Shiny Objects

Shiny Objects

By Jamie & AlyseBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Shiny Objects episodes

  • The paddleboard reward

    The most tangible way to measure community building work—and how eating snails relates to creating connections.


    Mentioned in this episode: 

    • Episode 107: Settling for less
    • Episode 206: What boundaries?
    • 1 hr
    • Oh brother

      Help us welcome our first guest, Jeremy Mason-Herr, for a candid conversation about working and failing with family. 

      1 hr 9 min
    • Winding it down

      The true story of how long you can keep a zombie business running - with a handful of customers, zero employees, zero funding, 

      34 min
    • The Aftermath

      Reflecting on the aftermath of our rebrand and the personal reveals in episode 201. Plus, a whole bunch of name dropping. Articles & people mentioned in this episode: 

      • The end of the girlboss is nigh
      • Our amazing designers, Tara Ketner and Michael Broschart
      • Tikima's podcasts: Fit Black Queens and That's Not on Brand
      • Our website! Flexandflow.org
      • 34 min
      • Finding weakness in strength

        In today’s episode, we’re going deep into why we started our business, but it’s more than just a look back at the past. It’s a really vulnerable conversation about a couple of stories that before last week, neither of us even shared completely with each other.

        56 min
      • What we'd do differently

        With the benefit of hindsight, we're sharing all the things we'd do differently if we were starting our business from scratch. As you’ll hear, it's much less about the individual decisions and more about a pattern of behavior that was hard to see in the moment, but is so crystal clear in hindsight. 

        1 hr 2 min

      About Shiny Objects

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      Shiny Objects is the podcast that gets real about the messy business of working with family, and the reality (and sometimes fantasy) of what it’s like to be your own boss.