Talk Therapy

Celebrating their first (!) episode recorded on the same microphone, Dan and Nathan reflect on the birth Talk Therapy—and Every—amidst the pandemic, and wonder about the future of working remotely and in person. Will Every buy a house for writing residencies? Join forces with a bookstore? Both?

Dan and Nathan are joined by Talk Therapy's inaugural guest host, Every community member (and investor!) Freia Lobo—who also happens to be an avid listener. Answering Freia's questions about their podcast's near-yearlong journey, the cohosts and cofounders discuss their boundaries for on-air discussions, why the pod has become an integral part of their working mental health, and what they hope the business community at large might take away from their show.

Dan and Nathan celebrate Rachel Jepsen's official introduction as Every's Executive Editor! Since last year, Rachel has been working with Every writers—and hosting her own show, The Long conversation. Now, she talks to Nathan and Dan about her shift from writing to editing, and how the collective has pushed her back towards fostering her passion for the former.

This week, Dan and Nathan tell a story from the before times... (ya know, before therapy). It's about a situation that was extremely difficult at the time, but wouldn't be a big deal at all now. Sometimes a little trust and knowledge of each other's personality traits goes a long way.

Dan and Nathan welcome Every's newest lead writer, Fadeke Adegbuyi, for a discussion about her newsletter Cybernaut, which examines internet culture by asking what it can tell us about ourselves. Fadeke discusses what led her to write for Every, the transition to placing herself within her writing, and her latest article on Clubhouse's future.

After listening to an anxiety-centered episode of Ezra Klein's podcast, Dan and Nathan dive into their own past and current experiences with anxiety, asking whether one can truly battle it as they would a craving. While they don't reach any clean answers, they agree that everyone's anxiety is triggered in different ways, and by different sources.

After Nathan shares his recent run of reading material, he and Dan wonder if the more intense leadership styles layed out in books on management have any place at Every. Can you run a writing collective like a football team—or are the two as dissonant as Dan's Jocko Willink impression?

Dan & Nathan welcome Evan Armstrong, Every's new Napkin Math lead, to the show. Walking through Evan's path to joining the collective, the trio discuss imposter syndrome, Evan's passion for increasing access to knowledge about finance and tech, and much more.

Read Evan's first post here: https://every.to/napkin-math/cogs-how-i-bankrupted-moviepass-09e6aa23-a102-40eb-92ff-3f920a291927

After their last conversation about Jungian therapy and how "Shadow Work" can help us get a better look at the more difficult parts of ourselves, Dan and Nathan decide to make things less abstract, and apply their findings to their relationship as cofounders. Taking a recent misunderstanding about growth as a test case, they explore the benefits of validating people despite your skepticism, pushing back against our refusal to see ourselves, and why a return to Ted Lasso might help Nathan gain some clarity.

Taking a listener's recommendation to do some "shadow work"—a therapy technique culled from a New Yorker article about an unconventional Hollywood therapist—Dan takes Nathan through a brief primer on differing modalities, and why they shouldn't necessarily be pitted against each other. Then, they discuss where Jung and Freud's theories are embedded in modern thought, identifying the value of picking out what's useful as we wrestle with what it means to be human.