Dear listeners, as 2023 comes to a close, we here at the Overlap Podcast ask ourselves a very simple question that really brings everything into focus, a question so purely essential that we can’t believe it has taken us this long to get here to bring this vital information to your every day life, words that will change every facet of your life down to the molecular level - “Hmmm, what would Napoleon Bonaparte do if he was here?”

(Sounds of thousands of minds being blown at the same time across the Overlap listening universe)

If the man can inspire a ragtag group of Swedish singers to lay down some feel-good disco beats and truly iconic lyrics about an 1815 battle in Belgium that the man took part in and turn it into a defiant win in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and then conquer the world … just saying, there has to be wisdom there for us to use.

And to help guide us through avoiding and escaping from the Elbas of the soul, who better to sit along our boys Sid and Keith than a true GOAT of history - yes, boys and girls, it’s the Esoteric Cleric, the Abbot of Antecedents, the History Teacher Preacher himself - Pastor Chris Bell of 3 Circle Church. And since he’s the current Heavyweight World Champion of History (he won the belt in a cage match fight with Jesse “The Mind” Ventura and the late William “The Biographer” Manchester back in ‘09 at Wrestlemania), his insights will be applicable and understandable - something that Keith’s words are seldom able to reach.

So, why would you ever refuse? Much like Keith, that history book on the shelf is always repeating itself - so tune in and turn up this week’s episode of the Overlap Podcast because you couldn’t escape if you wanted to, so come on and finally face your Waterloo … woah woah woah woah.

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Admittedly, the writer’s room was initially paralyzed with fear when we saw the title and topic of this week’s episode, as any combination of numbers and the letter X immediately triggers algebraic and geometric PTSD from years of math classes we were present for but had difficulty fully understanding. But once CCR’s “Fortunate Son” stopped playing in our heads and the internal red strobe lights stopped flickering, we were able to understand that most people will find this week’s Overlap Podcast to be one that is enlightening and empowering.

This week, our boys Sid and Keith take a deep dive into Dan Sullivan’s seminal text “10x is Easier than 2x,” which is sentiment true for everything except for the manufacturing of plus-size clothing and garments, as it is indeed more difficult to construct a 10-XL item than a 2-XL one. So, we’re sorry to the haberdashers listening this week - this may not be the best episode for you.

For you non-clothiers still reading, what Sullivan is asking us to aim for is the audacious - to propose the idea that shooting for the stars with a 10X growth mindset is actually easier and often more attainable than simply shooting for 2x growth. Our boys will give you personal anecdotes and examples for how the 10x mindset has been a godsend to their business lives so dare to dream and make a moonshot plan for you and your business as we head into this new year filled with endless possibilities.

So, get ready to intensify your intentions with greater integers by tuning in to this week’s Overlap Podcast … and to our garment industry listeners … keep calm and carry on … cutting? We got nothing.

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The writing staff here at the Overlap Podcast got excited this week when saw the words “Mastering the Art Of” in the show summary because we assumed it was some sort of bizarro tribute to the late, great Julia Child and we had visions of Keith comically slicing off a few fingers while trying to demonstrate how to properly gratinee an onion. And while the writer’s room is sad that isn’t the case (though, logically, we should have known that a business podcast probably wouldn’t pivot to provincial French cooking … especially for a largely audio podcast), you dear listeners will be treated to a much more relevant and necessary Art to Master - Planning - using the terrific teachings of Keith Cunningham’s “Plan or Get Slaughtered” method (and don’t judge him because he shares a name with our Keith … he’s the good, smart Keith).

Risk assessment. Meticulous planning. Adaptive Strategies. EOS. (We assume that last one since they always somehow shoehorn it into every episode). All will be discussed, dissected and disseminated by our boys Sid and Keith as they take their talk from the rhetorical to the actual.

