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This week’s one-on-one on New Year’s Eve finds Nikki and Chad still in Miami where they provide their “culture takes” like how Christmas is non-existent, lots of eye contact, social relationship priority, the latest on shrimp cocktail, and how Sunny’s Steakhouse could be the best restaurant in America.

Since it’s year-end, they also tackle the big trend reports, including Airmail’s over/under hyped and the Strava “Year In Sport.” They also provide their own 2025 workplace culture predictions: the death of perks, AI’s impact on return to office, the shift to performance-based pay, and getting creative with leadership communications.

A holiday one-on-one from Miami where Nikki and Chad catch us up on getting over the “Baselvid” illness and why it doesn’t feel like the holidays even though it’s Christmas Adam. They walk us through the “perfect Sunday” which consists of Don Pan, Lido, and Michael’s Genuine. Nikki opens up her Shrimp Cocktail list to crowdsourcing, where their oyster tradition originated, why Paris has the best Christmas season, how sometimes you can meet your heroes, and getting invited to celebrate Noche Buena.

In this week’s one-on-one episode, Nikki and Chad are still in Miami as they wrap up an exhausting Art Basel. They chat through the pod’s Spotify-wrapped data, their surprising wrapped rankings, how traffic compares to ATL (there’s water involved), Nikki flubbing a brush with Bethenny Frankel, robot deliveries, the second-best espresso martini at Feana, and why WhatsApp. They give us a run-down on exactly what goes down at “Miami Art Week” from a newbie's perspective, including the shows, parties, brand activation smoke and mirror tactics, the elephant migration installation, and how there’s a huge opportunity for athletic brands to get involved.

This week’s episode features returning guest and CTO of Wahoo Fitness, John Trainor. We chat marathon war stories, the latest in AI possibilities, and why leadership communication is hard but effective. John gives us insights into Wahoo’s wildly popular and disruptive new treadmill the KICKR RUN with its “run free” feature. We also chat about Wahoo’s new bike computer - the ELEMNT ACE with its revolutionary wind measurement tools, and Nikki makes a request to add a speaker. We wrap things up with a chat about why it’s only when you’ve nearly died that you truly appreciate having the gift of endurance athletics (it goes dark for a minute) and Chad’s disturbing scar from 2009.

This is an episode you don’t want to miss.

A special one-on-one during Thanksgiving week, as Nikki and Chad chat about her experience running the Duncan Ridge Ultra and remembering their friend Kelly Raymond Pizzuti. They also cover corporate math for the holidays, backcountry comms, confusing Black Friday strategy, Jaguar’s weird AI-generated rebrand, and Manifesting the word of the year.

In this week’s one-on-one, Nikki and Chad bring us in on all things Clayton, GA - which has the world’s best road riding, the best Cuban restaurant (HUSH), Stonewall Creek Winery, and how Wander thrives with a brand first and people first strategy. There’s another dog save – this time from a rural gas station, and Nikki walks us through how much of a difference it can make to build confidence through training. They walk us through why they take the time to build community and camaraderie via SpeedClub and some controversial takes on AI fails, Yellowstone, Martha doc, and May Old Ass movie.

This week’s one-on-one finds Nikki and Chad tackling the most important topics of current society, starting with Zach Bryan’s messy breakup, Tyson vs. Jake Paul, Nick Cage nostalgia, and a well-branded baby shower with four-year-old party animals. Less critically, they provide insights into their election observations: the power of authenticity, what happens when leaders don’t know when to step aside, personal branding, listening to the people who have a finger on the pulse of culture, and what this all means for the old guard media.

This week Nikki and Chad on Election Day, so they chat politics – not really. They catch us up on FirstPort (the hardest group ride in the US), who won the content game at the NYC Marathon, how Disney World has no sidewalks, the nostalgia of the Rainforest Café, Squishmallows, the Headway app, Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness, and what is wrong with the Corporate Conference culture today (lots of martini’s). Most importantly, Nikki shares her now AI music production skills and plays some original music – DILPS!

On this week’s episode, Nikki and Chad catch up after a week off to discuss Big Sugar Gravel, Bentonville as a cycling destination, the PNC 10-Miler, and Zack Bryan’s Instagram breakup. They are joined by Professional Cyclist and friend, Joe Laverick, where they agree that British accents make you sound smarter, being overshadowed by your talented girlfriend, the life of a “23 year old has-been” LOL, how he built the team Ribble Rebellion (and what happened), and racing in America. They go deep on the business of cycling, the downfalls of the current model and how there’s a new generation is trying to change the way we view sponsorship through storytelling.

Find Joe >>> https://www.joelaverick.com/

In this week's one-on-one, Nikki and Chad chat about running up Stone Mountain, Saucony trail shoes, why Tracksmith is killing R&D, impromptu trips to save Florida from Hurricane Milton, and lessons in leadership. They also get super nerdy with a corporate compensation conversation, Lilly Ledbetter’s legacy, and Milly Vanilli.