The 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...

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 "E...

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...

This is normally where the writing staff tries to be cute and make some sort of weird pop culture reference that vaguely ties into the weekly subject for that podcast episode, but this week, honestly … the writing staff doesn't know enough about Enneagrams to be able to do the usual spiel and spent thirty minutes kicking around ideas about telegrams, Bananagrams, Teddy Grahams … clearly, wouldn't...

"It's sad to think we're not gonna make it and it's gotten to the point where we just can't fake it. For some ungodly reason, we just won't let it die because … neither one of us wants to be the first to say goodbye." Lyrics just as true now as they were when Gladys Knight and the Pips released them to the world on Boxing Day in 1972. But, Overlap Podcast Writing Staff, what does this random piece...

For this week's Overlap Podcast, we ask a simple question: what do actor LeVar Burton, former First Ladies Barbara and Laura Bush, and Drag Queen Supreme RuPaul Andre Charles all have in common? Answer: they all know that "Reading is Fundamental." This week, our boys Sid and Keith discuss why everyone must make reading an intentional and regular practice if they want to be successful in business a...

  What do our boys Sid and Keith have in common with the documentary "Grizzly Man," the Unabomber, Paul of Thebes and Transcendentalist writer Henry David Thorreau? Well, yes, facial hair, obviously … a general spirit of surlyness, yes, granted … okay, stop guessing … what we were hoping for in your answer was that they all found strength, comfort and well-being being far from the madding crowd ou...

Throughout the centuries, one question continues to be asked throughout time immortal, echoing through generation after generation as the millennia fly by while still never being adequately answered: "Who's the King?" Hard to answer, we know, given the plethora of Kings one could choose - Martin Luther King, Carole King, Don King, Gayle King, King Cotton, Nat King Cole, Rodney King, King Cole Gill...

What is essential for the American presidency, the human digestive system and in every business? Answer: having a No. 2 you know you can rely on to be regular and solid. Now that you've gotten over your initial reaction to a rather erudite poop joke - this week on the Overlap Podcast, our boys Sid and Keith aren't just focused on a good No. 2. They're wanting to help you learn to do one of the har...

In 1974, the bewitching Stevie Nicks wrote out her feelings of uncertainty and doubt about her relationship with bandmate and then boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham while she was up in Aspen as he toured with Don Everly. And those written out feelings formed one of Fleetwood Mac's most recognizable and well-loved songs off of the eventual Rumours album that will be a thesis for this week's episode of T...

100 Episodes … a milestone celebration for any collaborative media effort, but certainly a monumental one for us here at the Overlap Podcast. So, how do we celebrate such a momentous occasion?   Do we pull a "What's My Line" and have a live intro recorded by President Gerald Ford? (Probably not, what with him being dead and all…)   Maybe go with the "All in the Family" and have a clip show hosted...

[Background music: Inspirational orchestral score composed by Hans Zimmer] [Enter: world-weary football coach into the locker room for the quintessential "talk"] Coach (in a commanding and impassioned voice): Alright, listen up, team. It's halftime, and it's time for some serious introspection. This is The Overlap Podcast, where we gather to dissect the game of business and conquer the challenges...

When you think of the overlap between business ownership and parenthood, what could possibly come to mind? Momager Supreme Kris Jenner? The OG Father/Manager Joe Jackson? Wire Hanger Hater and 51 percent owner of PepsiCo Joan "Mommie Dearest" Crawford? Probably not - we know we tend to be niche pop culturalists here in the Overlap Podcast writers' room. However, our boys Sid and Keith have us cove...

(Tinny fanfare of trumpets and Sousaphones like the beginning of newsreels in old timey movies begins) The Business Device Hall of Fame, located in the heart of Gary, Indiana, ( near Jermaine Jackson's son Jermajesty's restaurant Jermajesty's Steak and Crepes) better make room for a brand new exhibit because this week's thesis for the Overlap Podcast is going to be the biggest thing for business -...

