We Never Had a Chance

We Never Had a Chance

By AJ LacouetteBusiness
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We Never Had a Chance episodes

  • Fanny Damiette

    Recorded in 2025, Fanny Damiette joined me from Paris. We discussed burnout, leaving our corporate careers, searching for more aligned ways of being, fasting, tapping into intuition, using Human Design/Astrology, feeling the pull of creativity, George W. Bush becoming a painter, AI, universal basic income, consciousness, humanity’s greatest strengths, and forecasting societal changes.

    57 min
  • PLAYLAB, INC.

    Recorded in early Spring 2025, I spoke with founders Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeff Franklin on meeting at Virginia Tech, starting out, their work process/philosophy, moving from New York to Los Angeles, + Pool, working with Virgil Abloh, and what their next chapter looks like as they celebrate an anniversary. 

    38 min
  • 1

    It's the first episode, and I don't know what I'm doing. I talk about why I'm starting this (and why this isn't a Substack), explain the title (shoutout to Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Massacre), being in the mid-Hudson Valley during the winter, someone needs to check on the staff at New York Mag, why isn't there bar-chat etiquette, AI and Google Maps have gotten shockingly bad, the Milano Cortina opening ceremony, Nike's #eagleskirt, my issues with Ralph Lauren for Team USA / Ben Sherman for Team GB, and ideas for an epic LA 2028.

    35 min
  • EP: 000

    I talk about where I'm at and why I'm starting this / How I have five months to completely change my life (especially my career and health) / I explain why there won't be guests / What I have to offer and the topics I will cover / Why this isn't a blog because Substack feels culty / I reveal the title origins (shoutout to Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Massacre) / And how you'll learn to never be someone like me

    5 min
  • Paul Simmons

    Insights on the shifts, strategies, and stories shaping work today.

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    47 min

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