Monsters of Curiosity

Think about the person you've known the longest. Now ask yourself: do they actually know you? I

t's one of those questions that sounds simple until it isn't. We've all got people in our lives...siblings, childhood friends, decades-long colleagues, who have logged serious time with us. But time and understanding are not the same thing. Somewhere along the way, familiarity starts doing the work that curiosity used to do. And that's w...

It's not your imagination. Change has gotten harder, and it's not because people are weaker or more resistant than they used to be.

The pace of mergers, reorgs, AI rollouts, and restructurings has outpaced what the human brain was actually built to handle. And the standard playbook, which is more emails, more town halls, more communication, isn't working. Because the problem was never information. It's biology.

We dig into why resi...

You hit the goal. You celebrated for about ten seconds. Then you opened your to-do list. Sound familiar?

We're genuinely terrible at celebrating our own wins and the reasons are weirder than "we're just busy." There's a lot happening between the goal line and the champagne: a brain wired to find problems instead of progress, a cultural voice telling you not to get too big for your britches, and an entrepreneurial mindset that treat...

If you received an inheritance tomorrow, would it actually change your life? Or would it just sit there? Now ask that question about your kids instead.

In this episode, we dive right into the hard questions.

Because the math on when inherited money is actually useful has shifted dramatically. People are living longer, buying homes later, and starting families at older ages than any generation before them which raises an uncomfortab...

The last time AI gave you an answer, did you question it? Most people don't. And that is the point of today's episode.

We discuss when critical thinking became optional, what technology and education did to accelerate that, and why the brain is biologically wired to take the laziest route available which means the easier we make access to answers, the less most people actually think. We also take a look at fear, echo chambers, and ...

We almost did not go. The voice that kept listing reasons this was a bad idea was very loud. We went anyway. Here is what happened.

We're back from Indonesia and this episode is the debrief nobody planned. Scooters in chaotic traffic, surfing lessons while ingesting a lot of salt water, and a chicken with a plastic bag on its head that did not survive day two. But the episode goes somewhere bigger than the trip....

Most people spend their whole life talking about moving somewhere new. We actually went.

We did not go to Indonesia for vacation. We went to find out if we could actually live there. What we found was a crash course in snap judgments, rental listings that lie, what travel has become now that everyone is performing it instead of experiencing it, and what happens when you ignore the warning signs at a monkey fores...

Jenny felt actual rage before we even hit record on this one. That should tell you everything about how badly businesses have been taught to think about social media. Every business owner asks the same question: which platform should I be on? Wrong question.

In this episode, we break down why the answer starts with your audience, not the algorithm's flavor of the month and why speaking to your end u...

I did not set out to uncover confidential corporate strategy in an airport lounge. But that is exactly what happened.

In this episode of Monsters of Curiosity, we walk through exactly what happened, what I found out, and why it should concern anyone who has ever taken a work call in a public space.

We get into what this actually means for anyone who handles confidential information, why smart and presumably well-trained people stil...

Something is rotting inside a lot of organizations right now and most leaders are either not seeing it or pretending they don't.

In this episode of Monsters of Curiosity, we dig into one of the most quietly damaging things happening in business today...the erosion of internal trust. Not the kind you fix with a company retreat. The deeper kind, where employees have simply stopped believing what they are being told.

We get into why i...

What if the biggest risk in your business isn’t the decision you’re afraid to make… it’s letting fear make it for you?

Fear shows up the second things start to change, and in business, that usually means you’re either about to grow… or about to back out of something that mattered.

In this episode, we get into the real question behind every big decision: when fear hits, is it actually trying to ...

Most business owners hire a marketing agency and then wonder why nothing is happening.

Spoiler: the agency is probably wondering the same thing about you.

In this episode of Monsters of Curiosity, Jenny, Paul, and Susan get into it about what actually makes the relationship between a business owner and a marketing agency work... and what quietly kills it. Between a marketing technologist, a performance coach, and someone who spent ...