What does this week's episode have in common with Cher, Cyndi Lauper, the Reverend Al Green, French novelist Marcel Proust, and the ever-amazing Sir Huey Lewis? Well, other than all them having a Bacon Number of 2 (the number of steps that it takes to connect all of them to actor Kevin Bacon, per the website the Oracle of Bacon … yeah, real thing that exists) … they all know a quintessential truth...

When you think of the word "principle," what comes to mind? Heisenberg's Uncertainty Princple? The Peter Principle? Bernoulli's Principle? Seymour Skinner? (Maybe not that last one, unless you're having these notes read to you and didn't see the spelling…) Well, for this week's episode of the Overlap Podcast, our boy Sid takes us on a deep dive of the newest principle sensation sweeping the nation...

The late, great Neil Sedaka said it best - "They say that breaking up is hard to do / Now, I know, I know that it's true." Wise words from a man whose first big hit was a love letter to his ex-girlfriend… maybe you've heard of her… Carole King? Then again, maybe we shouldn't be taking life advice from the man who also wrote the lyrics "Doo doo doo down dooby doo down down" So, what's more awkward...

This week's episode of the Overlap Podcast is one that you definitely won't want to miss because you're getting a heaping helping of content we know has worldwide appeal - from the 305 to the DMZ, it's a special guest episode with Mr. Worldwide himself - rapper Pitbull … yeah, no definitely not that. Could you imagine, though? Sid and Keith talking business strategy with Pitbull… yeah… no.   Howev...

After decades of penning hits for Motown legends like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Chaka Khan, husband and wife singer/songwriter duo Ashford and Simpson had their greatest triumph with 1984's classic hit "Solid (As A Rock)." How is this remotely relevant to our humble little business podcast, you may ask? Answer: because this week's guest and the advice he gives our boys Sid and Keith (and you), i...

This week's episode of The Overlap Podcast is sure to make a splash - maybe even a bigger splash than when Rodney Dangerfield nailed the almost impossible Triple Lindy Dive at the end of the classic '80s comedy "Back to School" - because we've got the Prince of Pools himself on the pod this week, Cameron Rhodes of Premier Pools Company. Our boys Sid and Keith will set sail with Cameron as he tells...

What comes to mind when you think of the word "grace" - is it saying the blessing before eating a meal? An early-2000s TV show character played by Debra Messing? The former princess of Monaco? While all of those answers aren't incorrect, technically, the best right answer might simply be this - grace is giving yourself leeway to make mistakes without beating yourself up too much when bad becomes w...

Admit it - you've been jonesing for some hella good EOS-centric content ever since we hit you with it back in the episodes of the mid-40s, haven't you? We were wrong the the podcast notes then - the concept of EOS isn't "the Brussels sprouts of the business world." EOS is the bee's knees, the cat's pajamas, the fox's socks, the best thing since sliced bread … basically, it's any absurdly positive...

Peter, Paul and Mary knew it. Dobie Gray knew it, too. And Rupert Holmes was the king of it, but you'd know who he was if we told you that it involves a pina colada with him. What do all of these random names have in common and what the heck does it have to do with this week's The Overlap Podcast? It's all about the art of "How to Successfully Get Away," be it via jet plane, drifting or getting ca...

Do you remember playing The Telephone Game back in grade school, where everybody would line up and you'd whisper a message from the start of the line to the end and it would never end up the same as when it started? Well, our views of life and the world around us can similarly be differing and varied even if we're all experiencing the same happening. On this week's Overlap Podcast, our boys Sid an...

Start walkin', runnin', leapin' and all of the other action verbin' (that would imply you were movin' too quickly to remember your endin' letter G) to the podcast purveyor of your choice to be the first one takin' part in our new Overlap Podcast soon-to-be returnin' series "Drivin' and Cryin'," where we will be explorin' the various strugglin' and triumphin' of business owners just like you and yo...