This week we talk to the CEO and Founder of Mindhatch, author of I Quit! The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up, and improv master, Coonoor Behal. She serves up the knowledge she gathered by interviewing happy quitters for her book and delivers a refreshing perspective on the stigma of quitting. Coonoor started as an intern on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brein' and is now the CEO of her own company that brings innovation via improv into the workplace. Sam telling his own story of quitting stand-up and Megan is definitely going to push him to un-quit that venture. We discuss the overrated 20s and how transitioning from school to a career surfaces those 'Should I quit?' questions. You can find Coonoor's book at: https://iquitbook.com/ and Mindhatch at: https://www.mindhatchllc.com/

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This week we talk to author Matthew Turner about his new book, Beyond the Pale, and his work as writer. He is a fountain of wisdom as he takes us through his journey as a writer and drops great advise to all creators. He shares his drive to write meaningful works with a great perspective of goal setting focused on legacy rather than instant gratification. We talk comparison culture and the prevalence of the hustle mindset in modern society, especially on social media. Obviously Sam brings up his 2008 Facebook page again. The controversial topic of making books into movies brings up the set up for failure in the high exceptions of the readers. How many Harry Potter fans have you heard say the movies left something out? LOTR fans might be even more disgruntled...
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This weeks episode we talk to friend of the podcast, Sondra. She tells us the harrowing story of her recent move in New York City. Moving is full of potential for failures and Sondra's came in the form of an oversized, pink couch. The journey alone is full of NYC style snags, but the damn couch is literally the biggest snafu that Sondra believes sprung from the pit's of hell itself. Like she really hates this thing. We also talk about the relationship test that is building IKEA furniture together and if all scammers are truly bad. Let us know if you hate the cursed couch or if Sondra should show it mercy.

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This episode is just us reflecting on our own failures. We read from the ancient website of FML aka F my life for some failure inspiration. We talk about a little bit of everything from not knowing how to pronounce salmon to our love for fart jokes. Sam might be on the brink of being swept up in a tornado Dorthy style the whole episode. We loved this format so much we are going to be releasing a Just Us episode once a week starting soon. Let us know what you think of this lighter, comedic episode were we mainly laugh at each others fails.

This week's guest is Trish Bennet, from Build Yourself Back Up, who uses her platform to speak on mental health, mindset, and her own experiences to help others in the place she once was. Trish takes us through her story from depression to finding her true self and drops some amazing wisdom along the way. We also talk about our childhoods and parents affects on us as well as how to teach failure to your kids. Trish highlights small steps to began changing negative thinking and taking control of how you talk to yourself. She also tells the amazing story of achieving her life long goal of learning to ride a motorcycle with all its hiccups and setbacks. Basically she is a total badass and Sam wants a bike now.

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On this episode we get to talk to the man behind our logo and cover art, Jef Caine! He is a graphic designer by trade and a TikTok creator with over 17K follower by true persistence. We talk about Jef's career as an artist, his path to TikTok success, and how important the moment of now is. This is an episode that is both deep and hilarious as we go in between topics like: existential crisis, Bo Burnham & Inside, Jeff Bezos, imposter syndrome, and Jef possibly being the next Bob Ross.

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This is a fun episode with Midnight Movie Cowboy's Hunter Duesing where we talk all things film. Our guest comes from the movie industry and now teaches film and it's history. In this chat we cover a wide range of topics including: bad movies, Nicolas Cage, The Room, Adam Sandler, Sharknado, Robert Downey Jr, and even American Idol. From the movies that never got made to the movies that should have never been made, we cover it all. Bonus content of Michael Cera's freak out on set and our hopes to free Britney.

This episode we have our second guest, Tim, who is Sam's best friend. Tim talks about his experiences as an entrepreneur, teacher, business owner, and being a part of a failing public education system. We have some great tattoo ideas in this episode that nobody should even get. Seriously don't get these.

This is our first guest episode! We have Megan's best friend on to talk about her failures around working with kids, finding her path, relationships and school. Don't miss her rapping us out at the end with a Shrek inspired twist.

Let's blame Sam for choosing this topic, but it's extremely important to us both to normalize talking about death. In this episode we share personal experiences with death and how we failed to cope. We also talk about how our own death gives failure that mortal urgency to always get things right and creates the pressure to never fail.