23 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang returns with a raucous episode of shenanigans about the art of shaking it off via the great Taylor Swift. Jason explains why Finding Forrester is the greatest motivational movie of all-time and uses lots of ten dollar words, Bryan defends the stupid invention that is the Spork, Komal's ...
Being Vulnerable with Your Customers
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - August 02, 2018 15:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe dudes from Drnk Cltr podcast (https://www.drnkcltr.com/podcast/) stop by to hang out with us and chat about small business shenanigans. We get the inside info on how they started their podcast and soon we found ourselves in a very spirited debate about the role of the owner (podcast/brewery/...
Today is the Day You Notice Me
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - July 19, 2018 19:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang talks about approaching every day with a relentless attitude for success: "Today is the day you notice me." I didn't have time to edit this episode or really remember what we talked about but Brandon assures me it was one of our best episodes ever. I'm sure we stumped Bryan because he's...
Lebron James and Bad Employees
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - July 12, 2018 17:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang gives their advise on the best way to get a raise, Cecilia talks about her dancing past, Jason gets his business inspiration from Starcraft 2, Bryan can't stop talking about The Island, Kyle displays his road rage, and Komal talks about how she want's to see Michael Bay's version of A Q...
Britney Spears and Big Promotions
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - July 05, 2018 16:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang welcomes Scott from the Indianapolis Coffee Guide and discuss the big iconic promotions done by some of the biggest brands on the planet. All Jason knows about Pepsi is the Britney Spears commercial, Scott beefs on electric scooters, Bryan's goes full Time Cop on us and discusses the mo...
String Theory and Quantum Physics
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - June 28, 2018 16:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe gang pretends they're smart and talks about string theory and quantum physics, imagining the different versions of themselves in alternate universes. Komal beefs on the personal trainer version of herself, Brian can only imagine himself as lazy, Mike tells us about his phobia of touching unf...
Gary Vaynerchuck and Mental Toughness
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - June 25, 2018 01:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week on Nanobrew: The Podcast things get real as the gang talks about times in their life where they were forced to develop mental toughness and how it shaped their future. There are the usual shenanigans sprinkled in, but this is an excellent episode about how the trials in our lives force...
Nick Saban and Frying Pans
Nanobrew - Small Business Shenanigans - June 16, 2018 21:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode was supposed to be about "Broke Marketing Techniques," but the conversation gets quickly derailed and the gang never actually gets back on track. Jason tells a story about Nick Saban, Komal beefs on Home Depot, Bryan avoids Stump the Brewer by continually changing the subject, and K...
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