163/1. A Brave New Chapter

At Work with The Ready

Whether it’s in front of clients or in front of a mic, we talk about change all day long. Having fewer, better meetings; learning to productively disagree; overhauling and evolving the HR function; exploring four-day work weeks—the podcast has covered miles and miles of transformational ground in 4 years.

However we don’t often talk about how we’ve changed. And after six seasons and 162 episodes, how could we not be different? We used the show’s hiatus to reflect on where we’ve been and where we want to go—and we reached some bittersweet conclusions. But if we resisted change and all the learning and joy that can come with it, we wouldn’t be The Ready.

In this very special episode, Aaron Dignan, Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin talk about Brave New Work’s origin story, what they’ve learned making all these episodes (it was 162, right?), and what the show’s future may hold. Trust us, you won’t want to miss it.

This episode was recorded with video, so you can see our smiling faces on The Ready’s Youtube channel.

Mentioned references:

• Imoyoshi, home of the purple sweet potato soft serve
• Ira Glass
• The Ready's Spotify Wrapped LinkedIn post
• "Pop up and do less" scene from Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Supermanage, from Murmur Labs
• The File Drawer
• Fields of Work
• The Future of HR miniseries
• "the Panera days": The Ready's first "office" was in a Panera near Bryant Park in NYC! Hear more about The Ready's early days in BNW Ep. 158.

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