You Can Make It

This is a good exercise you can do with a partner or anybody you want to build more intimacy with. We ask each other 36 very intimate questions and keep your tissues around because this episode will make you cry.

 

This episode is inspired by one of our listener, so thank you so much for proposing it to us.

1:35 Intro

2:55 Casa Claudio

5:50 Casa Simone

11:48 Set One: questions such as

“Given anyone in the world, who would you want to have dinner with?”

“What constitute a perfect day for you?”

“How do you think will you die”

26:45: Set Two: questions such as

“What is your greatest accomplishment?”

“What do you value in a friendship?”

“If you knew you would die in one year you would die, what would you change in your life?”

40:00 “Did you have a happy childhood?”

45:35 Set three:

 

“What do you like about each other”

 

“What is the most embarrassing moment of your life?”

 

“When was the last time you cried and why”

You can get the 36 questions here: New York Times

Books we mention: 

The drama of the gifted child: The search for the true self by Alice Miller

Podcast we dig:

S-Town the Podcast

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Grazie,

Claudio and Simone

One of the best advice we ever got to boost our productivity: wake up early in the morning. In this fun episode you will find randomness as usual but also our reasons behind waking up early (6am…or even earlier) and 4 easy steps you can start use from tomorrow and finally. While looking each other in the eyes (we are in the same room for once!) we talk about how waking up early has profoundly changed our lives. 

 

01:14 Intro

05:50 Casa Simone

10:20 Casa Claudio

18:38 How to become a morning person

21:30 Three benefits of waking up early

30:15 Four steps to become a morning person

39:30 What books we are reading

42:15 Outro

 

  

Books we mention: 

The First Law by Joe Abercrombie

The drama of the gifted child: The search for the true self by Alice Miller

Support: 

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Grazie,

Claudio and Simone

An extra and very raw episode with a different format than you're used to. No intro, no editing, no "CASA": just 15 minutes of random thoughts we recorded in the couple of days we were together. Expect a lot of laughs and raw audio. 

Support: 

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Claudio and Simone

Should you buy an Apple Watch?

Today we talk about Italians being scared of the police, of american stealing credit cards, of Ikea and Hasfit.com, and this all before diving into the main subject: the (healthy?) addiction fitness trackers give you. And do scales really need bluetooth (spoiler: yes)?

Most importantly, we answer the biggest life-questions of all time: what is Simone fat percentage? And has Claudio finally finished The Green Mile?

 

04:15 Casa Claudio

11:40 Casa Simone

16:30 Fitness Trackers intro - Scales

22:00 Apple Watch serie 2: should you buy it or not?

27:30 Measure to improve or addiction?

37:05 What books are we reading

40:25 Outro

 

Devices we mention:

Withings smart body scale

Jawbone Up3

FitBit Charge

Apple Watch 2

 

Books we mention: 

Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz

 

Support: 

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Grazie,

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Another incredibly beautiful, messy and packed episode from The Double Espresso Show! 

We have a new name, new jingles for our CASA-sections and a whole hour talking about the best way to buy plane tickets, how to pack your luggage like a pro, fly in the best possible place and once at destination, where to sleep.

There is a dope review of Shoe Dog, a small spoiler on the movie Arrival and there are also a lot of anecdotes and funny stories, like that one time Simone was forced to get drunk to help a fellow passenger make it to The Netherlands without dying.

 

3:20 Casa Claudio

6:25 Casa Simone

10:20 Intro to Travel Smart

12:20 Pre-Travel (Where to, booking, packing)

34:50 Flying smart

39:00 The movie Arrival spoiler (I know, it's a bit random, but you've been warned!)

48:00 At destination

57:20 What books we are reading / Shoe Dog review

1:01:00 Outro

 

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PayPal.Me/osib

 

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Grazie,

Claudio and Simone

Some books more than others stay with you and won't ever let you go. Not only that, but they change the way you behave and live your life. We chose 3 each of such books. Books that have meant something in our lives and that have changed who we are.

 

3:30 Casa Simone & Claudio

9:30 3 Books that changed our lives

51:30  Books we are reading 

54:45 Outro

 

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Claudio and Simone

Andrea’s life quality is high, he likes to eat well, dress well and has a passion for expensive watches. Last year he lived in New York and Milan and still, he managed to save about 70% of all his income. How is that possible?

Andrea has a blog about personal finance and how to reach financial freedom, but it’s only in Italian and if you don’t speak italian we have summed up 10 of his secrets. 10 steps that, if followed almost exactly in this order, can get you financial freedom.

Understand the equation Money = Freedom

Saving is the first and most important step 

“Can I afford it?” is the wrong question to ask when buying something

How to keep a budget

What to invest in? Difference between Stocks / bonds / funds / ETFs

Why the dollar cost average is very important

In the long run, there is no financial crisis that can hit you

Diversify and be safe

Minimize bank fees and expenses

Your friends might be the reason you’re not rich yet

BOOKS we mention

"If You Can": How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly by William J Bernstein

“The Investment Answer” by Gordon Murray

"The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy" by Stanley Thomas

"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel

Thank you Andrea and Incassaforte for all the good reads and to push us to invest.

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? You are supposed to eat three times a day, right? What if we told you that no, you are not wired to do any of those things every single day and that they are mostly a result of years of marketing and it’s totally ok to skip lunch and sometimes even lunch and your health will improve by doing so? Enjoy!

 

We talk about: 

- Casa Claudio & Casa Simone

- Fasting

- Books we’re reading

- Next experiments & outro

 

Books we mention:

Feel the fear...and do it anyway by Susan Jeffers

An officer and a Spy  (Dreyfus + Piquart) by Robert Harris

 

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Grazie, Claudio and Simone

Why making a podcast?

How should we call our podcast?

Can you help us?

In this pilot episode we explore why we should podcast and what name should it have.

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Grazie, Claudio and Simone