Every Christmas dinner with extended family inevitably involves the timeless question, “So, what are you doing for work these days?” or “What do you do, again?” This can be a daunting challenge when your job description sounds like a cryptic corporate riddle that would require a PowerPoint presentation and therapy hand puppets to explain.

In this episode, Ross and Natalie vividly portray their family holiday experiences, accurately predicting the chaos that awaits each other’s households. They engage in a role-playing scenario where Natalie attempts to explain her job to her Grandpa Jack. Additionally, they offer valuable tips on how to effectively communicate your esoteric corporate role to your family in a manner they can comprehend, or at least sufficiently to deter follow-up questions.

Prepare yourself for a fresh wave of holiday party confessions, including an intern who vomits on the CEO’s wife, a showdown between a “work husband” and a real husband, and a heartfelt tribute to Melvin, a disgruntled manager who purposefully drove his car into the company building. Stay tuned for hazy recollections of SantaCon, childhood encounters with the terrifying mall Santa, and the enigma that is the Elf on the Shelf.

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Is there an opportunity for career advancement at your office holiday party? Probably not. As you will hear from these stories, you may be putting your career and life at risk simply by attending.

From innocent coworker hook-ups to full fledged infidelity and physical altercations, this episode explores just about everything that can go wrong at your end-of-year work party. Ross and Natalie read through listener-submitted stories of past year’s parties and give advice on how to not commit career limiting moves. Ross shares his experience attending office parties with his overzealous sales teams and Natalie describes her art of being the fun plus one. Stay tuned for a terrifying ghost story from Ross’s childhood, a PSA about spiking the office party punch bowl, and a quarter-life crisis after serving donuts to the interns.

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It is a natural process within the corporate ecosystem for a mentee to bloom into a mentor. A shift so delicate that Ross woke up one day to realize he had metamorphosed into an old, wise professional equipped to bestow his knowledge on a young corporate spawn. It’s a beautiful thing to witness.

In this episode, Ross and Natalie discuss their experience with mentors helping guide their professional and personal lives. Ross shares the fulfillment he gets from being a mentor, and Natalie shares a touching story about her current mentor, Lauren. You’ll hear why you shouldn’t disregard peer-mentors, and the duo also gives some inadvisable techniques for locking down a top-tier mentor such as hiding in golf bags, short-circuiting elevators, or crafting voodoo dolls of your prospective mentors.

Stay tuned for some responses to listener advice requests about wearing make-up in the office, whether to send an AI written poem to fire someone, and if it’s worth risking your job to rig a golf sweepstakes.

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Has a corporate poltergeist ever hijacked your screen share resulting in you getting a raise? Have you ever witnessed a coworker ever try to steal a police horse? According to our listener-submitted stories, these things seem to happen all the time.

In this episode, Natalie and Ross read the best stories submitted by you, the Moterheads. They explore the extremes of the corporate experience from heinous threats from managers to the inappropriate generosity to an aspiring mother. If you are not careful, listening to this episode without headphones may earn you a one-way ticket to HR.

Stay tuned for lively discussions about off-hours message scheduling, leaving the airport during a layover, and piggy backing as a legit mode of transportation.

It’s that time of year to rack your brain and come up with something to be grateful for. Out of ideas? We’ll help jog your memory.

In this episode, Natalie and Ross discuss the importance of expressing gratitude at work and in life. You’ll hear targeted thanks to the most special people in the office, such as Amanda who consistently books meetings between other meetings, creating an unceasing chain of back to backs. Thank you, Amanda!

They also give a much needed analysis of Thanksgiving traditions and question the legitimacy of cranberry sauce and marshmallows on yams. Stay tuned for requested advice on what to expect from corporate re-org doom, whether or not to risk a PIP by going on PTO, and how to be more socially outgoing at a new job.

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Two-time World Series champion, four-time MLB All-Star, and three-time email sender, Hunter Pence, joins the podcast as our first-ever guest!

If you aren’t a San Francisco Giants (or baseball) fan, have no fear. In this episode, Ross and Natalie chat with Hunter Pence about his career transition from being a professional baseball player to MLB commentator and multi-business owner. He reveals how his experience developing a strong work ethic, a positive mindset, and a healthy relationship with public critique has transferred over from the sports world to the corporate world. Of course, Ross and Hunter also get to geek out about baseball, video games, and board games while Natalie politely keeps the conversation on track.

Stay tuned for our regular scheduled programming of just Ross and Natalie yapping about Tahoe with the boys, watching sports with your dad, and how to laugh without smiling.

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Is there a such thing as Corporate spooky? Yes, and it’s more terrifying than you would believe. Don’t listen to these spooky stories with the lights off. These outrageous and absurd stories have been too spooky to share until now. From a mind-boggling Google search on a shared screen to a murder at an internship to a carpool flatulence disaster that could bring tears to your eyes, these stories will give you a fright. Natalie and Ross also explore the do’s and don’t’s of celebrating Halloween in the office; they cover the main rules for dressing up for the holiday in a corporate setting, and they give tactical techniques for spreading the Halloween spirit in the office.

Stay tuned for a recap of the corps’ favorite costumes over the years, Ross’s love for Hans Zimmer, and the legend of Winnie the Rizz.

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You’ve most likely been wondering how Ross functions on a daily basis. How does he keep his business and personal life afloat despite his apparent and abundant flaws? Introducing… Becca, Ross’s business manager and wife.

In this episode, Ross and Becca open up about their lives living and working together. They dig into the details of how they structure both their personal and professional relationships and go through the pros and cons of their arrangement.

You’ll get a close look at who Becca was as a teacher and school principal before shifting careers to managing content creators. More importantly you'll find out if Ross was a “cool kid” in high school when they first started dating. Stay tuned for a breakdown of their shared finances, an ongoing fantasy football rivalry, and some advice on how to transition out of tech sales.

None of these clients will be getting a friendly gift basket this holiday season. If anything, they should get a restraining order filed against them and a shot of penicillin.

In this episode, Ross and Natalie read through the wildest client stories we’ve ever heard. They cover client interfacing going horribly wrong, crazy deal stories, and technical failures resulting in utter embarrassment. Hidden foot cams, threesomes, dengue fever and stool softener are among the various twists and turns these stories take.

Stay tuned for some bonus stories about a glass pumpkin addiction and a tampon plumbing disaster.

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There’s nothing like the mix of excitement and anxiety when walking into your first day of a new job. Set yourself up for success by starting out on the right foot…you’ll thank yourself later.

In this episode, Natalie and Ross reflect on their first days of work in consulting and sales. They give some tips for you to employ when starting a new job that’ll lower your anxiety and help you to be productive right out of the gate. If you’re interested in making a first impression that will scar your image in your coworkers’ minds, we’ll hit you with some absolutely unhinged stunts to pull on your first day.

Stay tuned for a behind the scenes discussion of Natalie staring in The Charlie Puth Show, Ross busting a stanky leg on the stage of a crowd of hundreds of people, and Natalie’s decision to laminate her eyebrows.