The Working Experience

John and Matty wish you a happy weekend. Enjoy but be safe!

Get after that Work Week everyone!

Having problems at work?  In your love life?  With your cat?  Chances are there is a list available to solve it.  If you just follow these five steps, you will get that promotion, your spouse won't leave you and your cat will love you.   If there is one thing we do not like, it is complicated solutions to complicated problems!

Matty K and his brother, Paul, discuss working minimum wage jobs and the various people one meets.  It is a varied group of people and quite interesting. Enjoy.

Is a friend of yours trying to get you to sell "immune enhancing" shakes?  Maybe a "dietary supplement"?  Before you hand over a $1,000 bucks for the first batch of sugar pills, listen to our podcast on the realities of multi-level marketing.  Someone makes money, just not you.

John tells us about his new buddy, "Fat Tony" who he met in the Bahamas.  We also discuss Bobby Kraft.  Oh my!

John and Matty K wrap up the work week.  Party on, Mofo's!

Matty K speaks with Erin Griffith who reports for the New York Times on developments in the world of tech.  Grind Culture, working all day everyday, began with the start-ups and is now embraced by many industries.  But how healthy is Toil Glamour? What happened to time AWAY from work? Where does work end and where do YOU begin? 

John talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of Basecamp and creator of Ruby on Rails about his latest book, 'It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work'  David's anti-hustle philosophy is a breath of fresh air!

Blast into the beginning of the workweek with Matty K and John's mini TWE pep talk episode...sounds advice is non existent, but all you need is grit, hustle, and maybe some vices

John and Matty K wrap up the work week with uplifting updates on J.Lo and the Starbucks guy running for president...and other useless stuff.  You've successfully dragged yourself over broken glass to the end of the work week, and this unintelligible banter is your reward.

John talks with Scott Witman on living the dream of quitting your job and traveling the world.  First stop is Peru for an Ayahuasca trip down the wormhole of experience!

Sail into Monday's with TWE's weekly mini episode. Make your Monday's super great! Big smile everyone!

We've come a long way from the days of discussing people who defecate on the floor of the employee bathroom! (Not that much further, actually.) John and Matty discuss the value of Drew Ackerman's Sleep With Me Podcast as well as a police officer who had his gun stolen by two strippers he was "hanging out" with at a motel in Rhode Island.  Bad decisions make great stories.  

You survived another work week and it's time to celebrate with TWE's weekly mini episode!

John and Matty K discuss the benefits and detriments of how businesses use their office space.  Open floor plan?  Sounds great but some experts say the distraction of other coworkers leads to less productivity.  Maybe it's time to dive back into the cubicle!

John and Matty K discuss Cal Newport's advice on getting our use of social media under control by being more deliberate in our choices.  His template is food for thought on conscious and more fulfilling living.

Matty K sits down with Rui Lopes, cinematographer and one of the founding partners of Anawan Street Productions.  If you want to know how to get started in the film industry, listen to what Rui has to say. 

John and Matty K discuss Erin Griffin's article on Grind Culture, the concept of working relentlessly to achieve a goal.  Is anyone questioning the value of that goal?  Or are have we just been duped into thinking that the more we work, the better people we are?  PS: I Never Grind.

John talks with world-renowned Stanford professor and author Jefferey Pfeffer.  His latest book, 'Dying for a Paycheck' outlines how the modern workplace is slowly killing each and every one of us!  Wait, what!?  Not only do you hate your job, but it is slowly kill you!?  Ah, raise your cup of coffee and toast to that!  Listen and find out how to avoid a slow drawn-ou...

John chats with Dan Mori, a serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor.  Dan started out in the Army, had a stint as a car salesman, and now runs two employment agencies SpinGig and Employment Solutions in sunny Florida.  We delve deep into his working experience and life lessons!

John and Matty K discuss the boom of coffee culture, the dubious quality of chain restaurant coffee and anxiety attacks.

John chats with Suzanne Lucas, the infamous Evil HR Lady from Switzerland!  Suzanne spent over a decade in HR at a multinational pharmaceutical company and is now an author and speaker covering the world of HR! She shares some great HR stories as well as major HR challenges dealing with the rank and file!  Enjoy!

When bratty little boys don't get their way they take their bat and ball and go home.  When big bratty sociopaths don't get their way, they shut down the government and take money and services aways from millions of citizens.

John talks with Elaine Pofeldt, author of 'The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business.'  It's time to make our listeners some bank!  We review real-life case studies of hundreds of entrepreneurs who are making 1 million in revenue solo!  Elaine's also serves up practical tips to get you to the million dollar mark!