And an added bonus for this week … well, possibly a minus … you be the judge … you’ll be able to see our boys do this week’s episode via video recording (on YouTube only), broadcast in glorious Technicolor and Stereophonic sound. So, if you want to know what Keith and Sid actually look like (answer: Dollar Tree brand Kris Kristofferson and a thinner, balder Luciano Pavarotti), here’s your chance.

 So, bon appetit for this week’s Overlap Podcast … and we warned you about the video, so we aren’t liable for that now…

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We begin this week with no funny fanfare or comedic cuteness because this week’s special guest deserves nothing but our utmost respect and your undivided attention, as the Best Friend of the Pod and OG Sponsor Rick Miller returns once again to share his wisdom and knowledge with our boys Sid and Keith and with all you lucky listeners.

Rick is bringing the fire this week, as he discusses with our boys how to be able to cultivate a culture that both allows for profits to propagate while still enabling an enduring environment for ethics to excel. And when push comes to shove and you have to choose between the moral good and the monetary good, Rick will help us stay on the sunny side of the moral good, because what does it profit a man if he gains the world but loses his soul and his morals?

Yes, this week’s Overlap Podcast is going to be one you won’t want to miss, so come on and hear Mr. Miller’s magnificent message - brought to you by … well, him. And, Rick, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your early and constant support. The writing staff here at Overlap salutes you, sir.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one - A life insurance agent was meeting with his client about the policy coverage for her husband. The agent asks if she knew the present value of her husband’s policy and she didn’t understand what he meant. To explain, the agent says “What would you get if your husband dies?” The wife thinks for a moment and then replies, “Probably a poodle, I guess.” (Bah dum tiss)

Why are we starting with a hokey opening joke about insurance straight out of the Shecky Green era Borscht Belt school of comedy? Because the writing staff here doesn’t know bupkis about how to combine football and insurance into a working simile or metaphor to honor this week’s special guest star Chris May, the former USA football great and current Insurance Aficionado.

In this week’s episode of The Overlap Podcast, our boys Sid and Keith sit down and do a deep dive into the Art of Setting Expectations (something our boys clearly didn’t do with the writing staff if they thought we knew anything about football … other than Dick Butkus. And we really only know that because it’s hilarious.) Chris will take our boys through an ideal world with clearly set expectations that have basis in real-world on-the-ground data and facts and help them strategize ways to take those expectations from concept to concrete reality.

So, huddle up and hear the plays being called during this week’s Overlap Podcast - we can assure you that it’ll be a definite slam dunk … er, wrong sports ball … hole in … nope, not that one either … grand slam … nope, that’s Denny’s … … … … … insert sports ball reference of choice. (Yeah, that works, right? We’re going with that.)

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What do you know about the state of Delaware? That it was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and join the United States? That it only has three counties? That the state has more corporate entities than it does people? Why are we obsessing on Delaware? Easy answer - because this week’s guest on the Overlap Podcast is the best export from that state since DuPont Chemical, Judge Reinhold, Valerie Bertinelli and President Joe Biden - it’s the man, the myth, the legend, the Ingenious Integrator behind the operations of Sexton Lawn and Landscape - Forrest Derr.

Yes, join our boys Sid and Keith as they have an in-depth and entertaining conversation with the Emirate of EOS Integration, as they start with his humble beginnings as a shelf stocker at a grocery store in the Blue Hen State to his incredible EOS mastery now. (We stan EOS in this house and if you don’t, well … you probably need to find another podcast to listen to stat because it comes up a lot here … like way more than you would think it would given normal parameters).

So, buckle down and bring on this week’s episode of the Overlap Podcast, for more EOS integration, determination and … other -ation word to complete the Rule of Three … because we can’t get enough of that wonderful stuff.

