It is Super Bowl Sunday and this episode is all about sports, with a little music thrown in.  The Bengals and the Rams square off in Super Bowl 56, MLB is trying to make some progress on the work stoppage, March Madness is just around the corner, BYU Basketball is on the edge of elimination and some music trivia filling out the episode.

Listen in as the Pesci brothers have a great conversation with an old friend, Gary Hagopian.  Gary is a former P&G Executive who tells insightful stories about his career journey and important life choices.  One of those choices included walking on to the Notre Dame football team.  Then a Nor’Easter is hitting the coast and we get a live weather report from It’s O-V-A OVA!  And the show finishes with another musical cover story.

Greg and NJ discuss the concept of job security, is it a thing of the past?  What are the positives that surround job security and what are some of the negatives.  And then the conversation shifts to College and NFL coaches, their contracts, the turnover the football coaching profession experiences, the big money buyouts and how teams can protect themselves from paying their fired coaches. 

NJ and Greg discuss NFT’s, what they are, how they work, and how they are being used in Sports, Art and as investments.  A discussion about being fungible follows, by the way, are you fungible at work?  Chances are, someone thinks so, don’t let them!  Sports are next as the NFL playoffs have begun and finally, it’s music time again!

The Pesci brothers have longtime friend and former Yankee Candle COO, Jim Perley, on the show this week.  Listen in as Jim covers his career journey from law school to COO of Yankee Candle.  There are great lessons along the way, like, volunteering to do new things, understanding how your work impacts the business, and ultimately, know what you want from your career and make decisions with that in mind as you go.  And finally, Jim stays in the studio to talk some sports with Greg and NJ.

The Pesci Brothers talk about the top 10 New Year Resolutions, how to keep them, and what are some of the reasons you don’t.  Then the brothers talk about some products they like going into the new year and they finish with a conversation about sports rivalries, incentive pay for performance in sports and finally about a great hockey investment.

The Pesci Brothers sit down the week before Christmas to talk about precious time and how we spend it through a “Generational” lens.  Boomers think spending time at work is important and that Title and Salary mean the most, while Gen Z’s think Mental and Physical health mean more than either salary or title.  Having work and life in balance is expected for most in the workforce today.

The Top 20 from Forbes 400 and a few more.  Listen as the Pesci brothers talk about the Top 20 and how eight of them are now worth more than $100 billion each.  The numbers are staggering and the threshold for getting into the Top 20 is $36 Billion.  These 20 people have a net worth of $1.8 Trillion.  Formula 1 is top of mind and the brothers end with music time!

Greg and NJ make a public service announcement in this week’s episode about the impact stress can have on all of us.  Stress can affect all aspects of your life, including your emotions, behaviors, thinking ability, and physical health.  Listen as the brothers talk about the symptoms of stress and the consequences of stress over the course of your lifetime.  Then they shift to talk about how you might approach change and start doing things differently.  And as always, sports, sports, sports!

Author Rick Norton joins the Pesci brothers to talk about his book, “A Word to the Wise…. Snakes on Every Level.  It is interesting story that takes you from Rick’s work as a financial planner to being the money man for so many professional athletes to the underbelly of the real estate world, and finally to prison.  Listen as Rick shares valuable lessons for all of us.  The brothers then talk sports and there is time for another musical mystery.