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Danny Tanner. Heathcliff Huxtable. Jason Seaver. Edna Garrett. Harriet Winslow. What do all of these beloved TV characters have in common? Why, the topic of this week’s Overlap Podcast, of course…

Without the colorful sweaters, zany plotlines, Stamoses and Alan Thicke-penned theme tunes to prop them up like the aforementioned characters, our boys Sid and Keith will use this week’s episode to explore the parallels between running your business and parenting your families - because your work family and your real family have more similarities than you might find at first glance … and hopefully you aren’t having to potty train any of your employees…

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have … this week’s Overlap Podcast.

Other than being a cracker-jack Scrabble word that utilizes some high-point tiles and stretches across some valuable board territory (Triple Word Score, baby), the word “optimization” is tough to deal with, define, understand or turn into a jokey, pop-culture laden opening paragraph for podcast notes, per our writing staff’s usual schtick here at The Overlap Podcast… especially when all the movies and TV shows with “optimization” listed as a subject are all either educational economics films, one episode of The Big Bang Theory and an upcoming documentary about former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (and nobody can make McNamara funny … Kissinger, sure. Al Haig, of course. But McNamara … hard pass).

So, as you may have surmised from the writing staff’s previous winding rant of a paragraph, this week our boys Sid and Keith will opine on optimization, in all its many facets, forms and functions - and it’s not just for business any more, listeners. Yes, our brand new Optimal Optimization Outline can do just about anything you want it to do - align your short and long-term goals, build business initiatives, prioritize your personal life, enliven your endeavors, make Julienne fries, and create up-to-date odds for who becomes the first Space Pope (we’re betting $5 on a thawed-out, re-alived Ted Williams at 27:1).

Well, it’ll do some of those things… probably… we hope. But, there’s only one way to find out, so tune in to this week’s Overlap Podcast to see what Optimization can really do for you.

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Admittedly, the writing staff was tempted to go a lot of different ways for the intro to this week’s episode, potentially riffing on former British Prime Minister and Thatcher successor John Major, the Charlie Sheen helmed baseball comedy “Major League,” an iconic song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance in double-timed tempo or a literary analysis of Cole Porter’s showtune standard “Everytime We Say Goodbye.” In the end, we decided that due to a lack of consensus we would embark upon none of those nonsensical journeys and delve straight into this week’s episode - unlike us, we know, but “how strange the change from major to minor,” right?

Our boys Sid and Keith will do a deep dive into the best ways to optimize your opportunities, boost your business and maximize your money by helping you understand and unravel the finite differences between major and minor opportunities, which is more difficult than it may seem upon first glance. Oftentimes, a minor opportunity may appear in a major’s garb; likewise, a major get for your business may not seem to be so upon first glance, hence the need for constant vigilance on your part, dear listeners.

Our boys will draw from personal experiences they’ve had in their own business careers - the dizzying highs, terrifying lows and plateaus of mundanity that abound throughout. So, no matter if you’re selling cars, fixing air conditioners or composing timeless Broadway lyrical standards, you’ll be able to walk away from this week’s episode of the Overlap Podcast knowing to be able to tell the difference between what could be a barnburner for your business from what … would just be something that would burn down a barn … in the bad way … Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the lantern kind of bad … just ask someone from Chicago to explain…

While the world of business and commerce likes to borrow phrases from and encourage references to the realm of war and battle when talking about itself, the stakes differ wildly between those two worlds, right? As much as you might want to call an upcoming board of directors meeting a long-awaited battle and as bad as it might possibly go, it’s still not going to be the Somme or Gallipoli (Though Keith’s continued campaign of battles against adult Illiteracy are somewhat equally painful to watch).

While the … Overlap … between the two worlds may not be as much as expected, this week’s episode will be one to bookmark and come back to again and again, as Army veteran Brad Israel shares his military experiences with our boys Sid and Keith and talks through the differences between military and civilian leadership, surviving truly life and death situations and the stress therein, and the development of skills like trust, communication and adaptability that every single one of us can engage with and enliven our own lives.

So, grab your little kit, show your grit and do your bit … by tuning in to this week’s Overlap podcast.

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